Final Reflective Post

When i first came into English 101 and found out that we were going to have to keep a blog i was very apprehensive and didn't really want to do it. I was open minded to it. After we start the blog i really started to enjoy them.They let me break through my barrier and just be free to write about what ever i wanted. I liked that she would give us topics to go off of. Some of the topics that she would give us where every hard to go off of and they where hard to think of something to write about. But after i would think for a long time i would be able to come up with something to write about. On the other hand some of the topics we were given where really fun and i enjoyed them a lot!! Overall though i don't think the blogs where hard and i actually think that they where a good think to help us just free write which gets you really thinking. At the end of the class i have become completely open minded to blogs and free writes. I do feel they they have changed me as a writer in terms of it has helped me to deep think about what i will be writing about. It taught me that i can write about what i want and it still be just as good as anything else. So yes i enjoyed them and think they were good for us to do.

What Is A PLace?

•  The cabin 
• My childhood home
• Big sur
• Forsyth 
• Bear valley
• Dodge ridge

        When I think about a place, a place I want to be it will always be our family cabin. The cabin was my childhood home every summer and every winter. It was a cabin up in Arnold California, that has been passed down from my grandma to my mom and my aunt. They jointly owned it. It was in the woods and the community was a very small community. There was only one grocery store, one cafe, one subway, one pharmacy, one gym and one doctors office. They also had some book stores and some good will stores but other than that there wasn't much else. It was such a beautiful and cute town, i loved it there so much.
       The cabin was in the middle of the wood. We had a bunch of neighbors around us but they where hard to see because of the thick forest. It was a typical cabin in the woods. Inside was beautiful. It was a three bedroom, two bathroom home. It was a two storied home that my grandpa had helped built. That why it was so special to our family! The upstairs had one bedroom that had a bathroom in it and then it had a very large living room which is where we had the pool table and our ping pong table. Also the dart board was up there. Down stairs we had the other two bedrooms and the other bathroom, the kitchen, and the living room. We had an old fashion fire place, which i loved. The rooms where all very big and spacious. We had a back porch and a front porch. I loved it, this home was the place i looked forward to going to every year!
       In the summer it was so pretty. Depending on how long we got off for summer we would spend at least one or two months up there. In the summer the weather would be any where between eighty-five to ninety-five degrees. I loved it, that is my ideal kind of weather! Our cabin was in the perfect spot as well. About a mile down the road was the first lake, which is where my mother use to take us there to swim when we were really young. In order to be able to swim there you have to own a cabin within about a mile or two of the lake. When you go there you had to sign into a book proving that you did live in the area. As we got older we switched from that lake to another one which was also only about a mile and a half down the road. This lake was so much better in my opinion though. Same as the other lake you had a card that you had to show at the entrance to prove that you lived within the mile or two radius. If you lived any father then you where not allowed to swim there. This place had everything you could want! It had a pool, food shack, tennis courts, volley ball nets, and when you would walk down the hill then you would end up at the lake. It was completely fenced in so the only way you could get in is by the main entrance where you had to show proof of that little card. Not only did it have all that but in the summer they had events for children and teens. Some of the events involved movie night or one of my favorite was teen night. Teen night was where only teens could go and you would just get to hang out meet new people, swim and play games all night. I loved this place so much! That is what we did during our summers out there.
          When it was winter break and we were out of school for about a month we would also spend a month up there. The winter just like summer was so beautiful. It snowed a bunch there so it was amazing! In the winter we would spend majority of the time up in bear valley which was only thirty minutes away. We would go skiing and snowboarding. The very first time my mom put me on a pair of skies i was only three years old. From the stories iv heard i was not a fan of them at first! Apparently i hated them and refused to learn how to use them. But my aunt convinced me to give them a chance and by the age of five i was a pro at skiing. I skied from the age of three all the way until i was about fourteen years old. When i turned fifteen i had decided to switch from skiing to snowboarding. I had watched my brother switch over to it and i wanted to try it, so i did. It turned out that i loved snowboarding more than i loved skiing. I have never gone back to skiing since. I will forever be a snowboarder. I used to look forward to winter break every year because it meant i got to ski or snowboard. It was a paradise, my sanctuary.
            This last year we had to sell the cabin. It was a very heart renching decision that my mother and aunt had to make together. It broke all of our hearts. With the economy getting so bad we could no longer afford to keep the cabin. When they found the buyers who we sold the cabin to was when it really became real to all of us, the cabin would no longer be ours anymore. It was something that was especially hard for me to deal with. It truly broke my heart. This was the home i was supposed to be moving into after graduating high school and i had plans of going to college there. I pictured my whole life in this house, raising a family one day in there and living there. It was one of the reasons i decided to leave California. It is something i still haven't come to terms with and i probably wont ever. I loved that place more than anything iv ever had.

Red

      When I was younger i had a dog and it was a saint Burnard. His name was Luke. He was black and white with some brown through the colors as well. I loved him he was my favorite dog. When I was ten years old he disappeared one day. We didn't know where he went and he was gone for quite a while. We all though that he had gotten hit by a truck or car. We though something really bad happened to him! Once we had it stuck in our minds that's what happened, he randomly showed up! We were so excited and i was more excited than anyone because he was my dog that i loved. A couple weeks went by and then all of a sudden our neighbor showed up at our front door and told us that Luke had gotten her dog pregnant. She was not happy what so ever! I cant remember what kind of dog she had but it was big like Luke. So anyways she was not happy what so ever! We had to sit down and talk about what everyone wanted to do with the puppies and we decided to sell them once they where born and of age to sell. A little while passed and the neighbors dog had the puppies. They were so cute. The mother was all black so the babies where all different sorts of colors. Some where only white and black, some where black and brown, some where brown and white. They where the cutest little things i had ever seen! When it came time to sell them i didn't want to sell any of them. Of course i was still young and every young kid wants to keep all pets. That was definitely not an option. So i was determined and went to school and kept bugging all my friends to have their parents get a puppy so i could still see the puppies when i wanted. Well believe it or not that worked and eventually all the puppies went home with my friends. I was supper happy about it! As i got older so did Luke and eventually his back legs went out like some dogs experience. It was a horrible day when this happened. Me and my mom made the decision to take Luke to the vet and have him put down because that was the best thing for him and to take him out of his pain. I still miss that dog to this day and am sad that happened and we had to take those measures. But that's the circle of life.

Deer Season!

        I'm so excited for this weekend! On November 16th deer season opens for rifles. I have been waiting for months for this and cant wait!! I actually took the weekend off of work just for it. I'm going up to forsyth Missouri to my dads and will be hunting on his property. He owns one hundred and fifty five acres and on his property he has six deer stands in the trees. Me, him, his two sons, and his cousin will all be out there in the stands hunting. My goal for this deer season is to get a nice big buck! That would truly make my whole hunting season and i would definitely trophy it if i killed a buck worth trophying. I'm so excited to the point where i feel like a little kid at Christmas. Hunting brings me so much joy and i love the adrenaline rush from hunting and knowing that you killed that. We will be going out before the sun comes up and then we will go in for lunch and then come back out for the night time hunting. I only have a few more days! I know i will end up getting something but my intimate goal is to get a nice seven or more point buck. I cant freaking wait!

Culpepper Place

         So I got a new job at Culpepper Place Assisted living home and i love it. I'm so excited that i don't work as a hostess at Red Robbin anymore. I loved all of my co-workers there but the actual job wasn't for me. Before i moved here i worked at a long term nursing home for six months while i was in my CNA class and then after i passed my state test and became a Certified Nurses Assistant, I went into private home care. I took care of an elderly gentle man for a year and a half and i loved him to death. Then when i moved to Missouri i decided that since i had only worked in nursing home environments, i wanted to branch out so i decided to try to get a job at a restaurant. Which i ended up getting my hostess position at Red Robbin. After three months of working there i really started to miss working with the elderly so i decided to apply at assisted living facilities. Luckily i received a job at Culpepper Place. So then after i put in my two weeks at Red Robbin and took the job at the assisted living home. I love it there so much and couldn't be more thankful that i received my job their! This has proven to me that my heart really is in working with the elderly and helping people in general. Nursing has been and always will be my care path way. I would always dread having to go to work at the restaurant but with this new job i can work 8 or 9 hour shifts and i am as happy as can be all shift. I love it and am so happy i received a job their!!

Phonography

          In this picture I see a lot of metal. It looks like a UFO landing! It looks cool though. In reality it probably is some sort of factory or something. Its in a circle and has green metal things going up the side. In the background it looks like a factory setting. That is why i feel that it might have something to do with a factory or something involving building and creating things. It looks very mechanical. Its really hard to describe because i don't fully know what it is. But like i said it looks like some sort of space craft thing.

Sharon Gardella

       I chose my mom as the most influential person in my life. I have looked up to here my whole life and have always been inspired by her! She is the strongest person i know. She has had a very ruff life growing up. She was born and raised in Italy and lived in Germany as well until about the age of thirteen when she finally came to the united states. Her father was in the army so she grew up as an army brat that was moved around A LOT! When she move to the United States she hated it! Her teachers that she had did not understand nor care that she did not know English and she had a very hard time in school. Her and her parents did not always get along and she ended up moving out of the house at age sixteen and lived in multiple different places. Despite everything she has been through she remained strong and always made everything and every situation work for her. She is a single mother to me and my brother. She has struggled to give us what we needed and wanted but she definitely did it. She has provided the best life for me and my brother no matter how hard it may have been and i admire her so much. I have always been a big mommas girl! I never had my "father" in my life so i clung to my mother completely. She is my mother but she is also my best friend. She is the only person in my life who has stuck by my side through thick and thin and never gave up on me! She is my life saver and i love her more than i love life itself. She is my everything. Moving so far away from her has been a big change because back when i lived at home i spent littlerly everyday with her. Any free time i had i was with her. She is my back bone, i don't know what id do without her love and support. I'm so thankful that i was privileged enough to have her as my mother and to be raised by such a strong woman. When i have kids someday i truly hope i can be at least half the mother she was to me and my brother!

Sarah Gardella

        When my mom was pregnant with me she did what ever mother does and starts to search for baby names. She bought book and looked online. I was her first and only girl so she was excited to finally be able to pick out a little girl name. She did have a baby before me which is my brother Sean. He is three years older than me, so when she was pregnant with me he was three. The name that my mom had originally picked for me was going to be Layloni which is a Hawaiian name. She had a best friend who was Hawaiian and they had come up with that name together. She was dead set on that name until my brother came home from preschool one day and started rubbing her belly saying "Sarah". My mom would sit there and tell him no, sissy's name is going to be Layloni not Sarah. But my brother was very adimit about my name being Sarah. She had no idea where he came up with this name because at preschool he had no friends there named Sarah. Actually there was no one in the preschool at that time with the name Sarah at all. So she was very confused with where a three year old had picked up that name out of nowhere. But after a couple of weeks with arguing with a three year old about a name she gave up and decided that she would let my brother name me Sarah. So that is how i received my name as Sarah and not Layloni.

I Feel

        I feel that if you try to always stay positive about things, then the out come will majority of the time be positive as well. When you have a bad situation going on i feel the best thing you can do for yourself and the people around you is to try to always stay happy and positive, no matter how hard that might be! Whether you are positive or negative the out come will happen how it is meant to happen. So the best thing you can do is to just look at the bright side of it. If you cant find the bright side just look harder because no matter the situation there will always be a bright side. I am the type of person who believes that if you tell the universe something positive then the out come has a higher chance of being positive. It will not always happen how you want it too but there is at least a good chance of it. Also there is no point in being super negative about something that you truly cant change. This might be cheesy but life is way too short to spend time being anything but completely happy. This mean even if things are not going your way at that edzact moment in time. Whatever happens happens for a reason and it will only make you grow as an individual. So in my opinion it is best to always just remain happy and look at the brighter side of things. I hate when people take a situation that may not be the best at that time and create a big piety party for them selves. Yes i understand that in life things will not always go your way but guess what, its not only you! There are many people who may be in that situation or an even worse one. So just move on and tell the universe as much as you can that a positive outcome will happen. My mother always raised me to never be negative! And my whole life being super positive about bad situations have always worked out in my favor. That is why i am strong believer in this.

I Think

       I think that people in America should learn to start eating healthier and working out. There are too many people in this country that do not realize that there health is not the best what so ever! What happened to people? Back in the day it was rare to see a girl or boy who was over weight. The normal average human was in shape and on the skinnier side. Now-a-days though people just don't care. I think that now it is truly rare to see a man or woman who is skinny or in shape. The normal size now is over weight and unhealthy. I think i know what the cause of this it though, all the fast food in America. People are too lazy to go home at night or in the morning and cook a meal. They know it is way easier to just jump in the car and go down the street to the local McDonald's or Burger king and grab food there. When back in the day everyone made dinner and breakfast. I don't know if its just because people don't understand how bad for you it is or if they just choose to ignore that whole factor because its easier. Well what they don't understand is that it wont be easier for them when there over weight and super unhealthy facing a bunch of different health issues. America needs to go back to what it used to be. Parents need to take the time to make healthy food at home and at-least try to teach their children healthy habits! If parents would start this from birth through their child's life the world might have a chance to go back to what it was before, but parents are lazy majority of the time and truly don't understand what they are doing to their children by teaching them these bad habits. On the other side of that though not all parents are the cause. Some parents try to install healthy habits into their children and their children just choose not to listen and follow what everyone else is doing. I feel that working out and fitness should become the norm!

I Believe

     I believe that if you are of age and able to financially support yourself then you should! I don't understand how people can be in their twenties and still living at home not on their own. My brother is a perfect example of this. He just turned twenty-two and he has been working at home depot for almost four years now but he still lives at home with my mom. Yes i understand that California is a very expensive place to live and i would not have been able to support myself there but he is fully capable of being able to support himself there. He chooses not too. He has many options that he just doesn't take advantage of! I am eighteen years old and moved a couples states away and am completely supporting myself with no help. That just proves that he has many options but he just isn't utilizing them! He isn't the only one though that does that. Personally i love my mom to death she is my best friend and my number one supporter in life but when i turned eighteen and graduated high school i was ready to move out and start my own life. I was ready for my own independence and responsibility! At the time i had no idea if i could actually do it but i am doing fine and happier than ever! I just don't understand how people can feel content living with their parents their whole life and not have that independence because independence is probably one of the best feelings. Knowing that you are in control of your own life feels great! I would never be able to move back in with my mom after being on my own. I know that people are probably scared of the unknown but you are never going to accomplish anything in life if you are scared. You will not go anywhere. You have to look at it as yes i might fail but at least i did try, and if you make it and you don't fail then that just shows you how truly strong you are!

Baby Shoe

       This time the prompt i got to write about was a baby shoe. When i think about baby shoes it makes me think about babies and how much i truly love babies and children! My career path and passion in life is to work with infants. I am going to go to nursing school to get my bachelors of science in nursing and will one day be working on the labor and delivery floor. When i was a little girl, i was the little girl who always carried a baby doll around and pretended it was real. I have loved everything about babies since i was probably one myself. I started baby sitting at the age of thirteen back home in California. As i got older my love for babies grew! I always told my mom how i wanted to do something that involved working with babies when i grew up. Now when i was little and walking around saying this i had no idea that there was actually a career path i could follow that truly involved being with and around babies all day. When i got older, i want to say around age eight, i would tell my mom that i wanted to be a day care person. Then as i got older i learned i could work in the hospital with little babies so i turned that dream into i want to work in a hospital. At that age i had no idea what an RN was or the labor and delivery floor really was either. But when i got to age thirteen or so i knew full out what i wanted to be when i was older! That was to be a RN on the labor and delivery floor. My junior year of high school i was only planning on getting my RN but that changed fast when i found out its only about a year more of school to get my Bachelors. So i decided at the end of my junior year of high school that i was going to get my Bachelors and then when i graduated nursing school i would work on the Labor and Delivery floor. Then if when i get into my late thirties or so change my mind and want to work in the NICU then i would only have to go back to school to get my masters and then i would be able to easily transfer into the NICU. No matter what nothing will stop be from working on the labor and delivery floor. It truly is my only passion in life and i will make that dream come true, no matter what!! I'm determined!

I Know

        I know that no matter what i am going through my mom will always be there for me! She is the woman who brought me into this world and from day one has been the only person who has actually stood by my side through thick and thin. She is my mother and my best friend all wrapped into one. I honestly don't know what i would do if i didn't have her. She is the person who keeps me going when i feel i cant, the one who always keeps my the positive happy person i am. I would have to say me moving very far away from her was probably the hardest thing she has had to deal with in terms of me and her but she knows i only did it to better myself. She supports me emotionally regardless. I am the person i am today because of her and i would never change anything. I am thankful i was raised by someone like her. She has been through the worst things you could ever imagine and she is still living and strong, she doesn't let anything get her down. And she raised me to be like that as well. She is the strongest person i know and i look up to her so much. If I'm half the parent she was too me i will feel successful in my life and parenting. If i had the choice to pick any parent in this world i would still always pick her over any other person. Even though we have had ups and downs she is still my everything. She raised me and my brother as a single mother and that just proves how truly strong she is. She has done everything in her power to give us anything we could have ever wanted and to make sure we were always happy. I love her more than life its self and it has been hard being away from her but i know its for the best. When i lived at home i spent all my free time with her, doing things with her, and helping her in any way i could. Whether that was around the house, outside or just going out and doing something. So moving here was a big change for me and her but i know that it has only had our relationship grow and become so much stronger. I love her to the moon and back, I always will!!

Naked Chocolate

       When i reached into the mystery box i pulled out a pink and brown checkered box that says  "Naked Chocolate" on the top. Obviously it is a box of chocolate. The first though that came to mind when i pulled this out was that i am allergic to chocolate. I for the longest time had no idea that i was allergic. I found out i was allergic to chocolate when i was around ten years old. I would eat chocolate so much when i was younger and i would always break out with hives all over my body. Eventually they just never went away! Little did i know that it was because i was eating chocolate so much. One day my mom was talking to wade (my "father") on the phone and she had mentioned to him something about how i was breaking out with hives all over my body a lot and how they would not go away and then he felt the need to let her know that he was allergic to chocolate. He waited about nine or ten years before he felt the need to say something about that! It made both me and my mom so mad. So after she found this news out she took me to the doctor to have me tested for it and it turns out that i really was allergic to chocolate and that is why i had hives almost none stop! So after i found that out at the age of ten, i stopped eating chocolate completely. I haven't had chocolate in almost nine years and i have not had the hives show back up at all. That just proves they were truly caused my the chocolate. People often ask me if i miss chocolate or a typical response when someone finds out that i am allergic to chocolate is "aw I'm so sorry for you". Well I'm definitely not sorry for me! I don't miss chocolate at all and i haven't though about it in almost nine years. When you go without something for so long you just stop caring after a certain point. That is exactly what happened with me and chocolate. After a year without it i stopped caring and just don't ever think about it. There are other candies that i enjoy eating that do not have chocolate in them.

Stress

        I don't believe that stress is bad for you, I feel it is healthy to have stress in your life. Stress can keep you at level with reality. People who don't experience much stress for one wont know how to deal with it when they do experience it and i feel that they wouldn't be as level headed as someone who has. I definitely experience stress in my life but i don't experience it every single day. I want to say about every one to two weeks something will end up stressing me out. Since I'm used to it though i know how best to deal with it. Things that can stress me out easily would be work, sometimes school depending and if my mom is stressed out it end up feeling stressed out too. I don't know why I feel stressed when she is stressed but i do. I feel work is probably what stresses me out the most though as of this point in my life. I have a manager that can definitely stress you out when the restaurant is busy! Not only that but when she stresses me out then it causes me to mess up in terms of how i seat people and with double seating our servers. To be honest though i like being stressed out every now and again because then it causes me to appreciate my life when everything is going completely smoothly. So i feel that stress is good and everyone should definitely experience it at least every once and a while to remind them to appreciate when things are going good.

OTC Picnic

     Today at OTC there was the campus picnic, we had to go out and get three things done. Those three things where to talk to the honors table, get three free things, and lastly to do something outside of our comfort zone. I'm going to start off with when i visited the honors table. I talked to a woman who was very nice and i have decided that i am going to look into taking honors classes next semester. When i was in high school i really wanted to take honors classes but i had a teacher who told me i wasn't good enough to take an honors class, so that scared me away from taking them. After talking to this lady today she really brought back out the drive to sign up for honors classes. So i decided to email the director of the honors program and set up an appointment to talk to him about it and get all my questions answered. I'm very excited about it! Next the three free things i got was a free tanning card, a free notebook and pictures from the picture booth. The tanning card me and Jennifer received probably will not be used by me because i don't do indoor tanning but it was still a free thing that was offered to me so i decided to take it. The free notebook was from the christian church table. Me and Jennifer went and did the goofy photo booth thing. It was a lot of fun besides the fact that i never knew when the pictures where going to be taken, so they came out really funny looking. It was a lot of fun though. Lastly the thing i did that was out of my comfort zone was me and Jennifer took a picture with Clifford the big red dog who was walking around. Usually I'm to shy to do something like that so that was definitely out of my comfort zone. It was fun doing that though! That was my experience today at the picnic. It was actually a lot of fun. I watch several of the people in my English class do the sumo reselling thing. It was very funny to watch. It was a fun picnic.

This I Believe

        This I believe that you can do anything you set your mind to. I believe this because it was the way my mother raised me. Growing up she would always tell me don't say you cant, you can always do anything you set your mind to. So as i was growing up and hearing that very often and all the time it started to become a way of life for me. I started to stop saying i cant and start getting into the mind set i can. My example i have to back this up would be how i moved here at such a young age and from about five states away or so. Around my junior year of high school i knew i was going to move out of the state but i didn't know where until the end of my junior year when i decided i was moving here. A lot of the students in my graduating class were way to scared to leave home and be so young out in the world on there own. I on the other hand had the mind set that i could do it no matter how difficult it would be for me. So sure enough when it came down to it and i graduated and it was time for me to get in the car and drive here i did. Yes i was scared and nervous but because my mom always put it in my head that i could do anything i set my mind to i knew i could do it with no problem. Now here i am about three months later and i have had no problems with it. My life has actually turned out way better than i though it was going to and everything has fell into place perfectly. But to think if my mom had never installed the "You can do anything you set your mind to" mind set into me then who knows where id be today. I would probably still be stuck at home like all the seniors i graduated with scared to try things on my own because i would be to scared to fail. I am living proof that you really can do anything as long as you set your mind to it and you follow through. Even if you do fail at it that does not mean it is the end of the world, you just look around and try to find a new approach to obtain that specific goal you set. 

I Believe

• Positive thoughts create positive outcomes 
• You can do what you set your mind to 
• Working out is a way of life 
• Happy is beauty 
• You should have to work for what you want
• The way you treat others is the way you should be treated back 
• Nothing is to hard to over come
• If you have a dream you should follow it 

Furniture

       A piece of furniture that has meaning to me would have to be a recliner chair that is in my moms house back in California. When my grandma passed away from breast cancer we took that chair from her place. This chair has meaning to me because when I was younger I used to stay the night at my grandma's house often because my mom worked nights. I remember every morning I use to wake up and my grandma use to always be sitting in that chair drinking her morning coffee, well I would always come up behind the chair and scare her. When I was little I really believed I was scaring her but as I grew up and got older I started to realize that since it was an everyday thing she probably wasn't really scared. She probably was just pretending to be scared because she knew it was something I enjoyed. So when my grandma passed away from breast cancer when i was around five or six years old, my mom and aunt had to go through the house and clean it out. Well my mom asked me what I wanted to take to remember grandma and I said I wanted that chair and an angel music box. So ever since I was five or six I grew up with that chair in my home back in California. It brought me a sense of comfort, as if she was still there. She was basically like a second mother to me, I was very close to her so I was very happy when my mom said we could bring the chair home.

Know Your Audience

     In class on Wednesday we had a class assignment which was to post a question in know your audience and then after we had to answer everyone else in the classrooms questions. After doing this assignment I learned a lot about all the kids that are in my class period. One thing that I really noticed about my class is that there is a very wide variety of personalities and interests. Everybody's questions were unique in there own ways. The question I had asked was, "How many siblings do you have and are you the oldest, middle, or youngest child?" Because I asked that question i learned that a lot of people in that class do have a lot of siblings. I was very surprised by the answers I saw to my question. I don't really feel that there was any one question in general that surprised me. I was pretty happy to see that there were some other kids in the class that like the same sports I do which was hunting, fishing, and working out. Some of the questions were hard for me to answer though because a lot of the kids in that class have probably been born and raised here in Springfield. For example someone asked, "If you could pick any state to live in where would it be and why?" that question was hard for me to answer because I just moved here and this is my dream state to live in. I love it here so much! So some where difficult to answer but then others where super easy. I loved the wide variety of questions that where on there. After I was done answering everyone's questions, I went back and read everyone's responses to all the questions so I could see what everyone was into and sort of see there personalities. I feel that it was a great activity for the class to do because it can make you see how many different people there are and sort of get a feel for there own individual personalities. I enjoyed the activity a lot.

Purpose/Audience

       In this image I think that the purpose is to show how trees are starting to not be around as much. I think its showing how they are being cut down everywhere which can symbolis how them being cut down can effect out oxagine and our breathing which in return effects our lungs. I think that this picture would be targeted towards naturalists or people who really care about the earth and what is happening to it. That includes all different age ranges from younger people to older people. 

        This image shows a cowboy lighting a cigarette and it has the logo Marlboro. I think the purpose of this imagine to try and get people to smoke (which is not a good thing). They are basically saying its cool to smoke because cowboys where cool back then and they smoked. I think the audience would be more targeted toward men than women. I think the age range could be any age. 

        In this picture there in a man who is clearly in shape and he has speakers for a stereo on his hands instead of boxing gloves and above him are the words, "Ultimate Hitting Power". I feel the purpose of  this picture is to advertise that those speaking have as much as a hit as the actual ufc fighter holding them. Everyone knows people who box are usually strong so these are as strong as him. I feel the audience would be more of a younger generation would loves music and stereos. 

Typology and Writing

       Today when I took the typology and writing test said that i scored the highest in the judging section and the lowest in feeling over thinking. When it comes to me scoring the highest in judging I would completely disagree with the one hundred percent. My friends always come to me with there problems because they know that I am the one person who will not judge them at all. I am very open minded and take people as they are. I never judge anyone before getting to know them and I rarely judge them after I do know them, that just isn't me. When it comes to the being lowest in feeling over thinking it was basically saying that I tend to think more then going off of feelings. I have always been the type of person who goes off my feelings majority of the time. This is because my mother was that way and raised me to be that way. If you feel something is wrong, then something probably is wrong. It's probably bad to say that I don't think things through and over analyze each situation but the truth is I don't. How ever I feel about that person or situation I got with it and don't really question it. For example, meeting new people. When I meet someone new you can usually get a good or bad vibe from them. I got with that feeling more than I go with anything. If I feel uncomfortable then I will stay away, but if I feel comfortable then its fine and I go with it. So basically to sum up this whole test I feel that it did not correctly analyze how I am. I feel that I am the way opposite of what the test said I was. I think I might have scored that way because I did not completely understand all of the questions so I might have answered differently if I actually fully understood them.

Insperational Quote

          This quote i would consider a very inspirational quote because it is basically saying when everyone is putting you down prove them wrong. In life we will encounter many people who will try hard to put us down, and tell us we can't. That is not true, a lot of people are better than that and can do it. I know for example I had many people in my life who tried to put me down when they found out that i was moving to Missouri. These people would tell me that i wouldn't be able to support my self for long and that i would end up giving up and moving back home. I have been proving them wrong for almost three months, even though i am no longer in contact with them im still proving them all wrong. i work and go to school all while supporting myself and i have had no issues this far. Actually this is the happiest i have been in a long time. This example from my own life just shows how much people will try to hurt you and tell you that you can't. when you stand up though and "fight more intensely" you will make all those people who told you that you couldn't to begin with look like the ones who don't know what they are talking about.  

Fear

          Fear is something that a lot of people have. Someone can fear many different things but fear is something different to everyone. Some people have a lot more fear than others, they can fear anything. One thing i personally feared before getting into college was having to go to college. When your in high school a persons world is a lot different then when they are out. I know one thing that is a huge difference and i really feared a lot was in high school we had coordinators who would do everything for you. This included creating your schedule and classes, calling you in if you are failing a class, and much more. We never really had to pay attention to anything because us as high school students knew that if something was going wrong or was not right then we would definitely be hearing from our coordinators. In college on the other hand you have to do everything yourself and don't really get much guidance and help. If you sign up for a class you don't need or have already taken, then that is on you. where as in high school they made sure nothing like that could ever happen. That was a really big adjustment and change that i feared was messing up because i had to do it all on my own. i am still trying to get the hang of it but i can say that i do not fear it as much as i did before i graduated high school. I think i feared the unknown more than actually having to do it. They did not stress enough at the high school i went to how independent college would be. they made it sound like it would be similar to high school and it would be perfectly fine. Little do they inform us it is very independent and very different but in a good way. I love college!