Christmas Break!

I can’t wait to go home for Christmas break.  The only thing standing in the way of my Christmas break are my two hardest exams that I get to take tomorrow morning and turning in my final project for this class.  I’m so excited to see all of my friends that went to different colleges than me and getting to see family from out of town that I don’t ever get to see.  I’m also excited that I don’t have to deal with school stress for 3 and a half weeks! Christmas is just a great time of year.  I love picking out our tree and decorating it, making Christmas cookies, and getting all dressed up for Christmas dinner. 

Finals

I am so stressed out for finals, it's driving me crazy.  The hardest part about this week is that I have so much other homework due so I can;t even get a start to studying for my finals.  I made a to-do list and I still have about 20 more homework assignments that I need to do before I can start studying.  I only have 3 finals but my math class is really hard so I'm going to have to get one of my friends to tutor me for the week.  I just can't wait to go home for Christmas break with not a care in the world and now have anything to do that's school related.

Thanksgiving

I had a really good Thanksgiving break.  I went out to breakfast with my brother, cousin from North Dakota and grandparents on Wednesday and that was really nice! Then I went out to dinner with some girls I graduated with that I haven't seen in a really long time.  After that, my best friends and I hung out at our friends house and had a sleepover. The next morning was THANKSGIVING! I went over to my aunts house and got to see all of my distant relatives that I don't normally get to see because they live so far away.  Then I went to my grandmas and got to see all of my other cousins, but I usually see them a lot so it wasn't a big change.  That night, my friend Liz and I decided to go black friday shipping from 12:30 a.m. to 7 a.m. and it was insane; especially the Victoria Secret sales.  There was a lot of pushing and shoving in that store.  Overall, I had a really nice Thanksgiving break and I can't wait until Christmas break.

Presentation

In class on Wednesday, I had to present my genre in front of the class and I was really nervous for it.  I feel like I was so nervous that you could tell how nervous I was in my presentation because I was shaking and kept messing up my words. I don't know why I get so nervous to talk in front of people but I always do.  I think I was also so nervous because I didn't feel very confident about my project overall, even though I put a lot of time into it. I feel like my genre which was health/fitness articles was a difficult topic because there is so much to the health/fitness field and depending on your topic, they are all set up and written differently.

Snow

Today it has been snowing all day and I don't really know how I feel about it.  I have mixed emotions because snow is really pretty but it's also really cold.  I hate being cold more than anything.  And the fact that snow if falling means that summer is that much farther away and summer is my favorite season.  But on the positive side, snow falling means that Christmas is coming!  I feel like there should only be snow on the ground the day of Christmas and then it should all just melt away and become warm again. I feel like winter can be such a dreary month because the sun rarely ever comes out.

Project Assignment #3

Our genre project assignment is really stressing me out.  My genre is health/fitness articles and I don't really know what I'm doing! I feel like I don't have enough time to get all of it done and make it close to perfection like we're supposed to because of all the other assignment and projects I have in other classes.  I'm really nervous because I know I need to do really well on this project.  I wish I would have picked a different topic because I feel like health/fitness will be a hard genre to try and teach people how to write.

Stress

This past week, I've been really stressed out.  I found out that I failed an exam in my math class which brought my grade down to a 71 and my parents wouldn't let me drop the class, so I have to try and do really well on the final. Also, I had a really big business exam which is a class I also have a C in, but I studied all week and I feel really confident I did well. I have a problem of handling stress and whenever I get really stressed out I always break down and cry. I need to try and avoid doing that because it doesn't help me any, it just makes things worse.  I need to put my stress on other things like working out or listening to music to calm myself down.

Twilight v.s. the Vampire Diaries

In class last week we got to watch clips from the series Twilight and clips from the new TV show the Vampire Diaries.  I have always been a Twilight fan so I really liked being able to watch it because I haven't in such a long time.  I had never heard of the Vampire Diaries and when we watched it, I really enjoyed it.  I think that they both are very similar but the Vampire Diaries has a more dark effect to it than Twilight does. They are both about vampires falling in love with non vampires and the challenges they endure.  I think it’s ironic that both of the antagonists in the Vampire Diaries and Twilight are the vegetarian vampires.

The Weekend

This weekend was one of the best weekend's that I've had in a while.  My best friend, Liz, came hom from Michigan State on Friday.  It was really nice seeing her becasue I haven't seen her since we left for college so it's been about two months.  I wish I would have been able to spend more time with her because I had to work until about 10 Friday night and she ended up leaving Saturday night which I ended up working until 8.  But I guess seeing her for that short time was better than not seeing her at all.  We were able to talk and catch up on all of the things we've missed out on in each other's lives, and she was really happy to be home and see her friends and family.

Fairy tales

We just started learning about fairy tales in class and I love it.  Reading and learning about fairy tales has probably been my favorite part of the whole class.  Reading them reminds me of my childhood and all of the stories my parents used to read me when I was a little girl. They also remind me of the classic Disney movies that I used to be OBSESSED with. It's interesting learning about all of the components that make up a fairy tale like mythical creatures, enchanted forests, always having a bad guy, the happy ending, etc.  My favorite fairytale that we read in class was Little Snow White.  I loved reading it because I love the seven dwarfs.

Halloween!

I honestly cannot WAIT until this Halloween weekend.  I have such big plans and I hope that it's going to be the most fun weekend that I've had here yet.  Friday I'm being a firefighter and Saturday I'm being a construction worker.  I'm going to the football game, and then going to the Big Sean concert! I'm really really excited for it because Big Sean is one of the best rappers out there and the fact that he's from Michigan makes it even that much more cool. Sunday I have to work but if I get out in time I really want to go to a haunted house.  Some of my friends and I were looking up Haunted Houses and we might go to the PsychoWard in Kalamazoo. Finally, on Monday I'm going to become a little kid again and go trick or treating! I can't wait for the weekend.

Thesis Statements

It was really difficult for me to find a thesis statement for our annotative bibliographies.  I couldn’t really find a book, movie or song that I could make a thesis statement out of. I was really interested in the difference between how Sonny and the narrator in Sonny’s Blues dealt with their pain and how Sonny turned to drugs to ease the pain and the narrator dealt with it and became successful. But I felt that Sonny’s Blue’s was challenging for me to read so I decided on the movie the Blind Side because it showed that traumatized, uneducated people can become successful.

Fall

Summer is probably my favorite season but I also really enjoy fall. I really like the transition from hot summer weather to cooler temperatures. I also really like fall because it reminds me of the times I would go over to my grandma and grandpa's house and my grandpa would rake up huge piles of leaves for my brother and I to jump in. Whenever we would go over there my grandma would always make sure she had doughnuts and cider for us to eat and drink after we got done jumping in the leaf piles. I also really like the change the trees go through, it's so pretty.

Letting Go

Lately, I've been having a hard time following my head and not my heart.  I know that I shouldn't be doing something, but my heart makes me do it. I just went through and still am going through a break-up and it's just really hard to deal with because I know I'm better off without him but I just can't let go. I'm the type of person that if there's ever a time where I want something, I HAVE to get it. But in this situation that can't be done. I wish we could just forget everything and not let anything interfere with our relationship and just be together but so much has happened that that doesn't seem like that will ever happen. So for now, I guess I'm just going to have to deal with it all, knowing that things will probably never be patched up and I just have to move on.

Movie

Yesterday in class, we watched a movie about this girl named Carrie who had special powers.  She had the ability to move things without touching them, she would use her mind.  This is called telekinesis.  I don't believe that people can actually have telekinetic powers.  There have been many movies on it like the one we watched.  In the movie Matilda, the main character had telekinetic powers and used her powers to her advantage.  I also read an article online about someone believing they had telekinetic powers and were later entered into a medical hospital because they were proved to be insane. In my opinion, these movies and articles are both fictional and there's no way that anybody could hold these powers in real life.

Why My Mother Can't Speak English

In class, we have been reading Why My Mother Can't Speak English and while reading it, I didn't really understand the mentality of the mother.  If she's going to move to another country for a better life and if she ever wants to be successful, she's going to have to know the first language of that country, or life would be really hard because you wouldn't understand anybody.  She should have just listened to what her son wanted. The mother felt like learning English would take away her traditional Chinese culture inside her but in reality, it would help her a lot in the long run.

Pet Peeve

My biggest pet peeve is when people lie to me.  I've gone through a lot of different relationships where I've been lied to but i believed them when they lied to me because I only saw the good in the person.  I even had a best friend who lies to me all the time if she does something wrong just so i don't get mad at her. I think lying is just pointless because eventually the truth does come out. I’d rather someone fess up to something they did rather than lie about it. So saying all this you should always tell the truth!

Blog Post #1

In class today we talked about miscommunications and we went around and had everyone name a miscommunication they encountered.  Well I had a miscommunication once a long time ago when I went over to my Mom’s friend’s house who are Chinese and are very traditional.  We came over for dinner and had a great time.  At the end of the meal, my brother who was about 4 at the time asked if we could have ice cream.  My mom’s friend got a worried look on her face but said yes.  After waiting for about 15 minutes my brother, being the age he was at the time started throwing a fit.  My mom asked when the ice cream would be ready and my mom’s friend said she didn’t have any ice cream.  My mom was confused by this and later on figured out that Chinese people don’t like to tell someone no, and will say yes even if they don’t mean it.