Everything I Need to Know...

I was scared, I was lost, I was confused and I felt alone. Beginning high school was probably one of the scariest times I've ever had. Once I was here at Millbrook I was totally lost. So many people, so many classes(A, B schedule right??) so much to do, and such little time in four years. I had no clue where my place and boy would it take sometime to find it. The middle of sophmore year we had to make a choice, to do IB or not to do IB. My initial thoughts, no thanks too much, don't want to do that. After lots of consideration and a large amount of influence from my parents I decided that maybe IB was a good idea. Junior year, I had many mixed feelings towards the program, I loved parts of it and I hated other parts. Now, looking back as a senior, I see it was one of the best decisions I've made. It was one of the hardest things I have had to do, and while my grades weren't always the best throughout the program, the relationships I made were so worth it. I made life long friends and got close with people that I never would have even imagined being friends with. I'm now apart of a family, and that is totally worth the sleepless nights, endless hours of wondering what I'm being yelled at in French, and countless IA's and word counts.

Witty Whitman

Part 1:
*Two Characters as a dialogue*
*Letters for a president elect*
*Dialogue between  (IDK what that said) and President elect.* -This was actually about Licoln, I thought it was just about some random person or someone made up.
He crosses out a lot.
* I will see how much you can stand* (Testing?) - * I shall see the crash* - later includes perhaps, trying to create a feeling of hope.
* Does the Queen of England represent a thousand years*
Multiple pictures of what seems to be the same man, each picture changes a bit and adds something new.
*Poem, the halls of brooklyn?*
The first thing that I think when I saw this is that his brain was rather scattered brain, and cluttered. He jumped from topic to topic randomly and just seemed to have random thoughts written down. This shows us that he had lots on his mind, which probably led to a lot of things to write poems about. I think it is very significant that he included a question mark around the word poem, showing that not everything was a poem or even began as a poem.

Part 2:
I think it is very important that Witman and Lincoln never really conversed, but yet he seemed to have this connection with him...he could infer information just from his facial expressions. I think its really interesting how a lot of what he is writing about is very historical, not just events that pertain to him. I also think it's rather interesting that I couldn't tell that simply from looking at what he wrote down. To me it all just seemed to be random thoughts or events that could happen or happened to him, but I was wrong.