last week of school before winter break:
   This week, even though i thought it was going to run smoothly, it didn't at all. I had to deal with my bestfriend and my sisters relationship almost ending. I saved it of course and talked to my sister and helped her notice that what he has done was very stupid and very ridiculous but that he still loves her and wants her to forgive him. So i was basically encouraging my sister to be forgiving instead encouraging myself to be forgiving. It was very hard and i told my sister she was complicated and she is but wtvr still love her. Anyways we had to record videos for the the Romeo and Juliet play thing and it was a pretty good actor. This week though i had really failed on my virtue of having joyfulness. I had really been in a way depressed and it was making my friends feel bad for me. I explained to my bestfriend everything and we resolved everything. But, anyways it is winter break and i can finally just spend most of my days with my friends without hw getting in the way. Also this week i talked to my friends cousin and she is great just need to see her cause i just want to get to know her. Anyways , merry christmas and happy new years.

The second to last week before Christmas break:
 This week went by very fast but was very fun at the same time. Also I raised my grades up that d and c on letter grade up. I have known that if I just try to study and listen in class that I can actually do good in that subject. Weather it is AP world, algebra 2 or etc, if u just think that it is easy and try to figure out what is being informed to you then you will make it far in that class. I am trying to raise a 79 that I have for ethics because I have rarely been paying attention in that class. For example in ethics I always fall asleep and just daze off and think of what I am going to do over the weekend. But from now on I am going to actually take the notes needed for that class and be the best student I can be. 
 Anyways on a side note besides school, this week was pretty fun. First, because me and my sis have been talking a lot and it was pretty cool. And I have been also hanging out with my bestfriend. And Friday was literally the best day ever; me and carrillo played basketball with our friends and then I went we got picked up by his mom to go to kyles party. And in his house we went to make some music and it is coming together; we are thinking of buying this $200 software which will be able to record sound so it will be awesome. Anyways, also the reason we want to make music is also because sadly my sis is leaving to another school next year and she wants us to go so badly, but our parents traped us in this school for 10 years already and it has been so much for us. And also on Friday my sis had made the pros and cons of going to Archimedean and doral academy and I just know that she gonna go to doral. We are really sad that she is leaving but if she is happy then that is what really matters. Plus she promised to invite us to every football game and every soccer game. 
  Moving on, after school I was supposed to go to a game but I didn't cause I wanted to go to the party some of my really good friends were going. We did Secret Santa so I got my sis and then my friend from doral academy got me and my sis loved my gift to her. It was really hard for me to find well kind of. I knew she likes basketball and I want her to get good at it so I bought her an expensive basketball that was amazing and I got it for her. And my friend from doral, Sophia, got me $20, two packs of m&m's and a letter saying that I love u and wishing me merry Christmas. It was actually exactly what I wanted. And ofc he also asked carrillo for help even though she wasn't supposed to. But still it was an incredible gift. The party was amazing and also I flipped Richard over my back to the front of me to the ground; it was so funny after I was like what did I do. We also just walked around the neighborhood; also we did some crazy stuff but not bad though but It was just an amazing night. The best night I ever had actually!

The intense life of a musician:

 This week was boring, a little slow, but amazing. There was barely any homework which don't get me wrong I love but it just seemed slow that I just got bored of watching tv and so on. In school the day my bestfriend was getting his braces taken off, he had to leave school in the beginning of 2nd period. Because of that I just texted my sis and we just went out of class to spend time with eachother. It was the best sibling bonding ever cause I barely got to talk to her but I spent the whole day talking to her and walking around and it was pretty cool. And we talked about a girl in sophomore that though I was cuter than my bestfriend and yeah. The girl is actually pretty and nice. And according to my sister, she says we both a great match cause we both "cocky." I don't see my self as cocky but whatever my sister is weird. And on Friday when my sister wasn't in school it was so boring but I got to spend time with my bffbil and it was pretty fun. My sister got grounded such as stupid reason and I feel like she did it on purpose cause she didn't go to school because of it. And also afterschool on Friday it was awesome, cause me and Carrillo played basketball and it was so fun cause we also played with some sophomore girls who were kind of bossy in a way that they act like the referee. Overall this week was fun and boring at the same time. And also I had a quiz and a test that will most likely boost up my bad grades that I have to I can finally have my phone once again after 2 or 3 months.

life of a musician:
 This week I was really focused on my grades. I had been studying and doing the hw on time. Because lately I've been slacking off and that is really bad cause I need to have a good GPA. I have been forgiving towards my sis for being... even though it was hard for me in a way. I am trying to stop procrastinating and make sure to schedule to study or do hw cause I need to be able to be less frustrated on work and be able to cool off. This weekend I am hoping to go somewhere with my friends and just to like give myself time to relax. One of my best friends got grounded and can't go to the thing we planned for 2 weeks but I am just going with my other friend and it will be fun. I learned that you can't really rely on one person but u have to be able to be open minded to others. But overall this week was frustrating and my sis was annoying but I still love her so it didn't really matter and it was also great in a way. 

thanksgiving week:
This week it was pretty fun and relaxing because we didn't really do much we only had 2 days of school including the thanksgiving event that made that day not really a class day but just for fun. And in thanksgiving I ate a lot of food. I could not bare to eat another flan slice or cookies or turkey; I was full of food in me that day. Anyways the rest of the 4 day break it was kind of slow and we just ate some leftovers and let me tell you, there were a lot of amounts of left overs. And we just got furniture that we ordered for our new house and yeah. It was a really relaxing week. 

2nd quarter, 2nd week:
     I am finally living in my house and we got the floors and stairs done already and it looks nice. We also got our living room and it looks pretty good and big. This week we had a lot of guests come over our houses it was pretty fun. like my aunts and my moms friends. And today i invited my friends Carrillo and Hans over to my house and it was fun. But Hans is finally my neighbor so i go to his house all the time and it is awesome. Anyways so far in school i am doing good; i have 2 b and the rest a's i am very proud of myself right now. Most of my friends have similar grades to me well except my "sister" cause she doing horrible but we trying to help her get her grades u p to a's and b's. So, so far life is good and i am really hoping to get my furniture for my house and finally my pool before Christmas. 

2nd quarter, 1st week:

This week I focused on getting good grades by studying for the test and quizzes I had like for algebra and Greek geometry. Last grading period as you know, I got 2 c's and that was really bad for my GPA. So now I am trying to get straight a's and it is working because I only have 2 b's and the rest a's. I am moving in this Saturday and I am so happy. I am finally going to have my own bathroom and bed and everything. I don't have ot share with my sisters no more. I am free! Anyways I am really looking forward to this weekend and It will be really cool.

 

WEEK 10 OF THE LIFE OF A MUSICIAN:
         This week was very fun and stressful. I basically now have 2 c, which I horrible and I have to get straight a's next semester. I really do! I really want to get straight a's next semester and I am going to try my best to do so with the help of my bil. I will study a lot and I will do my hw early and on time and I will make sure to not leave things for the last moment. And I am going to focus on hanging out with my friends and my "sis." I am now myself again because I am done with trying to find the right person for me and just let them find a way to be in my life. Even though I am talking to someone right now, I still am focusing in school and creating music of course. And today was the 3rd best day of my life because I spent the whole day with my friends. And it was pretty fun. Me and my friends surprised my "sister" and it was so funny because she is so gullible, even though it is not a good thing to be that way. But it was still pretty funny. Overall, this week has been really fun. and exciting. 

WEEK 9 OF THE LIFE OF A MUSICIAN:
This week was ok. We had a lot of stuff for classes to do. I was so stressed out about the papers for ap history for Friday but she moved it Monday now I am still stressed but not as stressed. I feel like by the end of the grading period I will have 2 b's and the rest a's. Hopefully it is true and I'll get those grades and I will keep my GPA in a good place. I am really trying not to get a c in my report card or 3 b's cause I don't want that because it is really bad.
   Also this week, was fun cause everyday afterschool I would get to go to my sisters soccer conditioning and my friends did it too. But even though I didn't do conditioning it was still fun cause I basically just went on my"sister's" phone and just texted people that she let me text. And she taught me some cheerleading stuff even though I thought it was pretty gay to do it, it was fun to hang out with my friends. And I guess I learned some stuff from what she taught me through out the week. 
 But i'm looking forward to hanging out with my friends this Saturday at haunted house of horrors. It's gonna be great. I am really happy and plus this weekend it's kind of gonna be stressful cause of studying and typing essays for AP history about a book I barely read, but I'm still gonna enjoy it cause I have a lot of fun things to do. And I also get my phone back on Saturday! Finally! It's been a month and I had to use my "sisters" phone to text people and look at stories but still I am glad the grounding is over.

WEEK 8 OF A LIFE OF A MUSICIAN:
  This week was going great at first. I got a C again in the test 2 of the Greek geometry. Now I have a 76 in his class but I hope I can bring it up with the quizzes that he is giving us next week. I will probably get a 100 for the quiz because the quiz is really easy, so that will help with my grade. And then I will get another quiz that will also help my grade. 
  Anyways I got over the whole thing that happened to weeks ago to me and being with my friends of course helped a lot. And my "sister" helped me also because she told me to forget about her and move on and that I will find someone better and someone for me in the future. It actually really helped cause right now I am not focusing on anything else but like I said my friends and family, school, music, and also soccer. These things shape me and make me into a better person and I am thankful that god put all these things in my life. 

Anyways this Wednesday I was badly bruised from my teammate. And just to let you guys know I didn't get knocked out; I just went down because I didn't want to get punched again. And I could still see and I didn't loose conscious. And you might or might know know that it was Carlos Almagro that did it but I forgive him and It was also my fault for bothering and making him mad. Please stop making up stories about this and just go with the truth. Carlos is not a bad person and he doesn't deserve for any of you to say he is a bully or whatever because he isn't. This is a one and only thing. And just know that we are good now and that there is no need to make up things anymore because it doesn't matter if it is not the truth.

  

WEEK 7 OF THE LIFE OF A MUSICIAN:
    It was good this week. My grades are not that good right now and I am really hoping to raise them up to B's and A's because I don't want my grades to have a C in it because I don't want to ruin my GPA. I took a geometry test on Thursday and I felt like I got all of it correct except for the last theorem. I forgot how to draw the last theorem of the test and I think I got it wrong. I really hope I get at least a b for the test because I need to raise my C to a B. 
   

     This week I really tried not to make a big deal about last week but I can't and now it got worse because now she is with someone else and it is all my fault. I hanged out with my friends during lunch so I don't have to see what was my fault. And it was fun too cause we just talked and my "sister" tried to teach me and my friends how to do a scorpion which I can not do but still tried and almost hurt my leg trying to do it. I like to thank my friends and "sister" for being their for me when I needed you guys the most; it was fun and really helpful. 

  Anyways, as always I would play my guitar everyday, mostly to create songs and just to make my self feel better. But I know what you are thinking but not some depressed music, but some motivational music with a little of sadness, just a little. For me fingering the guitar is super easy but the only thing I can't do is the Mexican type songs that just go super fast and sound really good. But overall, I am just hoping for the best now. and waiting to see if something wonderful will come in my way.

WEEK 6, LIFE SO FAR....
        This week was ok I guess. I was dealing with something that happened to me that made me kind of sad for a while, but I ended up seeing the positive part of it. Even though, I just don't understand why I can't have be myself around that person, I know what I can do later. I know now that I am a person who respects people's decisions but has a hard time dealing with them easily. It took me this whole week to kind of get over it but I still have this feeling in me that still really cares. But also the thing I don't get is that why can't people just open up to others without being scared or nervous about what the person you are saying it to will react. Life is too short and you never know unless you take the risk and open yourself to others. We only have 4 years of school left and people will never get their chance to express their feelings to someone without just saying it to them. 

        So now, I am just going to focus in school, music, and soccer and maybe something else. The only things I know now are that I love music and creating it and that life is too short to wait for the right person to just come to you. 

                                       WEEK 5, STORY OF MY LIFE: 
  This week was good in a way, because we had no school on Wednesday and that was a very relaxing day. And Tuesday night was relaxing too because I stayed up till 3am, but not because of homework this time but just to watch Netflix. I like my teachers so far, because most of them are funny and know how to teach well enough for me to understand. But you now others are not as good but they still are kind of helpful. I enjoy being able to talk to my friends in lunch and the morning. And also guitar is awesome, even though he kind of has to go slow because others don't know how to play. The reason I am in guitar is mostly because for me "music is life" and I really just want to learn more songs without me teaching myself only. And I learned a song and it was great because it was catchy. but anyways it was a really fun week. And today was great too because I got to talk to my friends the whole day and it was fun. we played some like games and stuff and people got exposed but it was  overall a fun day on Friday.

My life so far:

This week has been crazy fun and tiring at the same time. We had many stuff to do for hw and study. And we had to find out what we got on our physics quiz and let me just tell you, it was what I expected but even worse. The teacher is nice and explains us the difficulties we have but when we ask. Even though that quiz grade affected my grade in his class, he is giving us a retake next Tuesday which I am looking forward too because I really want my grade to change. Anyways, this week was pretty cool too since I got to hang out with my friends and talk and hang out with someone. And now that it is school time I can actually make plans with my friends and it's great. I went to my friends house on Friday and we played some fortnite and some game he introduced to me too. We played basketball and we wrestled and I lasted a very long time. I would say like about 45 minutes or so. I gotten better at wrestling because now I know more moves that would actually help me win.

I am glad I have new friends now because they help me bring out a better person out of me. They are great and very cool to hang out with. And now I know that one of my new friends is my neighbor! And it's gonna be awesome hanging out with him and his family when I get my house in a month! I have been so uncomfortable these past 5 months waiting for my house to be built but the day is finally coming where I will finally get my own room to do my homework and make songs and all the usual stuff you already do in a room. Overall life is going great so far except for my grade in physics which I will most likely fix next Tuesday.

- Sebastian vanegas(mountain s and v)

Progress of My Virtue of Being Forgiving

   This entire week I've been trying to be forgiving, but most times it was hard because my friend was being super annoying about something that wasn't even true. Even though it was implied it wasn't official and he was getting me mad telling people about it. i could not be forgiving as much to him but then at the very end i forgave him and everything was fixed. This kind of thing usually happens though because i would get mad at my friend and i wouldn't forgive hi until like 1 or 2 days. 

  

    Also i tried to be forgiving to a teacher that assigned us a lot of things to do, like study for a classwork and expect us to do it perfectly. She expects our class to be perfect, that everyone was to be smart and perfect at their subject. She tells us to study like from 60 to 120 words for a test and/or quiz. I like that she teaches a lot but i could not be forgiving for making me upset at her for giving us a lot of stuff to study for and do. 

     

    Well i was forgiving like two times when someone told me about someone that it kind of got me mad but i was forgiving and just let it go. It was about to get me upset but i knew that it either wasn't true or just that it doesn't really matter. But what matters is what i think i should care about. Being forgiving can just be letting something go and not letting that someone or something get you mad in a way.

   

My first virtue is discipline, meaning to be well behaved, follow the rules and to be respectful. I am picking this because I sometimes tend to talk in class, when I’m not supposed to, to my friends. I whisper to my friends and then I get told to stop talking. I don't know, but I just sometimes don’t follow rules because I don’t think they are necessary. I respect teachers but not as much. I listen and pay attention to teachers but I talk so I guess that would be considered being disrespectful to my teachers. My plan In order to fix that is to be more active in class so that the teachers know that I am not talking in class. And also to follow rules that my parents, coaches, or teachers have imposed in me.

The second virtue I chose is forgiveness, saying that you stop yourself from being angry at a person for doing something that might’ve got you upset and to be able to be forgiving to whoever it may be. The reason for this virtue is because whenever I tend to be upset at someone I just don’t say sorry. I kept being upset at them for a long time. Last year, my friend did something really weird and I was really mad at him and I just couldn’t talk to him for the rest of the school year. It literally took me a long time to forgive him for what he’s done, but now we are friends again and he promised me he wouldn’t do it ever again. Now I learned that to understand the person’s action you have to understand their character and what they’re going through, weather it has to with how society views that person or what that person’s life is like and etc. therefore my plan is to keep what I said in mind and to put yourself in their shoes in order to understand them and why they did what they did. And be able to forgive them for what they did.

My third virtue is joyfulness. This virtue is basically to be a person that is happy all the time. I can be happy most times but sometimes I am just in a really bad mood and idk why. Like sometimes I can be in a very bad mood that will prevent me from being happy. I want to be a happier person, meaning that I would like to be happy more often than usual. Like everytime I get home I seem upset in some way. It’s just very hard for me to be in a joyous mood, especially when I have a lot of homework and stuff to do. My plan to grow me into this virtue is for me to think of something happy and just let it take over my mood. Like when I am frustrated and stressed, I should always think of something to bring my mood up or just take a break from it and do something that will make me less of an unhappy person.