I was very surprised about this movie. Even though my teachers both said how great it was, I still wasn’t too sure. This is the kind of movie that I like. The kind that grabs you right from the start and continues to get better. Also this movie has different parts, kind of like different moments in the boy’s life. Multiple times there was action, which I like. But also the movie had very sad parts; I won’t give it away though… you have to watch it. Over all the movie was better than the other movies we watched though the semester, the part that I found most interesting was when the young boy was sent to the German school. Being a Dutch boy I can agree that it would be a hard time for him. The Dutch and German did not get along well. So he was bullied and treated badly by everyone including some of the teachers. But also the teachers were preaching all the things the boy had learns opposite, and that would be confusing for an eight year old. When all of his family members died, I felt bad for him and then he was sent to live with multiple other people through out the rest of his life. When he was older and became a boxer, he wasn’t afraid to be on the “other side” of
Christmas traditions
In my family we have many traditions. One of them is being together at every holiday we can. But one of the biggest, and one of my most favored memories is the play that four of my cousins and I put on. We did this every year for about five or six years… then we got too old. But every year at thanksgiving, my cousins and I got together and wrote a play. And we printed a copy for everyone. So we had from thanksgiving until Christmas Eve to learn the lines and memorize them. That’s right, we got so into it we hat to memorize the lines. Then on Christmas Eve we would go to the basement and set up sets and figure out costumes. This would take hours for us. Then as another tradition, before the play we would go to church, come home and eat. After the delicious food we would shuffle everyone from the upstairs to the basement. We had legit lights and the curtains and we would have music, and a few times we even videotaped them! The play would be on average forty five minuets. We had intermissions and set changes and everything. That’s surprising because we were all ages twelve, eleven, ten, and nine. Me being the youngest, I didn’t get the biggest role. But the second youngest got to be Santa Claus! I was his little helper. Well our plays always would succeed, and we got standing ovations every time… it might be because they were our family. That is one of my biggest memories and traditions.
Being new to the high schools, I didn’t know that much. But at our church we have a high school youth group. And without our leaders we have a party every year on New Years Eve. This was my first one, and I have a sister that is a junior and she decided to have it at my house this year. Great! A new youth group and I get to stay home! Well it all started off good, because I knew all the kids very well. My sister let me hangout with them during eighth grade and that summer, so I know them. Well we were hanging out eating food having fun, and then it got to ten. My parents challenged the two college kids, Eddie and Tim, to a game of euchre. And they went one and one starting off the New Year so they need a tie breaker. The rest of the night was filled with laughs and food and jokes. Some of the bad things that happened it 2009 for me would be… not making the basketball team, having two of my grandpa’s die, one of them the last week of eighth grade. But the up side is being able to hangout and is with family and friends. This year I am looking forward to going to
