Free Write 1/15/13

I can't believe another semester has already started. my break was definately not long enough for sure. a lot of things happened over break. my baby turned one 2 days ago and it still doesn't seem real to me. i hate that he has grown so fast but you can't stop them i guess. he is really turning into a little tyrant, but someone had to teach him, but of course that wasn't me. it has to be brett. just kidding it was probably me. he is such a mommy's boy and it makes me feel so special to have someone love me as much as he does. i have had to teach myself tough love here lately because i don't want him to grow up and not have any sense of respect or authority, and it needs to start young. even though i am young i still remember when i used to be the biggest brat in the world and that was because i got away with it. not in this case though. another good thing is we are about to move out of brett's parents house. i love my in laws to death but they definately drive me to drinking for sure. i hate it when they tell me what exactly to do with braxen because i feel like she got her chance to raise two boys herself and now its my turn. i realize that i don't do everything right, and i do take her advice for the most part. but between her and my mother they drive me absolutely crazy! i am exicted to be out on our own and be our own little family. they only thing that i really care about the house is i have to have my own bathroom and the boys can have their own bathroom. when i lived in my apartment brett pretty much stayed with me the entire time, i hated sharing a bathroom with him. the thing that he used to do the most and it made me so mad was every morning he would take his morning dump and he would smoke a cigarette while doing so. if you have never smelt that before it is by far the worst combination of smells i think there ever is. and he would always do it right before i got in the shower too. mind you i was also pregnant so that didn't help the morning sickness at all either. but anywho i'm glad to start the semester with this class, because obviously i have it with my favorite teacher! neuburger! i love that he is really laid back but also expects you to do the work and do it right. i hate the teachers that are on your ass all the time, but i do like to be pushed to success because you can't always do it by yourself. i really thought that i wouldn't even make it past last semester with all the stress on my shoulders but i don't want to quit because if i do then i will keep making up crappy excuses as to why i still haven't gone back. i guess they say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger and i am not going to give up my dream. i have changed my major which isn't surprising considering i am super indecisive anyways!

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Chantelle Lamb 101-132

free write- 10/30

i had a lot of fun this last weekend which is really  nice because there has been a lot going on in my family recently. me and brett went to bolivar to his farm and really just had a weekend to ourselves which was nice. we went fishing and just watched movies in the cabin, so it was a cheap little get away. i feel like i will never get a break, i always feel like when life starts to get better, it will alreayd by ten times worse. my little man keeps me strong though. i really don't know what i would do without him. i love waking up to him everyday. i honestly don't know where i would be in life right now if it wasn't for him. he was such a gift. when i found out i was pregnant with him i was headed down the wrong path very quick, so i'm sure he saved my life to be honest. i'm just really glad that i have brett and my friends to lean on becuase i don't have much family that i can lean on. i really want christmas break to be here too! i am loving school but i need a break from that too. i wish i just had a million bucks so i didn't have to work or worry but that isn't how life goes so i will just keep on truckin and pray for the best.

free write - 10/23

so today is actually going to be a really good day. i have an interview for a job that i have been trying to get for the past couple weeks. it is still going to be at the same place but i will be in human resources, so i will be doing pay roll and things like that. i have been working at the same place for a year and a half and i'm ready for something new. i really hope i get it because it will be a lot less stressful than the job that i currently have. i will also get better hours as well. i will be working 9-6 instead of 8-5 so i will have more hours, becuase of school i get my hours cut most days. i'm not getting my hopes up yet though, becuase i haven't gotten it. on another hand my booger says momma now and i'm really happy about that. he has said da-da for about 2 months now so i was ready for him to say something else. he will be a year old in less than 3 months and it is really starting to scare me. time has gone by so fast, i feel like it was just yesterday that i brought him home and now he is already talking and crawling everywhere. i miss him being little and just wanting to cuddle all the time, now he just wants to play all the time which is fun too.

free write 10/16

i am so tired today, it is awful! i didn't get to have my coffee this morning so i'm a walking zombie and i hate it. i have braxen's doctors appointment today and i have to work so i really need to wake up. tuesdays and wednesdays are definately the hardest days of the week for me, it always takes me like 2 extra hours just to wake up. i really don't want to take braxen to the doctor because he has to get shots and it is going to be miserable for the whole household for the next couple of days. i really wish they didn't make him so sick, but it is okay becuase all he wants is his momma and that is just fine with me! he is crawling and getting into everything now though, we can't even leave a pair of shoes on the floor becuase he will somehow manage to put them in his mouth. he has really been on a shoe string kick lately.

Holocaust Testimonial

Chantelle Lamb

            I watched a testimonial over Henry Mikols. His story is a little bit different because he wasn’t Jewish, his family was Catholic. He and his family lived in Poland. He lived with his mother, father, and his brother. He said life before the German came to Poland was great. He was 13 when the German invaded Poland.

            Mr. Mikols was captured by the Nazi SS officers. He was going to the market to get a loaf of bread because he and his family were starving. His mother told him that it was going to be dangerous to go out on the streets because of the Nazi’s, but he did it anyways. The German officers picked up all the teenagers that were large enough to work. That was the last time that he saw his family. He was taken to Germany and became a slave on a farm. The farmer actually treated him fairly well; he had at least two meals a day. He had to do some pretty stinky jobs, but he had no choice. After about a month, him and the other 3 boys escaped because they missed their families and were going to be on a journey back to Poland. The boys of course got caught and taken to another farm. At this farm he was treated very well by the farmer. The farmer and Henry used to listen to the radio to catch up on what was  going on in the German government. One day he came inside from a long day at work and a German soldier was waiting in the living room for him. He was arrested because the government thought he was spreading news that wasn’t true.

            While he was in prison the conditions were very bad. There were about 15 people in one cell, they had to sleep on the floor side to side. The prisoners got a bowl of soup once every three days and were still expected to exercise with the little amount of energy that they had. From prison he went to a concentration camp. In the concentration camp he was used as an experiment for a new medication that the German had invented. He was one of the few that survived the study. Mr. Mikols thought he was in prison for life and would never see outside of the concentration camp. The day that he was actually left free he really didn’t have anywhere to go. He did express that he wanted the younger generation to know what really went on during the holocaust, and it was actually a very awful thing that he had to go through.