WRITING REFLECTION 11

READING REFLECTION 10

WRITING REFLECTION 10

80 THINGS TO DO BEFORE I DIE

1.       See a Manchester united game

2.       Live in Vancouver

3.       Stop animal abuse

4.       Legalize capital punishment in Canada

5.       Go on a hot air balloon ride

6.       Fly a plane

7.       Have my face somewhere in Time Square

8.       Meet Blake Lively

9.       Meet Carrie Underwood

10.   Meet Miley Cyrus

11.   Be on a Disney show

12.   Own an animal shelter

13.   Ban Shakespeare in schools

14.   Travel to every Continent

15.   Change someones mind about suicide

16.   Become a nudist

17.   Have no regrets

18.   Race in the Daytona 500

19.   Own a ranch

20.   Get one of Wayne Rooney's old jerseys

21.   Skydive

22.   Drive the “grave digger” monster truck

23.   Invent something

24.   Record a song

25.   Be in a commercial

26.   Get free food for life at a restaurant

27.   Save someones life

28.   Live homeless for a week

29.   Get rich

30.   Own a yacht

31.   Have my own clothing line

32.   Swim across the English channel

33.   Have my handwriting be a font on Word

34.   Make up a popular “keep calm” saying

35.   Have pornstar hair

36.   Go on a date with Chace Crawford

37.   Have someone guess my age and be 10 years off (younger)

38.   Go backpacking

39.   Get in a fist fight

40.   Get  kicked out of a bar

41.   Have a project x party

42.   Join the mile high club

43.   Have a threesome

44.   Go to Amsterdam

45.   Run a marathon

46.   Shoot a hole in one

47.   Do a polar bear swim

48.   Hold a koala in Sydney,Australia

49.   Go to Paris

50.   Sit on the Hollywood sign

51.   Participate in La Tomatina

52.   Sit court side at a Lakers game

53.   Whale watch

54.   Be a roady

55.   See a psychic

56.   Buy a Segway

57.   Participate in a flash mob

58.   Be in a body building competition

59.   Shoot someone

60.   Be on jury duty for a large case

61.   Volunteer in Africa

62.   Find my “twin”

63.   Be on the news

64.   Spend over 2000 in a clothing store

65.   Be on a game show

66.   Go to a rave

67.   Be a show girl in Vegas

68.   Win money gambling

69.   Set a building on fire

70.   Be a carni

71.   Watch a space shuttle take off

72.   Buy someones groceries for them

73.   Buy someone a car for their birthday

74.   Makeout with a groom at his wedding

75.   Eat with someone who looks lonely

76.   Open a time capsule

77.   Watch a car crash happen

78.   Flash a crowd at a concert

79.   Bleach my hair blonde

80.   Go on stage at a concert

READING REFLECTION 9

WRITING REFLECTION 9

I have found that this past week that school is getting a little too personal  I find that it’s sort’ve embarrassing tweeting these on my actual account, but whatever. I guess I could’ve made a new account but it just seemed like too much work, plus I like being able to access the account from my phone. I do like the fact that we are able to use twitter to be productive as oppose to making pointless tweets hoping to get a response or a RT. My goals for twitter now are to get RT’ed or responded to by Carrie Underwood. My twitter dreams need to be fulfilled. 

As for the list of things to do before I die, I have gotten to almost 80 and I’m stumped. I could just put random ones on there but I actually really have wanted to do everything I’ve come up with.  The fact that we got retweeted by the buried life is pretty cool, just because we’ve actually been acknowledged for our work online. My favourite idea that I came up with is to participate in “La Tomatina” which is a massive tomato fight in Italy. I figured I should explain it somewhere before I posted it on twitter.

I love this project so far !

READING REFLECTION 8

Book: Fall to Pieces

Author: Mary Forsberg Weiland

Pages: 14-26

Up to this point I am still getting introduced to the main people in the story and have yet to have any real action take place, which is always the perfect time to make a prediction. I’ve learnt that this is based on a true story which usually makes an easier prediction. Judging by the first few pages I’ve gotten through, I think that the main character (Weiland) has obviously had a rough upbringing and life in general. Her family is broken up, they are very religious and she is alone.

I predict that the memoir of this woman’s life is going to be filled with regrets and mistakes. One thing I found really interesting were the legends her grandmother told her from the Catholic Church “If you get scratched in the eye by a cat, you’ll see ghosts” “do not jump up and down or your guts will fall out” “don’t ever pick up a solitary baby in the desert with the idea that your rescuing it” and “ if you are pregnant, always carry  a pair of scissors in your pocket in the event of an eclipse otherwise your baby will have a harelip”. I hadn’t personally ever heard of these legends but they seem pretty legit to me.

As a text to world connection, in their family the dad leaves them for his own wellbeing. This unfortunately happens more often than needed in our society today.



PERSONAL ADDITION

BLACKOUT POETRY



lessons

first world problems

holiday

WRITING REFLECTION 8

The past week was actually really fun besides the constant headaches I had frokm the sharpie fumes. Blackout poetry is possibly one of the easiest things to accomplish yet very hard. You could easily circle random words that fit together to complete a poem, but when it comes to actually making the words mean something, that’s the challenge. I found myself circling words I wanted to be in my poem but I could never figure out a way for them to work. My theme for my trio ended up being food.  The way I made them, could have a different meaning to anyone.

Compared to the previous writing assignments we’ve done, this one stands out for being different because you are basically working backwards which makes it a lot harder when you’re trying to make something out of a limited amount of words.

I found myself really struggling to make something of this type of writing, I felt like I'm no where creative enough to have my poems make sense, but I did my best. Maybe Austin Kleon would understand.