Prison Break

So I've been pretty MIA lately this past week. The reason? My dad just bought Netflix, and Prison Break is one of the shows on it. I'm the type of person that when I like something, I REALLY like it. Not just a little bit. I go full out obsessed with it. I finished the Hunger Games trilogy in 4 days... I'm embarrassed to admit it but the Twilight series took me a week and a half. Finished 4 seasons of Breaking Bad in a little over a month. I loved corned beef sandwiches when I was in grade 7 so much I didn't eat anything else for 3 weeks, until I got so sick my mom had to force feed me something else. These are just some of the crazy examples from my past. I'm not proud to admit it, but it's one of the only character flaws I possess. Prison Break is the new one. How obsessed am I? Well, I've watched 30 episodes in 7 days. I had a dream about it the other night. This is why when I start to read a book, or watch a show, or listen to a song or ANYTHING I'm very hesitant to do so, and need to make sure nothing else is pressing in my life. Otherwise, I have no self control and end up throwing out all other responsibilities to do whatever it is I want to do. It's a good thing I didn't find this show around exams, or there'd be a serious problemo on my hands. But anyways, it's 12:15, and I've done 3 of these, and Netflix is calling my name. Peace easy

THIS

This is literally my life. Why is it every time I actually come to class I can't seem to do anything productive? All I do is dick around, and end up doing all my homework at 12 at night. Seriously. But on a funnier note, how adorable is this sloth. Has anybody else seen the youtube video of Kristin Bell finding out her birthday surprise is a sloth? Best youtube video around. I'm going to stop talking and let y'all enjoy the beauty of this picture

... School?

So in about 23 minutes it's going to be May 1st... School ends June something. I'm going to guess mid June. MID JUNE!! That's a month and a half. I can't handle that. A month and a half and I have to face the real world... I-20's, visa's, tickets, college tuition, packing, learning to cook.. This is too stressful. I'm just going to curl up under my baby blanket and have my mom bake me some cookies. Screw getting older, screw college. I'm growing up to be a vagrant who lives in their mothers basements. This whole real world stuff is hitting me like a bag of bricks, and I don't like it! Can we please just go back to playing hop scotch and jump rope all day long?

Writing Response #7

http://jolums.blogspot.ca/2012/04/true-love.html?showComment=1335844801876#c1206641853420619504

http://ryanbruce45.blogspot.ca/2012/04/friends.html

http://bethradons.blogspot.ca/2012/04/reading-and-writing-reflection-7.html?showComment=1335846648048#c4678779493984201380

I always really enjoy reading Ryan's blog, because there's always something on there that makes me laugh. Also, Jordyn's taste in music is exceptional, minus the country. And I'm loving the book choice Beth! Everyone's blogs are coming along quite nicely

Reading response #6

This week I decided to continue reading "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera. I don't know how many pages I read because I read this book off and on since it hurts my brain to think about it for too long. There's a couple of ideas Kundera presents that I would like to elaborate on right now. One is the idea that it is easy for someone to take a light thought or action and turn it into a heavy one. He exemplifies this with Beethoven's 19th symphony "Es Muss Sein!" (it must be!). The whole idea behind the symphony is that one side goes "must it be?" and the other goes, "it must be!". Beethoven heard these words spoken by a friend who had to pay rent the next day and he said, "must it be?" and his landlord responded, "it must be!". This was just an everyday conversation that Beethoven took and made heavy by turning it into this huge question of life.. So big he decided to create an entire symphony based on these words. I think that people do this in everyday life as well. If somebody forgets to do something another person asks the other person gets offended and takes the action as something a lot heavier than what it was. The person thinks that because they forgot they don't have any respect for what that person says, and don't care about their needs. They take a simple action and read too much into it and give it all this meaning that it doesn't have. Maybe the person that forgot just didn't write it down because they didnt have a pen handy when they were being asked. But people don't think like that, and automatically give everything so much meaning that it doesn't possess.

Reading response #5

So I started to read "The Old Man and the Sea" by Earnest Hemingway the other day, but I've only gotten through 16 pages so far. I can kind of relate to it so far because it's set in Cuba, and I was there last month! I actually bought it while I was there which makes it a little more interesting. There was one quote that I read that's stuck with me.. It read "Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated." I really like this quote because I love how descriptive it is. I can picture an old wrinkly fisherman with smiling blue eyes that smells like the sea. Also, when I read this passage I was on a bus bench in Cuba and there was an old fisherman beside me and I noticed the irony of it which made it more special than I think it might have been otherwise, but I'm happy it happened that way. I also really enjoy the way that it's written- how blunt and straightforward the writing technique is. As I understand Hemingway helped change the way sentences were structured after his writing came out, and I'm a fan of it. I think it's straightforward as well as descriptive and beautiful which is rare. As for the content of the book I haven't gotten far enough along to judge how I'm going to like the story, but I like Santiago so far. I like how optimistic he is even though he hasn't caught fish in almost 3 months, and how he still goes out everyday. Maybe it's just because it's the only thing he knows, and e needs to make money to live, but I like how he never complains about his luck and is always hopeful that the next day will be better.

Writing response #8

So at first I didn't like the blackout poems because they were really difficult to do. Like my brain just wasn't used to making poems out of random words in a completely unrelated text, but when we started to do it I really enjoyed it. Once I got a theme going I found it much easier, and I think they're going to turn out really cool. I'm excited to see everyone else's. I liked how you kind of started to get an idea of what you wanted to say and then it was like an eye spy to see if that word was in the text. I also really enjoy my theme, heroes, because I didn't know if I'd be able to make happy poems out of newspaper clippings. When you consider that everyone mostly reports on bad things I'm happy I found 3 articles about heroes.

Writing Response #6

http://breanne94.blogspot.ca/2012/04/happy-easter.html?showComment=1334594206343#c1221820248333422508

http://noodlingfordummies.blogspot.ca/2012/03/spring-break-in-nutshell.html?showComment=1334594621316#c9149302013318292326

http://grandoptimism.blogspot.ca/2012/03/flashback.html?showComment=1334594964346#c8497807949789825737

So all of the comments I wrote seem to have a theme... Bringing up childhood memories. Maybe I'm getting sentimental over the fact that I'm practically an adult now? Scary thoughts, scary thoughts. I'm starting to feel more comfortable writing on other people's blogs, and a lot of what people are posting I find very interesting.. I especially enjoy all of the personal entries. It's cool that we get to see what people do "in the classroom", because it's like we're always showcasing our work... Kind of like back in grade 4 when the teacher would put up your posters at the end of an assignment. Loving the childhood references

Personal post 11

These are some of the views I got to see in Cuba. The first is just a typical picture i took while going to the pool in Matanzas. Its awesome there because everybody spends their days outside, so you always get to interact with a lot of different people. The next is a picture from my balcony, where we got to watch the sun set most nights. The last is a picture of the newly renovated pool we were at. I was really happy it was an outdoor one since then I got to work on my killer tan!

Personal post 10

This past week I went to Cuba for a diving training camp!! It was honestly the best week of my life, and I got to meet some o the nicest, most interesting people. Since we were there for diving a lot of the people we met were also divers. The first picture is of my diving team and some of the divers from Cuba. The one in the red shirt and the one in the blue were from there. The guy in the red shirt's name is Torro, and he went to the Olympics in 2008 and came 5th! The guy in the blue is named Leno and he's the best coach in Cuba. He's also a really famous fisherman there and once wrestled a 200 pound turtle with his bare hands! In the next picture it's Dawson, me, and Jose. He's 33 and has been diving since he was 8. This summer will be the third time he's gone to the Olympics. He was basically our tour guide the entire time, and showed us all of the things we wouldn't have had a chance to see otherwise. He's also extremely funny, and by the end of the trip it was like he was one of the team. After this summer he's quitting diving, and is hoping to start farming. The last picture is of me and our bus driver Lazaro. He didn't know any English but was still super friendly and charismatic. It was such an awesome experience, I wish I could go back already!