Elizabeth Thomas

These are the writings of Elizabeth Thomas, a student in Mr. Tufft's Spring 2007 English 90 Course.

Monday, May 14, 2007

The Hot Time of The Year

During this summer I plain on working as I have been doing. I babysit and I do newspapers. I am going to take the summer off from school and come back next semester. I think it will give me a little break. I will also hang out with my friends during the summer. We will either go to the lake or go to see a movie. We will be having some kind of fun on our break. If or when we go to the lake we will go to lake mcclear. The movie place that we would go to would be the Drive-In in Cereas that's my favorite. Where we can take what we want to eat and get out of the car and sit in chairs and watch the movie in the car it's whatever. I like the summer time. In Winton we run the baseball program so I will be out there running the concession stand. My summers are really busy and I have alot of fun. The only thing that I don't like is that it is so hot. Well I love that in the summer time that you can just go to the lake or go swimming whenever. It is just so much fun.

Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Out on My Own

I am still living with my parents. My mom will not allow me to move out on my own until I am done with college she said it is best for me. In the way that I would have to pay for all kinds of bills. Like rent and all the bills that come with having your own place. Weather it is a house or an apartment it could be a big difference just with all the bills or amount of money you may pay each month. It could be hard, stressful and really challenging to be out on your own you could have your bad days or even your good days. So in all that talk you can see why my mom doesn't want me to move out yet. I still have a couple of years in college so I will be there for a little longer. I guess it is good though so I do not have to pay all of the bills on my own and I can just think about school and the life that I want to have. Living with my parents I do not have to pay rent as long as I am going to school. I pay all the bills that I have now on my own like my car payment and my cell phone bill. I know that, that is not a lot but that's why I am going to finish school and get a good paying job so that I could make it out on my own or with a roommate. When I do move out I would like to first live in an apartment to get the fill of everything and how hard it may be. Then when my cousin moves out we would like to get a house together. We Would share all the bills for the house that we live in. We have already talked about living together. We know that we could do it, it is just a matter of time with finishing school and all. So we still have time to think about what we really want to do.

The Virginia Tech University Shooting

The shooting that has happen is a big deal. I think there were so many things that could have been done to prevent all this from happening in Blackburg, Virginia, After the two first killings how come they did not shut down the school and made it a bigger deal then not making it no deal in the first place. The said that the reason as to why Virginia Tech University did not shut down the school and make it such a big deal in the first place was because they did not want it to be such a big deal. Little did they know that he would come back and kill 30 more people now what are they supposed to do. What do they say now to all that is happened. After finding out the person that had did it all if they new that he was like that how come they did not try and help or even if they did they should have took him to be watch over or something because more could have been done I think. Well in all he killed 33 people after he had took the gun to himself and committed suicide. Now so many people are hurting and in pain because the school did not do all that they could to prevent all this from happening.

Monday, April 16, 2007

My Spring Break Memories

The 15th of April 2006 was the day that one of my good friends Erik got killed. This weekend over the Spring Break 2007 was a year that he had got killed so we were at the cemetery all weekend. On Saturday we were out there at 5 p.m. tell like 12 a.m to say a pray with Erik we all told and showed our feelings for him at the time of need.Then we chilled there with him and had a good time. On Sunday we were to be at the cemetery at 3 p.m. we left at 12 a.m. again there was going to be a Mariachi Band out there to make all the good memories come back from the days that Erik was here with us just how he would have wanted it done us all having a good time. Just thinking that he was right there with us doing all that we were doing. He would say to us don't cry you know I am always here for all of you at anytime I love you all. The day that Erik died a year ago was so hard for me. He was like a big brother to me. He was always there for me and if I need anything he would be there in a heart beat. He always knew how to put a smile on every ones face at anytime and any feelings we are having. I could always count on him to be there for me. It was so hard to see him go and to even realize that he was gone. That still took me a while it hit me after a couple of weeks. Over these past weekend it made me realize that know I know that he is still watching over me and if I do need anything that he is here for me at anytime. So this will be a spring break I will never forget. I will always have the memories of Erik. At the end of the night at the cemetery I told Erik I miss you and I love you you will always be in my thoughts.

Monday, March 19, 2007

Why Friends Break Up

We were friends for three years and it all ended over a guy. We were the closest that you could see friends we did everything together. We were inseparable we were together ever minute of each day that we could be together. Well after High School it all changed. When my best friend got a boyfriend and she cared about him more then me. Which it should have never changed like that because a girl friend would always be there and boyfriends will come and go. She would come to my house to spend time with me but she would always have her boyfriend come to my house and they would sit outside and talk and she would just leave me in the house. Then she would come in the house when I was sleeping and expect us to spent time together. Well it would always make me jealous I guess more then mad you could say. It really hurt me because we would not have to much time to spend with each other because I had school and work. She would want to be with her boyfriend more then she would want to be with me and if I had a boyfriend I know I would chose my best friend over him any day. Then after work would be the time for me and her to spend together and catch up on the time that we have not been together because I was always busy. Instead of her wanting to spend time with me she always wanted to be with her boy friend so it mad me really jealous because now I was becoming second in her life and I felt that I should not be second in her life just because she had a boyfriend. It ended our three year friendship that we had.

Wednesday, March 07, 2007

The Worst Day in English Class

Last year i suffered an embarrassing moment in my high school English class. When the teacher walked in and stood in the front of the class, she said, "We were going to role play some skits today in front of class." The teacher's procedure called for forming groups that she herself selected. Interestingly, the teacher picked me to join a group of three crazy boys. Generally, I am a shy person and I dread the prospect of standing before a classroom where all eyes are upon me, and I feel like someone had just turned the spotlight on me. We got to go outside and practice what we were going to do since we were the first group to go. Are skit was about these three boys who were doing drugs. They had this friend Emily who didn't do drugs and always tried to get them to stop doing drugs. After we had got everything down that we were going to do we went back into the class and started doing the skit in front of the class. Well it started that the three boys were at one of the boys houses and they were smoking some illegal marijuana. They were doing it behind there Emily's back so that she would not get mad at them. She had already told them that if she caught them doing the drugs that she would never talk to them again until they had stopped doing them. Well she happened to go by the house and see what they were doing. Emily caught them in the act of what they said they had not been doing. She got mad and left. The tried talking to her and she didn't want to talk to them as to what she had already told them. The next week the boys went and got into a rehab to stay out of the trouble that they had been doing. They didn't want to lose their friend Emily. Emily had seen what they did so that she would want to talk to them again because they really loved having her as a friend. The story ended up all well in the class. As soon as the skit was over we all sat down so that we were not in front of the class any longer.

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

A Description of a Favorite Family Member

My favorite family member is my mom. We live in Winton and there is not that much in Winton as you know. There are a lot of kids there that are getting into a lot of trouble because there is nothing for them to do to stay out of trouble. This is where my mom volunteers to do the Winton football which is where kids from the ages of 7 to 13 can play. They play there home games and practices at the Winton middle school. We have a football Field there with stands and a concession stand there are bathrooms there on the backside of the stand. It is a pretty well nice put together area. The baseball programs is from the age of 5 to 16. They have the games and the practice at the Winton Park. Here we have a concession stand and two Fields to play on. There are bathrooms up on the hill there. This is a well place to be at it can be kept better but we have been cleaning it up for the last couple of years now that my mom has found more people in the community to help us so it has been looking better. So that there is something for the kids to do. So that they are not getting into any trouble. At least trying to keep them out of trouble. My mother got women of the year for Winton a couple of years ago because of how much she does in the community. She is the biggest hero that I have.

Monday, February 05, 2007

My Classmate and Me

What do you have in common with any of your classmates. Or do you even have anything in common with them. Well I do My classmate Bertha and I both went to Atwater high school and graduated and went all four years at Atwater High. We both live in Winton and have lived in Winton for about our whole lives. Both of us have been attending Merced College for 2 semesters. We have really enjoyed the time we have had here at Merced College. Bertha lives on her own now. She really likes it. She really enjoys not having her parents to tell her what she has to do. She is going to college to become a Social Worker. She thinks that it would be a lot of fun to be a Social Worker. Something new and very exiting for her. She hates to see little kids that need help or anything. She doesn't want to see them leaving with something that they may need cloths, food. Now she will be able to help them with what ever they will be needing in any way that she can. No matter what it takes because that is what she has always wanted to do. That is the history and me and my classmate.