liza bean

Sakura Blooms

So Brent has me hooked to this Japanese cartoon called Naruto. It's like Harry Potter but with 12 year old ninjas. And it's so AWESOME, KICK-BUTT, CREATIVE, and FUNNY... I've literally cried, laughed, and jumped up with anger all in the same twenty minute episode. I have particular attachment to this character Sakura; she spends a good half of the first season this whimpy, love crazy, and rather vain character. Needless to say I was rather ticked at the creators for making the main female-character so annoying with lameness while all the boys kicked butt. But then, in the beautiful episode (very nicely titled Sakura Blooms), she breaks out of her fear and becomes kick butt in her own special way. That episode really made me cry.

Sakura is the super genius book-smart ninja who spent a good too many episodes doing absolutely nothing during real life situations. I sorta relate to her. Not saying I'm a genius. Hell-a no. Just saying that what I do well is study what the literature says but when it comes to applying the knowledge I tend to peter out and crawl into a little ball of stress/worry/ohmygoodnessI'mnotgoodenough. But I feel things a-changing. I've been REALLY REALLY enjoying my placement with an SLP who works with kids with autism. So much so that I actually volunteered to go in twice a week. And in the real world, I find the task of applying my knowledge rather exciting. Watch out, I too will bloom.

P.P. And I really wanna be a ninja. I've even gotten into the habit of jumping up and down and throwing fake punches around. Hhhmp. Kinda sounds like a boxer. Well, back to my show.

Posted by liza at September 17, 2004 10:40 PM