The power of one was a pretty good film. The film honestly taught us that one human being can make a really big difference. PK, the main character in the film starts off as a little boy. He is forced to go to school with English people because they don’t have enough money to pay for another school.. Since he is the only white African there of course he would get picked on. So he does and he gets spit on, his nickname is now “Piss Kup”, and they even killed his best friend and his protector the chicken. Since world war was going on at that time, some English kids even wanted to be part of the war and become a Nazi. Since he was the only white African he was almost killed but he was severely injured.
He finds a man named”Doc” and decides to live with him. Doc teaches PK a lot of new interesting facts about the wild life, especially plants. Best part about living with Doc was that PK learned how to play the piano since Doc is a musician. When PK and Doc are forced out of their home and to a settlement where they kept some African American people, PK makes a new friend named Geel Piet. Piet teaches Pk how to box for self defense. Doc plays a concert and PK writes a song about the African People expressing their feelings about guards and that cause Piet’s life. The way the officer or sergeant beat up Piet was just horrible and was unnecessary.
Christmas is right around the corner! Since I am Mexican-American we still celebrate Christmas. I love this holiday and part of Mexican tradition we have parties from December 16 to December 24 called “Posadas”. These are parties Symbolizing Mary and Joseph before they could find shelter or a home to give birth to Jesus. We always celebrate them with our family but for some odd reason we didn’t this year. We did this tradition last year and we went to different house every day for nine days. It’s like a regular party there’s cake, food, drinks and we play and hangout with our family but at night when its around an hour or so before the party is over the whole family is outside and we sing songs next to some of the windows on the lower level of the house. We would do this for every “Posada” we go to.
Thanksgiving is normal; we eat, get fat, exercise to burn off the pounds and we do it again next year. Every year we are invited to a party to express gratitude to family, friends and loved ones. This year wasn’t so fun because we were invited to my uncle Oscars house and all my annoying cousins were there. I tried to make the best of it by playing my cousins WII and playing guitar hero. The food wasn’t all that great because the turkey was really dry and the buns were burned. In the end this Thanksgiving was pretty good and I had a chance to watch Star Trek but I didn’t have chance to finish the movie.
“5-4-3-2-1 Happy New Year!” 2009 is gone and 2010 is the time for a fresh start. My friend slept over on New Year ’s Eve and when the time hit twelve o’clock we went crazy and started to jump around and give each other high fives every two seconds. We were watching MTV at that moment I run to my room and give my little brother a big hug until and I told him “Happy new year” and he was confused not knowing what was going on. Anyways continuing I go downstairs and give my dad a big hug and then my mother and then my relatives that came over to feast with us. After ten minutes 2010 came I didn’t have that one feeling when the New Year comes by.
I’m not going to say 2009 was a bad year but I expected to be better. I went to high school and I had flashbacks of all the good friends I lost from eight grade. This summer was pretty boring also and The Stevenson Freshman football team wasn’t the best team in the world but I did love the experience as my first year of a football player. I also can’t believe I was single for the whole year of 2009. That was a good thing but at some points I ask myself “why am I still single?” I look forward to a great successful year by achieving good grades, making new friends, not to be in too much trouble and making the good choices not the bad choices.
