Sully's English Blog

 I feel like my accent definitely travels with me. The way I eat and my table manners travel with me. My name and the way I dress travels with me. The way I carry myself travels with me too.

 One time I went to a new boxing gym. I started sparring with a new person and he assumed I could not fight because I am white. I kept my cool and proved him wrong. He got very frustrated.

 I will never fully understand God. He exists in another plane of being past ours, his will is inconceivable. As much as I wish I could understand it's simply not possible. I wont understand why he does things he does and what happens after death.

 

  Write about something that you wish you had more of I wish I had more money. I would retire my parents with it so they don't have to work again. I would then retire early and focus solely on my training.

 The most creative thing I have made is a sword. I made it out of a few sticks and vines. I tied some sticks onto a larger stick with the vines to make a pomel and hilt. this is the most creative thing I made because I made it with nothing but my hands from the earth around me.

 I wonder what heaven and hell is like. This is important to me because I am religious and it's something I've always wondered. I also wonder what it would be like if I lived across the world. This is interesting to me because foreign traditions and cultures seem so different than American ones, although I'm sure they see us the same way.

 A time where I felt completely lost was when I first started training MMA. I couldn't do most of the techniques and I was very confused. It was a humbling experience.

 Absent

 Throughout the first week I adapted in many ways. One of them was making it a habit to do my blog posts. I had difficulties with my written response length. Some of them were too short while others were too long.

 Today in class we watched a short film about culture identity. It showed a girl wearing a mask in high school then eventually living free without it. Then we made our own masks which represent us. We wrote a short excerpt explaining our design after.

 Today class time was cut down due to pictures. However we worked on completing our assignment from yesterday. These questions were about a story we read yesterday in class called "Girl." This story is about cultural identity. The questions asked about that and made us think about how the instructions the mother gave might have developed her daughter.

 in class we read a short story called "girl Jamaica Kincaid" and discussed it

 today we watched a short film called 2+2=5 and discussed it