I hate blogging

I hate blogging. I feel like it is a time consuming waste and I wish I didn't have to write something twice a week. Most of the time when I'm writing this blogg I don't even know what to write about. Most of the time I go through two or three topics before I finally decide on one. I did that exact thing today. I had no idea what to write about, so first I tried writing about sleep and that didn't go over well, I only got two sentences before I knew I couldn't write two hundred and fifty word blog. Now I'm stuck between knowing what to write and how to not fall asleep while accomplishing the fist goal. I'm trying not to sleep because this is one of the last things I do before bed and still I don't like it. In some ways I think blogging had it's purposes like with helping students more open about there lives and also to show how a child can do in informal writing but still maintaining a sophistication in the writing. Realistically thy not the hard part, the hard part is coming up with what you want to say. It is a little difficult to come up with either something that you learned about this last week or just something you want to talk about. There are only so many topic one can write about. I hate blogging but I understand why we have to do the assignment. It may not the best but it can teach one something about themselves.

College

It all just hit me today that when this year ends  I will be off for college. I came to this realization while watching the TV show Castle and finishing my first application to a college. It feels like just yesterday that I was jumping around my kitchen overjoyed that I had just been excepted into AACT. I have grown over the last four years, but even still I feel like I'm that shy little freshman sitting in a chair in the commons waiting for high school to begin. School has begun and is almost finished now. With graduation around the corner how can I deal with everything new coming into my life?

In the show Castle, the daughter was getting ready for graduation and  was coming up with her speech to her graduating class and the words she said made me think. Everything comes to end that is what graduation is the ending of high school, childhood and many friendships, yet we will always have those voice and people that made a difference in our lives that will always stick with us even in the end. But life goes on we go to college, we make new friends and we go on to better futures. The speech made me think this through and analyze what I'm going to do next.

High school will soon end and college will be our new beginning and that terrifies me. Am I ready for college? Will I be able to survive away from family, friends, and my home? I don't know but I do know that whatever may come will eventually end and may help me become who I am suppose to be. High school is not the final frontier it is really just the beginning of it all.

Shakespeare

     Shakespeare is an amazing writer. I have been able to understand a couple of his poems and play's; like a Romeo and Juliet, my mistress eyes, Shall I compare thee to a summers day and a few more, but this week in my class I have been charged with reading the first three scenes in Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Wow am I confused just a little about what he is trying to get across. 

      In the first scene it's pretty self explanatory and not that hard to follow where Shakespeare is going, but when the you read the first couple of lines about of scene two my mind has one big question mark. Like the line that says " therefore our sonetime sister, now our queen,...". What does that mean. I don't know how the rest of the play will be, but if it's like that I think I will have a hard time reading and understanding Hamlet. 

      Even though I may not know what is going on in Hamlet I have found that it is interesting so far and may prove to bra great story that I will reread in years to come. Anytime Shakespeare has a ghost in one of his plays things are always better and more fun to read about. I wonder how the rest of the play will be and how it will end. Shakespeare always makes things end very differently then how they will appear they will. This play makes for an interesting and enjoyable read. 

  

Can music be poetry?

     Poetry started out being said to music and told stories about an experience or a major event that occur. Then poetry shifted away from that to become the written form on paper that we know today. Some people say that the music that we listen to also had poetry type qualities which is why we listen to it so often. 

     This week in my AP English class my teacher gave us the assignment to find a song that was sophisticated and was in a way like poetry. The song I chose was The Dog Days are Over by Florence and the Machine. This song makes me think of poetry because it does have a rhyming scheme to it. Yes rhyming doesn't always mean poetry but the words that are being sung have meaning behind them. They are telling a story about whom ever the speaker is. This story allows the audience to resonate with speaker just like in a poem on a piece of paper like Shakespeare. 

     I believe that poetry can come in many forms and whatever the form is just for the help of the reader, either so they can understand the words better or so that the reader will be able to remember the poem for a while. So yes, music can be poetry it sometimes just makes it easier to understand and is helpful in memorizing. So listen to some music it might just be poetry.

The Art of Procrastination

       I have perfected procrastination to a tee. I leave myself with enough time to accomplish a task, nothing more nothing less (well...most of the time anyways). I don't know when or how I started to become a procrastinator I just remember the first few times being in middle school. I even wrote a paper about procrastination (and of course procrastinated on it). I don't call myself lazy because it's not like I'm not doing the work, I'm just wait until I have no other choice than do the assignment other wise I'd suffer consequences.    
       I have tried so many ways to change my habits, but none seem to work.  I always end up going back to my old ways . Which means staying up super late or getting up really early to finish the work, Yes, it's boring and is bad for getting good sleep, but I guess one these days I'll finally see the error in my way and change what I'm doing to better myself. 
       Most people think that procrastination is so easy that you can just do it one day and you will be a pro. Well your wrong not only is it just as hard to do the work normally the person procrastinating has to know exactly how much time they need to finish the assignment. Then they have to figure out the means to which to finish the project after doing nothing for so long. There are many more steps that a person can take but those are the main ones that will get one started (not that you should because it is a bad habit).
      Procrastination is an Art form, and many people do it everyday. I am one of the many "artists" that can claim that right, but in a way I wish I didn't. Life would definitely be a lot simpler if I didn't procrastinate, but this is who I am and I live with it.

 

35/10

    Earlier this week my class had the chance to read a poem called 35/10 by Sharon Olds. This poem made me realize somethings about how we see things in our everyday lives. Not only is the assumption at the end of the poem correct, that the world is a game of replacement, but we as humans are also see ourselves as old, ugly, and dumb when something new comes in to play.

    Us humans think that the new people are better, that they will succeed at something we can't, that they can do thing quicker and easier than us. Yet we, the 35 to their10, have so much more to offer in experience, wisdom, and efficiency. We have wisdom and knowledge of both successes and failures which can help us through many of the problems the new people will have in their first few years. This poem shows a great example of how society wants us to be seen and used. It is more likely that a job interviewer will likely higher the more experienced and OLDER who has knowledge and wisdom to work for them than the young, green, and wet behind the ear applicant who is just getting out in the game.

     This poem doesn't just show this work aspect it help tell people that yes the young girl of ten is beautiful and the  mother is not, but the role of the mother will soon be taken by the daughter herself and then the daughters daughter, and so on and so forth. Beauty is fleeting, but yet being old doesn't mean you aren't beautiful, you are pretty in your own way and people are going to love you just the same. Over and over again this poem show that by getting older you lose beauty but if you look at today's society most of our actors that are attractive are old beauty can stay with you even when you are older.

     35/10 shows a great deal of controversy in our world and shows that what may seem old and ugly may actually be wise, smart, and beautiful in their own way.


 

Familly Traditions

Most families have an activity or a recipe or something else that the do every year or when a special occasion happens. Well my family is a part of the most. We have many family traditions that we do every year (or try to do) together as a family. One that I love doing ever so dearly is wake up at 4:00 AM and watch Dawn Patrol and then Mass Ascension at the Reno Balloon Races.

My family has gone to this event since my parents moved here when my older brother and sister were little. Of course I don't remember going in the early years, but when I got older it became one of my favorite traditions to uphold. Not only do you get to see this beautiful light show you get close to family (mostly to do with keeping warm).

As the years have passed sometimes we weren't able to go because of one thing or another, or one of the family couldn't come. The one important thing is though that we always have tried to go. Take this year my parents weren't thinking of going because it was a week early and we wouldn't have all six of us, but in the end we went because we knew we would enjoy it. And we did, it was so much fun even though we may not have had a perfect view or had head lights blinding us the trip was so worth all the troubles just to be with family.

Tradition may seem silly to some people, but really it's what brings people together and make everything an amazing experience. What are some of your traditions? What do you do with your family year after year? What could you make a tradition? Ask yourselves these questions and remember, traditions are what bring families closer.

Ballard of Birmingham

The other day in class I was assigned to read the Ballard of Birmingham. This poem really settled with me because I go to church and I feel safe and protected when I am there. In the poem it shows church differently, it shows church as unsafe and dangerous place compared to the streets where a march is going on. That would defiantly seem more dangerous then church. But that is not what happened on that fateful day when that bombing happened. The bombing has changed how many people think things are safe.

Safety is a big thing for most people. If one feels threatened then they go to a place they think is safe and wait it out until the world rights it self. That is exactly what the mother of the girl thought she was doing, she thought she was sending her  daughter off to a safe place where she could be until that march was over but the church was the target in the ending because people thought it to be safe.

This poem is an amazing poem and can be read over and over again until you finally get sick of it ( which highly unlikely). Reading this poem you can will see into the past and you can see problems that occur now in the future. So read it and enjoy, I sure had a fun time reading it for my English class and I'm sure you will too. When you finish tell me what you think of it my comments. I would like to here others opinions on it.

Netflix Addiction

Netflix, the amazing place where you can watch movie and TV shows all you want. That is how the addiction starts. I am currently addicted to the show Once Upon A Time. It is a great show about fairy tales and how they have come to the real world. However the fairy tales aren't just the normal kind they have changed them into a more realistic story ( which is nice). This show has caught my attention and many others to I am excited for this next season that is being made and can't wait to watch it, because it is an addiction.

I wasn't always addicted to Once Upon A Time, I have watched many other shows until there are no more episodes left on Netflix. I recently finished the TV series Charmed (it has eight seasons). Why is the shows on Netflix so addicting? Why am I able to just sit down and zone out and continually watch episode after episode? Those are very good questions, ones I don't think most of us can answer. Maybe it's the good feeling of accomplishing something. Maybe it's feeling like you have some how bettered your life by watching that show. I really don't have the answer, but I do know that if I didn't have Netflix in my life I wouldn't be doing a lot with my life (which is kind of sad if you think about it), but so would a lot of other people.

I hope I do gain something from the TV shows I watch on Netflix. I believe that I do learn lessons that I never would have learned as quickly without it. The great thing about all of it too is that all of the lessons that the characters go through I can apply them to my own life and gain so much from that knowledge. So yes I have an addiction but I think it is better for me than others that I could have at the moment.