Monday 19 March 2012

Writing Reflection #4 19/03/2012

Last week we wrote about moments in our lives that changed us, even in the littlest ways. I had trouble trying to think of something to write about at first, but once we got the idea sheets, I started to get a few ideas, and then I just started writing away. I think it could use a little work in making it more 'story-like', but I think it's a good length. As for my blog, I started out keeping it up to date, but lately I've been having troubles, because I usually finish up what I'm doing on the Blogger app on my phone, and it's been acting up - as in not letting me sign in sometimes and glitching. I've been trying to keep it up to date, and I think I have everything I need on here so far, but I was having issues last week with the app.

Wednesday 14 March 2012

Reading Response #3 15/03/2012

Sorry it's a little late, but my phone's Blogger app was not cooperating. While continuing reading Neverwhere, I found a paragraph that contradicts the darkness while they were on the bridge. "They went through the door. Richard shut his eyes, involuntarily, at the sudden flood of light: it stabbed into his head like a migraine." I find this contrast interesting because all throughout the book, Richard has been scared of, and trying to avoid the darkness, and now it's mentioning that he doesn't want to look at the light.
"Mr. Vandemar, on the other hand, simply walked. It was too consistent, too steady and inexorable a walk to be described as a stroll: Death walked like Mr. Vandemar." This quote also also made me think; by personifying Death, and comparing it to Mr. Vandemar really makes him sound like he should be feared. Also, by comparing Death to Vandemar, and not the other way around makes it seem Vandemar is scarier than death itself. Moving on: "He made a noise then- the cuck-koo that a cuckoo might make, if it were five and a half feet high and had a weakness for human flesh--while Mr. Vandemar, truer to his nature, threw back his bullet head and howled like a wolf, ghostly and feral and mad." Gaiman does a good job of making Mr Croup and Mr Vandemar seem like beastly creatures that should be feared by Door and Richard, by comparing them to wolves, or a five and a half foot tall flesh eating cuckoo....

Monday 12 March 2012

Kony 2012

I don't know everything about the Kony 2012 campaign, but I know that he must be stopped. I'm excited to take part in Cover the Night, where we all run around the whole night covering the city to make his name known. What bothers me though is that this has been going on for a really long time and things are only being done now... and the fact that people don't realize that if we worked together like this for a lot of the world's issues they could be resolved... I'm hoping people realize after this is done that we can work together to solve other global issues.

SixWordMemoir4

These are words from one of my favourite songs, Meddler by August Burns Red. "You won't ever fly fast enough to make time stand still." This line of the song struck me and I'm not sure why. It seems to use demotivation to get it's point across, even though there's more meaning behind it than that. We can't get too caught up in ourselves, we need to think of others, and it bothers me that people nowadays don't ever want to put others before themselves. No I'm not perfect and can sometimes be a little selfish, but I was raised to try to put others first. It's a big part of how my mind works so I wanted to do a Six Word Memoir about it, and it's a bonus that one of my favourite songs relates to this.

Friday 9 March 2012

SixWordMemoir3

Music is one of the biggest things in my life. I can't last more than an hour without listening to my iPod. Most people make fun of the music I listen to because it's different from what most people listen to nowadays, but I don't care. It's my biggest inspirational influence. When I like the lyrics of a song enough, or find inspiration within them, I have to write them down somewhere. A lot of the personal additions I add to my WRN for Creative Writing are song lyrics for this exact reason. It's a huge part of my life therefore I had to include a music-related Six Word Memoir to my blog

Thursday 8 March 2012

SixWordMemoir2

I had some issues a few years ago with insecurities and social anxiety. I didn`t like myself and I didn`t think anyone else liked me either. I always thought that people were thinking bad things about me or hated me even if they were my friends. I was so insecure with myself I couldn`t handle it. Then I just recently realized that I actually liked who I was, and everyone`s hatred and negativity was all just in my mind. I chose this picture to illustrate this Six Word Memoir because it shows how my head was always down and I didn`t want to look at anyone. It was a significant part of my life, even if it wasn`t positive.
Look up and be happy

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My friends call me a nerd and tell me to stop talking about games all the time. They always talk about what they like, which is stuff I don't really care about, so why can't I talk about stuff I like once in awhile? It's what I do. It's no different from other girls who shop or talk about some tv series I don't watch. It really bothers me when my friends say that a game I like is stupid or pointless, because I feel the exact same way about what they talk about, except I don't voice it because I know they like it. "It's not real, what's the point of it?" Yeah well I like it. I'm not going to stop playing them just because people say it's stupid. I've been playing them my whole life and it's what I like to do. I don't like when people judge other people for other peoples' hobbies.