What I Noticed While Writing My Essay

Pilgrim. Do you see it? PilGrim. See it now? PilGRIM. If you don't see it now you are blind. I am pointing out that the name led to a grim future for the Native Americans. Well not the name itself but the people who had the name.

The Tears of My Ancestors

This was the poem I read at Open Mic:

The Tears of My Ancestors

Laughter is in the air but it will soon fade,

It drifts threw the sky just out of reach,

It appears to me just like fleeting hope,

I have seen this before in the eyes of those that I love,

Their eyes show their dreams that have been turned into ash,

The ash is like nutrients to the soil which I use to mature,

My hopes are the seeds yearning to grow,

The tears are of my ancestors,

Whom water me with their sorrows,

It forces me to grow,

They push me forward,

Even when I want to go backwards,

I take the lost dreams of my ancestors upon my back,

I carry them with me,

I will fight to fulfill what has been lost,

What has been taken...

Open Mic

Was it just me or was there only a handful of people at open mic? That was a bummer but either way if you weren't there you missed out big time. It was really fun with your great poetry, Kohl shared some of his lovely work, Fry bread Mary shared of basket weaving, Grandma's for ganja  talked about well ganja, Paco talk a funny personal story, and there was so many other good performances. One of the older gentlemen their shared of poetry written in their native tongue. It was absolutely lovely. I am so looking forward to helping plan another open mic because they are so very powerful. Thank you.

What I learned from a peer review: White VS Mexican

So if you didn't know I am 1/2 Mexican and 1/2 White. There is most defiantly a battle between the two. During the peer-review I started to see the anger that my Mexican half has towards my white half. My father has anger towards white people along with the rest of that half of my family. My father tells the story of when my great grandmother was a little girl and the white man came and said if her family didn't move away then they were going to kill them all. My dad and his siblings would look at her and asked what her family did and my great grandmother would that she was here wasn't she. That they had moved. My dad is always talking like my white half looks down on me because I am a mix. I think that they are neutral but my I was taught anger so I react with anger. I have anger towards the Mexican half for the stereotype of being hard laborers. What is a girl to do?

Smoke Signals

I liked the movie a lot, it is amazing how different it was with out stopping to go to my other classes. The movie came off stronger then when I was in high school, I know I am still in high school but it's different when you are with a more mature audience. It's kind of funny though that I have seen the movie for the past three years. Every year in high school I have seen it. I plan to see it again my senior year. Then I will have seen it every year in high school.