PROMPT # 21 “What Are The Things That I Would Teach and Not Teach To My Children? How Would My Children Do Differently?”

Every parent in the world has their own ways of teaching their children different things. Everyone in the world has different personalities, therefore have many different ways of living. Some things may be important to one family whereas the same thing would not be as important to another family. The NUMBER ONE THING I would teach my children would be to listen and respect people who are older than them. I want my kids to have manners, and be known and kids who are bright and friendly. When I say be respectful and listen to people who are older than my children, I do not mean to do every single thing an older person tells my child to do, but to be respectful. If someone older asks for money or asks to do something that is part of a felony like stealing something or bullying someone, I would not want my kids to do that. I would teach my kids what is right and wrong, and how to get along with various people.

                I do not want my child to be one of those kids who cannot socialize. I want my children to have many friends but to study at the same time. Not a NERD but NOT a JOCK. Just in the middle, like how I am right now. I would teach my children how to talk nicely to elders with respect and how to say “Hello” in a respectful way. I would always remind my kids that they should not use a lot of swear words and that they should always study because that is the key for future success. I understand how hard it is to do sports and have the time to study at the same time, but I know it is not impossible, so I would make my kids study but also do sports so that they would be healthy. From personal experience, I know that doing sports can release stress. I want my children to have a good life where they have time to hang out with their friends, but also the time to study hard and get good grades. If my son or daughter loses in a sport game or fails on a test, I would not get mad and scorn them over and over again, I would let them have their space but later I would explain to them how grades are really important.

                I want my children to be successful when they grow up. I want my kids to be able to keep their heads up and not be looked down by on anyone. I am really competitive, so I always want to win or get good grades. When I get a bad grade, even though I smile and make it look like I’m fine with the grade I got, in my heart I am mad at myself for not knowing the answers and for getting the questions wrong. If my kids inherit my personality, I also want to teach them how to let it out. I do not want my children to have to have so much stress because they take everything in and act lie everything is fine. When things are not going well, or if my child does not like something, I would teach my child how to let his or her feelings out. Having a lot of friends and being popular is not the most important thing of a person’s life. I think that for my children, I would teach them that in high school years, they should really study hard in order to get into a good college, and once they get into a college, I would let them do what they want to, under a certain limit.  

PROMPT #20 “Should SIS Have Uniforms or Not?”

        UNIFORMS! UNIFORMS! UNIFORMS! Today’s topic is if SIS should have uniforms or not. SIS is my school’s name, called Saipan International School. We DO NOT HAVE uniforms at our school right now. From all of the schools I’ve been to, about half of the schools had uniforms. A school called Trinity Christian School in Guam, and a school called Shanghai Community International School. The schools I’ve been to that did not have uniforms were Shanghai American School in China and Saipan International School in Saipan. Exactly two of the schools I’ve been to had uniforms and two schools did not. I do not really care if my school has uniforms or not. I would just wear uniforms if the school tells me to. If they tell me that I could wear anything I want to, then I would just wear anything. There are some kinds of students who are totally against uniforms. If our school got uniforms, they would probably protest and not wear the uniforms even if it becomes a mandatory thing.

I would not protest and make posters against uniforms, because I do not really care. But what I DO CARE ABOUT if the uniforms are really ugly. If they make a uniform and it is really ugly, then I would probably protest to change the design, but not to exempt the uniform entirely. I think that there aren’t just disadvantages of uniforms but also advantages. The advantage could be that no one would be looked down on or bullied because of what they wear. People say that by having uniforms students would have to pay more because they would have to pay for the uniforms they wear. This is a misunderstood statement because by having uniforms, you would not have to buy clothes every day to wear to school. You go to school five days a week and so you would not need as many clothes as you did before you had uniforms. Also some students do not have the money to buy a lot of clothes so they would just wash their clothes overnight and wear it the next day. Students at school always bully and laugh at the person who does that. Some bad things about uniforms are that if you have them it could really compare people. If the school has uniforms, the students would be compared. If a girl is really fat and ugly and there is a girl who is really skinny and pretty, the fat girl would be bullied upon because she is fat. They could tease her of how the really skinny girl looks so pretty in the uniforms but the fat girl looks really UGLY AND FAT.

                A good point that people make to have no uniforms is that if there are no uniforms, they could express their style by what they wear. Students say that they should not have uniforms because they want to express their own style instead of having to wear the same clothes as everyone else. THE POINT THAT PARENTS MAKE is that if uniforms are not mandatory, students wear anything they want to. The bad part of wearing anything they want is that some girls wear inappropriate clothes. Some high school girls wear really short pants or shirts that show too much skin. Parents of younger ages DO NOT LIKE THIS because there was a time when one of a young student in elementary school went home and told his mom that he saw high school girl’s butts. This is a big reason why there should be uniforms, but if teachers prevent those girls from wearing really short pants and shirts then the school should not have uniforms. SIS should NOT have uniforms because there are no girls who wear shorts that show their butts and shirts that show their breasts.

PROMPT #19 "If I Could Bring Nack One Person From Dead, Who Would He or She Be and What Would I Serve For Dinner?"

      Today’s prompt is “If I Could Bring Back One Person From Dead, Who Would He or She be and What Would I Serve For Dinner?” If I could bring anyone I want from the dead, I would bring my grandpa. My grandma and grandpa on my mom’s side are both alive, but on my dad’s side, my grandpa passed away about three years ago, when I was in seventh grade. At the moment in seventh grade when I got the message delivered to me by my mom, I was not sad, but mad. I was at school, and as I was walking to P.E. class I saw my mom in the parking lot. I did not even THINK that she would tell me that my grandpa passed away. She came up to me and told me that grandpa had just pasted away. When I saw her face, it was bloated because she had cried so much. When I heard about the news, the first thing that came up to my mind was HALLOWEEN. In two days, it would be Halloween, and I had plans with my friends. We reserved a hotel room at World Resort, which is a water park in Saipan. My best friend, Sophia and I were going to stay there after the Halloween party at school. Now I think of it, I was so stubborn and stupid for thinking about Halloween and being sad that I would not be able to play when I should be worrying and mourning about my grandpa. Once I got to Korea, my mind changed entirely. I was really mad at myself for thinking of Halloween when I heard my grandpa passes away. I looked at my grandpa’s photo, and I started to regret about everything I thought. Even though I thought it to myself, I felt like I was so STUPID for even THINKING about Halloween when I should be thinking about my grandpa.

                My grandpa hurt his leg so he could not walk. There was an incident when I was a sixth grader when I was just standing and my grandpa threw a water bottle at my face. I cried that day, and my grandma told me that grandpa is just stressed and that she was sorry. I did not like that my grandma said sorry to me. My grandma had to help my grandpa with everything, and whenever I went to Korea for the summer, I was always mad of how my grandpa treated my grandma. My grandpa had diabetes so he was not allowed to eat sweets. The problem was that his favorite food was sweet things. My grandpa always called my grandma to bring him sweets, but my grandma always said no because it is really bad for him. I would really like my grandpa to come back to life, because first of all, I want to apologize to him. I want to apologize and explain how when he died I was only in seventh grade, and that I was really stubborn and dumb. As an apology, I want to make the most delicious dinner in the world for the day he comes back to life. I also want to call my grandma and my family so that they could see our grandpa. I would buy all the sweets and order yummy food and also make a lot of different kinds of food he liked to eat when he was alive. I MISS YOU GRANDPA !!!!!