free write

Growing up throughout my elementary school years, I always hated to write papers for any subject. As i continued to practice and increase my vocabulary, I became more comfortable with writing any sort of paper whether it is a short answer or an essay. Sometimes the best kind of writing is a free-write, which allows you to pick any topic of your choice. I have really enjoyed reading my classmates blogs every week. It helps me to get to know them better and I also get to hear their opinions on what they have learned or think about a situation so far. Since we began to write blogs every week I have found myself becoming stress free. I also began to write one short paragraph a night about my day to decrease the stress. Writing is very useful to me because i get to express my feelings, thoughts, and my creativity. The blogs give me a bit of a break from all of my classes. When I start writing it gives me a sign of relief that someone will finally listen to what I am asking or saying. As I am reading my classmates articles, they might insert something that I have no clue about and I gain knowledge that will help me better myself in the future. Whenever I finish reading their blogs I comment my opinion on whether i disagree or agree. It really means a lot that they use it and take it into consideration of what i'm saying. While reading articles the most thing that stands out to me is how my classmates describe what they have been through this school year,  or how they are progressing in their classes. I never know what to expect out of my classmates because their minds are so open and they are willing to talk anything.

While writing you think of the events that happened on a certain day. You are writing about what made you sad or happy, but you are no longer involved in those things as you began to talk about them. I once researched that whenever you are writing or typing a paper,  your breathing becomes slower and your mind is wide open for different ideas to enter. Being a writer is an active process. The more relaxed you are the better you can think and become a better writer. It doesn't matter what you are writing about as long as you are writing how you feel or what you believe in.

Technology

Technology and social media are a bad habit that many people tend to do. I began using social media when i was 13 years old. I had a Myspace and a Facebook. Even though Myspace wasn’t popular i still had it. Back then there were cyber bullies, people faking their age, and not completely honest about who they really are. My mom was very protective of my accounts. She had all of my passwords and she also had to know all my friends or know of their parents. Many teenage parents worry about the exposure or the things their teenage child might see or who they might come in contact with. In today's time the parents worry less and have more understanding of what they child is doing. But they are a lot more bad influences on social media than there were 5 years ago. Teenagers keep their self occupied for up to two and a half hours on social media. Texting, on Instagram, sharing Facebook posts or even tweeting on twitter. They keep themselves busy throughout the whole day to cover up the fact that they are bored with their own lives. Teenagers also meet many of their friends on social media because meeting them in person can be a little uncomfortable. Maintaining a friendship consist of many obstacles. Social media can also ruin friendships. Say you’re grabbing a bite to eat with friends and they can’t enjoy their time because you are on your phone. That moment can cause a major problem. Your friends chose to hang out with you, not hang out to watch you scroll up and down on you Snap-chat account.

I once read an article that David Brooks wrote. In this article, David Brooks mainly talks about the attention span and how the internet is abusing it. He mentions that “you feel those phantom vibrations even when no one is texting you.’’ He uses this to describe that you’re so use to feeling your phone vibrate or even use to being on it that you absolutely think that someone is texting you. Many people rely on their social media to tell them what’s going on in the world.

summer vacation

Every summer we planned to go on a trip but it would always backfire. So this summer we finally made the arrangements to leave in July and we stay two weeks there. This summer i went to Pensacola, Florida with my dad, stepmom, and brothers. I really enjoyed this trip because we spent quality time with each other. We have family up there, so once we arrived I crashed. It was a very long and uncomfortable ride. First few days I really did nothing, just killing time by sleeping or eating and watching movies with my family.The next day I decided to go out and visit a famous theme park with a gorgeous beach attached. There was a ride called the lazy river where you just relax on a floaty and  the current drags you in a circle. We were at the park for 8 hours and still didn't get to ride all the rides.  My uncle was in the army so we got to go on the base, and visit all the stores and different stuff that was located there. It was a store called Army Up. This store was filled with jet skis, a gun range, passes to theme parks, and boats. This was a very famous store on the base because you got to rent the things for only 10 bucks an hour. It was my first time riding on a jet ski. I really enjoyed it, even though I didn’t get the hang of it till an hour later.

The following day was my birthday. We traveled another 2 hours to go to Destin, Florida. There were all the good eating spots and great places to celebrate. We visited a beach that is famous for weddings. We rented bikes so that we could just ride along the sidewalk and see everything instead of driving. I really regret doing that because it was very hot and people could not drive. We only had two days left to be in Florida and my family and I arranged activities to do around the house for the mean time. Within those two days we visited 2 more beaches and one more theme park. We actually finished this theme park, it was so fun, the rides were better and the food was great. Out of all my family vacation i have to say that this was the best one, even though it was my last school vacation with my family I cherished every moment of it.

major exam 1

For the major exam i had many expectations, i thought that the test was going to be about reading passages and inferring the information about it, and also giving the definitions of a lot of vocabulary words. Although the exam did not meet my expectations but i think i did really good on it. To prepare for this test i start studying a week before. First I reread all of handwritten notes, then i downloaded apps to help with the vocabulary words, I also written the vocabulary words in my own definition so that i could get a better understanding of them. I practice writing the original text many and many times. Whenever the next exam is i will do the exact same thing. I got more practice then i expected. My study technique helped me a lot, it was very beneficial to me.When the test came to me i suddenly forgot everything that i studied for. As i started to scan through the exam, i noticed that there were a lot of short answers. While writing the short answer questions i was very relaxed, even though i spent most of my time on those. Short answer questions gives you the opportunity to express your opinion and to give the person that's reading it a different idea about the question. I struggle so much with the short answers questions because i sometimes don't know how to word it or put it in a great sentence. The exam it self was not difficult just a lot of writing. I would most definitely like to take a test like that again or even a multiple choice test like it. If you study the right way and understand what the question ask you should have no problem to give a great feedback.