~ Two words. Six letters. Love me?
~ "See you tomorrow." Tomorrow never came.
​~ Skin deep beauty, even deeper disease.
~ Together forever. One night. Forever alone.
~ Dime. Paper. Welcome the high life.
~ Only one mistake. Don't lose faith.
~ Shots all night. Hangover at work.
~ Love me slowly, leaving you fast.
~ Keep me sober: Don't stop loving.
~ Best friend forever, knife in back.
~ Big dreams. World map. Never-ending vacation.
~ Ralen: everything goes over her head.

Mom got new phone... texting lessons.

two hamsters. neighborhood dog. one hamster.

summer break. YAY! yay. um... bored.

wake up. snow day! more sleep :]

applied. accepted. got degree. now what?

This long week has been great. I was surprised that we didn't have school yesterday all because we had like three inches of snow. Then again that is the Philadelphia school system.

I woke up yesterday extra early in the morning to get ready and to make it on time ( I had saturday school this week; I was not trying to be late) I was fully dressed and ready to go to school. While I'm heading out my little brother starts complaining about how there is snow on the ground and he didn't want to go to school. I start to argue with him until he finally makes e go on FaceBook to check if anyone else was going to school. (It's a shame really that I didn't just turn the news on.) None the less I pull out my laptop and at seven in the morning there is a never ending feed flow  from SLAers in particular; some happy and upset about there not being school. I was a it discouraged because I had put so much effort into getting ready that particular day; But i put on my PJ's and sat on my couch.

I changed my mind. Have you seen Skins? I didn't like it in the beginning, but now it has grown on me and I really enjoy it.

Stanley and Chris..mmm<3.

Unfortunately my message didn't get across to others. When I got more comfortable with my speech I dared to say longer sentences and talk more but I still stumbled across words and would sound dumb.  When a group of people came to inspect our school I was one of the students chosen to talk to them.  We had an intelligent conversation about parenting of today's world and physhcology. our chat went smoothly, but right after I stepped out of the room my friends who sat close by said I sounded dumb even though I was saying smart things.  I was devastated. I had just started talking more and gaining confidence in my speech but i was smothered the instance my friends told I sounded dumb.  There wasn't much I could do but just keep on talking; it was the only way I would get better.  Days, weeks, and months went by and each day my lisp would fade away more and more, until I reached a point were my lisp was barely noticeable.  When I look back at my experience I realize how much power my voice gave me. I used it to win arguments, to express myself, and to show who I am. When I'd stopped talking as much because I got made fun of or sounded dumb a piece of my dignity was lost.  I let my power be swept away. This meant I lost my arguments, my self-expression was lost, and people didn't see who I was as much.  Although there were sometimes when I stumbled across words and be teased I learned that the only thing to do was to talk more therefore making my speech better.