My Journey

Wisdom In A Hot Dog

Well I won't back down
No I won't back down
You can stand me up at the gates of Hell
But I won't back down

No I'll stand my ground
Won't be turned around
And I'll keep this world from dragging me down
Gonna stand my ground
And I won't back down

Hey baby, there ain't no easy way out
Hey yeah, I'll stand my ground
And I won't back down

Well I know what's right
I got just one life
In a world that keeps on pushin me around
but I'll stand my ground
And I won't back down

Hey baby, there ain't no easy way out
Hey yeah, I'll stand my ground
And I won't back down

Hey baby, there ain't no easy way out
Hey yeah, I'll stand my ground
And I won't back down

No I won't back down

Tom Petty 

Well you see I wasn't in class those days that my English Teacher was talking about some hot dog story and some other stories that have a significant meaning. So when I read the assignment, Number fifteen I really didn't know what I was supposed to write about. Then I read the line "write a creative reflection in which you tell a story which captures an important teaching or a truth which you are passing on to your readers". Well you see I'm not writing a story I'm just going to say how it is, I'm going to tell you about a important teaching I've learned.

What I learned didn't come from a epic story, or someone who told me something that made me think, No it was a song that my dad showed to me. Something that when I listened to it I said to myself "I will never back down". To this day I've wanted to give up on so many things. School. Family. Relationships. Friendships. Life. Basically all the hard stuff in life that I sometimes can't handle. Especially when everything happens at once. So when I listened to this song it was like someone very religious saying god spoke to them. It spoke to me in a way that stuck in my head. I could sing every word to this song without the music. It told me don't give up, there are many obstacles but you can fight your way through and you will win. I know it's silly to base a serious teaching of your life from a song but at that time it was the only thing I had. The main thing I've learned it to not give up no matter how hard it gets.

Uniforms Good Or Bad?

(Day one)

One day in English class, minding my own business just drawing on my note book, pretending to pay attention to my teacher I suddenly heard a loud BEEP. Then at that moment I heard the intercom come on and say "will you please send Julieanna Lucero to the main office, Thank you". Then I grabbed all my crap and left to the office. When I got there the secretary directed me to the Principal's office and made me sit down. Then I waited and waited and waited and finally the principal came in, She sat down and said " Your one of the few students I have chosen to help me decided if we should have uniforms here at AHA". Then I said "What uniforms!? No you can't!" Then the Principal said " That's why I want you to come up with the persuasive argument and come tell me next week what you think". Then she sent me back to class and that when I started thinking...

(Day three, four more days left)

The next few days I thought back to when I had to wear uniforms in middle school, of course I hated them. They were ugly, itchy and at my old middle school had two or three main colors to choose from, so there wasn't much color there. I would always think nobody has to wear uniforms in real life why do we have to wear them now? Then I would go home and complain about them and everyone would say there not that bad, but they didn't have to wear them, so I just said whatever and went on with my day. Then when I would talk to my Nana about them she would say she liked them because they didn't separate people, gangs couldn't show their colors to other gangs to start a fight. It wouldn't show which kids had money to buy nice clothes and the kids that didn't, but it was good because it sort of united people in a different way. That when I noticed the some of the older people were for the uniforms because it keeps things simple, and the younger kids didn't like it because they were ugly, itchy and a lot of other things. That's when I was thinking the maybe I was for uniforms...?

(Day six, one day left)

No you know what I'm not for uniforms at all. No. No. No! Do you know why the colors at my middle school changed every year? Well it was because they had issues with the uniforms like when the white got taken away it was because boys at the school were throwing water at the girls shirts and showing there bras and boobs. They took away the tan because it wasn't a school color and so on so forth with the colors being a problem. Then again middle school was the only school I ever had to wear uniforms which also makes no sense??? Oh my god and buying those things were a pain in the butt! Either the stores only had certain sizes, you could only get certain colors and they probably didn't have those colors. You know stuff like that. Then when I got into high school, a junior to be exact I went over to my Nana's and she showed me her new uniforms and they were heavy gray polo shirt. I said "Nana what do you think of you new uniforms, do you like them"? What do you think she said? "I don't like them at all don't you think their ugly and their heavy and sometimes itch". Then I laughed and then BOOM! It was really ironic that the principal tells me to come up with an answer on uniforms with back up for my school.

(Day seven, The last day)

I really don't know what the right answer is or what to tell the principal but I think I know. That day when I heard my name over the intercom I immediately knew what it was about. When I got to the office I didn't even say "Hey where do I go". I just walked strait into her office and waited and waited and waited. She finally walked in after about twenty minutes and said "Well what have you decided". I started to tell her everything I thought about over the last couple of days and all she did was nod. "You still haven't told me your answer" she said. "I think yes and no. I think no nasty ugly clothes that only come in one size, but we should be able to wear regular clothes with maybe a few restrictions so the girls don't look like no hoochie mamas and the boys don't have their pants down to there knees". "I mean it makes complete sense, right"? She said nothing and dismissed me and a few weeks later the announcement came on and said "I have made up my mind no uniforms for AHA". And there it was.

The Lighting Thief

The Lightning Thief is an epic story about a kid named Percy Jackson that has dyslexia and ADHD and is always getting in trouble in school. One day he comes to find out that these conditions are things that help keep him alive. On a school field trip he gets attacked by a big bat winged old hag and his teacher gives him a pen that turns into a sword. After his crazy day he goes home to his mother, just to forget everything because him and his mother don't spend much time together and so she tells him her plans for a trip to their favorite spot near the beach. When arriving they have no troubles settling in to their cozy little cabin but when roasting marshmallows Percy tells his mom about his crazy day in the museum. She says its because of his father and tells him the story about him going out to sea when he was young. He remembers a smile of his father and then BOOM! A storm is approaching and they ran inside. Then a KNOCK KNOCK was on the door and it was Grover, Percy's best friend. He told them to hurry because it was coming and they left to Camp Half-Blood. On the way there driving as fast as they can Percy sees the beast, then suddenly the car flips and they have to escape to the borders of the camp. Then suddenly Percy's mom stops to save them so they can make it, when the big bull like guy grabs her by the neck and she turns to gold dust, and full of rage attacks the bull and wins.

Percy awakes in this strange building confused like nothing ever happened but it did. He remembered the bull, his friend with goat legs, and his mother disappearing. After rested Percy is taken to the camp directors and he soon realizes that the director was his teacher from his old class but no longer in a wheel chair but now with a horse body? And that the other man the activities director was making the cards float? "What the heck is going on?" Percy asks. Then he is told that he is half god and half mortal he's a Demigod, that the ADHD and dyslexia were things that keep him alive from the monsters in the world. Also that the Olympian Gods are real and still living today. With this Percy Jackson's real adventure begins....

Thee Halloween Haiku

Its Halloween night. The Ghosts are stirring at night. Pumpkins are lit up.

Costumes of all kinds. Little or big no matter. Its one scary night.

Fake blood, scary masks. Eating candy all night long. A one of a kind.

The Black Cat.... Dunt Dunt DUNNNNNN

I think the story "The Black Cat" is not about the man's life, wife or two cats. The man not only had serious problems with the cats and alcohol. Everyone who drinks does it for a reson either because they need something to turn to, just for fun or some other reason. Everyone gets mad and has to let out their anger... But how? Some do it violently and some do it the calm way.
Life is an unexpected tunr of events. At one moment you could be extreamly happy and the next be sown or something could happen to change your life. Storys are like life, they always have a change of events, an unexpected twist, also a moral. A meaning to the story that isn't what the story seems to be. And I personally think "The Black Cat's" twist of events, A story with a meaning that isn't what everyone expects. It is what everyone goes through at one point in their life and that is Self-Anger, Rage, a fire boiling in your heart that is so strong you touch something and it melts. In the story it did not say anything about the man's real life. Like if he was seriously mad or sad or depressed. It just explained how much he loved his animals and would never disrespect them. Till one day he did because of maybe depression or he was mad on the inside. Why did he drive himself to kill this cat. Maybe those reasons. This cat drove him insane... why? It stared into his eyes and he killed his beloved cat. He killed it because it no longer loved him but when gone he missed his love. The man was maybe lonely. He found another cat to love him but yet this cat also drove him insane from to much love? This cat drove him to kill his wife with so much hatred in him why did the symbol of the cat roar inside him with rage? Maybe something we don't know about this man's life, something that caused this........... Self- Anger.

Concrete Rose

Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete?

Proving nature's law is wrong it learned to walk without having feet.

Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams, it learned to breathe fresh air.

Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else ever cared.

Growing from a crack in the side walk is so simple I mean come on... you just started your life literally with a huge step. For some people it takes them about a year and over to actually make their first step on the side walk. Ride their bike. Rollerblade. Run. Skip. Fall. But starting your very first breath your first step into making it into this life. The Rose that started in the crack of the concrete grew to prove everyone wrong, to show people that its not how or where you live its how you make it in your life. Its how you show everyone that you made it from a place that no one ever thought someone could live. It's like living in Antartica, a cold place that you would never expect anyone to live. A vast desert with no water or shelter just sand blowing in the wind. The rose grew on nothing but its own hope, like America finding water on Mars a place just like a desert maybe hoping a life form could live there. It grew on the surroundings it could use. When it rains thats its drinking source. The sun its food source. But how could it grow with no care, no love, no place to keep it safe? In its own little body stem it was trying to show everyone that you don't need help, you don't need no one to hold your hand through life all you need is your own damn self, your own damn confidence and your own damn mind to get you through the shit. It just goes to show everyone comes from a different backround and make it in their own way. When this rose grew it was letting everyone know that "Hey im a little flower and I can make it where no other rose can, and you as big bad ass humans can do it too. I grew to show that no matter where you come from you have a chance. Take your first step, keep your dreams in your heart and your head and get ready to sprout."