Questions Of The First Final

In my first English final of the year. We had to pick three questions out many that we had to choose from. I decided to go for the ones that I thought I could go on writing, or to say typing, for a while. I ended up with questions six, two and number ten.

10. Where do you get your ideas for blog post topics? What inspires you to write?

Where is that I get my ideas from? Well... I usually start by looking back on recent or past moments in life where they are pretty funny, sad, and or fun.At of all those I sum up in my life so far, most of them turn out to be the times when I'm with my brother and my uncle, Gregorio. It's all because when ever we hang out we have a lot of fun. From us you should always expect the unexpected. Some other ways I get my inspiration is from my family. I have a very complicated family and let me tell you this, we are not a NORMAL FAMILY NOT EVEN OUR DOGS!

Here is an example of one of the blogs that I received my inspiration :

"...my grandpa in the backyard screaming at the dog... Gaby, the dog,...sounds like Gaby is telling him to shut his pie whole...Gaby takes care of Osito like if that was her baby. However Mr. Bean gets beat up by Osito since he is a little bit bigger, and Mr. Bean seems to be in love with the husky but the husky never notices him since he's tiny... My grandma, my mom and I start having a food fight...While we are eating WE ALL GOOF OFF! NO ONE IN MY FAMILY IS A ‘NORMAL’ PERSON YOU CAN SEE IT IN OUR PICS. NOT EVEN THE BABIES OR GUESTS GET LEFT BEHIND. That is why every one's friends ask my grandparents if they could spend holidays with us..."
Click here to read the rest "What Does Jaz Do For Thanksgiving?"

Here are some powerful quotes I have found to represent what I feel toward my family:

"The family is one of nature's masterpieces."

~George Santayana

"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you,
as you are to them."
~Desmond Tutu

2. Choose one of your posts. (Your favorite? Your least favorite? The one that surprises you the most when you reread it? Any one you want to pick.) Analyze it in detail, with quotes etc.

During my childhood, not saying I'm an old lady, my brother and I had many adventures. I enjoyed writing the blog about my brother and I, Call Us The BackYardigans. It tells you and my audience, well my little audience, all the fun we had once getting back form school, back in the elementary years. I felt like it was yesterday, but it has been almost five years or so since we last played in our backyard. I don't know what I would have done without with my brother stuck yo me 24/7 like a piece of chewed up gum stuck to the bottom of a desk. He is like a nose. It annoys you when you look at something at a curtain angle and you see it, but you need it smell. You couldn't live such a great life without smelling the wonders of nature.

This one had to be my favorite one out of all of them. I loved it so much that it took me back to those times when my brother and I were kids. That night I just had to go to my brother and start fooling around with him like old times. We actually started being so childish and loud that my mom came in and said, " Aw! I haven't seen my two little babies like this in a while. It reminds me of when you were kids back in the backyard and how you two seemed to disappear and go to your little world somehow."

Here is a piece of my blog were I talk about how much I love my brother:

"Ooh my brother, he is the best brother I could have. I am so glad I have him. We can't live together sometimes, but we can't live without each other. THAT IS TRUE! Every one in my family can tell if we have gone days without seeing each other. They say we look sad. It's pretty true we feel like we are missing something."

Here are some strong quotes that represent what I feel toward my brother:

"To the outside world, we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time."

~Clara Ortega

"There's no other love like the love for a brother. There's no other love like the love from a brother."

~Astrid Alauda

"A brother shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams."

~Author Unknown

"All for one and one for all
My brother and my friend
What fun we have
The time we share
Brothers 'til the end."
~Author Unknown

6. In what way(s) have you surprised yourself this semester on your blog? Have you tried topics you didn't think you'd write about? Approached a familiar topic from an unfamiliar angle? Discovered more "depth" to a topic than you first thought was possible? Explain.

In the blogs What to write about? and New Start or Not I said many things such as what I wanted to blog about and what I didn't want to. Looking back and re-reading my blogs I have surprised myself in how I went to one subject to another. The one subject I sticked to is the know talking about my adventures with my uncle and brother. I never thought I would blog about music. I thought that everyone talks about music and it's just gotten old. However I seemed to be listening to my favorite band that day I wrote Jaz, What About Music? I got so caught up in the music that I just had to write about it. I extended on it in Hidden Meaning? seeing Mr. Sutherland wanted to hear more on the subject and I had no problem with it. Also because my uncle told me the answer to the question I had in my head for a a couple of years, the day after I had posted the blog I said, "why not? Why leave Mr. Sutherland with the killing curiosity that I had for years?"

I was also surprised to see how my grammar had improved. That was my main goal. I think it's how when ever you check your spelling and you keep seeing the same stupid mistakes you know what your not supposed to do. Our mind see's what we are doing and it reminds us later on once we seem to begin to do the same stupid mistake. However, when ever we try to proof read our own work we never see our mistakes. Just like what I said in Writing Groups.

" We all make careless mistakes but we don’t realize it when we revise our work. In my opinion it’s because we seem to read it, but we actually read what we think we wrote so we tend not see what actually wrote. When some other person takes the time to read your stuff. They find many errors that once they point it out to you realize your mistake. This is the biggest way it can help us with our writing."

This shows how I have realized my triumphs in English class in New Start or Not:

"I was also wondering if I have achieved my goals? I have noticed that I have become a better speller. Which is GOOD! I'm proud of myself. I have also seen that I have become a better essay writer. I have been noticing that I have developed my organisation skills when writing an essay. Which I'm also proud of!"

“Don't be afraid to try again Everyone goes south Every now and then.”

Billy Joel quotes

“All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope”

Alexandre Dumas Père