Dear Mr. Mattern,
I think that my writing has gotten better because before I took this class it was hard for me to come up a topic for a paper. Now it isn't hard at all. I can sit down and think just for a few moments and the I havea topic for that paper and I'm getting used to writing. I have gotten better at writing because I know how to make things flow better and I can get papers done pretty easy.I feel that my writing for papers is also getting better because I feel good about writing now because it is coming easier to me. When i sit down I can do some of the exercises that we talked about in class and then I can get the papers done without a problem anymore. When i go to write more papers for classes down the road, I won't feel scared or worried that this paper is bad and second guessing myself about my writing. It won't be a task for me to write a paper anymore.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Narritive Paper
Matt Feldott
The Worst Holiday Ever
The worst holiday ever started out like any holiday. It was in the winter of 2001. My family and I were getting ready to move into our new house in Yorkville and we knew the time of the season wouldn’t give any good weather. So we had other member of our family and some of our friends helping us move our stuff from one house to another. But let me go back and tell you how this really started to be the worst holiday ever.
It started at thanksgiving with the death of my grandpa. My grandparents had just come home from visiting my aunt in Pennsylvania, when my grandpa had to be admitted into the hospital for kidney failure. We went to visit him for a few days and my dad, my grandma, and my other aunt would take turns going up to the hospital and staying with him. Unfortunately a few days after being admitted into the hospital he died of kidney failure two days before thanksgiving. We had the funeral the day after thanksgiving but it is hard to celebrate the giving of thanks anymore without asking why god took away one of the best family members, who loved thanksgiving.
Now back to December, the month that never ended. We started moving things into our new house on December 14. During the move my cousin and my dad were carrying some furniture upstairs to one of the bedrooms, when my cousin lost his footing and fell back down the stairs from the top. So this halted the moving process so that we could take him to the hospital. My family and I spent a lot of time in the hospital that year. We found out that my cousin had a broken arm and crack ribs from falling down the stairs. Now we were faced with a dilemma, we couldn’t have Christmas at our house like usual because we didn’t have everything moved into the new house yet and my uncle’s house, which we were living in at the time because our original house had been sold and we had to move out of, wasn’t big enough for all the people. What were we to do? Well it wasn’t until about the 20th of the month that we had finally got most of the big furniture moved into the house, with the help of other family members and friends. So we have most of our stuff moved in the house but then we realized something was wrong. When the builders built our house they were in such a hurry they forgot to finish the basement off! We had gravel floors, and garbage galore in our basement. So we had to cover our furniture with sheets and blankets and move back out until the basement could be done.
Now things start to get interesting because we have a house that isn’t done, we are living back at my uncle’s house and no one knows what we are going to do about Christmas this year. We were the only ones in the family that had a big enough house to have it every year. This was the holiday from you know where. Well my aunt, which lives around here, started calling around to places that we could rent out for our Christmas party and at the time it seemed like it would be a good idea. Boy were we wrong. Every place that she called had been booked months before because of the holiday rush. So here we are again no place to have Christmas and our new house still isn’t done because the workers are going on holiday break for a week.
So what to do for Christmas, well we decided that this holiday season wasn’t a good one to start because of what happened at thanksgiving. But wait there’s a gleam of hope on the horizon. One place still had a party room available. YEAH! Christmas after all. So my aunt booked us the room and when we asked her where this was she said a place in Naperville by where she lived. So we wake up on Christmas day and do the present thing with my parents, my uncle and I and then at about noon we are supposed to go over to the place that my aunt got for our party room. The one thing my aunt forgot to mention was that the reason they had this room open so late before Christmas is because there was a wedding that had occurred there about four or five weeks prior to us needed the room. Well at that wedding during one of the dances a little kid fell down and got stepped on by people who were dancing and now we found out the reason why they needed business. The little kid fell down and got stepped on like I said before but after they pick him up he became ill. Then another little kid became ill and then another. Then one of the adults at the wedding became ill and a lot of people at the wedding became ill all over the place. So the building had to go through a massive cleanup effort to get the hall ready for any other parties. They had to revarnish the dance floor, cleaned the carpets about three or four times, and do more cleaning of the room. Ok so they cut the price of the room for us, which was good but my mom still felt as if something was wrong and mother intuition kicked in. We probably should have listened to her when she said something else is wrong. As we are having our family Christmas party, we start to see people showing up that we had never met before. More and more people just kept coming and why couldn’t figure out who these people were or how we are related to them. The reason why we couldn’t figure this out is because they weren’t part of our family. The party had booked two Christmas parties for the same day and didn’t think anyone would notice. So we spent our holiday with a completely strange family. Then a few days after Christmas we found out that our basement had been finished and we could move all the rest of our things into our house.
Now we are coming up on the New Year and my family decided that we would have a family party at our new house to show people the new house and other fun stuff like that. So we planned the party and everyone started coming over and then we had the party. We had about 30 people at our house and 15 of them stayed the night because of the weather and other reasons. All and all we had bad holiday that year but it ended on a good note.
The Worst Holiday Ever
The worst holiday ever started out like any holiday. It was in the winter of 2001. My family and I were getting ready to move into our new house in Yorkville and we knew the time of the season wouldn’t give any good weather. So we had other member of our family and some of our friends helping us move our stuff from one house to another. But let me go back and tell you how this really started to be the worst holiday ever.
It started at thanksgiving with the death of my grandpa. My grandparents had just come home from visiting my aunt in Pennsylvania, when my grandpa had to be admitted into the hospital for kidney failure. We went to visit him for a few days and my dad, my grandma, and my other aunt would take turns going up to the hospital and staying with him. Unfortunately a few days after being admitted into the hospital he died of kidney failure two days before thanksgiving. We had the funeral the day after thanksgiving but it is hard to celebrate the giving of thanks anymore without asking why god took away one of the best family members, who loved thanksgiving.
Now back to December, the month that never ended. We started moving things into our new house on December 14. During the move my cousin and my dad were carrying some furniture upstairs to one of the bedrooms, when my cousin lost his footing and fell back down the stairs from the top. So this halted the moving process so that we could take him to the hospital. My family and I spent a lot of time in the hospital that year. We found out that my cousin had a broken arm and crack ribs from falling down the stairs. Now we were faced with a dilemma, we couldn’t have Christmas at our house like usual because we didn’t have everything moved into the new house yet and my uncle’s house, which we were living in at the time because our original house had been sold and we had to move out of, wasn’t big enough for all the people. What were we to do? Well it wasn’t until about the 20th of the month that we had finally got most of the big furniture moved into the house, with the help of other family members and friends. So we have most of our stuff moved in the house but then we realized something was wrong. When the builders built our house they were in such a hurry they forgot to finish the basement off! We had gravel floors, and garbage galore in our basement. So we had to cover our furniture with sheets and blankets and move back out until the basement could be done.
Now things start to get interesting because we have a house that isn’t done, we are living back at my uncle’s house and no one knows what we are going to do about Christmas this year. We were the only ones in the family that had a big enough house to have it every year. This was the holiday from you know where. Well my aunt, which lives around here, started calling around to places that we could rent out for our Christmas party and at the time it seemed like it would be a good idea. Boy were we wrong. Every place that she called had been booked months before because of the holiday rush. So here we are again no place to have Christmas and our new house still isn’t done because the workers are going on holiday break for a week.
So what to do for Christmas, well we decided that this holiday season wasn’t a good one to start because of what happened at thanksgiving. But wait there’s a gleam of hope on the horizon. One place still had a party room available. YEAH! Christmas after all. So my aunt booked us the room and when we asked her where this was she said a place in Naperville by where she lived. So we wake up on Christmas day and do the present thing with my parents, my uncle and I and then at about noon we are supposed to go over to the place that my aunt got for our party room. The one thing my aunt forgot to mention was that the reason they had this room open so late before Christmas is because there was a wedding that had occurred there about four or five weeks prior to us needed the room. Well at that wedding during one of the dances a little kid fell down and got stepped on by people who were dancing and now we found out the reason why they needed business. The little kid fell down and got stepped on like I said before but after they pick him up he became ill. Then another little kid became ill and then another. Then one of the adults at the wedding became ill and a lot of people at the wedding became ill all over the place. So the building had to go through a massive cleanup effort to get the hall ready for any other parties. They had to revarnish the dance floor, cleaned the carpets about three or four times, and do more cleaning of the room. Ok so they cut the price of the room for us, which was good but my mom still felt as if something was wrong and mother intuition kicked in. We probably should have listened to her when she said something else is wrong. As we are having our family Christmas party, we start to see people showing up that we had never met before. More and more people just kept coming and why couldn’t figure out who these people were or how we are related to them. The reason why we couldn’t figure this out is because they weren’t part of our family. The party had booked two Christmas parties for the same day and didn’t think anyone would notice. So we spent our holiday with a completely strange family. Then a few days after Christmas we found out that our basement had been finished and we could move all the rest of our things into our house.
Now we are coming up on the New Year and my family decided that we would have a family party at our new house to show people the new house and other fun stuff like that. So we planned the party and everyone started coming over and then we had the party. We had about 30 people at our house and 15 of them stayed the night because of the weather and other reasons. All and all we had bad holiday that year but it ended on a good note.
Description Paper
Matt Feldott
My Father
My father has always been there for me through the thick and thin. I want to give just a little insight about my dad. He works as a mechanic for West Aurora and has been for over 20 years. He is a great husband, father and roll model. It all started when he started coaching basketball for the YMCA little dribblers. Ever since that day he has been there in sports, scouts and anything else that I am involved in. He was a basketball, football, soccer and baseball coach and he was also an assistant Cub Scout and Boy Scout leader for the troops I was in. Even though I don’t play anymore he and I still sit and watch games on TV and we will talk about the Bears or Cubs and about what we here on the news.
He has been coaching for a long time. He started with basketball and then a few years later he became a football coach for the Aurora Youth Tackle Football. He then became the man in charge of the league and he did that for 6 years. After that he became the offensive and defensive line coach at Holy Angels Grade/Middle School for 2 years. He also coached basketball there for 4 years and he was the track discuss coach for 2 years. Not only was he a coach but he also was an assistant Cub and Boy Scout leader for 13 years. In scouting he was a multie merit badge counselor.
He not only is a great coach but he is also a great father. He helps when someone in our family is sick or hurt. He was there when my mom had to have surgery; he took off of work just so he could stay home with her and help her to get better. He helps when someone is having a bad day. He will listen to them and try and give them some advice if they ask. He shares his knowledge about car problems and other things to people that might not know what is wrong and he share a little more insight on things that they do know. He helps our family and friends when there is something wrong with there vehicle because he is a mechanic and he knows what he is talking about.
He is the best father and husband we could ask for and we would never ask for someone else, no matter how frustrated we get, because he is there when we need help and he also helps others that need it whether at work or wherever he is. My father is the man I want to be when I get older and I hope that I can be just like him.
My Father
My father has always been there for me through the thick and thin. I want to give just a little insight about my dad. He works as a mechanic for West Aurora and has been for over 20 years. He is a great husband, father and roll model. It all started when he started coaching basketball for the YMCA little dribblers. Ever since that day he has been there in sports, scouts and anything else that I am involved in. He was a basketball, football, soccer and baseball coach and he was also an assistant Cub Scout and Boy Scout leader for the troops I was in. Even though I don’t play anymore he and I still sit and watch games on TV and we will talk about the Bears or Cubs and about what we here on the news.
He has been coaching for a long time. He started with basketball and then a few years later he became a football coach for the Aurora Youth Tackle Football. He then became the man in charge of the league and he did that for 6 years. After that he became the offensive and defensive line coach at Holy Angels Grade/Middle School for 2 years. He also coached basketball there for 4 years and he was the track discuss coach for 2 years. Not only was he a coach but he also was an assistant Cub and Boy Scout leader for 13 years. In scouting he was a multie merit badge counselor.
He not only is a great coach but he is also a great father. He helps when someone in our family is sick or hurt. He was there when my mom had to have surgery; he took off of work just so he could stay home with her and help her to get better. He helps when someone is having a bad day. He will listen to them and try and give them some advice if they ask. He shares his knowledge about car problems and other things to people that might not know what is wrong and he share a little more insight on things that they do know. He helps our family and friends when there is something wrong with there vehicle because he is a mechanic and he knows what he is talking about.
He is the best father and husband we could ask for and we would never ask for someone else, no matter how frustrated we get, because he is there when we need help and he also helps others that need it whether at work or wherever he is. My father is the man I want to be when I get older and I hope that I can be just like him.
Definition Paper
Matt Feldott
I define friendship as a person you can trust and rely on in a bad situation. One main thing I look at for a good friend is if I can tell them something and know that they won’t tell anyone about it. A good friendship starts by meeting new people and telling them a small secret. The ones that go and tell other people that small secret aren’t going to be your true friend.
To be able to show good friendship you need to meet at least three requirements. The first is being there for your friend. This means that if they need your help with something you won’t give them bad advice; you would point them in the right direction. There was one time I remember that I asked a friend for help and they left me hanging. They gave me bad advice and because I thought they were a good friend to me I took it and then got in a lot of trouble. The second thing is that you should be able to come and help them out in a time of need. That doesn’t mean you have to bail them out of jail at three in the morning, but to be there when it matters. You should be someone they can count on and rely on if they needed something. Like taking them home from school. If a friend asks for a ride you should give it to them; don’t say yea sure and then leave them standing there. The third thing is to hang out with them when you make plans. Now that doesn’t mean they are the only ones you can do things with, but if you say you will do something don’t just drop them for something better. A good example of this is if you have a girlfriend that you haven’t seen for a while and she calls and says she wants you to come over but you already have plans with your friend, go with your friend don’t ditch him to hang out with your girlfriend because friend are friends forever, girlfriends change over time.
If you can follow these three steps then you will make a good friend to someone and being there for them means that they will be there for you also. Just remember that a good friend looks out for the ones they like and drops the ones they don’t. If you can stay away from that then people will love for you to be there friend
I define friendship as a person you can trust and rely on in a bad situation. One main thing I look at for a good friend is if I can tell them something and know that they won’t tell anyone about it. A good friendship starts by meeting new people and telling them a small secret. The ones that go and tell other people that small secret aren’t going to be your true friend.
To be able to show good friendship you need to meet at least three requirements. The first is being there for your friend. This means that if they need your help with something you won’t give them bad advice; you would point them in the right direction. There was one time I remember that I asked a friend for help and they left me hanging. They gave me bad advice and because I thought they were a good friend to me I took it and then got in a lot of trouble. The second thing is that you should be able to come and help them out in a time of need. That doesn’t mean you have to bail them out of jail at three in the morning, but to be there when it matters. You should be someone they can count on and rely on if they needed something. Like taking them home from school. If a friend asks for a ride you should give it to them; don’t say yea sure and then leave them standing there. The third thing is to hang out with them when you make plans. Now that doesn’t mean they are the only ones you can do things with, but if you say you will do something don’t just drop them for something better. A good example of this is if you have a girlfriend that you haven’t seen for a while and she calls and says she wants you to come over but you already have plans with your friend, go with your friend don’t ditch him to hang out with your girlfriend because friend are friends forever, girlfriends change over time.
If you can follow these three steps then you will make a good friend to someone and being there for them means that they will be there for you also. Just remember that a good friend looks out for the ones they like and drops the ones they don’t. If you can stay away from that then people will love for you to be there friend
What is the best Christmas present?
what do u think is the best christmas present? If you asked a child then they would say that what ever you want for christmas. an adult's version will be defenatly different. An adult's version is something that isn't toys it could be new tires for a vehicle or something for your house. I think the best gift isn't the that you get but the one that you give to someone. Just the look on there face is a good gift to get from a person. Now everyone can have there own version of the best gift.
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Can't wait for xmas break
This is one of my most favorite times of the year because you get to see all the decorations that people put up plus you get to decorate your own house. It is also hecktic time of the year because you are trying to get all the presents and trying to get the food for the party that you or a family member that might be having. All and all this time of year is a good one. Another thing that I like about this time of the year is the presents that you get. When we were all little we couldn't wait to go to where ever you had a tree in your house and then sit down with your parents or whoever you lived with and sit down and open all your presents. Then later on that day you help get things ready to go somewhere or have a party at your house and after the family comes you get to play with all your new presents.
The second best reason is because you are all done with school and you don't have to worry about getting your homework done or having a school project that you have to work on. It is also a good relaxation time period from school, depending on what level of school you are in. For instance, if you are in college then you get a whole month off before you start your new classes so you could work at your job a little more to earn some extra money. Some people go on vacation or just get away from doing much of anything. These people just lay around hang out do whatever they want without having to worry about getting school work done. These are just a few reasons for why this is going to be a good time of year to just take a break. Everyone will have different reasons on why or what they do over the break.
The second best reason is because you are all done with school and you don't have to worry about getting your homework done or having a school project that you have to work on. It is also a good relaxation time period from school, depending on what level of school you are in. For instance, if you are in college then you get a whole month off before you start your new classes so you could work at your job a little more to earn some extra money. Some people go on vacation or just get away from doing much of anything. These people just lay around hang out do whatever they want without having to worry about getting school work done. These are just a few reasons for why this is going to be a good time of year to just take a break. Everyone will have different reasons on why or what they do over the break.
Thursday, November 8, 2007
This is going to be kind of a random post because i don't know what to put in here for a journal. I don't really like these journals because I don't ever have time to put up a journal entry. I know that most people say well I can put up entries and I work or I go to school same as you do but I just don't like writing these journals down and it does get a little hard with my other class work. This kind of gets put on the backburner and then by the time I remember it is the day it is due and then I get points taken off because of it. If I had to choose I would like to not have to do journal entries.
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