Blogging Experience

As this class began and I found out how we were going to have to be blogging each week, I thought it was going to be the worst thing ever. After the first two blogs, I began to realize this isn’t so bad to do and then as more time went on I actually kind of started to enjoy writing these blogs. I like how they made me start to write which is something I don’t really like to do.The topics of the blogs weren’t bad to write about which actually made it easier to do by having them easy topics to relate to or because they were always about us. If I had to do these blogging post again, I would not change much but one topic I really didn’t like was the about love. It just really stumped me and I didn’t think it was that interesting, like most of the other topics. I like more of the topics where you could reflect more about them and have them relate to our lives. Even though love is related to our lives I just didn’t find it an interesting topic. Blogging overall was not bad like I had pictured in the beginning of the semester and I believe you should keep doing it with your classes in the future. I want to say I will keep blogging but I know in reality I will not keep up with it but maybe I can motivate myself to do it because I did enjoy doing the blog posts.

This semester at UD

As summer comes closer and closer, freshman year is coming to end. It is a little scary how fast it blew by and my first year of college is already almost done with. I would have to say my greatest achievement this semester was just me making it through the school year and it already almost being done. This semester was sort of on the rougher side for me, I was more homesick than last semester so I would go home a lot on the weekends but I knew it wasn’t the best to always go home and I would try to just stick it out here. At the same time I had a lot of family events that I would have to go home for so that help me not feel so bad that I was leaving so much. Knowing that there is about not even two weeks left of the school year is making me have mixed emotions. One emotion is like yes school is almost done I can go home and another is sad about freshman year being done with and how fast it blew by. Another achievement this semester for me was that I had finally picked a major I wanted to go into and study. I have decided to go into the business school and study marketing. I am not in the business school yet because I had to take a math class this semester but just the comfort of finally picking a major that I wanted to go into is the achievement I have had this semester.

Summer Plans

This summer I plan on babysitting a lot to make my money for the summer. I already have three families that need me to help them this summer. I love babysitting, it is fun to do and at the same time easy and keeps me very occupied while doing it. Within the first month of getting home from school my family is moving. Moving is going to be a lot when we all have so much stuff and there are nine of us who are moving out of one house into the next. I am really excited about moving this summer, to a new city and new house which should bring a lot of new memories in this house. This summer I will also be hanging out with my friends, laying out, and going to California. I am so excited to see all my friends and being with them all summer, being at school has really made me miss all of them. Laying out by the pool is something I really enjoy doing in the summer and getting tan. Then I will also be going to California in July for my aunts surprise 60 birthday party. I am so excited to go and hang out with all my cousins. I am also very happy to see my family who lives out in California, I have not seen them in over a year. But this summer I will see them twice, they are coming to Cleveland in August for my dads 50th birthday party. This summer should be a lot of fun and I am looking forward to being home with my family.

Chance the Rapper Concert

Over this past summer all of my friends went to see Chance the Rapper at this place we have around our hometown called Blossom. Blossom is an outdoors concert place which usually has a lot of country artists preforming there. We all had an amazing time and was one last hooray before leaving for college. Going to the concert we took a huge party bus, which there was like 35 of us on it. Right when we got there it started drizzling and then when the concert started it was pouring but we all just stayed because we didn’t want to miss him perform. All of our tickets were not under the pavilion so we were soaking wet in the lawn with so much mud. On the way home everybody was soaking wet and just wanted to get home but overall we had such a great time all together and the concert was really good. This concert has had such an impact in my life because I was with all my high school friends who I am not with today. Whenever I hear Chance today I just think back to the memories I had with all my friends and my high school memories. I never really thought that concert would have such an effect on my life but just hearing his music I think of all my best friends who are at different schools. As this semester of school is coming to end and summer is all most here I am getting happy to be with all them at home for the summer.

Discourse Community or Speech Community

The group that I am going to talk about that I am an active member of is my friend group. Now I am going to test to see if my friend could be considered a discourse community. I am going to test the six things that make a discourse community. If one of them are not true to the six rules then the group will not be a discourse community and it will be considered a speech community. Number one is about having public goals, I would say my friend group does not have a public goal. The only goal I would consider one to be is just the goal of being a good friend to each other. Number two is is intercommunication among other and this is definitely a yes we all communicate very well together and express our feelings to one another. The third is about information to the group and giving feedback, this one is a yes because we all give our input and feedback to each other. The fifth one is having slang words that people outside of the group don’t know what they are. My friend group does not have slang words that we use and others don’t know about it. Lastly is the sixth rule which is you have to do something to get in the group and this a huge no because our friend group is more than welcoming to everybody. My friend group would not be considered a discourse community but it would rather be a speech community.

My Past Weekend

This past weekend I had a lot of fun, from going to Columbus to going to Red Wings game to going to my guy friends school State Championship hockey game. My whole weekend started with driving to Columbus, while I was in Columbus I stayed at my sister who goes to Ohio State. That night, Friday, my boyfriend and I went to the Red Wings vs. the Blue Jackets game. We had a lot of fun but the Red Wings did not have there best game and lost. The next morning my guy friends made everybody breakfast and then we went to the State Championship game. This game was St. Ignatius High School (Cleveland) vs. St. Francis of Toledo, this was a very big game for us aka St. Ignatius. For the past two years they were back to back state champions for hockey so if they win this one they are three back to back winners. The year before all my guy friends played in and won their senior years. This year the states game went in double overtime and with in a two minutes of the second overtime one of the sophomores on the team scored and we won the game. All the guys in my grade were so excited because that made St. Ignatius win three state championships in a row. This past weekend was a hockey filled weekend and I loved every second of it. My favorite sport to watch is hockey, it is so intense and fun to watch.

My Greatest Impact

The person that has had the greatest impact on me and getting to me where I am today is my mom. My mom is always there for me no matter what. She has been a role model to me my whole life and I am always looking up to her. I always just want to be like her because she is such a great person who is always worrying about others instead of herself to make them happy. I think she has impacted me the most by her always telling me to do the right things in life and always making me a better person. While growing up my mom was always my biggest supporter, she always wants the best for me. Seeing my mom be such a good person, it has influenced me to be just like her. The way she raised me has made me the person I am today and how I am as a person. I’m so grateful for her and the way she is always there for me in every situation I am in, my mom is my best friend. She is always loving me through anything that happens in my life which has helped me because of how big of a supporter she is to me. My mom has challenged me to be the best person and always is stressing about how to be the most caring and loving person. She has truly impacted my life and turned me in the person I am today.

Passion of mine

Every since I was little I grew up with my older sisters playing lacrosse, I was always watching them play. My whole life growing up I just wanted to be like my sister, I wanted to do everything they did and be just like them. When I was in about fourth grade I finally started playing lacrosse on the city I lived on Middle school team. I played on this team till I was in eighth grade and I loved every minute of it. Then I was about to start high school and that is where my sisters went to school and one of them were a senior when I was a freshman. She was on the varsity team and I wanted to play lacrosse with her so badly but I made JV. Although I made JV and she was on varsity we still practice and would scrimmage each others teams so it was almost like I was playing with her. Then the following year I became caption of the JV team with two of my best friends on the team Eva and Libby. We had such a fun time being captions of the team and we were so excited when we got picked because we really wanted to be the captions together. Then the next two years after that I was on varsity. Our teams were so close and all such good friends. It was the best experience of all of us being such good teammates. After senior year when I was going to college I was scared to play in college because I didn’t want it to take to much time up and I needed to keep up on my school work. As of right I miss playing so much and I may want to try out next school year on the club team here at Dayton. Lacrosse was a passion of mine throughout my life.

College Experience

My experience at University of Dayton has been something that I did not expect. As I was leaving for college I never thought it would be as hard of an adjustment as it has been. My first semester here was very challenging, it was very hard to be away from home for long periods of time. I found myself going home a lot more than expected. My roommate felt the same way I did, so we would often encourage each other to go home as if it was not a big deal. As I returned home for Christmas break, catching up with all my high school friends i realized I was not living the true college experience. I knew that if i forced myself to stay on campus I would grow to love it here. I made it my New Year’s resolution to stay on campus for four consecutive weeks. This weekend was my fourth weekend in a row here and I could not be happier. I have made so many new friends and had so much fun. It is also much easier to focus on school which is a main priority in my life. I have noticed a change in my grades as well as my social life and I truly believe it has changed me for the better. Dayton has been so much fun and I could not imagine how my life would be if I had chosen a different school. I am a strong believer in everything happening for a reason, this transition to college as made me stronger as a person.

What is Love.

I believe love is the affection one has for something that means the most to oneself. Love is the feeling you get when you encounter somebody you have a strong relationship with. It is something or somebody that has a large impact on your life. It is the attachment you have with somebody, the obsessive thinking of the person. I believe love does not have to be with a boy you are in love with, it can be with your family or friends. It is something that makes you happy and feel the same back when you are with them. Two examples of love I will talk about is with my mom and then my boyfriend. The love with my mom is the strongest because she is my best friend. Love with her is because of the close net relationship we have with each other. The impact she has had in my life, with being my mom and doing more than anything for me is the love that we share together. It is unconditional love that my mom and I have together and it is because we have the best relationship with love filling our hearts. On the other hand the love with my mom is different than the love that I share with my boyfriend. The love I share with my boyfriend is the romantic love. The butterflies in your stomach type of feeling you get when seeing the person who you like. It the love when you are attracted to the person. There are many different types of ways you can experience love.