Professor Sabir's Posse

Sarah Pruitt
201 b m.w. 10-12

Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

About two summers ago i met my friend Dominic. People had warned me to stay away from him because he had a reputation of being involved with drugs and other events that were not very positive. I didnt listen to the people that told me these things because i saw in him the person that he really was, not just his reputation. When me and Dominic became good friends he straightened out alot of the negative aspects of his life because he said i showed him there was no need for all that in his life.

Unfortunitally for Dominic it is hard to out grow your reputation and it is hard to expect all the people you have wronged to just up and forgive you. Just because he had changed didnt mean the people around him changed or were willing to except that he was changing. He wanted better for him self and he knew staying around alameda was not going to help him further straighten out his life so he moved to Reno.

They say absence makes the heart grow fonder and because of him i truely believe this. I never realized how much i loved him until he moved away. It was really hard for me to grasp that he wasnt just down the block anymore he was miles away! I have missed him everyday since has he left and we still talk weekly, but since he has moved i am definitly fonder of him because i rarley get to see him now.
 

For the Jurrasic Park essay, did Ms. Sabir give specific topics to choose from? Or do we free hand from our chapters notes and the book?
 

Cesar Contreras
201 B
M.W. 10-12

Winning isn’t the most important thing. It’s the only thing –Vince Lombardi

I think that Vince Lombardi is correct. Winning is the only thing. I have never one something but some day I will, I just need to try my best at what ever I do to win. There are many ways or thing that you can do to win. It can’t just be some kind of competition but it can be by winning some bodies heart. Therefore winning is everything, no matter what they do.

There is always a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place, for everything. The best place is 1st place, #1. It is really hard to be able to obtain that 1st place or to be the #1 at everything. I can’t never get that 1st place.

Winning is everything, that’s what Vince Lombardi said, and he is right. No matter what you have to do, you have to win. Some people might cheat, when ever a big sum of money is on the plate and they do what ever it takes to win it all. A win is a win. So winning is everything.
 

ms sabir... you didnt post the blog yesterday or this morning... i have school and work today and wont have access to a computer tonight so i will not be able to make your midnight deadline.... i thought you were going to post the blog yesterday!
 

Dinah K. Oubkeo

“Don’t put all your eggs in one basket”

It was a month before my 13th birthday, still in middle school getting to know new people. I planned to throw the greatest birthday party there ever was. I wanted to fit in, to have plenty of traditional food & music playing in the backyard. I could just imagine it, everyone having the time of their lives laughing, singing and dancing while I blew the candles. It was traditionally celebrated with family and friends since my first birthday party. This year I was going to have only my friends attend and no old people to ruin the fun.

I sat in my room drawing maps and directions how to get to my house. I even added colors and details. I printed out several papers that were soon to be passed out in school to my fellow friends and classmates. One week away, so excited I couldn’t put my self to sleep, in bed just fantasizing to be the coolest girl to throw a party that everyone can attend.

7a.m. my mother knocking on my bedroom door to wake me up and get ready. I set up balloons, tables, and of course the music. Eleven O’clock hit, my best cousin had arrived, which made me even more thrilled about that day. In the mid afternoon a few more people have come so I blew out my birthday cake. By five O’clock still no sign of many people that I’ve expected to come. By then those that were already there grew bored and left. I’ve come to an understanding that no one was coming because I selfishly invited several people that I expected to show up and didn’t.
 

Jacqueline Hendy
201b M.W. 10-12

Going to high school was one the most terrifying and fun things that I had every experienced in my life. For the most part it was terrifying for I would have to meet a new crowd of people and find all my class room by myself. Who would I eat lunch with, who would meet me at my class, and all of these things were going through my mind as I entered the doors of “hell.” On the other hand I had a strange feeling that it would be fun. As soon as I stepped threw the threshold of my first class I was greeted with a loud “hey over here,” then followed my name. I pondered to myself who knows my name? The voice sound loud as if we were in rally screaming for our class colors or cheering for a volleyball game. It shocked me but to my surprise there was one of my good friends from middle school. I haven’t seen her since 8th grade graduation. I was elated to see her and next to her is where I sat for the whole year.
Days, weeks, and months passed and all we seemed to do was talk in class. It didn’t matter how we talked but we did. Whether it was through passing notes, verbally speaking or body language, she knew what I said and vise versa. The longer we went into the year would tell us to stop talking so much but that didn’t phase us, until he said that if we continued to talk is it would affect our grades. We had never paid him any mind for bad grades in his class had never shown up on our report cards.
At the end of the week it was time for report cards and the school office was sending the card home this time. I was at my last class and sitting over the chalk board was a clock that I keep my eyes on the whole time. Outsiders would have thought that I was under a spell or something like that but I wasn’t. I wanted to rush home to try to make it to the mail box before my mom did. As time went slower then ever my palms began to sweat, and my throat began to get as dry as the Death Valley air. Finally the bell had rang and I zoomed pass the entire class as well as those in the hallway. I was not to sure that I was going to make it but I did and then I ripped it open as if I were a lion tearing open the flesh of its prey. Well my report card was my prey or I should have been praying for a good grade either way I had it and it was time to face the music. He had given me a B- . I was shocked but I had learned my lesson I couldn’t do this every six weeks. So the next day in class I changed sits with someone and I haven’t sat next to any of my friends in class since. That was the best decision that I made that year. So if you don’t know history you are bound to repeat it. I had learned history alright and got an A+ .
 

Porsche' Williams
201B 10-12 M-W
Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

It was a beautiful saturday morning about 8am, which is pretty early for me, especially on a weekend. Anyhow I decided to call an old friend that I haden't spoken to or seen in awhile. So I thought let me give him a call and see if he wanted to have breakfast with me. I gave him a call and we made arrangments to hook up within the next hour.

I was kind of excited to to see him, since i had'nt seen this guy in maybe a year or so, but for some strange reason I had been thinking about him alot in the recent months, more than usual I would say. I guess maybe it was because when we were together or hanging out I would act like I didn't like him as much as I really did, I really didn't show my feelings the same way he showed his. He would always call and want to spend some QT (quiet time) but me being me, alto of the time a gave him the brush off, acting like I had better things to do.

Until one day he stopped calling me all together,I would call and leave messages on his cell phone trying to figure out what the deal was and if I had done something wrong, duh you say I know. But I no luck. I thought to myself does he have another girl that's he's spending time with what's up?. Well finally after coming down off of my high horse, it dawned on me, I had alot of feelings for this guy and i knew i had messed up big time, I was missing him, and the things we used to do, like just hangout at the movies, going to dinner, taking trips, and just basically spending time together, these are the things he looked foward to doing, but things I had took for granted.

Looking back at what could have been, I know I messed up, all I had to do was return the same love that was given to me, It's a shame to say that after he left me, that's when my true feelings surfaced, but it seemed a little too late, or a least that's what I thought, I guess it is true what they Absence does Make the Heart Grow Fonder.
 

Under the Influence
Everything I like is illegal, immoral, or fattening.
I can remember it like was yesterday, smoking my first joint, the burning sensation I felt in my lungs was hard to ignore I must have drank five glasses of kool-aid to get over it. Yup being high for the first time was an outer body experience literally, everything to me felt like it was in slow motion, and the simplest things that I thought was stupid while I was sober seemed to be funny all of the sudden.

Then I got the munchies, I was felling really hungry as if I haven’t ate in like a week! I felt so embarrassed at McDonald’s because the clerk was looking at me as if I had broken loose from the nut house! Man I think I bought like two big Macs, two large fries, a soda not the small one but the big one; two yogurt parfaits, and last but not least some cookies. By the time I got home most of the food I had bought was gone! It amazed me that I alone have gone through all that in a matter of minutes! I love smoking weed, sure I have a hard time remembering things but at least it won’t kill me like those other drugs out there.
Weed was put on this earth for you and me! All I have to say is take advantage of it. My friend just told me that if I want to get hired I would have to pass a drug test. I’m only seventeen years old and my grades are somewhat good, and besides my parents still give me a decent allowance, plus the cool thing is that they know I smoke weed, every now and then I catch them taking a puff. When I turn eighteen I came to the decision that I will stop for a while to get a good job, but until then put your lighters up and smoke! Keenan Morrison age 17. Note! This story is fiction Erick Hunter-

3:45 PM
 

A. Stephens
English 201B

“Winning isn’t the most important thing. It’s the only thing.”
Vince Lombardi

Winning is important, but it’s not the only thing. Knowing the team aspect is far greater than the individual one. The main objective in any sport is to win because it brings gratification. The Phoenix Suns Coach Mike D’Antoni stresses that the game of basketball is about team unity and not about one person being the star and stealing the show. It’s about coming together as a team and having the willingness to sacrifice self for the greater good of the whole.

When I think about being a good winner, several words come to mind such as teamwork, leadership, good sportsmanship, drive and respect. In my opinion, teamwork is the most important because in order for you to get your job done in a game or competitive team sport, everyone has to be cohesive and on the same page. Leadership is important because it’s not necessarily having someone run the team, but having someone who is level headed and able to get the guys around them motivated. A good leader “walks the walk and talks the talk”. That is also the person on the team that pushes the guys to do better. Respect is key because it’s really important how you handle and present yourself. Drive is personal self-motivation because it represents your willingness to keep going even when you don’t want to. Good sportsmanship is vital to a good team aspect because it shows a high character. You see this more in collegiate basketball and football when the two opposing teams and coaches shake hands at the end of games. This says that it doesn’t matter who has won or loss, but that we leave it on the floor and are good stewards outside the game. This sends a positive message and that’s the way it should be.

“Winning isn’t the most important thing”. If one is able to demonstrate the five components that I have listed to be a good winner, then winning is everything because the priorities are straight.