Rain, Rain Go Away

Rain, Rain Go Away

            Wow, has it rained a ton this past week! This week’s weather has consisted of rain, rain, and some more rain. It has been announced on the news that we have already reached our total rainfall for April, within one week. I find that pretty crazy from how fast it happened. We have pretty much gotten out of our drought from all this rain, which is a very good thing. But this rain has caused a lot of problems too.

            Since we have had rain almost every day this past week, a lot of sporting events have been cancelled, such as; track meets, soccer games, and tennis matches. It is difficult for the schools to be finding time to fit in all of the events that had to be postponed. I wonder what they are going to do…

           When the schools have to postpone their sporting events, these students are loosing out on activities. If we keep receiving rain and having to postpone more events then the school will not be able to make them up because it will be the next season’s sports.

           Having to go outside in the rain just really sucks. I hate having to walk to my car in the rain because my shoes get all wet and dirty. Once I am inside though, I love the rain. I love the sound that it produces on the windows. It makes everything seem so relaxing. Also the thunder that comes from the sky makes me scared for what could come.

          Today has not had any rain, but has had some flurries. Receiving flurries at the end of April should not be happening. Also today is very windy. The windier it gets the colder it is. I think that if the wind were to be taken away, it wouldn’t be nearly as cold as it is.

          The more I think about it, the more I think that we will never get to spring or summer weather. If our winter is still occurring at the end of April then I think we have a problem…

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Poem

B-Ball

1  I am orange and perfect. I earn no trust.

2  I do it with uncertainty, as I must

3  Just as I am, loved or disliked

4  I am not nice or unkind

5  I am bounced as hard as most other balls

6  I don’t like to rise, I tend to fall

7  Indifferent to the score, either hoop works fine,

8  But if I had to choose, I hope that it’s mine.

9  I have been doing this since 1892,

10  Back when the number of players were few

11  To truly use me, it requires commitment

12  Many have tried but few have succeeded

13  Compared to then, my usage has exceeded

14  One of my favorite players to use me, is now on my cover

15  I wish I could go back to when he played,

16  “Oh Jerry West, look what you have made”

Techniques Used:

 (1)Imagery was used in the first line when describing the basketball. Using the word orange is a concrete word that tells the reader what color the object is. Using the word perfect is an abstract word that tells the reader the shape of the object. These words put a picture in the readers mind to what the basketball looks like.

(1,3,4,5)Anaphora is a repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a line. It was used in like 1, 3, 4, and 5. I used the phrase “I am” repeated to put emphasis on what object I am. The more I did that, the more I felt like the readers would realize what a basketball looks like. 

(5)  Simile is when two things are compared using like or as. It was used in line 5 when it says, “I am bounced as hard as most other balls”. I used this because basketballs are bounced hard just like other balls, such as; tennis balls and volleyballs.

  (7)Diction is the choice of words you use. It was used in this poem in line 7, using the word indifferent which indicates that the ball doesn’t care where or how it scores, it just wants to score. This choice of word catches the reader’s eye and makes them realize that the basketball doesn't care how it scores.

 (12) Understatement is the presentation of something as being smaller or less important than it actually is. This was used in line 12 when saying, “Many have tried but few have succeeded.” This states that a lot of people have experienced playing basketball but only a few are successful. I believe this is an understatement because more than a few have succeeded. There are tons of NBA and college teams that have players who have all succeeded.

(14)  Symbolism is the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities. This was used in line 14, when it says, “One of my favorite players to use me is now on my cover”, this is a symbol of what the basketball looks like. The NBA basketball has an image of Jerry West on it. The picture of Jerry West symbolizes the basketball.

(16)Apostrophe is when some absent or nonexistent person or thing is addressed as if present and capable of understanding. It was used in the last line of the poem when talking to Jerry West who is on the NBA basketball and is now absent from basketball. Speaking to someone who is not alive or absent draws attention to the readers.

 Allusion was used in this poem historically. Throughout the entire poem I was talking about the basketball. In the second stanza, the first sentence states, “I have been doing this since 1892”. That is when basketball was invented.

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Car Pooling

Car Pooling

Do you live by kids who attend the same school as you? If you do, you should really start considering to car pool with them to and from school every day. There are so many people who waste a ton of gas driving to and from school when most people live by classmates and could car pool with them. Today, gas is not very cheap. It has gotten close to four dollars a gallon. That is ridiculous considering how many times people drive a day and then they have to pay fifty dollars to fill up their gas tank. Gas prices are currently a problem in the United States but still people don’t try to solve the problem, including myself.

            Everyone always talks about gas prices and how incredibly high they are/ have been, but not many people try to prevent it. I will see students who live right next door to each other drive two cars to school. Does this make any sense? Not really. Why not drive together and save gas? It could become a little deal where one-week one-person drives and the next week the other person drives. Doing something so simple like that would really decrease the amount of money people are paying for gas.

            Also our global warming would improve a ton from car-pooling with people. When people drive, there are a lot of different gases put out into the air that are causing us to have terrible global warming. I don’t think many people realize this but it is disgusting to what a car does to the environment. I just really hope that whoever reads this could maybe help me spread the word to let people know that car-pooling is probably the best thing to do to save money on gas. The more people we notify about this problem, the more money people will be saving on gas.

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One Tree Hill Addiction

One Tree Hill Addiction

            I know that I have talked about Netflix before on a blog but at that time I didn’t ever use one. My sister uses her friends account so now we are able to watch Netflix whenever. My friend recently introduced me to the show, One Tree Hill. It started in 2002 and has been finished for a couple years now. I never thought I would love a show so much.

            I currently am on season two, episode sixteen. There is a total of nine seasons with about twenty-two episodes on each season. When I finished season one I didn’t think it was possible for the rest of the seasons to be so good, but I was way wrong and I like this season better than the first season. There is so many different things happening that keeps me interested at all times.

            I started this show during Spring Break so I had all the time in the world to watch it but now that we aren’t on Spring Break, I don’t get to watch it as much. If I get the chance to watch it, I watch maybe one episode a day. When during Spring Break, I watched three or four episodes a day. It was pretty amazing how I finished the first season in five days and I have been on season two for over three weeks. Sometimes I just want to blow off my homework so that I can watch an episode.

            The worst thing about watching only one episode a day is that after you finish that episode, it leaves you hanging on to what is going to happen next, so then you want/have to watch the next one. I have been trying to tell myself that I shouldn’t do that; I can only watch one at a time but that has failed a couple times.

            It is crazy to think that my friend was able to finish the entire show within three months. To finish a TV show that is nine seasons long with twenty episodes in each is straight up dedication. I remember her telling me she finished the first season in two or three days. I thought that I was doing good when I finished it in five days but when I heard how many days season one took her I took what I thought back.

            If you are ever looking for a good TV show to watch in your free time I would totally recommend One Tree Hill. It is filled with a ton of high school drama and a little bit of basketball. I have realized a lot from watching this show and I know that it really hasn’t even got to its best part. The more I watch it the more I love it.

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Getting asked to Prom

Getting asked to Prom

            So it is the middle of April and prom is April 27^th. I technically still do not have a date. Yes I am a junior but I have a boyfriend that is a senior who hasn’t asked me yet. I keep receiving crap from my friends saying he is going to ask someone else or that he just won’t ask me at all and expect me to go with him. They are kidding about him asking someone else but they are serious about him just expecting me to go with him.

            Every girl wants to get asked to a dance in a fun and cool way, but when you have a significant other, does that still apply? I believe it does because most girls like to get asked in a cute way and then brag and show everyone about it. I haven’t been able to do that because I haven’t been asked in a cute way that everyone would be jealous about. I am starting to wonder if I will ever get asked in a way that everyone will talk about…probably not.

            I have been dating my boyfriend for almost three years now and I still expect to get asked in a cute way. Most people would say that if you are dating someone there is no need to ask them because it is expected you will go with them. I think that is kind of stupid because most people who aren’t dating someone still knows who they are going to go to the dance with, but they still ask in a cute way. Most of the time it isn’t a surprise when someone asks you because the two talk about going to the dance before.

            Also it is the best when people get asked to the dance by someone who thought of the idea on their own. When they steal an idea from a person who has done it before kind of ruins the whole “cute” thing. When someone thinks of their own thing to do, it really makes the person being asked feel special.

            All I am saying is I better get asked to prom within the next week. If it is prom week and I have not been asked I will be disappointed. While all the other girls are being asked to prom I am sitting there watching it all happen. Sometimes I want to say, “If you don’t ask me then I will go with someone else” just to see what he says...just kidding. But hopefully I am asked soon…

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