After five full tiring days of school and homework, it is finally weekend, and it is time to chill out and have some fun. Nobody should be sitting down at their desks trying to do their math homework or bio lab report. Leave the Spanish book or The Great Gatsby behind for a while, and plan something fun to do instead. You’ve worked hard, so enjoy your precious weekend until it’s gone for another week!
How do you spend your weekend? Some people go out to dinner, and some go to gym and play basketball. Some go shopping, and some watch television shows that they missed during the week. In my case, catching up on sleep is a very important one. However, I think that most of the people pick movies as their one of the favorite activities for weekend. I see a lot of people getting on the movie van and head down to the Movies 14 on Friday/Saturday evening. There are also movies going on in the Wallace Room. I mean, who doesn’t like movies? Movies are great, they are fun and good for killing time. A great movie with a comfy comforter/pillow and some snack and drink with your friends - sounds like a good plan to me.
I’m about to suggest you guys this movie (although I think a lot of you might have already watched it), which I found very touchy, sad, and rather scary. it is Toy Story 3.
You know, Toy Story series has always been an all-time classic movie. It also has the reputation of just a children movie, but I strongly disagree with that - at least up to some point. I think the movie carries some very important moral lessons that we sometimes belittle or forget, such as justice, righteousness, and faith, in very imaginative and fun way of Disney. Toy Story 3 starts with Andy packing for college. The toys have long been left un-played since he grew up, and they are accidentally sent to a daycare. At first, most of the toys think that it is a great place since they will get played again. However, they grow to hate that place, and plan an escape. I don’t wanna be a spoiler, so I’ll stop here, but I assure you that it is a great movie!
The reason I’m talking about this modern children movie and its moral lessons is because I see this connection with the children’s poems and stories in the past. The children’s poems and stories had important moral lessons for kids to learn, and it played a big role in their education. Rudyard Kipling was a good example. He was a great English poet and author who wrote many poems and later short stories. His poems illustrated “animals in the jungle or ships at sea. Vibrant colors reflect the strong emotions of each poem-Viking women widowed by the sea, seal mothers singing lullabies to their young.” His another most-known work was The Jungle Book, which I’m sure everybody knows. This is an example of his poem, called “If”
If
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!
Weekend is almost over, and I’m sure everybody is busy doing their homework. Hope everyone had a good weekend though!:)
P.S. This is WHY Toy Story 3 is scared. 
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