A Picture Not Worth Taking

The youth in the room swept around me. This reunion had long been awaited as the distinct faces swarmed in for hugs. I had been waiting to return to younglife. A place that is distinguished not for its glamour, but for its emotion. The place that makes me feel the happiest I have ever been. The room is plain and basic, but the people are not. Cheerful faces awaiting to greet my open arms and wide smile. How long had it been? A couple months, but it felt exactly as though it were yesterday. Loud music? Check. Crazy dancing? Check. In young life, fake doesn't exist. Everyone there is the young, crazy, fun, and wild person they secretly are on the inside. In this environment, everyone is their true self. No emotion is held back. Not a single action is judged. The more strange you are and the more fun you have, the more you fit in. Such a place is rare, almost extinct. High school students that attend these club nights all know each other. We are one with each other. 7:37 is the time we meet on Mondays and we all know that. What?? 7:37? Such a strange time. It may be weird those who don't attend younglife, but not to those of us who do. In these moments there is no such thing as a smart phone. Pictures don't have any place in these times. It's too much fun to even bother looking at your phone. It's not worth the time to pull it out of your pocket, because nothing could be better than what is happening now.

Remix

Thomas Edison-mr lightbulb 

-an improvement in electric lamps

-took an existing design and made it viable 

COMBINATIONS

-taking existing things and combining them, even when they seem unrelated

-the internet is the network of networks

Copy, transform, and design

-Starwars. Follows the monomyth. Much like Flash Gordon. War films and westerns. Existing shots were used as templates. 

-Starwars was one of the most innovative stories, but had been taken from a combination of other movies

Green Eggs and Hamlet

a. I don't know anything about Hamlet. Isn't the Lion King Disney movie based off of it? I'm stumped.
b. Shakespeare is very famous and wrote plays, I believe. He is an ancient writer and I can never understand him. Sadly, that's as far as I know.
c. Students frown because reading Shakespeare is a drag. When reading it on their own, students don't  understand it. It's very boring because it's written in an outdated language, with outdated people, with an outdated time period. Also, no teacher has yet to make it successfully thrilling and entertaining.
d. We should go over it in class. I'll never understand it on my own and apparently Cliff Notes doesn't either. Or if their is a Shakespeare for dummies, then that would be awesome for me.

WHOOPS

I realized that I had written the story which was supposed to contain (Alec, Elizabeth, Victoria, and Matthew), but actually combined that which the college of your choice a year from now... Time to start writing again

Vocabulary #5

shenanigans - verb secret or dishonest activity
ricochet - noun a glancing rebound; verb spring back; spring away from an impact
schism - noun division of a group into opposing factions; the formal separation of a church into two churches or the withdrawal of one group over doctrinal differences
eschew - verb avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of
plethora - noun extreme excess
ebullient - adj. joyously unrestrained
garrulous - adj. full of trivial conversation
harangue - noun a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion; verb deliver a harangue to; address forcefully
interdependence - noun a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups)
capricious - adj. determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; changeable
loquacious - adj. full of trivial conversation
ephemeral - adj. lasting a very short time; nounanything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form
inchoate - adj. only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
juxtapose - verb place side by side
perspicacious - adj. acutely insightful and wise;mentally acute or penetratingly discerning
codswallop - noun nonsensical talk or writing
mungo - noun a cheap felted fabric made from waste wool
sesquipedelian - adj. of a word, polysyllabic; long
wonky - adj. inclined to shake as from weakness or defect; turned or twisted toward one side
dipthong - literally "two sounds" or "two tones", also known as a gliding vowel, refers to two adjacent vowel sounds occurring within the same syllable

Guiding Questions

Character Study 2

Daniel wonders at how he arrived at the new campus, taking it in with a large breathe of air. "Ahh I finally made it," He had no preconception of where he would make it to, but now he has arrived. The campus seems to be ten times larger than any school he had ever attended. Confidence in, worries out. The longing sense of fulfillment had been filled. As Daniel looked around the school, the reality of not knowing anyone set it. "Am I going to like my room mate? What do I do next? What do I do first?" After rustling among these questions he decided to take a seat by a tree and observe others. Some clearly knew where they were destined to be, others walked by with friends, and the rest looked confused and lost. He decided that he was not alone in this and knew that befriending these strangers would not be difficult. For now, watching the campus fall out into its random flow seemed to be calming. Daniel sat, he had light brown skin and hair with an athletic build and promising smile. Although slightly nervous, he knew he would soon belong. It was easy for him to interact socially and he had done this many times before. In fact, he had prepared his entire life for these four years.

"Hey. do you mind if I join you?"

"That's good with me! Feel free to have a seat," said Daniel.

"Thanks. (sits down) You know college is so different from what I'm used. New people. New area. New..... life. It's almost overwhelming, but at the same time I feel at home. Oh sorry. I forgot to say, my name is Dean."

"Hi I'm Daniel, nice to meet you. I've had those same thoughts. I mean, my life today is never what I would have pictured a year ago and it seems to change by the moment. The campus is beautiful here! It's..... (as if he was searching for the word) immaculate. Also the sports here are awesome! Do you play any sports?"

As he was speaking he noticed the same light brown skin color apparent on Dean. Dean is taller than Daniel and has a pleasant smile. Actually, he was very nice and the two started off becoming friends immediately.

....The rest is unwritten