Blog 6

In “The Nightmare Before Christmas” is an animation Disney film about Jack Skellington, the Halloweentown’s deer Pumpkin King.  Jack was dull of the same spooking anniversary of scaring human’s, so one day he decided to wonder around to find something that inspires him.  He end up coming across this little town called Christmastown by mistake,  he saw people were merry and everything was dazzling.  Which made him think a whole different way of celebrating a holiday, then he thought of taking over Christmas. He came back to Halloweentown and tell his friends that he wants to kidnapped Santa Claus, so they decided to help him. They end up kidnapping Santa Claus and Jack took his place. When he was embracing the Christmas Holiday, he started to realize to see the plain didn’t went well.  He saw it was becoming a disaster. At first he was confused why, and then he realize that he’s the Halloween King and not the Christmas King. He quickly came back to Halloweentown and saving Santa Clause from getting killed. He apologized to the beloved Santa Clause about making the worst Christmas Holiday ever and wonder it can be fix. Santa told Jack that he could and can, then Holiday was saved and Jack Skellington ends up cherishing the Halloween Holiday because it only comes once every year.

In my reaction at first to this film was I thought I wouldn’t enjoy this, then as I started to watch this it started to grow in me.  I  start to engaged and enjoying it.  Such a sweet animation, family, and fantasy film.  I think adult and children of all ages would love this movie. I thought it was cheesy through, but I like it. The message in this film is don’t change who you are and be yourself, because you only have one of you.

Blog 5

The song that I choose is “Try” by Colbie Caillat, because of the message is about self-love. When I watched the music video I saw different types of colors of women and girls. I see them lip-singing the song with Coblie Caillat with make-up on and then seeing them taking it off; you see everyone in this music video imperfection. They look confident and feel beautiful in their own skin and flaws. I searched up the lyrics to this song and read through it. The music video did a really great job on setting an example to this song, but when you read through the lyrics it has a deeper meaning towards it. What it talks about how exhausting is it being a women. Being a women you are raise and taught how we should look, like being slim, wearing make-up, and dressing up a siren way.  We try to change who we are to be accepted to the people around us and do everything until they acknowledge us.  But you shouldn’t care what others think of you too much, because in the end of the day you have yourself.  You have to learn to love yourself for who you truly are and give yourself a break.  You should love the body and skin that you were with and every imperfection part of yourself. Be who you want to be. If you want to wear make-up for you and not for everybody else is fine and it’s also fine you don’t want wear make-up.  Appreciate who you a really are and like the song says “you don’t have to try”.

Blog 4

In this article “Black. Male. Educator. Unicorn.”  by Tim West talks about him being a ninth-graded English-Language art teacher in Washington, DC. How he felt people might will look down upon him since he’s a black queer man. One the example he stated  “As a black, queer, and pro-feminist teacher who straight-passing, it struck me that I didn’t yet “exist” in the world of p-12 education”.  Himself being a coach and a teacher he observe the students and teachers speak highly against homosexuality. He couldn’t open up who he really was because that gave him so much anxiety, until one day he couldn’t take it and wanted to be honest about being gay to all his student. It must took much courage to come clean to his students.  The students and the other teachers didn’t have a problem about him being gay, because he was well respected man in the school. I understand how it must felt for him for keeping the secret inside him and how it ate him alive. I am glad he did open up to the school, because truth will set you free.

I feel I can understand about how is like hiding your sexual orientation, because I myself is bisexual.  I remember on trying to deny my own sexuality, because my high school friends and my family would make fun of it. I would make myself believe that I don’t like girls like that and I like only boys. Fast forward on the time I met my boyfriend, he would try to help me open up who I really was. At first I would deny that I wasn’t bisexual, then it hit me that I couldn’t deny any longer. I told him about being bisexual and that didn’t change how he felt about me. He still love me the same. Then I start to tell my little cousin about it, then she replied to me ” I’ve always knew that about you, but I didn’t want to say anything. Don’t worry it doesn’t change me how I feel about you. I still love you the same. I’m glad you able to tell me through.” I felt shocked and relieve at the same time. I told my friends about it and had great respect for me to come clean about it. The last person I ever told about my sexual orientation was my brothers’ girlfriend, because I felt I could trust her. I haven’t have the courage to tell my brother about it yet, but I will when time is right. The thing is I think I will never be able to tell my parents about it, because how I am afraid if I will tell them they won’t love me anymore, because they think unnatural it is and how traditional they are. I hope one day reviewing your sexual orientation wouldn’t have to be problem and it would be normal.

Blog 3

I think that society in the media claim that it’s easy, like for example the movies, television, and the news, like you go to college, graduate, get a job, and get married; but in reality it really isn’t.  I think in school system of difficulty is in the right standard right now.  I also do agree that society is difficult, because difficulty helps evolve human into a society, and makes one sense of understanding of the world. I know I thought life would be easy for me when I graduated out of high school, but I was very wrong. My parents always tried to protect me from the hardships of the world, so I was basically was spoiled as a child.  I had a hard time in San Jose City College and I thought it must be the people around me dislikes me. My mom taught me that if I look pretty I can whatever I want, but it’s not. I thought the school did me wrong so I’ve decided to quit San Jose City for awhile, then I met my partner. He has taught me it’s not easy out there and I have to built myself from the bottom up. At first I didn’t understand what he meant, but he encourage me to go back to college and work hard to reach my goals in life.  I went back to college again cause I wanted to do it for him. I started fresh once again at De Anza College and study hard in my class and  I started to see my grades improving, because I was working hard. I remember the time i didn’t even try in San Jose City College and how I would fail, but making the effort trying help me. I went to tutor’s, had friends, and him to help me along the way. I was happy I am going somewhere in my life.  I finally believe am smart for the first time in my life and didn’t feel useless. I have a sense of self. I knew from there I wanted to be my own person. Even I failed the things I’ve tried, I just need to asked for help, and stop making the same mistakes I did before. This is my difficulty and I’m a person within this society. Weather it is my difficulty, another difficulty, or a society difficulty, it makes us stronger as long as it doesn’t kill us.

Blog 2

Book Club Members are in my group is Jake Catura, Toni Flores, and Uyen Huynh.

The two book choices we pick is The Maze Runner and Fault In Our Stars.

My goal in the group is to do my part on reading the book, taking notes, and met what is needed to be done for the book club.

I’ve never had a book club, but I hope my group will make things run smoothly and get everything done on time. I believe my group will do a great job on the book club.

Blog 1

Sherman’s passionate for reading reminded me the time how much I love dancing in my ballet and jazz dance class when I was in High School.  I knew I wasn’t the best dancer, but I did my everything to do my best that I could. When Sherman Alexie was talking about how he read “Superman” even through he didn’t remember much of that comic book, he remember how much he loved reading and nothing will stand away from it, which is like the time in my dance class. My High School dance teacher knew how driven I was and challenge me, even the bluster on my feet and my legs didn’t stop me. My teacher asked me if I wanted to rest and let the womb heal, but I refused to. I kept dancing, because I was passionate in dancing.  In the ballet dance recital I was the one who stood out the most, because I was happy and passionate dancing gracefully.  How I knew was the classmate parents, friends, and even the teacher told me so. Watching the video tape of the whole class dancing and seeing me smile so happily, that made me realized how passionate I was for dancing.  Even from today I still love dancing the same.

When Sherman was reading books for his father it reminded me the time I was about seven years old trying to be a tomboy for my dad to bond and love me the way he loved my older brother, because I was jealous how close my brother was to my father. I read magazine about cars, played with my brothers car toys, and broke my barbie doll toys that my dad would buy for me to play. Even all I did to help my bond for my father stronger it would still wouldn’t work. He didn’t like that I was being a tomboy little girl and refused and kept buying Barbie dolls for me, even I didn’t like them.