Breaking Point

Alright, so I know that in my last blog I said I was going to try and be more patient with Sunachi, but today was my breaking point. She came to my room three different times, one of which being five minutes ago. The first time she asked me if I could peer review her paper and of course I said yes, but I was slightly annoyed she didn't take advantage of this time in class and was now expecting me to just do it. I really didn't have a problem though until I started reading it. As I imagined her first paragraph sounded almost identical to mine... (I am not sure if this is something I am more formally supposed to notify you of, so I figured writing about it here would be good enough). I was sort of mad though. When people take things from me, especially when I work hard for them, I am not a happy camper. In high school, a girl cheated off the science portion of my ACTS (and was then "smart" enough to talk about it to other people in my dance class) so I did turn her in. I don't like being a "taddle tail" but this is one of those things that in my book crosses the line. In my opening paragraph I started with some definitions, one of educated and one of education taken from Merriam-Webster online. So I start reading her paper and, guess what? She has the definitions of education and educated too, only from dictionary.com. Thank goodness she didn't take my actual characteristics but I still wasn't thrilled. I am still taking into account that I am sure it is hard for her to grasp the concept of English, and that after seeing my paper it was probably harder for her to develop her own opening idea (and perhaps she thought we had to start it like that). With these things taken into consideration, I was not nearly as upset as I would have been in high school. I'm sure you will notice, however, that I wrote on her paper something along the lines of, "This seems very similar to my paper, and I am only telling you this so you don't get in trouble. I think you should try to make it a little more your own :)." I felt mean at first, but I would much rather have her hand in something that won't cause her to get in trouble though (not that I want her to get in trouble at all; this is more me notifying you so that you don't think I took her idea). Hopefully I am not sounding like a huge "taddle.tail," I just don't want to be penalized either. I am going to stop complaining though. I think I need to go pray a little harder about this situation... My next blog will be on today's class topic. Until then...