The last Blog!

Im really sad that this class is almost over :( Im however not sad that this semester is almost over...SUMMER!!! So throughout this class I feel like iv gotten to know my classmates very well through their blogs and class convos, and like Professor said "Were like a family". Iv learned so much in this class and its things that I will actually use in real life. Some classes teach us things that will never come in handy in real life. I will miss seeing Professor Sexson every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday...Maybe ill see him walking around campus with his ear phones strolling along to his tunes! The one thing that really opened my eyes in this class was reading books. The second day of class Professor said there are no boring books, only boring people. Im going to use that term everytime I get out a book and start to read. Im not gunna say much more cause I present 2marrow and I dont want to ruin my awesome ideas :) Well this was my most exciting class this semester and I will remember it forever. I made some new friends and really enjoyed Garrets stories and comments everyday! Good bye Lit 110, I will enjoy the last days I have with all you!

Fishy and presentation

Ok the reason I have fishy in the title of my blog is because yesterday my sister sarah's beta fish, George, died. She came up stairs with an upside down smile and teary eyes and said in a raspy voice "George is dead". We all kinda giggled and said its just a fish. She tallked about her memories with lil George (which she only had for six months) and then had my little sister flush him down the toilet because she didnt feel right about flushing him herself! How sad. She is just one of those people who loves animals and gets so attached, even to her fish. George will be missed!!! I loved both the presentations yesterday, especailly the one with the cookies :) mmm. Both were very entertaining and kept me awake!

Presentations

I have loved all the presentations that have been presented so far. My favorite one was the one where a bunch of different stories that were put together and acted out. I thought it was educating and entertaining. It really made me think about how much stories are tied together. We did our presentation and it brought up such a great topic that has so many different opinions. I really believe that there are boring books, not boring people. I think what Devin said was really my main arguement. People arnt always goin to enjoy reading the same things. For example, I hate math or science. Im not goin to enjoy reading about it. It may be very educating but I dont enjoy it. I really think that your experiences have something to do with your excitement. I agree that you can still experience something about say Ireland if you read a book about it versus goin there. But how can you enjoy a book if you dont even enjoy the topic. Everyone says to use your imagination. Im sorry but my imagination wants to experience something fun, not take me to a world of math or science.

My thesis for my paper!

So I decided that I was going to do the generic paper topic because I didnt enjoy the Brothers at all and I felt like if I didnt enjoy the book I wasnt goin to enjoy writing a paper about it. So I wrote my thesis and it needs alot of work but this is the start.
First day that I walked into that Lit 110 classroom, I saw a tall man with a white beard who introduced himself as Professor Sexson. Along with talking about his tremors, he explained how we were going to read a bunch of short stories, poems, and Shakespearian plays out of the lit book called Retellings. There are many things that I know now that I didn’t know before taking this class. Some of the many things I learned this semester were how to write sonnets and found poetry, that every story is a retelling, and that there are no boring books, just boring people. Almost everything I’ve learned this semester has given me a new view on things, which has made a difference in my life. Professor Sexson not only assigned me a bunch of readings my first day of class, he also made a difference in my life.

Lit 110

So yesterday we finished talking about Hamlet. That may be the saddest story Iv ever read, guess thats why they call it a tragedy. I like Shakesphere stories for the fact that he doesnt sugar coat things, he creates a tragedy which is in everyones life. Every person in this world has something tragic happen to them whether someone they knows die or a pet dies. Tragedy doesnt even have to be about death. It could be that you lose your job, you go bankrupt, your house burns down...I think you get the picture. For me tragedy is losing someone you love, even your rabbit becuase nothing is worse to me than having someone close to me die. Its goin to be the end of the world for me when my dog Zoey dies :( She is my baby and my best friend. She is a part of my family. So the teacher said we are suppose to all meet up in Casper, WY on August 23, 2017. Sorry Professor as much as I would love to meet up with you on that day, Iv got plans. Thats the day me and my hot hubby are goin to be soaking up the sun in Hawaii drinking pinacoladas on the beach, enjoying lunch. Im already gettin excited for that day! Hope you guys have fun tho!

I read Hamlet, act one. I felt like through the whole first act of this story there was alot of shocks. First the guardsmen see the ghost, then Hamlet finds out his dad, the king, is dead, then after that finds out his mom married the king's brother, his uncle. Gosh after hearing all that I would want to kill myself...i mean I wouldnt but poor Hamlet. Of coarse this is goin to be a tragedy because its a shakesphere play. I think his life must have been super depressing to write all these tragedies just like those people who create the most disgusting horror movies must be seriously messed up in the head. But anyway back on track....I never read Hamlet in highschool cause I went to a tiny tiny school and the english teacher didnt care about all 14 of me and my classmates, so its a different experience to read shakesphere. This Sunday at my grandparents house I was listening to my grandma and grandpa have a conversation. My grandma was wearing this striped pink shirt...she looked very pretty. And my grandpa said "wow are you gunna wear that shirt, you look like your goin to a damn circus". And I thought about the conversations and thoughts between a man and women. My grandma just said politly "yes i am, and I think it looks springy." That brought up a thought. Men and womens mind think differently, even when it comes to womens clothing!

oh lit class, what will I do?

So I was sad to get my exam back :( not so good. I studied real hard....but I have come to realize not only in this class but also in my other classes that I'm just a really bad test taker. How come all my sisters are super smart?!? Damn it, I just had to get my mom's school genes....Thanks mom! All I know is that many of you are proly thinking I'm lazy...your very wrong. I come to class, I take notes, I like to listen to the professer talk about lit and other stuff that makes me giggle. Its just the damn test taking....gets me every time. Oh well just got to think positive and try to ace the next one huh! I decided to write my paper on the lit topic, about what I have learned this semester and what difference it has made on my life. I have learned so much in this class that I feel like I could easily write about! I know what you are all thinking....Im very lazy and didnt finish the book. I finished most of it, but did I enjoy that extremely long book...NO! I found it very hard to read and boring, yes I said it...BORING. I may be a "boring person" but Im a boring person who is not goin to write a three page paper on a book that I didnt even enjoy reading! I need to make it up to the professer for my bad exam scores and write him a little something so that he knows how much I do actually enjoy this class!

I may be bad at test taking
but I do love this class, I'm not faking
This professor is quite funny
He was even sad when he heard about my bunny
He helps me enjoy all the lit
and I will continue to enjoy this last bit

Its not much but Im really tired amd need to get to bed! see you on Wednesday, CANT WAIT!

Brothers karamozov

Im now through book XI and I felt like this book has made the story much more interesting. For example, Katerina has a letter from Dmitri saying that he would kill his father to get her her 3000 rubles and Smerdyakov has just admitted to Ivan that he murdered Fyodor but then hangs himself. So really besides Ivan, they cant really prove that Smerdyakov did it becuase he is dead and everyone will think Ivan is making that up because Dmitri is his brother. I would say the brothers have caught themselves in quite the pickle. Alyosha once again is being a great brother and being there for Ivan when he needs him after seeing the devil. I'm hoping that the brothers convince the court that Dmitri is not guilty and they can live happily ever after....but I know that wont happen because these kind of books never end happily. So from this point on I hope it will be an ending that wont let me go to bed till I'm done reading because that means it will be an exciting ending!

Brothers

So this weekend i got half way through book XI. As of right now reading Book X and XI I feel like Alyosha is the hero because he is really counsiling people with hard times in their life and I feel like he becomes close to people when they need a friend or just have someone there to listen to them. Like in Book X when Alyosha talked to Koyla and doesnt speak to him as a child, he is actually concerned about him and wants Koyla to make the best out of his time left with his friend, llyusha. I think each chapter has some kind of religious meaning in it. Like in book X when it talks about how llyusha thinks his illness was caused by God's wrath over what he did to the dog, Zuchka. I just think thats cool how much the problem of religion comes up in this book cause I feel like that is something that happens to everyone in some point of their lives. Then in the first part of Book XI Alyosha becomes close to Grushenka and tries to solve the problem between her and Dmitri. I just feel like he is so good to everyone and thats something I admire that about him, the book kind of brings me closer to Alyosha and I begin to like him more and more each chapter.

Sarah and Norman

So in class on Friday we talked about being obsessed with pets and having a close bond with them. Someone mentioned that you cant have a close bond with a fish, that is very untrue. My sister sarah had a fish named norman. It was a beta fish that was bright blue with a little red in it. I lived with my sister last year in an apartment. I remember everytime she came home drunk, she would go straight to that fish bowl and talk to that fish for like an hour. She would tell him about her night and that he was the only good man in her life. She would watch tv in the mornings and have it at the table when she ate. That fish lived six years and when he died she went into a deep depression and couldnt even get a new fish. She still talks about Norman and when she comes home drunk talks about how no one was as good of listener as Norman. Then we also talked about a man and womans conversation. Ok so my mom and dad have the dumbest conversations ever or arguments. They seriously make me not want to get married. So this weekend they had a little quarrel about how much weight they have gained since they have been married. My dad claims he hasnt gained any weight and that my mom has gained way more than him. My mom claimed that dad always said he is goin to work out today and he never does. I was like gosh do you know how dumb you guys sound right now. silly parents!