Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Pursuit of Happiness

Happiness to me is a tpye of pleasure and satisfaction. when you are feeling joy or satisfied with something then you are happy. I most happy when iam celebrating EID, wedo all this get togethers with everyone from my family and all my relatives. we celebrate and have fun after, its really great. I get to see all my cousins who i don't see everyday, its awesome.
My mom is mostly where my source of happiness comes from. she is very understanding and really cares about me and my siblings, she givesme alot off lee way, she doesn't lose her temper often and she always treats me like a grown up even when i was a kid. me and my mom always understand each other and i like her alot. I impact happiness in my friends and my parents. my parents because they tell me a good kid, calm, mellow not short tempered or anything. my friends because i understand them and iam a very good listener. I think family is the greatest need in life, they support you and they are always 100% behind you no matter what you do. I know some people take that for granted but others don't even have families or anyone but themselves in the world.

Thursday, November 1, 2007

assignment #8

I would like to use some of the poems I wrote and find some images or photos that go with it. The images or photos will correspond with the poem and that can create a photstory and then I could add music that will make it more appealing to the audience. Or one of the two short stories and collect some photos that go with it and maybe photos of real characters.

Totally new stuff like : a jungle, school, senior year, family, life back in Africa, new poems, a different short story.....

assignment #7

I enjoyed this quarter alot. I learned that you can be creative even if you don't mean to. the daily prompts were awesome, at first I didn't like it but then I came to enjoy them. the poetry was phenomenal and the short stories were the best.

The best thing about this quarter was writing poetry. I used to think that writing poetry was simple. You just rhyme a few words together and wala! you have a poem. But boy was I dead wrong. I learned that there was more to poetry than rhyming words. At first when Mrs. B. said we will be writing poems for a few weeks I will admitt I wasn't happy about it, but then I learned that writing poetry was actually fun. I found out that the words I used in the poems I wrote actually come from the heart and they were pretty good. I suprised myself.

I learned that I really enjoy writing alot although I knew that its just that I never tried to put it to test. I was writing a book over the summer ans still workung on it. After i learned about dialogue and how to use it in a story I made a few changes to the story I was writing. I think I'm self-driven.

I like suspense-romance genre. Either in non-fiction or fiction it doesn't really matter so I would really like to explore that area.