Dear Tombra,


           What I learned in this class is get thing in on time, work when I have the time and not at the last minute. Need to be more focus on school and stop talking to others when I have the work time. What I see in my writing I still need help on writing them to make since and stop having run on sentence. My favorite essay was the trip, my least one was chapters. What I will see improve spelling and the run on sentence, and doing it all the last minute.

hat i think about the essay

One of your first journals- I think this was a good one. Because you get to write about anything you wanted and  think you should keep this because I feel everybody enjoyed this essay.
Birthday paper- I didn’t really like this because this was a kinda hard one to write because we had to find a person or something that match your birthday and it just not the thing for me. Don’t have this essay again.
Theme Song- I kinda didn’t like this one either, to me I think its kinda not a good one about a theme song because everybody have different types of music. But as my opinion I think some people like it but me personal I didn’t like it.
Trip- This one was kinda my favorite. Because I basically just planned my own dream and I just love it. I think you should keep this one for sure.
Cartoon- This was a very very hard one that was a waste of my time
I really didn’t like this one because nothing funny as a cartoon for real. Never have this one again
American- This one is the same did not,like it at all its just stupid. of thinking about that is a American waste of people time. NEVER have this one again.
Crazy writing prompt- This one was not a very good one either is was some many things to choose and it was just hard to start the essay. I don’t think people would do this if you have this again. 

              
Stephanie Sharif
Ms. Tombre
competitions
9-6-12

My two best friends

Hello I am Stephanie Sharif and I am going to tell you how I lost my two best friends. When I was in middle school I was at East Grand Rapids middle school and they was brand new and I was really happy that I meet them first. In the beginning of the school year I would show them to their class and one of the girls named Katie Duffy we had almost all are classes together and the other female was Miah and we always ate lunch together when she don't have nobody to eat with. In those years Katie and Miah had meet new friends but still was my friend. By the time we got into 8th Miah told me that she was leaving and moving to Texas. Katie moved to Washington D.C with her dad and when they both told me on the first day I was mad and upset and heartbroken but they both gave me a gift and asked me to come over before they leave. This summer I saw Katie I thought i would not see her again she had came over and ask me to go to a concert with her and she already had the ticket so all I have to have is money to eat with and so I said yes I would that would be awesome. We had a good time at the fifth third ballpark and was long. After we had left we had went to McDonald's and ate good because at the park there food was so high that you can buy a whole outfit with it was so ridiculous. Till this day I am still in touch with my two best friends. Since I talk to them they been doing good and Miah had moved to Florida and she plays soccer and goes to school but she really don’t have to time to travel because her dad works and she works and play soccer and her mom had past away when she was up here and when I heard about that I wanted to cry because thats heartbroken, if not then what is. Katie always call me when anything wrong with her, family problem or friends, because I was the always there with her when she was going through a lot in middle school.




stephanie sharif
Mr.tombre
competitions
9-8-12

My Talent

Im going to tell you about my talent and how I stated. When I was a young girl I was started dance and when I got done with dance I did karate and after I went to tap, then gymnastics and tennis. When I was in dance I was 4 years old and I loved and I right know I am still a dancer and when I grow up I want to be a dance teacher in new york thats my dream just to go to New York and be a dance teacher and a fashion design. In dance I was having fun I had good friends that support others and when I left the want me back because I love doing solo dance and nobody wanted to do it so they will always call me and ask my mom would I do it and I always get happy when I have dance practices and the dance and competitions we always won. But lost only 1 dance competition and from this day and now I still want to do dance. I help my little sister dance. When anybody want to learn how to dance they come to me, just like Ms. Rupke always ask me to dance for her or help her or show her some moves. when I dance in the spirit assembly I am always scared but when I start its like nothing because everybody cheering. I love when everybody cheer when I dance.

When I started karate I was 7 yrs. old. I meet new people and I love having new friends and having fun with them. I really don't have a good story for it.

In gymnastic I was 9, I was in gymnastics with my cousin and when I got on stage 3 or 4, bad things such as hurting myself in the swinging bar and the chapulin, jumping bem. when  was swinging on the bars in the competitions meets I was on it and when I jump to the highest bar I fell and sprained my ankle and it hurted so bad I was trying over and over to get back up and try again but I couldn't because my ankle was hurting so bad. when found out that i sprained my ankle I was mad and I just quite gymnastics and went to track because i didn't want to wait till my ankle get better. next yr i just stared track because my ankle was better and i was just ready to run and see how i like track.

10 years old running track, when I first started i was like this is too much running but when i got into it I was just fast as I can be I didn't know i can run that fast so since then i just loved running and like going against old people to see how fast I am, what I need to do to fix my form and my arms. when are first track meet came it was the time to be focus and be real about everything and I did, I ran the 100 meter dash and the 200 meter dash and a relay. when I was at the starting line I was nervous and didn't know what to do I had to pee but some people say it make you run faster. so as I was running I was thinking that I was going to lose then I was just like can do it then I just went out my fullest and stright out my form and got first.

Stephanie Sharif
Ms.Tombrea
competitions
9-9-12




If you were to die today what would you like people to say about you?

If I died today i would them to say alot i would like them to say that i am a  helpful person ,hard worker and love to dance and love to meet new people and i am always there for people if they need help i am a funny person and care alot  about other people. i want them to tell people about what i did to make them proud such as, when i made madison happy when she was going through a hard time and going through alot with her life. really i just make people life better and make their day. Everytime I walk in the class and sit down and just be funny and laugh at stuff and when I do that they always tell me that I make there day so i just take that very good way and just say I did awl thank you and just  start  loving myself .

Stephanie Sharif
September 20th 2012
Mrs. Tombrea
7th Hr.

November 2nd

I was born on November 2nd, 1995, in Spectrum Health Hospital, downtown in the inner city of Grand Rapids. When I was born, I weighed 5 pounds, 4 ounces, and was 17 inches long. I came home to a Mother, a Father and four big sisters at the time. My mother, Angela, picked out my name to be stephanie Rayvonne Sharif. She thought it would be a nice name for a Beautiful baby girl. My Nickname is Tug, its unique to me because when i was a baby, I was plump, and my aunt Renee, said that i looked like a plump juicy bug. Tug was another word that rhymed with bug, so it went perfect with that analogy.

One of my favorite songwriters and singers share their birthday with me. Nelly was born on November 2nd 1974. some songs by him that I enjoy listening to are: Air Force Ones, and , It’s Hot in Here, Gone Featuring Kelly Rowland. Nelly is a singer, songwriter, actor and dancer. Some movies that his music was featured on are: Love Don’t Cost a Thing, Soul Plane, Little Man, Bad Boys II, and Are We There Yet?. My favorite movie of these is Love Don’t Cost a Thing, Mainly because it shows that True love can’t be bought, based of the 1987 movie, Can’t Buy Me Love.

In the year 1995, in which i was born, a movie by the name of Toy Story came out. To this day, I still enjoy watching this movie about how two toys came together to be best friends. it reminds me of everyday life, telling me that even though i may be jealous of someone from what i see on the outside, i don't know yet what's on the inside, teaching me ultimately to make new friends, and like the late Dr. Martin Luther King, not to “Judge a Book by it’s Cover”.  

overall, the year 1995 was crucial part of my life, that i  have been fortunate enough to have this far, and my birthday, November second, 1995, will always play a role, in my ongoing life. It marks another year, but more long, years ahead in life.

                  
Stephanie Sharif
Ms. Tombre   
competitions
9-6-12

                   

                                                            
                                                                         My two best friends     

 Hello I am Stephanie Sharif and I am going to tell you how I lost my two best friends. When I was in middle school I was at East Grand Rapids middle school and they was brand new and I was really happy that I meet them first. In the beginning of the school year I would show jonna and betty  their classes and one of the girls named Katie Duffy we had almost all are classes together and the other female was Miah and we always ate lunch together when she didn't have anyone to eat with. In those years Katie and Miah had meet new friends but still was my friend. By the time we got into 8th Miah told me that she was leaving and moving to Texas. Then Katie moved to Washington D.C with her dad and when they both told me on the first day I was mad, upset and heartbroken but they both gave me a gift and asked me to come over before they left.
This summer I saw Katie I thought i would not see her again she had came over and ask me to go to a concert with her and she already had the ticket so all I have to have is money to eat with so I said yes I would that would be awesome. We had a good time at the fifth third ballpark and was long. After we had left we went to McDonald's and ate good because at the park the food was so expensive that u can buy a whole outfit with it was so ridiculous. Till this day I am still in touch with my two best friends. Since I talk to them they been doing good and Miah had moved to Florida and she plays soccer and goes to school but she really don’t have to time to travel because her dad works and she works and play soccer and her mom had past away when she was up here and when I heard about that I wanted to cry because that’s breaks my heart.Katie always call me when anything wrong with her, family problem or friends, because I was the always there with her when she was going through a lot in middle school.
   

                    26 sentence

A place where grew I up in was a very big city in Texas. Before I moved there I stayed in a small city with no friends in a lonely quiet place. Country town is where I was I did not have no school to go to nothing to eat. Down the street from me was a farm but it was dry and nothing was growing. Even when it rains all the ground does is dry back up, we didn't have anything no water,we barely took showers or baths we just had to go was we had, which was a glass of water they we will have to last for the whole family which it was only 3 of us and we only had to sip if we was really really thirsty.  For the rest of the week we only had a tench bit left and it was just heartbroken we didn't even know what to do. Going a whole week without eating or barely drinking was really hard all we wanted to just all die and come back alive in a different world or a new family. However we come to the end will just happen I just can't believe that we living like this. I just love when my own family say ¨we gonna die¨. Just one day we're going to prove people wrong that we can survive with the amount we have to live. Kangaroos be jumping around where I stay and when they jump around we always try to get them and eat them for dinner and lunch and more. Looping the animal around with legs are very hard to get the skin off the animal. Moving this big animal is a lot of work. Nobody wants to help but when its they want to eat. Only when I get a small animal they want to help. People love taking over things my family when it becomes food, ask me I don't really know why they do that. Quite people in my home are really sad and wish they had friends and wish they can meet new people in are family. Real people in are house are very use to all the non eating and drinking. Some people walk down are street and just stare at us and never offer us anything. True feeling in my home are shown very good it so loud in the house because everybody having a hard life and my mom is pregnant and she need to feed both. Us? are family needs help. Violence is not the answer to anybody i seen too much of it with my own mom and dad. While I go out and look for food everybody sits on there butt like they're not hungry and it really kills me when they do that because it seems like I am the only one that want to keep living. Xavier is my lil brother he sometimes come out and help me find food.Young people that just stare at us kills me because I really don't want people to see us like this because once I get older and the world get better I would love to be friends with people like them that dress nice and eat good meals. Zebras are now running around the thing is i love them and its kinda hard to shoot them to eat them, so my brother tells me to but i cry and take him somewhere and tell him why i don't shoot them.

stephanie sharif



                    Trip with 5,000 to New York

December  28 me and my future husband are going to New York time square to see the ball drop. The reason why I want to go to New York is because that’s been my dream to go there and I still haven't gone there. Plus I want to go to new york for school to be a cosmetology and a dance teacher everyday I hear about dancers in new york and I want to go there so I can learn about it and take some lesson and see how really good they are. the reason why I want to take my boyfriend  because his birthday is Dec. 27 and he never been out of the state and I just want to do him a big gift because he does so much for me. So December 28 we going to leave at 6:00 am in the morning so we can get there in the middle of the day so it won't be so dark but i'm thinking it would be better to get there at night because I want to see the lights light up at night downtown. we're going to find a hotel down town new york, stay there for a 1 or 2 or a couple days its whenever we want to go home. But i'm thinking we can just move there and just live are life but its hard to just move there without knowing anybody. when we get to the destination we will check in the a hotel that is called paramount hotel and the price was $534.65 for the whole week.after we get are room key and get settle we will go outside and go shopping I always wanted to go to these store in New York city which are called Aerosoles,Anne Fontaine,Bally Brighton Collectibles,Etro. When we was walking in the city everyone was asking questions and like where are we from and everything. we met new people, found out thing that we didn't know and we found out. In them one weeks we did everything we went to the new years ball drop area on December 31, 2012 and we got after parties tickets for 75$ after the show till 4am in the morning. We going to have so much fun because both like to party hard but we can't because we are new and don't party to hard. After we had a blast at time square we went back the the hotel and got in the pool. so far we got one more day in new york and we went out to eat and just relax so we can get up and get back in town.

               




                       


Dear Tombre,
   

What I want for Christmas is ¨MY LIFE TO START OVER¨  if you ask me why I want to do that, because I just want a new life I been through so much everything is just so hard for me some people think I’m not trying I’m trying so hard because I want to grow up and go to college and live my dream but I can't because I struggle to mush in school and I think if I struggle in school I’m going to struggle in life. some people say I am a very bright smiling smart girl but deep deep inside its a lot a pain. As I still grow up I always think nobody likes me because the way I am, and act. My sister told me she hate the way I act in public because I don't know how to act when I go out because I never get to do anything because my mom don’t want the stuff that happen to her happen to us. But I told her we not her and she said but she don't like the streets and I just shake my head like what do we suppose to do when we on are own.

The other day my cousin said she hate being black because where she live on top of Gods kitchen and all she see is homeless people and people going crazy and she just want to be white I cried and she only 6 years old and when she said that that made me feel the same thing so I sat down with her and talk to her about what she just said. But as I think about I feel the same way sometimes because when I am in U.S history we are learning about slaves and how they use to talk to the blacks and Washington  trying to get them right with the black and the whites but I just don't get why don't the whites like the black and if it was not for martin Luther king it won't be this or I won't be in this school and learning and going out in public getting called out my name and getting bully by the whites and don't want to drink out a black only fountain.

When I go around I just be looking at people that say they races but I don't get it because they been over and so long ago and I just don't understand why people are and how the treat them, when my brother had a white girlfriend her mom was races but she wasn't so when Earl meet her mom she told him i don't want my child to be around black people earl took that to the heart but he love white people me too I don't see what wrong with black and white together we all do the same thing and blacks may be bad but they just don't see the whites out here acting up the same way the blacks do mostly old white men are on the news about rapping and killing like travon martin thing terribly I want them to go back and see what martin Luther king did for us and plenty more people did for the black and white.

Stephanie Sharif
Ms.Tombra 7th hr
11-29-12




            why don't people like eating in the cafe?



        Tell you the truth nobody likes it I kinda don't like it only sometimes because it just be wet sometimes and so good but people don't like the cafe because some people goes in the library to do homework or just hate the smell and sometimes it just be to pack up in there I hate it sometimes but I sometimes love there food but the only this that getting bad is everything is wheat and turkey they must not see this body I don't need to loose anything else. Some people stop eating in there because of that and I would too but I love their fruit and I can eat fruit till I die I just love the fruit there and its healthy and the other thing is everybody love their salad but they just need to step up the white stuff and not the wheat bread and turkey. Students got jobs and babysitting jobs and they just go out and buy their lunch and don't come back and sometimes people drive and go home but at the end of the year people never come in the lunchroom. my friend ask me why i eat the school lunch i said well its good some people just say its nasty because they are use to it and and good when it became the real food like the soup i don't think they change that but because it too goo i think. i mean i we been eating the school lunch when we was very lil in middle school and elementrly so i dont really know why people cuplaine i mean what if we didnt have the off campus lunch then what will people do eat there lunch or the school lunch or nothing because the school lunch was nasty and they didn't pack a cold lunch. some people gotta think we do this for the students i mean there other kids that are out here homeless can eat it or they can just stop cooking for us if they stop being too rude and just keep stuff to there face.

                  
   



       
                                                                          life story

    In my early age when I was a young girl, I Was taken when I was 2 days old and I moved to a home with my sister. I am happy that I Moved in with her because I didn't move in with my mother's sister and brothers it was just me and her. I did not know that I Was a adopted until I Keep asking my mom was she eating a lot of hot sauce with me, because I eat hot sauce on everything. When she told me that I was adopted I was shocked and I ask what was that and she told me since then I been thinking about how did I get taken and she told me and she said because,your real mom was on drugs and she didn’t have no home or anything and I was the youngest then and she told me that I have 8 older brother and sisters and one on the way.

Since then I just been trying to find all my sisters and brothers and my mother and father and I found them because of my older sister told me about her. As I grew up I been with a good family and better life sometimes but as  older I just been like I don’t like my life and I hate this and that or I don't like this house or I want my real family or mom and I can't say dad because he been in jail since I was 3. When I was growing up I been getting tested for brain and been on a couple on medicine but they can't find out what's wrong with me but I think it's from my real mom that did drugs with me and I am the only one that effect me and did drugs with and my younger brother that was born after me.

When I was in 5th grade I was new at wealthy elementary, I came from vista academy because I always used to get in trouble at that school but I had to change they way I was acting when I got into east I thought nobody was going to talk to me and it will be just like the other schools I went to but I didn’t everybody was asking me quotations and where I was from and I was just shy and I'm am still shy, but when I'm talking in front of the class.

If I am in the crowed then I can be loud as ever because they really don’t know who it is. In elementary my first friend was Sierra Castle berry. How I met her was we was at recess and we was lining up to go back inside and she was in a different class as me and I had got something out her hair and she looks at me and she asks me if I was new and I said yes I am and she told me her name, I told her mine and since then she been coming up to me asking me to play with her and we use to argue everyday then she gets her dad and mom in it and it won't even be that serious to do all of that but she still does that till this day but I still love her. When we was in middle school we was BFF still and we ran track together and me and her was the fastest in are grade and we was in a relay together. but when we got in high school Fionna be a junior she had moved and it was the end of that. when I finish high school and graduated want to move to new york and go to school there. I want to be a cosmetologist and a fashion design because everybody say I can dress and do hair and nails and I would like to be a dance teacher and have my own business.

Stephanie Sharif
Ms.tom bra 7th
Nov. 26 2012
                                                         

 My Talent

I am Talent, I am talent with dancing and playing sports,hair,nails. How I start doing all this talent is by watching people doing nails and hair in the salon one day my mom brought me a doll with just the head and I just started to try whoever she did to my sister hair or her client hair. When I started doing hair I started to do nails because every time my mom go to the nail shop I always want to go to watch how they put the nail stuff on and take notes. When Christmas came around I knew exactly what I wanted. When she asked me I said a nail set and hair supplies and the Christmas morning I was hoping she got it and she did I got every color nail polish, fake nails, etc. I was so happy that she told Santa that's what I wanted. Yes I do still believe in Santa, because my mom told me when I was younger that if you don't believe in Santa then he not gonna give u any present. so I believe in him and his little elves. I always want to ask Santa a lot of questions like where his elves sleep? who cook and feed them? Do they ever go on break? What happen if something happen to them? How does his reindeer fly? how they don't get tired by make all them stops to are house and how he don't get full off the cookies and milk? I wonder if I'm short enough to work with him?

In New York has been my dream to go there to get my stuff done that I want to be its going to take me awhile to get everything done what I wanted to be and move around and have a job and plenty more stuff to do and vita my mother brother and father and sisters and everybody else and come here for holidays some people tell me that it is so hard for them for the first two years because you have to get everything and the dorms and books and plenty more stuff so I really don't want to go but then I do want to go to see how it really is but I hope I get in where I want to go for the longest . I hope it just come true for me and I do good in this last two year.