Pewaukee varsity basketball

My older brother Nick plays basketball, he practices with the varsity but usually plays on JV. A lot of Nick's friends talk to me a lot like David Girmschied, Jordy, and so on. Some of my dreams is to play on Firday's on the varsity team because of the game of basketball and the pleasure of making varsity. I know a lot of them as they know me and it would be really fun to do the same being a varsity player then talking to the younger kids.

Response to "The Circuit"

Alex Clement

Language Arts

5A    12/02/10

                                                                Response to “The Circuit”

            What is it like to have nobody listen to you and move all the time? In the story “The Circuit” by Francisco Jimenez, there’s a character Panchito who is a kid that helps his dad that is a migrant farmer. A migrant farmer is a farmer who moves when the crops are bad or when they aren’t in season. They work as a migrant farmer because of the families need for money and the mother doesn’t work in the short story “The Circuit”. They don’t seem like the happiest family that’s why the story is a tragedy.

             The short story “The Circuit” is a tragedy for several reasons. The little boy Panchito is just a kid that tries to go to school but he can’t because his father is a migrant farmer, they never stay in one spot. While they move to a very amusing and very affordable spot Panchito gets into school, it was the most blissful time of his life his teacher liked him he loved to read, everything was going great, but then horrifying things happened. Panchito walked into his house one day with everything packed up and was forced to move as he approached his dad to question him why they are moving he had no excuse he felt it was too wrong not to be moving.

            Although they moved again after that, Panchito didn’t get over it his life wasn’t the same. He worked as hard as he could to keep the family alive giving up education to support the family. His father knew that was wrong as he was living in guilt.  He would never be able to take that back, so they moved on to being there usually migrant farmer family.

            Than finally it became clear that it was a tragedy when Panchito couldn’t go to school and had to go back to his migrant farmer life. When he also found out that the one screaming guy that he looked forward to all day left he had no business wanting to work or be happy.   Panchito would work day to day week to week year to year and he never got a break, he always would look forward to the screaming guy that would yell out “ Ya esora” in his broken Spanish voice.

            This basically sums up why the story is a tragedy. The story is very realistic and if you have ever had a dream about the old west or being a farmer you would understand the story. The story also is based in the mid day through the whole day which follows the symbolism chart for comedy and tragedy.

Carrol College experience

When my friend and I went to the Carrol College basketball camp we meet a kid named Bogey. Bogey had to be the funniest kid I know. He was good at basketball so Drew and I always picked him. I remember his favorite line was (He's stoking it baby with a capitol B). That was one of the funniest things ever because he said everytime he made a shot or just wanted to say something. He once had 4 gatorades in about 1 minuet, I have never seen anybody do that. It was one of my favorite camps and I am for sure going there again. 1 because it was fun to play basketball. 2 because Bogey was so so funny. 3 The Toppers pizza was delicious.