Hopes & Milestones

Milestone: 

In this year of school, a very important event happened in my life. I was called to the math Olympics, and twice. This showed me that I have potential for math and that I am able to reach the goals that I propose myself. On my first contest I didn’t make it so well, I didn’t even got close to the first place. However, this motivated me to work really hard on the next contest and I believe I did better on this one. Now I am working harder on every class and I am trying my best.

Hope:

 I hope that on my future I have really great grades and that I get accepted on good universities. One of the careers I would like to follow is mathematics or robotics or physics. Since I participated on the math Olympics I feel like math is one of my talents and I hope I get accepted on MIT or Carnegie Melon like my brother. In conclusion, I hope that my grades improve so that I will be able to enter a high level university that focuses on math.

Roles of my Life

Leader:
 My nephew is always following my actions. He tries to copy every single thing I do, so I have to be really careful with what I do. At first this really annoyed me but now I have learned how to use this to my advantage. Whenever he begins to misbehave or he doesn’t wants to do thing that he should, I can actually make him behave correctly just by doing what I am supposed to do in front of him so that he tries to copy it.

Best friend:

 Since 8^th grade I have been friends with a girl from my class. We are really close friends and she always helps me solve any problem I have and I help her with any problem she has. We sometimes do group work together and it really helps having someone you can trust like we have each other. We sometimes fight but at the end we always solve our fights.  Having her as my best friend is one of the best things that have happened to me.

Class Clown:

 On 8^th grade I really was a class clown. I spent most of time in class making jokes that usually weren’t that good but they still made everyone laugh. My friends and I laughed uncontrollably during class and we really couldn’t stop. The down side is that we sometimes got busted and our teachers or even grumpy classmates would shut us up. It was really fun being the class clown but now I have stopped making so much bad jokes and only make a few good ones when it is adequate. 

Not Ordinary Days

I arrived home from school, I was just in second grade. Then I saw my mother and my father looking at me with a sad face. I asked them “Where is Sancho? (It was my dog who had gotten sick)”. They kept staring at me and in that moment I realized that they had “put him to sleep”.

It started as an ordinary day, but then I realized my brother was gone. Then I began thinking and I remembered that he had to take a flight at 3am to return to his University on the US because his vacations had ended. I got back to sleep, feeling bored because I had no one to play with now.

If only I had realized that soccer is a great sport before 4^th grade, I would probably have begun playing more and I would now be much better on it. Now that the tournament at Arrayanes is coming I feel like I need to train even more so that we can beat the other teams.

Significant Events

Accomplishments: 

About one month ago, Math Olympics were about to start. Jaime (Our Math teacher) had told us that he needed to pick 3 kids from each class, so we had to compete between us. Then he would have to pick 5 students from the entire grade, so we needed to fill another worksheet (everyone who had gotten through the previous round). And I don’t know how but Igot to be one of the 5 students who formed the team which would really participate on the National competition. That was one of my greatest accomplishments.

Disappointments: 

One month after the Math Olympics, Jaime had already received the results. He began saying how it was a huge challenge and that there as  lot of people participating in it, so Melissa (another girl who participated on the Math Olympics) and me knew that we hadn’t done so well on it. A boy from 9^th grade won a price, and a boy from our grade won a “mencion de honor”. However, I didn’t won anything, that was a huge disappointment. 

My Life in 3 Sentences

Y feel lucky because I have a really good friend (a girl) that supports me on everything. I consider dogs the best animals, I cant stand living without one. Until now the trips I make with my family are one of the best things that have happened to me.

Memories A-Z

Arizona, when I went Zion National Park

Bicycle, the time I learned ho to ride it

Campamento Ceibo, an school trip we made on 6th grade

Disney, I got lost two years ago

Eclipse, when I first saw one

First flight on an airplane

Graduation of my brother

Helix, when I began watching that show that inspired me for most of my stories

Iguana park on Guayaquil, it was the first time I had seen so much iguanas in my life

June 22 of 2001, the day I was born

Kiwi, when I learned it was also an animal

Lion roar, when I hearn one last year face to face

Manta, the first time I road that roller coaster on Sea World

Nail, when I broke my thumb nail on first grade

Olympics, I participated last weekemd on te math olympics

Phoebe, the day I buyed my new dig

Quito, the city I live on

Realbañiles. the team I formed with my classmates

Santa Elena, hotel Decameron, I went there on the last New years eve

The time I travelled on airplane for 24 hours

Univeersal studios, I went there on sixth grade

Vinnie Moore, Morning Star: Thats the hardest song I have ever learned to play on guitar

Wesleyan, when I flew there to see my brother

Xylophone, when I learned to play a xylophone

Yacht Club, when I became a member with all my family of that club

Zoo of San Diego, went there the previous vacation

Not So Smart Now

On "The Examination Day" by Henry Sleaser, a young boy named Richard (or as his parents call him, Dickie) Jordan is on his birthday turning twelve. In the morning, he overhears his parents talking about some kind of test. Dickie was a really curious boy, he wondered about everything. He asked his parents about this test, they told him that it was nothing to be afraid of, it was just a regular test that the Government took every kid on his age. A week passed, and now Dickie was on the Government Educational Building ready to take the test. He was given a sort of drink that allowed him only to tell the truth. After he took the test his parents recieved a call. The Government informed them Dickie was a smart boy, in fact, too smart, so.........
He needed to be killed.







I think that on this story the use of Imagery isnt often, however, it is only used to show sight and not any of the other senses. 

"The room was as cold and official as a courtroom, with long benches flanking metal tables. There were several fathers and sons already there, and a thin-lipped woman with cropped black hair was passing out sheets of paper."

Even though this use of imagery only appeals to sight, it is very strong, and well used. Since on the story we are entering into a new place (Government Educational Building) the use of strong imagery and details let us know exactly how this new place is. It is really well descibed and it sort of make us imagine how it really is.

He led Dickie to the end of the room, where a single wooden armchair faced a multi-dialled computing machine. There was a microphone on the left arm of the chair, and when the boy sat down, he found its pinpoint head conveniently at his mouth.

Again, when we get introduced into a new setting, it is perfectly described. It prevents you from getting lost on the story, once you imagine the place as it is discribed on the book you feel like if you were inside the story. It is a really good use of Imagery.


This short story is, by now, one of my favourites. Even though it is no more that 2 pages long, it would have been a mistake to make it larger. All the details the imagery has makes the reader feel like part of the story, and it wasnt necessary to try to appeal to the other senses, it is great just how it is. And even the ending, I sure wasnt expecting it, I just got surprised by it. This is by definitively a great short story.