On page 80, Billie Jo talks about the important things in her life that are in the boxes. Many of these things were not worth a lot of money, but they were very valuable in memories.
If you had a box like this, what would you have in it? Why?
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I do have two boxes just like Billie Jo's boxes of things were not worth a lot of money, but they were very valuable in memories. In my one of my box there are many collection of projects/homework that is speical to me,and also some magazines.In the other box there are year book from school, movie tickects,souvenirs,money from the country that had been to and the most special/important thing to me is memories.
Tammy
A correction
It should be
I had been to and the most special/important thing to me is memories.
I would put my English projects in this box, because that were my part of my accomplishment in my life, althought these weren't the well thing. These thing that's so important thing for me is that I spent a lot of time to work on them, and I learn many things that I don't know, like the project of researching, even the things that you need to think, or brainstorm about. I thought that's a good chance to show the differences in Engilsh, to train and improve your English comprehension, and it helped me a lot, like my confidences in Enghish, and the worth of working a lot time for the things that helps me a lot. That's why I want to put these things in MY BOX!
I think i will put some pictures in it. The pictures would be very important to me. In the pictures, there are my valueable memories.I will also put my journal in the box. i will keep them forever because that is my own life and memories. When i grow older, i can Know what i am doing in fourteen years old. I will remember it forever.
I think I will put pictures,too.Pictures can show many memories at that time, and also make me feel the emotion again.The other thing I will put is my notebook.I cut up all the article in the notebook from magazines and news paper myself, then wrote some comments and feelings on it.It's really important to me!
In the book, Billie Jo seems to put all her childhood in the boxes; many things are "one of a kind" to her.
If I had a box like this, I would have put MANY things. Here are the things I want to put in:
-Photographs: Sometimes you might see different things everytime you see the same picture, which, I think, depends on your feeling.
-Schoolwork/projects: They are my records at school!
-My favorite pens: It may sounds weird, but I used to share my fav pens with my friends (to pass notes :P), and seeing them reminds me of the time when me and my friends used to write hundreds of notes to each other.
-Little notes my friends had given to me: Like what I said, there are thousands of them! They are my friends' love!
-Money: $ from every country that I have been to!
And so much more... but most important of all, I will put my very own memory in the box.
linda :^)
I think I will put pictures and cards in it.
Pictures:
The pictures of my family, my friends & myself. Pictures kept the memories in a "moment". It will not be disappeared when the time passes by.
Cards:
The words that meant a lot. It might came from anyone who I knew or who I don't know. But the cards still connected us forever.
I think that two boxes are not enough for me because I want to collect many things that are important to me, anyway these are what I want to keep:
1.Alblums:
It is simple for why I want to keep this. I want to remember the past of my life even if I grow up. There is just so much to remember in the past from the day we born, till now.
2.My poems:
I want to keep this thing because I kept poems like diary, it makes me remember the feeling of that time when I wrote down those things. And those not only help me bring back my memories and poems have many good uses even in the future.
3.Souvenirs:
There are many souvenirs from lots of places and every time when I seem them, it feels like I go back to that place again and had those wonderful memories of traveling.
For examples: a signature book from Disney World, a good luck charm from a temple in Japan, etc.
4.Note books & journals:
These are my things from school that are important to me (I don’t mean home works aren’t important) and like what Linda said: it’s a record in school.
5.Drawing books:
I like to draw creating things and at many times, the things I draw stand for what I think of at that time. So I have put my idea and my feeling in every drawings, so they are really important to me.
6.My hand-made things:
These things are special to me because it represent that special things take time and these will let me remember the times I had tried hard to do something.
7.CDs:
When I buy or records CDs, they are usually meaningful. Not only about the meaning to me but also the meaning that the songs itself give.
8.Birthday cards & mails:
I think these things let me remember there are a lot of people caring about us and giving our hope and some time way that they feel about you or things they want you to change.
9.Scenery photographs:
I like to take pictures without people because they show the whole true and the wonders of the big natural. Every time I look at them again, I impress the great mighty world.
10.My collections:
I love collecting special little things like stamps and pins. I think that everyone of them is special in their own kind.
p.s.
by*David
I think the thing i would put is photos of myself, my family, and my friends. Photos is a simple way to catch memories, and keep those wonderful moments in our life time for us, after years, when you look at the photos again, you'll be so happy to have them that you can cherish your childhood, young ages.
I've never had a box like Billie Jo. Things couldn't stay long beside me. But if I had a box like Billie Jo's, I think I would want to put things with memories in it. Like the 遊戲王 cards(...a kind of card= =...I don't know how to describes it...),my brother and I always played that when we were kids. I always like the kind that is not powerful but cute, and I know nothing about the game. So everytime when we are playing, on one hand, my brother has to try to win me; on the other hand, he needs to teach me what should I do to win him... Also I would want to put things like the photos of people that I like, the presents that my friends gave to me,etc. I would want to put them in it because they are about my life, about what I've been cherished!
+Amy Yang+
According to my oppnions, there are tow things that I would collect.
1.MY LETTERS
No mater the letters were from others wrote to me or I wrote to someone but I'm afraid to give it to her, Iwould like to collect them.Maybe in the future when read the letters, I'll have a wonderful and romantic memories.
2.MY WORK OF LITERATURE AND ART
I'm a sensitive person. Many of my workes include my feelings of something or someone, and show the very inside of my personanity, at least I beleive it. If I collect them, I think they will shows my mood, my oppnions, my own world... in the future when read them.
Here are some things that after going through a lie tester and beaten up by fierce psycho gangsters, the kind of truth I might confess.
>Stragles of hair from every phase:
They are fun to look at especially when you are balding and find this box of magnificent treasure. You get to tell people, co-workers how once you were young and immature and so full of hair. You even get to make a wig out of it.
>Thoughts that were all once scribbled on paper:
You would probably look over these unpolished masterpieces of your very first phase, when you know nothing but feel every thing. It's as raw as you could ever get. No influences caused by preassure or civilization.
>Dumb projects that contain things of civilization security:
Enculding pictures of superheros aliens Johnny Bravo and SpongeBob. Mostly, they're just long yarns I start without themes. I look back at my saved datas, correct them, and make them useful.
>Raw unbelieveable sounds of life:
What I mean, are those pieces, scrambles of music that pop like nonsence in my head. I believe that
not all musicians are geniuses like
Mozart or Liszt but for mediocres like me, I just have to go over them again again and again to express the truths of what's happening.
>The last, er... I'll tell you and leave you the rest. Heh, wait is it leagal for kids to keep shotguns from adult friends?!
Like many of you, I have a box like Billie's. I decided to put all of the holiday cards(including my birthday cards) in it since junior one. I thought it would be fun to read those greeting and cheering words after thirty years. Those cards are very improtant to me. Whenever I had a bad day or a quarrel with my friends, reading those wonderful memories help cheer me up. Althogh these cards may seem crummy to others, I treat them as my treasures.
by Jeff Tsai
I do have a few boxes like this. There are things I play with or use when I was little. There are some toys and letters from my friend before. They are a lot memories in it, like the first art work I did in first grade. Those things helps me remember what I've done at that time. It's special.
Jeffrey
If I have two bxes like Billie Jo has, I want to put my photos about my classmates, relatives and my teachers. Because I think these things are very valuable to me.
Sometimes when I pull out my drawer of my desk, I can see the photos and I will begin recollecting the events of long ago. Sometimes these photos will encourage me when I have a problem. I was very thankful of it. I love my freinds very much.
And the other box, I want to put my toys and the pictures I draw in it. I love every pictures I draw. I like the toys I have played for a long time. This things can makes me think of many memories.
So please don't take away my things!(cry....=m=....)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~By Eric~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If I had a box like that I would put many things in it like pictures and toys in it and I would put my guitar, piano and basketball if the box is big enough. I like to take pictures and look at old pictures too. I enjoy looking at those pictures that took down my life when I was a kid. It is really funny to see how childish I was. I will keep looking at those albums and never ends. I was a child that can’t live without toys. I had many favorite toys like cars. I played my toys cars almost every day when I was a little child. I would put them inside so that I won’t forget them when I grow older. The most important one to me is my guitar, basket ball and piano. They make me relax and make me feel better when I am upset. And I can connect with the whole world with these things. When I went to America I met some new friends from Brazil, Russia and many different countries I played guitar and talked about basketball with them. Maybe these things are mean less to others but there are very important and momentous to me. So I will put them in the box like Billie.
If I had a box like this, I would have many photographs in it. It might be my family, my friends, my classmates or the stars who I like.
So far, there are 40 photographs in my pencil box. I really like to collect things like that, so I think I would like to put photographs in my box.
I would put some pen that I have used before, because I usually test with it even if the score was not good, I would keep it too, I think collect the pen is very meaningful.
The other one that I would put is the math note, because I think it is interesting and cool. I like the mark or the note that I make. All the things were very valuable in memories. But usually the thing that people collect is the important thing in their life
I would put my family's photos, the stars that I fold, the teeth when I was young, birthday cards that my friends gave me, my own diary, the notes my friends and I wrote during the class, some beautiful wrapping papers, candies and small dolls. It's because every photos that have my families in, are all every important memories for me, I couldn't emgine that someday they have leave me. I like to fold lots of stars with pretty papers, I usually put it in a bottle to let it seems colorful. I will keep my teeth when I was young, because it's the only teeth in my whole life, it also can let me remember the memories when my father ( my father is a dentist )pull out the tooth in my mouth and I usually cried. Many of my friends gave my lots of birthday cards, and each of them are different than others, some are fine and was handmade, some are simple, but it's all my friends' regards. I hate that someone see my diary without my permission, I'll just keep it in my box and keep it from not letting it to be found. The notes that my friends and I wrote some are secrets and some are very funny, these are the memories that I happened in the school. I often keep the candies that I trade with others when I was young and also the wrapping papers, when I see it now, I will know that how cute I am when I am small. My families and my friends usually give me dolls as presents, and I have the habit that keeps everything well in a box or bag. But sometimes I will wonder that is there any boxes that is big enough to put all the things that I wanted to put in.
I would like to put all the novels I had written in the box. Novels is another kinds of diary. They can show the mood I had in that time. Also when I read mine novels, I know that my grammar is progressing. I can see a girl is growing up. The idea of novels are my treasure, I would like to save them carefully. Maybe one day they will become a book!
I will put many things such as books or some important momerable works. Those which are important to me are always assignments or works. But there is still some more memorabilia that I can put them in. One of them is my good friend's imformation such as telephone numbers, e-mail adress. I will put some good novels such as Q&A, A Thousand Splendid Sun. Those are the things that can call my memories.
Jeff Lee
I think if I want a box like this , it has to be gigantic.
1.pictures: I think I will put a lot of "first" picture. The birth of me, my first birthday, the first time I went to school, the first time I went on a trip, the first time I went abroad...... And also some pictures with friends, with classmates, with teachers and with family.
2.Books: I think I will put a lot of books in it, such as the first book I owned, my first textbook, my favorite novel and my first English novel(Walk Two Moon).
3.Money: Different kinds of coins and cashes from different countries and times.
4.Collections: Some stamps, pens, buttoms, wrapping papers, souvenirs......
5.Works: Some hand-made works, or some art projects, reports, presentations and drawings.
There is lots of other tings, important things to put in it!
I would put all of the things that I get into the box and sign the date, the happening and how I feel so after a few years when I grow up, I can see them happily witha smile full of great memory( maybe some bad ones, but most of them are great!)
Actually, I do have boxes like Billie Jo, but I don't put it in the box. I put it in the foder~ If you come to my home, you can see at least ten foders filled with lots of interesting little things that will make you laugh. Such as the excellent schoolwork which I got 100 percent! Or cool magazines that makes me relax. Even moive tickets, stamps, cions from all over the world, pictures with my lovely classmates and so on.
Whatever it is good or worse, I can always remember it.
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