TAKS

Next week is our TAKS test. Really nervous. I feel like lets do it now. But I think after get the question paper my mind will be totally blank. I am feeling like I don’t know any of these. Especially on science. I am afraid of it. I already forget everything what I studied biology in 9^th grade. I don’t know what to do. Ms. Steal is saying we will pass for sure but the thing is we have to get commended on it. It’s not that easy. I am just hoping to pass on science. Ms. Steal is really trying hard to us get commended. If I failed she will be so shocked. My friends are afraid too. They are also thinking they are not going to pass. I hope everybody pass and get commended on every single subject. I have been going to math tutoring. Last time I missed my bus then I walked all the way to school. It was so frustrating. This time is the last day for tutoring. But I am confused where I should go on math or on science. Teachers are also nervous with us about TAKS. They are our well wishers. We should try our level best. I will try my best to do well. All the best to everyone.

Nabobarsho (Bengali new year)

Tomorrow is our Bengali new year! Shuvo Nabobarsho (Happy New Year) to everyone. This is the only day where every kind of people celebrates it happily. Every poor, rich, young, old, we all celebrate it together and eat the same food. Food is the most interesting part in this occasion. We eat rice with cold water and eat fried fish. As far as I know, there is a reason behind this food. This food is actually for who have little money to buy their food so that they buy only rice and fish which is cheap. They earn little money and buy rice and small fish. They don’t even have money to buy other grocery and cook some curry. That’s why they only eat rice and fish over and over. Therefore in this day we all eat it to understand their sorrow how they suffer these days by having only rice and one piece of fish. Sometimes they don’t even get a piece of fish to eat, they only eat rice. That is really terrible. But that’s the way it goes. So eat food then we wear white and red dress. This the traditional dress in this day that we have to wear white and red dress. After get ready we go outside and enjoy this time with everyone.

I am really missing this. I wish I were in my country and enjoy it with my close people. But still I will eat rice and fish with my family and going to wear white and red dress. 

healthy living!

In our current situation medication is getting really expensive. Health expenditures in the United States neared $2.6 trillion in 2010, over ten times the $256 billion spent in 1980. We can decrease the amount of cost just by eating healthy food. Who does want to have a box of medication on the age of 20 or 30! But now a day we see a lot of people has high blood pressure, obesity and some other problem in young generation. Scientists and doctor says it’s because of eating large amount of fast food. Well plant based diet can give you a healthy life, can make you cost less and you will feel energetic more than ever. That’s why I choose to have plant based diet. A healthy plant based diet is the key to success and healthy lifestyle which will shut the door of useless cost loaded with more benefits. It will cost you less. Less means a lot less. You may say organic food costs much but at the end it will save you from doctor fee, medication or any surgery. Statistics says fast food causes heart disease, high blood pressure and some other chronic disease. There is a slogan eat more fiber food and live long. Animal based food will block your blood vessel and create heart disease. This might get into stroke and some serious condition. To prevent those best way is to having a plant based diet.  We should strat eating healthy food for our goods. And make sure we do some exercise to fit our body perfect.

our surrounding !

Surroundings affect life by telling you what you should be. Our surroundings are part of our culture. In another country, the people have customs are different than those of Americans, and we think that they strange. The truth, however, is that we seem stranger to them. All around us are things and people telling us what to become, influencing our everyday lives. In addition our Bengali culture seems strange to many American. Our dresses, foods, different language etc. sometimes they found it as an interesting.  They are being curious to know about our culture. If somehow they like it, then they want to be part of our culture by wearing cloths like us and eat the same spicy food. Especially people like our henna stuff because it’s kind of like a tattoo. But they don’t what’s the meaning behind it. People part of our surroundings. What fashion statements are going on? What are the celebrities wearing? Whether we know it or not. We all want to be just like the other people. Our culture wants us to fit in, to become part of the surrounding. We let friends fashion, and fame control who we are, and who we are becoming. But these are what surround us! As humans, it is impossible for us to know anything other than what can be seen or heard. We see and hear everything in our surroundings every day. Our surroundings tell us who we should be, and so we become just that, and so does everyone else. In the end, we all become exactly what society wants us to be. We become our surroundings.

helping your teenagers to be successful

When teenagers rebel to their parents, it may be frustrating to parents and other caring adults to find ways to talk to and support teenagers through this hard time. Any parent or person who works with teenagers knows that adolescence can be a tough time. Adults can sometimes feel like adolescents are always facing a crisis or are worried about school, self-esteem and their future; however there are some guidelines that can help the teenagers. One is external assets. There are some support, empowerment, boundaries and constructive use of assets. Parents should make them feel that they are doing good, if they do some wrong stuff, they need to tell them calmly instead of shouting on them. And make their confidence level high.  Another is internal assets. There are commitment to leading positive values and social competencies. It is important for parents to inspire their children with a sense of purpose in life. Without purpose most teenagers tend to drift along, not knowing the direction they wish to take. Teenagers have clear idea of where their interests. They just need support to do that. There is the most supporting role is their parents. Also their friends can support them. Sometimes some friends are destructed but other hand they are helpful. 

Teenagers : why do they rebel ?

Teenagers can push the patience but unfortunately some kids go as far as blatantly floating rules on breaking the low, often with tragic results what’s with this rebellious streak. During the teenage years, the area of the brain call end the prefrontal context is developing. At this time teenagers brains are developing and their minds are changing. Their minds are changing their thinking cap, judgment center, Elkin explains is change. They develop their own ideas. Another thing is going social. Whether wild clothes and make up use to be alright of passage into adolescence. That’s not true today, says Elkin at this time teenagers experiment alcohol or drugs. They try to experiment everything. In this time they fall in love then they do sex. They can’t control their emotion in this time. That’s the reason teenagers got pregnant so easily. If you go to high school you can see many girls are pregnant or with their child. They also do the body pierce in many part of their body. They do the tattoo stuff which makes them different from others. The fact that all teenagers aren’t as wild as some people imagine doesn’t necessarily help create peace in home. Even the most balanced teenagers are arguing and challenging their parents, sometimes on a daily basis. Teenagers build up resentment. They lack their parents love and anger builds up.  These kinds of things make teenagers rebel. In this time they thing they grown up, now they can do their own stuff. They know what is good for them. That’s the reason teenagers rebel. 

addictions problems

 
Addictions problems are a big problem in the USA. People are addicted to drugs and alcohol. Especially the teenagers are more into drugs. First they try for fun with their friends. After that they get addicted to it. For this problem many parents in USA use Ritalin to help their ADHD divesting children in the school. There are many possible consequences to happen to Ritalin. Firstly paranoid delusions, it means he or she is always panic about the police. They feel like police is going to arrest them or police is going to take their stuff from them. Secondly physic dependence. It means he or she wasn’t something that they need it now. They are being stubborn. If they don’t get it they star behaving live a crazy, yelling at everyone. Sometimes they try to hurt people. But they don’t do it on purpose because their minds were blank for the drug. Thirdly extreme withdrawal, it means he is she is not social. They don’t like to talk to other peoples. They don’t communicate people. They don’t even like to stay home rather than in the street. They like to live their own. They feel that nobody can understand them. They can live as how they want. These kinds of things take them far away from their parents, home and society. They start living in their own world where only drugs have. These problem causes, using prescription drugs like Ritalin’s ADHD can be devastating and destructive for our young adults and children. The possible effects are death, not eating and insomnia.