Friday, April 9, 2010

The Last Melon (Name That Movie!)

Well, this has been fun. I truly have enjoyed writing my blogs the past twelve weeks! (If you cannot tell this is my last blog) And you may be wondering what I have to write about for my last blog. Today I am writing to you about how I feel about my blog. How I feel my writing has been, and what I like about it and what I do not like about it.
Let us start with the negatives first and work our way up to the positives, that way I leave you on a happier note. First off, what was hard about the blog is that for those who are reading it, many of you do not know me. You do not know my personality, or really anything about me (you know a lot about me know if you have actually read these blogs) but personality is hard to put through a blog. Therefore you do not know that half the time I am being goofy or just sarcastic, and I am trying to be funny. But in writing, when you cannot hear a person’s tone, it may come off as just plain rude. Also, something that was difficult for me was the free writes. After a while I felt like I started to write about the same thing. Let me know if this is true.
And now to a positive note! Something I did like about my blogs was the fact that I could vent on here (like I did with the 8 AM class blog) and you can personally chose whether or not you want to read it. Nobody is forcing you to read my writing, so if I vent, and you do not like it, LEAVE! I also liked this writing; it was a way of relieving stress for me, along with (if you have read my other blogs) dancing. They both provided in a way a stress relief, because I could take these blogs whatever direction I chose.
Thank you for sticking with me these past twelve weeks. Hope you have enjoyed it as much as I have! 
P.S. The movie which my title is from....ICE AGE! :)

Friday, April 2, 2010

Expertise

Well this week for my weekly blog I have been asked what I am an expert in. This took quite a bit of thinking, as last week I talked about my dance team and dance show, so I do not want to bore you by saying that I am an expert in dance; I mean I think you got that. I also have already said what my major is, but I am far from being an expert in chemistry. I thought about saying that I am an expert in skiing, but to be honest I doubt I could write three hundred words on how I am an expert skier (plus I mean I still fall every once in a while). So, I came up with something interesting. I am an expert on random, and mostly useless, facts.
But now I must prove it. I came up with some random facts that I know, that I doubt any of you know. For instance:
1. Did you know that there was a law made saying you could not fish off of Navy Pier? Now that might seem like a mediocre fact, but wait it gets better. There is also a law saying you cannot fish off of Navy Pier, off of a giraffe. Now that just means, somebody had to do it, for it to become illegal. Awesome.
2. Did you know that sharks will soon be in the Great Lakes? Bullhead sharks are swimming up the Mississippi river (adapting to fresh water of course) and will be in the Great Lakes within 5-10 years. Oh and by the way, Bullhead sharks are very violent.
3. Did you know that all the state schools in Illinois have a piece of our “castle”? There is a building on campus that looks like a castle, and if you go to all the state schools in Illinois (ISU,NIU, etc.) that they will make one large castle?
See, told ya.