Central High School
123 Main Street,
Sportstown, British Columbia,
V2A 1W3.

Dear Mr. Kleats:

My name is Carmen George and I have attended a few of my daughters soccer practices,I appreciate the time you give to be with the kids and couch them on a daily basis. I have a few concerns on some of your actions during most of those practices. I under stand that it is indeed quite difficult to maintain a large number of children and to keep everything organized.

I noticed that you will arrive late to a practice which makes it so practice is not over until a later time. Also the practices tend to be unorganized maybe if you got some of the parents or even hire a co-coach to help with keeping everything organized. Some of the team members have very little playing time, i find this unfair and i suggest that you make a time limit for each player so then everyone can get a chance at playing. I also recognized the fact that you often tend to yell at the players, once again i understand that it is diffucult to keep children at that age focused and on task but if you took a lighter tone you might get a better result do to the fact that kids like to rebel against most order. You also seem to put alot of emphasis on winning, these kids need to understand that winning isnt everything and that there here to have fun.

Sincerely,
Carmen S. George

"knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens" - Jimi Hendrix, all of Jimi’s songs were originally poems that he just out to music and the one that I decided to display as a good example of a song being a poem is The Wind Cries Mary by the man himself, this song displays personification and example would be in the first stanza when he says " You can hear happiness staggering on down the road" and also when he says " yesterdays life". A metaphor in this song i think is when he mentions that " the life that lived is dead" as in to say that that day is done, A good example of imagery in this song is the verse that is "The traffic lights they turn of blue tomorrow And shine their emptiness down on my bed" i find this sentence powerful and it kind of just jumped out at me. The mood of this song it calming almost not only song but poem wise just reading the lyrics I get a sense of tranquil, and lastly the main symbol in this poem is the wind.  

After all the jacks are in their boxes and the clowns have all gone to bed
You can hear happiness staggering on down the street
Footprints dressed in red and the wind whispers mary

A broom is drearily sweeping up the broken pieces of yesterdays life
Somewhere a queen is weeping somewhere a king has no wife
And the wind it cries mary

The traffic lights they turn of blue tomorrow
And shine their emptiness down on my bed
The tiny island sails downstream cause the life that lived is is dead
And the wind screams mary

Will the wind ever remember the names it has blown in the past
And with this crutch its old age and its wisdom
It whispers no this will be the last
And the wind cries mary

~Jimi Hendrix

White guy = Bill, Black guy = Sam

"I baought my wife a car yesterday," Sam stated "im gonna have to work in this place for the rest of my life."

".... you should take the bus to work like i do...only $1.50 a day." Sam suggests

Bill protests " you'll never catch me on that bus!"

" well how did you get to school when you were a kid?" questioned Sam

"Well," Bill thought "well my dad drove me."

Sam chuckled "Well i guess you will be working here for the rest of your life."

 "JEE Sam! thanks for the vote of confedence."

"Bus gets here at 7am," Sam teases " I'll see you then Bill."

"Ya ya, I'll see you then" Bill replies slightly annoyed

Bullying, is it a problem ?

Maggie, good teachers, fun classes, and around 750 students. is there bullying alive and roaming the hall ways of this school? .


This school is well known for the intellegent and polite student body, but do we really know what goes on in the minds of these teens?, honestly i dont think we'll ever know truly but on the outside the part that actually matters most, there is no serious sign of bullying. when you walk the halls of princess margaret secondary you see smiles and casual (not alway appropriate) conversations. From what is observed no one in this school is physically being bullied, then again looks can be deseiving. Under the smiloes, hugs and laughter there is indeed a small but hurtful demon called "high school drama".


High school drama might sound small and nothing even closly related to bullying, but indeed it is and sometimes its the worst form of bullying. Rumors, back stabbing, and constant name calling, this is the stuff that goes down under the cover of the land of milk and honey. studies have shown that emotional and mental bullying if or can be much worse then physical, its the name calling and the rumors that can really sting a kid and even stay with them for life (depends on the personality the person has). Along with all this that goes on at school it can follow a person home witch is really horribble, thats when you start looking at cyber bullying and  maybe even phone calls.


Now theres one question i have for everyone out there, may it be student or teacher. Is there a way to stop this self esteam genocide?.  Unfortunatly no there isnt a way to stop it no matter what people do or say there is those that will never stop being either racist, or just strait up judgemental. This is the garsh truth we all need to learn. There is though a way to "protect" yourself, Be true to yourself and know who you are, dont let people who may not even know you tell you who you are or even who you should be. one more thing id like to say is that people that start rumors or call people names dont deserve to have friends then again maybe thats all they need is a true friend to stand up and say "hey thats not cool".

Collage Application

The Magnificent person that is me became the person that i am today becasue of exiting life i have.

 I have made it around the world in 80 days, twice. I've tamed 100 wild stallions in half an hour, I live in a Jell-o house. insted of getting frost bite when im swimming with my polar bears brothers i bite frost. I lived in a cave with wolves and im now the CEO of my own company. I had jam sessions with my buddy Jimi and went shopping with Janise. Got into a fight with Chuck Norris and won. I am Crouching tiger hidden dragon. 



   

We're not kids anymore

Yes, it has been fun playing around and not caring about the stuff our parents care about like bills and buying us food for the last 17 or 18 years but now its time to get our act together no more staying up late and waking up late, not really caring if were late for school or not NO, now we have to get to school (if you plan on going to collage) on time or else we miss so much and most of the time if not all of the time our collage teachers wont give us the work we missed like our beloved high school teachers, we also have to get our butts out of bed and get a job or we'll never be able to live or do anything and if we have a crazy time table then heck we still might not be able to do anything but we still need to worry about phone bills and rent oh yah and food no more saying "mom I’m hungry" no, now we have to fend for our selves unless of coarse we stay home for collage but guess what i cant wait now why? well maybe its because we don’t have to have a curfew (even though when were in school and on our own subconsciously we make our own curfew) and we cant get grounded that’s a bonus so kids its time to pick up your socks because were not little kids anymore and I know we’re going to miss it but now its time to show our parents yah we can handle the real world I don’t know about you but I’m ready.