Chipotle Kobe

My food memory would have to be the first time I had shrimp tacos. They were so good I remember telling my Dad like "shrimp tacos that's nasty" that was before I had my first one. The first time I had was like April and I didn't want to eat but I just took a bite and it was so good. It felt like I was in taco heaven, but there is no taco heaven. If it was a taco heaven shrimp tacos would go before any kind of tacos. It wouldn't matter if it was stake or beef shrimp tacos to me hands down are the best. I have to have it at least like 2 times every other week at my house. It's just so good I don' care people say about my shrimp tacos. Everybody on this earth needs to try shrimp tacos because they are life. If you try it you will love it forever because they are just so good.  

LaCocos Pizza

Ive always loved pizza, pizza is just so good ! Once in a while I eat pizza because I use to like eating Pizza everyday my Dad was starting to think I was getting a little too crazy with Pizza. I usually like eating Pizza from Pizza Nova, Papa Johns, Pizza Hut, Little Ceasers, Dominos they are all good but I mostly order Pizza from Dominos and Pizza Nova in my opinion they got really deliocus Pizza. One day my Sister got back home from her friends house, she walked into the room and she said omg I just ate this really deliocus Pizza! and I said "Oh really where did u go? " I was a bit jealous because she got to eat Pizza and I didn't, so she said " I went to this Pizzeria called LaCocos with my friend" and I asked " What? Where is that at?" she said " It's on 47th Street, we should go there tomorrow with Dad and Pico" I said " Okay that pizza better be good". The Next following day in the afternoon around 6pm we all decided to go to LaCocos Pizzeria, so we all go in the car and drove to LaCocos it wasnt that far from our house it seemed close to us. Soon as we got to the Pizzeria I told my sister " This Pizza better be delicious!" she said " Don't worry your going to love the Pizza". The Pizzeria place looked like a bar from the outside, we walked into the Pizzeria there was a bar inside but were allowed to go because it was a Pizzeria Restaurant and a bar. We sat on a table, the waiter came to our table and put the menus on the table, she asked what would we like to drink, the 4 of asked for Sprite. The Pizza looked so good on the menu, they had wings, pastas, etc. We decided to get the family pizza for $9.99 it was a Large Pizza, on the side we decided to also order some sweet hot wings cause they also looked really good on the menu. The waiter came to the table and dropped off our drinks, she asked we were ready to order. We said yes, so my dad ordered the $9.99 Family Pizza with peperoni and to the side 20 sweet hot wings. Soon as we ordered the waiter left to put in the order, meanwhile we were talking and laughing. In less than 20 min the hot wings came in first, they looked so delocious and good! they put some rach to the side. I grabbed one chicken wing and dip it into the ranch soon as I bit the chicken wing, omg it was so good I continued to grab more chicken wings, the Pizza came 7 min after the chicken wings. Soon as the lady placed the pizza on the table, the pizza smelled so good and it smelled different than any other Pizza I've ever taste

The Pizza looked so cheesy and also looked really good. I grabbed one slice of Pizza soon as I put the slice of pizza in my mouth I was so surprised on how it tasted. The cheese, sauce, peperoni tasted so different I was amazed. I’ve never tasted a Pizza that delicious ever in my life. I honestly fell in love with that Pizza. Don't know what ingredients they use but the Pizza sure did taste deliocus! Ever since I tried that Pizza I couldn't get enough of it. Mostly every weekend I ask my Dad if we can go to LaCocos to eat pizza, he gets tired of Pizza but I don't.

Dondal's Hotdog by Fatime

'One chicken gyro please!". As a tall, tan, brown curly haired man takes my money and order i turned around and browsed around searching for a seat next to the TV and window where you can soar through the busy street of central cars zooming from left to right.As I sat down by the TV hanging above my head I look onto the side and see a chicken and beef stand turning in a 360 degree slowly baking,crispy on the edges and still half baked on the inside but tender and soaked with flavors all around.While sitting down I'm patiently waiting but in the inside I'm dying a little every minute waiting for my chicken gyro.While waiting anxiously my eyes roam the little place and see other people with families or just business people eating their food pizza, hamburgers, tacos, roast beef etc.and thinking to myself what are these people eating their whole lives.If you've never had any type of gyro your absolutely missing out on food.As a man walks to the side with food ready im thinking to myself that it'll be mine.That feeling you feel  you know your foods coming up."Chicken gyro!".I stand up anxiously,got my food, and went back to my seat.As my mouth starts to get watery,napkins all over me on my lap,neck ,everywhere knowing you'll get messy.NOM-NOM as I took a bite that flaky,crispy,soft,fluffy,white and burnt spots on the pita bread.The chicken,oh my goodness every bite you take you fall deeper and deeper in love. The crispy edges of the meat and oh so tender so fragile it falls apart just by picking it up. The cucumber sauce flows perfectly cools everything down.Oweey,Gooey,cheese sauce dripping from the holes of the pita bread.This food has changed the way I eat.

Raymundo Hernandez Jr

1^st period

Baby Cakes

So about a month ago I seen this one very I mean VERY beautiful girl while I was working and she walked in with her family. The best part of it all was that I know her mom. So this girl sat where I could've seen her, she was on her phone, and I kept staring at her since she was looking down at her phone, she really caught my attention. This girl was very attractive and just so outstanding of all girls I've seen. She ended up ordering a McFlurry and that's when we made eye contact, when we made eye contact it felt like we clicked right there and then. After that I kept staring at her because she was just that beautiful, the sad part of it all was that she left and I thought I'd never see this girl ever again, I couldn't let that happen so after work I told my sister to talk to her mom and tell her I said wassup. My sister told me she got me, I thought she was playing until the next morning my sister grabbed my phone and put the girls' snapchat in my phone and added her, to be honest I couldn't believe it so I got super happy and hugged my sister super tight. I couldn't let another second go by so I snapchatted her, she snapchatted back and we started talking. We started as just a simple conversation and talking normally until she called me cute, I couldn't help but to say it back. After those messages we got more and more into one another, we started drifting away from having normal conversations and started having more cakey and cute conversations like calling one another cute and then arguing about who's cuter or what not, our days went on like that until we confessed to each other that we have feelings for one other. We would talk all day and not get tired of each other, we would have those goofy, serious, cute and cakey conversations. We have been there for each other since day 1, we always talk about the first time we seen each other and always seem to smile because of that day. I had to cuff this girl so I let her know wassup and she did too, we confessed to take each other serious and ever since we have kept it 100 no matter what and we've been showing each other how much we like one another.  

Re: Are we really free?

   Emmanuel Cortez                                    

                            Are we really free?

Have you ever realized how everything has turned from the past to now?  You can't get away with doing anything because it ends up in social media, but then again social media has its pros and cons because it let many people learn more about the world that is out there and not just in your city. That is if you use it for education purposes, if you use it to go online and talk smack about other people or to just talk to your friends about your boyfriend talking to another girl you're obviously not learning anything.

The pros that we have thanks to social media we can show police brutality and how they take advantage of their job which is why people are so informed about protest because of the news but unless if it's a peaceful protest then obviously they won't cover it, I don't understand why we can't live in a peaceful world everything has to lead to violence maybe because it just catches our attention seeing somebody die but never helping them live instead they'll comment saying #SaveHim on their facebook or twitter post, a person life should not be cried about over the social media.

Many people can say our generation is advanced and I can sort of agree with it thanks to all the electronics but why isn't the rest of the world advanced with us? The USA isn't as advanced as you think if you go to Europe and China and look at their trains they don't look like the ones here they're mostly running through electric rails and the trains themselves look much nicer than ours, Another thing would have to be in America why do we not have free education?  How can we be called the land of the free or the land of opportunity if we can't even get educated? Countries like Germany, Finland, and Norway. A student's union in Norway said "changing their free-education policy would be discriminatory, given that Norway is hailed worldwide as custodians of human rights and free education" wouldn't it be great if the United States was like these countries? For example if they began to think of Education as a basic human right? if anything the cost of education in America has risen even more which means its harder to get into a school because of money problems.

If getting information is that easy why haven't the people in the United States reacted to this? If were advanced why are we still living with laws from the past that affect us today? And that's why I ask myself everyday are we really free?

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Emmanuel C. <rudeboy97ska@gmail.com> wrote:

                                                                     Dreams  

You are asleep.

You suddenly wake up feeling the presence of someone else in the darkness.

Your muscles are weak.

You're paralyzed.

You feel this presence pushing on you til you lose your breath.

All you can do is watch.

You are unable to speak.

You are unable to move.

All you can do is watch the dark silhouette in your sight.

You are struggling to free yourself from the Hell you were brought to.

You are awake.

Your muscles are strong once again.

You're able to move.

You're able to talk.

The presence has vanished.

All there's left is you.

You're heart is racing.

Only to find out it was all just a dream.

 

 

 

Mia Reich

Pd.1

5/19/15

Are we really free?

Alma Alfaro 1st

My amazing neighborhood

My neighborhood is Little Village located in the south side. The culture around there is mostly Mexican, and theirs always something to do there. Well it depends on the weather also, during winter its sore off hard but anyways we get to play in an open gym and play basketball. I don't get bother if i'm the only girl playing basketball. Around where I live theirs a lot of corner stores, everything its pretty much close to my house. Going down cicero theirs a Little Village High School. Going all the way to Cicero that's where the stores are at like for example Target, Ross, Wal-mart and panda express and much more. Also we get to play in the Chicago Fire Club. On the summer, the day is not enough to finish everything. During my summer I volunteer a lot . Monday to Thursday I helped my old teachers in my old school . where they have summer sport camp. Where you get to play any sport you want, then I get to pass lunch with my old friends. Its from 12-5pm after that Monday and Wednesday we have soccer practice , we stayed there until night. Theirs this house infront of us ( well in front of the park) that plays whatever music we like to all of us. Tuesday I volunteer to help this program called "Beyond the Ball" that we get to play any little kids sport. We make up games, one of this games is called cookie monster. This program takes 5-8pm after 8, we put up a movie, we bring this screen and projected. It always Disney movies, and everyone gets to spend time with their family. Around them their is people selling corn, ice cream, the famous mangonadas and raspados. On Thursdays we get out at 5, me and some friends go out to eat Mexican food. In little village they serve the best Mexican food ever, love eating tortas, pozole, flautas and all of that. The culture their so so strong everyone sticks together. On Fridays' we close blocks, where we know theirs a lot of violence. Many young adults and gangbangers come to play, we give out food and try to help them out. Some Christian churches come out and support the program. Once you know their stories and why they do that, you'll have no way of judging them. Actually when the program barely started the founder Coach Rob, his house was burn because he was going into a territory he shouldn't. The gangbangers burned his house and he still didn't give up he knew exactly what he wanted to do and he went to talk to the guys that burn his home. The gangbangers apologize and worked with him. Love that feeling of helping others, makes you feel like for once you are doing something right. But the most important time in my community is being with my family and boyfriend and protect them from everything outside. 

Brazil by Daniela Zepeda

I look back at those pictures we last took as a team. The team that stayed together through tough times, the team who motivated each other to do better. It was the same team that accepted me in even if I was the only girl that was going to play with them. It was called Brazil. Before I decided to join this team that would later become my second family I would go watch how they played. I remember in the last game I came to watch them play I went up to Jando, the couch, and asked him if I would be able to join them in their next games as one of the players and he told me it was fine. I felt a rush of delight as I heard him say I would be part of Brazil. Being the only girl in the team my couch would push me to do better than the guys. In practice he would give me advice and would tell me not to give up. And the one thing that would stick with me was his strong personality. He was a crazy couch always yelling, singing, and dancing to celebrate each goal we made. That was one of the reasons I tried my best because I wanted to make him proud of having a girl in his team. He would pay us every time we scored and take us to eat after a great game. He dedicated his time to us and that’s what I loved about Jando. I grew love towards my teammates and my couch. We had times when we played so bad and we would get mad at each other but what team doesn’t fight. But even in those bad times my couch would keep his pride up and cheer us up to keep doing better. One of the ways I remember he would boost our confidence was by yelling at the guys and saying, “Even a girl can play better than that!” In some way it made me push myself harder. Knowing I’m playing better than a guy is an accomplishment for me. That last game we had was our finals. I gave it my all and I showed my couch why I came into this team. I scored four times in a row, two were shot right in the top left corner, one with my head, and another was a soft kick that rolled right thru the goal’s legs. My team was going crazy! Jumping up and down and screaming. That day I felt like I made my couch very proud of his only girl in Brazil.

Anthony Gonzalez

Period.1

5/11/15

Wing Ho

         

          I remember all the the times I've ever gone out to eat at this place and the memories never serve me justice. That's only because the food is better in person than thinking about it. It always makes occasions last more and the first time i went there was a huge occasion. I remember it was my 5th year old birthday and my dad's 35th year old birthday. I remember being told to pick out some nice clothes because I was going to go out to eat and it made me excited so of course I rushed into the shower and into my nice clothes just waiting to leave to see where I would end up. The drive took 30 minutes and all i saw was the beautiful scene of downtown in a nice summer evening. Once we were done with the drive we pulled up to some restaurant that I never went to it seemed pretty weird to me because it was no where near any other restaurants that we had passed up. We all got at that car and entered and when we entered the fresh aroma of Chinese food hit me and suddenly my mind was filled with food. My dad told the cashier “Table for 4” and we were taken to our table the second my dad spoke almost like the people working there knew him. We waited for minutes drinking water , looking at the huge menu that was filled with all different types of Chinese food, and waiting to have our order taken, then the waiter arrived and took our menus and order of course I didn't get to pick anything because I never ate there and all i saw was my mom and dad smiling just ordering exactly what was on their mind. I was in awe as i heard the names of everything that was ordered even after our waiter left and shortly after bowls of soup were brought to us. The soup was amazing and gave me a new a feeling for eating Chinese food. I sat and ate my soup and exactly when i finished the egg rolls arrived and I picked one seeing all them were evenly huge. As soon as my egg roll hit my plate and was given to me I devoured it in minutes. I got to relax afterwards only for minutes before the main course came. I saw the mountains that sat on the platters. My mouth was watering and in seconds i was picking what i wanted. I gladly picked chicken fried rice, kung pao chicken, Mongolian beef, and young jo noodles. Those four huge piles of food were gone in minutes. I had seconds afterwards and started a conversation with my parents.  had wondered why they brought me here and when I asked them they told me it was because they had been going their for years since their teenage years. I was in wow and felt good knowing that my parents had gotten t eat their again with their small but new family. After all the eating we sat down and drank water while my dad paid for the bill. We then drove off into the highway enjoying the drive home.

Hailee Fitch

May 13, 2015

Period 1

 

Highschool

 

    “Highschool is the best of times and the worst of times.”

 

  I truly believe this quote, 100%. You can have all these great memories from all your friends and peers but at the same time you can get into a big fight and lose those friends. Highschool is the time for teens to figure themselves out and figure out what they want to do with their live. In that process you might realize that you have changed and you no longer get along with your old friends. Losing friends is one of the hardest things you can go through. But then again gaining friends is one of the greatest things you can do. Highschool is not your whole life. It is just 4 years that will go by very fast. Highschool does not define you. It is where you have fun. You meet new people and have good times. I honestly do not believe highschool prepares you for anything. Others might think differently and that’s okay but in my opinion nothing prepares you for the real world, especially highschool. Highschool is not where you go to learn its where you go to talk to your friends and sleep in class. Even if we did learn it wouldn’t help us in life. If I want to grow up and be a dancer, why on earth do I need to know trigonometry. The teachers teach you pointless things that I will most likely never use in life. So as I said before I on think we go to school I think we go just to talk to our friends and sleep. Highschool is just a chance to meet new people, create good bonds and have good times. The teachers don’t really care about you at all, they have stupid rules and give you pointless work. Highschool is just a time for you to have a good time.

Roberto Garcia

May 11, 2015

English

Locos “Tacos”

This past Saturday my friend Edward called me like at 9am. He asked me if I wanted to go skate at this park in Indiana called Pulaski. I said yeah and called up my friend Juan and another named Jessie. They all said yeah so I got the car and I went to go pick them all up. Right next to the skate park there was a Family Dollar. We bought 4 boxes of pop-tarts because they were only 1 dollar a box, which I thought was amazingly cheap for a box of 8 pot-arts. We ate the pop-tarts and then we skated at Pulaski for a good 3 hours. We left because these little kids kept throwing things inside the bowl and they were getting frustrating. Once we all got in the car Edward asked me if I could drive to the mall in Orland because he wanted to buy new shoes. It was still like 2pm so even though it's about an hour drive I said yeah because it was early. So we drove to orland park and got to the mall. Edward went straight to go buy the shoes he wanted. He bought a pair of Janoski's for 80 dollars. We were all really hungry at this point so we went to the food court and checked what they had. Pizza sounded good at the time but 5 dollars for just one slice wouldn't do it for me. So Ivan said we should get a variety 12 taco pack from Taco Bell. It costs 14.99 so we all put in 4 dollars. The case of tacos came with 6 normal tacos and 6 Doritos locos tacos. 2 nacho cheese, 2 ranch and 2 spicy cheese. We took the case to the car, split the tacos and we ate. They tasted amazing, this was my first time having Taco Bell. I never ate there because I always heard it gave you diarrhea, so I stayed away from it. The taco had 3 things inside it; it had meat, lettuce and cheese. First we ate the normal shell ones. But after I took my first bite of the nacho cheese flavored taco it was amazing. The shell tastes like a warm, softer nacho cheese Doritos and everything in the inside compliments it even more. I was automatically hooked, Taco Bell tastes amazing. Next time we all head to the skate park we are going to have to pick up another case of Locos Tacos.

Sierra Brady

Mr. Winfrey

Creative Writing – 1^st Period

13 May 2015

400 Words

Come Back 

            You never know what you have until its gone or taken from you. I never though losing a best friend could be so hard. Texting and talking all day and night, seeing each other at school, hanging out every weekend to nothing. One day just packing up and leaving states away and not a word said since then. I know if I ever needed you, you would still be there, but things will never be the same. I miss the old times we used to have and how we used to tell each other everything. Or how I could come to you about anything. I used think you were my hero because you always helped me get through any struggles I was having or if I ever just needed to talk you were always one to listen. You were also my shoulder to cry on; you know I was always there for you too. We’ve been through hell and back and I wouldn’t change that for the world because even though it’s not the same ill always love you. We might have said the worst things to each other or treated each other bad at times, but we never left each other’s sides. Not just us, but knowing each other’s families and being accepted for who we were. I know it was extremely hard for my mom to accept you, but I don’t ever think she’d accept anyone else. It was something about you that got me. You found the best in me and always made me confident. You’re someone who had the biggest impact on me and taught me who I want to be. Whenever I made mistakes you never looked at me different when my family turned their backs on me. The world could have been against me, but you always stuck by my side. Each and every day I hope you move back because it’s hard without you. I don’t want to be distant anymore. I love knowing when we do talk you still care and as much as it seems like wee drifting were not. I’m glad we connect every time. I can’t wait until summer so I can see you and hang out with you every day just like old times. I know summer is going to go by quick, but we have to enjoy the most of it. I hope no one will ever take your place like you said no one could. Because no one has took your place or even compared to you.

Sierra Brady

Mr. Winfrey   

Creative Writing – 1^st Period

12 May 2015

Food

            Every summer my family and I go to the Sugar Shack; it’s an expensive ice cream place, but it’s really good. They sell all types of ice cream, shakes, malts, funnel cakes, mini funnel cakes and many more things. The lines get as 2 blocks long. When it was our time to order we had a really long order and it took them like 20 minutes to make everything. When the lady was handing out our food she dropped the ice cream cones and a funnel cake. My little she was standing under to the counter and got a face full of ice cream. As all my cousins and siblings started laughing, my mom went into flames yelling at her calling her every name in the book. And they gave us a refund on our money as well as a whole free order. The food was really good. Now every time we go there they give us free food and because I work there they give us a bigger discount. At first I thought I would hate it because my mom yelled at them and that gave a bad impression of me, but they are actually really nice and like me. I have a lot of fun and I get to eat whatever I want and I can give my friends free things.