Blog 7

Blog 7

            I have very mixed views on basic literature as a core subject, but I’m sure that’s normal for everyone. One thing I really have to say though is that this year in English we did something that I’ve always wanted to do. We did a film presentation that I thought was really fun and intriguing. I wouldn’t call myself a cinaphile, but I have always been a movie lover and I have just always loved going into details about what makes a movie something worth seeing. When I first saw Django Unchained, I saw it as just a blood-filled, fantasy western that had a good story. Then when I went into detail about it I realized why Django Unchained is such a highly acclaimed movie and it made me admire Quentin Tarantino even more for being able to come up with something that creative and insightful. Although most times the teachers pick good movies for film studies, I just felt that it would be good to do a film study so that we can choose our own films and offer our own insight because the way I see it, people often forget that there is more to a movie than just an inspiring story. I will be dead honest there were components of the project that I was not on board with. I did wish we had more freedom in our presentations, when she would assign a category, there were certain aspects of that category that we were forced to cover, I just wish that they would be there to serve more as guidelines and allow us to make our case to make our presentations more open for interpretation. I also wish we had longer than fifteen minutes since there were a lot of presentations that went over. If I could make the rules I would make it so that it had to be longer than fifteen minutes but no longer than twenty. Overall though, I am happy that I finally got to do a project like this in my school career and I think it was the teachers were really smart to give us this project.

Blog 6

Blog 6

            As soon as I filled in the last bubble on my exam sheet only one thought was on my mind, freedom at last. I bounded out of that school building and found my friends, where we jumped into my car to go get some food. While we were eating, all we could talk about was the excitement of two weeks of doing whatever we wanted. After a long three months, though it felt way longer, a break was exactly what we needed. As soon as I arrived home the first thing I did was turn on the TV to watch march madness, and sure enough I watched Duke go to work against Robert Morris for the easy win and the first of six. The next couple of days were easy since I could go to sleep at night knowing I would not have to wake up to the radar sound on my phones alarm clock. It was also pretty easy when my days consisted playing basketball and working out during the day, coming home and watching one or two games and then watching about four episodes of Game Of Thrones before going to bed between one and two past midnight. Other days I would take a break from the action and chill with some of my boys for the night. This was lasted about a week until we headed for Vancouver where I got to catch up with some of my cousins who I am very close to. We enjoyed ourselves by watching more games and there was always somewhere to visit within the city. Each night ended with two more episodes on my laptop before I got tired. The surprise of the trip was when Kentucky managed to lose in the final four since me and my cousins included expected them to go undefeated, like most people. Even though we were wrong, I enjoyed my break. At the end of my first day back, which was torturous all I could tell myself was “summer will be here before you even realize it.”

Blog 5

Blog 5

“Would you like another serving today sir.” Said the waitress at the local Denny’s. “Yes please” replied Benny. “That your ninth plate today sir!” said the waitress nervous and puzzled. “They don’t pay you to not get me my pancakes so why don’t you get on it!” yelled Benny. When Benny arrived home after work, he ate three servings of pancakes. Benny could not exactly tell when he became a pancake addict but it got to a point where after he got his business degree, he found himself owning every Denny’s on the west coast. He would eat pancakes every day at work and was a target of ridicule for many of the other employees for eating pancakes during meeting. It even got bad enough that his wife and kids left him because he could not stop eating pancakes and one time spent a three month salary on pancakes. On December 31^st 2015 Benny woke up in the morning and right after thinking about how good his pancakes will taste for breakfast, he remembered that his friend was having a huge New Year’s Eve party that night and that he had to go because it was going to be awesome. When he arrived the party was definitely better than he expected until he realized that his friend had a lot of pancake mix in his basement. While everyone was counting down, he rushed to the basement in an attempt to steal it all until his friend walked in the basement and caught him in the act. Angrily, his friend told him that his pancake addiction has ruined his life. After about five minutes of soul searching, Benny realized that he had to break his addiction. So he said “As my new year’s resolution I will limit myself to one serving per week.” He succeeded and now owns the every Denny’s in America.