Determined for Future

I am reading the book "Make Lemonade" by, Virginia Euwer Wolff. It is about a seventeen year old named Jolly who has two little kids, Jeremy and Jilly. She needs a babysitter and the only person up for the job is LaVaughn. LaVaughn is only fourteen but, thinks she is prepared for the job. She is doing this job to earn money for college. She is very determined for this money. I know this because, she has to go to Jolly's dirty apartment everyday after school and sits in a smelly room. Sometimes she even has to sleep over night. Also she has to watch these two children who are 'sticky' and dirty. She does this with no complaints to Jolly.

LaVaughn sits in a dirty and smelly apartment. She does this because she is determined to earn the money for her college. LaVaughn says the apartment smells like dirty diapers.  She stays in that stench after school all day and sometimes stays there over night. LaVaughn also says how the children are dirty, and their little bodies are 'sticky'.  Yet again, she still stays with them and doesn't give up on Jeremy and Jilly because she is determined.

In conclusion, LaVaughn is a very determined character to earn the money she needs to get to college. She spends her time in a very gross apartment wit two kids that are not too clean themselves. Comment below what you think. :)

Someone To Relate To

I read the book "My Thirteenth Winter" by Samantha Abeel. It is a memoir about her struggles in her life. There are hints throughout her book that she has a form of anxiety. She learns that the reason that she had this anxiety was because of a math disability she had called, dyscalculia. This kept her from being able to tell time, counting change, and doing an easy math problem. Reading this book really helped me. I had an anxiety problem myself and now that I have read this book it makes me feel better because, she showed me that I wasn't alone. I felt somewhat comfortable knowing that somebody else once went through what I once went through.

One thing in the book that helped me was when she told one of her memories which was her at a sleepover with her friend. She was having fun until it got later, then she worried about not being home. All of the possible bad situations rushed through her mind. At sleepovers this exact thing used to happen to me. I would think about until I started to feel sick and I would go home. This book made me realize all of the things I went through when I was little and how they relate to my anxiety.

All in all, the book "My Thirteenth Winter" has helped me a lot knowing that somebody else out there was like me. She gave many memories that I can relate to.