Andrea’s Angel

The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury. It starts out seeming like a normal, boring, story about a guy going for a walk. Its not. I mean, yeah he really does go for a walk, talks to a cop, and gets in his car. Doesn't sound very interesting, does it? That's not the point of this story though. The action that occurs in this story, actually happened to Ray Bradbury. He went for a walk and got harassed by a police officer. He was so distraught about what had happened that he went home and wrote a story about it. A very powerful one. A man, Leonard Mead, goes for a walk at eight at night on a cold November evening in 2053. As he walks, he notices that there is not a person in sight. Strange isn't it? Bradbury felt so alone in that moment, the loneliness caused by technology. Technology affects everyone, in time of Bradbury's life and in the time of ours. In Bradbury's life, there were cars and phones that seperated people and led to a decrease in human contact. In ou...

I call this beautiful chaos. I am here at the Santa Maria FFA annual Drive Thru BBQ, taking a quiet break in the corner. It’s crazy in here. Over a hundred students all trying to make this fundraiser go as smoothly as possible, and it’s insane. Twenty are putting beans and salsa in a bag, twenty more are taking the bags out to get meat in them, and even more students are then taking those bags out to where people get their food. I tried to sign in, and found that the five sign in sheet were already filled. So many people, all working towards one goal. It’s interesting, to say the least. Sometimes it surprises me to see how much work and people it takes to do something that seems so simple. It truly is beautiful. So many people, so many orders, so much to do. And now, the meat just got off the grill. Got to get back to work!

There are some strange words that have come up in my English class, ones that I've never even heard of. So, I decided, when my teacher assigned us to pick ten words from our vocab list and define them, that I would pick the hardest ones. Abjure: to solemnly renounce Ambiguity: the quality of being more open to more than one interpretation Epistemic: relating to knowledge or to the degree of its validation Hullabaloo: a commotion or a fuss Indubitably: impossible to doubt Insubordinate: defiant of authority or disobedient to orders Introspect: to examine one's own thoughts or feelings Mnemonics: the study and development of systems for improving and assisting the memory Schema: a representation of a plan or theory in the form of an outline or model Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious: extraordinarily good or wonderful