Assignment #14

1) It's easy to get a message across in a personal essay, it's not really buried in dialogue or anything and it's pretty much just stated. I like this because it's straightforward without being unartistic. A personal essay can still be deep without much thought to it. I found when I was writing my personal essay, that most of my writing is actually in personal essay form, like when I write in my journal or something. I enjoyed it, and I'll probably do it again.

2) Reading is important because you need to feed yourself, you can't always just come up with ideas out of the blue. A writer needs experiences, inspiration, and others to help them write. This way they can find their own way of writing and see differences within literature.

3) My favorite piece that I've written was my poem, "Old Towne" because it reminds me of a happy time, and I think it's artistic, or i just like the way it's written. I really didn't like writing the short story for the picture. It was difficult and not very artistic. I really didn't like MY short story because it was some stupid sci-fie plot and it was just dumb in general. I couldn't think of anything to write.

4)pepsi,
little debbie,
MickeyD's,
otle,
american idol,
florida ANY day,
neither-san francisco,
Jaclyn,
Josh,
Germany or Iceland,
the one where they go to the bar,
The fox and the hound?

peace guys, claire

Assignment #13

1) A guiding principle in my life is not necessarily ONE guiding principle, it's multiple things that are important to me. They mostly go in this order: Tyler(recently added), Family, friends, church, camp, sports, school, work. This hierarchy is what dictates my life, for exaple, if there is some camp activity on a weekend, and I'm schedudled to work, I'll get my shift covered. But family trumps over all, if one of my family memebers is in need, I will go to them before any other thing. I know this sounds crazy, but I pretty much do what I want within reason, if there is something I want to do, I'll do it, it's all just spontaneous. Life is crazy like that.

2) When the 35W bridge collapsed, I was compleatly freaked out, and it changed me, especially at that moment in time. I was at camp and pretty much compleatly closed off from the world, I couldn't watch the news, no newspaper, no internet, the only thing I had was my phone. We were getting ready to go out to a movie when I got a text from my friend saying that the bridge had collapsed and they were calling it a disaster. Then I got two more texts from people and I tried calling my family but all the phone lines were jammed, then I called my best friend to see if she was alright and what was going on and I got through to her. I was almost shaking becuase I couldn't talk to my family. I finnaly got a hold of them about half an hour later and they were all fine. But even to this day, I never saw any pictures or videos of the accident.

3) I want to be a counselor at Star Lake this summer. I want to be the counselor that makes kids want to come back, that treats them like mature individuals and gives them an experience they won't forget. That's pretty much it right now I guess. I also want to go to college and have a lot of fun.