Isadri's English Blog

 A time I was in conflict with a parent was a couple years ago because of piano. I sort of talked about it before, but specifically my parents would make me do concerts, which I didn't like much since I also had to sing while playing. I know they were trying to give me advantages and stuff, but it honestly made my self esteem go down and every time I see those videos I just feel bad about it. I learned that I just don't feel comfortable with that kind of thing. I eventually talked to my parents, sitting them down and telling them how I feel, which for the most part worked. My father is less involved in that stuff now because I don't let him, as he gets too intense and I don't perform well like that. I learned also that I do better if I enjoy what i'm playing, and if my parents give me just a bit of space, I find myself actually getting up and practicing by myself. They do still make me do concerts to raise money because it's a good deed, but I no longer have to ...

 Today we started reading "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan. It was about a Chinese immigrant mother and her daughter who was born in America. It was really about how the mother was trying to give her daughter a good life by pushing her to do great things, and basically find out in what field the daughter was good at. However, the daughter wasn't very good at anything like that and just disappointed her mother most of the time, causing her to feel bad about herself and not want to do anything. I can relate to that with the fact that my parents are always pushing me to be better at to do certain things like piano. At first I was fine with it, but it after a while it just bad me feel bad when i'd mess up because I would just get lectured or scolded when I was genuinely trying my best. I remember at one point I just stopped playing completely and made myself forget pieces that I knew, just out of spite since I wasn't playing for myself anymore. For instance, the only reason I l...

 Today we went over vocabulary, and when our quiz is (Tuesday). I found images that showed what the vocabulary meant, as well as wrote a bit explaining my picture choices. I learnt that fiasco meant " A complete failure, especially a ludicrous or humiliating one. " I thought a fiasco was just something that didn't go according to plan, like something that went wrong. Also, a lot of the words I sort of knew, but I didn't know the definitions of them. For instance I could use stricken in a sentence correctly, but not really say the definition. I think today has been very slow, but the month itself has passed very fast.

We presented our slides/PowerPoint presentations on I'm Nobody! Who are you? in class today. I didn't like how one of our group mates didn't finish their part of the slides. However, t I liked hearing other people's perspectives on the poem. We all mostly agreed on the message of it, which was pretty cool. but I think some people definitely added on a couple extra details that made me think of the poem differently. Also, I didn't know you weren't supposed to kill frogs, which have the poem and extra layer. For instance, no matter how annoying or irritating the frog's croaks get, you can't stop it and have to deal with it. I don't really understand the second part of the poem, the "livelong June" part, but I sort of get the gist that the part is talking about how it would be a sad life to have to announce to the whole world who you are, to be somebody.

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