Self-Reliance

"If you can love me for what I am, we shall be happier."

This is a quote from "Self-Reliance by Ralf Waldo Emerson. This is significant to me because I work my hardest to love myself for what I am so you should also love me for what I am. Loving yourself if the most important thing to self happiness. Then once you love yourself it would also be nice for others to love you for what you are. Then we shall all be happy. 

Is A Person Really Innocent Until Proven Guilty??

This is always a comment brought up when talking about a person being taken to court. Its is known that a person is always innocent until proven guilty but when someone is brought to court a jury always has some type of agenda or bias towards someone. It may be cause they have heard things about this person or it may be that they produce a bias about them based on their appearance. So with all the bias in the world, is anyone really innocent in the eyes of others?? Therefor, it must take a lot to be proven guilty..

Unwritten

The song Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield is a very important song to me. I like to use this song when I am trying to get inspired to write and become creative. Here are the lyrics to this song and I think you should be able to tell how inspiring it can be to start writing and be creative.

I am unwritten, can't read my mind, I'm undefined
I'm just beginning, the pen's in my hand, ending unplanned

Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find

Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten

Oh, oh, oh

I break tradition, sometimes my tries, are outside the lines
We've been conditioned to not make mistakes, but I can't live that way

Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find

Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins

Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten

Home Away From Home

In my junior English class we read “My Sojourn in the Land of My Ancestors” by Maya Angelo. In this story she describes the experience of finding a “home away from home” as she travels in Africa. Now we have been assigned to describe a place that feels like home to us. A “home away from home” for me would be my dance studio. My dance studio doesn’t always have to most pleasant smell of sweat. When we get back out on the dance floor, the feeling of the cold marley floor under my feet it makes me think I am able to express what I want to say through dance. 

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Metelka Wedding 2014

One of my very best friends is getting married just a few days from now. August 16th is the date. Trisha and I first met at Julies School of Dance 6 years ago. 2 days left!!!

Trisha started as my dance teacher but quickly evolved to my best friend. Trisha and I have danced together in many pieces and I always love getting to be in a number she choreographs herself! I remember the first dance I was ever in that she choreographed was "Wash that Man Right Out of my Hair"! Her classes are always so much fun with her crazy personality and face paced teaching style.

One Saturday she asked my other two friends, Kelli and Sara, and I to meet her for lunch at our favorite Mexican place in Hermitage. Of course we were all asking about her proposal and looking at her ring and then she asked us to be her bridesmaids. Kelli, Sara and I have been waiting for this moment ever since her and Jimbo, her fiancé, had been dating. We were beyond excited! We had so much fun going bridesmaid dress shopping and planing the wedding shower and now finally getting so close to the wedding day! I know I could not be happier to be able to share this very exciting moment in Trisha's life with her!

Trisha, I love you and I cannot wait to celebrate this day with you!

Two more days!

A Separate Peace Book Trailer

 For English class, this summer we were required to read the book A Separate Peace by John Knowles. Now our teacher has asked us to create a book trailer for the book that shows the themes and symbols. I used Anamodo to create my video. Each image represents something special. The first picture is a staircase. The staircase is a symbol because it is where a lot of important events happens. Next is the lake because they would always jump from the tree to the water. Then there is the tree. The tree was very important because a lot of things having to do with Gene's and Finny's friendship happened there. Lastly they were friends through the war. Not just the actual WWII but the war of friendship.


A Separate Peace

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Before You Knew It.... JUNIOR YEAR

         Ware taking quite a big step from when I last posted. From the end of freshman year to the beginning of junior year. Of course it is important to have goals because if you do not have goals then you are just wasting your time. One goal for my junior year is to pass honors chemistry. Well.. I would like to do more than pass it! Hopefully make only A's and B's in the class but right now it is already very hard. Luckily my teacher, Mrs. Townsend, is very helpful and is willing to do whatever till we understand it. Another goal I have is to gain a deeper relationship with two of my best friends Tiffani and Autumn. We are in out youth group together and they are both younger than me but I really love them and want to keep encouraging them and mentoring them in their walk with Jesus. My last goal for this year is to become less afraid of standing up for what I believe. Everyone has those friends who sometimes may have conversations you don't like or you see a kid being left out. Well this year I want to be able to convertibility stand up for what I believe and not be so hesitant.

The Best Of Freshman Year

        One of my best memories of freshman year was probably when my dance studio went to Jazz On Tap in Atlanta. What made it such a great trip was that I was some of my best friends and we got do take classes from famous choreographers and also perform a couple of our studio dances. 
      The most important thing I have learned from freshman year is to not get caught up in all the drama, because believe me, there will be drama. Insteed of getting caught up in the drama lead yourself and your friends out of the drama so you can actually look back and enjoy your freshman year of high school because you only get one… Unless you fail.

        Lastly, a piece of advice I would give to next year’s freshmen is to go to school activities. If you go to more school activates I promise you will double your friendships. Attend your football, basketball, baseball games. Go to your school’s play, show choir performances, band performances, and plays! You will feel left out if you don’t!

A Lesson from Jane

Something I have learned from reading the Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman is that you cannot judge a book by its cover. Even though Jane was black she was just an innocent little girl looking for her freedom and happiness. But also we ran into black men in the novel that were not on the same path as Jane. They were rude and crude to her. So that shows that just because they are black does not mean they have the same goals and the same thoughts.

Are the Stereotypes Necessary for a Good Book?

In the book The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman the author Ernest Gaines decides to show us what the real story is. Gaines does not go the normal rout in showing all the stereotypical ways of people. Gaines tells it how it was. For example he shows the two sides of each person, white and black. He shows the nice caring side and considerate side but also the rude, inconsiderate side of white people. Gaines also shows the innocent, loving side and then the bad negligent side of black people. Gaines proves that all white people where mean, crude people who just hate black people along with showing the black people are not just innocent or negligent people.

Lookin' Back On Some Good Times...

Out of all the books from my childhood one in particular comes back into my head. I think I really enjoyed the Nancy Drew book because I liked reading about mysteries. I always loved the suspense and waiting and wondering what truth really is.  I guess you could say that the books reflected my personality. When I was young I was always into finding out the truth. So to say the one book that comes to mind from my childhood is the Nancy Drew books would prove a point that it made an impact on the reading I do today.

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