Broken Pencils

  Dear Sofia,  I know that seventh grade has been a very rough year for you. Depression can be a very rough thing to fall into especially whenever you are young and in school because you may believe that nobody cares about you and that you aren't good enough or smart enough in school. Everything has been weighing you down all because of just a few mean inconsiderate pricks, they were your bestest friends before they became so self centered and sometimes you might forget that now and just only see them as bad people but deep down somewhere they remember those late nights playing games and church camps that you all vowed to be friends forever. Deep in their hearts and in your heart you all still care about each other and they know they care enough just to act like they hate you.  Depression has been a tough thing to fight but you are tougher, you got through this time in your life by really sticking close to your friends that you know are good people and that you know c...

          Have you ever been in a time where you felt as if nothing would get better? Well if you haven't then you just may be lucky, and if you have then I want you to hear this. Times can be tough but the storm will always pass over, sometimes you just have to wait it out.  Many people just give up on things that happen because they do not believe it will get any better no matter what they do, but again others do the opposite and try everything in hopes to make it better. I was one of the people to try everything to make it better, and this is a time where I did just that, I had once lived with my mom and of course that doesn't sound bad just to start off with but for me my mom was not a very good or helpful person in my life. When I was at her house I felt as if I was a dog trapped in a room just scratching and scraping at the door trying to get out to no avail. I tried many of times to tell my mom how I felt and to tell her about why I wanted not...

  JUNE 1 Failure can teach you a lesson by helping you realize what you did wrong and how you could do better the next time you do it. For example I personally had once attempted to join the ILMEA choir for a performance that they do once a year, I at the time was in 7th grade and the week that I was meant to send the audition I ended up being sick and it was causing my throat to hurt and I wasn’t able to sing very well without my voice cracking or me coughing. I still ended up having to audition and I did very poorly. During my time practicing and trying out it helped me realize that while I was sick it made me try much harder to sing and perform well, causing me to be able to sing better after I was no longer sick.  June 3  Technology is making the world a better place by helping humans create and find new medicines, missing people, ways to talk to others who can”t always do it for themselves, and even help us find new ways to work. Technology also helps students and te...