Learning New Languages

Everyone wants to know another language right? Or is that just me? My writing prompt I got today was “List reasons to learn a new language.” I’ve always wanted to learn a new language just because I thought it would be cool to speak different languages. Some people do it because they are traveling to a different country and want to be able to communicate with the people there. Some learn a new language just because they want to. I always wanted to learn French. Partly because I’ve always wanted to go to France. It’s the shopping capital of the world, of course I want to go. And the Eiffel Tower is there, I’ve always wanted to see that. I don’t really know any other reasons people learn another language. Maybe if their job requires it, I know some nurses and police officers that have to learn Spanish because that is another largely spoken language in America. If you learn a language you have to start learning their culture and some people are really interested in the culture of others. There’s four reasons, thinking it’s cool, so they can communicate with others, for a job, or for learning the culture. People learn different languages for all sorts of different reasons. Some people are raised learning two different languages because those are the ones spoken in their house. My time is about out and I’m slowing down on being able to come up with reasons people want to learn a new language.

6/30/2015

My Ideal Place

My ideal place would be like my own little planet. It would have only my closest friends and family. It would be like a huge resort. A beach, with roller coasters and water slides. I would have tons of my favorite restaurants where I could eat for free, like Mexican Villa, Olive Garden, Auntie Anne's, Arby’s and many many more. There would be a HUGE mall with every store there is and I would go everyday. I would get to spend it with my favorite people in the world. It would be my own little paradise. There would be sweet little puppies and horses all over the place. I don’t really know what else I would include in this place. My time is only half way over and I’m not sure what else to write about my ideal place. A house. I would build my own dream home. It would be like a palace. Everyone I love would get their own wing, so it will be like we have separate houses but we are still close enough to each other that we can still spend time together. There would be a big pool in the back yard, with a hot tub. Even though we would be right on the beach, it would still be nice to have a pool. There would be an amazing, huge living room that everyone could gather at. There would be huge gorgeous windows so we can look out at the ocean. My closet. It would be HUGE it would be as big as any room in the house and I would have a separate closet for shoes, because the mall is right next door so I can go shopping all the time. This ideal place sounds pretty expensive. Think there’s any chance I could win the lottery and be able to maybe have this? I doubt that, but a girl can dream right?

6/29/2015

Rainy days..

“List what you usually do on a rainy day.” That was my writing prompt I got today. Usually on a rainy day I like to lay in bed and listen to the rain. Or I do ridiculously long marathons of movies or shows, like Harry Potter or Friends. On our last rainy day though I had to go to practice and it wasn’t really what I wanted to be doing that day. What I really hate doing on rainy days is going to school. Rainy days make me tired and being at school just makes it worse, especially walking from my car or if I have classes that I have to go outside to get to, that really sucks too. What’s even worse is if there is ice/snow on the ground and you’re just trying not to fall in front of all those people. That was totally off topic of my rainy days. Sometimes when it’s raining I like to go outside and play in the rain, I know I sound like a little kid but there is just something so fun about going and doing things while it’s raining. As long as it is only rain and there’s not any lightening or a risk of a tornado coming, then I really like to stay inside. One thing I really hate are storms, but I love the rain. I don’t know what else I really do on rainy days beside the things I have to get done like school or practice or something like that. I like to relax while the rain is hitting the roof of my house, it’s such a peaceful sound to me. I would like to hear what some of you like to do on rainy days and maybe I’ll give it a try the next time we have rain, which seems to be almost everyday here recently.

6/28/2015

My ATM

On the creative writing prompts link I got the prompt “If an ATM could be custom made for you, what would it spew out instead of money.” As I am sitting here writing, I would say it would probably have to give out candy. It would be all kinds of candy, anything sweet, it can’t just be one kind because then that would get boring. It would have kit-kats, Snickers, Milkyway, M&M’s, Sour Patch Kids, Butterfingers, I can’t think of anymore candies off the top of my head right now but there would be a lot more in my ATM. Although, if I had an ATM that gave me nothing but candy, I have a feeling I would start getting pretty overweight. I would for sure have to start working out more. Having a candy ATM probably isn’t the best of ideas. It would be good for awhile but I would probably get sick off of it because I wouldn’t be able to stop eating all of the candy. I have a serious sweet tooth. And as I wrote that sentence my thoughts trailed off to ice cream. That sounds really good right now and since I’m going to be in town today, I think I might stop by Andy’s maybe and grab some. That totally went off topic of my candy giving ATM, but there’s really only so much you can say about an ATM and I think I’ve run out of things. I would be interested in hearing what other kinds of ATM’s people would like to have, so comment what your ATM would give out instead of money.

6/27/2015

The Best Thing in Life is...

So I had to go to Ms. A’s website to find a writing prompt to write about because I lack any sort of creativity to come up with something on my own. I chose a random number and this is what I got “The best thing in life is…” To me the best thing in life is..how can you pick from so many choices. I am so fortunate to have so many great things in my life. But right now as I am writing I would say the best thing in life is family. Without my family I don’t really know who I would be. My family has shaped me into the person I am today, and I would like to think they did at least a decent job, although others might not agree. My favorite thing to do is go on a short trip to Branson with my family. It’s pretty close so it’s not a bad drive and there’s so much to do there. My favorite thing to do when we go down there is go shopping and maybe to go Silver Dollar City for a little bit, we get season passes every year. Family is important because those are the people that will always be there for you, even if they don’t really want to be in that moment, they have to because they are family and that’s what family does. I know my family always has my back. I don’t have much longer left to write and I don’t really know what else to say, I feel like I’m just repeating myself over and over again. To anyone reading this I think when you are done you should call or text you parents, or grandparents or both and just let them know you love them, it will make their day to get to hear from you.

6/26/2015

My Comp 1 Class

Coming into my Composition 1 class, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I knew we would be reading a book, The Heart and The Fist by Eric Greitens, because that was on my book list for this class. But I wasn’t sure what we were going to do with it, beside the obvious, reading it. In previous English classes that I have taken, all of which have been at my high school, when we would read a book, it would be with the class, we would all have to follow along and then answer questions at the end of the class period about what we had read. Since this was an online class I didn’t know how that would go because it’s a different setting. But we pretty much do the same thing each week as we read a little bit more and have a discussion over it. Something I thought was pretty cool about this class was we set up a blog. That was something I didn’t expect because all of my classes have been in the classroom so there’s really been no need for that and we usually keep a journal or notebook in the classroom where everyday we would have a writing prompt to answer. I really like the blog idea. Something from this class that I think will really help me as a writer is the freewriting project, which I am doing now. I think it will benefit me a lot in how quickly I can come up with ideas and put them into words. Especially having to do it everyday, I know that is something that will help me become a better writer and probably help me better be able to bring my thoughts onto paper, or computer, whichever. I think it’s a pretty interesting project, for sure something I’ve never done before.

6/25/2015

I believe I will accomplish my goals

In my life I will set many goals for myself, whether they be long term or short term. Such as, I will get an A in all of my classes, I will get into graduate school, I will help those in need. Those are some of the goals I have set for myself right now. Currently, I am working towards getting an A in my Composition 1 class. Getting into graduate school is something that will take awhile because I have to get through a bachelors degree first, but my first goal of getting an A in all of my classes is a great start to getting into graduate school. When doing research on how to accomplish your goals you read a lot of setting "SMART" goals and putting your goals in writing. I know for me, writing down my goals has never been helpful, I'm sure for some it really helps, but I usually just lose the paper I wrote it on, so it doesn't help much.

Getting to Know Your Audience

I think the "Getting to Know Your Audience" project was great. You get to know your classmates better and sometimes in an online class that's difficult to do because you're not sitting in a classroom together and getting to have different conversations with all of your classmates. Sometimes it's hard to picture your online classmates as actual people, being that you don't ever see them or really talk to them one on one and have a conversation, like you would in a seated class.

One of my favorite questions from this project was "What are your biggest pet peeves?" I liked this one simply because some of the answers were somewhat humorous, although probably not to that person. While reading through some of the answers I realized that those were things that bothered me too, but was something that I never really thought about. It seems that a lot of people have pet peeves related to driving, but I think everyone gets annoyed with driving sometimes even if they don't want to admit it.

Another thing I liked reading about was what peoples plans are for the future. Such as in Lynn's question, "Why are you taking classes at OTC? What is your goal?" I liked hearing everyone's answers about what they want to achieve in the future. I guess I'm just one of the weird people that love listening to other peoples thoughts and plans for their life.

I feel like I have learned a lot about my classmates through this project. I've learned that driving is a big pet peeve for people, that family is a big thing in everyone's life, majority of us have grown up in the Springfield area, and that we all have some crazy ideas of what super power we would like to have. Overall, I think we have a very interesting class that have will a lot of different perspectives on anything we do in this class.

This I believe

1. This I believe I am a good student.
2. This I believe that I will be successful
3. This I believe that I will work hard
4. This I believe that I will accomplish my goals
5. This I believe that through my struggles I will always keep my faith
6. This I believe I can make it through graduate school
7. This I believe there is good in the world
8. This I believe people are good
9. This I believe I can do anything as long as I put my mind to it
10. This I believe anyone can achieve greatness if they tried
11. This I believe hardships make people better
12. This I believe everyone deserves a chance
13. This I believe nothing will stand in the way of my dreams
14. This I believe anything is possible

Graduate school. One thing that I see in my future. My fear is not getting in. Getting into graduate school is very difficult, you have to have the right grades, pass this crazy hard test, and you're still not guaranteed a spot. My fear is that my grades won't be good enough no matter how hard I work for them, or that my graduate school test, the name of it escapes my mind at the moment, the score wont be good enough because I'm not the best tester. But I believe that I am passionate enough about doing what I love that I can get through it and beat my fear. I'm not sure what else to say about this topic. Ive pretty much explained my thinking about it but I still have a few minutes left. Passing school has always been a fear of mine. I always work really hard and try my best and so far I've been pleased with my grades in life, but I always am worried that something will go wrong or I've missed something jand its going to completely bomb my grade. Especially in math, math is for sure not my best subject and I know for graduate school you have to at least pass College algebra and a higher math class is recommended but I am worried about my grade in that class as it is. I kind of just tangented, I dont think thats a word but oh well, about math and I'm really stuck on what to talk aobut now becuase I still have a couple of minutes left and I've pretty much mentioned everything about my topic. Although I am worried about getting into graduate school, I am also very excited about it. I know I am years away but it is the start of something I love and I can't wait to get that experience.

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Jung Typology Test

My Jung Typology test seemed to be pretty spot on for me. I got a 44 percent in the Introvert category. I didn't realize I was that unsocial but I do prefer to be with my group of friends than be in a huge group of people I don't know. I got a 25 percent in Feeling over Thinking. That seems to be pretty accurate in my life, I am more of an in the moment type person, but I think when it comes to school and writing I for sure over think things and try to make everything perfect. I got a twelve percent in Intuition over Sensing. I definitely go with my instinct in everything I do, which usually just gets me doing things I'm familiar with doing. This test has made me start thinking about my personality and why I do the things I do. My results are going to be something that I remember and the next time I catch myself doing something I'm going to think back to this test and wonder if the test was correct in deciding my personality.