So me and my soul pancakes are pretty rad as heck. (I got that idea from my teacher). Right now Jenna is wearing a mustard shirt and Nathalie is so casual it's trippy. What am I talking about? I bet you would like to know. This counts as a personal post. Can this be quick write since I'm typing quickly? I say yes. As a great TV show character once said "if you honor me with being your next class president, I will make tornadoes illegal at McKinley, making your families at our school safe from their murderous rampage" -Brittany S. Pierce. This has nothing to do with anything I just thought it'd be a good laugh. I should be working on psychology but why shouldn't I creative write more? This is a random post and I hope you'll vote for me......Please don't I'm actually not running for anything.

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Reading Assignment #5

1.       Why won’t anyone believe I didn’t do it? I look guilty sure, but still!#innocent

2.       You all think I should hate Nick but I can’t. No one else saw the same side of him that I saw

3.       The school shooting was the worst thing that could’ve happened but I did NOT know it was going to happen #pleasebelieveme

4.       My leg is okay, thanks for asking #sigh

5.       Sure there were a lot of names on the list but it doesn’t mean I wanted anyone of them dead! #hatelist

6.       School is impossible to go to just on the first day. I just don’t want anyone seeing me as guilty for switching schools or being home schooled #ifyoumustknow

7.       So tired of talking to @DetectivePanzella. He thinks I’m guilty just like everyone else does, I know it

8.       I only wanted Nick to confront Christy for breaking my MP3 player, not try to kill her #upsetnotmurderous

9.       I ran to Nick to get him to stop. Out of everyone I thought he would have listened to me

10.   I wish I had my best friend on my side #truth

11.   I am NOT suicidal! It was only fictional stuff to me I didn’t know Nick thought of it for real. I talked about death because he did L

12.   You’ll all be happy to know that I’m no longer a suspect

13.   Dr. Heiler might be the only person that’s on my side..

14.   Are you actually being friendly or are you being nice because you want to start making fun of me or blaming me? #confused

15.   Still not sure if I can survive the rest of the semester here, everyone either hates me or pities me #undecided

Six Word Memoir Debriefs

What did I learn about storytelling?

When it comes to storytelling I have learned that how you word things and the words that you use are very important. This is especially important if you don’t want what you are saying to drag on. Using the right word choice might better explain who you are as the writer and lets the reader know almost exactly what you’re trying to get across. I also learned that it’s important to know when to leave out the more insignificant details and share the ones that are important and are more relevant since I tend to get off topic. When it comes to storytelling you also want to keep the attention of the audience or reader and that is also why it’s better to stick to the big ideas and the facts that are important or key to it so that your audience knows the main story that is being shown.

Where did I show my knowledge about using storytelling skills?

I managed to show my knowledge of storytelling when I used punctuation so that I had the important pauses or almost shouts of excitement or lack of these. I made sure to do this so it would almost like hearing how I would say it to them if I could. With the photos it helped a lot but the pictures that I used could have meant anything. Since I could only use six words, it made me think of what exactly I was trying to show and then do my best to explain it very specifically. I showed my storytelling skills by making sure that both the photo and the words I chose would correspond together in a way I saw fit. Since I didn’t take those pictures specifically for this assignment I had to word what I said carefully.

What did I learn as a reader, writer, thinker, storyteller?

As a reader I would say that I need to dig beneath the surface of words to find meanings and with this particular assignment I made sure to connect other’s writing with the photos they showed. When it comes to being a writer, I learned that words can have multiple meanings. Not just different meanings for you as the writer but for the people who are reading that you might have not even thought of. I’m not much of a thinker, besides randomly spacing out on occasion. When I think of myself as a thinker I learned from this assignment that it’s a good idea to think of your personality and how you can project that into writing and what you can control how other people think of you by your writing style. As a storyteller I’ve learned that often the stories are easy for me to understand but obviously I lived them myself but other people might be confused about what happened in what I’m trying to say.

Quick Write- 86,400

I now know that each of us has 86,400 seconds in a day. If we treated seconds like money in a bank we would want to take out that money each day. I realize that it's important to use each second because it would be a waste to not use whatever amount of time you are given to do what is the best you can possibly do, no matter what it is. Learning the number of seconds we have each day makes me feel more aware about how precious time really is and how it easily just ticks by. What I am writing right now feels important to me and is a good use of the amount of seconds I've been handed with a new day. 86, 400 is such a big number when you think about amounts, but to me it doesn't feel so big when you know that a second may only last you enough time to breathe out "I love you" or to shut your eyes to calm yourself or to make a decision. So much of our time is wasted sleeping, walking, and many more menial things but as long as we don't feel they are menial or unimportant, I don't think of them as a waste. Everything adds together to make something better, to create a whole picture, an entire story even if it was about a quiet day at home to collect yourself or because you were sick. You're taking your daily amount of seconds to make yourself prepared for the next day's serving of time.




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Quick Write- Robot

If I had a robot servant of my own it would do exactly what I told it to do. I would rewire it so that it would never turn evil on me, just to be sure. Mine would have a more human voice so it wouldn't sound so creepy or monotone. Mostly I would use my robot to help me do little chores or to help fetch me something that I might have forgotten. My robot would look like a normal robot because I wouldn't want my robot to be anyone but itself, despite having no emotions. My robot would be stronger than the strongest person so it could easily help with anything that requires heavy lifting since I am not that strong myself. My robot would also know how to scan instructions so it would know how to put together things for me like furniture. I wouldn't get my robot to do much more because I wouldn't want to be completely dependent on it.

Six Word Memoirs #8

I took this photo while in my photography class I had last year. I used this one for this caption because this is one of my favourites that isn't so dramatic because that isn't what I'm going for with this caption. I put focus on the words "love" and "everywhere"  because photography is and was something I enjoy a lot and it's true, wherever I find something the least bit lovely, I try to take a picture to capture that moment. I used these colours because I wanted to show the softer part of me with taking photos and I felt that pink with white would help put that silent message across a little bit. I also tried to place the wording away from the main focus of the photo because I want both message and words to come across clearly.

Six Word Memoirs #7

This is another photo that I took while on vacation. In the distance there are my little sisters. I took one of my favourite photos from when they're all together and don't notice I'm taking a photo of them. I wrote the caption because it's true, like most siblings I do find them annoying sometimes and I'm sure vice-versa, but I do know I always have them there because they are loving and I won't lose them because they are family and I would never let them go anyways. I needed the comma after annoying because it's true about being annoying like I said, but then I add the positive part because I know that is the more important thing that I like focusing on.

Six Word Memoirs #6

I took this photo at the huge fair that always comes here for a couple weeks in the summer. It's one of my favourite things to do at the very beginning of the summer. Even though some rides terrify me, I love to ride most of them. I made the words brighter in the picture so that it's a little more drawing because I want to show that the message is important for me to show. I will always love going there because it's what makes summers so memorable for me. I also made the photo a little duskier even though it was already that way when I took it for the same reason as putting a little more emphasis on the words I put on it.

Six Word Memoirs #5

This photo is more along the lines of love. I have a friend who was an exchange student from Germany and we had a soccer game on her last day here and this is a picture at the rainbow that showed up while we were playing. Our last day together was great and I didn't add any effects because I want to remember that day exactly as it was. I also didn't add any punctuation because it's just a statement and adding a period, to me, would have restrained it too much. I decided to put the text at the bottom because I wanted the focus in the picture to be on the rainbow which accentuated and made her last day here more memorable.

Six Word Memoirs #4

I remember taking this photo at an amusement park for little kids with one of my friends. I wrote that caption because it's true. Some people are lame and some aren't, but you don't have to be a killjoy to grow up. You can still have fun even when you're growing up and when you're completely grown up. Being grown up just means that you know more things then when you were a kid and that you know how to handle the situations that life throws at you well. I chose this font color because it reminds me of my favourite color when I was a little younger and that I still like even if it isn't my most favourite. I also made sure that "lame" was separate in white because I want to emphasis that being lame isn't a must for growing up.

Six Word Memoirs #3

I took this photo at the "Flower Pots" while I was on vacation. I used the exclamation point at the end there because this is something that excites me and that I do really want myself to do. Sort of obviously, this photo is another that falls into the "future" category. Since I went on vacation here (and loved every second of it) I know I want to travel more. No matter if it's close or far, I want to make sure I get out a little in my future so I can see more beautiful places.

Six Word Memoirs #2

I took this photo randomly while I was at home. I absolutely love my two cats, especially Harry here. Or maybe it's Hairy. Hm. Either way this photo kind of ties in under the "future" category because for me I think I will always want at least one cat with me since I have grown up with two cats around me. I will always want that quiet, furry companionship. I have to have a cat because while the world is spinning around and I'm jumping around doing things, a cat is just doing his lazy cat things. It's calming. The font I used for the writing on the photo doesn't really tie in on anything; I just thought it looked nice.

Six Word Memoirs #1

This picture ties in with the words because it's true. I have way more books than friends. Of course I have way more books than those, but I just took out a certain collection of books I had just gotten for the photo. I used this design for the photo because you can still clearly tell that there are books in the photo but it is forcing you to see the words more first and then the photos afterwards.It might not be so much that I have so few friends, but a little more that I have a lot of books. I love reading books in a library, but it means even more to own them myself.