Azucena's Blog

 This semester was unlike any other because we had to learn and adjust in different ways. Our course was different from the beginning and I value everything I learned from it. We did a lot of work that was different from any other English class I've ever had. Something that made this course different than any other course was that it focused on what your thoughts and opinion were on certain stuff. For example, the journal entries, were something that was very new and different to me. No other class had us keep a journal and write our thoughts in it everyday. The questions for our journals were very interesting and made me actually want to write every day. I am glad I got to try out something new. I found having our very own blog meaningful. This was meaningful because we get to have a space where we can write all of our thoughts and share them with our classmates. We can also get inspired by our classmates and see what they have to say about certain topics.  The work I am most prou

 The Basics  1. The novel "Blink Once" by Cylin Busby is about a boy named West who is a senior in high school that loves biking. Until one day he wakes up paralyzed in a hospital bed. He meets this girl named Olivia who is also a patient at the hospital. Olivia seems to be the only one who understands West. They become really good friends. West begins to rely more on Olivia, even more than his own friends. West gets the opportunity to consider having surgery. This surgery can possibly get him back to normal but Olivia doesn't want him to get it because she thinks West will forget about her. West ends up getting the surgery and getting better. He can now walk and talk. The first thing he wants to go do is see Olivia. Then he finds out Olivia has been in a coma for almost a year. He refuses to believe it because she has been talking to him for months. Then he finds out he has also been in a coma for months. Everything that he and Olivia had been through was not real.  2. I