Halloween!!

     Halloween, what a great holiday! Dressing up in costumes, scary movies, getting lots of candy, carving pumpkins...who wouldn't love Halloween?! I guess it is more of a kid holiday, but I will love it no matter what age I am! My favorite part about Halloween is probably the candy! So much candy comes out in the stores and it's so good! The candy corn, caramel apple suckers, and all the rest of the candy is the best! I always stock up on it! Even now, I have bags of it in my dorm room, so whenever I have a sweet tooth I have a lot to choose from. Not only do I love all the candy, I also enjoy seeing all the different costumes. The little kids are my favorite! They're just so cute. My least favorite part of it all is probably the scary movies. I'm not the biggest fan of scary things, if I'm with a group of people or with someone who will make it not as scary I'm okay with it all, but for the most part, I do not like scary things! I would much rather watch a funny, happy movie. Overall though, I do like Halloween and will always participate in some sort of Halloween activity for the rest of my life! 

Last Free Weekend

     This past weekend was my last free weekend before my life starts to get really busy! Our first game is on Friday and after that, I won't be able to go home until Christmas. I also won't have a free weekend until March! It hasn't hit me yet, but it's crazy to think how busy I am going to be. Traveling to other states, being gone for Thanksgiving break, playing basketball every single day, it's going to be a hand full! I've never been away from home for more than a month, so these next couple of weeks will be the test to see how I do. I love the freedom and stuff, but it's nice going back to see everyone every once in a while. Knowing that I won't get to sleep in my real bed until Christmas sucks! The good thing is, I will be having fun with my team, and doing the thing I love most. Plus, my family isn't too far away, so they will be able to come and watch a lot of the games. It's nice to know that they will be there supporting me all of the way.

She Ain't You

     For Project 2, I picked to analyze a song. At first, I was going to analyze a movie, The Last Song to be exact, but I don't want my paper to end up as one big summary. In order for my paper to have more analyzation and thought, I decided to go with a song instead. I picked the song "She Ain't You" by Chris Brown. I picked a Chris Brown song because he not only is very popular and well-know, but he also went through a lot in his life. His songs probably relate to the events that he's been through, which is why I think it would be easy to analyze. Listening to this song, it gets me wondering things like who he's talking about, what the song title means, does it relate to anything in his past? If I had to guess, I would think it has something to do with his whole Rihanna experience. Everyone knows he messed up and ruined a great relationship a couple years ago, so that's why I think this song is about his past with Rihanna. I also know that Chris Brown dedicated this song to Michael Jackson. He was a big inspiration to Chris, and I think this song got Chris thinking about how life can one day be gone, just like Michael's was, and how he maybe regrets some of the things he did. My thesis is going to be something like: The song "She Ain't You" is Chris Brown's song dedicated to Michael Jackson, thanking him for being such a great role model and inspiration, and expressing his thoughts and feelings about how his life is now affected by his past relationships. 

Game Time

     November 2nd is our team's first game and I couldn't be more excited! We have been working hard all summer and we are finally going to be able to transfer all of our hard work to the court soon! We play Wayne State, and even though it's an exhibition game, which means it doesn't really count, we are all still very excited. Going through all those summer workouts, our month of preseason, condition, lifting, and practices, we are ready to take it to the court. I'd say that we've been working pretty hard in practice lately, and when November 2nd comes, we'll all be anxious and prepared to get after it. Our coaches are definitely ready for games to start as well! They all keep saying how they can't wait to see us in action. With a whole new coaching staff, and a whole new system, I also think the community is ready to see what kind of team we are now! Being a Freshman, and being new to this whole college basketball thing, I am beyond excited! I don't know how much playing time I am going to get, but that's not what I'm thinking about. I just want my team to play good, have fun, and pull out a win! We've all have been giving it our all and I just can't wait to hear the referee blow the whistle that starts the game! 

Class Update

     In class on Thursday, we went through more detail about Carrie and we did class presentations as to who each group thought was the monster in the movie. My group got assigned Carrie, so we had to present to the class why we thought the real monster was Carrie. Personally, I didn't think she was the monster in the movie, but we didn't get to choose who we got, so I had to think of reasons to back Carrie up. We decided that she was the monster because she obviously murdered a lot of people! Burning up mostly everyone at the prom and stabbing her mother gave us good backup with this. We also said that she used her powers for bad. She would always be doing negative things with her powers, she never used them for something good. For example, when the little boy on the bike was laughing at her, she used her powers to make him fall off the bike. Another example was when she made the principle's ash tray move on the desk. Carrie never once used her powers to do something positive. All of these reasons we used to back up the fact that Carrie was the monster. Like I said, I don't agree that Carrie was the monster, but our group could at least find some examples as to why some people would think that. If I had to choose who the monster was, I would say it was either Carrie's mother or the Carrie's peers. Both of them influenced Carrie's life negatively, which is why I believe Carrie was so weird and anti-social.

Summer/Fall

     I can't believe it's already halfway through the month of October! Time has been flying by! The fact that it's fall shocks me! I feel like it was just summer time! I had to come to Western at the end of June and that feels like it was just yesterday. Time is seriously going way too fast! Next I know it, it's going to be Christmas. I remember I went to the grocery store the other day and I saw that they were already putting out Christmas stuff and it made me so sad because it's not even Halloween yet! I guess I'm just starting to see how fast time really does go! 
     The weather that comes with fall isn't my favorite! The fast winds, cold, gloomy weather isn't my kind of weather! I'm more of a summer girl. I like the warm, sunny, outside weather. I can deal with the cold weather for a little while cause I love wearing sweatpants, sweatshirts, and especially my UGGS, but after a couple of months, I get sick of it and want my summer weather back! Seeing how fast time is going though, maybe the weather won't be as bad as I think. That's what I'm hoping for because I hate being cold and walking around campus doesn't help! 

Carrie

     The movie we watched last Thursday was called Carrie. I guess it was supposed to be a horror film, but it did not come off as a scary movie to me! In my opinion, it was very, very weird! I could see where one would think it was a horror film because of the events that happened, but I wasn't that scared and I'm not a fan of the scary movies! The reason why I thought it was weird was because of the main character, Carrie. She just acted so shy and different all the time and her actions throughout the whole movie were not normal! Guaranteed, she did have that devil-ish power of controlling things with her mind, but she still didn't act normal regardless. What I also thought was stange was the fact that the mom was just as weird as Carrie! I couldn't tell if the mom was supposed to be evil too, but she came off as it. She never let Carrie have her own life and do things that teenagers do, which is why I think Carrie was so weird, her mom didn't let her have any fun. So i guess the mom was a negative impact on her life. Especially at the end, when the mom was hiding in her room and eventually stabbed her, you could see that she really was evil. I mean who stabs there child? That's just messed up! Overall, I think that the main villan was the mom. I know that Carrie killed pretty much her entire grade, but I still think the mom was the main reason for Carrie's weirdness and craziness.

Literacy Narrative Thoughts

     After writing my literacy narrative I had mixed feelings about it. What I mean by this is that there were both good and bad things to it. I liked how it was about our own personal experience and how easy it was to write, while I was writing it, it seemed to flow and it didn't take me too long to do. These are the kind of papers I enjoy writing; the easy ones! On the counterside, I didn't really like the topic of the paper. I didn't feel like it was that interesting. After writing mine and then proof reading some of my classmates, I didn't find them that fun to read! Maybe it was because some people didn't use enough detail or dialgue, but these papers were not interesting to me at all! I liked the narrtive's that we wrote before, they actually told a story that was significant in some type of way. Those were more interesting to read and hear about then these literacy narratives. That's just my opinion though!

Cheese

     This blog post may be a little odd to some people, but I'm going to be writing about cheese. Cheese, as I mentioned in my Introduction bullet points, is my go-to snack! Whenever I'm feeling hungry and want a little snack, I always happen to eat cheese. Whether it be string cheese, cutting up pieces from a block of cheese, some cheese crackers, or dipping pretzels in cheese, I always end up eating something that has cheese in it. I just love it so much and think it's so good! I never get sick of it. If there were two things for me to choose to eat for the rest of my life, one of them would be cheese. I really don't think a day goes by when I don't have something with cheese in it, on it, or dipped with it. I know it may be a little weird, but that's just me. How chocolate is to some people, cheese is to me! I never pass up a cheese stick, unless of course, it's warm. Never eat warm cheese, it's not too tasty. Bottom line, I love me some cheese!!