Current Update on My Sister's Keeper

Currently I’m still reading My Sister’s Keeper By Jodi Picoult. I’m currently on p. 40. The section I’m reading or chapter is in the perspective of the father “Brian” of the story. So far I’m still in the intro of the story, which includes some of the background of Anna and Kate’s story. How things were when they were little, how Brian and Sara (Anna, Kate, and Jesse’s Mother and Father) react to Kate’s diagnosis to cancer. Brian is more silent than Sara, he thinks more about how he is going to say things before he actually does. Whereas Sara speaks mostly speaks off of impulse. Kate is the main focus of the attention from her parents whereas Anna feels like the “trouble maker” of the family and Jesse the eldest child is the “lost child.” These are some of the things I have picked up early in the reading.

Music Over Everything

One thing I would say I absoultly love is music. Music is something I cannot live without. Music just revolves itself into my life a way that is consistent when nothing else is. Like many people I listen to different music depending on my mood. That in a different perspective I could be falling apart mentally and listen to a certain song that speaks to me or has gotten me through a difficult time, and it would change my whole mood around. I love music to the point where it is my outlet to every emotion. For example, if I’m mad I listen to songs by the artists of Dizzy Wright, Drake, or Common Kings because those artist’s lyrics really speak out to me in a way of being hopeful. In contrast I listen to songs by YG when I’m hyper and want something to dance to.

Moving away to Sitka for my sophomore year has changed a lot of things. I’ve spent my whole life living in Juneau, growing up with the same kids, playing sports, and being social.  I moved to Sitka, Alaska last year and experienced many new things. It’s a weird feeling of not belonging that made me uncomfortable at first but also gave me a sense of a new beginning. The kids at Sitka High School knew nothing about me, not my background, not my ethnicity, not even my name. Once I got settled in there I got to know everyone fairly quickly and gained many friendships and experiences. One of the downfalls of spending my sophomore year at Sitka High would be the constant wonder on how I would’ve been as a person if I stayed at JDHS, whether it would be good or bad-I’ll never know.