Response to Luis Alba's Post about Subsitutes.

    This is a response post for Luis Alba about substitutes. I totally agree about what Luis had said about substitute subbing for classes.

“I hate it when people try and take advantage of substitutes like if they do not even know the rules of the school. In my old school, taking advantage of substitutes continuously happened throughout the year. I admit it I also used to take advantage but sometimes there is a limit.”

    I agree with what Luis is saying because usually I am one of the students that would take advantage of having substitutes. Usually I would ask the substitute to let me use the restroom without using a bathroom pass. I would think that the substitute will not know about bathroom passes, so if I go I won’t need one. Once when I was sixth grade and we had a substitute, i took the advantage of going to the restroom without asking and stayed in the restroom for fifteen minutes. The substitutes did not even notice.
   
    There are many times where some substitutes are really nice.A lot of the substitutes that i had experienced don’t usually yell at my classmates although we are really loud. Once in my old school, there was this lady substitute that let us use electronics when we had free times. Every one in my class brought out their phones and started to text or took out the Ipods to listen to music. To my classmates’ opinion, that was the best substitute ever.

Like what Luis had said about taking advantages when we have substitutes i totally agree because students just find that without their own teachers, it would be okay to take advantages from the substitutes. Sometimes there are substitutes that are strict too and even more strict then our very own teachers. That is why whenever I see my friends finishing that class and they would be coming out. I would rush to them and ask them if the substitute is nice or not. The worst substitute that I experience was the substitute that doesn’t know how to control the class because it would cause the other innocent people in trouble. Once I even experience a time where I got in trouble because the class were too loud so the whole class got detention.

Response to Karisa's Blog: I wish it was christmas

This is a quote from Karisa’s blog about Christmas!

I agree with Karisa that there are alot of preparation especiallly when you have to go shopping for presents. i find that christmas is a holiday that would get my head to ache. The reason is because i have to think of buying a christmas tree and what to put in the christmas tree. The most important preparation is to don’t forget to buy presents for your families and friends. I had been buying alot of presents for my families. For instance for my two little girl cousins, i had bought them each a doll and as for my brother and my other little boy cousin i bought them each a soccer ball. Although it would be hard to pick the gifts, you would know that it is worth it because of the happiness you can receive from them.

Something that i like about christmas is that you are able to enjoy a christmas tree full of candy canes and your family chatting eachother. Christmas is like a family reunion for me and also a time to receive things that i would need to supply for my whole year.

I also miss Christmas too after it is over because there is always these shopping sales that you always recieve since it is christmas. i remember the first time i bought an onsale camera, i was extremely happy because i could afford it and enjoy it all to myself. Sometimes i would go shopping malls because they are alot of fun. Everytime i go into Abercrombie or Hollister i get super crazy that i run into the store and start grabbing whatever i can hold. Christmas is fun especially when you can shop and buy on sale stuff.

There is so much waiting and anticipation for Christmas day to come. There's so much preperation and shopping that goes into this one day and before you know it, it's over. This is pretty much the only thing I don't like about this time of the year. I always feel sad when Christmas day is over, but i know it will eventually come again.

A response to David Su's blog: Speech: Bullying in Alameda and how it can be stopped

This is a quote from David’s blog about bullying that i totally agree with!

Bullying can happen in many ways. At school, students can be judged by their personality or their looks. They could also be teased by what they do or how they act. The internet is another place where bullying appens constantly. During these past few years, the internet has been becoming a rather a popular place to chat and email each other. Forums such as Myspace and Facebook can hide the user’s name or be created with a fictitious name. Bullies can use this system to tease or post hurtful comments to make the victims feel depressed.h

Based on reading David’s quote, i realized that there are many bullying going around. First of all, i can relate to the quote on how students are judged by looks because i had once experienced this issue. When i was in fifth grade i was once teased by a classmate of mine and he called me fat and started to bully me. My feelings were hurt and i began to cry. Bullying can be a serious issue and when you hurt some one’s feeling very bad, you don’t know what they would do to themselves. Some people would cry after they are hurt however there are some that would hurt themselves or others.

Additionally, i find that it is true that bullying happens on facebook and myspace a lot. I can relate to this issue about bullying on websites too. Sometimes i could see my friends talk about other people using different names and i find the rude or mean. I feel very sad for the people that my friends are referring to. Although i ain’t the one that my friends are talking about, i still feel hurt. This is important that we should stop bullying because it hurt people too much. Even i am hurt and i feel bad for the ones who are hurt too! There should be new ways to stop bullying so nobody could be hurt! Also life would be better with the stop of bullying.

The Response to Andy's Blog! : Addicted to facebook!

I somehow agree with Andy’s Lau quote about being addicted to Facebook:

I am not going to lie, I am addicted to Facebook. I do not know why, but I always find myself going on that website without a goal or a legitimate reason. I have been addicted ever since the last few months of eighth grade when I decided to make an account. I never thought that it would become such a major problem. At first, I was curious about this website because everyone at school was talking about it. My curiosity caused me to create an account (something I totally regret), and now I have been using Facebook for almost two years.

From reading Andy Lau’s blog I realized that I am addicted to it too. For instance whenever I go home the first thing I do is open my laptop and start logging on to facebook to see what’s up with my friends. This annoys me because I couldn’t do my homework whenever I am on facebook. It is like this distraction in your brain that you can’t get rid of. I find that there should be enforcement for facebook so then I wouldn’t get distracted. I had the same reason on why I started facebook and I regret having facebook too.

Although there are bad things about facebook I also notice that facebook is also a good website too. There are reasons why we should keep facebook because sometimes facebook could be the resource to keep in contact with your old friends and you can find them too. For instance, I contacted my friends on facebook from elementary. This is really special to me because my friends are the ones who made me into the way I am and I always would need them to be by my side.

I also realized that there were times where some facebook people are younger than they are suppose to be in order to have a facebook. This is one of the bad things about facebook because young ones can meet other people on facebook that they don’t know which cause them to have danger. Talking to people that you don’t’ know on facebook is like talking to someone that you don’t know in the streets.  

Response to Amber's Blog: ASTI'S Size Increase?

I took this quote from Amber Chan’s Blog.

From reading this quote, i am a bit scared that the AUSD would increase ASTI’s size to four hundred students because teachers would drive less attention to students. Also it is better to keep a small size for ASTI because to me ASTI is a family and almost everyone would know each other and give each other support. I am also worrying that if there is over four hundred students in ASTI with seventh and eighth grader, it may not be an early college high school anymore. To tell the truth, the first time i visited ASTI i thought it was only a good school because of the early college high school and i believe probably many of the new applicants would feel that way too.

As an alternative, l kind of feel that it would be excited for seventh and eighth graders to join ASTI because freshmens wouldn’t be the smallest In the ASTI campus anymore. Also upper class mens in the school can help or tutor seventh and eighth graders to help them to get ready and build reliance for high school. As the years go by, seventh and eighth graders would turned to high school students and continue the prides of helping seventh and eighth graders. Also it may be a good thing that we are recieving middle school students because i had heard that other Alameda middle schools would shut down and that means that middle school students in Alameda may loose their education and if ASTI could help, it would mean alot to the middle school students.

Today, we had a PTSA meeting at school, and we came to the topic of the possible size increase for ASTI.Mr. Fong talked about how AUSD was planning to increase ASTI's size to 400 students, but the grades levels would be from seventh grade to twelfth grade.  The students would not be at the portable campus only, but supposedly, we would have the seventh and eight graders at a different campus, and the ninth through twelfth graders at the ASTI and COA campus.