8 Lessons to Live by:

1. Don't procrastinate because it's better to just get your work done and over with. 
2. Happiness does not only come with people you meet and things you do, but it comes within yourself. This is important to know because you don't need other things to make you happy, you can make yourself happy.
3. Smile. Be happy. Someone out there is having a worst day, so be happy of what you have.
4. Life is short, so don't waste your time.
5. Be your own person. Don't waste your time following other people's life, because YOUR life is short. Live your own way.
6. Trust your instincts. Believe in yourself, trust that you are right.
7. Let go of what you can't control. People and things will happen and do things that you can't control. Just breathe and forget.
8. Never stop believing in your dreams. When your dream dies so does a part of you. When your dream disappears so does a part of you. Don't Stop Believing.

"The Erne From the Coast" by T.O Beachcroft

Harry lives on a farm with his father, Mr. Thorburn and he is sent to go take care of the sheep for a night or two. While Harry is taking care of the sick lamb and big eagle swoops in and takes one of the sheep, and Harry tries to fight the eagle off but it unsuccessful. When Harry later returns to home telling his father what occurred, but his father doesn't believe Harry unless he shows proof. Harry goes back to the hut and once again the eagle comes back, but this time Harry is ready for the eagle. He carries the died eagle back to his farm showing his father, and finally winning his father's love.


Harry in the begginging of the story was weak and flimsy and didn't achieve his father's respect, but at the end of the story he completely transforms. He becomes strong inside and outside and finally wins his father's love and appreciation once and for all. When Harry was fighting back he was standing up for himself against his father, and when Harry was killing the eagle he gained self-worth by his father. Events and decisions have transformed Harry but also myself. Meeting new people, getting my appendix out, expanding friendships, traveling through rich and diverse cultures are events that changed me as a person. Seeing and expanding on things I've already learned, making mistakes and learning and growing from them. All theses events have a specific path that changes throughout my life depending on my decisions and what path my feet want to take.

Transforming our World

Technology has transformed the world by creating cures for illness, connecting people around the world, expanding our knowledge, expanded intertainment, and far more. Not everyone relizes how much technolgoy has helped the world transform. Cures, counteracting illnesses only because of technology. Communitcation spreading throughout the world no matter how far away you because of technology. Education and knowledge has spread as well creating the world a more rich and diverse atmosphere. Technology is a remarkable invenstion and it has transformed our world, so we can't take advantage of our fortune.

Past turned to Future

Most of my traits come from my father; steel blue eyes, dandelion hair as a child transferred with age to a subtle blond. My future reflecting his past. Both our hands stretching passed Italy; coming back to half of my roots. We are both adventurous, hard headed at times and creative. Most people say I look just like my father. So what do I have in common with my mother; our laughter, our smiles, our compassion both similar. I take after my father for more physical traits and for my mother I have more "inner" traits. My mother and I don't look anything alike, almost coming from completely different families. Dark brown almost a steady black and a subtle blond, both of these colors have barely anything in common, yet their related. My father and I have barely anything that is different.

Each relationship grows, becoming stronger but also changing. Both my relationship with my father and my mother have evolved. Even though we are always still the same person you can alway change. There are things that are always taken for granted, even if you don't realize. Parents take care of you, feed you, nurture you, even if you don't realize how much they do for you because they do this naturally. We have to appreciate everything and everyone because they or it might not be here one day, so let's not take for granted the things that are just given to us.