"To a stranger"

I think the poet is talking about a past lover, most likely a childhood friend or someone who he has known since he was young, who he developed feelings for. I think this because of the lines "You grew up with me, were a boy with me or a girl with me,
I ate with you and slept with you, your body has become not yours" I think this refers to someone he has become very close to on a friendship level but he might have wanted it to be more than friends. I also think the poet expressed his feelings for this person, boy or girl, through poetry. He couldn't speak to anyone about these feelings he was having, because it was unacceptable and looked as a sin and an act of the devil. So they only he would express these feelings was through literature. 

Honestly I can understand how someone could believe this was about a sibling, I just don't see that. He seems like a man of high morals because he had good jobs, an good education. So I do think it was about a lover who he had met, but something happened and then they became strangers. 

"Content"

I feel like the poet is content he should be allowed to feel this way. Many people might disagree with me by saying things like " how can someone live like that " and " how can someone be content being an alcoholic and living with whores"

But guess what? Whores are people too! Yes, maybe they aren't they most "decent" people. But they're humans aswell if he neees human interaction he has them. 

Or an aloholic, he's never been around any thing else, he has been exposed to alcohol abuse his whole life. I'm not saying it's a life choice I would make but drinking too much doesn't make you a bad person. It just means you have a problem letting go of a bottle of vodka.

And well he's never had anything else so maybe waking up on a bed without being cut or punched or yelled at, for him is a "win". And yes he might sleep on a park bench, or been in and out of jail but at the end of the day he's never seen anything else. We as humans tend to learn and watch and mimic our surroundings so if all he ever saw growing was physical abuse, yelling, poverty maybe for him that's become normal. But the part that impacted him was the physical abuse and for him not to be abusive is all he needs to feel superior than his father. He isn't hurting anyone. So you know what? He can live  the way he pleases to.

 I can connect to this in a way because I have something similar at home with cleaning my room. My parents say I live in a pigsty and it's crazy how there's so many clothes on the floor and it's unhealthy and gross but guess what I find it okay? I can find everything I need so I feel like yeah maybe my messy room is like the poets alcohol abuse and "undesirable" life style is good for him. Just like the messy room is okay for me because I can find what I need and I don't need to to be freakishly clean all the time like he probably doesn't need to have a perfect life all the time but he's content because it's better than how he was before. His heart is fine, he's not hurting anyone like his father did, so he's alright maybe he has a messy room but he finds everything so he will be okay in the long run. 

Tattoo assignment

The tattoo that I would want when I'm older would be the following. It would be a ying and yang symbol because I believe in it. I think it has such a beautiful meaning, the way I see it is there is the bad and the good, in every good there is a little bit of bad and in every bad there is a bit of good. What my tattoo will symbolize will be something that is very close to my heart, it is the ying and yang symbol on my upper neck because I feel like that is something I should keep close to my brain so I'll always remember it. It like a permanent reminder. And under the yin and yang will be two dates. The first just like this 08•29•2012 and the second right under the first will say 07•07•2012 . These dates are very important to me. They symbolize what the ying and yang means the good and the bad the first date the 29th of August 2012 was the worst day of my life. It was the day my grandfather had a heart attack. Thank god when they took him to the hospital they said he would live, it was going to be a hard recovery but there was a good chance he would live through it. And that for me represents the good in the bad  basically the yin. And then the 7th of September of 2012 was the day my grandfather woke up from all this bevisw haw had been in an induced coma, so the day he woke was one of the best days of my life. This would be the yang, the good. But with every good comes a little bit of bad. The bad in this situation would be that when he was in the coma he had a breathing tube inside him so that caused damage to this throat and that almost killed him as well because his throat closed up and air couldn't go trough. So this really does mean a lot to me. I feel like it recaps some of the bad and the good moments in my lUkge and reminds me that things will get a bit better, no matter how bad the situation. I also feel like the place where I want it is appropriate. Because it's a permanent reminder and feel like because it's so close to my head, it's going to stick in my brain in a way even if that sounds weird it's special to me.  It would look like this. Just more scaled to size. 

Interm report

If you were to ask me my grade in this class right now I couldn't be able to tell you. Well because Mr. Neufs class is structured a bit differently than most classes, the central idea is that we manage our own learning. We are able to self regulate, and take charge of our learning and assignments. We are able to connect with our peers, interact, learn from each other and help each other improve. 

So if I had to try to figure out how well I'm doing on this class I would have to look at this blog, count all my assignments, look on edmodo for the criteria, compare them to my peers's work, and get a good idea of how my work compared to others. And other way you can try to get an understanding of how I'm doing in English 10 is looking at the comments on the bottom of each blog post. These comments where written by my peers, weather to congratulate me on something they liked about my post or to share helpful criticism that can help me improve my learning. 

So basicly there's isn't going to be a letter grade or a percent on my interm because well this is my intern and its up to you to deside how well I'm doing. I think I'm doing pretty well, I get my work done and work productively. So I'm doing alright I could do better I know that, I could improve on handing in my assignments on time. Usually they're done but I just forget to publish, so I really should pay me re attention to that. 

Extended metaphor

The song I choose to use as my extended metaphor is Wreaking Ball by Miley Cyrus. It's an extended metaphor because it compares two unlikely things, love and a wreaking ball. In the song she talks about how she " came in like a wreaking ball, and never hit so hard in love but all he ever did was wreck her. " 

It's not Literally talking about her coming in with a wreaking ball it's about her falling in love with this guy and giving him her all and he ended just hurting her " wrecking her" and letting her feel so much guilt " I never ment to start a war" is one of the lines from the song that I feel she feels guilt and a bit responsible for what happened. Because she gave him her all and he didn't love her like she did him, she feels like she forced the love and really it wasn't ment to be. I think that's pretty clear when she says "I  never meant to start a war

I just wanted you to let me in
And instead of using force

I guess I should've let you win." This song really speaks to me, I feel like it's really genuine and relatable to. But honestly I feel like this song is a 3 minute story of her 3 year relationship with Liam  Hemsworth.  She loved him but he maybe liked her everything happend and she was the one that walked away hurt, and broken. 

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/mileycyrus/wreckingball.html