It's the Final Blog

Looking at all my blog posts, I realize that I have changed so much from the beginning. When I first heard about the blogs, I couldn’t wait to dive right in. Over the past months, however, I lost interest and only did them because I had to. But enough about that, more about the blog itself. My feelings for it aside, I am very proud at how it turned out. My favorite part of the blog, however, was the building of it and the customization. I absolutely adored being able to put practically anything I wanted on my blog. Especially my “Give a man a match, he will be warm for a minute; set a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life.” quote. But as for the blog assignments, I could’ve done without those. So, what I guess I’m saying is, if I had a blog for personal needs, I would add a bunch of games and such to it, but never write in it. But, if I had to choose one blog post I am exceptionally proud of, it would be “My Unique Boo Radley” that I did at the beginning of the year. The reason this stands out to me was because one, it was one of the posts that I enjoyed doing, and two, it’s about one of my most favorite things in the world. And, my views on it haven’t changed a bit. I still strive to be a better musician and to add to my musical knowledge until the world runs out of knowledge to give me.

I never really considered all the blog assignments to be one big year-long assignment. I just saw a series of separate assignment done the same way. But that’s probably a side effect of not absolutely loving the whole blog idea as I did when it first started. As a result, I treated each post as a separate assignment, never referring back to past assignments unless prompted to do so.

And so comes the end of my blogging. I can’t say that I will miss it.

Memorable Stuff

As I look back at the trail I blazed through my first year in high school, I can't help but feel proud of myself. Although not all of it is good (see current Biology grade), most of it is. But, focusing on English, the most memorable assignment I have done is probably the Poetry Out Loud. It’s something I have never done before, and I worked really hard on it. I was also really surprised to get that 5^th place (even though everyone above me tied, so really an 8^th place). I think the one thing that would‘ve made it better was if I could’ve recited “The Cremation of Sam McGee”. Instead, I recited “The Charge of the Light Brigade”, which was an awesome second. It’s a long poem, so it took a while to memorize. I still even remember most of it today. All in all, if I remember one thing from English this year, it’ll be the Poetry Out Loud recitation contest.

Poetry Stuff

My experiences with poetry have been few and far between, limited to once-a-year units in various English classes. But just from that, I know what poetry is, I can usually tell a deeper meaning to them, and even have two favorite types of poetry, one for reading (limericks) and one for writing (concrete poems). Oddly enough, though, my favorite poem of all time is neither a limerick or a concrete poem. It is “The Cremation of Sam McGee” by Robert W. Service. I don’t really know why I love this poem, I just do. I first read it in 8^th grade English and have never forgotten it.

Nowadays, I’m kind of partial to poetry. I neither love it nor hate it. Because of the English level I’m at, I don’t expect to be reading many limericks or concrete poems for school, but that doesn’t stop me from enjoying them when I get the chance.
Now here is a random concrete poem I just did.                   
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               headhead
                   neck                       hand
                   neck                       hand
    armbodybodybodyarm        arm
   arm bodybodybody  arm    arm
  arm  bodybodybody    armarm
arm    bodybodybody       arm
arm    bodybodybody
arm    bodybodybody
hand   legleg      legleg
hand   legleg      legleg
           legleg      legleg
           legleg      legleg
           legleg      legleg
           legleg      legleg
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