My Thanksgiving

My Thanksgiving break was very short. I left for break on Wednesday morning after my 9 am class. My Ethnic Studies teacher canceled the 10 am class and then we didn't have class in English all that week so I got to leave early Wednesday. I got home around 10 and then sat around then got ready for my interview at Maurice's at 1. That didn't go so well, I hesitated on a lot of answers and blanked out and forgot what punctual meant...yeah, that probably lost me the job right there. Then that night I had to work at 4, got done pretty early then hung out with my family. Thanksgiving day we went to church early that morning, then went home and started making some food. For lunch we went over to my great-aunts house for my Mom's side Thanksgiving from 12-2 and then went back home to change. When we got home we made some more food for my aunts for my dad's side Thanksgiving in Hutchinson. I love sitting around eating REAL food (not food from the cafeteria) and talking to my relatives. I remember when I was younger, the last thing I wanted to do was sit around talking to my relatives, the older people. Now I love sitting around the fire just engaging in conversation with my aunts and uncles and my grandparents. I love being around my family so much, we're all really close. On Friday night I had to work at 4:30 and didn't get out until around 10:30, then I just watched a movie with my mom. Saturday morning, my family and I had to leave our house at 6 in the morning to go to the cities for my brother's All-Conference bowling match. My brother made All-Conference in high school bowling as an 8th grader! I thought that was pretty cool. So we went to the bowling match and they didn't do too well, there was an All-Conference team for our district. Then that night us and another family went to BeniHanas, a Japanese Steakhouse in Minneapolis. It was amazing! Then Sunday I worked in the morning and that's about all I did. It was a good break, just super short!

Finals

I can't believe the end of the semester is only 2 1/2 weeks away!! Two of my hardest classes (Ethnic Studies and Mass Communications) end next week. I have my Mass Communications final next week Thursday, and my Ethnic Studies final next week Friday. Next week will be pretty stressful for me, not to mention a lot of studying to do, welcome to college I guess. I'm not worried about my other 3 classes. For my Acting class we're just playing a game with some of our monologue choices. For my First Year Experience class we're just taking a survey about the class and what we didn't and did like about the class. Then for English we're just watching a movie and getting papers handed back. I'm really worried about getting my rough draft done by Thursday, a lot of my information is coming from my mom's friend and she hasn't given any information to my mom yet. There are a lot of things I've been getting off of the internet, but it's not much. I have a monologue to give in my Acting class tomorrow. I'm doing a monologe from the Princess Diaries, the scene at the end where she's accepting the role as Princess of Genovia. So far I'm doing really well in that class. I got 100/100 for my first monologue, I'm not quite sure how my scene partner and I did on our scene, but she didn't critique us at all or tell us to do anything different so I think we did pretty well. All in all, I think this will be a pretty successful semester...well, hopefully.

What my life would be like without computers & television

My life without computers or television would be really boring. I rely on both the television and the computer for a lot of my entertainment.

It's sad how a lot of my friends connect just only on Facebook or myspace on the Internet. It's amazing how friendship comes down to "you didn't post back on my wall!". We rely on the Internet for a lot of communication ways. Such as the news, blogs, IM's, and Facebook/Myspace. I'm pretty much a Facebook addict, as a lot of college students are. It would be hard for me not to check Facebook at least twice a week to see what people are saying/giving me. Sometimes I think I would be better off without the computer, but then I realize how much I rely on Google and yahoo to find research items for papers in classes. Without the Internet, for some people it would be really hard to find research for a paper.

My life without television wouldn't be that difficult. Although a lot of my favorite shows and entertainment are on there, it wouldn't be hard to give up, it's just a show on t.v. and usually they're just fictional. Even the "reality"shows these days are scripted. The only reason why a lot of people watch t.v. is because of the news, to keep up with everyday things. Without television, people would have to rely on the newspaper to keep them up with what's going on in the community and the world now-a-days. I never read the newspaper unless it's an article on something that interests me or someone I know. Without t.v. and computers, I would probably read books and the newspaper a lot for entertainment. I would still go out with my family and friends like I do now. Even "hanging out" now revolves around watching your favorite show with a bunch of your friends who like the show, too. Our lives revolve around the media, for some people I don't think they would have much of a life and a lot of jobs wouldn't be existing right now.

Thanksgiving Break

I'm really excited to go home this week for Thanksgiving break. I think it's really nice of my professors to cancel class on Wednesday so we can go home early for break. The only class that I haven't heard had been canceled yet is my Acting class at 9 in the morning, but even if it isn't canceled I'll just leave right after that and get home pretty early around 10. I'm only a half hour away from Mankato, I live in New Ulm so it's really not a long drive for me at all. I'm excited for Wednesday because I also have a job interview for Maurice's in New Ulm, I absolutely LOVE that store! I also work at Applebee's in New Ulm, but in the winter when the weather is horrible to drive in, I'm not going to want to drive home all the time just to work on the weekends. So if I end up getting the job at Maurice's in New Ulm, then I can just transfer over to the Maurice's in the River Hills mall and just work there during the winter so I don't have to drive home in the weather, good plan huh? Anyways, back to Thanksgiving. My family traditions for Thanksgiving are, on Thanksgiving day my family will have an early lunch at my aunts house for my mom's extended family and then will leave early and travel over to Dassel, Minnesota to have lupper (lunch/supper) with my Dad's side of the family. All of the grandkids on my Dad's side have almost the same birthday. There are 3 in September and 2 in November and 1 in December so we celebrate those birthday's when we all get together on Thanksgiving. After that we'll head back that night and then go over to my grandma's house in New Ulm and celebrate Thanksgiving with a late supper with my Mom's side of the family. Oh my goodness I'm so excited to have real food instead of nasty non-variety cafeteria food!!!!!

Acting Class Scene

For my "Acting for Everyone" class this semester, it's required to do a lot of acting in front of the class. We have to present 2 monologues and a scene. The monologues are obviously done by yourself, and you have a partner that you present your scene with. My first monologue went really well, and my scene partner and I just presented our scene last Friday. Well, my scene partner, Josh, and I have the exact same personality so it was easy for us to pick out a scene that we both liked. We looked at a bunch of scenes but it was hard to find the right one. The one we eventually picked out is called, "The DMV One." I have to tell you, the scene is absolutely hilarious, but extremely awkward to present in front of the class. In the scene, I'm a woman working at the DMV and Josh is a man coming into renew his licence and registration after moving here from out of state. Well I get in to asking him the most random questions like, "Single?", "Boxers or Briefs?", "We exchange numbers or you ask me out right now?", those kind of questions. Then it goes into "Slow or fast?", "Top or bottom?", and it gets so awkward to yell these questions back and fourth in front of the class, but we did a really good job. Usually our professor will come up and critique us after you're done performing, but she just said we did a really good job and we were the "perfect people to present this scene" and we had a really good understanding about the relationship with the two characters in the scene. SO I was pretty happy with how that turned out! Next, our last monologue, which will be pretty easy so I'm not worried.

Weather Folklores

The blog topic today is 'weather folklore', I typed in the topic on Google.com and this is what I came up with. I actually found two that I wanted to blog about.

1. Birds on a telephone wire indicate the coming of rain.
This makes sense, but I've never seen it before. The only time I've ever seen birds on a telephone wire is during the summer, when it's hot out. You think that the birds can sense when it's going to rain and GET OFF the wire, because they would probably be electrocuted. I believe that animals can have a sense for the weather, like my mom always says "Look, the cows are lying down, that means it's going to rain." I always just nod and say yeah OK, but I think that's crap. Animals can probably sense it, but I think the cows are probably just tired and want to lay down, damnit!

2. If autumn leaves are slow to fall, prepare for a long, cold winter...
Why does it matter when the leaves fall? It could just be windy or not windy at all and the leaves just don't fall. How can you tell how long or cold a season is going to be by how fast leaves can fall? I just think that's nonsense.

College - extra credit

We were asked the question, "Why are you in college?". I am enrolled in Minnesota State University- Mankato because I want to get the education I deserve. My family and the community I live in brought me up with the belief that, you go to elementary school, grade school, high school and then you're off to college. The high school I went to was a Luthern high school and had a slogin that said, "We're preparing you in a Christ-centered education to go out to preach the Word of God to whatever college you attend after high school." So my high school was all about preparing every student for college and the life to come. I've always been brought up that after you graduate high school, you're off to college. Since I was 5 years old I've wanted to come to MSU. My parents both graduated from MSU and they actually met on the MSU Bowling Team, they both worked in the bowling alley. My parents have always told me how much they loved MSU, so I began to love it just as much as they did. Not to mention purple is my favorite color so I of course had to go here! I believe that while I'm attending MSU, I am getting the education to better prepare me for the career I choose.