rain
its raining here...which is good because it NEVER rains and its getting me to actually READ for school. i have to have The Diary of Anne Frank read by monday so im about half way done..i started it tonight so i should finish by tomorrow. I havent read it since junior high but im reading for a childrens lit. class. It really is a GREAT book. i mean the girl is 13yrs old and she writes with the perfect combination of wisdom, innocence, criticism and wit. i love it. The way she manages to catapult you into an annex in Holland during the worst of WWII. Into a family and a life that is just so ordinary, while the world outside deteriorates....its just SO GOOD!!!!!!!!! HEre is one of my favorite passages...because its so much of how i felt at the age of 13.
Everyone thinks im showing off when i talk,
ridiculous when im silent,
insolent when i answer,
cunning when i have a good idea,
lazy when im tired,
selfish when i eat one bite more than i should,
stupid, cowardly, calculating...etc. etc.
dont you remember feeling like the entire world is against you. I Do. Like nothing i said mattered and even worse nothing i said came out right. like i was never able to express all the emotions that were brewing just below the surface...OH being so young...i mean i still am YOUNG but that age is just ridiculous...all the hormones..haha. but its true..and yet look at the way she writes those feelings.....she was meant to be a writer...and millions of people everyday read those words. WOW.
anyway im gonna get back to anne and the year 1943.
goodnight!
Everyone thinks im showing off when i talk,
ridiculous when im silent,
insolent when i answer,
cunning when i have a good idea,
lazy when im tired,
selfish when i eat one bite more than i should,
stupid, cowardly, calculating...etc. etc.
dont you remember feeling like the entire world is against you. I Do. Like nothing i said mattered and even worse nothing i said came out right. like i was never able to express all the emotions that were brewing just below the surface...OH being so young...i mean i still am YOUNG but that age is just ridiculous...all the hormones..haha. but its true..and yet look at the way she writes those feelings.....she was meant to be a writer...and millions of people everyday read those words. WOW.
anyway im gonna get back to anne and the year 1943.
goodnight!