“You’re either for the court of against the court.” I’ve heard similar words or at least felt them. I felt that my proctor was for the court and she just wanted me to stay in custody as long as possible. In the beginning, I felt that everyone wanted to keep me in the system as long as possible. I felt that it was my family and I against everyone else.

Do I believe the world is black and white? I definitely don’t believe that the world is just black or just white or black and white. I know some people have good morals and standards, but aren’t always the kindest. Some people do honestly believe and follow what their standards are, and there’s some people that pretend to look good and go to church and to the public they’re perfectly innocent, but on the inside it’s complete opposite.

Well, life is pretty damn weird and confusing! My quest of figuring the world out is highly unorganized… I start one project and get side tracked in the blink of an eye. At the moment I am trying to find myself a faith, because not having one makes my life a little scary, being atheist is becoming harder than I thought because I am one of the most scared of dying. Everyone who says they aren’t afraid to die drive me crazy. I am terrified! I have been looking into witchcraft lately as crazy as that may sound. People see that as a bad thing mostly but the kind of witchcraft I am interested in isn’t what’d you call “evil”… good witchcraft? Yes it’s possible, I know a lady that I am very close to, she is like a mother to me, and she practices witchcraft and she is the most admirable person I know. Basically all it is, is you attract positive energies and cast helpful or spells with good intentions. I know I’d get a lot of shit from people being a witch but that’s how the world is, judge mental people left and right. I try be best not to judge people in a negative way! All in all I just want to make peace with the world and with the people around me

Today’s been a long day. I have to go on a mission for someone I thought I was going to get in trouble because of someone but I guess not. I’m getting really stressed out because its getting close to May and I don’t have anything done that I have to get done with I’m going to finally graduate! whoop whoop! I’m so happy I get to be done with school I’m feeling the pressure but I’m sure I can do it, ugh I need a massage or something along the lines. I’m going to take my graduation pictures this Wednesday. That’s coming up I’m so excited and its going to be free which is even more great because X’s is a really good photo person. I need to stop doing all thins I still need to also help student counsel with all the prom thing ,wow ,its going to be a long two months but I can do it I just can’t wait till Friday!

Stefany

This weekend is going to be great I’m going to finish, my project, practice skating, and glow sticking. My project is making a tie dye bed set so far I’ve made a cover sheet and a pillow case. I still need to make the blanket and another pillow sheet but I’ve ran out of dye.

I’m also getting back into skating because summer is around the corner and I’m planning to get good again. Back in the summer of 2008, I was doing 6 stairs like nothing. My friends and I would skip school every morning and jump on the UTA and go to Salt Lake City. I was becoming so fearless and learning quickly but now I’m scared of even doing an Ollie off a four stair. It’s because I spent all last summer in a proctor house and then I broke my hand and wrist so skating was out of the picture.

One thing that came out of sitting in the house all year was I developed a skill for glow sticking. I’ve never been so good at something in my whole life. I’ve learned so quickly and can’t stop trying to get better. I’m hoping to some day be getting sponsored or become an entertainer and do poi. Poi is part of the polynesian culture where they spin fire around there body and create a type of art which is where glow sticking came from. This summer I’m planning on playing with fire. I’m putting the sticks away and bringing out the fire balls.


Sergio

So far what we have read; it all started with the girls dancing in the woods. They really were just dancing and messing around. Abby took it serious and killed the chicken and drank its blood. They were caught doing all this by Paris. Then all this talk about witch craft started going around and everyone was freaking out. The girls got scared, so Abby in order to save her self she blamed Tituba. Tituba got scared and confessed in order to save herself. From their all the girls started accusing people of witch craft to save them selves. Many of the accused, who are truly innocent, confessed to witch craft to save them selves from being hung.
Who I dislike the least? It would have to be Procter, because he is the only one who seems to have any logic.
Who I dislike the most? It would be Abby because she is a scandalous bezzy.
What I think the story’s about, personally I think it’s about the ignorance of that era.


Felipe

Life?

So I’ve given a lot of thought to my life. I’ve done a lot of things I’m not to proud of. I tried listing ten things in my life that I am proud of. It’s a lot harder than I thought it would be. Try it. It’s a lot harder than it sounds.
I’m trying to form the rest of my life into something I’m going to be proud of. I love music and I want to do something with it. I’m going to go to U.V.U to start music major. Eventually, I want to go to another college with a great music program.
Some people in my life want me to make a lot of money in my life. Honestly, I don’t really care what other people want. Don’t get me wrong a lot of money would be pretty cool. My biggest goal is to join a band and get famous. That’s my life dream. As my time of playing in a band ends, I want to become a music producer.
This is all my hopes and dreams. No matter what others think, to me, this dream is attainable. It may take a lot of work but I’m going to work really hard for it. In fact, it may take over my life. Given all this, I still don’t care. I want to follow my dreams.

Well this week has been pretty crazy already, but last weekend was boring. First it’s that I had to go to respite because my proctor did want us to be there. She said she needed to rest. I kind of hated being at that respite house because I was starving most of the time, and there was nothing to really do during the day or night, so I just slept most of the time n watched TV. Also this week, my proctor brother tried to runaway which was really funny. He didn’t even last that long. He left like at 10 p.m. then he got caught at 1 in the morning. It made me kind of mad because I couldn’t sleep that night. They woke me up to ask me if I knew were he was I said I didn’t but I really did. Plus I’m going to go to another jazz game which isn’t that bad it’s going to be fun, and hopefully they win this game. This is probably the third time I going to a jazz game and so far to the ones I’ve gone to they have won. So this week is going to be pretty busy. I really don’t do anything because of being in the program except when I go on home visits. But I still got 2 more months before I go to my next visit.

Spring Break

I’m way excited for spring break to come. Last year I got locked up right before spring break and Easter. It was way sad. I spend Easter pretty much by myself; well besides with the staff that worked there. I’m really hoping that this year will be better than last. I’ve got a little sister, so at least I know we’re going to color eggs and the Easter Bunny is going to come! I’m very excited to spend Easter with my little sister, mom, and step-dad for the first time. Well, I spent Easter with my mom like 10 years ago, but my little sister wasn’t alive yet, so I’m excited to spend it with her!

Spring break should be fun too! I’ll be going to go and hang out with people I haven’t seen for a while. I’m not hoping to get in trouble or anything though! I can only think of spring break because truth be told I have court tomorrow and I’m just a little nervous. I’m hoping to get released and to not have to continue therapy. Wish me luck!

Grudges

The people are holding grudges because other people have more land or children when others don’t. “People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.” People see others enjoying themselves and are jealous because of it, and they also blame others in the town of witchcraft. People are just being stupid and jealous. Everyone is jealous of at least one other person in the book and want to blame others for their problems. Or even their lives suck when there are other people in way worse situations that are just working with it without being jealous. They usually blame the person they are jealous of for their problems.

Casey

“All students are cheaters—never trust them with anything.” I don’t believe that statement and I don’t believe teachers think that all the time. Some teachers might think students are cheaters, but some students might think other students are cheaters. Some reasons I think teachers might think students are cheaters is because of their actions or maybe how they were in the past. Maybe when growing up, they were cheaters or hung out with cheaters. I don’t think it’s fair to judge all students off of a few or past experiences. Everyone deserves their own chance until they’ve proven themselves wrong.

Have you ever been falsely accused? I know I have. I don’t know anybody that’s never been falsely accused. My dad has accused me so many times of being drunk or high, so then if I got in trouble for something I didn’t do, then I’d go and do it, so his accusations wouldn’t be false and I’d be punished for the right things. There’s other times I’ve been falsely accused as well, but the ones with my dad will always stick I’m sure.


Maryssa

I was asked the question have you ever been wrongly accused of something? Yes, I have been falsely accused on the day I got arrested. I way accused of doing things that I did not do, although I was doing other bad things mostly illegal things at that. When I was getting arrested I felt mad and sad. I just kept wondering why the police officer was lying. I was asking myself why does he have to make this stuff up. If he was smart then he would be able to get me on some real chargers. Even though that wound be worse for me. I was mad as I said before because nobody believed me and everyone believed the police officer over me. And I can’t blame them because all the people around me when everything happened had charges. Also even though they knew I was being falsely accused there wasn’t anything that anyone could do. It didn’t help wed all been locked up together. Two days after I got arrested the people that were with me on that day got arrested and they were picked up on some bogus charges. It’s one of the stupidest things that has happened in my life.

Mike

I’ve been falsely accused many times. My old proctors would falsely accuse me daily. They’d put words in my mouth trying to make me sound like a shallow rude kid. Then they took my bone red bearings and said I stole them when really I got them from my friend Josh on a home visit. I even explained to them they were a gift but my old proctors were assholes and said I’m a liar and stuff. It really made me angry because they knew I didn’t steal them there’s no way I could of stole them. I never left my proctors house unless I was with them and I was with them the whole time we went anywhere. I just said whatever because they always did dumb stuff like that. Honestly they did it on purpose just to get under my skin which did work. I thought about running a lot because of things like this and I did end up running because of something like this. I thought a lot when I was on the run about how messed up things were in my program and how glad I was to be out of there. I put up with it for so long and my case manger wasn’t even that mad because he knew how my program was. Now I’m in a much better program and the director is so more understanding. Over all life’s good now, I’m better then ever before at glow sticking, my proctor are nice people, and I’m doing good all around.

I think the book will be about people being accused of things they didn’t do, and a man will be the one accusing them or everyone. He will be a mayor or someone really important in their colony. People will get tired of being accused and they will finally notice it’s out of revenge and witches are not real. They will end up killing the man or who ever started the whole witch thing and be a normal town again.

I’ve been accused and I’ve proved the people that done that wrong. Because I’m not scared to confront them unless it gets chaotic and then I’ll just walk away. But if people are being accused like that, then they should stand up and be like your lying. I think most people misinterpret things like when my brother would go to court sometimes his case managers and trackers would get so many things mixed up. He would get sent to DT, but that’s why you should talk it out. Or when my mom would hear things like your daughter is hanging out with a lot of boys and she is this and that and it wasn’t true. It can hurt a family really bad sometimes. I think I do it sometimes people say something and I think of it in a whole different way, but that’s how people are we don’t all think the same.

Stefany