Day in the life

Well, a day in the life of Alyssa Lauren Winkler. Monday through Friday, I get up at 5:20 to shower. Then I get dressed for the school day, then I wait until the bus gets to my house which is about 6:30. We drive all over picking up kids for school, I'm on the bus for about an hour and a half. When we finally reach school at about 7:25ish. Of course, 7:45 bell comes around and it's time for class. I sit through all my classes and get out of school at 3:20. I go to my bus and when it's time to leave I sit on the bus for another hour and a half or so, and wait until I get home. I get home, let my dogs out, get something to eat and start homework. Once I finish homework, I take a shower and get ready for bed. I go to sleep around 9:30-10:00 and start the cycle all over again.

On the weekends, I do whatever I want or whatever my mom tells me. I also do homework, go to conformation class at temple, and hang out with my family and friends.

Writing center learning

Going to the writing center was probably one of the best choices for the last paper. Although I thought my paper was perfect and nothing more could have been done, there were a lot of things I needed to fix. Having someone who is trained to read over papers to make them better makes me more comfortable with them reading and giving feed back other than someone else. Also I like that Christiane gave positive feedback rather than someone else saying that my paper is awful.

It also gave me a chance to have a second look at my paper. Christiane was not only helpful, she was relatable. She told me my paper was very good, but just fix a few things. She is relatable because she told me that she likes to be personal with the reader as well do I. So those are just a few things that connected us.

reading and working- 60 reading 12/2 and 60 working 12/8

reading and work times

11-26-13: read 60 minutes and 11-30-13: read 65 minutes <read chapters 8-11
12-1-13: chapter 12 about 15-30 minutes; all chapters with annotations

Free post, How did you become Jewish?

So, I get asked the question "How did you become Jewish?" 

My answer is pretty long so I would normally ask them if they have time to listen to the story because it's a long, but interesting story, especially if you don't know my family. 

My mom is one out of sixteen kids and my dad is an only child and so when they got married they decided to raise me and my two older sisters Jewish. Reason being that there aren't many Jewish people in the world and a bunch of Christians in the world. So it isn't a matter of that I became Jewish, it's more of a tradition thing because my mom had such a large family and my dad didn't. I love being Jewish because I get interviewed a lot. It's a lot of fun, but sometimes it gets out of hand, but that's another free post. (:

What's your favorite Disney movie and why?

I have loved and alway love the movie Nemo. I'm not really sure why I love the movie, but I love the fact that sea animals are talking. It's the funniest thing to me. Nemo kind of reminds me of kids in general, like in the beginning, by not wanting to get up for school, once he gets to his first day of school for his dad to leave him alone. The one sad part about this movie is in the early beginning when Nemo's mom was looking at all the first eggs the first time, and she looks out in the blue ocean and sees a huge shark and tries to protect her eggs. She and most of her fish eggs get killed except one.

Nemo was probably the most entertaining child movie I've watched in my life time. It shows us what life is like, but in the form of fish.

Reading- LOTF: 11-11-13 60 minutes 11-12-13 60 minutes

free post!

On this free post I wanted to talk about my religion and how much it means to me.

Being a part of my religion is very special and unique. I say this because in the United States in 2012 studies show that there is less then  2% of Jewish people. Being apart of such a small community is great because you know pretty much everyone in your city or maybe your state. Also Jewish people have a promised land that I will be visiting this summer in June, I'm so excited to go. Not many other religions can say that, which makes it extremely special.

One thing that bothers me the most is that sometimes people don't know when to stop talking. They also don't know anything about the religion and they just keep their mouths running. It makes me angry and somewhat uncomfortable. People will stereotype anyone no matter what, if you go on google and type in Jewish people then click on images, that is what Jewish people look and dress like in certain places. I get asked all the time why I don't look and dress like that and my answer every time is because I live in America and would get made fun of or stereotyped and even worse get called "the Jew". I find it unacceptable to call someone that is Jewish that name because people haven't been that cruel since the 1930's during the Holocaust. That was a brutal time back then and some people are still like that. Then others are just so ignorant they just keep talking and making situations worse for themselves. I'm guessing by this point you think I'm super defensive about Judaism, which I am. I won't beat around the bush on that statement. I guess what I'm really trying to say is that people need to watch what they say and how they say things because some times you won't know how the person will take it, rather it being sarcastically or serious. This is more of a life lesson then.

Reflection on deserted island

I think that the situation with our class would have been fine, just because on Thursday we seemed to work really well together, but over time people get sick with each other and start being rude. So maybe a longer period of time would have been bad. I think it would have been difficult in real life because some people's personalities don't work as well with other personalities. There are some people that like to take control in situations like this and others that like to just sit back and do what their leaders are telling them to do.

I think my class would have managed finding the essential things like, food, water, shelter, and fire. Which in this case or really any case, it's great. We definitely would have faced figuring out who the true leaders are because we do have a lot of leaders so maybe we would have one for every aspect. I'm unsure because we aren't in the situation.

reading times: LOTF- 60 minutes 11-10-13 and essay- 60 minutes 11-9-13