Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Assignment #9-Happiness

1) When you are overcome with a feeling of extreme comfort in your surroundings.

2) I am happy when I am with my friends, doing what we love to do. I am the kind of person that needs other people to be happy. I find myself to be happiest when I'm hiking, camping, swimming, dining, singing, doing synchro and sometimes working; all with the people I love most, the people that make me laugh and smile.

3) My family influences my happiness, when they're happy, I can be happy. Also, my co-workers influence my happiness, I love it when I can walk into work, and my supervisor says, "CLLAAIIRE!! You're here!" it just sets the tone for the whole shift.

4) I impact my family's happiness, if I'm crabby, then they're gonna get crabby and visa-versa, if I'm excited and happy, I'm gonna try to get them to play along with me.

5) My greatest need in life is human contact, I love to be social, and without my friends and family, my community, I would be nothing.

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Assignment #8

Friendship
Synchro
Star Lake
Childhood
Happiness
Smiles
Good Sam
ASP
The wilderness
Family
Friends becoming family
Summertime

Assignment #7

1) I liked the poetry the most because I felt like I was more able to write about what I wanted to write about, rather than what I am being told to write aboout, there was more creative freedom. There aren't really any rules with poetry.

2) Although my favorite thing to do was to write poetry, my favortie pieces of writing were some of the prompts. It was really interesting writing "things I no longer do", and "most beautiful place" because it really brought back memories and forced me to think.

3) I have found that I don't like the structure and direction, but I need a lot of feedback. Also, when I start writing, I just keep going, I can't just stop, in fear of losing my train of thought.

4) I would like to spend some time on memoirs.