Ok so far college is really good. As I said before I love my history class. I finally got in touch with my CIS teacher and all my assignments are like super easy. My other two classes are boring. The class I am worried the most about is biology. I do not think I am going to do well in this class. i am going to try my best though. As far as friends go I think I have made two friends in english. we sit together and talk, but thats about it. Well until more interesting things come up.
Shelby
Monday, August 23, 2010
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
College First Impressions
Well my first two days of college have been pretty good. I absolutely <3 my history class. I'm not too crazy about English, and math makes me feel like I'm super smart. Then I have biology, and this is the class that makes me feel super dumb. Then I have an internet class, and I am not so sure what to do there seeing as the teacher will not answer my e-mails.
So those are all my classes and what I think about them. Hopefully, I will have more to dish on next time. See ya soon!!!
Shelby
So those are all my classes and what I think about them. Hopefully, I will have more to dish on next time. See ya soon!!!
Shelby
Friday, August 13, 2010
One Last Day of Fun Before College
Two of my friends and I decided to hang out one last time before we all started college. So yesterday we were supposed to go see Charlie St. Cloud(great movie by the way). Instead we ended up not only going to the movie, but we also went to two malls and bowling. We left the Rave then went to the Galleria, where we played Dance Dance Rexolution (which I had never played before), and Justin had some clothes to return. Then Justin decided he wanted to go to Hot Topic so we had to drive all the way to the Brookwood Mall. Once we got there we wnet to Hot Topic and then got milkshakes. So while we are sitting there drinking our milkshakes and reminicing(spell check), somehow skating was mentioned. So then Justin is like, "Hey, let's go skating!!!" Well Danielle didn't really want to, so we just decided to go bowling. Well, while we were bowling Danielle and I noticed that whenever Justin bowled he would pop his right leg out. We started making fun of him and we called the little move SWAN LAKE!!!!! Needless to say I had a wonderful time and can't wait to hang out again during breaks!!!!! Well see ya soon.
Shelby
Shelby
Justin and I
Danielle and I
Justin getting redy to do the swan lake!!!
Justin doing the swan lake.
Monday, August 9, 2010
Letting Go...
Leting go is not as easy as some people sem to think it is. It is actually very hard and takes time. See my friend Todd posted a blog a couple weeks ago, and I just read it. In the blog he mentioned a conversation we had. Well the conversation was about me letting go of a certain person. I just have one question. How do you let go of a person who has made such an impact in your life?
You see i met this person at the begining of my junior year of high school. At first I thought he was gay, But he denied it.(infortunately he is gay) So, after we met, we became best friends. We spent A LOT of time together, and I told him everything about me. He knew every detail of my life. I was very comfortable around him, and I trusted him more than any of my friends. Then I started to like him. BIG MISTAKE.
I finally got the guts to tell him how I felt, and suprisingly nothing in our friendship changed. We were still relly good friends. What bothered me was the fact that just about everyone kept asking if we were dating. I had to keep telling them no that we were just friends. That sucked big time. I kept wondering what was wrong with me and why he didn't like me like that. Well I guess I know now.
So we got to the end of our junior year and prom was coming up. I kept dropping hints hoping he would ask me. I even went as far as letting him see my dress. Then nthe same night I showed him the dress he told me he was going to prom with one of my really close friends. I didn't show how upset I was at the time because we were going out to eat with soem friends. I didnt tell him how bad he had hurt me until later on. When I did tell him we stayed on the phone for two hous and I cried. Well after the prom incident things just went downhill.
After prom he started hanging out with my friend that he took to prom more. This upset me because they were doing some of the same things we had done. So towards the end of our junior year our friendship was kind of on the rocks. Then we hit summer.
During the summer you don't really talk to your friends as much as you would during the school year. So we talked, or shall i say texted as much as we could. The end of summer was the worst. We got into this huge arguement, and than I found out he was dating my friend that he took to prom. The sad thing was niether one of them told me. I found out from another friend. To be honest it broke my heart. I couldn't understand why they couldn't tell me themselves. In the end I eventually pulled mysel;f together and talked to BOTH of them about it. We worked things out, then school started.
It was the begining of my senior year in high school and everything was great. Our friendship was back to normal, but it wasn't the same as before. I was ok with this at the time. As couples do he and my friend broke up, but they stayed friends and all was well. As we got closer towards the end of our senior year my friend sort of isolated himself from the rest of us. This worried me a lot.
His wierd behavior continued all throughout the rest of our senior year and even after graduation. This upset me a lot because I didn't know why he was acting this way. I had done nothing to him for him to ignore me. Well I soon found out why.
My friend Todd called me one night and told me my friend was gay. Suddenly a bright light bulb lit up in my head and I was like "Oh so that's why he's not talking to me." Well I tried to call him, I facebooked him, and I text him all with no replies. So I finally told him that I didn't like him anymore, and he called me and explained everything. It was such a relief to know and I felt better. We even wnet to the movies and had lunch together it was gerat. Now we are back to talking and that's good.
The main piont of this story was to explain why it is so hard to let him go. In some ways I have, but in other ways he will always have a place in my heart just like my family and other close friends I count as dear to me. Well that's enough from my life today. See ya soon!!!
Shelby
You see i met this person at the begining of my junior year of high school. At first I thought he was gay, But he denied it.(infortunately he is gay) So, after we met, we became best friends. We spent A LOT of time together, and I told him everything about me. He knew every detail of my life. I was very comfortable around him, and I trusted him more than any of my friends. Then I started to like him. BIG MISTAKE.
I finally got the guts to tell him how I felt, and suprisingly nothing in our friendship changed. We were still relly good friends. What bothered me was the fact that just about everyone kept asking if we were dating. I had to keep telling them no that we were just friends. That sucked big time. I kept wondering what was wrong with me and why he didn't like me like that. Well I guess I know now.
So we got to the end of our junior year and prom was coming up. I kept dropping hints hoping he would ask me. I even went as far as letting him see my dress. Then nthe same night I showed him the dress he told me he was going to prom with one of my really close friends. I didn't show how upset I was at the time because we were going out to eat with soem friends. I didnt tell him how bad he had hurt me until later on. When I did tell him we stayed on the phone for two hous and I cried. Well after the prom incident things just went downhill.
After prom he started hanging out with my friend that he took to prom more. This upset me because they were doing some of the same things we had done. So towards the end of our junior year our friendship was kind of on the rocks. Then we hit summer.
During the summer you don't really talk to your friends as much as you would during the school year. So we talked, or shall i say texted as much as we could. The end of summer was the worst. We got into this huge arguement, and than I found out he was dating my friend that he took to prom. The sad thing was niether one of them told me. I found out from another friend. To be honest it broke my heart. I couldn't understand why they couldn't tell me themselves. In the end I eventually pulled mysel;f together and talked to BOTH of them about it. We worked things out, then school started.
It was the begining of my senior year in high school and everything was great. Our friendship was back to normal, but it wasn't the same as before. I was ok with this at the time. As couples do he and my friend broke up, but they stayed friends and all was well. As we got closer towards the end of our senior year my friend sort of isolated himself from the rest of us. This worried me a lot.
His wierd behavior continued all throughout the rest of our senior year and even after graduation. This upset me a lot because I didn't know why he was acting this way. I had done nothing to him for him to ignore me. Well I soon found out why.
My friend Todd called me one night and told me my friend was gay. Suddenly a bright light bulb lit up in my head and I was like "Oh so that's why he's not talking to me." Well I tried to call him, I facebooked him, and I text him all with no replies. So I finally told him that I didn't like him anymore, and he called me and explained everything. It was such a relief to know and I felt better. We even wnet to the movies and had lunch together it was gerat. Now we are back to talking and that's good.
The main piont of this story was to explain why it is so hard to let him go. In some ways I have, but in other ways he will always have a place in my heart just like my family and other close friends I count as dear to me. Well that's enough from my life today. See ya soon!!!
Shelby
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Ulysses by Alfred Tennyson
I am kinda sad that I wont start back to school on thurs. then again im not. I am after all starting a new chapter in my life called college. There is just one little thing that I have been thinking about a lot. We did a poem at the end of my senior year called Ulysses and it was about transitioning through the stages of life. Well it really spoke to me. So, thank you Mr. Mehaffy( my English teacher/ best English teacher ever) for making us read that poem because I think I really do understand what it ment.
I also remember the essays we had to write and how much trouble I had writing mine.The title of the essay was Final Moments, and it was so fitting. We were in the last few weeks of school, of our final year of high school. It was the final moments, the final memories, and it was wonderful. So here it is the poem. I hope you like it. Until next time.
Shelby
Ulysses
Alfred Lord Tennyson
It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
I cannot rest from travel: I will drink
Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed
Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those
That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when
Through scudding drifts the rainy Hyades
Vest the dim sea: I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry heart
Much have I seen and known; cities of men
And manners, climates, councils, governments,
Myself not least, but honoured of them all;
And drunk delight of battle with my peers;
Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.
I am part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough
Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades
For ever and for ever when I move.
How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!
As though to breath were life. Life piled on life
Were all to little, and of one to me
Little remains: but every hour is saved
From that eternal silence, something more,
A bringer of new things; and vile it were
For some three suns to store and hoard myself,
And this gray spirit yearning in desire
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
This is my son, mine own Telemachus,
To whom I leave the scepter and the isle
Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfill
This labour, by slow prudence to make mild
A rugged people, and through soft degrees
Subdue them to the useful and the good.
Most blameless is he, centered in the sphere
Of common duties, decent not to fail
In offices of tenderness, and pay
Meet adoration to my household gods,
When I am gone. He works his work, I mine.
There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail:
There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners,
Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and thought with me
That ever with a frolic welcome took
The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed
Free hearts, free foreheads you and I are old;
Old age had yet his honour and his toil;
Death closes all: but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks:
The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep
Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends,
'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in the old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are,
One equal-temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
I also remember the essays we had to write and how much trouble I had writing mine.The title of the essay was Final Moments, and it was so fitting. We were in the last few weeks of school, of our final year of high school. It was the final moments, the final memories, and it was wonderful. So here it is the poem. I hope you like it. Until next time.
Shelby
Ulysses
Alfred Lord Tennyson
It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
I cannot rest from travel: I will drink
Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed
Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those
That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when
Through scudding drifts the rainy Hyades
Vest the dim sea: I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry heart
Much have I seen and known; cities of men
And manners, climates, councils, governments,
Myself not least, but honoured of them all;
And drunk delight of battle with my peers;
Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.
I am part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough
Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades
For ever and for ever when I move.
How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!
As though to breath were life. Life piled on life
Were all to little, and of one to me
Little remains: but every hour is saved
From that eternal silence, something more,
A bringer of new things; and vile it were
For some three suns to store and hoard myself,
And this gray spirit yearning in desire
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
This is my son, mine own Telemachus,
To whom I leave the scepter and the isle
Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfill
This labour, by slow prudence to make mild
A rugged people, and through soft degrees
Subdue them to the useful and the good.
Most blameless is he, centered in the sphere
Of common duties, decent not to fail
In offices of tenderness, and pay
Meet adoration to my household gods,
When I am gone. He works his work, I mine.
There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail:
There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners,
Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and thought with me
That ever with a frolic welcome took
The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed
Free hearts, free foreheads you and I are old;
Old age had yet his honour and his toil;
Death closes all: but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks:
The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep
Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends,
'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in the old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are,
One equal-temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Friday, August 6, 2010
Deagrassi(My Addiction)
Like I stated in the title Degrassi is a t.v. show that I am horribly addicted to. i started waching it when I was about 14 then stopped. I just started watching it again about a month ago. Since then I have become completely addicted to it.
I think the reason I love it so much is because I can relate to the story being told. Plus there is ALWAYS drama. and as I said before, I love drama. The show is really just that, a teenage drama. Adults have thier soap operas, and we teens have Degrassi. Well anyways it's a great show. Until next time.
Shelby
I think the reason I love it so much is because I can relate to the story being told. Plus there is ALWAYS drama. and as I said before, I love drama. The show is really just that, a teenage drama. Adults have thier soap operas, and we teens have Degrassi. Well anyways it's a great show. Until next time.
Shelby
The cast of Degrassi
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Aspiring Author
Ok so I am an aspiring author, and have been for a while. Reading and writing are both passions of mine, and they are two of the reasons why I want to teach. I believe a great story is the best way to escape reality. If you don't believe me just ask all the Twilight fans out there(yes I am a HUGE Twilight fan). You can go anywhere in a book, you can be anybody in a book, and you can do anything in a book. Books are a great way to live out your dreamas and ambitions. Most of the books I read have a lot of romance, fantasy, adventure, and drama to them. I don't care what anyone says drama is a good thing(just not in real life). Some of my favorite authors are Nicholas Sparks, Stephenie Meyer, Ana Godberson, Libba Bray, Lurlene McDaniel, and Jerry Spinelle. I also love classic literature such as Willim Shakesphere, Tennyson, Keats, and other poets.
Writing is calming and relaxing for me. Right now it is more of a hobby rather than a future career. I am working on a novel right now. I have been working omn it since October of 2009. It actually started as an assignment for my creative writing class. As usual as it does whenever I start to write a story, it got out of hand and turned out to be longer than i expected. My creative writing teacher always told me she was going to start charging me for every page past five. What can I say when I start to write I lose myself in the story. I am still working on the novel and hope to finish it son. Until next time ...
Shelby |
| my great escape |
Monday, August 2, 2010
Future Plans
I have a lot of plans for the future. I know nothing goes according to plan, but it is always great to have one just in case. So far I pretty much know what I want to do with my life. First, I want to graduate from college. Second, I hope to land a teching job. Lastly, I hope to get married someday and maybe have some kids. No plan is perfect, and there is no telling which of these plans will actually be achieved. I know I have already set the college plan into motion seeing as I begin classes in August. I'm prearing for the teaching job. Sadly i haven't had to much experience in the relationship section. I believe it will happen when it happens, and there is no need to rush. These are just my main three plans for the future. They are the ones that are most important to me. Well until next time see ya!!!!
Shelby
Shelby
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