Personal addition #8

After a long, boring and tiring day getting into bed is probably one of the best feelings in the world. Especially when you crawl in and the sheets are nice and cool and you lay your head down knowing you'll be out in 2 seconds. When you can hear the thunderstorm just outside your window and the flash of lightning lights up your room every so often. This must be one of the most peaceful things to fall asleep to. I love my bed, my room, the storm and everything around me. Can't wait to wake up refreshed and ready to go tomorrow. Goodnight!

Writing Reflection #5

For me, colour coding was not all that helpful. I guess for someone else reading it, it might be if they aren’t able to pick out all the components, like VAKSing and show don’t tell, but I didn’t really see the point. I also looked into Fan Fiction and even though we never did anything regarding it I still tried researching it. I must say though I am still kind of confused as to what it actually is. From what I found it doesn’t look like something that I would enjoy, but anything is worth a try! 

Writing Reflection #4

I think The Moment was a really cool assignment. At first it was hard to pick a “life changing” moment, but after reading all of the examples I realized it didn’t actually have to be something huge that impacted our life, it could really be anything. There are so many moments in our lives that change the way we look at things or change how we live, so many little things that we don’t even realize. The hardest part of writing was having to rewrite it and edit it so many times. I know the purpose is to keep making it better and better, but it gets to the point where you don’t know what else to add or take away. Being put in solitary confinement helped me write more because there were no distractions; no one to talk to and you could just sit and write. Almost like when you’re alone in your own room. It’s way easier to think.

Reading Reflection #1

I’ve wanted to read The Hunger Games for a while now mostly because everyone talks about how amazing it is, so I decided to start it this weekend. I’m only into the 4^th chapter, but so far I love it! It’s hard to relate to a book about situations so different from the lives we live, but it’s interesting to compare. Katniss mentions that Panem, the country they live in was once North America. I can’t imagine the country we are in now turning into a place so horrible, but thousands of years from now who knows what is possible? I have never once had to hunt for food, it is never my job to “keep the family alive” and I can guarantee I will never fight to the death on National television, but those are things that Katniss has to deal with everyday and for someone so young she does a fantastic job. Prim her younger sister was chosen to enter the Hunger Games, but Katniss volunteers to take her place and compete for her. She is sent on a train to leave home for weeks possibly to never return again. Could you imagine being sent away, having barely any warning with the chance of never seeing your family again? I know I couldn’t. I can’t wait to keep reading, I just hope the odds are in her favour! 

Personal Addition #7

As I'm sitting here in bed, looking through facebook, just thinking about how unproductive I am being I come across this picture! I thought it was super funny because it basically describes my life. Not the finals part, but every time I have homework I can ALWAYS find something "more important" that needs to get done. Which are things that are actually not necessary at all, but I would way rather do than study. Like organize the shoe closet at my front door, or clean my room so it's spotless, maybe even go up to Shoppers because I NEED to get new nail polish. It's really amazing, the things you can find to do when you have homework or studying that needs to be done. However even after seeing this, I don't plan on moving. In fact I am about to go watch Desperate Housewives..

Writing Reflection #8

For me I found the Blackout Poetry was a lot more difficult than I thought it would be. When we first learned about the assignment I was so excited to get started, I thought it was such a cool idea. But then when I picked out my article and started scanning through it looking for key words I realized it was way harder than I expected. I thought something would just jump out at me, but that was not the case at all. Austin Kleon makes it look so easy! But when there's such a big story it's hard to pick out just a few words that make sense together, and on top of that making three poems that all follow the same theme. Before actually finding the poem within the article I wanted to use choosing the words to blackout was a challenge because I was worried I would blackout words I going to end up needing. I think the idea of Blackout poetry and the way Austin Kleon describes it is really interesting but he makes it out to be a lot easier than it actually is. I think it was a really neat assignment and a good way to present “creative writing” and the overall look of this assignment, which is the posters, looks great when finished, but it's the getting there that's the hard part. 

Personal Addition #6

I don't know why, but this weekend for me felt soo busy! I had so much stuff to do and no time to rest. Most of it was working, but this morning (Sunday) I had cheerleading tryouts for Bisons! The U of M team. I think they went pretty well and can't wait to see who's on the team. On another note I would just like to mention how sore I am already. I haven't done any cheerleading or gymnastics for about a year, and doing everything today just killed me! It's been 6 hours since the tryout and I already can't feel my legs. We started with a big run, then dancing, jumps, tumbling, and then stunting. By the time I got home I could barely walk up the stairs, and I know tomorrow morning will be worse. I think it's time I got back in shape. But for now I'm just going to lay in my bed and enjoy the last few hours of my weekend.