When we were told we had to do a blog about 'thanks,' I thought I would do the typical, 'I'm thankful for my friends and family' and stuff like that. When it was specified that we had to do it about a person in the class, I imediately knew who I was going to do!
PHEOBE of course!!! When I found out that we were going to be in a class together I was so happy! We are always amazing group work partners (and I can't forget Bebe). She is so funny, amazing, cool, awesome, gorgeous, and helpful. Whenever I forget to do something or don't understand anything she is right there either helping me do it or confused alongside me!
We have done 2 amazingly beautiful shows at Company and I can't wait to do my remaining one's alongside Pheobe! Even though we are on different crews (props is better) We still love each other and I'm so happy she is my 7/24ths sister in Company (or something like that :) ).
I couldn't survive without her and I can't wait to spend the rest of the year in English with her and the rest of my high school career with her in Company!!
Monday, November 25, 2013
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
I celebrate myself
I was told that this blog was supposed to be about something I value, and I had to connect it to some of Thoreau's, Emerson's, and Whitman's ideas. One thing I value that is in common with their ideas is Nature. Not to the extent of writing multiple poems and essays about it, but I do value it quite a lot.
One reason I value nature so much is because of a trip I went on about a year ago. It was a FIVE week 'roughing it' camping trip around the Pacific North West, in the USA and Canada. We could only pack the bare essentials, because they went through our bags and we had to much they took stuff away from us. We had to make all our own meals, pitch our own tents, and basically survive in multiple difficult types of weather. As an added bonus, we only showered about 5 times on our whole trip.
I compare this trip to the adventure Chris took in Into the Wild. We both were living with what we had in nature, and learn to appreciate it so much more than we did before. I can't begin to explain how much more I appreciate the "simple beauty and freedom of nature" after this trip. You can never truly be grateful for nature and all it has to offer you until you have to depend on it.
I can also compare this to some of the ideas Whitman had. In Whitman's poem, 'Song of Myself,' he talks about the grass and how every blade is different and individual. I don't believe you can truly grasp this concept until you live it, like how I watched miles and miles of beautiful mountains in the badlands go by but I couldn't take my eyes off of them because they were all so different and beautiful.
I don't think you can feel the way Chris, I mean Alex Supertramp, or how Whitman did in Nature, without experiencing something similar to what they did, where your life depends on nature. I believe this is why I value nature as much as I do.
One reason I value nature so much is because of a trip I went on about a year ago. It was a FIVE week 'roughing it' camping trip around the Pacific North West, in the USA and Canada. We could only pack the bare essentials, because they went through our bags and we had to much they took stuff away from us. We had to make all our own meals, pitch our own tents, and basically survive in multiple difficult types of weather. As an added bonus, we only showered about 5 times on our whole trip.
I compare this trip to the adventure Chris took in Into the Wild. We both were living with what we had in nature, and learn to appreciate it so much more than we did before. I can't begin to explain how much more I appreciate the "simple beauty and freedom of nature" after this trip. You can never truly be grateful for nature and all it has to offer you until you have to depend on it.
I can also compare this to some of the ideas Whitman had. In Whitman's poem, 'Song of Myself,' he talks about the grass and how every blade is different and individual. I don't believe you can truly grasp this concept until you live it, like how I watched miles and miles of beautiful mountains in the badlands go by but I couldn't take my eyes off of them because they were all so different and beautiful.
I don't think you can feel the way Chris, I mean Alex Supertramp, or how Whitman did in Nature, without experiencing something similar to what they did, where your life depends on nature. I believe this is why I value nature as much as I do.
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