Saidul English Blog

 Today we were writing argumentative paragraphs, I kind’ve zoned out this entire week so I didn’t know why but I made sure to concentrate and complete the paragraphs as much as I can, I completed the prompt about student athletes needing compensation and I would say I did fairly well but my formatting was pretty bad. Mr Rease gave us a speech about missing assignments and I kinda feel guilty since all of my teachers give me chances but I keep letting them down, kinda wish it was last year when I was still functioning so they would know im not this much of a freeloader. I do hope I can continue to keep trying to keep focus in this class since english is one of my worst subjects and I need the most help here.

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 Today we didn’t necessarily review or learn anything however we did have an assignment that made usage of our writing skills which was to list out 6 goals and summarize them all. Overall thought inducing as I only really had one goal in general which was to learn about martial arts and understand it but now I have 6 more.

 Today we continued reading this play, as four of our classmates and teacher acted as these characters and narrator. The book seems somewhat real in a sense as the characters use slang and language that would be common in regular conversations, like with other books everyone speaks so formally with little mistakes in their speech making it seem somewhat unrealistic, in here it seems like a conversation you’d actually hear. At parts it got a little uncomfortable but at other parts it was relatable like when Troy and his son were disagreeing about their ways of life, his son may have been lazy and avoiding his responsibilities but he was chasing his passion or what he lead us to believe was his passion. That scene made the book feel much more relatable in my eyes as I can relate to his son as I too have avoided my life for the majority of it, except I’m not even sure why, but at a certain point in life, you need to face reality and decide whether your dreams are worth making your cur...

 Today we came back from break and we didn’t have too much work, we ended up reading this book named Fences which happened to be a play which is new to me. The book gave us the setting and context prior to the play, somewhat like a movie in my opinion. I was wondering if we were gonna read the play however we still had to narrate first which I chose to do because I don’t really like reading so I’d like to get it out of the way. I’d prefer narrator to because I wouldn’t have to put much effort into playing my character. Aside from that the title is kind of relatable, I like keeping fences since I don’t really like adding new people in my circle of close friends, it just is more trouble than it’s worth when more people have leverage on you and your life. So I just tend to not share my feelings, personal life and like my I guess myself to people I’m not close with. 

 

 Despite not enjoying being serious and focused in stuff, I am very competitive and fixated on small stuff like rankings and wins for my ego, Like I use the fact that im rarely serious to try and get away with losing but really it does get on my nerves, cause it doesn’t really work. Not to mention that I hate losing so whenever I lose to my friend in something I enjoy fair and square while trying to act like i'm not serious even though I am, it’s very hard to deny my loss despite not wanting to accept it. Like I really don’t wanna admit I‘m worse than my friend and that I’m probably not even 2nd, i'm barely even hanging in the top 10 in our friendgroup.