Wednesday, December 2, 2009

The crazy Movie gone wrong

It was a normal school day when Emma H. came across the idea of coming over to my house. This seemed like a good idea since she never comes over so we went along to make it happen. As we walked to the office to call our parents we couldn't stop thinking about if it didn't happen. We have had some bad experiences with not being able to arrange something. Today we would not relive this moment so we continued on with our heads held high!
We arrived and called, luckily both our parents seemed to be in a good mood. Obviously my mom had just had a cup of tea today.(it usually makes here in a good mood) It was final it was going to happen. As Emma and I walked back to class we rejoiced. This was going to be the best day ever.

When the end of the day finally came, Emma was rather pleased to get to go on my bus and the fact that there were squirrels around my house. Emma's weird like that. When our bus came to my stop Emma and i walked home. Emma seemed more eager then she'd ever been to see my house and she'd seen it before. It was really confusing, but Emma's like, and that's what I must live with.

Emma came over so that we could study but me and Emma had a different approach to the word "STUDYING." We decided to make a movie since we just had our first exam so and needed a break. It was a rather long break but we deserved it after what a day we had.

We had trouble deciding what to make the movie about, but finally decided to make it an old fashion cheesy romance. Emma and i came up with the idea of filming outside, but it was getting dark so we tried various ideas to make it brighter, but in the amount of time it took to get the lights sorted it got darker. Later i had a brilliant idea to use the Christmas light. All worked until we moved them well they were on. Gasp you say I know. It was in my hand and as i lifted it from its location it made a loud popping noise and glass and spark flew every where. Emma and I were lucky that we dove under the steps just in time to dodge the sparks. As we got up my dad just had to be pulling in to the drive way and come over furious. I guess my brilliant idea wasn't so brilliant after all. Once we cleaned up we decided that filming inside was a much better plan. From then on we filmed inside.
But by the time we finished filming and eating dinner it was 7:30 that meant 30 minutes of studying, which we were supposed to do the whole night. Oops. But anyways we, in a way studied science, and history which is important, and the fact we had fun!

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

How do authors make their readers feel empathy?

Empathy, the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. It was a hard concept for me to understand at first because how are you supposed to know what there feeling when your not them. Now I realize as I started to write an empathy story that empathy is a deep feeling that really needs to be in a story.
Most authors right it so so much that they don't even have to think about but writers like me that just write during L.A a have to think more about it. I know this from writing my empathy story and struggling with the whole concept.

Most authors have empathy in there story's and that causes some of the best novels like Pride, and Prejudice, to Bridget Jones. They both have empathy but if they didn't they'd be boring, not very emotional, and you wouldn't relate.

I can think of three different ways to write empathy in my opinion. Number one is that maybe something in there past happened and they want to share it with the world and make them feel empathy. The second reason is that they want to sell the book and to do that it has to be interesting, and that means that they need empathy. The third and final reason is that when your writing how can you not write a bit of empathy in your story, it's fun.

Empathy is in almost every good book because it is so descriptive and interesting so even if you read every book in the world almost all will have empathy.


Sunday, November 8, 2009

what would it be like to wear a burqa!

A burqa. To me a burqa doesn't just take away your image but it takes away who you are. Wearing one everyday would be hard. Not getting to wear shorts and a tank-top when its hot or getting to show of your beautiful hair in the soft fresh air. Instead having to cover it up inside a burqa hidden and never to be seen by the world! Its like keeping peanut butter from jelly. Fruit from pie. Fat from Mac.Donald's. It one of those things you just can't do.

When we first started reading this book I would think about what it would be like to wear one. Then i just thought i never would have to and stopped. Now that I'm back to the thought what would it be like. Well you don't know until you try ,but until i actually find the time to try I'm just going to imagine. Well it wouldn't be comfortable and it wouldn't feel right to have family friends who don't know what you really look like. Then again what could you do about it. You wouldn't be able to change anything. The burqa isn't just something to cover you from others but something that can control you. It's taking over woman's life ruining there hopes there dreams and everything that they have that keeps them going. Burqas are what women hate are what womens rights are is what is making men so over powering. There why we must fight against it ,hate on those who agree with them ,and agree with those who fight against it. We must do everything we can but is it enough.
So to answer your question i would hate to wear a burqa!

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Eva Olsson and the Holocaust

Eva Olsson is a very power full amazing life changing woman who survived the Holocaust. she came into my school to talk to us about her life story and her struggle to stay alive.

At first when i found out htat the first thing we were doing this morning was having someone talk to us about her life story i had no clue that it was happening but didn't really think it was going to be boring consitering the fact that i love history. so when we got into the chapel and sat down they started to talk about how eva Olssen just recently came out with her story about her life in the Holocaust. Once she started to talk i really got into it. 

The part were she started to cry was when she started to talk about her mother. the holocaust started in 1933 and ended in 1945 shwas only 19 years old when she was separated from her mother 19 years old. how would you feel if you were separated from your mother that young with so much responsibilitie but now you have no one to old and get through it.

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Not only did she lose her mother but she lost her entire family. 


When the ally forces took over and ended the holocaust she moved to sweden were she married and had two chidren. to make you feel even worse about how sad her life is her husband died at a young age of 37. although her life was tough she got through every day of her hard life. She may not had a smile on her face but she surrvived because she had confidence. confidence that made her want to live her hard life for one more day or more she just knew she had to. Thats why shes here today!

Norval

Norville: now some people were like oh wow Norville was so fun but me on the other hand didn’t. Well I guess no one would get offended unless my councilor looks me up which would not be good because now I’m just going to talk about how bad she was. So the started with the bus, oh the bus what a fun time, or not. Well I brought my new edition of my favorite magazine plus the extra edition. So since I had two I decided to share them with other GIRLS to look at them I wasn’t expecting any boys to get hold of them because well there full of like girl stuff. As the magazine passed from GIRL to GIRL the boys started to try and get hold of them by grabbing them and hitting people with them. Ruining my new magazines that is now torn and hard to read!
Once we got there things weren’t that bad even the clothing pin butt game wasn’t that bad just tiring, but it was kind of fun. After a few fun little games we split up into groups which I wasn’t to pleased with that because I wasn’t put with my best friends. That I got over pretty quickly because the group was pretty fun and we worked well together. Now we get to the juicy part the part that was the LEAST AMOUNT OF FUN. This was because of one person whos name escapes me but you could tell that she would surprise you with her meaness when you see her. I shiver when ever I think about her. Now I should propaly start telling you about her before I get to carried away. So she was the young just out of university looking girl. She was nice at first and acted like she really cared about us and if we had fun or not. As we got to the first activity she started to tell us what we had to do but would get mad at us if we just started playing with the sticks but can she really blame us I mean if she’s making it boring she can’t expect us to pay attention. So later on she would start to get mad at us for some really silly reasons like sitting on wire that she says will brake but its meant to be stood on. i don't know some may think it's not that bad but its something you had to be there for.

i believe that our team did well because we really worked well together but if someone didn't get to do something i don't think that it was our teams fault i thing it was more the person who didn't get to do it. that may be confusing but if they wanted to do something they should of said "hey, listen i haven't gone so can you spot for me so i can go" and then they may have gotten to go but they stayed quiet.
Something that i think our team didn't to well was listen to what everyone had to say. This is really important because a team can't work together if they don't listen to each other. sometimes i found that the ideas that people put off as bad ideas turned out to be the best ideas and the ones that work so that bugged me a lot.
In conclusion Monday was an O.K day not the best but not bad.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

does clothing shape who i am?

I've never really thought about it but it kinda does shape everyone. it shouldn't really but if you walked into your school wearing a pair of leather and a baggy army jacket you would be off to a very bad day. then again if you walked into school with the latest most expensive clothing from the best designers then you would not only have a good day but it would properly be full of comment. Oh but not from the kid in the army jacket because if there wearing that they properly think its fashionable. but a lot of people like myself go it to stores like abercrombie or american eagle and find its expensive but then go it to a less expensive store but find the same thing what do think?

Its hard for me to say because i go to a private school and we only get dress down days (D.D.D.) once a month so we all try and dress in the newest and best clothe even though if we didn't wear a uniform we would not wear that. i have heared some crazy stories about girls who don't have uggs and make there mom sew the ugg symbol on the back because she was being picked on and that she couldn't afford real uggs

Thursday, October 1, 2009