Iphones

Up until recently I have never owned what most would call "a really cool phone". For the last two years I had this lame LG phone that I bought of ebay for seventy dollars. Its way too expensive to buy a phone when you are not renewing your contract. A couple months ago I accidently broke my phone. I got really lucky that my mom came down to visit me the next day and bought me and Iphone. Since I have had this phone I cannot image living without it. I have had a lot of mishaps since I have had it though. For some reason when I have a nice, expensive phone I am way more prone to lose it. I have all of my music, can look up anything on google at anytime, and I am always connected to Twitter and Facebook. Yeah, it's pretty awesome.

project 4

We have been peer reviewing our final project for this class. We are to be researching a topic that we are interested in, create a thesis statement, and support our thesis by writing in genres that we aren't familiar with. At first I thought this sounded so confusing and didnt really know where to start. I decided to do my project on the dangers of prescription drugs because this topic hits home for me. My older brother's lifelong best friend has been struggling with this addiction for about a year. At first it seemed innocent but as time went on it got worse. He started losing a lot of weight, ruining relationships with his girlfriend and family, and even got fired from his job. Through all this the only person who he never grew upset with was my brother. My brother knew this and I could see how hard it was to watch his best friend since 3rd grade being so stupid. My brothers friend is still working against his addiction today.

Thoughts

I can definately say that I enjoyed our much needed Thanksgiving break. The week before break started I felt so overwhelmed with school work. I had been home twice before break but everytime I went back I didnt get to see many of my friends because they are all off at college too. I have only been at college for three months but I feel as though I have already lost contact with so many people from high school. I cant really say I'm surprised because people told me thats always how it happens. Of course I still keep in contact with my very close friends but I never talk to those people I always talked to in classes or the neighbor kids that I grew up with. As the years go on I know I will lose contact with more and more people but I hope I still stay close with my best friends.

Genre Project

Out of the last 3 projects we have done for class project 3, the unusual genre project, has been my favorite so far. It was the project that I had to do the most work for but it was much more rewarding. I enjoyed that it wasn't just a paper we had to write and we got to use a lot of our own creativity. When I first started doing the project I could tell it was going to be a lot of work. For me the most time consuming part was the reading journals that we had to do. My genre was a postcard. Because the context of a postcard is so short I had to look up 20 examples and write a reading journal for each one. The night before the project was due I still had a lot of work to do. I worked very hard on my reading journals and the postcards I created. I didnt have much time to prepare for my presentation so I was hoping I would present on Monday. With my bad luck though I presented yesterday. My presentation wasnt as strong as I had hoped for but I am glad that I got it done and over with.

For Colored Girls

I still haven't written this blog for my extra credit! Last week I went to a play called "For Colored Girls". I went to the play to get extra credit for my English class and I also went because I need to see something that represents diversity for my FYE class. The play was diverse to me because it was intended for mostly black females. The play was really good. It talked about the struggles that women go through in like. Specifically black women. I enjoyed the acting in the play. The women who were in it you could tell that they really loved what they were doing and they put so much passion into their work.

Tattoos

This weekend I went home and I was planning on getting a tattoo. I am very young for my grade and just turned 18 last friday. I have always thought about getting a tattoo and I have a lot of ideas of possible ideas. A couple weeks before my birthday my mom told me that she would by me a tattoo when I came home for my birthday. Well the plan was that I was supposed to get my tattoo at 1:00 today but the girl who was supposed to do it for me cancelled. In a way I'm relieved, I have all these ideas but Im not sure if I will want the same tattoo on my body for my whole life. Tattoos are a big comittment. We rescheduled my appoitment to next week when I am home for thanksgiving. I think by then I will decide they right tattoo for me.

Postcards!

For our new project in class I am using postcards as my genre. Post cards are very interesting when you think of it. I have a lot of research still to do about the history of the postcard but they are really cool. On the front of the postcard is usually a photo of the place of where the person is sending it from. The person who is sending the card is usually on vacation or at a place that is away from home. On the back of the post card it is sort of split in half. On the right is where the name and the address is at and also a stamp. On the left is where the sender writes their message. Post cards have been around for a long time now. I am planning on also trying to find some postcards that were written during the wars which I am very excited about!