If I could live anywhere...

If I could live anywhere on this Earth, I would live in San Fransisco. I would live in San Francisco because there's is warm weather, huge hills, nice people, and I sort of like the thought of being in danger like an earthquake. I'm becoming more and more of an adrenaline junkie and thats why I take a liking to dangerous situations like climbing a waterfall or jumping off a cliff into a body of water. I also understand the severity and distruction an earthwuake could cause and I will make sure to be insured. I like the weather there because it does not get too cold or stay too hot and from living in Northeatern Ohio my entire life, im done with the freezing winters! The is a widely diverse population in San Francisco and I find that to be a very imperative part in finding a place to live. There is a hospital there where I intend to work in if I do make the move to San Francisco as an OB/GYN.

My Favorite Book.

My favorite book is entitled Milkweed and the author is Jerry Spinelli. "He’s a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Runt. Happy. Fast. Filthy son of Abraham.
He’s a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He’s a boy who steals food for himself and the other orphans. He’s a boy who believes in bread, and mothers, and angels. He’s a boy who wants to be a Nazi some day, with tall shiny jackboots and a gleaming Eagle hat of his own. Until the day that suddenly makes him change his mind. And when the trains come to empty the Jews from the ghetto of the damned, he’s a boy who realizes it’s safest of all to be nobody.

Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli takes us to one of the most devastating settings imaginable—Nazi-occupied Warsaw of World War II—and tells a tale of heartbreak, hope, and survival through the bright eyes of a young orphan."   The first time I read Milkweed, I did not like it at first because I was forced to read it as a sort of disciplinary action but as I kept reading I began to feel for the main character, Misha, i definitely related to all the questions he asked, thoughts he thought and feelings he felt. This was one of the first books I could really relate to my life and visualize. Around this time history was my favorite subject and the time period its based on was fascinating to me.

“After Apple Picking”

People are motivated by a multitude of things, like money, power, success, satisfaction etc. Achieving these things takes a lot of hard work and determination. Robert Frost’s poem “After Apple Picking” deals with intrinsic (or internal) motivation, or doing something for the pleasure instead of money or reward. Through his use of metaphors, Frost projects the message of fulfilling “dreams”, yet still missing out on other enjoyable things and being tired in the end.

            In “After Apple Picking” the apple picker is motivated by satisfaction the apples make him happy. In the poem it states “There were ten thousand fruit to touch, cherish in hand, lift down and not let fall.” To cherish something means to treat it with love and tenderness. The way he treats the apples shows his love and devotion to them. This is the apple picker fulfilling what he thought was his dream and while he was doing this, his life was passing him by. Readers can learn from this not to focus on their dream too much or next thing you know that’s all you’ve ever done. The apple picker spent his life worrying about the harvest and which apples to make cider with, and now that he is done, he looks back over his life.

            In retrospect, the apple picker realizes just how much of his life apple picking had taken up. All he has to show for is apples. He sees how much he missed out on. It’s not even as if he could go and do whatever it was he missed because it is too late. He is old now; tired. He says “For I have had too much of apple-picking: I am overtired” he shows that no matter how much passion one may have for something it will eventually drift away. And that one must not spend too much time on one thing that makes them happy, but everything that makes them happy. Frost’s display of this is actually helpful to many people.

            No one wants to fulfill one of their dreams and end up old and regretful, tired and bitter. Frost wants people to live a full life and not lose sight of what else is important. Live like were dying, there’s more to life than work. I hope this message stays with me in the future, even though I’m sure it will. I desire to be an Obstetrician/Gynecologist, which is a physician who delivers babies and also specializes in treating diseases of the female reproductive organs. I want to provide life-saving surgeries and deliveries pro-bono to women cannot afford it. The way I see it: If they need it, and I can provide it, why be selfish? Some women have to walk miles, in labor, to a “hospital”.  I believe no child should be brought into this world like that. Pregnancy can still be a beautiful thing. Also, we need women to reproduce in order to survive, right? They need to be taken care of, too. I will not neglect other things I love though. When I have the time I will the other things that make me happy!