Reading Reflection #7

 OK again I haven't read a book because of a few things going on after school which is two periods a day for me anyways. I'm still typing Police Officers, Farm boys and Thieves and my completed book The Pegasus prophecy. I flip back and forth from both in my spare time if I'm not sleeping after I come home from my job as an Office assistant. In my incomplete book Police Officers, Farm boys and Thieves I've resumed typing in the last while I've reached part two in which Sara takes her father to her mother's homeland in Greenwood to face judgement for the murder of her husband David. At her side for the journey and the month and a half before her father appeared is Mark, David's older brother who is set to inherit leadership of their family farm. Sara discovers upon arrival after Mark steals a kiss from her is that her brother long thought dead by both herself and her father is alive with children of his own. When I finish this book I hope to one day publish it and hope everybody loves my story line and twists and turns in the plot itself.

My Blackout Poetry

Here is all four of my poems and the theme for them was random objects and buildings. I apologize if the pictures are a little blurry my hands were a little shaky when I took the pictures.

Jumping man

 Pakistan Hotel

Red Cowbell

 Ottoman Boy

Part of Me Katy Perry

Hey here's another set lyrics from my Lyrics folder that I don't own belonging to the respectful owner and again I got them of metrolyrics. Well this song best describes another part of my life I'm not so proud of. Yeah I've got a few parts I'm not so proud of, but this song best describes how I mostly got past the part of my life that's probably I'm the least proud of. I broke up with my boyfriend of one year because of many reasons and one of them was because the guy spent a lot of my summer talking to seemed to like me. Well I learned the hard way after awhile when he told me he just wanted to be friends and I was OK with that. What I wasn't OK with was the fact that a week later he turned around and asked myclosest friend in the world out behind my back, sneaking around like he thought I would be a total bitch. Anyways I learned and moved on and DON'T talk to this guy after a little more stumbling about realizing we couldn't be friends. Here's the song Part of Me by Katy Perry

Part of Me

Days like this I want to drive away

Pack my bags and watch your shadow fade

You chewed me up and spit me out

Like I was poison in your mouth

You took my light, you drained me down

That was then and this is now

Now look at me
This is the part of me that you're never gonna ever take away from me, no

This is the part of me that you're never gonna ever take away from me, no

Throw your sticks and stones

Throw your bombs and your blows

But you're not gonna break my soul

This is the part of me that you're never gonna ever take away from me, no
I just wanna throw my phone away

Find out who is really there for me

You ripped me off, your love was cheap

Was always tearing at the seams

I fell deep and you let me drown

But that was then and this is now
Now look at me

This is the part of me that you're never gonna ever take away from me, no

This is the part of me that you're never gonna ever take away from me, no

Throw your sticks and stones

Throw your bombs and your blows

But you're not gonna break my soul

This is the part of me that you're never gonna ever take away from me, no
Now look at me, I'm sparkling

A firework, a dancing flame

You won't ever put me out again I'm glowing, oh woah oh

So you can keep the diamond ring I never liked them anyway

In fact you can keep everything

Yeah, yeah

Except for me
This is the part of me that you're never gonna ever take away from me, no

This is the part of me that you're never gonna ever take away from me, no (away from me)

Throw your sticks and stones

Throw your bombs and your blows

But you're not gonna break my soul

This is the part of me that you're never gonna ever take away from me, no
This is the part of me, no, (away from me)

This is the part of me, me, me, me, me, me, no

Throw your sticks and stones

Throw your bombs and your blows

But you're not gonna break my soul

This is the part of me that you're never gonna ever take away from me, no

Writing Reflection 3

 Hey well I was away today at the law court with Mrs. Blahut's second period Law class and it was very interesting and I'm glad I went. With all the post graduation stuff going on I'm kinda lost on what to do in my spare time not actually thinking about it because it's tiring no offense to the counselors and the people who gave the presentations. It's just I was set into motion to think about all of this important stuff at the start of grade ten by my dad who just wants the best for me and do well in whatever in I choose.So here we are grade twelve I've made my choice to go to Red River College and take part in the Business Administration program, but I wish things would slow down because I feel like I'm stuck in the fast lane and this blog is the only thing I can control besides what I do in my spare time when I'm not over thinking everything. This blog would be helpful in promoting my good traits and let people know and see what a creative writer and person I am.

In the last time I went to other people's blogs I left comments on pieces I truly as a reader and writer liked and thought were brilliant. I know a couple people commented on my music lyrics and like how I use them to express my feelings when I know and feel being verbal isn't going to work for me in certain aspects of my life, good and bad. Music seems to be my only guiding light in the last couple months and I hope I can move past all the crap going on in my life that makes it so insane sometimes. For instance in the next couple months I know for a fact the major events happening. First I'm meeting my new doctor on the 5th of Nov, on the 30th I'm getting ALL my wisdom teeth removed from my tiny mouth and in Dec 6 days after I turn 18 which is the fifth, my Nana from Ireland is spending the month with my family.

Not Enough by Avril Lavigne

I own none of these lyrics and they belong to Avril Lavigne and the website I found them on is metrolyrics. So this song best describes my feelings in the last couple weeks and how I'm trying to avoid the main issues I guess in my relationship with my boyfriend and our lack of EFFECTIVE communication. I'm the one at fault though not saying anything to him how I'm feeling about certain things and my main issue is I don't know how so back to main topic of this post the lyrics of the song Not Enough by Avril Lavigne.

Not Enough

I'm sorry if this hurts you

But I tried to keep what we had once I was wrong

It wasn't keeping me awake
You didn't listen, you didn't hear me

When I said I want more, I got no more

You weren't stealing me away
It's not enough, it's not enough

To give me what it is I want

It's not enough, it's not enough

To get me everything I need

And I, I wish it was I think it's time to give this up
All the memories that we're losing

All the time that I spent with you everyday

I think it's running down the drain
I'm feeling that we're fading

Don't make this as hard as you think it would be

It's a lot easier than it seems, yeah
It's not enough, it's not enough

To give me what it is I want

It's not enough, it's not enough

To get me everything I need

And I, I wish it was I think it's time to give this up
And I can feel it falling down slowly, slowly

I can see us starting to drown, can't stop it now

I can see it burning out, so show me, show me

How you gonna turn it around because
It's not enough, it's not enough

To give me what it is I want

It's not enough, it's not enough

To get me everything I need
It's not enough, it's not enough

To give me what it is I want

It's not enough, it's not enough

To get me everything I need

And I, I wish it was

I think it's time to give this up
It's not enough, it's not enough (To give me)

It's not enough, it's not enough (What it is I want)

It's not enough, it's not enough (To get me everything I need)
It's not enough, it's not enough (To give me)

It's not enough, it's not enough (What it is I want)

It's not enough, it's not enough (To get me)

The Pegasus Prophecies intro- Chapter 1

INTRO

In the kingdom of Dragons a prince was born to King Cedric and Queen Lily. The whole kingdom was overjoyed with the birth of Prince Jason, the first dragon prince born since Celia’s rein over the dragon kingdoms. Elsewhere in a land of winged horses another baby was being born in secret. The mother wasn’t a queen or anyone of sheer importance, but when she saw her newborn baby girl Tawnyspots knew with all her heart she would protect her Dovewing with her life. Now these two children wouldn’t cross paths or know of the dark secrets surrounding them until five years later.

Chapter 1:  Dove

“Ow ow this really hurts!” I cried to my Pegasus Grayshade. “I’m only five and mommy expects me to stay out of trouble for- ow Gray can’t you be gentler that hurts.” Great I decide to climb a tree near the beach and end up falling on top of a thorn bush. Once Gray pulls out all the thorns in my back we head down to the beach to find a group of pale faced strangers. As we watch I count how many strangers there are in case it’s an invasion. Gray snorts and I realize she just heard the last bit of my thoughts. “I know I know” I said in my head, but overall there were two adults and three kids. Two of them looked about eight the other my age, but by the looks of things they were setting up a base camp. The adults seemed too busy with setting up their camp and each other to notice the boy wandering farther and farther down the beach. “Hey Gray lets follow him” I whisper loving the idea of a tracking game, but Gray didn’t. Mommy hardly plays tracking games with me anymore not since that Black tribe man died two months ago. We eventually find him at flower cave picking a snow white rose to smell and look at closely. “Hey Gray I want to see if he’s safe to play with stay here okay” I say in my head walking out of our hiding spot before she could stop me. “Hi whatcha doing?” I ask. The boy cocks his head as if he couldn’t understand what I am saying. I ask again drawing a picture in the sand this time. He finally gets it and draws a picture for me asking “do you want to play?” I nod running back into the bushes to get Gray. When I come back he has a dragon with him. An actual dragon, but I ignore this as I tag him and run into the bushes giggling very happy. We are having so much fun until someone starts calling for my new friend. “Jason Where are you? JASON” the person sounds really upset. A woman comes into view repeating what we had just heard. She spots us and grabs Jason, obviously scolding him plus ruining our game. As she turns to walk away I realize I might not get to play with Jason again so I just start to cry. “Auntie Desina give me a second please  I’ll be back okay” is what I think he says to the lady he calls Auntie Desina and before she could scold Jason even more he walks back to me. He hands me the white rose wiping the tears off my face and says plus draws “I’ll come play again tomorrow okay…” I draw another picture and hiccup “Dovewing.” “Okay Dove I’ll be back to play tomorrow I promise.” Then he runs back to Auntie Desina and I turn for home placing the rose in my hair.   

Jason

“Auntie I told you already I’m fine and why are you so mad I was just playing with that girl” I huffed for the… well I don’t know how many times as we walked back to camp. “Now Jason we were worried about you and this is the thanks I get for finding you.” I wanted to talk about something else so I asked Auntie why Dove didn’t understand what I was saying. It did the trick. “Well because she is one of the natives of this island and right now the tribes are having a fight over land so that’s why I was upset Jason. That little girl could’ve gotten you killed while my and your uncle’s backs were turned okay” she sighs. “Couldn’t you sense me wandering off” I asked curious about that. “Yes I sensed you wander off, but obviously your friend is one of a select few who can block out telepathy and anyone she considers her friend as well” she laughs ruffling my hair. “Is it okay if I play with Dove again tomorrow Auntie?” I ask shyly. “You can and wear this tomorrow if you want to talk without drawing in the sand” she laughs even harder about my question handing me one of her rings.

Dove

The next morning I wake up before mommy does to go play with Jason again. As I ride on Gray down to the beach I thought about the reaction of Jason’s aunt to mommy’s when I told her about Jason. All I got was an empty “that’s nice Dovewing now eat your dinner.” I shake my head trying not to see the huge differences. We ride right into the camp to be tackled by Blue, Jason’s dragon. Mrs. Desina helps me up even though I was still kind of scared of her. Jason sits up yawning from in between the two older boys and looks to see me standing in the middle of camp kind of scared of the other four dragons sleeping nearby. He hurries up and gets ready for another day of playing. We are very happy talking, laughing, and playing until he starts to talk about his mom and how nice she is. “My mom is so nice to me I couldn’t be happier or luckier than my cousins.” I didn’t say a word as Jason asked about my mom. I really didn’t want Jason to know that it felt like she was gone, like she had abandoned me to face life without her. Thinking about it made me feel worse so I broke down crying telling him about her before and after the Black Tribe fight. He cried along with me afterwards telling me how sorry he was for asking about her. I hugged him saying “it’s alright you were just asking how nice my mom is to me.” After that our summer continued on like a happy dream, but one day he tells me he will be going home any day now so I pull out the necklaces I had made the night before while mommy was sleeping. They both have a scale off of Blue and a feather off Gray, but Jason’s has a dragon and mine a Pegasus figure that I carved myself. The day he leaves Jason places a red rose in my hair saying “we’ll be back next summer so don’t cry while I’m gone promise?” “I Promise Jason!” I promise. “And you won’t take of your necklace right?” He shakes his head no and whispers only for me to hear “and when I’m old enough to come alone I’ll come and get you so you can see my home okay.” Then he jumps onto Blue to fly home following his aunt and uncle. I stood on the beach watching them fly farther and farther away from me and my world not to come back till next summer.

Jason always returned every summer until we turned nine then he stopped coming but deep down I knew he never took off his necklace like I never took off mine. By the time I turned ten the war had gotten worse and my mom eventually killed herself leaving me to face the world alone. I knew I still had Grayshade, but it wasn’t the same as those summers with Jason and Blue by my side. When I thought about those summers I remembered how I could forget all my problems and then I would feel the stabbing sensation in my heart I got randomly when I thought about Jason. One day I drift to flower cave with Gray to watch the sunset when we find a black Pegasus with a sword tip in its left wing. “Hey boy it’s okay easy I’m just trying to help” I soothe as I try getting closer only to have it move away from me. “Okay I didn’t want to do this but here I go” I mutter under my breath as I jump forward placing my forehead against his. As I show the poor thing I mean it no harm he provides me with his name. “Well it’ll be okay now Shadowtide as long as you stop moving I’ll remove that sword tip” I sigh tired after all that running around. I walk up this time slowly reassuring Shadow that it wasn’t going to hurt. I placed my hand on his heart as I pull out the sword replacing it with a bandaged splint. “There all better right? See all that fuss you made was silly” I laugh at Shadow. Every day from that point on I went to flower cave to take care of Shadow and eventually I just stayed there.

Staying at flower cave didn’t change what my mom had done to me and her tribe. Right before she killed herself she told me the truth about who my dad was. “Dovewing before the war started I fell in love with a man from the Black tribe. We secretly met for months until I realized I was pregnant with you. Your father promised to protect both of us if we eloped but I couldn’t leave my tribe so I ended it right around the time I had you.” I remember my shock as she continued. “Even though I ended it I still loved your father and if he had lived I know he would have loved and protected us.” Then as she plunged the knife into her heart my mother looked truly free even if I wasn’t of her secret. Me. Since that time anyone from the tribes who has crossed my path has called me a half breed, an abomination, and a child of traitors. I’m glad that Pegasus’s don’t judge so I only accept Gray and Shadow’s company as I put together a boat to sail away from the tribes and the war which has taken so much away from me.

 

Reading Reflection#6

 OK again I didn't read a new book, but continued typing out now one complete piece of work called The Pegasus Prophecies which is part of a series a friend and I are working on together since grade nine. The Pegasus Prophecies is the second book in the series about the child of the main characters from the first book Cedric and Lily, Jason who with a girl named Dovewing are out to fufill a prophecy that was announced long before they were born, “A son of Dragon and a daughter of Pegasus will come together in a time of great suffering to bring an end to the Pegasus wars” Now I hope you like it and posts comments on what you think after I post the first few chapters in my next personal post. PLEASE COMMENT I NEED FEED BACK :)

Want U Back (Cher Lloyd)

The song Want U Back by Cher Llyod is another set of lyrics I found on metrolyrics and I don not in any way own them. I love this song because it really described my first year with my boyfriend although I really hate to admit it does and somethings that happened in us breaking up for awhile, although we didn't really now that we both look back on it so here's the song Want U Back.

                 Want U Back-US Version (Cher Lloyd)

Hey, boy you never had much game

So I needed to upgrade

So I went and walked away-way-way

Now I seen you been hanging out

With that other girl in town

Looking like a pair of clowns-clowns-clowns
Remember all the things that you and I did first

And now you're doing them with her

Remember all the things that you and I did first

You got me got me like this

And now you're taking her to every restaurant

 And everywhere we went, come on!

And now you're taking her to every restaurant

You got me got me like this
Boy you can say anything you wanna

I don't give a sh,

no one else can have you I want you back, I want you back

Want want you, want you back

I broke it off thinking you'd be crying

Now I feel like sh looking at you flying

I want you back, I want you back

Want want you, want you back
Please, this ain't even jealousy

She ain't got a thing on me

Tryna rock them ugly jeans-jeans-jeans

You clearly didn't think this through

If what I've been told is true

You'll be crawling back like boo-hoo-hoo
Remember all the things that you and I did first

And now you're doing them with her

Remember all the things that you and I did first

You got me got me like this like this

 And now you're taking her to every restaurant

And everywhere we went, come on!

And now you're taking her to every restaurant

You got me got me like this
Boy you can say anything you wanna

I don't give a sh, no one else can have you

I want you back, I want you back

Want want you, want you back

I broke it off thinking you'd be crying

Now I feel like sh looking at you flying I want you back,

 I want you back Want want you, want you back
Oooh, oooh, I thought you'd still be mine

When I kissed you goodbye uh-oh uh-oh

Oooh, oooh, and you might be with her

But I still had you first uh-oh uh-oh 

 Remember all the things that you and I did first

And now you're doing them with her

Remember all the things that you and I did first

You got me got me like this
Yo,

Boy you can say anything you wanna

 I don't give a sh, no one else can have you

I want you back, I want you back

Want want you, want you back

 I broke it off thinking you'd be crying

Now I feel like sh looking at you flying

I want you back, I want you back

Want want you, want you back
Does tis sound like a helicopter

       Brrrrrrrrrrrr

Reading Reflection #5/ What I really did instead of reading this week

Hey well here's the thing this week I didn't read a new book and haven't pickd up a book in a week since I've started typing out my own book called Police Officers, Farm Boys and Thieves. The book's idea was something I had started writing years back when I was bored of class, depressed that I had nothing better to do outside of school and just that I needed an outlet for built up frustration from my lack of comunication skills. Sadly I spilt pop on what I had written out at the point and threw it out because it wasn't readable for typing out. Last year as I sat in class I remembered this story and started writing again, but obviously it's different than the original idea because it's been six years since I threw out the original, I'm not so bored with my classes, I have more of a life outside family and school then I did back and finally I hate to admit it my comunication skills still suck. The main plot of the story is about a girl named Sara who runs away from home to escape her painful past and the posibility of being used as a tool for political gain at hthe begining of the industrial revoloution which is potrayed in the book as most knights, police officers, thieves and farm hands switching over from the good old fashioned sword to the gun.

Wrting Reflection #2

Writing Reflection#2

For this first writing assignment I found the Six Word Memoirs fun to do and also really easy. I found it surprising that it was easy to do this assignment although I made a couple mistakes here and there on a couple of my published works. I only realized my errors after I published and emailed my work which goes to show my attention to detail isn’t the greatest and that I need to continue working on that. All the pictures I used in the Memoirs were all taken by me from my phone and camera. Most of them were old pictures from a couple years ago. What I learned from this microform of writing though is that it can be very vague from the reader’s perspective and hard to understand unless you’ve actually written the piece or know the author very well. The part of the project I preferred doing was writing/typing the words themselves then adding them to the pictures due to internet issues and I just had a lot of ideas that I wanted to put down on paper rather than look through pictures to go with what I had already written.

Reading Reflection#4

Keeping the Moon

Sarah Dessen pg. 1-228

For this week’s book I read Keeping the Moon and the story that followed about a girl named Collie with her journey to find herself. In the beginning of the story all I could think was “wow Collie and I are similar in a few ways in how we’re trying to figure out who we are after a couple changes in our lives.”  Collie’s mom basically drops her off in Colby while she goes to Europe on tour for her weight loss program which changed both the lives of herself and Collie who lost 45 pounds. My initial reaction to this was how could she do it? And cool for sticking with it even after the weight was gone because I know it’s hard to eat better and exercise in today’s society and culture where it’s cheaper to eat bad then healthy. I really liked how Collie falls for Norman, an artist whose living with Collie’s aunt Mira and how both confess their darkest secrets to each other in the end. Most of my reading connections were T-S except for one which was T-W in comparing the weight loss and how hard it is in today’s culture to lose and keep the weight off when it’s expensive to eat healthy.