tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27333793295615903552024-03-13T14:11:56.614-07:00Sarah's Stellar BlogAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16441296900289483985noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2733379329561590355.post-71278429167679132342013-01-27T13:52:00.002-08:002013-01-27T19:31:03.085-08:00<u style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">Personal Edition Numero...Done. Forever?</span></u><br />
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Overall, I loved this course. Sad to say it's over.<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">I actually liked all the major units we did...and I can't say I liked anything the least. If I was to choose a minor assignment I disliked, it was probably the reading reflections...but thats probably the same for most people. They were just kind of an annoyance to do but I got through it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">I actually liked friday reading a lot because it was a nice way to end the week. Even though all the books I chose to read this year were SO BAD and ended up finishing...none of them, I still liked the concept of having time to read them. This was definitely a good idea, I loved sitting there with my tea reading a book...at school!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Hated this. That is all........okay well, if I must explain, it took away from actually reading the book a lot and I didn't always know what to talk about. However, I think I started to hate it less as the semester went on because I got the hang of it more. I took it less seriously and was able to just talk about my book like I would to someone face to face, and my reflections got a lot better because of that...in my opinion at least. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">...couldn't even tell you where mine is right now. May be shredded to pieces, poor soul. This didn't really work out but I'm okay with that! I loved the technology aspect of this course much more!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">I've never blogged before so at first I was a bit skeptical. I ended up really liking it because you can actually put ANYTHING you want on it. Even though others are reading what you post, its for YOU not them. You can be as personal as you want and don't have to worry about negative comments being shot back at you or rejection. Although it can be a bit annoying at times because you constantly have to update it, you find that there's "blogging days" where all of a sudden you feel inspired to make 5 posts at a time, and then it doesn't actually feel like homework. Its just fun...and a great outlet. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">I used Twitter before we started using it in this course but I found that it changed my perspective on this social media site after we used it for the purpose of writing creatively. I loved twitter fiction because, like the Six Word Memoirs, I liked making a meaningful statement in a short amount of words. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">I love technology so I loved using it in this course. Save the trees! It was nice not having to always worry about handing something in, and having a firm "good" paper copy of something. In a way, using technology made things less serious and less professional...but for this course I think thats the best thing that could happen. It encourages people to write what they want and how they want without worrying that its not perfect, a solid finished piece. In a way, technology can make us better writers. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">I don't take risks. I play it safe. This course taught me that I have a lot to say and now I know how exactly to get my voice out there. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Such a great course Ms. McLauchlan! So easy going which is perfect of this kind of class. Nothing felt like work because most of it was fun. We got a lot accomplished and I'm proud of most of my work. I liked that you asked us to add art and different media, like photography, to a lot of our projects...and I love art so that was great to incorporate into an English class!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Write what you want. Say what you want. Most people won't look at your blog so don't be scared to open up...then again, if they do look at your blog its probably not because they don't appreciate your work or you as a person (in the end, nobody is judging you). Speak like you would to a friend and write like you would if you had a journal right in front of you. A lot of your writing in this course may make you come off as a pretty "soft"...don't worry about that, nobody cares. WRITE ANYTHING. Don't bullshit your way through this course writing things that don't mean anything to you. You're making it a lot harder and you're not gonna have a fun semester. Everyone has good and bad times they've been though, embarrassing moments, major life struggles, gained love and lost love, and secrets. Use those to your advantage. Good luck guys. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16441296900289483985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2733379329561590355.post-61119172004181424652013-01-19T11:17:00.002-08:002013-01-27T13:50:16.527-08:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <u>Authors Note</u></span></span></span><br />
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I'm a person who, generally, doesn't take any risks. I could live through my entire life, not doing most of the items on my Bucket List, and still be content...but I don't want that. I want to make myself try new and exciting things that I wouldn't normally do. This project will hopefully give me some kind of motivation to do a lot of the items on my list because life's too short. I know thats a huge cliché but its true. It gives me a visual to look at that I can always go back to now and again to cross items off the list that I've accomplished or come up with ideas on how to tackle another item. As far as theme goes, I don't really have one...other than the fact that all my list items are relatively safe and not very risky. Every 10 or so item I tried to add some sort of act that would do good for others, like sponsoring a child in Africa, building a well, paying for someone else's groceries or helping a less fortunate family have the perfect Christmas. Also, I added a lot of travel items to my list...so hopefully I end up getting to those places in my life! For my project I did a video with Jordan and Lane. We added some clips where we have the list item written on objects or paper, and some where we literally act out the item. We hoped to grab the viewers attention and keep them interested, so we added lots of different styles. We made some of our video clips funny and some more serious and meaningful, we really tried to make an impact on the viewer by doing this. One thing that surprised me about myself through this project was that I found that actually really liked coming up with visual representations to go along with my list items. I was pretty surprised by the videos I took because they all worked out perfectly! I loved coming up with new ways to represent my items, for example, with my item "Learn how to skateboard" I literally wrote it in marker on the back of a skateboard and filmed the bottom of the skateboard. Also, another one of mine was "Start writing in a journal" so I filmed myself writing that item directly into a journal, finishing by ripping out the page. I thought it was really fun creating these new ideas and video clips. One thing I really loved about this project was that it teaches us to live life to the fullest for ourselves but it also teaches us to make other people's lives a bit better too, pay it forward, and I've always found that really important so I'm glad we did a project that incorporates this idea. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16441296900289483985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2733379329561590355.post-85396481754865655052013-01-18T20:45:00.001-08:002013-01-27T13:52:25.241-08:00<u style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">Personal Edition Numero...something? No idea.</span></u><br />
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I feel as if, if I was celebrity I would try as hard as I could to tweet back at people on twitter...especially if I only had 3000 followers...ya, I think I could definitely find the time...hint hint, Wooden Sky...I've tweeted at a lot of celebrities for this twitter challenge thing and, not gonna lie, it's kinda making me lose a little respect for a lot of the celebs I love...except for Mumford and Sons, those guys are very busy, I would assume...so they have a pass. Seriously though, I told them an item off my bucket list and its just a huge let down when they don't tweet back. Allllsssooo since we're on the topic of twitter, I hate the whole follower idea....no one ever follows me and it especially sucks when I follow someone and they don't follow me back. It's like, I know you got the notification on your iPhone, so just click the bird button and follow me back. Like honestly, I don't really a care about what they tweet but i just want more followers so ill follow them anyways... And then later on ill unfollow them I suppose. Oh ya, I also hate how twitter has turned me into this kind of person. Reading over that last little rant on followers, i annoyed myself. Like it actually scares me how much I care about this, and ya, I'm aware it's not normal, that's not a question in my mind. Anyways that's my thoughts on the twitter challenge/twitter....</div>
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I really liked this image when I saw it at first...only because it made a REALLY good Facebook cover photo. Then I began reading the wishes and they were actually pretty interesting. It reminded me a lot of our buried life assignment...the only difference is that people made wishes they knew could possibly come true...or that were so unrealistic to the point to of being funny. For example, "I wish Pokemons were real," does everyone wish they were real? Of course. Will they ever be? Probably not. The mix of reality and fantasy was really unique and I think an assignment like this would be good to do in class at some point...hint hint...<br />
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I got this topic for a a personal edition by creeping on Sam Deckert's blog, because I knew he just recently added a lot. Here's the link to his personal addition about the Grade 12 provincial English exam- <a href="http://goo.gl/dK5Ih">http://goo.gl/dK5Ih</a>. If you didn't read it, he basically talked about how worried he was about it, how little time we have to write it, how it is worth SO MUCH...30% of our final grade...and that this exam could really make or break your chances of getting a scholarship at university. All I can think of in response to same is, ditto. It just...well, to be truthful, it just sucks that this is probably one of the most, if not THE most, important exam I will ever take in high school...AND THERE'S NO WAY TO STUDY FOR IT! We have honestly gotten no exam preparation and I...obviously, feel so unprepared. I didn't think a lot of people stressed so much over this exam...or thought about a lot of these results of it so much, so it was nice to see Sam's post! I've already got accepted into the U of W for advanced early admission...so my Grade 12 marks don't matter as much...but I didn't know what faculty I wanted to go into at the U or M so I haven't applied there yet...and their mark qualifications are so much harder! I am honestly terrified for this exam...not so much the essay or writing piece, more so the question booklet because 3 hours is NOT much time at all, and the questions are so...well, hard and they are pretty much made so people can bull shit their way through it. Everything is always exaggerated and no one is truthful. They just want to get an answer down. I always stumble over questions like these when there's a time limit. Plus, I know we're going to get stuck with an awful topic like Lines or something similar...I mean, I'm going into the exam with 100...and yes I know, I don't have to worry about a bad mark...if I got a 50 on the exam, my mark goes to an 85 which isn't tooooo bad...but becuase my mark is so high every point I get off on the exam lowers it by 0.3%!!!!!! Which makes it so stressful and way more of a difference than if I had started with a lower mark. I really hope I do well and don't start to panic while writing this...It's the question booklet that's going to kill me, I know it...</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> In advance, I need to warn whoever is reading this that this post will be absolutely scattered! Well, tomorrow is December. 21 2012...the end of the world. I'm not too sure if it ends RIGHT on the start of the day, or after the entire day...at midnight...so...it's 11:53pm on December 20th, which means I could possibly be in the middle of writing this post and bam, the world...ends? I don't know, that sounds kind of weird to say...or funny. Anyways...I must say, if the world were to honestly end, I haven't really done much that I'm glad I did...and I think I have a lot of regrets. I stressed the small things, put school first, and pretty much lived a boring, safe life. Also, whats really the point to life? If we die anyways. I mean, we're all going to die so isn't it better if its done at once, so there'll be no one left to grieve and live in pain from the loss of a loved one? I guess it all depends...AH! 12:00...world still intact. I'll just keep writing...thats another thing! If the world did end, I spent it doing homework...didn't send any last minute meaningful texts...didn't say anything to my family...I just kept to myself. A+ for carpe diem I would say. Well...I'm not done with this post, but I'm going to leave it for today...what an awkward little rant to read...but whatever, you'll live...I mean, if you're reading this, you've already survived an apocalypse. Nice one. </span></div>
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4. Go bungee jumping...and live</div>
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5. Rescue a dog**</div>
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6. Have three kids</div>
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7. Backpack through Africa</div>
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9. Be an extra in a Hollywood movie</div>
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10. Learn to snowboard</div>
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11. Cut my hair for cancer*</div>
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12. Attend a Mumford and Sons concert**</div>
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13. Dye my hair dark brown</div>
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14. Ride an elephant</div>
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15. Pet an orca whale</div>
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16. Get a tattoo*</div>
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17. Get another tattoo*</div>
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18. Meet the cast of Harry Potter</div>
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19. Live in Montreal</div>
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20. Ride a camel through the desert</div>
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21. Learn how to speak French**</div>
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22. Own a pet snake</div>
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23. Learn how to speak Spanish</div>
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24. Sew my own dress...and make it look decent</div>
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25. Have a free shopping spree at Safeway</div>
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26. Learn to skateboard*</div>
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27. Save money to buy a clean well through World Vision**</div>
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28. Go dog sleeding up North</div>
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29. Create my own recipe for a dessert**</div>
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30. Make a batch of Christmas macaroons successfully</div>
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31. Sponser a child in Africa</div>
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32. Eat Gelato in Italy**</div>
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33. Order a meal from a restaurant with an Irish accent...and keep it going the whole time</div>
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34. Train my dog to "play dead"<br />
35. Be in the audience for an Ellen show<br />
36. High five all the Jets players<br />
37. Eat at McDonalds in formal wear*<br />
38. Yell "you can't handle the truth!" at the perfect moment<br />
39. Order a venti ice water at Starbucks and complain that its too cold<br />
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41. Dye a streak of my hair light purple<br />
42. Learn how to wind surf<br />
43. Swim beside a waterfall<br />
44. Make a significant difference in someones life<br />
45. Be involved in the movement to end human trafficking<br />
46. Grow my nails long enough to scratch a chalkboard*<br />
47. Bake a cheesecake from scratch<br />
48. Go on a camping trip with all my friends<br />
49. Get my motorcycle license<br />
50. Buy my own motorcycle<br />
51. Pay it forward by buying a families groceries<br />
52. Buy a sea doo<br />
53. Solve a Rubik's cube*<br />
54. Go to university**<br />
55. Go to a shooting range<br />
56. Help a homeless person get a job and a home<br />
57. Overcome my fear of public speaking*<br />
58. Be a maid of honour for someone<br />
59. Start to write in a journal<br />
60. Buy a chow chow puppy<br />
61. Buy a leonberger puppy<br />
62. Hold a Koala<br />
63. Be in the audience for an SNL show<br />
64. Go carolling at Christmas**<br />
65. Be in a flash mob<br />
66. Visit every province in Canada<br />
67. Backpack through Europe<br />
68. See a Kangaroo in Australia<br />
69. Help someone cross off something on their Bucket List**<br />
70. Put in at least 100 volunteer hours for Winnipeg Harvest<br />
71. Donate blood at least once a year...if I'm able to**<br />
72. Tell someone "I love you"...and mean it<br />
73. Graduate from University**<br />
74. Help a family have the perfect Christmas**<br />
75. Participate in Comic Con in San Diego<br />
76. Build a professional snow fort*<br />
77. Become a plastic surgeon<br />
78. Save up to buy a black grand piano<br />
79. Be a regular volunteer at a children's hospital<br />
80. Take cooking classes...and baking classes*<br />
81. Buy someone else's coffee in a drive through<br />
82. Spend a night in a graveyard**<br />
83. Help a family have the perfect Christmas**<br />
84. Break the law...in a harmless manor**<br />
85. Learn calligraphy*<br />
86. Keep in touch with my friends after high school*<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I think Twitter Fiction went really well for me. At first it was actually pretty difficult though. Even though any topic was open to write about...I found that it was hard to choose something to write a story about, that would make sense under 140 characters. Since I chose to write my tweets in very short story form, I felt as if all 30+ tweets had to be completely different...but as I kept writing, I found that I can still make them involve the same topics and make them...unrelated at the same time. It got easier to come up with tweets after that. In my opinion, one of my greatest successes for this assignment came from the tweets that were told through the first person perspective. I tried to make a lot of very personal tweets (to the character) so I thought the writing would be better if I told it exactly as they would write about an experience, thought, or story about their life. In the beginning, I found coming up with fictional tweets extremely frustrating and difficult. In over one week, I only had about 10 tweets...or less. I felt completely uninspired and I had no ideas at all. I thought the tweets I was making were really boring and it discouraged me from continuing. I was trying to make them long and literal. Everything had to be textbook perfect, as if they could be published in a book...and not a very interesting one. Then I started to re-read and look up some of the professional tweets and I found that a lot of them were short, choppy, and not very serious. I believe this influenced a lot of my tweets to come...which leads me to another one of my successes. As mentioned earlier, at first my tweets were long and so literal, none of them were told in the first person perspective and they were so...typical. There was a sappy love story, a serial killer contemplating his next kill, a bitter divorce...they were original stories and yet they all seemed done before. I tried to fill all 140 characters and I think they were almost too long. So, my success came from my tweets that were short and concise...a lot of the stories were told by their character personally. The tweets were quick and cut deep. As a writer, I learned that I apparently like to make a lot of dark and depressing stories. Also, stories that told the truth about life in hidden ways...I began to make tweets where they was no real story line to them, it was just writing about real life, involving a characters life. They were simple and basic, but I think these were my best tweets. As far as publishing my tweets on Twitter...I didn't mind it too much. I already have a personal Twitter account, so I found that it was pretty different. I don't mine people reading my stories, I just wish I had more favourites and retweets than I did! ...Obviously, this assignment was a challenge for me because I have great difficulty getting to the point through my writing...but I think I did a good job at it by the end, hopefully. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I read a memoir by Fathome Butterfly and tweets involving gravestone characters by Jennifer Wilson. I read the Fathome Butterfly one because one of my friends recommended it because they found it interesting. I didn't actually like it very much because I found like it was all over the place...and not very structured. Some were actually kind of cool though, especially the pictures she posted, but other than that I wasn't a huge fan. The tweets by Jennifer Wilson were a bit more interesting...but I think the description I read about made it sound better than it was. I thought each separate post she posted would be a story she made up about the person who's name was on the gravestone. However, this was not the case. The tweets were divided into sections and each section was devoted to a specific person. I found it sort of difficult spending Thursdays class reading these Twitter Fiction stories because the tweets by the authors were pretty inconsistent and dispersed, you really had to look for the story. Personal tweets by the author tweeting at someone or advertising their page were mixed in with the stories, so I found this very frustrating and discouraged my from reading further into the story. One thing that surprised me was how many people participate with Twitter Fiction. When I searched the fiction hashtags, there were lots of stories that came up by people and I didn't it was that big of a deal. Also, each writer had a different sort of writing style and they were all pretty unique, I even found this to be the case with our class members stories. I found this very surprising but I really liked reading them. For example, I enjoyed a lot of Sam Deckert's tweets because I found that they were similar to mine in style...and idea choices, so I thought they were pretty cool.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I don't think this assignment necessarily changed my perspective on Twitter because I already used it before hand with my personal account and I really like it. That being said, this assignment did show me new things about the site that I didn't know existed (the fictional stories) and I thought those were really interesting to read about. I think our next Buried Life unit would be good to tweet about. Even using our twitter accounts to tweets questions about class projects or recommendations about books would be of good use...even tweeting out good things that you have read or watched that you want people to know about. People in our class could really benefit from recommendations from others. </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16441296900289483985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2733379329561590355.post-7838629050587833502012-11-20T22:04:00.005-08:002012-11-20T22:11:14.880-08:00Here is the site for the photo credit to my background image. I thought it would be nice to change up the look of my page. Although, it's a bit of a contrast to the pink and orange theme it was before, wouldn't you say?<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Shadows settle on the place, that you left.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Our minds are troubled by the emptiness.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Destroy the middle, it's a waste of time.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">From the perfect start to the finish line.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">And if you're still breathing, you're the lucky ones.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">'Cause most of us are heaving through corrupted lungs.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Setting fire to our insides for fun</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Collecting names of the lovers that went wrong</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">The lovers that went wrong.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">We are the reckless,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">We are the wild youth</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Chasing visions of our futures</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">One day we'll reveal the truth</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">That one will die before he gets there.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><br /></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">And if you're still bleeding, you're the lucky ones.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">'Cause most of our feelings, they are dead and they are gone.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">We're setting fire to our insides for fun.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Collecting pictures from the flood that wrecked our home,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">It was a flood that wrecked this...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">... and you caused it...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">... and you caused it...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">... and you caused it...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Well I've lost it all, I'm just a silouhette,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">A lifeless face that you'll soon forget,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">My eyes ae damp from the words you left,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Ringing in my head, when you broke my chest.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Ringing in my head, when you broke my chest.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">And if you're in love, then you are the lucky one,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; 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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b> </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">So far, I have been really slow with this whole twitter fiction project. I come up with a lot of good ideas, but when I go to write them out they either don't sound good or are too long. I wouldn't say that I'm extremely close to being done, maybe a little over halfway. I chose to tell stories in the 140 characters or less, single post options. So each tweet will be different and not relate, in any way, to another one. This is why I'm having a bit of trouble with this. I'm running out of ideas so it's taking me longer to think of interesting ones. I chose to use this style of Twitter Fiction because I thought it would be more...enjoyable to do, so that I don't get bored with the same story and get stuck in a dead end with where the story leads to or ends. Also, like the Six Word Memoirs, I like making meaningful stories/messages using a limited number of words. Make it short, and make it count. These short posts leave a lot of questions and mystery, and room for the reader to think, which I really like so I thought it would be fun to come up with them. As for pictures, I haven't really thought about any that I want to add quite yet...I'm going to wait till I have all my tweets completed on my rough draft and then decide what images I want to tie in. I think that I still need to work on making the tweets a bit cleaning. This means that I have to think about keeping the same initial story I came up with, be tweaking the words around a bit to make them smoother to read. I want to include mystery in them, but not leave enough gaps that it will make it ridiculously frustrating for the reader to understand. One comment I have on this project so far is that...I didn't think it would be this difficult. I thought the stories would just easily come to me. I'm also trying to write outside of the box to make the stories interesting, but I don't think I'm quite there yet. However, I do like this project a lot and thinks its tr</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">è</span></span>s interessant. I also think it will be pretty cool to read other peoples Twitter Fiction!</div>
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I...don't know how this happened but in my last "Music Musts" I forgot about Bon Iver. If you listen to this artist, you know some of the most soothing music comes from him. If you're in a bad mood and feel like crying, not saying thats always the best and funnest thing to do, but this is the music you would do that too. I love the songs Towers, Holocene, Skinny Love, and Blood Bank by him. Give them a listen to!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><strong>Pages Read: </strong>1-20</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Dear Fellow Readers, yep, another book has been started. I never read books like these, teen love stories, so I'm finding it kind of hard to read. It seems like the characters and very stereotypical. A rich cheerleader with blond hair, blue eyes, is very rich, as a convertible, and has the perfect boy friend. Then the next main character is a Latino Blood, kind of poor, is the tough guy at school, rides a motorcycle, with a bad attitude. Oh, but I can't forget, they both feel like they're putting on a mask to the outside world, hiding who they truly are. How unheard of. When I read this book, its almost as if I know what the characters are going to say and do before they do it, its the predictable...but my friend told me that it gets really good, so I'm just curious to read what happens which is why I want to keep reading this book. She also read it in Grade 7...so there is quite the age difference going along with her recommendation...so I guess I'll just have to see what all the talk is about. So, my first prediction I have for this book is that these two characters are going to get together. Surprised? They are from opposite worlds, different sides of town, and there will be a lot of controversy and problems when they get together. They will fall madly in love and maybe one of the characters will die. Since one of the main characters, Alex, is Latino, they use a lot of Spanish words in the book in replace of English words. I know very little Spanish so its kind of difficult to follow at times and I just sort of get the idea of what the word meant from the context that its in. I find the use of these Spanish words interesting because since this book takes place in the U.S.A, a lot of people are accustomed to basic Spanish words, meanwhile in Canada we know french as our second language. It just goes to show the cultural difference between our countries. One aspect of the main characters life that I related to was Brittany's relationship to her mom. For a lot of the time she'd rather be out of the house so she doesn't have to deal with her...and I kind of find myself in the same situation. The moms not abusive at all or really mean for all that matter, just very judgmental and you never know if they're going to be in a good mood or a really bad mood that day...its better to be out of the house. One reference in this book that I found interesting was the in Alex's family, his siblings are mentioned in context as soldiers, such as soldier number one and soldier number two. I really liked this because it is most likely that these kids will become gang members, so I liked the contrast between the two different fighters and the groups they would belong too. Overall, I don't know if I like this book a lot...but I don't think I dislike it either. Since I last read part of this book for this reflection, I am on page 110 and still haven't really made up my mind about it...but we'll see how it goes!</span></div>
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