1/22 free post

        Cheer competition season is at it's peak right now. I have practice every night, along with my homework. We are working hard adding lots of new skills, and improving on anything that we can. With all of these extra practices at this time, because it is Nationals season, makes keeping up with everything pretty difficult. I do my best to keep everything on a schedule so that I can make sure that it is getting done, but sometimes it's hard to keep up.
         I am tired all the time, and still trying to push through everything to get what i need to get done. I know that the harder I try, the easier everything will be for me to do and to keep up with. Soon, will be one of the biggest competitions of my life and I have to work extra hard to keep up with my work and get what I need to get done at the gym.

3/4 blogs Tambu

     I don't feel bad for not caring about my brothers death, but why should I? He was always mean and acting like he was better than everyone else because he was going to the mission school. When he would come back to visit us, he didn't like to work, he just read and bragged about how nice Babamukuru's house. He acted like he had forgotten Shona, but when ever it was needed, he just so happened to remember it. When I was trying to earn money to go to school, he would steal my mealies, and give them away. So why should I feel bad that he died and I get to go have a good education.
      I am out at Babamukuru's and I am getting to go to the mission. I am really excited to be at Babamukuru's with him and his family. We are about to eat dinner and Maiguru made a really nice dinner. Baba is served first as usually, but Nyasha is rude and starts to eat before he finishes. She doesn't really respect her parents, and I don't really understand why because she has so much from her parents.

2/25 work details

2/23 Awakened- 70 min
2/24 research for new topic- 45 min
2/24 starting rough draft- 40 min
Total: 155 min

2/25 research paper reflection

    As I was writing this paper I did a lot of research. I looked through a lot of different peoples views on why the Holocaust "doesn't" exist. I learned a lot of new things that I had no clue about, because I had kind of touched on the topic but never knew some of the stuff that I learned. After I researched, i found the things that I though would be the most useful to use in my paper, then I wrote my rough draft.
    I didn't have any peer review on this paper, so I had to try to catch my mistakes by myself, but I know I wasn't able to catch them all. I think the next time I write a paper, I am going to try to take more time on it, and really try to get more involved in it than what I was in this one. I think one of the weakest aspects of my paper was my sentence structure, and repetition, but I think the strongest was somewhat word choice and transitions.

Ch. 7 Nervous Conditions

            Before Christmas, Tambu along with Nyasha, Maiguru, and Babamuruku go back to Shona, but Chido doesn't return with them. As they get there, Tambu doesn't see it the same as she used to, because now she has been staying in a much nicer place so its like what she used to have isn't good enough for her anymore. Nothing is clean enough for her to really want to use. She sees that one of her aunts is pregnant with her lazy uncle who isn't suppose to be living in the homestead anymore.
          Tambu also sees that her mother is pregnant, but is also ill and weak and cannot work a lot at the time.  They are having to make lots of food for everyone who is there, but it is a big job for all the women. Some of the meat starts to rot but the women will be the ones who must eat it, and they keep the rest of the meat good for the men. Babamukuru has a meeting with everyone in the homestead but things didn't turn out too well after the meeting.

Ch. 6 nervous conditions

              There was a lot of whites at the Mission school, and they were considered to be holy. While Tambu was at the mission, there wasn't as many white people as there used to be there.  She felt guilty because she did not like to whites, until one day she learned that they were beautiful and she was then able to love them. Tambu says that she has never met black person who has said that they would not want to attend a white school, except for Nyasha. 

            Nyasha is working really hard at school, studying a lot and making sure she knows everything. She starts to loose a lot of weight from being so focused on her work, and having an eating disorder.  Tambu goes to a Christmas party, with is kind of unusual because she doesn't normally go to things like that.  Later on, Babamaruku and Nyasha get in a horrible fight, and Nyasha gets hit twice. After the fight, Babamaruku stays away from the house for a little while, and Nyasha stops eating again.

               

3/4 layer c

    What I did for this layer was blogs, questions, and annotating.  I like the annotating because it helps me understand what is going on and get a better feeling for the characters. The questions are probably something that I might not do again because I didn't really like them. The blogs are easy to write stuff on if you are following along with the book.
   The most useful thing that I did was the probably annotating because I was able to break down a part of the story if I was confused, and to really understand what I was reading. I think the questions were not useful at the time, but will probably be useful later.

Reading times:
Nervous conditions- Class time 30 min. 3/1- 50 min.
Project: questions 45 min.  Blogs: 30 min.
Total: 155 min.