Reviewing..

Today, I read several different reviews that were assigned for English. The Harry Potter review was okay. It seems like a movie will be easy to write about. You can watch and experience movies over and over, to make sure that you are writing everything right. I may actually blog about a movie. I am not sure yet.

Another review that I read was the one about the restaurant. I liked the example a lot, and it was helpful in case I want to write about a restaurant. You can review different things like: food and tastes, appearance of food, restaurant, and the servers, and if the service was bad or not. The only thing about reviewing service is that it may be different each time because I have gone to a favorite restaurant many different times, and the service has been great, but there have also been the slight few times that it could be terrible. I think it mostly depends on the server and whether or not he or she is busy. A good thing to blog about is the appearance because that is sometimes even more important than the food itself. Many people judge food based on how it looks or just where it came from in the restaurant. If the food looks gross then someone may not like it even if it tastes good because many people "taste with their eyes." I think that the only thing that may be hard about reviewing a restaurant is to not make it a summary, and I feel that I could not make the review very long.

The review for Dawson's Creek was interesting. I had never seen that show before, even though I actually wanted to as a little kid, but I kind of know the gist of it now. The writer wrote about the controversies and the main plot of the show. I feel like it would be hard to review a TV show because there are so many different episodes. Some may be good, and others may not be so good. I probably will not do that one. I do not really watch much TV either. I did like the review though. It was pretty helpful, in case i want to review some TV show.

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So last week, my sorority participated with the FIJI fraternity in homecoming events for the Haunted Homecoming. On Tuesday, we had skit night. We actually won third place, and we kind of threw the skit together in about 5 minutes before the event. I thought it was funny though. On day two of the homecoming events, we had the ghoulish games. I think we got second place in that. They were cool. The haunted house and fear factor eating took place on Thursday. I don't see how some people actually ate some of those nasty foods. A few people did throw up though, and were disqualified. I visited our haunted house and it was pretty creepy. I liked it, even though I was scared a few times... On Fridant from my high school experience.

Haunted Homecoming

So last week, my sorority participated with the FIJI fraternity in homecoming events for the Haunted Homecoming. On Tuesday, we had skit night. We actually won third place, and we kind of threw the skit together in about 5 minutes before the event. I thought it was funny though. On day two of the homecoming events, we had the ghoulish games. I think we got second place in that. They were cool. The haunted house and fear factor eating took place on Thursday. I don't see how some people actually ate some of those nasty foods. A few people did throw up though, and were disqualified. I visited our haunted house and it was pretty creepy. I liked it, even though I was scared a few times... On Friday, we had our pep rally. It was really cool. All of the groups did really good. Most of them were zombie/Halloween themed. ADPi and FIJI won! On Saturday, we had our Homecoming game against TSU. I was glad because we won. Kristen, the girl that we chose as our homecoming attendant got second place, so that was pretty good. Her boyfriend actually won king. Before the game, we had the homecoming parade. We worked very hard on our float the weeks before, so I was excited. The only bad thing was the fact that it rained a little on and off and that it was very cold. The new girls in ADPi rode on the back of the float and cheered the whole way. It was exciting. When we passed the judges, we had to ride back to Hobby Lobby where the parade began. It was the coldest ride ever. We were all on the back of the trailer in the freezing cold going about 40 miles an hour. I thought that it would never end. I actually almost fell off a few times. The overall experience was pretty fun though. After that, we had to hurry back, change into nice clothes, and go to our alumni brunch at a cute cafe. It was cool to meet all of the girls who had been members of our sorority before. The food was pretty tasty too.
The whole experience was really cool, and pretty different from my high school experience.

Our Float!

the band playing at the game

Halloween night with some of my sorority sisters

A Tale of Two Intake Forms HW

I found the conversation on Tuesday to be very interesting. There were two different intake forms: one basic one that only asked about the person's income and family, and the other which was more Christian-based. I am not sure which one i agree with the most. I believe that the Helping Hands (basic) one was like that because it is a government funded place. I liked that one because they just asked what they needed to know. I think that the church one seemed like a little too much like where it asked "Did you go to church on Sunday? If no, why not?" I have to admit that even though I am a Christian, I do not believe that you have to go to church on Sunday to look better in God's eyes. Yes, it is a good place to gather with those who share your beliefs, but I have not been to church in a while, and I do not feel that it has affected me at all as a Christian. I still pray and believe in God and try to follow my beliefs. I believe that the church could've still asked religious questions, but they should've been ones that seemed less judgmental, like "have you been saved?" or something like that.

Joe Blog. HW

Okay, so today I read my reading assignment. I kind of thought that it was boring at first because before this class, I was not too into blogging. It just seemed like something that writers did for fun, and I definitely was not a writer. (except freshman year of high school, i used to blog on here and I totally forgot about it and one day I looked it up. It was actually pretty funny.) I love how a blog is kind of like a journal, and you can just write whatever you feel at the moment. You don't have to worry about people reading it and being really mad or something about it because you are just saying what you feel, and they don't have to keep reading it. You are writing for yourself and only yourself when you blog.

Helping Hands

I'm not sure if we were supposed to blog about this, but whatev, if not, hopefully I'll get extra credit.

Last week, our university class went to the Helping Hands center in Cookeville. It's pretty much like the food bank that i used to help out at back in Nashville. When we went, we entered a large room stacked high with cans of food and whatnot that were given to families that came by that could not afford to buy food for themselves. When I was younger, I used to go with my mom, and we'd work at the food bank every other wednesday for our church. I think it was good of my mom to get my sisters and I to do that. I used to love it. Whenever a family would come up, I helped fill up a bag of food to give to them, and I would go and buy candy at the store that we would give the kids who came in. I always loved making people happy with food, because food made me happy. I remember one time, though, I had brought in leftover Halloween candy to give the kids, and I handed a girl a bag full of candy. She looked through the candy with a disgusted face and handed a few pieces back to me because she said they were too old or looked like there would be bugs in them. I remember being really sad about that. It is a weird story to remember, but that is one of the main things that i remember from that, and I hate it because it is kind of a bad reflection on the people that are in need. The majority of the people that came into the food bank, though, were very very grateful for what we were doing for them. Some people even gave us Christmas cards during the holidays and stuff. It was great.

Fall Break

My fall break was actually pretty fun. I was excited to go home for once and sleep in my own comfy bed and see all of my friends from home. I left to go home on Friday. I went into my work (TJ Maxx) first to pick up my paychecks that had been waiting for me...they added up to $70 :( I'm not used to getting such crappy paychecks, but whatever. I visited my boyfriend and also saw my friends Tori and Kait before they went to the Kings of Leon concert (that i reeeeaaaaalllllyyy wanted to go to, but I couldn't ever find good tickets). After they left, I hung out with my friend Wesley. I always have fun with him. We rented a stupid scary movie called 13 Hours in a Factory, like old times and went to Walmart and got tons of candy to eat during it. We're kind of like little kids when we get together. After I hung out with Wesley, Anthony got off of work, and he came over. We watched a movie at my house because it was too late to go and see one. We watched Observe and Report. On Saturday, I had to work from 1 to 10:37. It was pretty lame, like always. After work, Kait and I went over to Steak n Shake to meet Anthony and Wesley. It was fun. After that, Anthony came over to my house for a while, and we just watched TV. The next day, I had to work open to close (11-8:30). It was dumb. I went home and hung out with my family. On Monday, I went to lunch with my mom. When my little sister, Channing, got out of school, I took her to Target for a little while. After that, I hung out with Anthony again, and we went to go see Zombieland and eat at Steak n Shake..again. Zombieland was pretty much what I expected it to be. Yesterday, I hung out with my friend Alison and we went to Target. It was pretty fun. After that, Tori and Kait came over to eat dinner with me, and we went to Providence and went to Target...again. I came back this morning.

I did a lot of stuff more than once this weekend, but it was still fun. I think the most simple things in life make me happy.

Tori and I at Steak n' Shake.

Kait and Wes