There’s Reasoning Behind Chores

There’s probably a reason why we do chores

You get what you work for, not what you wish for~Howard A. Tillman

     Do the work and then see what you produced. When you put in work at something you will see a good difference on what you did. in life you will always have to do work, but it depends if you really try at that work or if you are just doing it to get it done. If you do it to get it done then you won’t be happy about your work, but if you do it to achieve something and work hard at it, you will be happy with what you have done.

The Power of I

     If I could explain who I am through thoughts and what I want, then it would probably be something like this: I want to be able to walk near other people and not have to give that face to each other as we move 6 feet apart. I want to become free of this nightmare we are all trapped inside of that keeps going and going on. I hope I can be able to see my friends for the first time in a while. I dream about the times when I am surfing on a wave that is orange because of the sunset glaring on it with no worries in life. Then later after that going to my favorite pizza shop near the beach. I am excited for the next soccer season and the new league that’s my team will be joining. Hopefully we will be one of the top teams in the new league because the league we were in got shut down. I always try to find the fun in things whenever I can. Even if you are doing something that you don’t like very much always find the small fun things in it because it will make it just that much better. I despise of a lot of foods I haven’t eaten because I am a picky eater(especially when it comes to sauces). I try to work my hardest whenever I can. I am very competitive spirited in a lot of things that I do. Even if it is just a night time ping pong game with my brother I am still very competitive in those. Also I am very competitive in video games too. Another thing about me is that I always try to get thing done early, so I don’t have to worry about it later on. 

One Day After Another

     I wake up to the sharp glare from the sun slipping through the cracks of the window shades. After dozing off multiple times it was already too late to wake up for advisory, so I knew I had to go fast. I rolled out of my bed as a burst of coldness permeates my body as I quickly get in some clothes and head downstairs. I grab my  iPad just to see that the charger that it was on wasn’t working, so I had to plug in a portable one and head downstairs into my basement fast. Once I got down there it was already 9:03 which meant I was already late, so I quickly logged in, and p,aged it off like nothing happened. The day was starting off rough, but it was looking like it was taking a turn for the better because when I checked my schedule I had no zooms. This day may be good after all...wait never mind I have five assignments due the next day, ugh. Instead of procrastinating I got to work with one of my friends Jackson which is who I do a lot of my work with because we have some classes together. After a couple hours of hard work I realized that there was only ten minutes until later day advisory, so I relaxed on my beanbag until then. I eventually joined advisory which and looked down at my schedule which was when I realized that I had arts in 15 minutes, and I am not very good at the comedy. During the zoom we did a rehearsal and I messed up my lines multiple times which was very embarrassing. Finally I got done with the last period of the day which meant that I could do whatever I want, so I went outside for  while and got a nice run in. Once it got dark I ate dinner with my family, played some Warzone with my friends, and then my day slowly drifted into a good nights rest. Now time to do the same thing all over again.

Powering Through

I am sitting there on my beanbag in my basement as I remember that my last assignment in my weekly assignment sheet is due the next day, so I got to commenting on my classmates posts. After the first two I was doing alright, but I wanted to be done, so I could do some fun stuff with my day and not just sit on my beanbag and do nothing. Once I was halfway done I was very desperate to get this done because I felt like I was close to done, but I wasn’t, so I had to keep working hard. I look outside to see all of the things I could be doing and then I look over to my Xbox and see that I could be playing video games which was to tempting, so I looked away and got back to work. When I was nearing the end all of my energy had been sucked out of my body from reading all of these blogs posts and then commenting in them. Once I was finally done I left my iPad on the ground and I left the room to go do fun stuff. 

     Then I realized that I still had to write the commenting metacognition and that is when I fell to the ground in sadness. As I layer there on the ground I thought to myself on if I should go back down there and write the last two paragraphs of the weekly assignment sheet or not do it now, but I will have to do it tonight.

     Instead of procrastinating even more I decided to go and get the metacognition for the commenting done. While I was reading the instructions I saw that if you write 400 or more words in three or more different paragraphs it will count to a journal entry for next week. Even though I was so torn down and tired I really needed to do this because I do not want to make my future self have to do more work. 

     As I started writing I was going pretty fats and getting some good words on how my commenting went I felt like I may actually be able to do all of the 400 words. After getting to 200 there was so much urge in my body to stop and quit there, but i knew that I had to keep going, so I did. After wring for a little bit more I got to 340 words and I knew I was on the home stretch. I powered through the next 60 words and eventually got it done. 

Reading Log

     After reading the first three chapter of Percy Jackson I faded away from the book which is something I tend to do because it is hard for me to stay focused on one book for a while. I decided to pick up a new book that entertains me more, so I looked around my house and I found this book that I remember I used to read every night that was called year in sports 2015. I used to be in to sports a lot and I still am, so I thought that this would be fun to look into and read. As I started to read the first couple of pages it was flashing me back to all of the amazing sporting events in 2015, such as for the NFL the play of the year is when Richard Sherman has the defensive play of his life. The play sent his team to the super bowl from a amazing swat down on the last play of the game, and if he missed the bowl it would have been a touchdown. Then on the next page I saw Tim Howard the amazing goal keeper for team America and it talked about a game that remember watching very well because he had the game of his life by setting a world record for saves. Even though this book wasn’t to much like a novel it is still very knowledgeable.

Microworx

      During my Narrative story I tried to describe the better times before the quarantine. I tried to used writing skills in my Narrative story, but sometimes they were hard to use in that story. In the end I got to be able to use some of the skills I have learned over my time in fitz English. Usually in my writing pieces I like to start out with describing a scene so that how I started out by using one of the skills that I have learned in this class. Using descriptive scenes is easily my favorite skill to use because when I am reading I usually enjoy reading descriptive scenes and they help let the reader picture where they are. Another skill that I tend to use and used in the writing piece was muscle verbs, this skill is very helpful in my writing because when something is going fast in my writings I don’t like to say really fast, instead I just say zipped. The other skill that I used in my Narrative story is parallel structure when I talked about how I thought about all of the things happening in the crazy pandemic going in right now. Looking back at my writing price I think I could use some different skills than I usually do because I tend to use the same ones in most of my writing pieces.

Narrative Story

     I am sitting downstairs with nothing to do as my LED lights are flashing around my room giving a soothing vibe as I think about the nightmare we are all living in. I wake up everyday to do nothing along with the other 7.8 billion people who are trapped in there homes and some people who don’t even have a home. I walk outside to enjoy the fresh air and maybe ride my bike around until a wave of reality smacks me across the face as I see people driving around me with gloves on and masks on. Every single time I log on to online zoom classes I think about how much better actual school is and how much fun being with my friends is. 

As I lay down on my trampoline I think about the good times when I didn’t have to worry about being near other people. I think about the fun times I would’ve been having with my friends over the March break that was scheduled to be the best March break ever. Instead of that I ended up spending my birthday at home the whole day which was the highlight of my March break. I think about all of the fun times I had with my friends before the quarantine happened not knowing that it would be the last time together for a while. I think about how my soccer season  was swept away in a instant. Last but not least I think about when things will be back to normal.

As I lay there on the trampoline I try to relive some times before this horrible nightmare. Sam Goorno and I are looking up Sugarbush mountain as it is being covered with powder as we eagerly put on our skis to get up the mountain and ski through the powder. We finally got on the chairlift after a long line and the powder was not skied off to much yet, so this would be the most powder I would have ever skied in my life. Once we got off the lift we raced over to a very fun black diamond with a very cool lip that you can jump off of into a nice steep section. Sam and both get decent air off of the lip and when I landed I didn’t feel anything because I sunk so far into the fluffy powder and it was the best feeling in the world. Then I zipped down the quick slope through all of the snow as it sprayed up behind me, and this is the kind of stuff that I miss most during the quarantine.

Another moment that I tried to relive is when I played Airsoft with some of my friends. Even though this wasn’t right before quarantine it still reminds me of the better times. Right before our first match it was my me, about five other friends and 20 middle aged men who play this everyday. One of my friends Kal was used to this because he does this a lot, but everyone else was frightened because we don’t know how much the guns hurt. In my first match I was camping in a corner of a house until someone peaked their head through a window and shot me, but the bullets didn’t hurt that much, so I wasn’t to scared for the next round. The next round I rushed up with the older guys and I aimed on someone that was peaking a window and got him right in the goggles. This was another time in my life that reminds of the better times. 

This bad dream hopefully will end soon, so we can go back to the fun times. 

I hear footsteps coming towards me, but I don’t know where I am, so I am running away from them, but suddenly I am awoken to my dad telling me to get up because this is the third time he has had to wake me up. I didn’t know this until I look and see that the time is 8:57 I wasn’t worried I first until I realized that it’s a school and I had advisory in 3 minutes. I didn’t have time to do anything, so I quickly put on some close and rushed downstairs while I joined my advisory at 9:00 on the dot, phew that was a close one. After a advisory that was 30 minutes that felt like 1 hour I was off to first period which was math, math has been the hardest class right now because he has been giving homework everyday that we have to do by only watching a video. Then we had English class, but something weird happened because whenever I tried to log in to the zoom it didn’t work, so I called everyone that I know in the class and got them in a single call. They all said that they were having issues joining also, so we all emailed Mr Fitz, but the time that he responded back the class was already over. During lunch break I had a late breakfast which was a bacon sandwich that are actually really good. During third period I had a study hall and I remembered that I had to write my second daily journal entry for Mr Fitz’s class, so I quickly got to that and I remembered that I actually enjoyed writing the poem the first time, so I figured I would do that again, but not this time. After finishing up the journal entry I got all of my props for the science video about food chain which took me until the end of the next period, but we didn’t have a zoom that day for Latin. I was about to go outside, but then I realized that I had my end of the day advisor in 1 minute, so I quickly rushed back inside and got onto the zoom just in time.during the advisory we didn’t really do much and Since this online school thing has started I haven’t understood why we do that end day advisory because we never do anything during that time. Once the end day advisory finally ended I went outside on to my trampoline which I have been doing a lot lately because he have mini basketball hoops on to the trampoline and it is really fun to play on them with my brothers. After being outside for about 45 minutes my mom came outside and she loves to rollerblade, so we rollerbladed down the street and down some hills around the neighborhood. Once we got back inside the house we ate dinner and I ended off my day playing some video games with my friends.

I wake up to the sun shining into my room

I look outside and the flowers are about to bloom

The outdoors looks warm and welcoming, but so does my bed

Kinda hungry, I may want some bread

But I can’t walk downstairs because my legs are feeling dead 

After going on my phone for a bit and taking a shower I'm ready for my day

But I’m probably going to have to stay 

Because of quarantine 

I have to sit Behind screen

I decide to go outside after being stuck inside with nothing to do

The sky today is looking very blue 

Decided to play some basketball 

But then I got a call

It’s two of my friends saying to play Fortnite 

So I walk downstairs to get on 

I see it’s turning into dawn 

My friends and I are playing some squads

Were playing like gods 

We died a couple times and decided to go to sleep

This is when my day slowly drifts away

This is all I had to say.

I wake up, but I can’t move 

This must mean that it’s time for school

My body is telling me to wake up, but my eyelids are heavier than ever

I roll my self out of bed as my covers fall with me 

I throw on some clothes and get on zoom

Wishing I was still in my room 

First period was very boring

To the point where I was close to snoring 

Zoom was lagging, so I couldn’t learn 

The phone is starting to burn 

Because it is so hot on my cold legs 

After I sit through the long, but quick classes I try to relax myself, so I get on Fortnite 

And after some wins the time is just before night 

But before the night starts I remembered my daily run I have been doing for soccer 

It is raining which is not a shocker 

After my run through the cold rain 

All of my energy I all down the drain

And my day is slowly coming to a end.