Journal 1

I hope my words help you understand the simple but yet so complicated color that is red. As a person who can see everything clearly I can honestly tell you that I've taken everything around me for granted. Now that I sit here with you trying my best to describe something that seems so vague to me, something that is just an every day sight no words come to mind well three words do, "it's just red" but you've never seen this color. Let me tell you sir, it's the color that's inside you ruining through your very soul. The color of the sun hitting your face creating a warm feeling around you. It's the flavor of smooth wine sliding down your throat burning a slow burn.  It's the love you have for your family, your art and yourself. It's your passion, that slow smile that forms on your face when you hear the one you love whisper "I love you." Red is also anger, a sign warning you of pain to see

Journal 2

Competition is everywhere, you see it in the smallest form. Healthy competition I believe, comes when you compete against yourself, when all you're trying to do is prove yourself wrong, to push yourself farther and to make yourself do things you never thought you could. There's also the healthy competitions you have against other but it's for the same reason to see who can push themselves farthest, who can push towards that finish line with all their might and not stop till they're the first ones across it.  It seems like we compete with each other without even knowing it. Who has the newest phone? who has the most friends, who has the nicest clothes, we compete in everything we do and more times than not we do it subconsciously, when you compete to see who has the best not who is the best, that's a kind of unhealthy competition. Also, some people go to the extremes when they want something, they're willing to do it all, weather it's risking their health or that of someone else.  The line can be easily blurred with these two ideas. Competition is a important part of our society, as we compete with each other in many ways, countries are identified by all the good they have done, and by all the people who stand out from that country. Weather it's Coldplay from England. Lady Gaga from The United States, or Shakira from Colombia. They're all great artist and they all represent their country, weather they want it or not, of course there's other types of competition there's the international sports weather it's soccer, hockey, boxing, basketball, football, or baseball, it's all a competition, it all leads to one big game weather it's every four years or an annual game. Every sport comes down to one day, two teams and one championship to crown who is the best, but not only are they crowning the best as champions but also who had faught the hardest throughout that season, who gave their absolute best and nothing less.

Journal 3

I've taken many things I've learned in class and incorporated them into my daily life, simple vocabulary, or just the way you present your self in a whole different light. As school progressed, and I learn new things I like to use them on my family or in every day conversation. It's fun to look back and see how much I've really learned, in 8th grade I had no idea syntax and diction were the components of tone. It's quite interesting, and exciting to see myself transform into this girl who knows what she's talking about. I love writing, it's been quite rewording to see how much my writing has changed not only in my Timed Writes, but also in my personal journals. I know I have a long way to go, but learning all this new information is really starting to change my life and how I look at different situations. I'ts making me more open, and really skeptical about everything that goes on. I really think about the things people say now, and sometimes I even see how I could word it differently to make it sound better.

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If I had the power to have  $1 million dollars to spend on any part of the world, it would be spend in

journal 6

I have truly tried to change my way of thinking, I'm a realistic person, someone who doesn't see the story's she writes as something that will happen in real life, it's all in your head. I've tried to change that many times, it seems like I talk to others as if they understood how I think, but I've come to realize that not may think like I do specially my girlfriends, they have this whole fairy tale planed out, and here comes evil Michelle to ruin their dreams by crushing their dreams. I don't do it on purpose, I promise, I just wish they didn't think like that cause more times than less they end up getting disappointed with others, or even themselves. I've tried changing in a way where I don't just say what comes to my mind, I know that can be hurtful, my intentions are never to hurt someone.

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