Monday, September 29th

Tell me about your Homecoming weekend! If you didn't participate in the Homecoming festivities, what did you do? Share pics!

My Homecoming weekend was so much fun! My friends and I went to the football game and watched us kill Southwest! Then we all hung out for a little bit at our friends AJ's house. The next day Adam Houghtan and I went to Macy's to buy a tie that matched my dress, and we went to Dick's to get white clothes for our white out after party. I spent basically the whole day getting ready. I did my own hair and makeup. Then we went to pictures and from pictures and limo took us to dinner at Macaroni Grill. Then it took us to the dance for about and hour and then to Haley's house for the after party! The whole night was a blast and I couldn't have asked to spend it with better people. 

Monday, September 22nd

How was your weekend? Did you do anything exciting? Share photos!

I had a very boring weekend, but it was nice to be able to chill. On Friday, Adam Houghtan came to my house to ask me to homecoming! He brought one of his foster kittens to my house to ask me. Then I went to the Miege game, but we got killed. On Saturaday, I helped work on the junior class float for the homecoming parade. Then I sat at my house and watched the Celebrating Joan Rivers special on Fashion Police for the rest of the night. That night my friend Matt took me and two of our friends out to dinner for his birthday. We went to Blue Koi and it was really good. On Sunday, I helped with the float some more and then went to a meeting for BBYO. I also went to help work on my brother's new house and spent some quality time with his puppy. 

 

Friday, September 19th

Now that you are several weeks in to this class and have coded one (super small) website, what do you think? What are your thoughts on web design? Is it what you thought it would be? Is it better? Worse? What's your favorite part? What's your least favorite part? Explain.

I actually have really enjoyed web design! It seems to come pretty easy to me, but I think its difficult to remember each and every detail. My favorite part is the CSS and seeing how much it can change the website, but my least favorite part is also the CSS because it can be very difficult at times. HTML is very straight forwards and pretty easy to remember but it gets difficult to remember when and where you need divs, classes and IDs. As much as I disliked Codecademy, it was really helpful.

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Thursday, September 18th

What is the importance of deadlines? How do high school deadlines reflect or simulate "real world" experience? Give an example of when you met or or didn't meet a deadline that was important.

Deadlines are very important. They are way more important in the "real world" then they are in high school. When you don't meet a deadline at a job they are way less forgiving than your math teacher after you forgot to do your math homework. Not meeting a deadline at a job could cause you to not close a deal, or make it so you miss an extremely important presentation. High schools do try to make deadlines more strict though. Some teaches will not be forgiving if you "forget your project at home", and they will not allow you to turn it in late. I am usually very good at meeting deadlines because I am very organized and I like to get things done on time. I cannot think of a time that I missed an important deadline.

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Tuesday, September 16th

Reflect on this quote. Give an example of a time in your life that this might have been the case.

This tends to happen in my chapter in BBYO. For example, last year we were planning on having a fundraiser that would be a Mr. AZA (an AZA is what a boy is called in BBYO) pageant, but we did not start planning in advance at all. We started planning the week before, and we ended up getting very low attendance and having a very poor fundraiser. We made a decent amount of money because we priced the tickets really high, but the fundraiser itself was very bad. We also start getting the word out about programs too late which causes us to have low attendance at programs. 

Monday, September 15th

What did you do this weekend? Share pictures if you have them!

This weekend was pretty chill for me. On Friday my friends and I went to part of the football game to see us beat West! We then went over to one of our friends house's and hung out for a while. On Saturday I sat at my house all day and watched Shark Tank with my brother and his friend Kyle. Then that night I went to my soccer game to cheer on my team because I am still injured. Then on Sunday I went to the Royals game with my youth group to kickoff the term. The international president of BBYO was there, so that was pretty cool. The Royals lost though. I went over to my friend's house to borrow two of her dresses for our homecoming and Rockhurst homecoming! Then I went home and hung out with my hamster and did homework.

My hamster is my bestfriend

Thursday, September 11th

Below is one of my favorite quotes that I found on Pinterest. Think read and think about what this says and then blog about it. What does this quote mean to you? Elaborate! Feel free to give an example of tell a story.

I really like this quote and it is so true. People just say "I'm bored" to avoid having to do anything with their lives. If you are so bored, go out and see the world. Instead of sitting at home and watching TV, go downtown, go to a movie, do something you and your friends have never done before, or take you dog on a walk an admire the world around. Your life is not limited to what you are accustomed to doing. Try new things, go new places, and live an exciting life because in the end you are the only one who can make your life the best it can be. I like to live an amazing life by traveling and going to camp where I can meet new people and do things I can't do anywhere else in the world. 

Hanging out with Wolves is Colorado

View from the mountain we climbed at camp

View from the London Eye

Tuesday, September 9th

How do you express your creativity? Explain.

I express my creativity in many different ways! One way is that I really like to draw, paint and doodle. I paint and draw a lot when I'm at summer camp. I also like to express my creativity in my Jewish youth group. I like to help plan new and creative programs for conventions and just for the group. I like to think of new ways for us to enjoy our time together in ways we usually don't think of! For example, I am currently planning a program that is based on the movie Beauty and the Beast. This is a program we have never done before and I am really excited to share my ideas with my chapter.

Banner for convention that I made.

I painted the basketball court at camp!

Doodle 

Monday, September 8th

What did you do this weekend? Share pictures if you have them!

On Friday, I went to the BV football game and watched us beat SMNW. It was a really fun game, and it was really cool to see some of my good friends on the field. The theme was USA and I got to wear my American flag leggings! On Saturday, I worked from 11-3 at Harley Davidson (I'm a cashier for the motorclothes department). Then I went to a program for my Jewish youth group BBYO. We had a bake off and a game night with the girls chapter, and then I went to a sleepover with the boys chapter. We made a Walmart/Mcdonald's run at midnight and bought matching cat shirts. When we got back to the house we told ghost stories until three in the morning. On Sunday, I had BBYO meeting from 3:30-7:00 and I did all my homework.

Friday, September 5

Kids these days have way too much access to information about everyone and everything in the world. They are all caught up in other people's business and never worry about their own life. All the kids look at their phones and wait for the score of the game or wait for the next picture of Kim K and her baby. When I was a kid, I had to wait for the daily paper to learn any information about the world around me. They all have their noses stuck in their little hand held computers, and I'm tired of it. Kids need to learn to go outside and play backyard baseball or ride a bike.

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Thursday, September 4th

Tell me about what you have learned in this class so far. Have you learned a lot? Do you want to learn more? What do you want to be able to do by the end of the semester?

So far I have learned how to write pretty simple HTML code. I have learned to make a link, add a picture, make ordered and unordered lists, change font color, size and family, and how to make different sized headers. I feel as though I have learned a lot and it is already possible to make a simple website. I would love to learn more though. I want to learn how make websites look pretty and have all of the things that are possible through CSS code. I know we are learning CSS next and I am really excited for that!

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Tuesday, September 2nd

Tell me all about your Labor Day weekend. What did you do? Include photos

Over the Labor Day weekend, I went to Copper Mountain Colorado with my family and one of my best friends from camp. We have two condos in Copper and there was a music festival there that weekend. We rode the chair lift up the mountain, hiked to the top, road Go Karts, played in giant hamster balls, rock climbed and saw some family friends from Breck. We also had family game night and family movie night. It was really great to get some quality family time and to see a friend I usually only see once a year. 

Rochelle and I on the Mountain

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