I think that two of the best bloggers are Ciarrah and Eliza. They both actually do very similar things that make all of their posts interesting. One thing that I have noticed that they both do well is staying on one main focus or topic through their post. They never seemed to get off topic or write anything but what their one focus was. I always seem to drift away from what my focus is thats why I think they did that very well because its not an easy thing to do in my opinion. Another thing that they both did well was not only always stay on topic but they always seemed to have a good topic that got you engaged on their thoughts about the book. What they thought about the book never seemed to be boring it was always something interesting. And they were also good with supporting their thoughts. They always had evidence to back up on what had led them to believe their thought. The last thing that i think Eliza and Ciarrah did well was not summarizing to much. The included their thoughts and not what happened in the book. For me i also find that difficult i often find myself just going on and on about what happened in the book and then writing just a couple of sentences about what i actually thought. But Eliza and Ciarrah were always writing what their thoughts were on everything and they were never summarizing to much or getting carried away with telling the story instead of actually writing about it. And that's why i think Ciarrah and Eliza are good bloggers. They do a lot of good things in their blog posts and some of them are actually very difficult.

I interviewed my tutor Paul. Paul makes an important difference in the world every single day. In Park Slope Paul teaches at pre-school co-op. He teaches toddlers the basic important things such as the alphabet, counting, and social skills. He also writes songs and plays them on his guitar to help the kids with sounds and repetition. Paul works from 9:30 to 12:30 three days a week. He also does activities with the kids such as playing with play-do, coloring, and even the oh so exciting baby yoga. After a brief snack Paul and his co associates lead the children outside for some outside time. They exercise, play at the jungle jim. After playing outside they return into the school eat their lunches and read some more books. Then at 12:30 the short day is over for the pre-schoolers as they then get picked up and their day comes to an end. Paul likes his job as a pre-school educator and finds it rewarding.

In the book, That Was Then This is Now, Bryon the main character has to face a number of issues and problems involving really close friends and family. One of the biggest problems in the book that I don't think was expressed much was the fact that Bryon was living home with a friend while his only parent, his mother, lay in a hospital bed. Bryon is very much affected by the absence of his mother in basically a big chunk of his childhood. I couldn't imagine what it would be like to have to grow up for a of couple years living with a friend and no parent ever around. Though Bryon and his friend Mark are 17 and I'm 13. The result of his mom spending time in a hospital is that Bryon often comes into situations where he has to make money to support his family and he's going around having to find food. Plus with him, Mark, and his mom not having money just makes it a whole lot harder then if your mother had left you with money to spend. Instead Bryon is having to be his own parent and has to act like a mature adult maybe a little earlier then he had hoped. Plus hes still breaking out of being a teenager. I don't know if there really are any solutions to the problem Bryon is facing. You can't adopt a mother or hire one or anything and Bryon can't magically make his mom better. And especially with him Mark and his mother being low on money the few options he might have might not be possible without any money.