NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND

**** none of this blog post should be taken seriously, the following comments reflect the thoughts of a hormonal teenager, please excuse the following****

This activity based on the Handmaids tale immediately appealed to me as the door read "Loud activity." Once explained the game  that resembled my favorite game mafia, I was extremely excited to play. Unfortunately due to not being the most popular with my class mates I was killed the first partition round... So I'm extremely unsure what to write about. I was told I could write about
-Alliances
-Rules of the game
- a reflection of the game
- comparison of the game and the themes
but I'm not.
 Granted I am taking the change of not receiving credit for this blog but I'm JUST "DGAF, SKA, $pring Break"  enough to post a risky blog post.
So here is the truth about this game. This game was well thought out and just complicated enough that I'm not exactly sure how it worked. I was kicked out just soon enough that I never learned how it worked. I can say with all confidence that it was very amusing to kill me, and the class would agree. River, the initial instigator of my demise, later told me I was persecuted for sheer amusement. I respect this. Killing people for a grade in English sounds like a blast... but not at the expense of another persons grade. This is where I become.... spiteful. WHY ME?! Okay its really not that big of a deal, but initially you feel that burn, the pain, the automatic hatred for the peers that ripped your project grade away from you. So I move for reform! REFORM OF THE HANDMAID GAME SO THAT NO CHILD IS LEFT BEHIND, as I was.
I WARN others, this game is violent, unpredictable, and cruel. I hear in another class that Gabby was slapped repeatedly for misconduct! Not to mention by the end of the day over 20 seniors had been persecuted! Although the game is advertised as "good educational fun" it is clear that the game is more destructive than productive. It is my regret to inform future children of this English class that unless something changes you too will be persecuted.

Capture as I go

This is an essay I just finished for a "super power" scholarship.

Imagine the microscopic bugs crawling through grass, water colored pastel skies, the dew drops on petals in the morning. The Earth is a beautiful place full of creations that astonishes the human mind. Unfortunately we are unable to keep these images and moments forever.  We admire the beautiful world around us and the creatures that thrive by capturing precious moments with our camera, often in hopes to keep the beautiful moments for our generation and many to come.  If I were to choose a superpower it would be more of ability. I would replace my eyes with cameras. Every precious moment, microscopic image would be captured with my telephoto and macro focused eyes.

I often find myself seeing images in my everyday routine that I would like to keep and cherish as part of my day. This is the reason I keep my camera on me but even being well skilled in photography does not capture exactly what I am seeing.  With my eyes being cameras I could capture exactly what I see down to the exposure, aperture, and angel.  I would begin every morning by capturing a picture of the moon still sitting alongside the rising sun. As I continued my day through the halls of an arts school I would capture an array of images from dancers flowing together in rhythm, artists painting with thick acrylics, to the musicians plucking away at vibrating strings. In the afternoon, the fuchsia sky on fire with the sunset of everyday would no longer appear as a washed out cheesy image. 

This ability to capture exactly what I see would be revolutionary in the way I remember things. No longer would memories be susceptible to the minds manipulation but would be archived in the thousands of photos my mind put away. I could capture moment’s creativity such as an artist doodling in their sketchbook. I could capture the precious moment as a baby bird hatches from its speckled egg.  I could keep the moments of true love as family members greet loved ones at the airport. All of the moments we often take for granted would be captured in their perfection to be remembered later.

With my superpower I would hope to show others the beauty in the world. Often Society has us moving so fast that we do not appreciate or understand where we wake up every day. If I could share all the wonderful images I see then hopefully those around me could appreciate the Earth and community around them. Once someone experiences true spontaneity in creativity or the birth of a living creature, how can they not love the world that surrounds them?  If all societies on Earth could agree on the need to stop and appreciate world’s beauty we could great a loving society.

Slithery Lamb

Lamb Serpent

After much deliberation and English class i found that  i am a lamb serpent. First and foremost the image that comes to mind for a "lamb serpent" is far from how I would like to envision myself. I searched the web for a "lamb serpent" a "slithery lamb," "snake lamb," and hybrid snake lamb." Not much to my surprise this is what it came up with.

So not exactly what I was going for... I feel as if this image is symbolizing Adam and Eve.... so disregard the over all meaning of the image.  But it is as close to as a "lamb serpent, slithery lamb, snake lamb, hybrid snake lamb" we can get.
 I never personally saw myself as a lamb, due to my less than shy personality; or a serpent, due to my overall care for other people. Lets make some sense of this diagnosis.
LAMB: I am less likely to kill, or harm another human. I am too much of a coward to ever hurt another human. Other than being a coward I question what right I have to hurt another person. In class the situation was brought up "well what if they killed someone" or "what if they were coming after you?" Honestly I still would not be able to hurt another human, or animal for that matter. As other kids in class obviously disagreed I could only come to one conclusion, I feel this way due to life experiences. In no way would I ever want blood on my hands, I simply see human life as too precious. This includes the man on death row, or the angry person coming after me. I am only a human just like everyone else, I am simply equal. I have no authority, power, or the guts to take the life from someone, and I often feel if that meant giving my life, I would. It seems very dramatic, yes. But growing up I have watched my parents give everything to people they love, and as I become older I begin to understand. I understand that one day i might give my everything to someone else whether that be my husband, child, or someone i don't know, I believe that is how humans should treat each other. Feel free to disagree.

SERPENT: This is a tricky one. I am more likely to lie. Although I despise lying and believe it is horrible I also know it is sometimes very necessary. I would never lie to harm another person. I would never lie simply for my benefit and computability. I'd like to be able to say I only lie when it is better for a situation. Example, growing up my father was, and still is, very sick. My little sister never understood why she couldn't see dad some weekends, or rough house with him like she used to. We would tell her dad was just tired and needed to sleep.Explaining to a 6 year old that your father is slowly deteriorating from multiple sclerosis is not a good idea. That is an extreme example but perfectly fit. Lies are just necessary and those who say they don't lie.... are simply lying. We ALL lie. regularly and often they are so minuscule and insignificant that we forgot we ever lied. I own up to this, after all I am a teenager. So when being a liar or a "serpent" there is a very fine line between being normal and being a bad person. When confronted about lying, own up to it! I believe that is the fine line.


As whole I found this English exercise to be very interesting, but also showed how I think many of us still are learning who we are. We all feel like adults but I think the truth is im only 18 and im still figuring out what I would and wouldn't do. All of this could change as I will in the  years to come. But for now I am a Serpent Lamb.