What role music plays in my life?

For me music is a way to express how I feel. And music also helps me vent my emotions in a way that will keep me out of trouble. Like if I am angry I will listen to rap music that is more explicit. Or when I am in a good mood I will listen to rap music that is funny. Or if I am sad I will listen to slow jams. Those are some of the ways that music plays a role in my life.

Quote

Mornings are special and nights are full of surprises and that’s the way life goes on and on morning and night.

After night came another day. And after death another life. Morning seemed mysterious gifts. He inspected the dawn with fascination. -Whirligig page 33

Quote

‘‘I was the driver but hadn’t understood the journey.’’ Whirligig page 112

This means to me that if you don’t know were your going then you would know what to do in life. When I think about my journey were would I go if I didn’t know what I wanted. There too much to do and so little time, so do what you do so you can get what you can.

Music

I love a lot of music. I play the violin and the guitar and harmonica. I live my music like a story. Most of the time you will here me singing. I love to write songs they take about to days to write. One of my favorite songs that I have written is why isn’t life a fairy tail. I love to sing play write and listen to music. A lot of people judge me cause they think I show off when I am dancing. They judge me cause of the music I listen to but they don’t realize I listen to a lot of music so they cant really judge me at all. seriously I don’t care what music I listen to as long as its ok to dance too. So ya I love music it has affected my life in so many ways. Some times I wish life was a musical so ya. the only problem I have with singing and dancing is I get stage fright. And all my friends encourage that I sing and a lot of other stuff. There was only one time I got in front of a crowd I was so scared but I was so excited at the same time I was 7 at that time. I started to listen to music and write it at the age 4. I get really bored if I am not listening to music really ask my family. music helps me when im angry sad it depends on my mood really. So there is a lot of ways it has helped me it has helped me get through school and a lot of other ways.

Quote

I responded to the quote on page 40 of Whirligig. "I also believe everything happens for a reason. That the universe required this. For some reason."

I really like this quote. I believe that everything happens for a reason. For example if you do something then you are going to get something back. How would anything happen if nothing happened for a reason. Another reason I like it is because this is how I think for example if something happens then I just think everything happens for a reason. This one time I was out past my curfew going to go get drunk and before I got to my friends house the cops pulled me over and arrested me and I just thought that everything happens for me.

The Quote

THE QUOTE: YOU HAVE COMPLETE CONTROL OVER YOUR LIFE. -WHIRLIGIG

I ABSOLUTELY AGREE BECAUSE NO ONE MAKES DECISIONS FOR YOU. CHOSE TO DO THEM YOU CAN ALWAYS SAY NO. IT’S LIKE SAYING THAT SOME ONE MADE YOU MAD BUT NO ONE MADE YOU. YOU CHOSE TO GET MAD. I WAS ONCE TOLD THAT. SO I THOUGHT I WOULD PASS THAT. LIKE I SAID NO ONE CAN MAKE YOU DO ANYTHING! YOU CHOSE TO DO IT .

The Soccer Game

The game was good I guess. I saw the lion and there were little kids out on the field kicking the soccer ball in the net and they all win KFC.
When it was half time is was all girl drama that was soooooo funny.

What role does music play in your life?

The role music plays in my life is it’s like my escape from real life. I don’t have to be where ever I am. I have no problems to worry about I can just get lost in the music. Like for example my song that I have been listening to is Angel by Amanda Perez because she is talking about how she lost her love because he chose something over her. I can relate to her in this situation because im in the same boat. I think that when some one writes music they are talking about how they look at life or how they had a situation in life and how they solved it. Music can help you through many problems if you’re mad you can listen to music that is talking bout being mad. When you’re sad listen to sad music. It’s all about how you look at it and how you react to it. So in the end music is a big part of my life and I don’t know what my life would be without it!

Suicide

“You have the absolute power over your own life. You have the power to end your life. Now.” ~Whirligig page 18.

This part of the book and this quote really bothers me. No one has the right to end any life, even their own. God makes the choice when that happens. Suicide is the coward’s way out. It goes along with the saying. “It takes more courage to live for someone than to die for someone.”

Quote

“You have absolute power over your own life”
Whirligig page 18

I really like this quote because I know it is true and if you don’t use it right then you lose it and, can’t have that choose to do what you want and than life is going to suck and not be what you want it to be.

Quote

“You have the absolute power over your own life. You have the power to end your life Now.” Pg. 18

The reason why I like this quote because it says that you have power over you life and you have the power to end it. Like the reason why I like it because it reminds me of when my uncle drinks because I think he want to end his life just like Brent in the book. But as I said it reminds me of my uncle when he drinks. And I don’t want him to do that. When he drinks he acts drunk because that’s all he does.

RSL Sucks Crap

The soccer game… I didn’t go to it because I couldn’t go to it.
I was stuck at therapy and then at practice for my sisters 15.
But from what I hear it wasn’t very fun…
Well I really couldn’t expect more from a Real Salt Lake soccer
Game. I was hoping that they would get beat but I guess the other team
Sucked crap too. But yeah RSL suck and Chivas is the best team ever.
They would kill RSL if they ever played them….

Music

Music plays a big role In my life. It expresses who I am. Depending on what im listening to can explain what mood im in. I couldn’t live without music I listen to It all day everyday when im out of school. I only listen to rap and hip hop I like the beat I can dance to it. And have fun you cant dance to country music hell na.

Favorite Quote

“You have absolute power over your own life.”
Whirligig page 18

I like it because whet I’ve been threw I’m the only one to blame. My drug addiction is what I’ve chosen to do. I think that in some cases it’s not completely true like when some ones choices effect you in a harsh way. This book has helped me realize that I need to take responsibility for my behaviors and actions.

Favorite Quote

Favorite quote from Whirligig pg.56
My family left the mountains, where we always lived.

I like it because it is saying that where he use to live and that was the place he loved and lived for most of his life, and his family had to ruined it for him and probably his family to but his family does not fill the shame as much as he does.

Role music plays in my life

Reggae music because when I’m down it brings my hopes up when I listen to reggae I free my mind and it helps me to calm down when I’m disappointed pissed or sad reggae is always there for me I like reggae to because when your about to go out with a girl you put it on and you start singing it to the girl and she likes it .

What role music plays in my life?

Music in my life is a somewhat big part because when I am not in the best mood or just down then I like to just listen to words and what they really mean I think that in everyday life music should be there for anybody at any time. I don’t know if you have heard about bob Marley and how he thought that love and music could cure raciest people 2 days before he played at a concert he was shot still he showed up at that concert and somebody asked him why he should up and he told them that the bad people aren’t taking a day off so why should he. I think that is something that everybody should think about. So this is what I think about this music though in my life like I said is a big thing. I like all different kinds of music r&b, some country some rock some blues just all different kinds my favorite is r&b so yeah that’s it so i'm out peace

Quote

"I also believe everything happens for a reason. That the universe required this. For some reason." ~Whirligig page 40

I also believe everything happens
For reason. Because I know it happens
To me all the time like when I got
Put a way that was for a good reason
For I did not do bad things to people-

Choice of a Quote

“ You can’t see the wind, but look what it can do. It’s
Invisible but powerful. Like thoughts
Whirligig page 26

I chose this cuz yes the wind is strong when it needs to be, just like thoughts when you use them in a good way you will make the right decision. No matter the wind miles per hour the stongest wind is in your mind and like any thing else there is always and bad end to every thing. There are hurricanes and typhoons they do get out of control just like thoughts do you don’t take care of your thoughts you will end up in a bad situation of even jail. So don’t let your thoughts get to out of control.

Quotie Quote

“I can also tell you that all those that die want that we should have a life with laughing. They want us to laugh all the laughs that were taken away from them” ~ Whirligig, page 84.

I must say that this is my favorite quote so far because only this one and one other have stood out to me throughout the book so far and the other one isn’t as “uplifting”. And uplifting quotes make people smile.

Da Vinci Exhibit

Rich just hang out and for what I see it look like he’s having fun. And making things with his hands. The room looks like brown so its dark and I can’t see much.

My First Field Trip at Summit High

I had a lot of fun at the aquarium.
You can see a lot of colors there.
There were a lot of fishes and jellyfishes.
You can touch the stingray it was sooooo cool.

Summit's First Field Trip

The Da Vinci Experience was the last stop on our field trip and the most exciting out of all of them. I thought that it was very educational and very interesting. The first part of the museum was his inventions. I never know how much he could do. We also went to The Living Planet Aquarium it’s was pretty boring except for the Stingrays they felt really cool my favorite part was when me and my friends got are pictures taken they were really funny. We also went to Kennecott Copper Mine I never realized how much copper we use. It was an amazing day all around and I can’t wait till the next field trip.

Stingrays

STINGRAYS ARE REALLY COOL. THEY FEEL LIKE A BUNCH OF GRAPE JELLY IN YOUR HAND. AT FIRST YOU’RE VERY SCARED THAT IT’S GONNA STING YOU. THEY TAKE OUT THE STINGRAY THINGS SO THAT THEY ARE HARMLESS.WHEN YOU PUT YOUR HAND IN THAT WATER. IT’S LIKE WOW! DID I ACTUALLY TOUCH THAT? YOU’RE SO AMAZED.

Copper Mine

The copper mine was a really cool place. I really liked that place because I really learned a lot. I thought that the trucks would not cost that much. They cost 2.8 million dollars that is a lot of money.
The shovel things cost 16 million dollars. The dump trucks are really big they look really small in the mine but once they get up to the top of mine they are really big. The mine is the biggest man made hole.

Field Trip

We went to the copper mine first wow it was big. It wasn’t what I expected and there is more to than you think. Next we went to lunch then to the aquarium. I had touched a sting ray they feel cool they feel like silk but wet and slimy. After all the excitement at the aquarium we went to the the devinci experience. Wow who would have thought how much stuff he had made. There was so much cool stuff. All in all it was a great day.

Jelly Fish

On June 13th, Summit High School in Orem Utah went on a field trip. The first place that the school went to was Kennecott Copper Mine. Then next they went to The Living Planet Aquarium in Sandy. I though that this Aquarium was a really great learning experience! First thing that I saw when I went in there was a jelly fish! It was the first time that I have ever seen one! Then I saw an octopus and it was awesome! Plus I touched a stingray, starfish and a crab! It was really cool there! Finally we had to go and we went to the Da Vinci Experience! It was not that amusing to me but hey, that’s just my opinion!

First Field Trip

We went to the aquarium, the Da Vinci Experience, and the Kennecott Copper Mine. I learned a ton about American dependence on copper. It really surprised me at how much I use copper without knowing it. When we went to the Da Vinci Experience I really saw how smart of a man he really was. During that period of time he didn’t have much technology to make the conclusions he did, granted some of them were not exactly right but he was very close and by far the best of his time. The aquarium was boring other than the stingrays. All in all the field trip was fun.

The Boring Di Vinci Thing

When we went to the Di Vinci experience it was really chill. It was alright kind of boring but there was really cool stuff there. The coolest thing there was the glass room where you could see your whole head. After we were done there sitting in the hall was fun. It was an alright place I wouldn’t go there again though.

The Biggest Man Made Whole on Earth

Last Friday we went to the Kennecott copper mine. It was different than all of the other times that I have been there not only because I wasn’t with my family but that you couldn’t see the bottom where the water is green. Also there where working a couple hundred feet in front of us with a big shelve. I learned that it is going under ground in 2016 and no more digging will be done on the outside. Another thing I learned is that Kennecott made 42,000,000,000 in profit.

The field trip of Kennecott canyon

The Kennecott canyon was alright but I have been there before like about five other times but it still was alright because it has changed a little since I have been there.
How it has changed is by, they have done more to the interior of the hole and they have done a little more to the inside of the building but other then that they have done nothing else that I can recognize.
The other thing I could not believe is how heavy the tire was and its been a long time but I think it has gotten bigger.

Field Trips

When we took our field trip to Kennecott Copper Mine we saw the pit and all of the hauling trucks. After being outside we went inside and saw the museum and all of the things they had at the mine like how you see copper everywhere. And I learned how we use copper in our lives every day. Like pots and pans, we use them to cook with. When we went to the Aquarium we saw all of the fish and like there were sharks, stingrays, jellyfish, ext. At the Aquarium there was fish, and the stingrays you could touch them. And I learned that they cut the stingers off every three months. They kept the male stingrays in with the sharks because it was mating season and when the babies come out they come out with there stingers on and that would be a hassle to cut off all of them.

The Living Planet Aquarium

One of the part that I liked about the field trip was the aquarium.
I liked the aquarium because we got to see different types of fish and other things that live in the sea. We got to touch the sting rays that they had there. I had never touched a sting ray and I it felt weird and kind of like jelly.

The Aquarium

We went to the aquarium. Which was the only one I really even wanted to go to. The other ones were intresting but I got to touch a freaking sting ray, and see a bunch of fish and stuff. It was pretty cool me and oscar saw this pretty hot chick but she was older. Haha oh well though. My favorite part was lookin at all the fish. There was one fish that didn’t even look like a fish.

Field Trip

Well the field trip that I enjoyed the most was the aquarium. The reason why I liked the aquarium is because I liked the sting rays that we got to touch they felt kind of slimy and hard. And I also liked the shark even though we couldn’t touch them they were still really cool.

Aquarium

While on the trip we went and saw sting ray they felt smooth and slimy I saw a lot of different things while there jelly fish and other things the sting rays wear a circler shape -000and had long tails there stingers wear cut off so they could not sting you the wear probly from head to tail 2 to 3 ft long.

Aquarium

My favorite place that we went to was the aquarium because we got to touch the animals. One of the animals that I liked touching was the stingray cuz it was real slimy and I never touched any of those animals before. I also got to see a lot of water animals that I never seen before. I also had fun because the place gives people to experience touching those animals that they would not have had the opportunity to touch if they were not at the aquarium. That is why I liked this place the most.

My Aquarium Experience

What I saw that was really in the Aquarium was all kinds of different sea lives.
The one that I really enjoyed was the jelly fishes I thought that was pretty neat. The reason why I was so interested into it is because I never had the chance to see them only on T.V so to see them up close was pretty fascinating. I liked the way they moved and how there wavy legs moved back and forth so that is what I really enjoyed at the Aquarium.

The Living Aquarium

I had a lots of fun on the aquarium I like it better then all the others places that we went n I like this place because there were a lots of animals that I never seen n specially the stingray what made it funnier was the staff I like every single staff that went but yea I like it a lot all the fishes that were there where a trip I had lots a fun in all the places we went but ma favorite one was the aquarium.

Kennecott Copper Mine

The copper mine is the biggest man made open pit mine, that has ever been made. You can see this open pit mine from space that is how big this mine is. And the best fact that I like the most is that the mine is only a mile from were I am from.
The mine is 2 miles wide and about a mile and a half wide that is amazing. The mine is the life support of every thing we see and touch today.

Stingray

The ray was cool and stuff like that .it felt crazy like
You do not know. But yaw I wish I could go back
There one more time. Just because I did like a lot
I like all the fish there they are cool if I could
Be a fish what fish would Be would be a ray

KCM

Large enough to see from space, the Kennecott Copper Mine is quite a sight to see up close. When it first comes into sight, it looks like an eroded mountain set randomly between other more lush mountains. When I first saw it, I just wanted to stare and take in all the colours and sights; the browns, reds, oranges, the trucks with beds big enough for my bedroom, etc. When we got to the top (or as close to the top as we could get) we were allowed to either stay outside and take in the views, or go into the building where there are tons of various things to look at. I must say though, that my favourite part of visiting Kennecott Copper Mine was knowing that even though some of the kids claim that they didn’t enjoy it, they were able to see something great and they knew it.

Kennecott Copper Mine

Kennecott Copper Mine
(Bingham Copper Mine)


I wasn’t able to go to the field trip to the Kennecott mine, but I was able to view some pictures and here’s what I thought about them.

The first picture I’m going to describe is one of Jose leaning over the edge of one of the railings at the mine. I know that the mine is very deep so I assume that he is leaning over the edge to get a look far down into the mine. That, I think, would be a very cool experience.

The next picture I saw was one of a student standing next to a tire that one of the trucks use. These tires are huge! They have to be big though so they can carry all of the dirt out of the hole!

Anyways, I wish I could have gone to Kennecott, but you can’t do everything I guess. Maybe next time I’ll make it.