Having to take all of your music off your phone/ipod/mp3 player and put it back on hoping it will all work out just fine. Well guess what, it did!!! So now that my phone has lost 50lbs (metaphorically of course), I feel much more at ease...although I kind of gave up on the organizing thing towards the end, but all that will take is making a few more folders. So no biggy.
Well...I hope everyone has a good...whatever.
OH! French tomorrow....and he'll be there so it will be a fun class :)
Monday, February 27, 2012
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Well then maybe you shouldn't review it.
So, I hate it when I'm on Amazon looking for some books to read and one of the reviews says "I DIDN'T GET IT--DON'T BUY IT, IT'S A WASTE OF MONEY" (mind you these are the books that cost like 99cents so I'm not sure what money they're talking about).
If you don't understand something, your opinion doesn't matter. I want to read a review by someone who understands the book enough to write an educated response. If you really think $.99 is a waste of money....well then, you really shouldn't be buying books. You should be saving your money. Even if you don't like it, IT'S 99 CENTS! It isn't going to kill your bank account.
And it's even worse when someone is like "I only made it through the first chapter." If you don't read the whole book, you shouldn't be telling people that it's a bad book. It's one thing to say "I couldn't get into it." It's another thing to say "I only read the first chapter and I think that this book is stupid and you would be stupid to buy it."
So reviews should be written by people who:
-Read the ENTIRE book.
-Understood the book.
-Don't feel like it's the end of the world to spend $.99 on a book.
-Respect that some people will think it's a good book, so therefore you shouldn't bash it. You can still give your opinion, but in a respectable manner.
If you don't understand something, your opinion doesn't matter. I want to read a review by someone who understands the book enough to write an educated response. If you really think $.99 is a waste of money....well then, you really shouldn't be buying books. You should be saving your money. Even if you don't like it, IT'S 99 CENTS! It isn't going to kill your bank account.
And it's even worse when someone is like "I only made it through the first chapter." If you don't read the whole book, you shouldn't be telling people that it's a bad book. It's one thing to say "I couldn't get into it." It's another thing to say "I only read the first chapter and I think that this book is stupid and you would be stupid to buy it."
So reviews should be written by people who:
-Read the ENTIRE book.
-Understood the book.
-Don't feel like it's the end of the world to spend $.99 on a book.
-Respect that some people will think it's a good book, so therefore you shouldn't bash it. You can still give your opinion, but in a respectable manner.
Friday, February 24, 2012
Day Made. No, weekend--Scratch that...Month made.
My tweet:
"Exhausted, tummy hurts....but in other news it's the weekend! :D And it seems that @MerwanRim has been quite talkative."
@MerwanRim's tweet:
@paigenicoleO_O 😉
Now if only French boxes meant something to me.... :( So it's a win lose. But mostly a win.
"Exhausted, tummy hurts....but in other news it's the weekend! :D And it seems that @MerwanRim has been quite talkative."
@MerwanRim's tweet:
Now if only French boxes meant something to me.... :( So it's a win lose. But mostly a win.
Saturday, February 18, 2012
New Background and Colors
So I was going to go with this really cool interactive layout, but it wouldn't let me have any sidebars. Which caused a problem because when I was trying to go to edit the sidebars and everything (mostly to get any links that I had in the links menu) and it wouldn't let me access that portion of the designing tab!! It was VERY annoying and frustrating. So I gave up and went back to this layout. I might take more time to get the other one to work (it WAS pretty awesome), but for now this is good.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
YAY!!!!!!
Awwww yeah! Today has officially become awesome! 1,000 views!!!! I'm so proud of myself for keeping this up. Even if a lot of the views are just random people who probably never come back. But that's ok because I've kept something that is pretty much a journal.
Ok, so today was Valentine's day. Aaaaand no. I did not have a valentine :/ But I gave my friend a card that I made in French that said "Our friendship is marvelous and strange...I'm marvelous and you are strange!" So that was fun ^_^ And I did get some cookies and candy from friends. My mom tried to make my sandwich into the shape of a heart this morning...but she gave up haha.
So it was a pretty good V-day. Oh except I saw my test score....scary O.O (I got a C).
Ok, so today was Valentine's day. Aaaaand no. I did not have a valentine :/ But I gave my friend a card that I made in French that said "Our friendship is marvelous and strange...I'm marvelous and you are strange!" So that was fun ^_^ And I did get some cookies and candy from friends. My mom tried to make my sandwich into the shape of a heart this morning...but she gave up haha.
So it was a pretty good V-day. Oh except I saw my test score....scary O.O (I got a C).
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Playin' around with the layout
Don't be surprised if the blog completely changes over the next few days... Just a warning.
New poll :)
What are you doing this Valentine's Day? Is love in the air, or are you just treating it like a normal day?
Pour qui votes-tu?
How do you vote?
Pour qui votes-tu?
How do you vote?
Friday, February 3, 2012
Today turned out....
Amazing. So this morning I was really nervous because I have NONE of my script memorized and I was tired and really didn't feel like dancing. But when I walked into dance our teacher told us she's sick and so we just watched Newbies. Which I really want to see. I wasn't really paying attention. None of us were. But it was a nice relaxing way to start the morning. And I got to play with--ahem--use this really cool thing to score some paper to make it easier to fold (for vocabulary foldables that she is going to have her classes do). It was such a simple task that it was pretty relaxing.
Then in Spanish we played musical chairs. I wasn't looking forward to it. But it turned out to be really fun!
Psychology was pretty boring...as always. Except when our teacher took a kid out into the hall and hit him with a stick (ok not really, but we were learning about different conditioning methods and he was using that as an example of punishment; they went into the hall and the teacher hit the stick against the wall and the kid "screamed in pain").
Theatre, was just awesome. We had to help our teacher with his homework by playing this game called "Click." What you do is you are in pretty big groups and you have to tell a story with freeze frames. They usually end in disaster just because it will make people laugh and it makes the ending obvious. So we spent the first bit of it discussing what our Click would be. We were all over the place. First he told us we didn't have to keep it confined to the auditorium, which opened up a TON of possibilities. So we were going to get some wheelchairs from the nurse and/or nursing class and have a wheelchair race. And then our teacher suggested that everyone has some type of disability. And then it went to being a special ed. class playing dodge ball and someone asked "What's the worst that could happen?" to which I replied with "We walk into the gym and the special ed. classes are in there playing dodge ball." So that idea was dropped.
We finally decided that we would be an unruly class who gets into this huge brawl whenever our teacher turns towards the board and we would be perfect angels when he's looking at us. It was pretty awesome. We were all dead in the end. My favorite part was looking at the pictures and in the first one we are all smiley, then we are all taking notes, then we are smiley again, then we are annoyed and making bored faces, then the fighting starts, then it REALLY starts, then we are back to being perfect angels...except for the fact that a bunch of people are in new seats :)
Oh, and I finished my book that I've been reading for like the last month. It was amazingly emotional. It's called The Secret Holocaust Diaries by Nonna Bannister. If you like reading history books/memoirs/books about the Holocaust, I highly recommend it.
Then I read another book (it was really short) that was such a nice quick read. It was about this little old lady who lives in China near this bridge that is thought to bring good luck. But because of the bridge's reputation there are a lot of kids who are abandoned there (their parents think that leaving their kids there will give the kids a better future), and so she always takes them to the orphanage. Well one day she sees this little boy and he is blind. Then in the two days that he stays with her they become pretty attached to one another. So a week after she takes him to the orphanage she goes to check up on him and gets really upset by how he's being taken care of. So then she becomes his foster parent. And it's just a really sweet story called The Bridge by Kay Bratt. If you are looking for a quick read, it's a good one to check out. But there were a few tiny grammatical errors, and one that bugged me where the author calls the old woman's daughter "Jing" which is the old woman's name. That was the only reason I didn't give it five stars.
FINALLY, Merwan Rim's new music video for "Mens-moi" came out today. It's a good one. I shall post it. And the song is really pretty. But the music video brings a lot of emotion to it and kind of hints at what the song is about. I'll also post a link to the lyrics with a trustworthy translation.
Lyrics: http://lyricstranslate.com/en/mens-moi-lie-me.html
So yes. It was a good day :)
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Now backtrack to yesterday. In French class I learned that my teacher grew up in the same town as one of my favorite French singers, Pascal Obispo ^_^ So I tweeted about it. AND HE RETWEETED IT :O :D Now I know what you're thinking "How stereotypical teenager of you to get so excited over that" but you don't understaaaaaand! I had just been thinking about how weird it is to think that everyone in the world is connected by people they truly know (not just Facebook ''know''). Like, if you think about it, I know my French teacher, she knows a ton of people who live in her hometown. The chances of one of them knowing Pascal Obispo are pretty high. So hypothetically speaking, he and I share a link that is probably around 10-20 people long. Which is pretty small when you think about 1. I live in the US, he lives in France. 2. I'm an ordinary person, he's famous. So to have that close of a connection with someone like that is pretty amazing! [Not to mention that that means I can just add one to however many people connect us to find my connection to Christophe Maé :) I had to get his name in here somehow ;)] So just imagine how connected you are to you're favorite actor/singer/whatever! Just know the right people and it's like your entire world opens up.
Ok back to the retweeting, so in my opinion, that makes all other connection chains unimportant because he noticed one of my tweets which counts as an interaction between the two of us which means....OMG IT'S LIKE I MET HIM ONLY NOT! Ok, my fangirlyness is done...for the moment. Because I have some much sadder news.
So there's this kid...in my French class...and he used to sit behind me but now he doesn't because this stupid annoying freshman who can't shut her big mouth had to be moved so that she would shut up and just MAYBE (though I highly doubt it) get some work done. So now she sits behind me and poor *guy that shall remain unnamed* sits one seat over, in the midst of a gaggle of freshmen girls whose conversations really get on his nerves. Now it isn't that big of a move...but it's so sad :( He's like the only entertaining one in that class. I would get so bored if he wasn't there. And we always partnered up for the partner reads and games and such. And now I can't just discretely slip him the AP Bio homework when he asks for it (ok, maybe that one was a little dramatic, I mean it's only one seat over). But the fact is, I don't like change. I like him though.... :)
Then in Spanish we played musical chairs. I wasn't looking forward to it. But it turned out to be really fun!
Psychology was pretty boring...as always. Except when our teacher took a kid out into the hall and hit him with a stick (ok not really, but we were learning about different conditioning methods and he was using that as an example of punishment; they went into the hall and the teacher hit the stick against the wall and the kid "screamed in pain").
Theatre, was just awesome. We had to help our teacher with his homework by playing this game called "Click." What you do is you are in pretty big groups and you have to tell a story with freeze frames. They usually end in disaster just because it will make people laugh and it makes the ending obvious. So we spent the first bit of it discussing what our Click would be. We were all over the place. First he told us we didn't have to keep it confined to the auditorium, which opened up a TON of possibilities. So we were going to get some wheelchairs from the nurse and/or nursing class and have a wheelchair race. And then our teacher suggested that everyone has some type of disability. And then it went to being a special ed. class playing dodge ball and someone asked "What's the worst that could happen?" to which I replied with "We walk into the gym and the special ed. classes are in there playing dodge ball." So that idea was dropped.
We finally decided that we would be an unruly class who gets into this huge brawl whenever our teacher turns towards the board and we would be perfect angels when he's looking at us. It was pretty awesome. We were all dead in the end. My favorite part was looking at the pictures and in the first one we are all smiley, then we are all taking notes, then we are smiley again, then we are annoyed and making bored faces, then the fighting starts, then it REALLY starts, then we are back to being perfect angels...except for the fact that a bunch of people are in new seats :)
Oh, and I finished my book that I've been reading for like the last month. It was amazingly emotional. It's called The Secret Holocaust Diaries by Nonna Bannister. If you like reading history books/memoirs/books about the Holocaust, I highly recommend it.
Then I read another book (it was really short) that was such a nice quick read. It was about this little old lady who lives in China near this bridge that is thought to bring good luck. But because of the bridge's reputation there are a lot of kids who are abandoned there (their parents think that leaving their kids there will give the kids a better future), and so she always takes them to the orphanage. Well one day she sees this little boy and he is blind. Then in the two days that he stays with her they become pretty attached to one another. So a week after she takes him to the orphanage she goes to check up on him and gets really upset by how he's being taken care of. So then she becomes his foster parent. And it's just a really sweet story called The Bridge by Kay Bratt. If you are looking for a quick read, it's a good one to check out. But there were a few tiny grammatical errors, and one that bugged me where the author calls the old woman's daughter "Jing" which is the old woman's name. That was the only reason I didn't give it five stars.
FINALLY, Merwan Rim's new music video for "Mens-moi" came out today. It's a good one. I shall post it. And the song is really pretty. But the music video brings a lot of emotion to it and kind of hints at what the song is about. I'll also post a link to the lyrics with a trustworthy translation.
Lyrics: http://lyricstranslate.com/en/mens-moi-lie-me.html
So yes. It was a good day :)
_______________________________________________________________
Now backtrack to yesterday. In French class I learned that my teacher grew up in the same town as one of my favorite French singers, Pascal Obispo ^_^ So I tweeted about it. AND HE RETWEETED IT :O :D Now I know what you're thinking "How stereotypical teenager of you to get so excited over that" but you don't understaaaaaand! I had just been thinking about how weird it is to think that everyone in the world is connected by people they truly know (not just Facebook ''know''). Like, if you think about it, I know my French teacher, she knows a ton of people who live in her hometown. The chances of one of them knowing Pascal Obispo are pretty high. So hypothetically speaking, he and I share a link that is probably around 10-20 people long. Which is pretty small when you think about 1. I live in the US, he lives in France. 2. I'm an ordinary person, he's famous. So to have that close of a connection with someone like that is pretty amazing! [Not to mention that that means I can just add one to however many people connect us to find my connection to Christophe Maé :) I had to get his name in here somehow ;)] So just imagine how connected you are to you're favorite actor/singer/whatever! Just know the right people and it's like your entire world opens up.
Ok back to the retweeting, so in my opinion, that makes all other connection chains unimportant because he noticed one of my tweets which counts as an interaction between the two of us which means....OMG IT'S LIKE I MET HIM ONLY NOT! Ok, my fangirlyness is done...for the moment. Because I have some much sadder news.
So there's this kid...in my French class...and he used to sit behind me but now he doesn't because this stupid annoying freshman who can't shut her big mouth had to be moved so that she would shut up and just MAYBE (though I highly doubt it) get some work done. So now she sits behind me and poor *guy that shall remain unnamed* sits one seat over, in the midst of a gaggle of freshmen girls whose conversations really get on his nerves. Now it isn't that big of a move...but it's so sad :( He's like the only entertaining one in that class. I would get so bored if he wasn't there. And we always partnered up for the partner reads and games and such. And now I can't just discretely slip him the AP Bio homework when he asks for it (ok, maybe that one was a little dramatic, I mean it's only one seat over). But the fact is, I don't like change. I like him though.... :)
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