Monday, February 12, 2007

Car Raid

Mrs. Wheeler’s Tico is not exactly her dream car. Well, I do not think that it is anyone’s dream car. It only cost three hundred fifty dollars. The car has a lot of problems. For some reason, she doesn’t want to get some things fixed. She talked about how it does not turn off. Another problem is that it is rusty. It was so sharp that someone actually got hurt. It was also missing some parts. There are even things sticking out of the car. There was, as a matter of a fact, some things she likes about her car.

Her dream car is actually a beetle. She is saving money for a new car. She said that three times it has happened to her that it would not turn off. It is actually weird because most cars have problems turning on. It still works even without the key. What she did was she roamed around. After roaming around, she tried to turn it off again. It worked. She said that she is always scared that it might be in a car accident. She is especially scared when her daughter drives it. Who could blame her? It is so tiny.

The other problems are the rusts and the dents in the car. There was actually tape on it at first. When she took it off, it got worse. She is not exactly planning to get the dents fixed. I am not so sure why. The air-con doesn’t work, so she leaves the windows open which is not so difficult since the windows are stuck. It can not close nor can it open. When Liezel asked her if she ever gets worried that someone might steal something from it, she answered the question by saying, “No one would even go near it.” Just for your curiosity, she does clean it.

The last problems are that there are some things sticking out and some things are missing. I am not exactly sure what is sticking out of her car, but it looked like pieces of a torn rice sack. Her car also has empty cans and all her work-out things in it. Something from the stick was missing, so she added a cloth. When someone asked her what the cardboard boxes are for, she said that it was for oil leakages. She tried making it more presentable by putting air-fresheners in it, but it did not make any difference.

So far, I talked about the problems she had about her car. I mentioned what doesn’t work well, the rust and dents, the things sticking out, and the things missing. These are all the problems. Is there actually something she likes about her car? She loves that she doesn’t have to walk anymore. I guess there is something good you can find in everything, even the worst things.

The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is about a young woman named Hester Prynne. It begins in seventeenth-century Boston, then a Puritan settlement. The book is called The Scarlet Letter because she has a scarlet “A” pinned on her chest. She is forced to wear this because she committed adultery. The majority of Hawthorne’s work takes America’s Puritan past as its subject, but The Scarlet Letter uses the material to greatest effect. The Puritans were a group of religious reformers who arrived in Massachusetts in the 1630s. The religious Puritans were known for their intolerance of dissenting ideas and lifestyles. Hawthorne uses the Puritan society as an analogue for humankind in general. The Puritan setting also enables him to portray the human soul under extreme -pressures. Hester, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth, also reflect universal experiences. One thing I learned in the Scarlet Letter is that revenge will not help you.

Autobiography

I was born on July 29, 1994, in Saipan. I still live in Saipan. I go to school at
MBA (Marianas Baptist Academy). I live with my mom, my dad, and my sister. All my other relatives are either in the Philippines or in America. For me, the hardest person to live with is my sister, Deirdre. She really gets on my nerves, but I love that little weirdo. School is pretty hard. I hate peer pressure.

My name is Chiantee Rosete. I started School when I was two and a half yrs. old
at Calvary Chapel Preschool in Orange County, California. I left and came here in Saipan when I was four yrs. old. I studied at Joshua Generation International Academy until I was in the fifth grade (ten yrs. old). I got an award for best in Language Arts and so much more. I also received many awards from the P.G.F.C. and the M.S.F.L. I am in the seventh grade at MBA. I hope to finish college in any university esp. Harvard.

Life to me means enjoying it and being with people you love the most. Well, I’m happy most of the time, if not, I am probably depressed. Whenever I am in school I always tell myself, “You can do this. This is for your future. It’s only seven hours and fifteen minutes; you will be out of here in no time. DO NOT FALL ASLEEP!” Luckily, I have many friends who brighten up my day. I am not involved with anyone at this point. I like hanging out with my friends in the movies or the street market every Thursday.

In the year 2017, depending on what course I took in college, I would be finished
with my studies. I really would want to open a business. I guess a coffee shop to start out small. Then maybe expand it till I have enough money to open a resort. At this time, I would at least want to visit Paris, France.

Like what I said, my friends keep from the boredom of life ( school to be exact), so I hope that we remain friends forever. I also hope that they, together with my family, go with me to explore the world, or at least Europe.