Class!

  In class we discussed which genre we wanted to pick and we were suppossed to come up with 2 pieces of our genre to analyze.  My genre is plays and it was hard finding short free plays online.  I ended up finding websites with a series of short plays, but you said I should find a book from the library to get them from.  I checked out a book called Thirty Short Plays for Teens and it's a lot of good plays I can use.

Ruined; Extra Credit!

  I went to go see Ruined Friday night and it honestly wasn't as good as I thought it would be.  Overall it was a good play, but I felt like there was a lot that could've been improved.  It didn't keep my attention all the time and it was very repetitive; like the same thing kept happening over and over.  The cast came to my DEARTS class and spoke a lot on the play, but it wasn't as great as I expected.  The best part was I had front row seats for the play which was extremly nice. 

Twilight

  Twilight is the BEST movie ever!!! I went to the midnight showing and it's truly worth staying up for.  I don't want to give the movie away but one scene towards the end had my mouth wide open literally.  I was so into what was happening that i kept my hands over my mouth the whole scene and kept making mini comments because i was scared.  Just go see the movie, it's worth it.

The Weekend

  My weekend was great; I went home Thursday night then stayed until Saturday morning.  I got to spend time with my friends and family.  25 of us decided to all get together and go to Applebees, so it was really nice seeing my class.  My friend also came back to WMU with me and we went to go see Pitch Perfect.  Funniest/best movie ever!!! Fat Amy is hilarious, we were in tears from laughing so hard in the theatre. 

Extra Credit Julie Playwright

When I went to the presentation at Bernhard today, I thought it was going to be some random author standing in front of the crowd going on and on about her book.  I didn't think it was going to be interesting, but when the person came on to introduce her; i knew it was going to be good.  My favorite one was the scene with the elf and santa, it was really funny and entertaining. She's truly amazing at writing and her thoughts of coming up with everything was incredible.  I'm glad I went, it truly broadened my horizons.

Fairytales

Writing about fairytales isn't as easy as it seems.  Usually when I write it's long, sometimes wordy, and has big words.  When writing this fairy tale, I was constantly deleting words because I remembered who my audience was and a kid probably wouldn't understand the word i chose.  That was probably the hardest thing and of course keeping it short by getting straight to the point.  Usually we have to write long papers or make sure we explain things really well, when in fairytales it needs to be short and clear.  I do like how we don't have boring homework assignments, it's nice to have something you don't dread to do.

Meme

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My Bestest ((:

One of my bestfriends from high school sadly ended up going to our rival school, CMU.  I haven't seen her since she left for school and she came to visit me this weekend.  It was wonderful seeing her, I was so happy I could've cried. Jordann is like my other half, we're alike in pretty much everything and we're both even majoring in Elementary Education.  This was one of the best few days all because of her, we laugh at pretty much everything and no friend could replace her.  She's been my bestfriend for 5 years and she just might transfer to WMU hopefully. (:

Research Papers

Even though I'm not a big fan of research papers because I have to cite a lot of sources, I loved how we got to pick our topic on movies or songs instead of just books.  I feel like this made it more interesting that we got to pick a topic on something we actually cared about or could relate to.  This made it way easier to write the paper and I didn't have to push stuff off to the last minute just because I didn't want to read a book.