Time for the Rea World

Hey guys so I know this is our last post of the year. I want to say that it was a great year and I have had an amazing time. I will take this experience and class with me into the future and will always remember the lunch club. First we started off as a bunch of kids all sitting in a circle not knowing each other so well and then over time we got to know one another and find out little quirks about each other. I found out that all of us love slam poetry and all of us love to debate no matter what topic it may be. I will miss this class when I go off to college and hope that anyone else who considers taking creative writing does it because this is a class that will open up your eyes to the world and is able to educate someone in the poetry and politics of the world. I know whenever I came home I would rant to my family about how much I loved the class or what we talked about that day. This was not some pointless class that I would dread going to class but would be excited and never want to leave this class/ There is nothing that I would want to change about the class because it is already perfect. We were able to establish all the bases that could help us out in the future. Something else I loved also was how we were able to watch movies in class and then able to write movie reviews. Now if I ever become a big time movie critic I will be able to thank Mrs. Patterson and her creative writing class. That way everyone will want to go to NDA and then want to take the creative writing class so it can bring them fame and riches.m I am just saying you never know where high school is going to take you. I know I have  inspired my sister to take the class next year and know she is going to love it and excel with her writing skills. Another positive that has come from this class is that I have inspired people in writing poetry when before I was never really big of a poetry fan myself. Now that this class has come to an end I want to say it really has been an honor and privilege to be able to take this class and hope that in college I will have as much as a positive experience as I have received in  high school. I also want to put out there that anyone who wants to come out and visit me over at SNHU you better come and I will be waiting for these RSVPS to come and see me. I am sad to be leaving you guys but I am also excited to be able to start off a new chapter in my life!!! Well I want to say thank you for all of you who have made me laugh, smile and have a great time. Bye guys!

College Life

Now that it is finally May it is beginning to hit me that at the end of this month I will no longer be a high school student and will be graduated and be an alumni of the NDA. Now that I sit down and think about it I get a little bit scared and worry about how I am going to survive in college. With yesterday being the last day of uniforms it also dawned on me that for the past 13 years of my life I never had to worry about what I wear of how I look. Now I am going to have to go out and buy clothes and worry about my hair and what other people think about how I look. Something I might be prepared for but at the same time am not sure how I am going to do it. Another difference I am going to have to adjust with is the boys. I know it won't be a big deal but it is something that I worry about because who wouldn't. We've been to an all girls high school for four years of our life and now in our classes we are going to have guys sitting next to us even. That's not what I'm really concerned about, but what really gets to me is how I am going to be able to survive on my own. For the past 18 years I have lived with my parents and for 13 years of my life I've shared a room with my sister. She has been my roommate for so  long I'm afraid I am going to end up with a psycho roommate who does not get me at all and it is going to be a nightmare. These are all the little things I am scared about and for good reasons. This is a new territory I am entering and I need to enter with caution. At the beginning of high school teachers would ask me what I wanted to do when I get older and I would say some random things not really knowing what I wanted to do with myself, but now I finally do. I have transitioned from a CSI investigator, to a lawyer, to a forensic scientist, to wanting to go into business law. Who even knows maybe that is going to change for me too because change is inevitable. Change is the way of life and how we adapt to the world. Even though I am scared I am happy at the same time because this is my opportunity to go out into the world and meet new people. I can show them how great of a person I am and have n baggage of my past haunting me. It is almost like a new slate that I get and I am going to seize that opportunity without any hesitation. SNHU is going to be my new home for the next four years of my life and I am going to have to make it the best damn time of my life because I am never going to get that moment back when I first start college. It will be a day to remember and many memories to make along the way. As I leave my friends and family behind, I am not really leaving them but learning to make it out there in the real world because one day I am going to have to do it for real. Just go out there and be who you want to be and strive for the best you can do!

The Death of McDreamy

So this past week on Thursday night at 9 p.m. there was the tragic death of Derek Shepard. Going into this episode I had this feeling that something bad might happen in the episode, but I still cannot get over that Derek died!!! How could Shonda do that to us. All of us Grey fans have been watching this show for over 11 years. 11 years of our lives maybe even more that has just been ripped away from us. When I first started the show I began because I wanted to see the blooming romance between Meredith and Derek. Not only is this the only death that pushed me off of the edge but Shonda and her crew have managed to kill off George. George O'Malley was killed off early in the show. He was sweet old George who always wanted to do people right by any way. It just is not fair to us because we had spent so much time on keeping up on the lives of all the characters. The thing that with every death of each character there was a build up before they were killed off. There lives were all set and their families knew that there was a chance that they were going to die and prepared themselves for the worst of it. With Derek Meredith had no idea that he was going to die. All of a sudden Derek was in the hospital and then he was dead. It was a hospital mistake because they never gave him a head CT. How could they not give him one. Even I knew that Derek would need one and I am not even a doctor!!! Derek was helping people and now I can never get over this!! If they have a season 12 no one is going to watch because we were all betrayed by Shonda!

RESCUE ANIMALS!

Hello everyone,
I want to welcome you back to The Daily Struggle. I know how hard it must have been to go a week without seeing one of my posts. Well do not worry because I got a good one for you this lovely Friday. I know most of you have  probably heard about how my family and I adopted a dog a few days ago. We have finally named her and her name is Piper. She is the cutest thing ever! The reason I am blogging about Piper today is because I want to bring awareness to the problem with dogs in the south. It is terrible. Down there people do not know how to handle taking care of pets. The only solution they are able to come up with is that they can either put them into a kill shelter or abandon them on the streets. Both of these solutions are terrible.  How can any person do this to a loving animal who doesn't know any better about what's going on. They cannot help that there are too many of them because they are harmless creatures. Well first my family and I wanted to make sure we were going to rescue an animal. We went to a bunch of different shelters and looked at all the dogs they had and were not able to find any that would be able to fit in with our family. Then when we did find a dog we wanted to take in the shelter told us that the dog needed to go home with another dog and that was not going to be possible for us. So my sister and I came home that day disappointed we were not able to find any dog to take in. We decided that we could fill out applications online for different rescue organizations. We didn't hear back from some of them but then I received an email from a rescue organization. I had put down that we wanted to adopt one of the puppies by the name of Rascal Flatts, but the e-mail said that he was already adopted. Though his sister was still up for adoption. My family and I wanted a boy dog, but after calling the rescue woman and hearing about Piper's story we had to save her. The lady told us that she was rescued by a woman, Gay, who found Piper and her brothers at some man's house where Piper and her brothers were all being kept fenced up. Then she saw the mother of the puppies tied up to a tree and the man told her that she was only used for breeding. I could not believe I was hearing this. Gay then left after seeing this horrific scene and then said that she could not leave those helpless puppies there. Gay then went back and the man willingly  gave Gay the puppies, but would not give her the mom. This was new for Gay because she had been running a rescue shelter from her home for twenty years now and mostly took in older dogs, but she had to save Piper and her brothers. Not only was the mother tied up to a tree Gay also saw that one of the puppies was lying down and she asked the man if he was sick. The man responded saying he didn't know what was wrong with him and that he hadn't moved for the past couple days.It turned out that the puppy was dead because the man gave him too much heart worm medicine. My heart was broken. How could anyone ever do such cruel acts. Now we have rescued Piper and for now she is staying at Gays house over in Mississippi. We are going to get her May 4 over in Worcester. I cannot explain how excited I am to get her and we are going to shower her with love!!!

The Breakup of One Direction

Well, I can assume most of you have heard about the tragedy of Zayn leaving One Direction. This may be some upsetting news to some of you, but lets face reality he is gone and yes we are all sad because of this. Well I know I am heartbroken because of it. How could he do this to all of us. He was the one in the group who was able to hit all of the high notes and brought the group together. HE MADE ONE DIRECTION! Sorry I can get a little bit emotional over this. This is a very touchy subject for me to talk about and I know for most of you as well. Being able to say this out loud is a big step for me because I am acknowledging that it really happened and he will not be there to comfort us with his melodic singing. Some rumors are going around that he is joining up with Rhianna so they can begin their own band and then there are other rumors that he going to start his solo career. Though most people are saying that he just want to take a break from all of the lime light being on him and to just be able to settle down with his fiance. How dare he start a family with her. Well I guess I cannot say anything bad about that because I have never been engaged before. I remember the day when the news broke out. I was sitting in my kitchen minding my own business when my sisters come running into the kitchen. She looked distressed and then told me the terrible news. Now they were going opposite directions and nothing could fix that. They performed for the first time without Zayn on Sunday over in South Africa. News reporters said that Niall and Louis have taken the parts of the songs that were Zayn's solo and made a way to make it work. Even Zayn's face has been taken off of the print ads and pictures for One Direction's upcoming tour. Even the celebrities are going off about Zayn leaving. This is just a tragedy overall!!!!! Now I advise all of you out there hurting to take some time to heal over but I don't want you to be one of those fans that goes and cries to themselves in the corner because he left but realize he is gone and there is no more Zayn.

People Eating your Food

Many people struggle with this at home, at work or even with your roommate at college. People eating your food! This is not something I am happy about or quite enjoy and I can't imagine anyone else taking a liking to the idea of people eating the food that they bought. I decided that today I could give you guys some tips on how to deal with these types of people and how to handle them so they will finally come to a stop. The reason I am so passionate about this is because one day at work I had taken a couple bites of a doughnut at work and left it in the back to eat later. Really who would want to eat a doughnut that already had bite marks in it. Well I was wrong because I went in the back to eat the rest of my doughnut and guess what, it wasn't there anymore. My co-worker told me she was so glad someone had already eaten half a doughnut because she couldn't eat a whole one by herself. Not going to lie it made me a little bit mad that she at my food because I do like to eat and not be hungry at work. Trust me no one wants to see me angry and hungry because it is not a combo that is pleasant. Some ways to deal with them is to leave note son your food saying that it is yours and for them not to touch it and sometimes you may leave a little bit of a more strongly worded note to warn them of what could happen if they did eat your food again. Another tactic to use is to ask questions out loud of, "Has anyone seen my yogurt or you could say I wonder where all those granola bars I bought went?" This way they will feel uncomfortable and not want to do it again. These are some useful tactics to use in college because you never know if your roommate is going to eat your food and feel that there are no boundaries because there are boundaries they should not cross. Now go out there and protect your food from all those predators ready to steal it from you!

Hair Dying Gone Wrong

 

 

As you all know I am a natural blonde. Now that I look bad I loved my hair and have no idea why I decided to dye it in the first place. I guess you can say I wanted to try a new look and try something new. All my friends and parents told me not to do it, but of course I did it anyways because I wanted to and partly because they told me not to. First I dyed it a light brown and then I went a little bit darker. Then I did black because why not I wanted really dark hair, but that is where I went wrong. After I dyed my hair black every time I took a shower some of the black color would wash out leaving me with streaks in my hair that did not look rather attractive. I was beginning to become unhappy with my decision but ignored the issue until my mom texted a family friend telling them what happened. Our family friend is a hair dresser and she said to just come over and she would help fix it up. What the heck why not. I went over there not knowing what she was going to do with my hair. I had the impression she was just going to take some of the color out but she told me she was going to have to strip it because I dyed it black. So I let her do her thing with my hair and first she put in the shampoo to strip my hair and not going to lie it did burn a little but I got over the feeling. After leaving it in for a while she rinsed it out and said she had to go grab some toner. When she left I could wait to see where we were out and see my new hair. I picked up the mirror and there I was with ORANGE hair!I could not believe what happened and regretted even coming here. She came back and I tried to compose myself so it didn't look like I was freaking out on the inside. She said to me don;t worry your hair is just a little bit orange so we're going to put in a toner.

I was relieved It wasn't going to stay like this because I did have work the next day. She then put in the toner and it burned a lot but I wasn't going to tell her that so I trudged through the burning sensation in my scalp. It only had to stay in for about seven minutes and then she was able to take it out. After she was all done she said come on the the bathroom to take a look. I was afraid to even get up. I did not want to see what I could possibly look like now. I went over into the bathroom with the bright lights lighting up the room and then I stepped in front of the mirror and had to hide my face of, What the hell did you just do to me. Instead of saying that I said I loved it. I looked albino. My roots were white, some parts were golden and the rest was oranegey white. It was a mess. Now to all of you who want to go and dye your hair or change your look think twice about doing it because 90% you'll regret your decision like I did. Just be you and don't change yourself.