Chingiz's English Blog

 My experience in American lit to be honest is more difficult then I thought. Its going well so far by keeping up with my assignments I missed a blog post last week so I made sure not to miss one this week. Other than that my grades have been up. I need to keep this up moving forward and I feel like that will be the most challenging part. I just need to continue to do like I did these 4.5 weeks and not slack off. Today in class we turned in our hearts and worked on questions from Emily Dickinsons poem.

 I still use the same practices that I did when this person was still here. My old PE and fitness trained had moved to NY and Ive known him most of my life and he gave me the base of my fitness journey. I still follow his practices and advice today. I follow the lifts I should do, and tips he gives me. I will always remember him for what he did for me. Today in class we finished up the heart artistic drawings and reflection questions.

 A time when my heart and mind wanted different things is when I was trying to get over someone I had loved. My mind was trying to get over her but my heart didn't want to because I liked the attention of her. It felt nice to be loved by someone back and I missed that feeling so much. That's why my heart was struggling but I tried for my mind to push forward. To forget that it happened and move on. Today in class we started working on our heart drawing and labeling assignment.

 When I first started taking the SAT I was studying late, for example waiting for the last week. This made me stressed out and overwhelmed because I had to cram a lot. My scores also turned out not great. When I studied for more time like a month leading up to it it was a lot less stressful. I also got a better score on it than when I studied less. I learned that the more you study the less overwhelmed you are when it comes time and the better your results are. Today in class we just read and annotated one of Emily Dickinsons poems.

 One adventure that I would like to gone on is a cruise from Miami to the Caribbean. That would be interesting to me because there is so much to do. First of all, you could go swimming in the sea, then you could go in the pool on the cruise. The islands you go on too, you could explore the different living conditions of each island you see for example the Bahamas, and you could even swim there. A cruise would alao be the perfect getaway adventure to relax. Today in class we just presented our creative origin myth assignment and watched others present as well.

 The most creative thing I have ever made was an abstract art piece that I made last year. It included oil pastel, watercolor, and a collage and I spent close to a month working on it. It has a lot of creative and abstract components so that it stands out. It was my best work because it was an original idea by me and I put a lot of dedication into it. It turned out nice, and is now hung up in my room to remember.  Today in class we just kept working on our creative poster on origin myths.

 One big wonder I have is what happens after death? I'm not necessarily scared of it but what I am scared of is the unknown like what will I feel like? What will I see? That's one of the biggest mysteries I have ever had. Another one is how is our body so perfect? How do we have all the functions we need a brain, two sets of teeth, a stomach, everything in our human body is necessary to survival. And we have everything we need its crazy. Today during class we had a creative assignment we did, started Monday and we will present them Friday.

 I think I have adapted to this course well throughout the week. At the start I did not really know what to expect, but now that we've gone further with class I understand that most of the course is reading and writing. One strength that I anticipate is my writing which I enjoy more than reading. One challenge is the reading because I don't like to read that much so its pretty challenging. Writing has always been a thing I've liked to do because you can just get your thoughts out through a different form of expression, and since I'm doing college essays now ive done it a lot. In class we read an origin myth and answered questions about it. 

 Creating my own origin myth helped me better understand why cultures use stories to explain because they give real world problems through exaggerated myths. For example for my myth I was trying to address the real world problem that its ok to look different but you should not fight over it. Especially you should try to work together to get more done instead of fighting about it. I made my characters, Zaykong, and Godzilla like that on purpose to symbolize mythodical characters, but they can cause mass destruction when they need to. And that happened when they ran into each other and looked different and each one of them thought that it was their own land. For this reason, to communicate the bigger picture in a smaller way, is why origin myths are created. Summary: In todays class we worked on making our own origin stories and we did that the whole class period as well as read the example and talked about the instructions.

 The country of Georgia carries a very big place I'm my life, as I lived there for 2 years. I met many great people and experienced the other side of the world that I would never even have heard if if I had not gone. Its beautiful there, I tried skiing and I love it, explored very many great cities that have a lot of old churches and rich history. I tried amazing foods like Khinkali and Khachapuri, and tried MMA there because its big and I love it and keep doing it here. Georgia was amazing to me so is the Georgia I was born in.  Todays class was about reading a message that involved Biblical references and answering questions about the construction and descruction of each world.

 A time I felt connected to nature is when I visited the city of Kutaisi in the country of Georgia, and visited the waterfall and cave reserves. The cave was chilly with water droplets dropping and iscicles attached to the top. Hearing the waterfall water running made me feel calm and just walking through it I felt like I really was connected to my surroundings. When I reached the waterfall at the end of the cave it was amazing, just the smell of the natural freshwater made me even want to get in it. At that moment I just felt connected throughout the cave, and took in all my surroundings. Todays class was about how the native Americans still live in the US today and a lot of their cultures were lost due to disease and forced religion.

 One goal that I want to achieve this year is to get better at writing, and analyzing books. I don't usually like to read so thats one thing I want to get better at as well as writing. Another thing I want to achieve this year is to have a good tennis season. I enjoy playing and its my senior year so hopefully the team goes far this year and I'm going to try my best. Lastly, I want to end of my high school career smoothly with pretty good grades and a solid foundation for college, and get accepted to UGA. That's my dream school so that would be cool to get into.