Journal Entery

Date: October 17, 2007

Entery Number: 6

Page/Quote reflecting on: Pgs. 29, 32-33

It is interesting to see some of the similarities between Esther and I. Sometimes when it comes to school work and grades I begin to think if getting all A's or at least seriously trying to, is really worth it. I begin to let up a little and start to give up but then I have to go back and tell myself "I have to do this. I can't let up. I have keep at it. If you don't you won't be able to get that great job or get any of those nice things you have always dreamed about." "After nineteen years of running after good marks and prizes and grants of one sort and another, I was letting up, slowing down, dropping clean out of the race." Sometimes this is a little how I feel. It's an awkward feeling. Some things Esther wanted to do was to study all over Europe, be a professor, write books of poems, or be an editor or go into publishing. She also had always wanted to learn German. I have always wanted to go to Europe, learn German, French, Italiean, Dutch, and other languages, I've thought about being a teacher, I have written a couple of poems, and I want to be an author writing fantasy and other fictional books. It's cool but kind of creepy the things we have in common.