Hi everyone! Here's a compilation of my favorite things!
Bands/Artists
Fleetwood Mac, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Paper Kites, Mumford & Sons, Young the Giant, Cage the Elelphant, Florence + the Machine, Bikini Kill, Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Kathleen Hanna, Julia Marcell, Alanis Morissette, All Time Low, Vitamin String Quartet, Lana Del Rey, Green Day, Panic! At the Disco
TV Shoes/Movies
Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, How I Met Your Mother, Doctor Who, Sherlock, 30 Rock, Arrested Development, Mean Girls, Orange is the New Black, The Office, Weeds, Parks & Recreation, The Red Violin, The Great Gatsby, Freaks & Geeks, My So-Called Life, Midnight in Paris, Scoop, Spirited Away, Beginners, The Producers, Life of Pi, most Pixar movies
Books
To Kill a Mockingbird, The Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, The Fault in Our Stars, Paper Towns, Speak, Code Name Verity, The Imperfectionists, Harry Potter, Wicked (the book version!), Life of Pi, The Age of Miracles, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, The Awakening, Little Bee, Wintergirls, The Good Earth, Half-Broke Horses, The Glass Castle, The Scar Boys, Eleanor & Park, Will Grayson Will Grayson, The Hunger Games
Internet Things
Facebook, Witty, YouTube, Rookie, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Crash Course, John Green, Hank Green, Carrie Hope Fletcher, Vi Hart, Rebecca Brown, Laci Green, Squaresville, TED
Plays
Our Town, Much Ado About Nothing, Seussical the Musical, Aida, Wicked (the musical version!), Twelfth Night, The Producers, Techies the Musical
Hobbies/Interests/Etc.
String quartets, eyeliner, acting, stage crew, reading, writing, yellow nail polish, feminism, riot grrrl, debate team, biology
Inspirational People
Stevie Nicks, Maya Angelou, Anne Frank, Marie Curie, Anne Hutchinson, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Tavi Gevinson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Malala Yousafzai, Kathleen Hanna, Hillary Clinton, Janeane Garofalo
And I totally agree with you. I hate getting up early for school...I am NOT a morning person. Last year, after I woke up, I would be tired for my first three classes. Luckily they were all really easy classes, so it didn't matter too much :)
And I'm sorry I haven't replied. I forgot about it, then life kind of took hold of the reigns. I start school on Monday. *gasp* I kind of don't want to go because I have to get up pretty early and I'm always a difficult person to get active in the morning.
And I totally agree with you. I hate getting up early for school...I am NOT a morning person. Last year, after I woke up, I would be tired for my first three classes. Luckily they were all really easy classes, so it didn't matter too much :)
#favoritism?
I've read a lot about hair chalk and whatnot online, so yeah. If I ever do it, I'll absolutely remember to seal it. I probably won't use Hot Huez, in that case, considering that I have dirty-blonde-ish hair...
And that's so cool that you even know that much about your ancestry! How'd you manage to find out about your ancestor/the meaning of his name/his English name.
And you say Italians are pretty, but most of my genes are from the non-Italian side of my family. So my physical attractiveness is...um...shall we say questionable?
If you ever want to try and know about yours, you could ask someone in your family for a few relative names and then if you have permission, you can buy a membership to ancestry. Then you can see if they have you on there, it may take a long time to find exactly who you are looking for but it should be there.
Also if you want to know what else you "are," I guess I could say, you can order the $100 DNA testing. Where you scrape at your cheek sells or spit in a vile and send it in to ancestry and then you will get a paper or chart (something) in the mail telling you that, "Oh you are also, Irish, Scottish, etc." However I think $100 is too expensive. I want to do it someday, but for now that can wait. xD
Plus I would say my physical attractiveness is questionable as well. Like I'm not ugly, but I'm not like super gorgeous. I'm average, I guess?
And I'm sorry I haven't replied. I forgot about it, then life kind of took hold of the reigns. I start school on Monday. *gasp* I kind of don't want to go because I have to get up pretty early and I'm always a difficult person to get active in the morning.
And I totally agree with you. I hate getting up early for school...I am NOT a morning person. Last year, after I woke up, I would be tired for my first three classes. Luckily they were all really easy classes, so it didn't matter too much :)
And yay, short people! Yeah, I have very few short friends, and so I'm always "the short one" in my friend groups. Since high school, though, I've managed to find more people that are my height, which is nice. Definitely less alienating.
I've thought about dying my hair, but maybe doing streaks and something not-so permanent. Like, with hair chalk. That way, I can do some crazy colors and let it wash out in a day or two.
Yeah, my ancestry is kinda strange. 50% Italian and 50% of some unknown mix of heritage. Ugh. The Native American scholarship would have been really cool to get for you, but I guess it might not have been worth it to try and dig up all those papers. There's a girl I know who I'm friendly with and she has this certificate that proves that she does have Native American heritage, which is really awesome, I think.
I would never pretend I was homosexual just for a scholarship. I would feel weird doing that and then having one of my female friends pose as my girlfriend and it would be dishonest and...yeah...
Make sure with hair chalk that you seal it with hair spray. I don't recommend Hot Huez unless you have very light hair. Even on the bleached parts of my brown hair (which are blonde now) hot huez didn't show up well, at all.
That's amazing that your friend was able to get one of those certificates or card (whatever it is) I've heard they are really, really difficult to get. I would personally love to get one that way it proves I do have a NA heritage but I'll possibly wait until I'm older. And, so far all I know is that I'm from a Pottawatomie/Ottawa tribe, ancestor is Che Che Pin Qua (which meant "the squinter" or "blinking eye") his English name is Alexander Robinson. And then I have some sort of Scottish, Irish and English mixed in some how. However I haven't found out anything about that side! And Italian's are so pretty, I want to visit Italy some day.
& I would never pretend to be homosexual for a scholarship either, it is dishonest. And I would feel guilty if I actually got it and I wasn't homosexual.
#favoritism?
I've read a lot about hair chalk and whatnot online, so yeah. If I ever do it, I'll absolutely remember to seal it. I probably won't use Hot Huez, in that case, considering that I have dirty-blonde-ish hair...
And that's so cool that you even know that much about your ancestry! How'd you manage to find out about your ancestor/the meaning of his name/his English name.
And you say Italians are pretty, but most of my genes are from the non-Italian side of my family. So my physical attractiveness is...um...shall we say questionable?
If you ever want to try and know about yours, you could ask someone in your family for a few relative names and then if you have permission, you can buy a membership to ancestry. Then you can see if they have you on there, it may take a long time to find exactly who you are looking for but it should be there.
Also if you want to know what else you "are," I guess I could say, you can order the $100 DNA testing. Where you scrape at your cheek sells or spit in a vile and send it in to ancestry and then you will get a paper or chart (something) in the mail telling you that, "Oh you are also, Irish, Scottish, etc." However I think $100 is too expensive. I want to do it someday, but for now that can wait. xD
Plus I would say my physical attractiveness is questionable as well. Like I'm not ugly, but I'm not like super gorgeous. I'm average, I guess?
And I'm sorry I haven't replied. I forgot about it, then life kind of took hold of the reigns. I start school on Monday. *gasp* I kind of don't want to go because I have to get up pretty early and I'm always a difficult person to get active in the morning.
And I totally agree with you. I hate getting up early for school...I am NOT a morning person. Last year, after I woke up, I would be tired for my first three classes. Luckily they were all really easy classes, so it didn't matter too much :)
I don't have red hair nor am I left-handed, but do you think that if maybe I dyed my hair and ...? Nah. Too much work XD
I remember my mom telling me there was one for Native Americans, to prove that you had ancestry. Which I do, but my mom said, "Ah, too much work to go through and try to prove it..." So I didn't apply. Though, I do think it would be a lot of work & possibly time wasted since documents were lost. Especially since it was like the, 1600s-1800s?
I also remember my senior year this really big scholar ship was for people who liked the same gender and these boys who were heterosexual, paired up and started acting homosexual to hope and get the scholar ship. Which they never did, thank god because it went to someone at a different school who was actually homosexual. Even if these two boys I know won it. I would probably have said something about how they weren't homosexual and just doing it for the scholarship. Which wasn't fair to people at my school who actually were homosexual, like a couple of my friends (who didn't apply for it.)
And yay, short people! Yeah, I have very few short friends, and so I'm always "the short one" in my friend groups. Since high school, though, I've managed to find more people that are my height, which is nice. Definitely less alienating.
I've thought about dying my hair, but maybe doing streaks and something not-so permanent. Like, with hair chalk. That way, I can do some crazy colors and let it wash out in a day or two.
Yeah, my ancestry is kinda strange. 50% Italian and 50% of some unknown mix of heritage. Ugh. The Native American scholarship would have been really cool to get for you, but I guess it might not have been worth it to try and dig up all those papers. There's a girl I know who I'm friendly with and she has this certificate that proves that she does have Native American heritage, which is really awesome, I think.
I would never pretend I was homosexual just for a scholarship. I would feel weird doing that and then having one of my female friends pose as my girlfriend and it would be dishonest and...yeah...
Make sure with hair chalk that you seal it with hair spray. I don't recommend Hot Huez unless you have very light hair. Even on the bleached parts of my brown hair (which are blonde now) hot huez didn't show up well, at all.
That's amazing that your friend was able to get one of those certificates or card (whatever it is) I've heard they are really, really difficult to get. I would personally love to get one that way it proves I do have a NA heritage but I'll possibly wait until I'm older. And, so far all I know is that I'm from a Pottawatomie/Ottawa tribe, ancestor is Che Che Pin Qua (which meant "the squinter" or "blinking eye") his English name is Alexander Robinson. And then I have some sort of Scottish, Irish and English mixed in some how. However I haven't found out anything about that side! And Italian's are so pretty, I want to visit Italy some day.
& I would never pretend to be homosexual for a scholarship either, it is dishonest. And I would feel guilty if I actually got it and I wasn't homosexual.
#favoritism?
I've read a lot about hair chalk and whatnot online, so yeah. If I ever do it, I'll absolutely remember to seal it. I probably won't use Hot Huez, in that case, considering that I have dirty-blonde-ish hair...
And that's so cool that you even know that much about your ancestry! How'd you manage to find out about your ancestor/the meaning of his name/his English name.
And you say Italians are pretty, but most of my genes are from the non-Italian side of my family. So my physical attractiveness is...um...shall we say questionable?
If you ever want to try and know about yours, you could ask someone in your family for a few relative names and then if you have permission, you can buy a membership to ancestry. Then you can see if they have you on there, it may take a long time to find exactly who you are looking for but it should be there.
Also if you want to know what else you "are," I guess I could say, you can order the $100 DNA testing. Where you scrape at your cheek sells or spit in a vile and send it in to ancestry and then you will get a paper or chart (something) in the mail telling you that, "Oh you are also, Irish, Scottish, etc." However I think $100 is too expensive. I want to do it someday, but for now that can wait. xD
Plus I would say my physical attractiveness is questionable as well. Like I'm not ugly, but I'm not like super gorgeous. I'm average, I guess?
And I'm sorry I haven't replied. I forgot about it, then life kind of took hold of the reigns. I start school on Monday. *gasp* I kind of don't want to go because I have to get up pretty early and I'm always a difficult person to get active in the morning.
And I totally agree with you. I hate getting up early for school...I am NOT a morning person. Last year, after I woke up, I would be tired for my first three classes. Luckily they were all really easy classes, so it didn't matter too much :)
It isn't a breeze as everyone makes it out to be but it also isn't terrible. I love having the ability to choose if I want morning or afternoon classes. My advice is avoid evening classes at all costs unless you have to take it. They drain you. Afternoon classes are my favorite because I get to sleep in, then I wake up and eat lunch then go to class.
So far I don't know any of my friends that are on scholarships, except one but I don't think she goes to school any more. But they literally have scholarships for everything, from having red hair to being left handed. xD
I don't have red hair nor am I left-handed, but do you think that if maybe I dyed my hair and ...? Nah. Too much work XD
I remember my mom telling me there was one for Native Americans, to prove that you had ancestry. Which I do, but my mom said, "Ah, too much work to go through and try to prove it..." So I didn't apply. Though, I do think it would be a lot of work & possibly time wasted since documents were lost. Especially since it was like the, 1600s-1800s?
I also remember my senior year this really big scholar ship was for people who liked the same gender and these boys who were heterosexual, paired up and started acting homosexual to hope and get the scholar ship. Which they never did, thank god because it went to someone at a different school who was actually homosexual. Even if these two boys I know won it. I would probably have said something about how they weren't homosexual and just doing it for the scholarship. Which wasn't fair to people at my school who actually were homosexual, like a couple of my friends (who didn't apply for it.)
And yay, short people! Yeah, I have very few short friends, and so I'm always "the short one" in my friend groups. Since high school, though, I've managed to find more people that are my height, which is nice. Definitely less alienating.
I've thought about dying my hair, but maybe doing streaks and something not-so permanent. Like, with hair chalk. That way, I can do some crazy colors and let it wash out in a day or two.
Yeah, my ancestry is kinda strange. 50% Italian and 50% of some unknown mix of heritage. Ugh. The Native American scholarship would have been really cool to get for you, but I guess it might not have been worth it to try and dig up all those papers. There's a girl I know who I'm friendly with and she has this certificate that proves that she does have Native American heritage, which is really awesome, I think.
I would never pretend I was homosexual just for a scholarship. I would feel weird doing that and then having one of my female friends pose as my girlfriend and it would be dishonest and...yeah...
Make sure with hair chalk that you seal it with hair spray. I don't recommend Hot Huez unless you have very light hair. Even on the bleached parts of my brown hair (which are blonde now) hot huez didn't show up well, at all.
That's amazing that your friend was able to get one of those certificates or card (whatever it is) I've heard they are really, really difficult to get. I would personally love to get one that way it proves I do have a NA heritage but I'll possibly wait until I'm older. And, so far all I know is that I'm from a Pottawatomie/Ottawa tribe, ancestor is Che Che Pin Qua (which meant "the squinter" or "blinking eye") his English name is Alexander Robinson. And then I have some sort of Scottish, Irish and English mixed in some how. However I haven't found out anything about that side! And Italian's are so pretty, I want to visit Italy some day.
& I would never pretend to be homosexual for a scholarship either, it is dishonest. And I would feel guilty if I actually got it and I wasn't homosexual.
#favoritism?
I've read a lot about hair chalk and whatnot online, so yeah. If I ever do it, I'll absolutely remember to seal it. I probably won't use Hot Huez, in that case, considering that I have dirty-blonde-ish hair...
And that's so cool that you even know that much about your ancestry! How'd you manage to find out about your ancestor/the meaning of his name/his English name.
And you say Italians are pretty, but most of my genes are from the non-Italian side of my family. So my physical attractiveness is...um...shall we say questionable?
If you ever want to try and know about yours, you could ask someone in your family for a few relative names and then if you have permission, you can buy a membership to ancestry. Then you can see if they have you on there, it may take a long time to find exactly who you are looking for but it should be there.
Also if you want to know what else you "are," I guess I could say, you can order the $100 DNA testing. Where you scrape at your cheek sells or spit in a vile and send it in to ancestry and then you will get a paper or chart (something) in the mail telling you that, "Oh you are also, Irish, Scottish, etc." However I think $100 is too expensive. I want to do it someday, but for now that can wait. xD
Plus I would say my physical attractiveness is questionable as well. Like I'm not ugly, but I'm not like super gorgeous. I'm average, I guess?
And I'm sorry I haven't replied. I forgot about it, then life kind of took hold of the reigns. I start school on Monday. *gasp* I kind of don't want to go because I have to get up pretty early and I'm always a difficult person to get active in the morning.
And I totally agree with you. I hate getting up early for school...I am NOT a morning person. Last year, after I woke up, I would be tired for my first three classes. Luckily they were all really easy classes, so it didn't matter too much :)
Yeah, I'm anticipating that there would be ups and downs to going to college with friends from high school. But right now my worries are more focused on getting into college. I do all sorts of APs and honors and extracurriculars and I *still* think no college will actually take me. I know that's not true, but I get anxious and I have terrible fears of rejection... *sigh*
It isn't a breeze as everyone makes it out to be but it also isn't terrible. I love having the ability to choose if I want morning or afternoon classes. My advice is avoid evening classes at all costs unless you have to take it. They drain you. Afternoon classes are my favorite because I get to sleep in, then I wake up and eat lunch then go to class.
So far I don't know any of my friends that are on scholarships, except one but I don't think she goes to school any more. But they literally have scholarships for everything, from having red hair to being left handed. xD
I don't have red hair nor am I left-handed, but do you think that if maybe I dyed my hair and ...? Nah. Too much work XD
I remember my mom telling me there was one for Native Americans, to prove that you had ancestry. Which I do, but my mom said, "Ah, too much work to go through and try to prove it..." So I didn't apply. Though, I do think it would be a lot of work & possibly time wasted since documents were lost. Especially since it was like the, 1600s-1800s?
I also remember my senior year this really big scholar ship was for people who liked the same gender and these boys who were heterosexual, paired up and started acting homosexual to hope and get the scholar ship. Which they never did, thank god because it went to someone at a different school who was actually homosexual. Even if these two boys I know won it. I would probably have said something about how they weren't homosexual and just doing it for the scholarship. Which wasn't fair to people at my school who actually were homosexual, like a couple of my friends (who didn't apply for it.)
And yay, short people! Yeah, I have very few short friends, and so I'm always "the short one" in my friend groups. Since high school, though, I've managed to find more people that are my height, which is nice. Definitely less alienating.
I've thought about dying my hair, but maybe doing streaks and something not-so permanent. Like, with hair chalk. That way, I can do some crazy colors and let it wash out in a day or two.
Yeah, my ancestry is kinda strange. 50% Italian and 50% of some unknown mix of heritage. Ugh. The Native American scholarship would have been really cool to get for you, but I guess it might not have been worth it to try and dig up all those papers. There's a girl I know who I'm friendly with and she has this certificate that proves that she does have Native American heritage, which is really awesome, I think.
I would never pretend I was homosexual just for a scholarship. I would feel weird doing that and then having one of my female friends pose as my girlfriend and it would be dishonest and...yeah...
Make sure with hair chalk that you seal it with hair spray. I don't recommend Hot Huez unless you have very light hair. Even on the bleached parts of my brown hair (which are blonde now) hot huez didn't show up well, at all.
That's amazing that your friend was able to get one of those certificates or card (whatever it is) I've heard they are really, really difficult to get. I would personally love to get one that way it proves I do have a NA heritage but I'll possibly wait until I'm older. And, so far all I know is that I'm from a Pottawatomie/Ottawa tribe, ancestor is Che Che Pin Qua (which meant "the squinter" or "blinking eye") his English name is Alexander Robinson. And then I have some sort of Scottish, Irish and English mixed in some how. However I haven't found out anything about that side! And Italian's are so pretty, I want to visit Italy some day.
& I would never pretend to be homosexual for a scholarship either, it is dishonest. And I would feel guilty if I actually got it and I wasn't homosexual.
#favoritism?
I've read a lot about hair chalk and whatnot online, so yeah. If I ever do it, I'll absolutely remember to seal it. I probably won't use Hot Huez, in that case, considering that I have dirty-blonde-ish hair...
And that's so cool that you even know that much about your ancestry! How'd you manage to find out about your ancestor/the meaning of his name/his English name.
And you say Italians are pretty, but most of my genes are from the non-Italian side of my family. So my physical attractiveness is...um...shall we say questionable?
If you ever want to try and know about yours, you could ask someone in your family for a few relative names and then if you have permission, you can buy a membership to ancestry. Then you can see if they have you on there, it may take a long time to find exactly who you are looking for but it should be there.
Also if you want to know what else you "are," I guess I could say, you can order the $100 DNA testing. Where you scrape at your cheek sells or spit in a vile and send it in to ancestry and then you will get a paper or chart (something) in the mail telling you that, "Oh you are also, Irish, Scottish, etc." However I think $100 is too expensive. I want to do it someday, but for now that can wait. xD
Plus I would say my physical attractiveness is questionable as well. Like I'm not ugly, but I'm not like super gorgeous. I'm average, I guess?
And I'm sorry I haven't replied. I forgot about it, then life kind of took hold of the reigns. I start school on Monday. *gasp* I kind of don't want to go because I have to get up pretty early and I'm always a difficult person to get active in the morning.
And I totally agree with you. I hate getting up early for school...I am NOT a morning person. Last year, after I woke up, I would be tired for my first three classes. Luckily they were all really easy classes, so it didn't matter too much :)
A lot of my friends and I have been looking at similar colleges in hopes that just *maybe* some of us would all get accepted to the same school and be able to possibly dorm together.
And I totally agree about taking a break. I've thought about taking a gap year after graduation, but knowing me, I would always mean to go to college and never actually do it. So I'm not planning on letting myself take breaks, except for summer vacations and whatnot...
I can say, it is good to have friends who go to the same college so you keep in touch and can have someone you are comfortable with in class. But sometimes seeing too much of them can lead to problems. That happened to me in my English class w/one of my friends. We saw each other too often and started to argue, we are just now getting on good terms again. So, beware of that, although I'm sure you probably know that.
And I took a semester break before jumping in. I just think that if I were to be like, "Okay I'm going to take a break and focus on this..." Then I wouldn't ever get back to it. Summer vacations and that I can understand because it is nice to take small breaks.
Yeah, I'm anticipating that there would be ups and downs to going to college with friends from high school. But right now my worries are more focused on getting into college. I do all sorts of APs and honors and extracurriculars and I *still* think no college will actually take me. I know that's not true, but I get anxious and I have terrible fears of rejection... *sigh*
It isn't a breeze as everyone makes it out to be but it also isn't terrible. I love having the ability to choose if I want morning or afternoon classes. My advice is avoid evening classes at all costs unless you have to take it. They drain you. Afternoon classes are my favorite because I get to sleep in, then I wake up and eat lunch then go to class.
So far I don't know any of my friends that are on scholarships, except one but I don't think she goes to school any more. But they literally have scholarships for everything, from having red hair to being left handed. xD
I don't have red hair nor am I left-handed, but do you think that if maybe I dyed my hair and ...? Nah. Too much work XD
I remember my mom telling me there was one for Native Americans, to prove that you had ancestry. Which I do, but my mom said, "Ah, too much work to go through and try to prove it..." So I didn't apply. Though, I do think it would be a lot of work & possibly time wasted since documents were lost. Especially since it was like the, 1600s-1800s?
I also remember my senior year this really big scholar ship was for people who liked the same gender and these boys who were heterosexual, paired up and started acting homosexual to hope and get the scholar ship. Which they never did, thank god because it went to someone at a different school who was actually homosexual. Even if these two boys I know won it. I would probably have said something about how they weren't homosexual and just doing it for the scholarship. Which wasn't fair to people at my school who actually were homosexual, like a couple of my friends (who didn't apply for it.)
And yay, short people! Yeah, I have very few short friends, and so I'm always "the short one" in my friend groups. Since high school, though, I've managed to find more people that are my height, which is nice. Definitely less alienating.
I've thought about dying my hair, but maybe doing streaks and something not-so permanent. Like, with hair chalk. That way, I can do some crazy colors and let it wash out in a day or two.
Yeah, my ancestry is kinda strange. 50% Italian and 50% of some unknown mix of heritage. Ugh. The Native American scholarship would have been really cool to get for you, but I guess it might not have been worth it to try and dig up all those papers. There's a girl I know who I'm friendly with and she has this certificate that proves that she does have Native American heritage, which is really awesome, I think.
I would never pretend I was homosexual just for a scholarship. I would feel weird doing that and then having one of my female friends pose as my girlfriend and it would be dishonest and...yeah...
Make sure with hair chalk that you seal it with hair spray. I don't recommend Hot Huez unless you have very light hair. Even on the bleached parts of my brown hair (which are blonde now) hot huez didn't show up well, at all.
That's amazing that your friend was able to get one of those certificates or card (whatever it is) I've heard they are really, really difficult to get. I would personally love to get one that way it proves I do have a NA heritage but I'll possibly wait until I'm older. And, so far all I know is that I'm from a Pottawatomie/Ottawa tribe, ancestor is Che Che Pin Qua (which meant "the squinter" or "blinking eye") his English name is Alexander Robinson. And then I have some sort of Scottish, Irish and English mixed in some how. However I haven't found out anything about that side! And Italian's are so pretty, I want to visit Italy some day.
& I would never pretend to be homosexual for a scholarship either, it is dishonest. And I would feel guilty if I actually got it and I wasn't homosexual.
#favoritism?
I've read a lot about hair chalk and whatnot online, so yeah. If I ever do it, I'll absolutely remember to seal it. I probably won't use Hot Huez, in that case, considering that I have dirty-blonde-ish hair...
And that's so cool that you even know that much about your ancestry! How'd you manage to find out about your ancestor/the meaning of his name/his English name.
And you say Italians are pretty, but most of my genes are from the non-Italian side of my family. So my physical attractiveness is...um...shall we say questionable?
If you ever want to try and know about yours, you could ask someone in your family for a few relative names and then if you have permission, you can buy a membership to ancestry. Then you can see if they have you on there, it may take a long time to find exactly who you are looking for but it should be there.
Also if you want to know what else you "are," I guess I could say, you can order the $100 DNA testing. Where you scrape at your cheek sells or spit in a vile and send it in to ancestry and then you will get a paper or chart (something) in the mail telling you that, "Oh you are also, Irish, Scottish, etc." However I think $100 is too expensive. I want to do it someday, but for now that can wait. xD
Plus I would say my physical attractiveness is questionable as well. Like I'm not ugly, but I'm not like super gorgeous. I'm average, I guess?
And I'm sorry I haven't replied. I forgot about it, then life kind of took hold of the reigns. I start school on Monday. *gasp* I kind of don't want to go because I have to get up pretty early and I'm always a difficult person to get active in the morning.
And I totally agree with you. I hate getting up early for school...I am NOT a morning person. Last year, after I woke up, I would be tired for my first three classes. Luckily they were all really easy classes, so it didn't matter too much :)
I love having English teachers like your neighbor, who ask questions and go into detail like that. My 8th grade English teacher was also my drama teacher for all of middle school, and so reading plays was always fun in her class because we wouldn't just talk about the reading, but also theatre stuff, which I loved. My 9th grade English class was super fun and my teacher is actually something of a family friend of ours (his son was friends with my brother). I'll always remember acting out Romeo & Juliet in that class and using toy lightsabers as swords and desks as the balcony in that class. Ahh, memories.
And yeah, I totally see how frustrating commuting to college would be for you, since it's an hour away. I'm planning on either getting a dorm (despite that it would cost extra...) or going to a school close enough that I can commute with ease. :/
I remember when we had to do Romeo & Juliet, we had to listen to these people on recording read it aloud and it was so slow. But there were some fun parts when my teacher would act out the scenes, however we never got too. Otherwise English class was really boring. It felt like the fun was sucked out of everything. Then again if maybe the teachers made it fun then we would have paid attention more.
Community college, ugh. Haha. Yeah most of my friends and I are only going here for generals then moving schools, but I've seen the struggle with some of my friends having to live in dorms. One, he hated it, because his room mate was a jerk, the people on the campus were too and he was always broke. So he quit and went home, now he's working two different jobs just to afford his rent and not going to school. The sad thing I have found out is that when one takes a break before school they say, "Oh I'll go back sometime." Then they never do, that's happened to a lot of my friends as well. I took a small break, instead of starting for the summer semester I went for the fall semester and now I'm going until I get my degree. Because I know if I take a break most likely I won't go back. & Some advice, just make sure to pick a dorm mate who you can get along with & not get sick of and who will respect you & your space.
A lot of my friends and I have been looking at similar colleges in hopes that just *maybe* some of us would all get accepted to the same school and be able to possibly dorm together.
And I totally agree about taking a break. I've thought about taking a gap year after graduation, but knowing me, I would always mean to go to college and never actually do it. So I'm not planning on letting myself take breaks, except for summer vacations and whatnot...
I can say, it is good to have friends who go to the same college so you keep in touch and can have someone you are comfortable with in class. But sometimes seeing too much of them can lead to problems. That happened to me in my English class w/one of my friends. We saw each other too often and started to argue, we are just now getting on good terms again. So, beware of that, although I'm sure you probably know that.
And I took a semester break before jumping in. I just think that if I were to be like, "Okay I'm going to take a break and focus on this..." Then I wouldn't ever get back to it. Summer vacations and that I can understand because it is nice to take small breaks.
Yeah, I'm anticipating that there would be ups and downs to going to college with friends from high school. But right now my worries are more focused on getting into college. I do all sorts of APs and honors and extracurriculars and I *still* think no college will actually take me. I know that's not true, but I get anxious and I have terrible fears of rejection... *sigh*
It isn't a breeze as everyone makes it out to be but it also isn't terrible. I love having the ability to choose if I want morning or afternoon classes. My advice is avoid evening classes at all costs unless you have to take it. They drain you. Afternoon classes are my favorite because I get to sleep in, then I wake up and eat lunch then go to class.
So far I don't know any of my friends that are on scholarships, except one but I don't think she goes to school any more. But they literally have scholarships for everything, from having red hair to being left handed. xD
I don't have red hair nor am I left-handed, but do you think that if maybe I dyed my hair and ...? Nah. Too much work XD
I remember my mom telling me there was one for Native Americans, to prove that you had ancestry. Which I do, but my mom said, "Ah, too much work to go through and try to prove it..." So I didn't apply. Though, I do think it would be a lot of work & possibly time wasted since documents were lost. Especially since it was like the, 1600s-1800s?
I also remember my senior year this really big scholar ship was for people who liked the same gender and these boys who were heterosexual, paired up and started acting homosexual to hope and get the scholar ship. Which they never did, thank god because it went to someone at a different school who was actually homosexual. Even if these two boys I know won it. I would probably have said something about how they weren't homosexual and just doing it for the scholarship. Which wasn't fair to people at my school who actually were homosexual, like a couple of my friends (who didn't apply for it.)
And yay, short people! Yeah, I have very few short friends, and so I'm always "the short one" in my friend groups. Since high school, though, I've managed to find more people that are my height, which is nice. Definitely less alienating.
I've thought about dying my hair, but maybe doing streaks and something not-so permanent. Like, with hair chalk. That way, I can do some crazy colors and let it wash out in a day or two.
Yeah, my ancestry is kinda strange. 50% Italian and 50% of some unknown mix of heritage. Ugh. The Native American scholarship would have been really cool to get for you, but I guess it might not have been worth it to try and dig up all those papers. There's a girl I know who I'm friendly with and she has this certificate that proves that she does have Native American heritage, which is really awesome, I think.
I would never pretend I was homosexual just for a scholarship. I would feel weird doing that and then having one of my female friends pose as my girlfriend and it would be dishonest and...yeah...
Make sure with hair chalk that you seal it with hair spray. I don't recommend Hot Huez unless you have very light hair. Even on the bleached parts of my brown hair (which are blonde now) hot huez didn't show up well, at all.
That's amazing that your friend was able to get one of those certificates or card (whatever it is) I've heard they are really, really difficult to get. I would personally love to get one that way it proves I do have a NA heritage but I'll possibly wait until I'm older. And, so far all I know is that I'm from a Pottawatomie/Ottawa tribe, ancestor is Che Che Pin Qua (which meant "the squinter" or "blinking eye") his English name is Alexander Robinson. And then I have some sort of Scottish, Irish and English mixed in some how. However I haven't found out anything about that side! And Italian's are so pretty, I want to visit Italy some day.
& I would never pretend to be homosexual for a scholarship either, it is dishonest. And I would feel guilty if I actually got it and I wasn't homosexual.
#favoritism?
I've read a lot about hair chalk and whatnot online, so yeah. If I ever do it, I'll absolutely remember to seal it. I probably won't use Hot Huez, in that case, considering that I have dirty-blonde-ish hair...
And that's so cool that you even know that much about your ancestry! How'd you manage to find out about your ancestor/the meaning of his name/his English name.
And you say Italians are pretty, but most of my genes are from the non-Italian side of my family. So my physical attractiveness is...um...shall we say questionable?
If you ever want to try and know about yours, you could ask someone in your family for a few relative names and then if you have permission, you can buy a membership to ancestry. Then you can see if they have you on there, it may take a long time to find exactly who you are looking for but it should be there.
Also if you want to know what else you "are," I guess I could say, you can order the $100 DNA testing. Where you scrape at your cheek sells or spit in a vile and send it in to ancestry and then you will get a paper or chart (something) in the mail telling you that, "Oh you are also, Irish, Scottish, etc." However I think $100 is too expensive. I want to do it someday, but for now that can wait. xD
Plus I would say my physical attractiveness is questionable as well. Like I'm not ugly, but I'm not like super gorgeous. I'm average, I guess?
And I'm sorry I haven't replied. I forgot about it, then life kind of took hold of the reigns. I start school on Monday. *gasp* I kind of don't want to go because I have to get up pretty early and I'm always a difficult person to get active in the morning.
And I totally agree with you. I hate getting up early for school...I am NOT a morning person. Last year, after I woke up, I would be tired for my first three classes. Luckily they were all really easy classes, so it didn't matter too much :)
And ugh! You're so lucky you're done with high school! I honestly cannot wait to graduate.
I've actually had a few teachers that made symbolism interesting. I really liked my 8th and 9th grade English teachers, and they made the class really fun and easy even though the books we read weren't always fantastic. My 10th grade teacher didn't do that as much, and that was the year where I had to "read" The Scarlet Letter. :/
Good luck teaching abroad! Are you from South Korea, or do you just want to live there someday?
Eh, my teachers with symbolism always drove it home. The best English teacher I have ever had, was my neighbor. He was a good teacher, very serious but was nice if you didn't tick him off, he would go into detail about things and ask us tons of questions but would always answer them. My other teachers, not so much. Except my last teacher (senior year) was obsessed with Anglo-Saxon/British literature and we had to read Hamlet & Macbeth. Wouldn't have been terrible if I could have read it alone or if I didn't need to remember the symbolism and stuff. It was quite terrible trying to read it all then trying to guess symbolism.
I was like that too "Ugh I can't wait to graduate," well I'm glad I did, but I miss having constant classes, knowing I would learn things & have a teacher. Instead of showing up to my college classes, no phone calls, no texts and no emails, only to find out class was canceled for that day. And I live an hour away. So that's an hour there and an hour back. :/
I hope to move colleges some day because I need to take a few language classes which, it's difficult to find Korean. But common to find, Japanese & Chinese. :L
I love having English teachers like your neighbor, who ask questions and go into detail like that. My 8th grade English teacher was also my drama teacher for all of middle school, and so reading plays was always fun in her class because we wouldn't just talk about the reading, but also theatre stuff, which I loved. My 9th grade English class was super fun and my teacher is actually something of a family friend of ours (his son was friends with my brother). I'll always remember acting out Romeo & Juliet in that class and using toy lightsabers as swords and desks as the balcony in that class. Ahh, memories.
And yeah, I totally see how frustrating commuting to college would be for you, since it's an hour away. I'm planning on either getting a dorm (despite that it would cost extra...) or going to a school close enough that I can commute with ease. :/
I remember when we had to do Romeo & Juliet, we had to listen to these people on recording read it aloud and it was so slow. But there were some fun parts when my teacher would act out the scenes, however we never got too. Otherwise English class was really boring. It felt like the fun was sucked out of everything. Then again if maybe the teachers made it fun then we would have paid attention more.
Community college, ugh. Haha. Yeah most of my friends and I are only going here for generals then moving schools, but I've seen the struggle with some of my friends having to live in dorms. One, he hated it, because his room mate was a jerk, the people on the campus were too and he was always broke. So he quit and went home, now he's working two different jobs just to afford his rent and not going to school. The sad thing I have found out is that when one takes a break before school they say, "Oh I'll go back sometime." Then they never do, that's happened to a lot of my friends as well. I took a small break, instead of starting for the summer semester I went for the fall semester and now I'm going until I get my degree. Because I know if I take a break most likely I won't go back. & Some advice, just make sure to pick a dorm mate who you can get along with & not get sick of and who will respect you & your space.
A lot of my friends and I have been looking at similar colleges in hopes that just *maybe* some of us would all get accepted to the same school and be able to possibly dorm together.
And I totally agree about taking a break. I've thought about taking a gap year after graduation, but knowing me, I would always mean to go to college and never actually do it. So I'm not planning on letting myself take breaks, except for summer vacations and whatnot...
I can say, it is good to have friends who go to the same college so you keep in touch and can have someone you are comfortable with in class. But sometimes seeing too much of them can lead to problems. That happened to me in my English class w/one of my friends. We saw each other too often and started to argue, we are just now getting on good terms again. So, beware of that, although I'm sure you probably know that.
And I took a semester break before jumping in. I just think that if I were to be like, "Okay I'm going to take a break and focus on this..." Then I wouldn't ever get back to it. Summer vacations and that I can understand because it is nice to take small breaks.
Yeah, I'm anticipating that there would be ups and downs to going to college with friends from high school. But right now my worries are more focused on getting into college. I do all sorts of APs and honors and extracurriculars and I *still* think no college will actually take me. I know that's not true, but I get anxious and I have terrible fears of rejection... *sigh*
It isn't a breeze as everyone makes it out to be but it also isn't terrible. I love having the ability to choose if I want morning or afternoon classes. My advice is avoid evening classes at all costs unless you have to take it. They drain you. Afternoon classes are my favorite because I get to sleep in, then I wake up and eat lunch then go to class.
So far I don't know any of my friends that are on scholarships, except one but I don't think she goes to school any more. But they literally have scholarships for everything, from having red hair to being left handed. xD
I don't have red hair nor am I left-handed, but do you think that if maybe I dyed my hair and ...? Nah. Too much work XD
I remember my mom telling me there was one for Native Americans, to prove that you had ancestry. Which I do, but my mom said, "Ah, too much work to go through and try to prove it..." So I didn't apply. Though, I do think it would be a lot of work & possibly time wasted since documents were lost. Especially since it was like the, 1600s-1800s?
I also remember my senior year this really big scholar ship was for people who liked the same gender and these boys who were heterosexual, paired up and started acting homosexual to hope and get the scholar ship. Which they never did, thank god because it went to someone at a different school who was actually homosexual. Even if these two boys I know won it. I would probably have said something about how they weren't homosexual and just doing it for the scholarship. Which wasn't fair to people at my school who actually were homosexual, like a couple of my friends (who didn't apply for it.)
And yay, short people! Yeah, I have very few short friends, and so I'm always "the short one" in my friend groups. Since high school, though, I've managed to find more people that are my height, which is nice. Definitely less alienating.
I've thought about dying my hair, but maybe doing streaks and something not-so permanent. Like, with hair chalk. That way, I can do some crazy colors and let it wash out in a day or two.
Yeah, my ancestry is kinda strange. 50% Italian and 50% of some unknown mix of heritage. Ugh. The Native American scholarship would have been really cool to get for you, but I guess it might not have been worth it to try and dig up all those papers. There's a girl I know who I'm friendly with and she has this certificate that proves that she does have Native American heritage, which is really awesome, I think.
I would never pretend I was homosexual just for a scholarship. I would feel weird doing that and then having one of my female friends pose as my girlfriend and it would be dishonest and...yeah...
Make sure with hair chalk that you seal it with hair spray. I don't recommend Hot Huez unless you have very light hair. Even on the bleached parts of my brown hair (which are blonde now) hot huez didn't show up well, at all.
That's amazing that your friend was able to get one of those certificates or card (whatever it is) I've heard they are really, really difficult to get. I would personally love to get one that way it proves I do have a NA heritage but I'll possibly wait until I'm older. And, so far all I know is that I'm from a Pottawatomie/Ottawa tribe, ancestor is Che Che Pin Qua (which meant "the squinter" or "blinking eye") his English name is Alexander Robinson. And then I have some sort of Scottish, Irish and English mixed in some how. However I haven't found out anything about that side! And Italian's are so pretty, I want to visit Italy some day.
& I would never pretend to be homosexual for a scholarship either, it is dishonest. And I would feel guilty if I actually got it and I wasn't homosexual.
#favoritism?
I've read a lot about hair chalk and whatnot online, so yeah. If I ever do it, I'll absolutely remember to seal it. I probably won't use Hot Huez, in that case, considering that I have dirty-blonde-ish hair...
And that's so cool that you even know that much about your ancestry! How'd you manage to find out about your ancestor/the meaning of his name/his English name.
And you say Italians are pretty, but most of my genes are from the non-Italian side of my family. So my physical attractiveness is...um...shall we say questionable?
If you ever want to try and know about yours, you could ask someone in your family for a few relative names and then if you have permission, you can buy a membership to ancestry. Then you can see if they have you on there, it may take a long time to find exactly who you are looking for but it should be there.
Also if you want to know what else you "are," I guess I could say, you can order the $100 DNA testing. Where you scrape at your cheek sells or spit in a vile and send it in to ancestry and then you will get a paper or chart (something) in the mail telling you that, "Oh you are also, Irish, Scottish, etc." However I think $100 is too expensive. I want to do it someday, but for now that can wait. xD
Plus I would say my physical attractiveness is questionable as well. Like I'm not ugly, but I'm not like super gorgeous. I'm average, I guess?
And I'm sorry I haven't replied. I forgot about it, then life kind of took hold of the reigns. I start school on Monday. *gasp* I kind of don't want to go because I have to get up pretty early and I'm always a difficult person to get active in the morning.
And I totally agree with you. I hate getting up early for school...I am NOT a morning person. Last year, after I woke up, I would be tired for my first three classes. Luckily they were all really easy classes, so it didn't matter too much :)
And, I mean, the blue curtains OBVIOUSLY symbolizes the shame Hester and Dimmesdale felt after their affair, and Chillingworth's undying for revenge against Dimmesdale. ;)
But hey, that's cool that you wanna be a teacher! Do you want to teach English or some other subject?
I want to teach English in South Korea. But I will most likely teach a year or two here in the States before I go and teach in another country, so I have experience. And, I hopefully will never be one of those teachers who has to ask constantly what the symbolism is. Heck, I'll make them read Harry Potter, that's good literature right there.
And ugh! You're so lucky you're done with high school! I honestly cannot wait to graduate.
I've actually had a few teachers that made symbolism interesting. I really liked my 8th and 9th grade English teachers, and they made the class really fun and easy even though the books we read weren't always fantastic. My 10th grade teacher didn't do that as much, and that was the year where I had to "read" The Scarlet Letter. :/
Good luck teaching abroad! Are you from South Korea, or do you just want to live there someday?
Eh, my teachers with symbolism always drove it home. The best English teacher I have ever had, was my neighbor. He was a good teacher, very serious but was nice if you didn't tick him off, he would go into detail about things and ask us tons of questions but would always answer them. My other teachers, not so much. Except my last teacher (senior year) was obsessed with Anglo-Saxon/British literature and we had to read Hamlet & Macbeth. Wouldn't have been terrible if I could have read it alone or if I didn't need to remember the symbolism and stuff. It was quite terrible trying to read it all then trying to guess symbolism.
I was like that too "Ugh I can't wait to graduate," well I'm glad I did, but I miss having constant classes, knowing I would learn things & have a teacher. Instead of showing up to my college classes, no phone calls, no texts and no emails, only to find out class was canceled for that day. And I live an hour away. So that's an hour there and an hour back. :/
I hope to move colleges some day because I need to take a few language classes which, it's difficult to find Korean. But common to find, Japanese & Chinese. :L
I love having English teachers like your neighbor, who ask questions and go into detail like that. My 8th grade English teacher was also my drama teacher for all of middle school, and so reading plays was always fun in her class because we wouldn't just talk about the reading, but also theatre stuff, which I loved. My 9th grade English class was super fun and my teacher is actually something of a family friend of ours (his son was friends with my brother). I'll always remember acting out Romeo & Juliet in that class and using toy lightsabers as swords and desks as the balcony in that class. Ahh, memories.
And yeah, I totally see how frustrating commuting to college would be for you, since it's an hour away. I'm planning on either getting a dorm (despite that it would cost extra...) or going to a school close enough that I can commute with ease. :/
I remember when we had to do Romeo & Juliet, we had to listen to these people on recording read it aloud and it was so slow. But there were some fun parts when my teacher would act out the scenes, however we never got too. Otherwise English class was really boring. It felt like the fun was sucked out of everything. Then again if maybe the teachers made it fun then we would have paid attention more.
Community college, ugh. Haha. Yeah most of my friends and I are only going here for generals then moving schools, but I've seen the struggle with some of my friends having to live in dorms. One, he hated it, because his room mate was a jerk, the people on the campus were too and he was always broke. So he quit and went home, now he's working two different jobs just to afford his rent and not going to school. The sad thing I have found out is that when one takes a break before school they say, "Oh I'll go back sometime." Then they never do, that's happened to a lot of my friends as well. I took a small break, instead of starting for the summer semester I went for the fall semester and now I'm going until I get my degree. Because I know if I take a break most likely I won't go back. & Some advice, just make sure to pick a dorm mate who you can get along with & not get sick of and who will respect you & your space.
A lot of my friends and I have been looking at similar colleges in hopes that just *maybe* some of us would all get accepted to the same school and be able to possibly dorm together.
And I totally agree about taking a break. I've thought about taking a gap year after graduation, but knowing me, I would always mean to go to college and never actually do it. So I'm not planning on letting myself take breaks, except for summer vacations and whatnot...
I can say, it is good to have friends who go to the same college so you keep in touch and can have someone you are comfortable with in class. But sometimes seeing too much of them can lead to problems. That happened to me in my English class w/one of my friends. We saw each other too often and started to argue, we are just now getting on good terms again. So, beware of that, although I'm sure you probably know that.
And I took a semester break before jumping in. I just think that if I were to be like, "Okay I'm going to take a break and focus on this..." Then I wouldn't ever get back to it. Summer vacations and that I can understand because it is nice to take small breaks.
Yeah, I'm anticipating that there would be ups and downs to going to college with friends from high school. But right now my worries are more focused on getting into college. I do all sorts of APs and honors and extracurriculars and I *still* think no college will actually take me. I know that's not true, but I get anxious and I have terrible fears of rejection... *sigh*
It isn't a breeze as everyone makes it out to be but it also isn't terrible. I love having the ability to choose if I want morning or afternoon classes. My advice is avoid evening classes at all costs unless you have to take it. They drain you. Afternoon classes are my favorite because I get to sleep in, then I wake up and eat lunch then go to class.
So far I don't know any of my friends that are on scholarships, except one but I don't think she goes to school any more. But they literally have scholarships for everything, from having red hair to being left handed. xD
I don't have red hair nor am I left-handed, but do you think that if maybe I dyed my hair and ...? Nah. Too much work XD
I remember my mom telling me there was one for Native Americans, to prove that you had ancestry. Which I do, but my mom said, "Ah, too much work to go through and try to prove it..." So I didn't apply. Though, I do think it would be a lot of work & possibly time wasted since documents were lost. Especially since it was like the, 1600s-1800s?
I also remember my senior year this really big scholar ship was for people who liked the same gender and these boys who were heterosexual, paired up and started acting homosexual to hope and get the scholar ship. Which they never did, thank god because it went to someone at a different school who was actually homosexual. Even if these two boys I know won it. I would probably have said something about how they weren't homosexual and just doing it for the scholarship. Which wasn't fair to people at my school who actually were homosexual, like a couple of my friends (who didn't apply for it.)
And yay, short people! Yeah, I have very few short friends, and so I'm always "the short one" in my friend groups. Since high school, though, I've managed to find more people that are my height, which is nice. Definitely less alienating.
I've thought about dying my hair, but maybe doing streaks and something not-so permanent. Like, with hair chalk. That way, I can do some crazy colors and let it wash out in a day or two.
Yeah, my ancestry is kinda strange. 50% Italian and 50% of some unknown mix of heritage. Ugh. The Native American scholarship would have been really cool to get for you, but I guess it might not have been worth it to try and dig up all those papers. There's a girl I know who I'm friendly with and she has this certificate that proves that she does have Native American heritage, which is really awesome, I think.
I would never pretend I was homosexual just for a scholarship. I would feel weird doing that and then having one of my female friends pose as my girlfriend and it would be dishonest and...yeah...
Make sure with hair chalk that you seal it with hair spray. I don't recommend Hot Huez unless you have very light hair. Even on the bleached parts of my brown hair (which are blonde now) hot huez didn't show up well, at all.
That's amazing that your friend was able to get one of those certificates or card (whatever it is) I've heard they are really, really difficult to get. I would personally love to get one that way it proves I do have a NA heritage but I'll possibly wait until I'm older. And, so far all I know is that I'm from a Pottawatomie/Ottawa tribe, ancestor is Che Che Pin Qua (which meant "the squinter" or "blinking eye") his English name is Alexander Robinson. And then I have some sort of Scottish, Irish and English mixed in some how. However I haven't found out anything about that side! And Italian's are so pretty, I want to visit Italy some day.
& I would never pretend to be homosexual for a scholarship either, it is dishonest. And I would feel guilty if I actually got it and I wasn't homosexual.
#favoritism?
I've read a lot about hair chalk and whatnot online, so yeah. If I ever do it, I'll absolutely remember to seal it. I probably won't use Hot Huez, in that case, considering that I have dirty-blonde-ish hair...
And that's so cool that you even know that much about your ancestry! How'd you manage to find out about your ancestor/the meaning of his name/his English name.
And you say Italians are pretty, but most of my genes are from the non-Italian side of my family. So my physical attractiveness is...um...shall we say questionable?
If you ever want to try and know about yours, you could ask someone in your family for a few relative names and then if you have permission, you can buy a membership to ancestry. Then you can see if they have you on there, it may take a long time to find exactly who you are looking for but it should be there.
Also if you want to know what else you "are," I guess I could say, you can order the $100 DNA testing. Where you scrape at your cheek sells or spit in a vile and send it in to ancestry and then you will get a paper or chart (something) in the mail telling you that, "Oh you are also, Irish, Scottish, etc." However I think $100 is too expensive. I want to do it someday, but for now that can wait. xD
Plus I would say my physical attractiveness is questionable as well. Like I'm not ugly, but I'm not like super gorgeous. I'm average, I guess?
And I'm sorry I haven't replied. I forgot about it, then life kind of took hold of the reigns. I start school on Monday. *gasp* I kind of don't want to go because I have to get up pretty early and I'm always a difficult person to get active in the morning.
And I totally agree with you. I hate getting up early for school...I am NOT a morning person. Last year, after I woke up, I would be tired for my first three classes. Luckily they were all really easy classes, so it didn't matter too much :)
And yes, I sorta read The Scarlet Letter. We were supposed to read it in English class, but I had little to no time to read because I was too busy with doing stage crew for the drama club, so I read the whole thing on SparkNotes. The premise for the book is interesting, but I think Hawthorne poorly executed it. It was much longer than it needed to be, and OH MY GOD ENOUGH WITH THE SYMBOLISM ALREADY...
The only part I liked is building an argument that it had feminist elements in it because Hester was so strong and independent and whatnot during this class discussion we had to do about the book
*rolls eyes at sexism and Hawthorne* Stupid sexism. Stupid Hawthorne.
Well The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850, so I can kind of understand why it is written the way it is, although there are many authors from that time and before hand who are much better. I personally didn't really read much of the book, but what I did read I disliked so much. As you said, I liked Hester, the feminist elements and how she went about things but it was just too long and SYMBOLISM EVERY WHERE. I hope I won't be like that when I become a teacher.
"Students what is the symbolism of the blue curtains?"
And, I mean, the blue curtains OBVIOUSLY symbolizes the shame Hester and Dimmesdale felt after their affair, and Chillingworth's undying for revenge against Dimmesdale. ;)
But hey, that's cool that you wanna be a teacher! Do you want to teach English or some other subject?
I want to teach English in South Korea. But I will most likely teach a year or two here in the States before I go and teach in another country, so I have experience. And, I hopefully will never be one of those teachers who has to ask constantly what the symbolism is. Heck, I'll make them read Harry Potter, that's good literature right there.
And ugh! You're so lucky you're done with high school! I honestly cannot wait to graduate.
I've actually had a few teachers that made symbolism interesting. I really liked my 8th and 9th grade English teachers, and they made the class really fun and easy even though the books we read weren't always fantastic. My 10th grade teacher didn't do that as much, and that was the year where I had to "read" The Scarlet Letter. :/
Good luck teaching abroad! Are you from South Korea, or do you just want to live there someday?
Eh, my teachers with symbolism always drove it home. The best English teacher I have ever had, was my neighbor. He was a good teacher, very serious but was nice if you didn't tick him off, he would go into detail about things and ask us tons of questions but would always answer them. My other teachers, not so much. Except my last teacher (senior year) was obsessed with Anglo-Saxon/British literature and we had to read Hamlet & Macbeth. Wouldn't have been terrible if I could have read it alone or if I didn't need to remember the symbolism and stuff. It was quite terrible trying to read it all then trying to guess symbolism.
I was like that too "Ugh I can't wait to graduate," well I'm glad I did, but I miss having constant classes, knowing I would learn things & have a teacher. Instead of showing up to my college classes, no phone calls, no texts and no emails, only to find out class was canceled for that day. And I live an hour away. So that's an hour there and an hour back. :/
I hope to move colleges some day because I need to take a few language classes which, it's difficult to find Korean. But common to find, Japanese & Chinese. :L
I love having English teachers like your neighbor, who ask questions and go into detail like that. My 8th grade English teacher was also my drama teacher for all of middle school, and so reading plays was always fun in her class because we wouldn't just talk about the reading, but also theatre stuff, which I loved. My 9th grade English class was super fun and my teacher is actually something of a family friend of ours (his son was friends with my brother). I'll always remember acting out Romeo & Juliet in that class and using toy lightsabers as swords and desks as the balcony in that class. Ahh, memories.
And yeah, I totally see how frustrating commuting to college would be for you, since it's an hour away. I'm planning on either getting a dorm (despite that it would cost extra...) or going to a school close enough that I can commute with ease. :/
I remember when we had to do Romeo & Juliet, we had to listen to these people on recording read it aloud and it was so slow. But there were some fun parts when my teacher would act out the scenes, however we never got too. Otherwise English class was really boring. It felt like the fun was sucked out of everything. Then again if maybe the teachers made it fun then we would have paid attention more.
Community college, ugh. Haha. Yeah most of my friends and I are only going here for generals then moving schools, but I've seen the struggle with some of my friends having to live in dorms. One, he hated it, because his room mate was a jerk, the people on the campus were too and he was always broke. So he quit and went home, now he's working two different jobs just to afford his rent and not going to school. The sad thing I have found out is that when one takes a break before school they say, "Oh I'll go back sometime." Then they never do, that's happened to a lot of my friends as well. I took a small break, instead of starting for the summer semester I went for the fall semester and now I'm going until I get my degree. Because I know if I take a break most likely I won't go back. & Some advice, just make sure to pick a dorm mate who you can get along with & not get sick of and who will respect you & your space.
A lot of my friends and I have been looking at similar colleges in hopes that just *maybe* some of us would all get accepted to the same school and be able to possibly dorm together.
And I totally agree about taking a break. I've thought about taking a gap year after graduation, but knowing me, I would always mean to go to college and never actually do it. So I'm not planning on letting myself take breaks, except for summer vacations and whatnot...
I can say, it is good to have friends who go to the same college so you keep in touch and can have someone you are comfortable with in class. But sometimes seeing too much of them can lead to problems. That happened to me in my English class w/one of my friends. We saw each other too often and started to argue, we are just now getting on good terms again. So, beware of that, although I'm sure you probably know that.
And I took a semester break before jumping in. I just think that if I were to be like, "Okay I'm going to take a break and focus on this..." Then I wouldn't ever get back to it. Summer vacations and that I can understand because it is nice to take small breaks.
Yeah, I'm anticipating that there would be ups and downs to going to college with friends from high school. But right now my worries are more focused on getting into college. I do all sorts of APs and honors and extracurriculars and I *still* think no college will actually take me. I know that's not true, but I get anxious and I have terrible fears of rejection... *sigh*
It isn't a breeze as everyone makes it out to be but it also isn't terrible. I love having the ability to choose if I want morning or afternoon classes. My advice is avoid evening classes at all costs unless you have to take it. They drain you. Afternoon classes are my favorite because I get to sleep in, then I wake up and eat lunch then go to class.
So far I don't know any of my friends that are on scholarships, except one but I don't think she goes to school any more. But they literally have scholarships for everything, from having red hair to being left handed. xD
I don't have red hair nor am I left-handed, but do you think that if maybe I dyed my hair and ...? Nah. Too much work XD
I remember my mom telling me there was one for Native Americans, to prove that you had ancestry. Which I do, but my mom said, "Ah, too much work to go through and try to prove it..." So I didn't apply. Though, I do think it would be a lot of work & possibly time wasted since documents were lost. Especially since it was like the, 1600s-1800s?
I also remember my senior year this really big scholar ship was for people who liked the same gender and these boys who were heterosexual, paired up and started acting homosexual to hope and get the scholar ship. Which they never did, thank god because it went to someone at a different school who was actually homosexual. Even if these two boys I know won it. I would probably have said something about how they weren't homosexual and just doing it for the scholarship. Which wasn't fair to people at my school who actually were homosexual, like a couple of my friends (who didn't apply for it.)
And yay, short people! Yeah, I have very few short friends, and so I'm always "the short one" in my friend groups. Since high school, though, I've managed to find more people that are my height, which is nice. Definitely less alienating.
I've thought about dying my hair, but maybe doing streaks and something not-so permanent. Like, with hair chalk. That way, I can do some crazy colors and let it wash out in a day or two.
Yeah, my ancestry is kinda strange. 50% Italian and 50% of some unknown mix of heritage. Ugh. The Native American scholarship would have been really cool to get for you, but I guess it might not have been worth it to try and dig up all those papers. There's a girl I know who I'm friendly with and she has this certificate that proves that she does have Native American heritage, which is really awesome, I think.
I would never pretend I was homosexual just for a scholarship. I would feel weird doing that and then having one of my female friends pose as my girlfriend and it would be dishonest and...yeah...
Make sure with hair chalk that you seal it with hair spray. I don't recommend Hot Huez unless you have very light hair. Even on the bleached parts of my brown hair (which are blonde now) hot huez didn't show up well, at all.
That's amazing that your friend was able to get one of those certificates or card (whatever it is) I've heard they are really, really difficult to get. I would personally love to get one that way it proves I do have a NA heritage but I'll possibly wait until I'm older. And, so far all I know is that I'm from a Pottawatomie/Ottawa tribe, ancestor is Che Che Pin Qua (which meant "the squinter" or "blinking eye") his English name is Alexander Robinson. And then I have some sort of Scottish, Irish and English mixed in some how. However I haven't found out anything about that side! And Italian's are so pretty, I want to visit Italy some day.
& I would never pretend to be homosexual for a scholarship either, it is dishonest. And I would feel guilty if I actually got it and I wasn't homosexual.
#favoritism?
I've read a lot about hair chalk and whatnot online, so yeah. If I ever do it, I'll absolutely remember to seal it. I probably won't use Hot Huez, in that case, considering that I have dirty-blonde-ish hair...
And that's so cool that you even know that much about your ancestry! How'd you manage to find out about your ancestor/the meaning of his name/his English name.
And you say Italians are pretty, but most of my genes are from the non-Italian side of my family. So my physical attractiveness is...um...shall we say questionable?
If you ever want to try and know about yours, you could ask someone in your family for a few relative names and then if you have permission, you can buy a membership to ancestry. Then you can see if they have you on there, it may take a long time to find exactly who you are looking for but it should be there.
Also if you want to know what else you "are," I guess I could say, you can order the $100 DNA testing. Where you scrape at your cheek sells or spit in a vile and send it in to ancestry and then you will get a paper or chart (something) in the mail telling you that, "Oh you are also, Irish, Scottish, etc." However I think $100 is too expensive. I want to do it someday, but for now that can wait. xD
Plus I would say my physical attractiveness is questionable as well. Like I'm not ugly, but I'm not like super gorgeous. I'm average, I guess?
And I'm sorry I haven't replied. I forgot about it, then life kind of took hold of the reigns. I start school on Monday. *gasp* I kind of don't want to go because I have to get up pretty early and I'm always a difficult person to get active in the morning.
And I totally agree with you. I hate getting up early for school...I am NOT a morning person. Last year, after I woke up, I would be tired for my first three classes. Luckily they were all really easy classes, so it didn't matter too much :)
I agree, It's really sad that people ask "what was she wearing?" when hearing about an incident of . Sexual abuse can be extremely traumatizing, and 1 in 6 women will experience it (that is by far the most terrifying statistic I've ever come across in my life). No woman should be blamed for being attacked, the way you wouldn't blame the victim in a shooting or a robbery. We shouldn't live in a society where our sympathies for a woman who was attacked, abused, and taken advantage of depends on what she wore, what she drank, where she went, or who attacked her.
Ugh. I guess that's my feminist rant for today.
And hurray for The Catcher in the Rye! One of my all-time favorite books and I'm glad you gave it a second chance :)
And yeah, I definitely gave it a second chance because it isn't as bad when I read it alone but in a group or something where we are very slow at reading it's terrible. However have you ever read, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne? I didn't like that book reading it in class or alone. "It's just not my cup of tea."
And yes, I sorta read The Scarlet Letter. We were supposed to read it in English class, but I had little to no time to read because I was too busy with doing stage crew for the drama club, so I read the whole thing on SparkNotes. The premise for the book is interesting, but I think Hawthorne poorly executed it. It was much longer than it needed to be, and OH MY GOD ENOUGH WITH THE SYMBOLISM ALREADY...
The only part I liked is building an argument that it had feminist elements in it because Hester was so strong and independent and whatnot during this class discussion we had to do about the book
*rolls eyes at sexism and Hawthorne* Stupid sexism. Stupid Hawthorne.
Well The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850, so I can kind of understand why it is written the way it is, although there are many authors from that time and before hand who are much better. I personally didn't really read much of the book, but what I did read I disliked so much. As you said, I liked Hester, the feminist elements and how she went about things but it was just too long and SYMBOLISM EVERY WHERE. I hope I won't be like that when I become a teacher.
"Students what is the symbolism of the blue curtains?"
And, I mean, the blue curtains OBVIOUSLY symbolizes the shame Hester and Dimmesdale felt after their affair, and Chillingworth's undying for revenge against Dimmesdale. ;)
But hey, that's cool that you wanna be a teacher! Do you want to teach English or some other subject?
I want to teach English in South Korea. But I will most likely teach a year or two here in the States before I go and teach in another country, so I have experience. And, I hopefully will never be one of those teachers who has to ask constantly what the symbolism is. Heck, I'll make them read Harry Potter, that's good literature right there.
And ugh! You're so lucky you're done with high school! I honestly cannot wait to graduate.
I've actually had a few teachers that made symbolism interesting. I really liked my 8th and 9th grade English teachers, and they made the class really fun and easy even though the books we read weren't always fantastic. My 10th grade teacher didn't do that as much, and that was the year where I had to "read" The Scarlet Letter. :/
Good luck teaching abroad! Are you from South Korea, or do you just want to live there someday?
Eh, my teachers with symbolism always drove it home. The best English teacher I have ever had, was my neighbor. He was a good teacher, very serious but was nice if you didn't tick him off, he would go into detail about things and ask us tons of questions but would always answer them. My other teachers, not so much. Except my last teacher (senior year) was obsessed with Anglo-Saxon/British literature and we had to read Hamlet & Macbeth. Wouldn't have been terrible if I could have read it alone or if I didn't need to remember the symbolism and stuff. It was quite terrible trying to read it all then trying to guess symbolism.
I was like that too "Ugh I can't wait to graduate," well I'm glad I did, but I miss having constant classes, knowing I would learn things & have a teacher. Instead of showing up to my college classes, no phone calls, no texts and no emails, only to find out class was canceled for that day. And I live an hour away. So that's an hour there and an hour back. :/
I hope to move colleges some day because I need to take a few language classes which, it's difficult to find Korean. But common to find, Japanese & Chinese. :L
I love having English teachers like your neighbor, who ask questions and go into detail like that. My 8th grade English teacher was also my drama teacher for all of middle school, and so reading plays was always fun in her class because we wouldn't just talk about the reading, but also theatre stuff, which I loved. My 9th grade English class was super fun and my teacher is actually something of a family friend of ours (his son was friends with my brother). I'll always remember acting out Romeo & Juliet in that class and using toy lightsabers as swords and desks as the balcony in that class. Ahh, memories.
And yeah, I totally see how frustrating commuting to college would be for you, since it's an hour away. I'm planning on either getting a dorm (despite that it would cost extra...) or going to a school close enough that I can commute with ease. :/
I remember when we had to do Romeo & Juliet, we had to listen to these people on recording read it aloud and it was so slow. But there were some fun parts when my teacher would act out the scenes, however we never got too. Otherwise English class was really boring. It felt like the fun was sucked out of everything. Then again if maybe the teachers made it fun then we would have paid attention more.
Community college, ugh. Haha. Yeah most of my friends and I are only going here for generals then moving schools, but I've seen the struggle with some of my friends having to live in dorms. One, he hated it, because his room mate was a jerk, the people on the campus were too and he was always broke. So he quit and went home, now he's working two different jobs just to afford his rent and not going to school. The sad thing I have found out is that when one takes a break before school they say, "Oh I'll go back sometime." Then they never do, that's happened to a lot of my friends as well. I took a small break, instead of starting for the summer semester I went for the fall semester and now I'm going until I get my degree. Because I know if I take a break most likely I won't go back. & Some advice, just make sure to pick a dorm mate who you can get along with & not get sick of and who will respect you & your space.
A lot of my friends and I have been looking at similar colleges in hopes that just *maybe* some of us would all get accepted to the same school and be able to possibly dorm together.
And I totally agree about taking a break. I've thought about taking a gap year after graduation, but knowing me, I would always mean to go to college and never actually do it. So I'm not planning on letting myself take breaks, except for summer vacations and whatnot...
I can say, it is good to have friends who go to the same college so you keep in touch and can have someone you are comfortable with in class. But sometimes seeing too much of them can lead to problems. That happened to me in my English class w/one of my friends. We saw each other too often and started to argue, we are just now getting on good terms again. So, beware of that, although I'm sure you probably know that.
And I took a semester break before jumping in. I just think that if I were to be like, "Okay I'm going to take a break and focus on this..." Then I wouldn't ever get back to it. Summer vacations and that I can understand because it is nice to take small breaks.
Yeah, I'm anticipating that there would be ups and downs to going to college with friends from high school. But right now my worries are more focused on getting into college. I do all sorts of APs and honors and extracurriculars and I *still* think no college will actually take me. I know that's not true, but I get anxious and I have terrible fears of rejection... *sigh*
It isn't a breeze as everyone makes it out to be but it also isn't terrible. I love having the ability to choose if I want morning or afternoon classes. My advice is avoid evening classes at all costs unless you have to take it. They drain you. Afternoon classes are my favorite because I get to sleep in, then I wake up and eat lunch then go to class.
So far I don't know any of my friends that are on scholarships, except one but I don't think she goes to school any more. But they literally have scholarships for everything, from having red hair to being left handed. xD
I don't have red hair nor am I left-handed, but do you think that if maybe I dyed my hair and ...? Nah. Too much work XD
I remember my mom telling me there was one for Native Americans, to prove that you had ancestry. Which I do, but my mom said, "Ah, too much work to go through and try to prove it..." So I didn't apply. Though, I do think it would be a lot of work & possibly time wasted since documents were lost. Especially since it was like the, 1600s-1800s?
I also remember my senior year this really big scholar ship was for people who liked the same gender and these boys who were heterosexual, paired up and started acting homosexual to hope and get the scholar ship. Which they never did, thank god because it went to someone at a different school who was actually homosexual. Even if these two boys I know won it. I would probably have said something about how they weren't homosexual and just doing it for the scholarship. Which wasn't fair to people at my school who actually were homosexual, like a couple of my friends (who didn't apply for it.)
And yay, short people! Yeah, I have very few short friends, and so I'm always "the short one" in my friend groups. Since high school, though, I've managed to find more people that are my height, which is nice. Definitely less alienating.
I've thought about dying my hair, but maybe doing streaks and something not-so permanent. Like, with hair chalk. That way, I can do some crazy colors and let it wash out in a day or two.
Yeah, my ancestry is kinda strange. 50% Italian and 50% of some unknown mix of heritage. Ugh. The Native American scholarship would have been really cool to get for you, but I guess it might not have been worth it to try and dig up all those papers. There's a girl I know who I'm friendly with and she has this certificate that proves that she does have Native American heritage, which is really awesome, I think.
I would never pretend I was homosexual just for a scholarship. I would feel weird doing that and then having one of my female friends pose as my girlfriend and it would be dishonest and...yeah...
Make sure with hair chalk that you seal it with hair spray. I don't recommend Hot Huez unless you have very light hair. Even on the bleached parts of my brown hair (which are blonde now) hot huez didn't show up well, at all.
That's amazing that your friend was able to get one of those certificates or card (whatever it is) I've heard they are really, really difficult to get. I would personally love to get one that way it proves I do have a NA heritage but I'll possibly wait until I'm older. And, so far all I know is that I'm from a Pottawatomie/Ottawa tribe, ancestor is Che Che Pin Qua (which meant "the squinter" or "blinking eye") his English name is Alexander Robinson. And then I have some sort of Scottish, Irish and English mixed in some how. However I haven't found out anything about that side! And Italian's are so pretty, I want to visit Italy some day.
& I would never pretend to be homosexual for a scholarship either, it is dishonest. And I would feel guilty if I actually got it and I wasn't homosexual.
#favoritism?
I've read a lot about hair chalk and whatnot online, so yeah. If I ever do it, I'll absolutely remember to seal it. I probably won't use Hot Huez, in that case, considering that I have dirty-blonde-ish hair...
And that's so cool that you even know that much about your ancestry! How'd you manage to find out about your ancestor/the meaning of his name/his English name.
And you say Italians are pretty, but most of my genes are from the non-Italian side of my family. So my physical attractiveness is...um...shall we say questionable?
If you ever want to try and know about yours, you could ask someone in your family for a few relative names and then if you have permission, you can buy a membership to ancestry. Then you can see if they have you on there, it may take a long time to find exactly who you are looking for but it should be there.
Also if you want to know what else you "are," I guess I could say, you can order the $100 DNA testing. Where you scrape at your cheek sells or spit in a vile and send it in to ancestry and then you will get a paper or chart (something) in the mail telling you that, "Oh you are also, Irish, Scottish, etc." However I think $100 is too expensive. I want to do it someday, but for now that can wait. xD
Plus I would say my physical attractiveness is questionable as well. Like I'm not ugly, but I'm not like super gorgeous. I'm average, I guess?
And I'm sorry I haven't replied. I forgot about it, then life kind of took hold of the reigns. I start school on Monday. *gasp* I kind of don't want to go because I have to get up pretty early and I'm always a difficult person to get active in the morning.
And I totally agree with you. I hate getting up early for school...I am NOT a morning person. Last year, after I woke up, I would be tired for my first three classes. Luckily they were all really easy classes, so it didn't matter too much :)
And that's shocking about your friend. culture is a really serious problem (that a lot of people don't take seriously, unfortunately) and issues such as sexual abuse and consent are some of my major reasons for being a feminist. Your friend must be very lucky to have a friend like you who cares so much that you've taken up feminism to prevent other women from going through the same sort of trauma as she did.
And don't worry. There are plenty of people who don't want to listen. There will always be people who believe that gender equality already exists, or believes that feminism is all about man-hating and lesbianism, or that men are supposed to be superior to women. But there are plenty of people (myself included) who feel just as strongly about the causes you believe in and *will* listen to you and support you. If nobody else cared about feminism, history would have disregarded and forgotten about women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Kate Chopin, Gloria Steinem, Virginia Woolf, bell hooks, Kathleen Hanna, and many other feminists who all believed in the same things that you and I do. :)
Yeah, it makes it worse since it wasn't captured on video or else the police were going to press charges. Which the men weren't of sound mind, they were drunk. And unfortunately for my friend she's a little larger in the chest area than most women, so that's why she thinks they did it; sad thing cause her work uniform is what you see the Wal-Mart employees wearing. I think I was always a feminist but didn't really know how to jump into it or approach the subject until something like this happened and it felt like it clicked. I know there will always be those people. That's what we need to change. For everyone or even most people, to have an open ear and not ask, "Well what were you wearing?" The first thing should be, "Are you okay? Do you need anything?" I just wish there were more feminists around in my little country town...
I agree, It's really sad that people ask "what was she wearing?" when hearing about an incident of . Sexual abuse can be extremely traumatizing, and 1 in 6 women will experience it (that is by far the most terrifying statistic I've ever come across in my life). No woman should be blamed for being attacked, the way you wouldn't blame the victim in a shooting or a robbery. We shouldn't live in a society where our sympathies for a woman who was attacked, abused, and taken advantage of depends on what she wore, what she drank, where she went, or who attacked her.
Ugh. I guess that's my feminist rant for today.
And hurray for The Catcher in the Rye! One of my all-time favorite books and I'm glad you gave it a second chance :)
And yeah, I definitely gave it a second chance because it isn't as bad when I read it alone but in a group or something where we are very slow at reading it's terrible. However have you ever read, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne? I didn't like that book reading it in class or alone. "It's just not my cup of tea."
And yes, I sorta read The Scarlet Letter. We were supposed to read it in English class, but I had little to no time to read because I was too busy with doing stage crew for the drama club, so I read the whole thing on SparkNotes. The premise for the book is interesting, but I think Hawthorne poorly executed it. It was much longer than it needed to be, and OH MY GOD ENOUGH WITH THE SYMBOLISM ALREADY...
The only part I liked is building an argument that it had feminist elements in it because Hester was so strong and independent and whatnot during this class discussion we had to do about the book
*rolls eyes at sexism and Hawthorne* Stupid sexism. Stupid Hawthorne.
Well The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850, so I can kind of understand why it is written the way it is, although there are many authors from that time and before hand who are much better. I personally didn't really read much of the book, but what I did read I disliked so much. As you said, I liked Hester, the feminist elements and how she went about things but it was just too long and SYMBOLISM EVERY WHERE. I hope I won't be like that when I become a teacher.
"Students what is the symbolism of the blue curtains?"
And, I mean, the blue curtains OBVIOUSLY symbolizes the shame Hester and Dimmesdale felt after their affair, and Chillingworth's undying for revenge against Dimmesdale. ;)
But hey, that's cool that you wanna be a teacher! Do you want to teach English or some other subject?
I want to teach English in South Korea. But I will most likely teach a year or two here in the States before I go and teach in another country, so I have experience. And, I hopefully will never be one of those teachers who has to ask constantly what the symbolism is. Heck, I'll make them read Harry Potter, that's good literature right there.
And ugh! You're so lucky you're done with high school! I honestly cannot wait to graduate.
I've actually had a few teachers that made symbolism interesting. I really liked my 8th and 9th grade English teachers, and they made the class really fun and easy even though the books we read weren't always fantastic. My 10th grade teacher didn't do that as much, and that was the year where I had to "read" The Scarlet Letter. :/
Good luck teaching abroad! Are you from South Korea, or do you just want to live there someday?
Eh, my teachers with symbolism always drove it home. The best English teacher I have ever had, was my neighbor. He was a good teacher, very serious but was nice if you didn't tick him off, he would go into detail about things and ask us tons of questions but would always answer them. My other teachers, not so much. Except my last teacher (senior year) was obsessed with Anglo-Saxon/British literature and we had to read Hamlet & Macbeth. Wouldn't have been terrible if I could have read it alone or if I didn't need to remember the symbolism and stuff. It was quite terrible trying to read it all then trying to guess symbolism.
I was like that too "Ugh I can't wait to graduate," well I'm glad I did, but I miss having constant classes, knowing I would learn things & have a teacher. Instead of showing up to my college classes, no phone calls, no texts and no emails, only to find out class was canceled for that day. And I live an hour away. So that's an hour there and an hour back. :/
I hope to move colleges some day because I need to take a few language classes which, it's difficult to find Korean. But common to find, Japanese & Chinese. :L
I love having English teachers like your neighbor, who ask questions and go into detail like that. My 8th grade English teacher was also my drama teacher for all of middle school, and so reading plays was always fun in her class because we wouldn't just talk about the reading, but also theatre stuff, which I loved. My 9th grade English class was super fun and my teacher is actually something of a family friend of ours (his son was friends with my brother). I'll always remember acting out Romeo & Juliet in that class and using toy lightsabers as swords and desks as the balcony in that class. Ahh, memories.
And yeah, I totally see how frustrating commuting to college would be for you, since it's an hour away. I'm planning on either getting a dorm (despite that it would cost extra...) or going to a school close enough that I can commute with ease. :/
I remember when we had to do Romeo & Juliet, we had to listen to these people on recording read it aloud and it was so slow. But there were some fun parts when my teacher would act out the scenes, however we never got too. Otherwise English class was really boring. It felt like the fun was sucked out of everything. Then again if maybe the teachers made it fun then we would have paid attention more.
Community college, ugh. Haha. Yeah most of my friends and I are only going here for generals then moving schools, but I've seen the struggle with some of my friends having to live in dorms. One, he hated it, because his room mate was a jerk, the people on the campus were too and he was always broke. So he quit and went home, now he's working two different jobs just to afford his rent and not going to school. The sad thing I have found out is that when one takes a break before school they say, "Oh I'll go back sometime." Then they never do, that's happened to a lot of my friends as well. I took a small break, instead of starting for the summer semester I went for the fall semester and now I'm going until I get my degree. Because I know if I take a break most likely I won't go back. & Some advice, just make sure to pick a dorm mate who you can get along with & not get sick of and who will respect you & your space.
A lot of my friends and I have been looking at similar colleges in hopes that just *maybe* some of us would all get accepted to the same school and be able to possibly dorm together.
And I totally agree about taking a break. I've thought about taking a gap year after graduation, but knowing me, I would always mean to go to college and never actually do it. So I'm not planning on letting myself take breaks, except for summer vacations and whatnot...
I can say, it is good to have friends who go to the same college so you keep in touch and can have someone you are comfortable with in class. But sometimes seeing too much of them can lead to problems. That happened to me in my English class w/one of my friends. We saw each other too often and started to argue, we are just now getting on good terms again. So, beware of that, although I'm sure you probably know that.
And I took a semester break before jumping in. I just think that if I were to be like, "Okay I'm going to take a break and focus on this..." Then I wouldn't ever get back to it. Summer vacations and that I can understand because it is nice to take small breaks.
Yeah, I'm anticipating that there would be ups and downs to going to college with friends from high school. But right now my worries are more focused on getting into college. I do all sorts of APs and honors and extracurriculars and I *still* think no college will actually take me. I know that's not true, but I get anxious and I have terrible fears of rejection... *sigh*
It isn't a breeze as everyone makes it out to be but it also isn't terrible. I love having the ability to choose if I want morning or afternoon classes. My advice is avoid evening classes at all costs unless you have to take it. They drain you. Afternoon classes are my favorite because I get to sleep in, then I wake up and eat lunch then go to class.
So far I don't know any of my friends that are on scholarships, except one but I don't think she goes to school any more. But they literally have scholarships for everything, from having red hair to being left handed. xD
I don't have red hair nor am I left-handed, but do you think that if maybe I dyed my hair and ...? Nah. Too much work XD
I remember my mom telling me there was one for Native Americans, to prove that you had ancestry. Which I do, but my mom said, "Ah, too much work to go through and try to prove it..." So I didn't apply. Though, I do think it would be a lot of work & possibly time wasted since documents were lost. Especially since it was like the, 1600s-1800s?
I also remember my senior year this really big scholar ship was for people who liked the same gender and these boys who were heterosexual, paired up and started acting homosexual to hope and get the scholar ship. Which they never did, thank god because it went to someone at a different school who was actually homosexual. Even if these two boys I know won it. I would probably have said something about how they weren't homosexual and just doing it for the scholarship. Which wasn't fair to people at my school who actually were homosexual, like a couple of my friends (who didn't apply for it.)
And yay, short people! Yeah, I have very few short friends, and so I'm always "the short one" in my friend groups. Since high school, though, I've managed to find more people that are my height, which is nice. Definitely less alienating.
I've thought about dying my hair, but maybe doing streaks and something not-so permanent. Like, with hair chalk. That way, I can do some crazy colors and let it wash out in a day or two.
Yeah, my ancestry is kinda strange. 50% Italian and 50% of some unknown mix of heritage. Ugh. The Native American scholarship would have been really cool to get for you, but I guess it might not have been worth it to try and dig up all those papers. There's a girl I know who I'm friendly with and she has this certificate that proves that she does have Native American heritage, which is really awesome, I think.
I would never pretend I was homosexual just for a scholarship. I would feel weird doing that and then having one of my female friends pose as my girlfriend and it would be dishonest and...yeah...
Make sure with hair chalk that you seal it with hair spray. I don't recommend Hot Huez unless you have very light hair. Even on the bleached parts of my brown hair (which are blonde now) hot huez didn't show up well, at all.
That's amazing that your friend was able to get one of those certificates or card (whatever it is) I've heard they are really, really difficult to get. I would personally love to get one that way it proves I do have a NA heritage but I'll possibly wait until I'm older. And, so far all I know is that I'm from a Pottawatomie/Ottawa tribe, ancestor is Che Che Pin Qua (which meant "the squinter" or "blinking eye") his English name is Alexander Robinson. And then I have some sort of Scottish, Irish and English mixed in some how. However I haven't found out anything about that side! And Italian's are so pretty, I want to visit Italy some day.
& I would never pretend to be homosexual for a scholarship either, it is dishonest. And I would feel guilty if I actually got it and I wasn't homosexual.
#favoritism?
I've read a lot about hair chalk and whatnot online, so yeah. If I ever do it, I'll absolutely remember to seal it. I probably won't use Hot Huez, in that case, considering that I have dirty-blonde-ish hair...
And that's so cool that you even know that much about your ancestry! How'd you manage to find out about your ancestor/the meaning of his name/his English name.
And you say Italians are pretty, but most of my genes are from the non-Italian side of my family. So my physical attractiveness is...um...shall we say questionable?
If you ever want to try and know about yours, you could ask someone in your family for a few relative names and then if you have permission, you can buy a membership to ancestry. Then you can see if they have you on there, it may take a long time to find exactly who you are looking for but it should be there.
Also if you want to know what else you "are," I guess I could say, you can order the $100 DNA testing. Where you scrape at your cheek sells or spit in a vile and send it in to ancestry and then you will get a paper or chart (something) in the mail telling you that, "Oh you are also, Irish, Scottish, etc." However I think $100 is too expensive. I want to do it someday, but for now that can wait. xD
Plus I would say my physical attractiveness is questionable as well. Like I'm not ugly, but I'm not like super gorgeous. I'm average, I guess?
And I'm sorry I haven't replied. I forgot about it, then life kind of took hold of the reigns. I start school on Monday. *gasp* I kind of don't want to go because I have to get up pretty early and I'm always a difficult person to get active in the morning.
And I totally agree with you. I hate getting up early for school...I am NOT a morning person. Last year, after I woke up, I would be tired for my first three classes. Luckily they were all really easy classes, so it didn't matter too much :)
And that's shocking about your friend. culture is a really serious problem (that a lot of people don't take seriously, unfortunately) and issues such as sexual abuse and consent are some of my major reasons for being a feminist. Your friend must be very lucky to have a friend like you who cares so much that you've taken up feminism to prevent other women from going through the same sort of trauma as she did.
And don't worry. There are plenty of people who don't want to listen. There will always be people who believe that gender equality already exists, or believes that feminism is all about man-hating and lesbianism, or that men are supposed to be superior to women. But there are plenty of people (myself included) who feel just as strongly about the causes you believe in and *will* listen to you and support you. If nobody else cared about feminism, history would have disregarded and forgotten about women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Kate Chopin, Gloria Steinem, Virginia Woolf, bell hooks, Kathleen Hanna, and many other feminists who all believed in the same things that you and I do. :)
Yeah, it makes it worse since it wasn't captured on video or else the police were going to press charges. Which the men weren't of sound mind, they were drunk. And unfortunately for my friend she's a little larger in the chest area than most women, so that's why she thinks they did it; sad thing cause her work uniform is what you see the Wal-Mart employees wearing. I think I was always a feminist but didn't really know how to jump into it or approach the subject until something like this happened and it felt like it clicked. I know there will always be those people. That's what we need to change. For everyone or even most people, to have an open ear and not ask, "Well what were you wearing?" The first thing should be, "Are you okay? Do you need anything?" I just wish there were more feminists around in my little country town...
I agree, It's really sad that people ask "what was she wearing?" when hearing about an incident of . Sexual abuse can be extremely traumatizing, and 1 in 6 women will experience it (that is by far the most terrifying statistic I've ever come across in my life). No woman should be blamed for being attacked, the way you wouldn't blame the victim in a shooting or a robbery. We shouldn't live in a society where our sympathies for a woman who was attacked, abused, and taken advantage of depends on what she wore, what she drank, where she went, or who attacked her.
Ugh. I guess that's my feminist rant for today.
And hurray for The Catcher in the Rye! One of my all-time favorite books and I'm glad you gave it a second chance :)
And yeah, I definitely gave it a second chance because it isn't as bad when I read it alone but in a group or something where we are very slow at reading it's terrible. However have you ever read, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne? I didn't like that book reading it in class or alone. "It's just not my cup of tea."
And yes, I sorta read The Scarlet Letter. We were supposed to read it in English class, but I had little to no time to read because I was too busy with doing stage crew for the drama club, so I read the whole thing on SparkNotes. The premise for the book is interesting, but I think Hawthorne poorly executed it. It was much longer than it needed to be, and OH MY GOD ENOUGH WITH THE SYMBOLISM ALREADY...
The only part I liked is building an argument that it had feminist elements in it because Hester was so strong and independent and whatnot during this class discussion we had to do about the book
*rolls eyes at sexism and Hawthorne* Stupid sexism. Stupid Hawthorne.
Well The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850, so I can kind of understand why it is written the way it is, although there are many authors from that time and before hand who are much better. I personally didn't really read much of the book, but what I did read I disliked so much. As you said, I liked Hester, the feminist elements and how she went about things but it was just too long and SYMBOLISM EVERY WHERE. I hope I won't be like that when I become a teacher.
"Students what is the symbolism of the blue curtains?"
And, I mean, the blue curtains OBVIOUSLY symbolizes the shame Hester and Dimmesdale felt after their affair, and Chillingworth's undying for revenge against Dimmesdale. ;)
But hey, that's cool that you wanna be a teacher! Do you want to teach English or some other subject?
I want to teach English in South Korea. But I will most likely teach a year or two here in the States before I go and teach in another country, so I have experience. And, I hopefully will never be one of those teachers who has to ask constantly what the symbolism is. Heck, I'll make them read Harry Potter, that's good literature right there.
And ugh! You're so lucky you're done with high school! I honestly cannot wait to graduate.
I've actually had a few teachers that made symbolism interesting. I really liked my 8th and 9th grade English teachers, and they made the class really fun and easy even though the books we read weren't always fantastic. My 10th grade teacher didn't do that as much, and that was the year where I had to "read" The Scarlet Letter. :/
Good luck teaching abroad! Are you from South Korea, or do you just want to live there someday?
Eh, my teachers with symbolism always drove it home. The best English teacher I have ever had, was my neighbor. He was a good teacher, very serious but was nice if you didn't tick him off, he would go into detail about things and ask us tons of questions but would always answer them. My other teachers, not so much. Except my last teacher (senior year) was obsessed with Anglo-Saxon/British literature and we had to read Hamlet & Macbeth. Wouldn't have been terrible if I could have read it alone or if I didn't need to remember the symbolism and stuff. It was quite terrible trying to read it all then trying to guess symbolism.
I was like that too "Ugh I can't wait to graduate," well I'm glad I did, but I miss having constant classes, knowing I would learn things & have a teacher. Instead of showing up to my college classes, no phone calls, no texts and no emails, only to find out class was canceled for that day. And I live an hour away. So that's an hour there and an hour back. :/
I hope to move colleges some day because I need to take a few language classes which, it's difficult to find Korean. But common to find, Japanese & Chinese. :L
I love having English teachers like your neighbor, who ask questions and go into detail like that. My 8th grade English teacher was also my drama teacher for all of middle school, and so reading plays was always fun in her class because we wouldn't just talk about the reading, but also theatre stuff, which I loved. My 9th grade English class was super fun and my teacher is actually something of a family friend of ours (his son was friends with my brother). I'll always remember acting out Romeo & Juliet in that class and using toy lightsabers as swords and desks as the balcony in that class. Ahh, memories.
And yeah, I totally see how frustrating commuting to college would be for you, since it's an hour away. I'm planning on either getting a dorm (despite that it would cost extra...) or going to a school close enough that I can commute with ease. :/
I remember when we had to do Romeo & Juliet, we had to listen to these people on recording read it aloud and it was so slow. But there were some fun parts when my teacher would act out the scenes, however we never got too. Otherwise English class was really boring. It felt like the fun was sucked out of everything. Then again if maybe the teachers made it fun then we would have paid attention more.
Community college, ugh. Haha. Yeah most of my friends and I are only going here for generals then moving schools, but I've seen the struggle with some of my friends having to live in dorms. One, he hated it, because his room mate was a jerk, the people on the campus were too and he was always broke. So he quit and went home, now he's working two different jobs just to afford his rent and not going to school. The sad thing I have found out is that when one takes a break before school they say, "Oh I'll go back sometime." Then they never do, that's happened to a lot of my friends as well. I took a small break, instead of starting for the summer semester I went for the fall semester and now I'm going until I get my degree. Because I know if I take a break most likely I won't go back. & Some advice, just make sure to pick a dorm mate who you can get along with & not get sick of and who will respect you & your space.
A lot of my friends and I have been looking at similar colleges in hopes that just *maybe* some of us would all get accepted to the same school and be able to possibly dorm together.
And I totally agree about taking a break. I've thought about taking a gap year after graduation, but knowing me, I would always mean to go to college and never actually do it. So I'm not planning on letting myself take breaks, except for summer vacations and whatnot...
I can say, it is good to have friends who go to the same college so you keep in touch and can have someone you are comfortable with in class. But sometimes seeing too much of them can lead to problems. That happened to me in my English class w/one of my friends. We saw each other too often and started to argue, we are just now getting on good terms again. So, beware of that, although I'm sure you probably know that.
And I took a semester break before jumping in. I just think that if I were to be like, "Okay I'm going to take a break and focus on this..." Then I wouldn't ever get back to it. Summer vacations and that I can understand because it is nice to take small breaks.
Yeah, I'm anticipating that there would be ups and downs to going to college with friends from high school. But right now my worries are more focused on getting into college. I do all sorts of APs and honors and extracurriculars and I *still* think no college will actually take me. I know that's not true, but I get anxious and I have terrible fears of rejection... *sigh*
It isn't a breeze as everyone makes it out to be but it also isn't terrible. I love having the ability to choose if I want morning or afternoon classes. My advice is avoid evening classes at all costs unless you have to take it. They drain you. Afternoon classes are my favorite because I get to sleep in, then I wake up and eat lunch then go to class.
So far I don't know any of my friends that are on scholarships, except one but I don't think she goes to school any more. But they literally have scholarships for everything, from having red hair to being left handed. xD
I don't have red hair nor am I left-handed, but do you think that if maybe I dyed my hair and ...? Nah. Too much work XD
I remember my mom telling me there was one for Native Americans, to prove that you had ancestry. Which I do, but my mom said, "Ah, too much work to go through and try to prove it..." So I didn't apply. Though, I do think it would be a lot of work & possibly time wasted since documents were lost. Especially since it was like the, 1600s-1800s?
I also remember my senior year this really big scholar ship was for people who liked the same gender and these boys who were heterosexual, paired up and started acting homosexual to hope and get the scholar ship. Which they never did, thank god because it went to someone at a different school who was actually homosexual. Even if these two boys I know won it. I would probably have said something about how they weren't homosexual and just doing it for the scholarship. Which wasn't fair to people at my school who actually were homosexual, like a couple of my friends (who didn't apply for it.)
And yay, short people! Yeah, I have very few short friends, and so I'm always "the short one" in my friend groups. Since high school, though, I've managed to find more people that are my height, which is nice. Definitely less alienating.
I've thought about dying my hair, but maybe doing streaks and something not-so permanent. Like, with hair chalk. That way, I can do some crazy colors and let it wash out in a day or two.
Yeah, my ancestry is kinda strange. 50% Italian and 50% of some unknown mix of heritage. Ugh. The Native American scholarship would have been really cool to get for you, but I guess it might not have been worth it to try and dig up all those papers. There's a girl I know who I'm friendly with and she has this certificate that proves that she does have Native American heritage, which is really awesome, I think.
I would never pretend I was homosexual just for a scholarship. I would feel weird doing that and then having one of my female friends pose as my girlfriend and it would be dishonest and...yeah...
Make sure with hair chalk that you seal it with hair spray. I don't recommend Hot Huez unless you have very light hair. Even on the bleached parts of my brown hair (which are blonde now) hot huez didn't show up well, at all.
That's amazing that your friend was able to get one of those certificates or card (whatever it is) I've heard they are really, really difficult to get. I would personally love to get one that way it proves I do have a NA heritage but I'll possibly wait until I'm older. And, so far all I know is that I'm from a Pottawatomie/Ottawa tribe, ancestor is Che Che Pin Qua (which meant "the squinter" or "blinking eye") his English name is Alexander Robinson. And then I have some sort of Scottish, Irish and English mixed in some how. However I haven't found out anything about that side! And Italian's are so pretty, I want to visit Italy some day.
& I would never pretend to be homosexual for a scholarship either, it is dishonest. And I would feel guilty if I actually got it and I wasn't homosexual.
#favoritism?
I've read a lot about hair chalk and whatnot online, so yeah. If I ever do it, I'll absolutely remember to seal it. I probably won't use Hot Huez, in that case, considering that I have dirty-blonde-ish hair...
And that's so cool that you even know that much about your ancestry! How'd you manage to find out about your ancestor/the meaning of his name/his English name.
And you say Italians are pretty, but most of my genes are from the non-Italian side of my family. So my physical attractiveness is...um...shall we say questionable?
If you ever want to try and know about yours, you could ask someone in your family for a few relative names and then if you have permission, you can buy a membership to ancestry. Then you can see if they have you on there, it may take a long time to find exactly who you are looking for but it should be there.
Also if you want to know what else you "are," I guess I could say, you can order the $100 DNA testing. Where you scrape at your cheek sells or spit in a vile and send it in to ancestry and then you will get a paper or chart (something) in the mail telling you that, "Oh you are also, Irish, Scottish, etc." However I think $100 is too expensive. I want to do it someday, but for now that can wait. xD
Plus I would say my physical attractiveness is questionable as well. Like I'm not ugly, but I'm not like super gorgeous. I'm average, I guess?
And I'm sorry I haven't replied. I forgot about it, then life kind of took hold of the reigns. I start school on Monday. *gasp* I kind of don't want to go because I have to get up pretty early and I'm always a difficult person to get active in the morning.
And I totally agree with you. I hate getting up early for school...I am NOT a morning person. Last year, after I woke up, I would be tired for my first three classes. Luckily they were all really easy classes, so it didn't matter too much :)
And that's shocking about your friend. culture is a really serious problem (that a lot of people don't take seriously, unfortunately) and issues such as sexual abuse and consent are some of my major reasons for being a feminist. Your friend must be very lucky to have a friend like you who cares so much that you've taken up feminism to prevent other women from going through the same sort of trauma as she did.
And don't worry. There are plenty of people who don't want to listen. There will always be people who believe that gender equality already exists, or believes that feminism is all about man-hating and lesbianism, or that men are supposed to be superior to women. But there are plenty of people (myself included) who feel just as strongly about the causes you believe in and *will* listen to you and support you. If nobody else cared about feminism, history would have disregarded and forgotten about women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Kate Chopin, Gloria Steinem, Virginia Woolf, bell hooks, Kathleen Hanna, and many other feminists who all believed in the same things that you and I do. :)
Yeah, it makes it worse since it wasn't captured on video or else the police were going to press charges. Which the men weren't of sound mind, they were drunk. And unfortunately for my friend she's a little larger in the chest area than most women, so that's why she thinks they did it; sad thing cause her work uniform is what you see the Wal-Mart employees wearing. I think I was always a feminist but didn't really know how to jump into it or approach the subject until something like this happened and it felt like it clicked. I know there will always be those people. That's what we need to change. For everyone or even most people, to have an open ear and not ask, "Well what were you wearing?" The first thing should be, "Are you okay? Do you need anything?" I just wish there were more feminists around in my little country town...
I agree, It's really sad that people ask "what was she wearing?" when hearing about an incident of . Sexual abuse can be extremely traumatizing, and 1 in 6 women will experience it (that is by far the most terrifying statistic I've ever come across in my life). No woman should be blamed for being attacked, the way you wouldn't blame the victim in a shooting or a robbery. We shouldn't live in a society where our sympathies for a woman who was attacked, abused, and taken advantage of depends on what she wore, what she drank, where she went, or who attacked her.
Ugh. I guess that's my feminist rant for today.
And hurray for The Catcher in the Rye! One of my all-time favorite books and I'm glad you gave it a second chance :)
And yeah, I definitely gave it a second chance because it isn't as bad when I read it alone but in a group or something where we are very slow at reading it's terrible. However have you ever read, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne? I didn't like that book reading it in class or alone. "It's just not my cup of tea."
And yes, I sorta read The Scarlet Letter. We were supposed to read it in English class, but I had little to no time to read because I was too busy with doing stage crew for the drama club, so I read the whole thing on SparkNotes. The premise for the book is interesting, but I think Hawthorne poorly executed it. It was much longer than it needed to be, and OH MY GOD ENOUGH WITH THE SYMBOLISM ALREADY...
The only part I liked is building an argument that it had feminist elements in it because Hester was so strong and independent and whatnot during this class discussion we had to do about the book
*rolls eyes at sexism and Hawthorne* Stupid sexism. Stupid Hawthorne.
Well The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850, so I can kind of understand why it is written the way it is, although there are many authors from that time and before hand who are much better. I personally didn't really read much of the book, but what I did read I disliked so much. As you said, I liked Hester, the feminist elements and how she went about things but it was just too long and SYMBOLISM EVERY WHERE. I hope I won't be like that when I become a teacher.
"Students what is the symbolism of the blue curtains?"
And, I mean, the blue curtains OBVIOUSLY symbolizes the shame Hester and Dimmesdale felt after their affair, and Chillingworth's undying for revenge against Dimmesdale. ;)
But hey, that's cool that you wanna be a teacher! Do you want to teach English or some other subject?
I want to teach English in South Korea. But I will most likely teach a year or two here in the States before I go and teach in another country, so I have experience. And, I hopefully will never be one of those teachers who has to ask constantly what the symbolism is. Heck, I'll make them read Harry Potter, that's good literature right there.
And ugh! You're so lucky you're done with high school! I honestly cannot wait to graduate.
I've actually had a few teachers that made symbolism interesting. I really liked my 8th and 9th grade English teachers, and they made the class really fun and easy even though the books we read weren't always fantastic. My 10th grade teacher didn't do that as much, and that was the year where I had to "read" The Scarlet Letter. :/
Good luck teaching abroad! Are you from South Korea, or do you just want to live there someday?
Eh, my teachers with symbolism always drove it home. The best English teacher I have ever had, was my neighbor. He was a good teacher, very serious but was nice if you didn't tick him off, he would go into detail about things and ask us tons of questions but would always answer them. My other teachers, not so much. Except my last teacher (senior year) was obsessed with Anglo-Saxon/British literature and we had to read Hamlet & Macbeth. Wouldn't have been terrible if I could have read it alone or if I didn't need to remember the symbolism and stuff. It was quite terrible trying to read it all then trying to guess symbolism.
I was like that too "Ugh I can't wait to graduate," well I'm glad I did, but I miss having constant classes, knowing I would learn things & have a teacher. Instead of showing up to my college classes, no phone calls, no texts and no emails, only to find out class was canceled for that day. And I live an hour away. So that's an hour there and an hour back. :/
I hope to move colleges some day because I need to take a few language classes which, it's difficult to find Korean. But common to find, Japanese & Chinese. :L
I love having English teachers like your neighbor, who ask questions and go into detail like that. My 8th grade English teacher was also my drama teacher for all of middle school, and so reading plays was always fun in her class because we wouldn't just talk about the reading, but also theatre stuff, which I loved. My 9th grade English class was super fun and my teacher is actually something of a family friend of ours (his son was friends with my brother). I'll always remember acting out Romeo & Juliet in that class and using toy lightsabers as swords and desks as the balcony in that class. Ahh, memories.
And yeah, I totally see how frustrating commuting to college would be for you, since it's an hour away. I'm planning on either getting a dorm (despite that it would cost extra...) or going to a school close enough that I can commute with ease. :/
I remember when we had to do Romeo & Juliet, we had to listen to these people on recording read it aloud and it was so slow. But there were some fun parts when my teacher would act out the scenes, however we never got too. Otherwise English class was really boring. It felt like the fun was sucked out of everything. Then again if maybe the teachers made it fun then we would have paid attention more.
Community college, ugh. Haha. Yeah most of my friends and I are only going here for generals then moving schools, but I've seen the struggle with some of my friends having to live in dorms. One, he hated it, because his room mate was a jerk, the people on the campus were too and he was always broke. So he quit and went home, now he's working two different jobs just to afford his rent and not going to school. The sad thing I have found out is that when one takes a break before school they say, "Oh I'll go back sometime." Then they never do, that's happened to a lot of my friends as well. I took a small break, instead of starting for the summer semester I went for the fall semester and now I'm going until I get my degree. Because I know if I take a break most likely I won't go back. & Some advice, just make sure to pick a dorm mate who you can get along with & not get sick of and who will respect you & your space.
A lot of my friends and I have been looking at similar colleges in hopes that just *maybe* some of us would all get accepted to the same school and be able to possibly dorm together.
And I totally agree about taking a break. I've thought about taking a gap year after graduation, but knowing me, I would always mean to go to college and never actually do it. So I'm not planning on letting myself take breaks, except for summer vacations and whatnot...
I can say, it is good to have friends who go to the same college so you keep in touch and can have someone you are comfortable with in class. But sometimes seeing too much of them can lead to problems. That happened to me in my English class w/one of my friends. We saw each other too often and started to argue, we are just now getting on good terms again. So, beware of that, although I'm sure you probably know that.
And I took a semester break before jumping in. I just think that if I were to be like, "Okay I'm going to take a break and focus on this..." Then I wouldn't ever get back to it. Summer vacations and that I can understand because it is nice to take small breaks.
Yeah, I'm anticipating that there would be ups and downs to going to college with friends from high school. But right now my worries are more focused on getting into college. I do all sorts of APs and honors and extracurriculars and I *still* think no college will actually take me. I know that's not true, but I get anxious and I have terrible fears of rejection... *sigh*
It isn't a breeze as everyone makes it out to be but it also isn't terrible. I love having the ability to choose if I want morning or afternoon classes. My advice is avoid evening classes at all costs unless you have to take it. They drain you. Afternoon classes are my favorite because I get to sleep in, then I wake up and eat lunch then go to class.
So far I don't know any of my friends that are on scholarships, except one but I don't think she goes to school any more. But they literally have scholarships for everything, from having red hair to being left handed. xD
I don't have red hair nor am I left-handed, but do you think that if maybe I dyed my hair and ...? Nah. Too much work XD
I remember my mom telling me there was one for Native Americans, to prove that you had ancestry. Which I do, but my mom said, "Ah, too much work to go through and try to prove it..." So I didn't apply. Though, I do think it would be a lot of work & possibly time wasted since documents were lost. Especially since it was like the, 1600s-1800s?
I also remember my senior year this really big scholar ship was for people who liked the same gender and these boys who were heterosexual, paired up and started acting homosexual to hope and get the scholar ship. Which they never did, thank god because it went to someone at a different school who was actually homosexual. Even if these two boys I know won it. I would probably have said something about how they weren't homosexual and just doing it for the scholarship. Which wasn't fair to people at my school who actually were homosexual, like a couple of my friends (who didn't apply for it.)
And yay, short people! Yeah, I have very few short friends, and so I'm always "the short one" in my friend groups. Since high school, though, I've managed to find more people that are my height, which is nice. Definitely less alienating.
I've thought about dying my hair, but maybe doing streaks and something not-so permanent. Like, with hair chalk. That way, I can do some crazy colors and let it wash out in a day or two.
Yeah, my ancestry is kinda strange. 50% Italian and 50% of some unknown mix of heritage. Ugh. The Native American scholarship would have been really cool to get for you, but I guess it might not have been worth it to try and dig up all those papers. There's a girl I know who I'm friendly with and she has this certificate that proves that she does have Native American heritage, which is really awesome, I think.
I would never pretend I was homosexual just for a scholarship. I would feel weird doing that and then having one of my female friends pose as my girlfriend and it would be dishonest and...yeah...
Make sure with hair chalk that you seal it with hair spray. I don't recommend Hot Huez unless you have very light hair. Even on the bleached parts of my brown hair (which are blonde now) hot huez didn't show up well, at all.
That's amazing that your friend was able to get one of those certificates or card (whatever it is) I've heard they are really, really difficult to get. I would personally love to get one that way it proves I do have a NA heritage but I'll possibly wait until I'm older. And, so far all I know is that I'm from a Pottawatomie/Ottawa tribe, ancestor is Che Che Pin Qua (which meant "the squinter" or "blinking eye") his English name is Alexander Robinson. And then I have some sort of Scottish, Irish and English mixed in some how. However I haven't found out anything about that side! And Italian's are so pretty, I want to visit Italy some day.
& I would never pretend to be homosexual for a scholarship either, it is dishonest. And I would feel guilty if I actually got it and I wasn't homosexual.
#favoritism?
I've read a lot about hair chalk and whatnot online, so yeah. If I ever do it, I'll absolutely remember to seal it. I probably won't use Hot Huez, in that case, considering that I have dirty-blonde-ish hair...
And that's so cool that you even know that much about your ancestry! How'd you manage to find out about your ancestor/the meaning of his name/his English name.
And you say Italians are pretty, but most of my genes are from the non-Italian side of my family. So my physical attractiveness is...um...shall we say questionable?
If you ever want to try and know about yours, you could ask someone in your family for a few relative names and then if you have permission, you can buy a membership to ancestry. Then you can see if they have you on there, it may take a long time to find exactly who you are looking for but it should be there.
Also if you want to know what else you "are," I guess I could say, you can order the $100 DNA testing. Where you scrape at your cheek sells or spit in a vile and send it in to ancestry and then you will get a paper or chart (something) in the mail telling you that, "Oh you are also, Irish, Scottish, etc." However I think $100 is too expensive. I want to do it someday, but for now that can wait. xD
Plus I would say my physical attractiveness is questionable as well. Like I'm not ugly, but I'm not like super gorgeous. I'm average, I guess?
And I'm sorry I haven't replied. I forgot about it, then life kind of took hold of the reigns. I start school on Monday. *gasp* I kind of don't want to go because I have to get up pretty early and I'm always a difficult person to get active in the morning.
And I totally agree with you. I hate getting up early for school...I am NOT a morning person. Last year, after I woke up, I would be tired for my first three classes. Luckily they were all really easy classes, so it didn't matter too much :)