Wednesday, May 08, 2013
This is a blog post I wrote last
Monday, but couldn’t get around to posting until today. So here is last week’s
post and then I’ll get into this week’s…
Today I got to
talk with some of my favorite people, the little Sexauers. The youngest two are
twins and say hello to me in the hallways every Monday, but today I actually
got to have a conversation with them. They think I'm crazier at school then
when I came over to their house and I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not,
but they do continue to ask if I can come over again so I think my craziness is okay. I want to be able to tell them that
I can come over, but I think I need to continue asking my parents if I can have
them over at our house first. My parents are mostly hesitant to say
"yes" because my dad is rarely home and time with him is precious.
Also while I'm on the subject of my dad, I just would like to ask for prayer
for him as he is going through some stressful things that could result in a
variety of different things including moving, change of job title, and much
more. Anyways enough about one of the few stressful situations in my
life... They, the youngest Sexauers,
also have an older brother and sister who joined in our conversation about all
kinds of things. I found out that the twins favorite color is purple and their
moms favorite color is green (just like mine). I also learned about a candy
shop out in California that they really want to go to and that their older
brother was just out in California looking at colleges, which I already knew
but loved hearing them explain to me in their own words. We also talked about
the tooth fairy and how girls tend to grow taller quicker than boys. My
conversation with them just made my day so much brighter.
This school year
is about to finish up, but next school year seems to be right around the
corner. Next school year I may be taking college classes, but who knows because
if I take too many classes I won't get college scholarships, but I only have
two more high school classes to take next year and both of them I would take at
a college anyways, so now I'm in a predicament about what to do. Should I just
take the two classes, should I enroll in college and not receive any
scholarships, or should I take the two classes and take some other classes and
graduate with extra credits? I'm not sure yet, but time is ticking away before
I absolutely have to decide. I am so thankful to be able to pray to God about
these things because if I wasn't able to pray I would be stressed beyond the
point of even functioning correctly. I get worried and stressed so easily, but
after I pray and tell God all of my problems I am able to take a deep breath in
and out and just let God take care of what happens because he knows my future
and His ways are always better than mine.
On Saturday I went
to a friend’s wedding shower. It was beautiful! I loved the colors considering
they were green and silver, my absolute favorite dream wedding colors. At work I
got my first calligraphy set and Tiffany boxes. I have always wanted a
calligraphy set and was so excited to sit down and practice using them. I still
need a lot of practice, but I am so happy to be able to start working on my
calligraphy. (Side note… if you didn’t know this, I do have a job as a personal
assistant for a friend of mine.) Saturday night I took a friend out for dinner
and then we watched another friends play. It was quite the experience, but
those details will have to be told at another time because I have a lot more to
say and it is almost midnight.
On Tuesday my
English class sang each other’s hymns to start off the class. Then we read our
narrative poems. It was quite interesting getting to here everyone’s poem and
hymn. Everyone received at least one award for their hymn depending on what it
was the best at, for example, I got both the most accurate meter and the most
accurate rhyme for my hymn. So you can tell I didn’t spend as much time on the
creativity as I did on the mechanics of the hymn. Oh well. I’m just glad that
is done. This week for English class I have to write a persuasive paper on what
grade I think I deserve to receive in English class for the year. I think it
will be fun writing the paper, but it will take a lot of work and there are
already hundreds of other English terms I will have to memorize, so this week
will be kind of crazy. In history class we have to write a paper about a person
we learned about in history class this past year and tell how they had some
impact on our lives. I think I might do mine on Ronald Reagan, but I’m not sure.
Today, Wednesday!!!!!!!!
It was a most beautiful and glorious day! I got an “A” on my Latin exam which
is worth over 400 points!!! Then I sat outside basking in the sun, while I was
working on my U.S. History final exam. Thankfully I finished it fairly quickly
and will hopefully get an “A” on it as well. Tonight my Impact group girls came
over to my house and we learned how we can be motherly to others without
actually being biological mothers, considering all of us girls are too young to
be thinking about having children of our own.
Well I seriously
need some sleep tonight since I have a big day tomorrow.
Miss Overcommitted
Crazy Lady
(Taylor Good)
Just some interesting figures of speech we're learning about in English class...
Metaphor
- Time is money
- Laughter is the music of the soul
- Strength and dignity are her
clothing
Simile
- Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever
-It’s fleece as white as snow
-She appeared to be as delicate as a
flower
Metonymy or
synecdoche
-The White House will be announcing
the decision around noon today
-All hands on deck
Personification
- The stars danced playfully
in the moonlit sky
- The
bees played hide and seek with the flowers as they buzzed from one to another
- I can
hear California calling my name
Apostrophe
- Blue Moon, you saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own
-Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what
you are.
Up above the world
so high,
Like a diamond in
the sky
Hyperbole
- I’ve told you a million times
-If I can’t buy a new dress, I’m
going to die
-His brain is the size of a pea
Understatement
-“Dad, I just was in a head on
collision with another car, but there is just a scratch or two of paint
missing.”
-The calamari dish made by Bobby
Filay was tolerable
Paradox
- A rich man is no richer than a poor man
- Drowning in the fountain of eternal life
- “What a pity that youth must be wasted on the
young." - George Bernard Shaw
Oxymoron
-Virtual reality
-Definite maybe
-Liquid gas
Pun
- An optimists blood type is always
B-positive
- Corduroy pillows are making headlines
- Energizer Bunny arrested -- charged with battery
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