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It's the weekend! Yes, don't now what everyones plans are for this weeekend put I'm going camping with my family. Me and my boyfriend have been loking forward to this way befor Istarted at Rhodes. We usely go by our selfs on this cammping trip but this year we have deside to thak the kids(Kylie,Kinze and jaden). we are also taking the cammper this year and not the tent, that means we got the aircundisiner and cumfie beds. We plan on laoding up early Saterday morning wich should take us a few hours.  This is no ordennare cammping trip it's kind of like a family reunoin as well. My boyfriends hole family meets in Waynsfield at his cusseins house. He is the only one that has a big enough yard for us all to fit in( last year there was 15 tents in his yared). Everyone has to bring a dish as well as what ever they are going to be drinking on for the night. When ever one gets there the women start setting up all the food while the guys get all the tents set up. The tents get set up befor anyone can eat because after everyone eats the drinking starts. WE learned are lesson a few years back that it's better not to wait. Although, it was funny as hell wacthing drunk people try to put up a tent, it can cause problems as well. There was a few cuopls that got into some huge fights while setting up their tents. There was also people that just sleep on the ground necause they just gave up trying. Once the guys are done with athe tents it's time to eat then on to the good stuf(drinking). we play games and just kind of talke about what everyone has been up to. As night falls it time to get a fire going wich usely get alittle out of control. The games continue on as well while the kids just perrty much do what ever they want to the hole time we are there. The next day we wait till everyone gets around and then we make breakfust . Then we start the hole thing all over aging. So what ever your plans are enjoy this long weekend we have and be safe.

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Just got done with are reading homework and it left me a little confused. In the opening paragraph it talks about Marina going to a prison for speaking out against some regime in her science class. Then it goes on talking about when she got and where she went as well as with whom. Then when I got to the next paragraph I was confused on what the story was about. She started talking about her and her mother’s relationship and how they interacted with one another on a daily basses. Still leaving me wondering what exactly the story was about. As I read on and she stated to talk about reading all the time and the books saving her and her mother relationship. I started to get some Ideal of what the story was about. Reading even further I got it the story to me was about her love for reading as a child. When I got done with the story I found myself going back to read it again. It kind of jumped around had me going in one direction then a sharp left and I was somewhere else. She gave details that I did not think was keeping to the story. It made me feel like she was trying to give me too much information. Why would she talk about where her father was working and what he did? Why would she feel the need to bring up the death of her grandmother? Thought she could have gave more detail in other places like talking about the book store and more detail on her feeling she got when she first interned. It was just all over the place for me it was kind of disappointing as well. The bingeing had me getting into to the story wanted to know more about her time in the prison. The end had me a little bit as well found myself getting bake into the story wanted to hear what she had to say about the old man in the book store. Left me kind of in the dark thought she could of went into more detail about their relationship with him. She said that she started going there every week. I would think that they would have some kind of relationship with him that she could have talked about. After all he opened the door wide open for her to enjoy the books that she loved so much.

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I am scared to death of this class, as you can probaely can tell I can’t spell worth a crap. Not only that but my grammar is pour as well. I'm hopping with this class as well as my other four courses I will get better. So please bear with me while I'm doing this blogger thing and I hope you can read what I'm trying to say. I came to college to learn to better my life to hopefully improve my children’s life as well. As for now everything is crazy trying to get used to computers and classes as well as homework mixed with taken care of my family? I have made up my mind not to give up not to say that I can't. I know it seems like I'm way behind on just the everyday normal thins like spelling and grammar, but in my eyes I have already come a long ways. I was 14 years old when I got married and had my first kid because of that I had to get a job and grow up a lot faster then I should. My world was no longer about school it was about learning how to be a mom and a wife. Years went by and my kids are 18, 10, and twin 4 year olds. I see how I not being able to help my 10 year old with his homework was a problem. My daughter was 18 and was leaving so I no longer was able to have her help her brother out. It was going to be all up to me and I did not want my son to fail at school because of me. I knew that if I wanted my son to have a better life I was going to have to show him how. I started taking GED classes over a year ago and when I first started I could not multiply, spell, or write an essay. I had a lot of things to learn but I was not going to give up. I wanted my kids to see how important school was in life and this was something I had to show them not just tell them. I worked really hard and I got my GED as well as to scholarships. I could now help my son out with all kinds of stuff while he helps me with my spelling. I also decided that I was no longer going to work my butt of for $7 dollars an hour any more. I was going to show my son that you can be anything you want to be. So here I am with all of you trying to just make the grade. Knowing that I will have to work hard and put my schooling on the top of my list, (after my family a course). Knowing, that I will not give up that I will give it my all no matter what the outcome is. I will be proud of myself for the steps I have taking never looking back but always looking forward.