Whit+D.

Hola Mikel, yo no ha oído de usted todavía pero esto es lo que hago en los fines de semana. Yo cuelgo fuera con mis amigos, trabajo en la panadería, paso tiempo con mi novio, y paso tiempo con mi famalia. Me encantan hacer estas cosas muy mucho. La semana pasada mi escuela tuvo jueves y viernes lejos, cuál fue muy bueno. En miércoles fui a mi casa de novios, en viernes fui a una fogata para mi equipo de futbol de americano (que fue muy divertido!), en sábado trabajé y fui a mi juego del futbol de americano. Nosotros perdimos, pero que está así, así, y en domingo yo no hice nada. Que es todo. ¡Espero oír de usted pronto! ¡Adiós! ~Whitney **11//9/09**

Hey Mikel, I still have not heard from you yet, but I suppose that is alright. I will just tell you a little about one of our holidays that is next week and it is called Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is a day where we celebrate the Pilgrims coming to America from England. They came to England because they wanted to live a safer life and be free. The first Thanksgiving was shared by the Wampanoag Indians. Thanksgiving has been celebrated over the years in remeberance of the Indians and the English colonists. On Thanksgiving I go to my grandparent's house and have a nice meal with my whole family. We sit around the dinner table and have many great dicussions. We also eat very delicious food. After eating, my family goes to my aunts house and we have dessert. It is a very fun time and I can't wait till it comes next week. Well that is all for now. Talk to you soon, I hope! -Whitney **11/16/09**

Hello again Mikel, I'm not sure if you have sent letters to me or not, but i still have not gotten any, which makes it a tad hard to do this project and get graded for it since I'm not very good with just pullings things out to talk about. So i guess I'll just fill you in a little bit about my weekend and our school week this week. Hopefully I hear from you soon though. It would be very nice to get in touch with you and have someone to talk to.

So this weekend was not really good at all. Friday I went to a foundation basketball game between two Fremont teams, my school and Fremont Ross. It was alright, but not something I would prefer to do on a Friday night. A lot of my friends were there so it was pretty fun to just sit there and talk with them. Saturday I have to work at 5:30 in the morning, which was extremely early for me. After work I went to the Toledo mall with my mom. That did not turn out well at all and so we just went home. When I got home, I went to my boyfriend's house and then ate supper at my friend Anne's house. We sat around a bonfire with a bunch of friends and had a good time. Sunday I worked on a project for school and that took me all day. I hope I get a decent grade. That was basically my weekend, nothing to exciting but oh well.

We only have three days of school this week so that is very nice. Today is pretty boring so far, but that's normal for being at school. I have a history test next period that I did not study for, so oh well. Tomorrow I have a pretty big Physiology test that will probably be pretty hard. Then Wednesday its like we don't even have school because we have so much going on during the day. Then I get to go home and enjoy my four day weekend. I also get to enjoy Thanksgiving with my family. I explained what Thanksgiving was in my last entry so you should know a little bit about it.

Well that is all for now, back to other school work. Have a nice day and hopefully I get a letter soon. Bye! -Whitney **11/23/09**

Hello again Mikel, So I finally figured out why we haven't been talking. I never knew that your teacher gave us your guy's email adresses so I have just been writing on my wikispaces page. I never thought about emailing you but i probably should so we can atleast talk, because it's really hard basically talking to myself. Ha, so I apologize for basically thinking it was something you had been doing, when it was definitely all me. My teacher (Mrs. Streacker) gave your teacher my clases wikispaces URL, so I'm guessing it will be easier to just talk through my wikispaces page because emailing doesn't always work, but I guess we will see once I send this to you. You can take my wikispaces URL and creat your own wikispace and request me to be a member of your wikispace and we can talk through that. I hope this get's figured out soon. I think I am supposed to tell you about snow, since we should be getting some soon. I'm sure you have heard of snow, but never probably experienced it. Snow is white and very fluffy. It is very fun to play in and people can do many things in it. When it snows my favorite thing to do is go sledding with some friends. We take little sleds to a top of a hill and we slide down. It is very fun and i love doing it. Now I am supposed to tell you about my dîa de las gracias. En dîa de las gracias pasé tiempo con mi familia. Comemos mucho pavo y puré de papas. También tenîa muchas judîas verdes, que son mi favorito. Después comiendo el almuerzo, tomé una siesta, mientras mis otros miembros de familia miraron el fútbol de americano. Doy las gracias al Dios por mi familia y mis amigos. Me encanta pasando tiempo con mi familia en el día de gracias. Alright Mikel, that's all for today. Hopefully this time we get to talk. ¡Adiós! -Whitney **11/30/09**

Hey Mikel, So this week I am supposed to talk to you about a program at our school called Reach Out. We always do Reach Out before Christmas starts. Everyone at school brings in certain food items depending on the teacher they have. We collect these items for about a week or so and then at the end of the week we collect all of the food items and put them into boxes. By doing this, we feed 100 families who do not have the money to spend on food during their Christmas season. It is a very good program and it is a lot of fun to know how much you are helping a family. We all get into it and I don't think there is one person who thinks this program is a bad idea. We also raise money for Reach Out. We used to have class competitions to see who could raise the most money, but this year we are doing it as a school. We are trying to raise 1,000 dollars so hopefully we can do it. I'm really excited to see how we do! Well I know you guys have had a week off of school so maybe that is why I still have not heard from you, but hopefully it comes soon! Talk to you then. GoodBye! -Whitney **es el diez de diciembre de dos mil nueve**

Hello again Mikel, Next week is our Christmas vacation so I will not be writing for 2 weeks or so. Our Christmas break goes from next Wednesday, which is December 23 to January 3. That covers our Christmas holiday and the New Year celebration. When we come back from school, we have about two weeks and then we have exams. Our exams are across a two day period. We will have three exams one day and 3 or 4 the other day. We get and hour and a half to take each exam and some of them take that whole period and some don't. I am pretty nervous about the Spanish exam just because it is a different language than what I am used to, where as if you took it, you wold probably think it was really easy. I do not have an exam for Physiology and Social Justice. Social Justice is our Religion class, which is the class I am currently in(thankfully my teacher gave me permission to write this), Although we do not have exams in these two classes we have to do little projects. In Social Justice, we have to do something called a PSA, which is a Public Service Announcement. In my Physiology class we have to do some type of project to do, but our teacher ha not told us what it is yet. Our History exam is open note, so that will be pretty easy. I'm hoping I do good on all of my exams, but I don' have to worry about that till after Christmas break. Christmas is another holiday to spend with the family and celebrate Jesus' birth. Christmas is probably my favorite holiday because I love spending time with my family and I also have a good fait in Jesus and I love going to mass and listening to the readings. I will tell you more about what I do after our break is over, so I'm hoping we eventually get to talk. How was your break? Bye! -Whitney **es el diez y quince de diciembre de dos mil nueve**

Hey Mikel, So we are now back in school after our Christmas break and it does not even feel like we should be back. The whole break went really fast and it doesn't feel like another year has passed and it is already 2010. ¿Cómo era su Navidad y Año nuevo? Oigo que usted tiene alguna tradición de uvas. ¿Qué es esto exactamente? We don't really have any traditions on New Years that we do. We just sit around the tv and wait for the ball in New York City to drop. That is the mark of the new year. For my Christmas, i went to my grandparent's house and to my Aunt's house. I was pretty sick on Christmas and a few days after that. It was not very fun. Then on New Years, I went bowling with my family and then to my friends house. We just sat around and all talked and had a pretty good time, although it was pretty boring. I like being with my friends and chance I get. ¿Qué hizo usted durante Navidad y años nuevos? Espero que usted tuviera buen tiempo y espero tener noticias de usted pronto, si no, adivino que tendré que seguir sólo dirigiendo a mí y usted piensa probablemente la misma cosa. Well I have to get back to class. ¡Que tenga un buen día! ¡Último año nuevo feliz! Bye now! -Whitney **es el cinco de enero de dos mil diez.**

I will not be writing to you this week Mikel. Sorry! -Whitney **es el doce de enero de dos mil diez**

Hola Mikel, ¿Cómo es usted? ¿Cómo va escuela? School for me has been pretty crazy lately. We just had exams last week and so we got hit with a bunch of homework yesterday and today. I've been doing homework pretty much all day and I still have a lot to do. ¡Yo no quiero los deberes en todo! It gets pretty stressful sometimes with sports and having to work all of the time, but I manage to et through it. So I still have no talked to you so I'm wondering what's up? Maybe there are complications going on. Espero que consiga para oír de usted. It gets kinda boring writing to myself on here and not knowing what to talk about, but you're probably thinking the same thing when you have to write every week. So i will apologize for this because I have no idea what is going on, so arrepentido! I'm not really sure what else to write about and I am getting pretty tired. Pienso que es tiempo de ir ahora. Espero que usted tenga un día y la semana agradables. Hable con usted finalmente.. ¡Adiós Mikel! -Whitney **es el veinte de enero de dos mil diez.**

Hello again Mikel, So i'm pretty sick right now, so I don't know what I'm going to talk about. I really don't like doing this because I don't hear anything back from you and I just sit here and talk to myself. I mean it's alright because I get points for doing it, but not having a topic to go off of or having someone to talk to makes this wikispaces thigns 10 times harder than it needs to be. I guess we are having a skype chat or whatever wit you guys, so that shall be exciting. Well I have nothing else and I'm not feeling well so there's my english paragrraph and here's my spanish... ¿Cómo ha sido usted últimamente? Yo no soy bueno porque la escuela comienza a llegar ame. Los maestros amontonan en los deberes para alguna razón y comienzan a ser injusto. ¿Hace su terachers eso? Odio eso. Tengo toneladas de deberes para ser hechas mañana y un ssignment en Moodle no trabaja y soy frustrado. Bien voy ahora. Adiós -Whitney **es el veinte de seis de enero de dos mil diez**

Hi Mikel, So this week I am supposed to talk to you about how I learn the best and ask you some questions about how you learn the best. Soy un visual más inclinado. Quiero ver lo que es hecho en el sujeto que aprendo. I also like to go back myself and kind of re-teach myself some things. Diría que soy una persona lista. I get good grades and I work very hard for those grades. The learning activities most fun for me are the ones I can apply myself to. En la clase, yo quiero escuchar el maestro y tomar apuntes. Sin embargo, yo no quiero leer historias porque ellos me hacen me cansé. How do you like to learn? What fun things do you lioke to learn in class? ¿Qué actividades quiere usted hacer? ¿Cuál unos no quiere usted? Well I'm going to leave now, I've had a pretty rough day and need some sleep. Goodbye for now. -Whitney **es el dos de febrero de dos mil diez**

Hey Mikel, Well, recently our school found out that we may need to change our name from St. Joseph Central Catholic (SJCC) to Bishop Hoffman High School (BHHS). I think it is completley ridicuolous. Incase you were wondering why we would have to change our name, it is because there is only one private high school in Fremont, but there are 3 private elemetary schools. The elementary school are combining into 2 schools and closing the one down. So, the bishop thinks we should change the names of each school. We don't understand why the names have to change. No one is happy about it and some people said they will stop giving our school donations if they name changes. No one wants the name change so we are all working together to help keep the name of our school. ¿Cómo se siente usted acerca del cambio de nombre? Maybe you don't feel much about it, but qué es su escuela que nombre tuvo que cambiar? ¿No estaría usted enojado? Pienso que usted quizás sea, según cómo totalmente usted se sienta acerca de su escuela y todas las tradiciones y gran tiempos que usted ha tenido allí. No es justo un cambio de nombre, pero un cambio en nuestras tradiciones y celebraciones. Bien espero oír forma usted o quizá conseguir para hablar con usted sobre Skype. ¡Tenga un día agradable.! -Whitney **es el nueve de febrero de dos mil diez**