Over the MLK weekend, I went upstate for my brother’s last weekend off. When we went up, I was prepared for freezing cold weather, but as we got up, it felt like spring. It was 60 degrees outside and all the snow was gone, except for some ice on a pond. The grass was still soaked from the snow and the last bits of snow were visibly melting away. It was weird, seeing as a week ago it was below freezing there, and in the city it was pretty cold, but just two hours away it was spring.

In Humanities we are focusing on Social Justice and part of that is racism against minorities in our country. We have read two books about them, one of which was about a kid of Chinese descent who lived in America and went to an american school. Even though he spoke perfect English and always lived in America he was treated different from everyone else. Something that I think I did well was my conclusion, I think I did a good job of connecting his story to everyone else. Something I could work on are my analyses.

Over the break, I went upstate with my family. After Christmas it started to snow and get colder until finally a pond near our house froze over. A few days later we went over and shoveled off all the snow on a part of the pond to ice skate on. It turns out that it’s hard to skate on a random pond because it was super rough and bumpy. It was still a lot of fun though and I got a lot better at skating.