The conclusion

        Just to start off this blog, I have written 28 blogs this year! How crazy(: So many thoughts and ideas typed on my computer and saved for other people to read... which many didn't but thats okay! Writing these blogs were actually really fun and I enjoyed some of the topics a lot. Anyway back to the assignment....

        I learned that my writing style changes depending on my mood and what time of day that I type it. Like if I'm having a bad day and it's night time, I tend to write shorter... plain blogs but when I'm happy than everything changes. I have written a lot on the topics that I liked and could really express in my writing. My blogs are really all about the topics and me.. I used myself in the blogs a lot and I noticed that every blog had a different feeling to them. Some would be really long and well written while others were short and not so complex.It was fun to look back and read everything that I typed. At some points I'm like... "Oh why in the world did I say it that way" or stuff like that. I also realized that towards the beginning I tried to write long blogs at times, I can't remember why but it looked kind of strange. Writing these blogs kinda reminds me back to 6th grade. In my block class everyday we would have to write a journal. Sometimes we had topics that we had to write about and others we could just write about anything. I loved that and I think that's part of the reason why I like writing these blogs, because I get that feelings of being able to say whatever I felt and no body would judge me (because they were private) and I could speak whatever was on my mind. On here I write about my own thoughts and opinions of the topics and I don't have to worry about sounding stupidif I were to say it in the class.
        I loved doing the blog assignment for animal farm. That was so much fun to me, I liked looking at the videos and looking at other people's work and seeing their ideas! I really liked how mine turned out. I thought that my pyramid idea was pretty cool and fit with the image that I wanted to portray. It may look messy but hey, I did it on the computer and it took my a while to get the animals in the position I wanted them. An assignment that I really liked was when we had to write about our poem for poetry out loud. I chose  Follow thy fair sun and when I was reading over what I wrote I found this, "I think that the meaning of the poem is to not let bad things in your day/life (the shadow) ruin your “sunshine” so to speak. Don’t let it bring you down even when things look their worst and nothing is going to get better. There is always something to shine down on you to brighten everything up. Don’t give up, its always worth trying and getting up stronger than before and keep going." This is something that I need to remind myself. Not to let these bumps in my road affect my whole like and futurewith the people that matter the most to me. I actually forgot that I wrote that until I reread it.
        "Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save." -Will Smith. I find that quote is totally true. So many people spend a lot of time trying to find out what they want in life and who they want to become. And in their frantic search they flew right by it. This relates to the end of my blog because my blogs, being typed this year has been the year that I started thinking about my life. Now that I'm in high school I need to start thinking about my future and what I want to be. I don't know what I want to do after college, I don't know what I want to major in, I don't know what classes I want to take later on in life. My blogs have all been typed through this time period so that idea has been on my mind this whole year and sometimes has come out in my writing.
        Overall this year, I'd have to say has had it's ups and downs. Good memories and bad, laughs and cries but coming out of my freshman year, I have grown stronger and know the kind of person that I am. That's all that matters (: Goodbye FRESHMAN year, hello SUMMER (:

Memorable assignment

        Gosh there are so many to choose from. I honestly... I can't even think of my favorite one. One that I will remember is my Great Expectations Essay. In the past I had trouble writing essays but I worked so hard on this one and got help from people. Even though my grade on it was a B, it felt better than a C or an F. I spent long countless hours on my paper trying to make it sound just right and make it so I had everything in order. The book wasn't all that spectacular to me, or wasn't my favorite book but knowing that the essay we were going to have to write at the end was real nerve racking for me. I didn't want to fail this assignment because my writing was crappy or because I had too many mistakes. This was one paper that I really wanted to do well on. I wanted to challenge myself and see how well I could do.
        By writing that essay and having the papers from my rough drafts, it was really helpful to me to look at them when we wrote our "Romeo and Juliet" essay. I had a tough time with this assignment. I wanted everything to be perfect. Everything to fit and flow smoothly. I wanted my paragraphs to be really really good and for my ideas in my head to explode out onto the paper. Some of those things happened and some of them didn't but overall knowing that my paper was a B grade made me feel so good inside and a lot of stress on my shoulders was lifted because I could tell my parents that I got a good grade instead of a C or lower. It made me proud and happy to know that hard work does pay off and that I can accomplish hard things (:

Poetry

       I have always been into poetry. I used to write it all the time that also got me into writing songs. Poetry is one was that I can express how I'm feeling, it is honestly really hard to come up with something that sounds good but every once in a while I can write something that I like to share. I can't really say that I have had a positive experience with poetry. Besides writing it.. other than that... I don't really like to read poetry, I'm more up to being the author and having people read mine. When I write poetry or words on paper, I always know what I want to say but when I put it down on paper it just turns out all wrong and doesn't really make sense. When I do get something I like, it feels really good.
       I can't explain the way I feel when I write poetry because every time it is different. It all depends on my mood and what is on my mind. I know that I tend to write kinda sappy or romantic poems but every once in a blue moon I get a funny one. One time in 7th grade I was eating lunch and it was during the WASL. I had a pencil with me for some reason and I wrote one about the WASL right on my brown paper bag. People thought it was super good. I was gonna show my teacher but I forgot it was on there and I threw it away :/ But I did later on come up with a similar one. I can't really remember what got me into poetry, I have always liked Dr. Seuss and Shel Silverstein but not to the point where I looked up to them or they were my inspiration.
       When I think about the word poetry, I think about people. I think about sadness and fun and life and reality and dreams and wishes and love and everything. I think about personalities, I don't know... Poetry has a bazillion definitions and can never have a bad or stupid one.