Now that a whole semester has gone by, the only thing I can really say is that I read a few books in the spring of 2011. Maybe I will change habits and learn to like reading later in life, but for now I still dispise reading, and would rather not do it. When I read Mitch Album's "For One More Day", I was really into it and read the whole thing in less than 2 days. I can say I honestly enjoyed reading it, but it was a one and done thing almost for me. I don't know if it was that I got distracted too easily, or if I never made time for reading, but I know for sure that I didn't meet the quota for pages read. I am able to read for school, that's not to hard for me, but when I'm asked,"What type of book do you think you'd like to read?" I wouldn't know what I wanted to read.
I can say I didn't really like the reading and the blogging (especially the blogging aspect) of the class. Vocab was helpful, as well as SAT prep stuff, but the reading wasn't my favorite, by far.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Monday, May 9, 2011
Poem List
Stages of life: Birth, Youth, Marriage, Having a Kid, Growing Old, and Death
1. Birth: Babies [Alice Fulton]
2. Youth: Young Forever [Jay-Z, Mr. Hudson] {Video}
3. Marriage: Marriage [Lawrence Raab]
4. Having a Kid: A Poet to His Baby Son [James Weldon Johnson]
5. Growing Old: Growing Old [Matthiew Arnold]
6. Death: If See No End In Is [Frank Bidart]
Sunday, May 8, 2011
life of pi, chapters 63-74 [239-264]
In these chapters Pi does an aboundance of things like trying to navigate (or atleast try and figures where he is with the stars), goes fishing with different sorts of lengths of lines, and hunting turtles. The most exciting event that was occured in these chapters was Pi trying to set territories with Richard Parker (The Tiger). He does thing like shaking the boat trying to get him sea sick, blowing his whistle as loud as he can, and jumping up and down trying to intimidate him. These things did work for a while, but never really showed him who was Number 1. with all of the turtle shells pi gathered, he'd run up to the tiger and try scaring him that way, but with one swipe the tiger would knock pi straight off the boat. Pi would try this 3 more times and have the same result. it wasn't until the 5th time, when he would blow his whistle, shake the boat, and then charge Richard Parker and show him who was boss. In Pi's words that was all it took to show him who was incharge. Now when the tiger aproches pi all he has to do is blow the whistle and the tiger retreats back into his territory all balled up and head curled.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Life of Pi... Again Chapers 59-63 [213-239]
These next few chapters are kinda boring, nothing really exciting happens. Pi does some fishing with leather shoe strings. Near the end of these chapters he catches a big 4 foot fish of some sort (dorado), but struggles to kill it being a long time vegitarian, but this being his only means of survival, he has to do it. but before this he had better luck with the school of flying fish that jump in the boat and hit him. But before that he does a couple other things like carves an oar and makes a mast for the boat, tries to make a shelter, and figures out a way to get fresh water by some way of evaporation. Oh and it has been a whole week since his boat first sunk. I guess why it was so hard for me to catch on to it was because it has been a LONG time since i quit reading this book, but i need to start reading and blogging again.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Monday, April 25, 2011
Wow, I need to make more time for reading
Truth be told... I Hate Reading. I'm suprised I'm on track with my reading of Tales of Two Cities. That's a ton of reading for me as is. My free time doesn't involve reading. I like to learn things by hearing it, or by doing it, not by seeing it (in this case... reading). I can get entertained maybe for 10 minutes. Maybe it will be something i grow into. idk, for now it is prolly something i despise.
Pecock feathers
What makes this drawing so different and special is that it is written on pages ripped out of a Bible. It is a beautiful and colorful drawing, but there are a few people who would see it as disrespect to draw on the pages of a Bible, let alone rip pages out of a Bible. I'm one of those people who could possibly get upset about something like this, but I don't know the purpose the author to why he or she did it. Maybe there was a story behing why they did it, so I can't judge it.
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