Drama Queen

Me at the cometition 2010

Duabi Cometition 2010 The team and I

Duabi Cometition 2010

I haven’t really thought out what I want to be or do when I’m older but if I think about it right now I would probably get a rough idea. When I’m older it would be nice to become a professional skater and trains lots with my ice skating friends. I also want to pass and get good results on my standard grades in Y10 so I can pick any job I want! I would also like to go to collage or university so if my ice skating or acting career falls through I always have a good qualification to do something else. It’s not like the book the Giver where someone tells me which job I have to do, I will pick one that I think fit’s me best and I will come home every night saying I want to go back tomorrow. When I go back to Scotland I will hopefully get a small part time job to earn some money, but only when I’m like 15. I would like to stay at school until you can’t anymore, just so I can learn more and do better in collage or university. I would also like to come back to Abu Dhabi and Doha to see how it has developed. Even though I don’t like travelling that much because of the long journeys for example long car rides, boat rides or aeroplanes. However I would love to travel round the world to meet up with some old friends for Abu Dhabi and Doha. On the other hand they would all have moved back to their home country’s by then making it harder to visit. So I would probably arrange for a big holiday all together with some certain friends. And I would also love to meet up with my ice skating buddy Maryam. Izzy, Megan, Candida and I have already talked together one day randomly and one of us brought up “It would be cool when we are older to be room mates or something and then we would always have a great time. Somewhere like New York or even Spain, anywhere really nice.” Candida said ” ye that would be cool, but I’m just telling you guys now that I would kill all of you guys sooner or later hahaha”. And that’s right even though we are all good friends we would get on each others nerves. So what I’m trying to say is just because you have moved away from friends doesn’t mean you can just forget about it. Go out in life and meet up with people. You never know what might happen.

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I like that everyone in the community isn’t going to be starved or treated very badly. The community may be very strict but no one in that community would ever starve of hunger. Everyone gets a good portion of food. Most people are dying because they don’t get enough food in their community so Jonas is actually quite lucky. They always have there family dinners everynight, its a very nice community.

I don’t like how many rules there are! It’s always good to have some rules but you also have to have your own personal space. What I mean by that is you shouldn’t need to tell people everything, people tell their friends things and sometimes their family things but you shouldn’t need to tell your feeling everyday to your family. Your feelings are sometimes good but it could also hart people’s feelings. And everyone should have their own right for example, it doesn’t matter what age you are, you can still have a comfort toy. That’s why I think lots of rules like that are bad, and i dislike them.

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In class today we were talking about the book Esperanza Rising and a new character called Marta wanted to strike to get paid more and to get a better house and things. So we got asked to right down if we would strike or if we would not strike. So this is what I think.

If I was in Esperanza’s shoes at my age now then I would probably not strike because I have a family, and i would like the best for them, and because the camp we would be in. But if I knew that there was more available places to work and stay then I would strike. I would strike because I would want a better house and better wages. If we were to strike and we made it then we would get a  better  life. But it is very risky. If we didn’t make it then I would know where to go because I would check if there is any where to work before I strike.

It is a very chancy risk but Iwould definitely strike if every one else was as well. If everyone was striking and I didn’t then I would probably get kicked out anyway if they lost. And if they won and i didn’t strike with them I would not get a better wage, and that means not a better life.

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Today on the 10th of November we had 1 crazy hour of Esperanza’s life. First we got into groups of 8 then we got given 3 tasks. The first task was to sweep up sand and rocks. The second task was to wash up baby clothes and hang them up on a washing line. The third task was to make tortillas. But it wasn’t so easy because Miss Gould ( accidentally) kept knocking our teems buckets over with sand in it. And Mr Rasdana kept trowing our baby clothes on the floor. But over all it was a good experence.

Before we did the tasks I thought it would be quite easy and that it wouldn’t be that hard but everything changed when we actually had to do it our selves. I did know it would quite hard work for Esperanza but I never really thought of everything she had to do would be that hard.  My feelings have changed because now I know how it really feels to be her. But I don’t think people would be going round hitting Esperanzas buckets of sand over.

What I learnt about my self was that I have not really done any thing like that before.  And maybe I have to help round the house more or even thank the people who do it for me, or us. So now I know how poor people feel, or even your parents because they always do the diner, washing up and the sweeping.  I found it quite easy at the start but went the teachers kept hitting the sand back over the ground it stared to get harder. And that’s what some people have to do everyday, the sand doesn’t stop coming. But all we had to do for the sand to stop coming was to hide the buckets. So its not that easy. And when we were washing up the clothes I couldn’t get the dirt out of them it was so,so, so annoying. So even though I had fun doing the tasks I don’t think I would like to be doing it on my own 24, 7.

While I was doing it I was actually enjoying it because I was just imagining it was drama. Every time Miss Gould said oops and tipped the bucket over with sand I just thought of it as a movie. What I mean is that it felt like we were in a movie because I new after the hour past we wouldn’t be doing it anymore. But it was like a movie because the teacher was filming us and the teachers were doing daft things that they would never do to us ( I hope). So over all I enjoyed it. And it was fun having a lagphe with my friends even though we got dirty. But we did start to get more serious on the sweeping near the end. I guess it was quite embarrassing because the workers were standing there laughing at us because they new how to sweep and we were doing at terrible job. But like I siad I just imagined it as a movie. But i did pretend I was in Esperanza’s shoes. I think that we should do things like that more often because now I think every one knows how poor people feel and live. I loved the 1 hour Espernaza life!

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In class today we were reading the next chapter in Esperanza Rising and we were disscussin Esperanza and her life. Esperanza says that she has nothing anchoring her down.  Then we were told to write about our life and what keeps us anchored.

The thing in my life that keeps me anchored is definitely my family and friends. Every time I am nervous about something or want to tell someone something it is always my family or friends. My friends are good for telling things to, to tell secrets, when you have troubles with something,  have a crush, when you want to go on a shopping trip, whatever. Friends are always there no matter what. That’s why I always rely my friends. Friends are people who you will fall out with, you will have disagreements, can tell secrets to, can trust, everything like that.

My family keeps me anchored as well because I like to talk to my mum when I have a problem about something and she always makes me feel better. If I lost my family I would never ever live with my self, I just love them too much. My granny and grandad are also very important to me. In the summer and winter I always go to Scotland but this year my granny is coming out here.  Anyway they always keep me happy, and you might think that grandparents are boring but seriously you would never of guessed what my granny and grandad have done for me and my sis.  And I’m not just talking presents, when we were little my granny always came on the bouncy castle with us and actually she did that only a few years ago and they came on ALL the rides at Wild Wadi with us.  I bet you if I asked my granny to come quad biking I bet you she would say yes.

There is also a lot of things for example toys, ornaments, jewellery and things that keep me anchored because they were given to me from special people. They are not the main things so i wont go on about them or I might be here all day.

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In class today there was a new character that came into our book from Esperanza Rising. She is called Carmen. Carmen says “what more could we need” when she was talking about her life. She is very poor but she has everything she needs and that’s why she said ” what more could we need”. So I’m going to write about what I think she means by that quote.

I think what she means is that she has every thing she need and wants for example her kids and husband. And she sellseggs to earn enough money for her family to eat and live under a roof. I think she is very poor on the out side but very rich on the in side. That means she is a very friendly and nice person. Even though she is poor, and what Esperanza is still not getting is that she is also poor now and needs as much help as they can get. So its OK for them to be sharing there feelings and there past with another peasant.

I think Carmen is a very nice person, and as long as she thinks she has everything she needs then that’s fine. And there is no harm telling your personal feeling to another peasant.

From Rachel

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In class today we were talking about Esperanza and how she would of felt being with all the poor people. So the teacher asked if we were ever in that situation. So here is what i have been through.

I have never lived with poor people so i will just talk about people on the streets. When I go to Aberdeen or Dundee in Scotland I always see beggars on the street in sleeping bags. I always feel sorry for them because they have no money or food. When I go up the street I sometimes give some money to the beggars but sometimes not. I don’t know if they are going to use the money for something silly like drugs or drink, so most the time we don’t give anything to them. There are beggars on the street that try to earn money for example there was a beggar on the street singing one day, he wasn’t that good but at least he was trying. People don’t normally trust beggars because they think they might steal there things or use the money on stupid things, so you always have to be careful.

My granny said to me one day that when she went to Aberdeen or Dundee, i cant remember which one, well she saw a lady sitting down beside a wall. And the lady had a baby in her arms, my granny felt sorry for her so she gave her some money. As soon as she gave the lady money she got up and walked to this car that had pulled over, and she got in. The man in the car had a suit on so he was obviously a business man. My granny was so mad because that lady wasn’t poor at all, she just played it on to get some money.  

So now my family are more careful to the people they give money to. But Miss Gould said that when she was little she would buy them a sandwich so they didn’t spend the money on something silly. I think that is a great idea.  Even if you don’t to give money to the poor at least have respect for them.

From Rachel

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 This pic is me at the ice skating competition and there is lots of teddies and roses beside me which people threw on for me. I have my hair tyied right back  into a bun thats why you can’t see my hair.

Today in class we were talking about  Esperanza Rising the book. We were saying what we were passionate about because Miguel ( a character in the book) was going on about trains, because he loves them. So we had to right what we were passionate about.

I love lots of things but the things I’m passionate about are drama and ice skating. Drama is a big, big, big thing for me I just love it so, so, so much. I do it as a hobby, but I love it more than just that. I did a work shop in Scotland called Song Shop where they would do lots of big theatre productions and things like that. I only got to be in a few because I moved countries when they were away to do Alice in Wonder Land and they are going to be doing ‘Crazy for you’ and ‘Hair Spray’. I started Song Shop after I went to see one of there productions Annie. I love the movie Annie because of all the songs and the characters are great. I would love to do the play Annie again because I never got to have a chance the last time, I will probably suggest it for the summer play for Compass or Grease.

Ice skating I’m also very passionate about. I love to go to the competitions every year in Dubai, It is very fun. I don’t really like my lessons all the time because it can get very annoying but it’s never stopped me from doing it.  Ice skating is not just for girls, boys can do it to. One of my best friends is a male ice skater and he is very good- better than all of us.

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In English today we were discussing what Esperanza took out her bedroom when there was a house fire at her house. Then the teacher asked us what we would take, so here are some things I would of took if I had enough time.

If there was a house fire the things I would grab on my way out the house would be my photos because they remind me of old times and past events. For example when I go round to my friends birthday parties I like to take photos of us all doing funny makeovers, playing truth and dare and pranks on my friends older brothers.  Photos mean lots to me for example, I looked through  photos on  my old phone the other day and there was tons of pics of me and my friends when I was 10. It was really nice looking back at them( true story ).

  I would also take my  teddy because even though I’m grown up I have had a lot of good memories , for example when I was little I was realy scared of flying so when I got on to the air plain I got him out and I felt a bit better. His name is Peter and he is a rabbit. He looks kind of old now because some of the stitching is coming out of him and his carrot got pulled of when I was little. I got him when I was first born. If I lost him I would be really sad, I know that sounds very weird because I’m older now but he means alot to me.

I would also take my family because they mean the world to me and I would NEVER manage to live with out them. They always support me for example, when I told my mum I wanted to start ice skating she let me have a go to see if I enjoyed it and now I love it. My mum, dad and sister come to my ice skating competitions. They also support me and my sister in Song Shop. That is like a theatre production group. I would also count my dog as part of my family. She is not really my dog because I am just fostering her. She used to stay at the kennels at QAWS but the shelter got burnt down and she got stuck in these horrible replacement kennels. I don’t think Emmie (the dog) would like to be in a fire again. She just gained her confidence in us and It would be horrible for her to have to restart it all again. I would be hard broken if I lost Emmie.

From Rachel Y8b

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