realized

well today i just realized were supposed to be doing this everyday so i guess i should start ha! well as usual i went to homestead for the first couple hours of my day today and at 11:19 i went to parkview hospital to do my clinicals for my CNA class. Yesterday was my first day of clinicals and i love it. Today was much more eventful than yesterday, I got to do everything on my own. At first it made me nervous but then i realized i could do everything on my own without a problem. Just these few days has made me realize how much i love taking care of people and how my choice of majoring in nursing is the best thing for me :)

After clinicals i had to go all the way to lifetouch to get my senior picture taken for the year book, which seems pretty pointless but thats just the way things go i guess. today is my first day off of work since last week so tonight will be pretty uneventful and will probably consist of watching tv shows with my mom that i dont really like... oh well.

faja's silence

My favorite essay was Faja by Maverick because it uniquely described the father on both a normal day and his uncommon. First, the essay described how the father usually acted on a normal day, which was busy. Maverick states that the father would come home from a long day at work and begin doing all the chores like dinner, paying bills and cleaning up the kitchen. Maverick goes into great detail about one particular day during this essay. During this day the father comes home and has nothing to do, his night is timeless. He sits in their screened in porch and just stares his military “million mile stare” as Maverick states. She describes the porch as “warm” and “filled with songs by Jimmy Buffet”. I like how she uses the description of the room to describe her father’s personality in a round-about-way. The father is described as a “machine” when he runs out of things to do during the day, which reminds me of my step-father, and makes me laugh in how ironically similar they are. Maverick starts to describe how lonely and sad the fathers stare become and the essay gets a little sad. At the end of the essay Maverick describes the stare the father has while on the ocean as “not lonely like the one before but, he’s at home”, making the essay interesting and have a good, happy ending. In the end, I picked this essay because of the great detail that he or she goes into describing the father using every type of literary element that she could. The details were so vivid I had an image of what the father looked like, which made the essay interesting and fun to read.

Ground Zero

Suzanne Berne's entire essay emphasizes emptiness and absence becoming something. She visits ground zero expecting to see images that the television and newspapers portrayed on September 11, 2001. When she arrives she sees absence of it all, nothing but light is seen. Suzanne states, "Ground zero is a great bowl of light, an emptiness that seems weirdly spacious and ground, like a vast plaza amid the dense tangle of streets in lower Manhattan." Based on her description ground zero is nothing. As she stands and admires it longer “nothing becomes something” and she states, "this is the moment when absence begins to assume a material form, when what is not there becomes visible." She begins to describe the awful destruction of the twin towers, firefighters, and ambulance vehicles. She also describes how nothing but the word unbelievable can describe the sight or the feeling of being at ground zero. As she stands on the viewing platform with a crowd she sees people write on the plywood, this makes her realize the emptiness and absence is being filled. The emptiness of the people who were lost is filled with the thousands of visitors who go to ground zero.