4Q35

I think that we like celebrities because it gives everyone something mutual to talk about. Celebrities also give us something to look up to or to not be like. It's like having drama that isn't your drama, but you like to know what's going on. That and it can be interesting to learn about other people that we look up to. Like Angelina Joli is a woman I look up to because of her acting skills and her humanitarian acts. She's a great person that little girls can look up to to make a difference in the world. I think celebrities are cool but I'm not obsessed or anything like that. I think they're fun to discuss sometimes or watch but I wouldn't say I love celebrities.

4Q34

I personally really like chapel hill Carrboro area it's small and cute and I think it's an awesome place to call home. I actually really want to move somewhere like Nashville, Savannah Georgia, Atlanta Georgia or California. I like those places a lot and I think I would enjoy a change of scenery.

4Q33

Promises are really important at least to me. I don't think I have ever broken a promise in my life. I'm really good at keeping secrets and I'm good at following through. I think someone's word is really important I don't know how else to explain it.

4Q32

Honestly I can't think of a specific incident of where I make things worse. Why? Because I make so many problems without meaning to. I'm really good at messing things up. In fact I would name it as one of my special abilities. I can't go a week without making a problem for someone or myself. I'm always screwing things up and I don't know how I manage to do that. I always thought as I grew older I would grow out of it but I never have. Specific incidents I can think of off the top of my head: managing to not do my work for two weeks, trying my best but still being dumb enough to get only C's in all my classes, being an ass when I don't mean to be or calling out someone's insecurities when I'm angry and making our friendship awkward. Thats just a small bit of how I make everything worse for everyone. I'm very good at disappointing people too. Don't get me started on that.

4Q31

I haven't ever really broken anything of importance or value because I don't own anything like that. My parents do but i never touch those because I have no need for them. But I have broken small glass bowls for cereal and Ive broken lightbulbs and Ive broken way too many snow globes in my 16 years alive I don't even know where I get them from. I just have one and then boom its all over the place.

4Q30

The best concert I ever went to was a Paramore and Fall out boy mashed concert. It was just so hype and I was with my best friend at the time and the people were so enthusiastic ( and drunk) and it was just an amazing experience to see them live.

4Q28

I think I'm responsible for certain things. I'm not always responsible when it comes to homework and specific kinds of school work like reading. But I consider being responsible when I'm watching kids or when i'm talking professionally. I can definitely be responsible. I also take responsibility for my actions if they were bad or good. Either way I did what I did and I admit I did it.

4Q29

When I was really little I had been in an area that experienced a small hurricane. It wasn't anything too crazy or too damaging, for a hurricane. There was definitely damage done but it wasn't as bad as hurricanes could be. We had been at the beach for a few hours and then we heard that there was a hurricane warning so we started to go inside but we were locked out of the building- we couldn't find our keys. After being stuck in super strong winds and heavy rain we finally got let inside and we just watched the weather from our windows. That's really all I can remember.

4Q27

I don't take many vacations anywhere but the best one ever was a few years ago when I went to bald head island for my uncle's wedding. It was so cool we drove around in golf carts and there were trees everywhere. The beach was beautiful and we got to stay out there for a really long time. I got to hang out with my smaller cousins and not to mention I got to participate in the wedding and wear nice clothes. I sang "Marry Me" by Train at their party after the ceremony. It was a blast.

4Q26

I think money can buy certain types of happiness. I think that if you can buy clothes you feel confident in you'll be happy. Or paying your cell phone bill can make you feel good knowing you can stay in touch with people for a while. I think you should be happy with yourself though first before you try to make yourself happy with things. That but also money helps you buy certain experiences that will make you happy and you'll remember for the rest of your life. But you shouldn't rely on material things for happiness.

4Q25

I'm pretty out  there. I think it's cool people can see who I am and it helps with new people or finding mutual friends. I don't know how its valuable in any way, I just find it fun.

4Q24

The hardest thing about being a teenager is that people want you to act like an adult and share your opinions but the moment you begin to do so they say things like "your'e still a kid" or "what do you know" and we don't have enough "life experience. So we feel like we have to be adults and mature and begin to do the things adults do but once we start, we're just shut down even though they tell us to grow up, they tell us not to.

4Q23

My ideal house is a loft with one large area of wall being one gigantic window. That with a bedroom a big fridge and a white modern aesthetic. I really like that lighting and I want a loft so I can be cozy but not as cramped as an apartment and not as spread out as a house.

4Q22

The worst fight i ever had was actually the beginning of this year. I decided my friend was an asshole and a terrible person to all of her friends including me and I didn't want to be involved with her anymore and she went crazy on me and insulting me. Of course I fought back but not to her extreme. She also holds a grudge and she continues to talk about it but I don't because I have better things to do with my time. It was resolved by not talking anymore ever at all.

4Q21

Yeah the school year is way too long. I think we should have summer break for more than a month. Kids are stressed out every single week of their lives except for a short break in the summer. That and school is all day every day of the week. Yeah they do have delays and week breaks but I don't think thats enough for the students that work so hard.

4Q20

Aliens are most definitely real. No doubt in my mind. How could we be the only life in such a vast universe with millions and quadrillions of galaxies and planets and we haven't even discovered the majority of them. Not even 1/20th of them.

4Q19

I HAVE SO MANY FAVORITE STORES DUDE! YOU DONT EVEN KNOW. I love wet seal,Francesca's , urban outfitters, anthropology, build a bear, rumors, this and that, chapel hill comics, barns and noble and others. I love them all so much because they all have awesome clothes and candles and books, they may be a little expensive but their overall quality is great. If I were to work anywhere at the mall it would be either Urban, Francesca's, or anthropology because those are my top three favorites and they pay you really well.

4Q18

I think I would want to teach English or maybe a phycology class or a comparative religion class. If I taught any of these I would want preferably middle school but middle schoolers don't take religion classes or phycology classes. Students I would want to have good relations with. Obviously that won't be the case because some kids will be assholes no matter what. That but also some kids won't let me teach but I don't want to say I don't want any kids like that. I would. That way we can help teach each other. They would teach me how to handle tough situations and I would teach them not be be assholes while I'm trying to teach.

4Q17

I think I'm original but I can't really explain why. I know there's no one out there exactly like me but it's hard to explain. but when creating character in stories you want someone unique to make the story more interesting or have someone people can relate to, but then they have this twist to them no one can really be similar to. That's what makes plays strong.

4Q16

I worry and stress about everything. The way I said hi to someone or looked at someone will bother me all day if I feel i could've been more friendly or if someone didn't look at me right I'll get stressed about myself. I get stressed about family friends and medicine and myself and school and my future and things like that. Anxiety isn't really helping me with stress but it's okay what do you expect.

4Q15

I think the people that teach me right from wrong are definitely my parents but I decide weather I agree with their ideas or not. Right and wrong are all dependent on the person and their situation and what they've been through. I definitely have different values from my parents. I think that dressing the way I want is right but they think it's wrong. I'm not sure about my religion and I think thats okay but they don't. Values aren't just about who taught you "right from wrong" but also about what you think is right and wrong. It's all dependent on the eye of the beholder.

4Q14

I would wish for my brother and sister's future to be secure and happy. I would wish for my parents not to worry and stress so much. Third I would wish for me to have a stable and happy future as well as my siblings.

4Q13

My ideal mom and dad are just parents who are accepting. I don't want to be treated like I'm incompetent anymore I want to know my thoughts are actually worth something and important and the way I feel isn't just me being a teenager. That and I want them to let me dress how I want and accept my views even if they're not the same as my parents. Those are my ideal parents. Just add that to my parents now and it's perfect.

4Q12

I think i'm still in act one. I think that my life events so far have been pretty boring and uneventful like the first act of a play, the second act is the juicy exciting part that i'm waiting to get to once i'm done with high school, and then act three is around the end of my life where I start dying and i reflect on everything and conclude

4Q11

I think that people are meant to meet many people. I think people have different soul mates and  not just one because sometimes soul mates won't end up together. But they'll both find another soul mate another time. I've always believed in fate and destiny and stuff but i don't know how that would work with soul mates.

4Q10

Okay here goes, so we have a little girl and she's been blind ever since her step dad threw acid in her face when she was three, she is seven now but when she touches people, she can see the worst thing they've ever done. She's blind but she can see the worst in people. One day she meets a little boy and she couldn't read him at all, she got nothing from him when she touched him and it turns out, this boy can control his mind and he feels her searching threw it, the boy is about ten. They'll go on an adventure with the help of some governmental group like the FBI or the CIA to find missing people that criminals have killed or captured, by going under cover.

4Q9

honestly anything can make me very angry. It always depends what mood I'm in and the day I'm having. But what really pisses me off is self pity, but the self pity where you just want someone to talk about how great you are. That and how "no one wants to be my friend" kind of self pity. That but also throwing the words anxious and depressed around as if they mean nothing. That and when people only eat the top part of the spoon while eating ice cream instead of the entire spoon. When someone is super fake to you but friendly so they can seem like they have a lot of friends. When people complain about the same thing for the entire conversation. When someone complains about something completely fixable and they don't fix it. Meeting someone's dad for the first time makes me angry. Dress codes make me angry. I could go on for days. Months. A whole year maybe and I still wouldn't be able to tell you everything that makes me mad.

4Q8

Trust is one of the most important things to have in a relationship. If you can't trust the other half, then all that will happen is you will be filled with doubt and anxiety over your relationship. Where they're going or who they're seeing you always wonder if they're lying to you. Relationships are about trust. If you don't have trust then why continue with the relationship?

4Q7

My favorite birthday party was when I turned 12, it was a surprise party. My parents said that we were going to subway because at that time I really liked subs...and we pulled up to my grandma's house to "pick her up". They told me to get out of the car to get her and I did, I went into her house which was really dark so it kind of freaked me out.
"Hello?" I called a lot, then i saw a leg from behind the couch and I screamed and then everyone jumped out yelling "surprise!". All the girls from my girl scout troop at the time were there and so were a few of my friends from other cities I never really got to see back then. They also surprised me by getting me a hamster that I had been asking for since my last birthday, and I named her cocoa.

4Q5

If someone is vulnerable then the conflict can hurt them more than it would a strong or invulnerable person. That's because they have more strength and it's easier to just take the conflict head on. Being vulnerable makes the story so much more interesting because the character grows and gets stronger throughout the story.

4Q6

I will be getting a job this summer (hopefully). Im getting my license in a month and I need money to pay for gas along with food and I also just want money to buy things that I want with more so than things that I need. I also need experience in a job field and things to do during the summer.

4Q4

I don't have a favorite photo that would really prompt a story but I can think of some photos that could definitely start up a story somehow. Maybe a picture that shows a mother and a kid together at a grocery store. Maybe the the mom just found out her son is allergic to gluten and she has to go buy all new foods or something. Or maybe the kid is just really bossy and made his mom go and buy him some food that he wanted.

4Q3

I would want to have guidance but to follow that guidance would be my choice. I would ask for guidance if I needed it but if not I would want the freedom to make my own choices.

4Q2

Dialogue is what makes a play in general. You can't have a play with only narrations and get the kind of characterization the play needs to be good. I think the play writer just needs to think of what he wants them to say but the actors are what make the lines really come to life.

4Q1

Ive seen a lot of plays in my life and a few of them I've been in. The ones I always liked were the comedic plays or musicals I was never too into the dramatic ones. I always thought they tried too hard and they weren't very entertaining. Also I always somehow get irritated with a specific actor but all in all I think plays are alright.

3Q35

I know she sees me and she knows i'm there
but i can't speak or tell her what else is there
she passes by so many things without a blink of an eye
but i get the chance to stay longer and linger behind
i cannot open my mouth for I don't have one
i have no freedom of my body- she controls me
and the sun
I'm just a shadow lingering behind her
and wish I could break off of her back
and fly to another

3Q34

I only like going to parties I know people at
I don't like to be alone but I don't want to be hassled by people
I like to have fun and I like to hang out
but If you're loud and obnoxious I won't want to go out
to me it'a much better a quiet night in
with a couple of friends to keep me company
we do what we want and we say what we like
and i'd much rather be there instead of a big party that night

3Q32

days in a haze

passes you by

drowsy and tired but

your eyes are still alive 

You don't mind the subtle wind

you made up in your mind

or the people you met or the things you saw

thats all apart of dreaming in your head

3Q31

With extra daylight I have more day light to sleep to
more daylight to go outside and bathe in
more daylight to look to
more sunshine my way
longer lasting days
much better than night at 5 o'clock

3Q30

My favorite pet my only pet
is a pet that is so stupid she tends to forget
that one ball can only fit in her mouth
yet she still tries to fit two
a pet so dumb she doesn't understand that water
can get rid of her thirst
a pet so arrogant as to think everyone wants to be jumped on by her
and covered in her mud and grass
a dog so cute that people don't really mind
until she bites them.

3Q29

They're towering
overpowering
like you could be crushed any second
by the weight of a thousand bricks
glass and brass
you know they're stable
but the sky scrapers are just so much taller
 than any thing in the city
so you try not to be overwhelmed by the height
as you walk the streets of towers touching the sky

3Q28

Sports are gross
i don't like them
they make me sweat
every time i attempt to play
i regret it

3Q27

The trail I'm blazing is on fire
every step I take it burns me inside and out
I have blisters on my heels and in my heart
my hair feels like ashes like my skin has peeled off my arms
i keep going i don't know where my motivation comes from
i just keep going no matter how much I want to stop
how much I want to lay down
to sleep and never wake up
but i keep going i keep on the trail
the trail that I'm blazing.

3Q26

Fire burns and the water cools

the air makes it brighter 

but the water puts out the light

all of these things belong on earth

they rest on it's soil 

they take place in earth's space

creating and destroying 

3Q23

Im not afraid of sharks
im not afraid of burning
or drowning or wolves or bugs or thieves or murderers
I feel afraid of one thing only
when you fall in love with someone
there's an overwhelming trait you love too
maybe they're stubborn
maybe they're determined
or maybe they love their work
but as time passes their trait begins to make you angry
you don't like how stubborn they are
they're to determined to win a fight
they spend so much time at work
you can't see them, no where in sight
you fall out of love
I don't want the reason why someone fell in love with me
to be the reason they fall out of love
I don't want those I love
to walk away from me
because of a trait they once loved
now hate
I'm so afraid

3Q24

I had been crying I had been broken down
I was shattered to the point I thought I could feel nothing
I thought nothing would bring me up
make me happy
make me smile
but I was wrong and he filled my cup
I wasn't broken any longer
I could smile without forcing my face to try
I could laugh without feeling like I was going to cry
and he made it  better
he made me better
and all he said was hi

3Q32

The wind isn't too cold
its warm and the sun warms my back
i could walk anywhere in this weather
im not afraid of freezing or burning up
i enjoy the time where i can just relax and the spring
it's the best part of that time
i spend outside

3Q21

pew pew pew swoosh jab pew
pew pew *heavy breathing* swoosh
pew pew pew

Haiku on starwars by Laura Riggsbee

3Q20

We would climb trees
she and I
we would put up blankets in the branches in hide
we would see birds in their nests
and thought we should make one too but
humans aren't very good at being birds
if we fell from the tree we didn't cry
it look five seconds to get back up and try again
we could go to the top in the winter or spring
depending on how many flowers were blooming
and making us sneeze

3Q19

it used to be within me to smile with ease
I used to be able to find pleasure in things
it's a loss like no other
not a father or a brother
but a piece of me that makes me whole
I am not a complete person
I'm just a fragment of what I used to be
I used to be happy and now happy is just another word to me

3Q18

he doesn't sit in his chair right
his legs are crossed ways we didn't know they could cross
his smile is so crooked that when he smiles
you don't know if he's frowning or smiling
he's interesting
he likes dinosaurs and says he likes concrete
he also enjoys watching chefs make mac and cheese specifically

3Q17

white and black swirl together
I place one object, no, two on the white counter
their dark grays and blacks pop out at you
it's like my bed with it's black and white covers
the black and white pillows and the occasional stuffed animal
that's a brighter color

3Q16

my bad ones
biting my nails
twisting my hair
cracking my knuckles and
eating without cares
my good ones
i don't have any
whoops

3Q15

the funny noise someone makes when they sneeze
the weird quirks people show in specific situations
like
they hate the color green
or they think that desks are the smartest idea to ever exist
other than iced coffee
when people think they can rap
the fact my english teacher thinks I'm actually going to do work for his class
ah
that makes me laugh

3Q12

He said harry potter is a fake
and I said screw you!
and then I threw something at him
and then someone else stuck up for him
so i decided the best course of action would be to yell
very loud
as loud as I could
I almost won too I could've but
some people just really don't like him
and I don't know why

3Q11

L is for love

M is for men 

N is for never failing

O is for opposites attract

P is for pretty moments

Q is for quirks 

R is for real

3Q10

powerful and vast and unknown
it's unexplored yet we act like we know what's going on
but the space is occupied by stars and colors that we wish we could indulge in
galaxies that come together like lost pieces of chipped nail polish
they swirl like soap in the unwashed dishes in your sink
the stars hang from the sky on strings and if you're lucky you'll see one snap

3Q9

cut the bun
put on griddle
divide the beef in half
cook them then stick them in the bun
add the second bun
then stack with sauce

3Q7

she sat and ate the pumpkin pie
assuming that she wouldn't get large
she had no idea how much she ate
but she looked at her stomach and saw one big arch
falling round over her waist.
The pie! She screamed The pie she raged while tossing her plate
into the piles and piles of discarded fruit and crust
she tried to stand up and get out of that pie infected place
but instead she fell flat with a bang and with it came the pain
of all the weight she had gained by eating that damn pumpkin pie

3Q6

1. I couldn’t have known what I’d feel from that day on
   I was entering an abyss I had never contemplated 
   Beginning I thought this could be fun 
   Who knew I’d fall  and end in a painful blow
   Your eyes said begin but mine said nothing in return
   I understand the frustration you must have felt with nothing to receive
   only to give and I suppose now it’s my turn
   Did you stop loving? Or did you never have love to conceive?

3Q5

The woman confronts me, she's thin but quick
to knock on my door and ask for answers
about the last man who was suffocated by something or someone slick
enough to cover their tracks with out laying any hands on them.
Although one connection led to me standing in my doorway
she readied her fists as if she knew I wanted to take her life too
but she didn't interest me for she was a kind woman
and the men I had slain were criminals crooks and there's no problem
taking their lives away.

3Q4

The cursed old man yelled profane words to the boys
who played too loud in their yards
they weren't scared of the man who threatened to trouble them
they were able bodied and running wasn't hard
Afflicted with bones of sticks and skin of paper the man could do nothing
but grieve his old silent mornings like he used to before

The boys stopped playing when the man's sticks had broken and paper torn
for they had no one to trouble just someone to mourn
they wished that man had not said his execrations as his last heard words
the man was still there and he began to plan his return
on the boys who ruined his quiet mornings as they did so many times before.

3Q3

Poets I don't pay attention to. In all honesty I haven't ever focused on a certain poet not even in class. I'll read individual poems but there's no poet that I follow or really love to read. That's because I don't ever read poems unless its for a class (which isn't most of the time). I don't really have a reason to I've never particularly enjoyed poetry but I can make an exception for this class for the next quarter.

3Q2

I think that I would be interested in writing a ballad or a free verse. I write a lot of songs so I think it would be fun but it also wouldn't be that new to me, so maybe a free verse (something with out rhyme) would be different to me and maybe even more of a challenge. I really like it when a poem has a good rhythm so something that I could do is really focus on the beat and rhythm of it. That and I also really liked personification and giving non-human objets some kind of human feel to them. I think I should also try to put in allusions. I've never been very good at allusions in my writing as a whole. Like in english I couldn't really wrap my head around it or why I would ever need to use it so I think trying to allude things in my poem would be a great help to me for allusions. 

3Q1

3Q1
I've always liked poetry I've never really disliked reading it or writing it unless it's in a science class and we're writing poems about a plant or a cloud type. I think they're pretty and they can be like books. Funny, creepy, some can even have plots and they don't even have to rhyme. The only thing I don't really like about it is that, at least for me, it's hard to get into poems or really enjoy them like I would a novel. That and sometimes I read a poem that's just over the top dramatic and it reminds me of a comedy sketch from a show like SNL making fun of dramatic poem writers.  Not to mention bad memories regarding EOGs and EOCs. Their poems weren't ever fun to read they were just a pain I had to get through in order to pass. That along with every other selection ever but you get my point.

2Q37

The first semester went horrendously if I do say so myself. I've never finished a quarter with anything lower than a B and now I have three c's to finish the first quarter off, and now it seems like I'll have one or two c's left by the time this semester is over. My classes are significantly more challenging than freshman year and my teachers, I don't even want to get started about half of them. Not to mention I lost a lot of friends at the beginning as well and so far I haven't really found any new ones. Thats disappointing all in itself. But I'm hoping the next semester will be much better than this one and I can finish with only a's and b's in all of my classes. I don't care if they're high or low just as long as they're above a C.

2Q36

I agree that cheaters never prosper. I'm thinking along the lines of card games and relationships more so than taking tests considering if you ace that test you're good to go. I think in general that cheaters suck because I don't like losing in games especially if there's an unfair advantage to another party and because I just really like winning. And in relationships cheaters can just (you fill in the blank how you feel necessary). I can't even begin to describe how much I hate the thought of anyone being cheated on.

2Q35

2Q35
I'm always late. It's not really up to me my mom is the one who drives me around. Now, if it were up to me I would be right on time I hate when people are early or late even by a minute I like it to be on the dot. When I say twelve I mean twelve. Not twelve o one, not eleven fifty-nine, no. Twelve. And thats how I try to time things but my mom always causes me to run late.

2Q34

2Q34
Habits are something I'v never really had and if I do have any I don't even notice them. When I was in elementary school I would bite my nails when I got nervous (which was a lot back then) but that habit is long lost. Now a days I'm not really concerned with habits. Maybe I have a habit of thinking I'll be okay if I don't do my work right away (normally because I am) but sometimes I end up regretting that I didn't start sooner.

2Q31-33

2Q31
(Because of the kidblog I couldn't blog this)
I spent the holidays at home mainly but for about three days my family traveled to the beach and saw my aunt and uncle. The holidays weren't super exciting this year but I liked having downtime from all the stress of school and the people there.

2Q32
(Because of kidblog issues I couldn't blog this)
I do dislike making resolutions! But I do want to make at least two new friends this year and maybe them become good friends of mine. I need some more people in my life this year. I also want to just be able to work out without wanting to kill myself before doing so. I also don't want to be winded just because I walked up a few stairs.

2Q33
My favorite story of all time would have to be the story of snow white. I don't really have a reason for this. Maybe it's because I grew up with that story and I thought it was so interesting.