Summer

For most teenagers and even adults, summer time has always been the best time of the year. It’s the same for me. Granted, my summers are not full of beaches, tanning, pool parties, and being with friends all summer. I work at a boy scout camp called Camp Lakota in Defiance. I know, crazy right. A teenage girl working at a Boy Scout Camp. But actually it’s one of the most enjoyable things I get to do. I’m not there for the other staff members. I am there because I get to teach these young boys how to turn into proper men. The y learn not only how to do outdoor things, but they lean manners, how to respect their elders, how to spend time to productive things, and how to actually contribute to society in a positive way. I worked there for the first time last summer. It was truly amazing the things I saw these boys learn. I distinctly remember one little boy. He started camp with this terrible attitude. I mean, just downright awful. He was rude to the adults, did not care what was happening and only wanted to play is Nintendo. By the end of the week, you couldn’t recognize that boy. He was polite, had great manners, and no longer remembered about his game. He had realized that there were better more important things going on. He didn’t do it just because a counselor had asked, he did it because he admired what the other people around him were doing. I have no doubt that this summer will help yet another boy turn into a better man.

Coffee :]

Every year for lent, family always gives something up. Each person has to stick with it for the entire 40 days, if not we get ridiculed, but in a fun family loving way. This year I decided to give up coffee. I have loved coffee since my sophomore year in high school and you could say I’ve been addicted to it. Every morning i would wake up, and the first thing I would do was get my morning coffee, because without it I don’t wake up very well. So when I gave up drinking coffee, I did not realize how hard it was going to be! During the first week I would still wander downstairs to get my coffee, but then remember I gave it up. Each morning has been very hard to be alert in the morning without my coffee. I almost cannot wait for lent to be over so I can enjoy my coffee again.

A Boy Named Sue

The song a Boy name Sue, by Jonny Cash, is a poem in the form of a song. The literary element that he uses is Visual Imagery. He will use word and phrases that help you picture what this young boy is going through. The song starts off with him telling the story from the beginning. His daddy left and only left him his name, which happened to be Sue. It continues on with this history of what happened because he was named Sue. All the bad things that happened, like how he got picked on, how he became the way he is, and what happened when he saw his father again. Throughout all of this he uses choice words that gives us a mental image of what is happening when he sings it.

April, April, April.

April is going to be one of the busiest moths I’ve had in a long time. The first weekend of April, is training for my summer long job at a Boy Scout camp. Which by the way, I cannot wait for it to start. Then during the second I have to be in New York City for some final arrangements to be made that must be made in person, not that I’m complaining. Any reason to go to the big apple, and I’m there. During the third week, I will be going on a music vacation to Chicago. I think that it is going to utterly fantastic.  The third weekend is our High school musical, The Sound of Music, in which I participate as a pit orchestra member. Then my fourth weekend will be my senior prom. Exciting right? I sure hope so.

New York City :]

  Upon the graduation of High School in May, I have many plans. Most high schoolers can't think of anything more than a fun, relaxing summer, possibly a vacation or two, and then it's time for college. Well for me it's different. I have a summer-long job then will be moving to New York City in August. I will be attending an amazing college called John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and I will be living in the New Yorker Hotel.
   All my life I wanted to live in New York City, and now my dream is coming true. I couldn't be any happier.