Different Cultures

The Indian culture is different from ours in many ways. They have different dances, food and clothing. Very tired right now. Haven't really found any texts about this subject. night.

I found a passage in Nectar in a Sieve that eludes on the subject of trying to get over a difficulty or facing a challenge. Ruku and Nathan are trying to keep their hopes up even when the drought has the best of them and they're barely making end's meet. She says, " That ye3ar the rains failed. A week went by, two. We threw ourselves on the earth and we prayed./I thought she [Ruku's goddess] looked at me with compassion and I went away comforted, but no rain came" (Markandaya 71).

New Book

We got a new book this week titled Nectar in a Sieve. This first post is going to elaborate upon the natural disasters or how people are affected in the book. The monsoon comes in the book at around chapter 5-6 or something like that. The monsoon comes in and literally destroys everything. I find it quite interesting that despite the monsoon and the destruction good things can happen. As Ruku and Nathan break the dams around the rice paddy she recalls,

"When the water was all gone, there they were caught in the meshes and among the paddy, shoals of them leaping madly, wet and silver and good to look upon" (Markandaya 44).

Good things happen to us if we keep our faith up and believe that things will turn out for the better. As long as we find things to be grateful for everyday then we find that life is good, and we are blessed. That is what this passage means to me. Life is good.

Shakespeare

I love Shakespeare. I've always loved his language, his sense of humor and how entertaining he is. My favorite play is Romeo and Juliet. This new play we're reading in english is A Midsummer Night's Dream which is really funny and has many twists and turns. Very well written. I am working hard in school this last week before finals so I can get all of my stuff back. Not much else. Haven't been reading much. Maybe I should get to that.

It's been awhile

Been gone awhile. I was busy during Winter Break, rocking out on my new Laguna Guitar and my Line 6 Spider III 15 amp. Been practicing Stairway to Heaven for about a month and its getting solidified in my head. Started a new unit in English. Midsummer Night's Dream. I really love Shakespeare. It's just really funny. I'm really busy with getting my grades up. If I can get a B+ average in all six of my classes I can get my phone, mp3, facebook, and socializing back plus I get signed up for Driver's Ed. With my A in Chem. I can have no lower than a B- in another class with my other four B+'s and I'll make it. It's kind of a strategy game almost. That's the news.

Being a techie

is hard. I'm the only one in my family of 5 who knows how to decently fix a computer. My sister's computer is the best in the house, with three compys. with 5 gbs of ram and half a terrabyte of hard drive, that's over 500 gigs!, it's a techies dream. Nvidia gt 8600 it kicks all video game butt! with vista there's nothing this thing can't do, but as I've just learned as im typing, my sister's compy won't read any cd i give it. I look into the computer files and I realize there's no cd drive showing up. so that's my problem now. had to tell her to take it into best buy. finished watching All My Sons in english today. I started blubbering like a baby. I'm gonna be converting all of my baby tapes of my birth till the present time to dvd which i get paid for 30 bucks a pop. gotta get to work.

WHY?

Why is it always me? Now the drama's over but I'm sick. ugh. I hate head colds. They suck. I was dreaming about being a castaway on an island like Tom Hanks and my bed was soaked. No, I didn't wet the bed. At least not in that way. I had a blanket over the covers so as to break my fever with heat and I ended up sweating till my bed was wet. My fever broke though. I am reading All My Sons and I'm 60 pages away from finishing The Fellowship of the Ring. I also started a new book called Extreme Measures by Vince Flynn. It's a political thriller and it has to do a lot with terrorists and Al-Queda. That's about it this week. I'm hoping the sniffles will subside.