Personal Addition; Newtown Shooting.

 I'd just like to post something about this recent shooting. I feel that it is important.


This is absolutely disgusting. There was an elementary school shooting today in Connecticut. 28 people died, 18 being little innocent children. How can one do this? Walk into a school and just shoot so many to death? They had bright futures ahead of them, one could’ve been the next president if they had gotten the chance to merely live out their dream. They were innocent, practically babies if you think about it, They never got to experience the harsh world, they were sheltered and kept under care. Now they’ll never get to experience what this will be like.

Imagine how the deceased parents must feel.
“Hello there, Miss/Mrs./Mr____ I’m sorry, but your child will not be coming home today”
Imagine how their world turned dark. How their blood ran cold as these words start to sink in. Imagine the tears. The pain and suffering and the regret that ran through their heads. Imagine the “What ifs” Imagine how they must feel. Words start to turn to lead as they lose power and cry. Their beautiful child, now dead. Parents should never have to bury their children.

 Imagine how those with children must feel. Imagine how they have to answer the question “What happened to____ (deceased)” as their little child looks up at them with big eyes as you have to explain that a bad man walked into a building that they deemed safe and shot their friends to death. Imagine the tears and having to hold them as they cried, their little bodies pressed against you, beating strong as some parents will never be able to feel that happen again.

Please. Keep this in remembrance.
Rest In Peace, everyone affected by this tragedy.
Dear Lord, 28 angels are coming home today. 

Bucketlist :)

1.       Compose a song

2.       Get a tattoo

3.       Play hide and seek in Ikea

4.       See the Lion King on Broadway

5.       Marry Alex Gaskarth. Meet All Time Low

6.       Learn Japanese and teach English overseas

7.       Go to an airport, bags packed and just buy a random ticket and go

8.       Sing and play ukulele with Jack Johnson

9.       Meet the cast of Harry Potter

10.   Go to New Zealand and pet a sheep

11.   Sing in front of a huge crowd

12.   Meet the Hemsworths

13.   Swim with Manatees

14.   Get the leading role in a play

15.   Meet Ed Sheeran

16.   Skydive

17.   Have my dad walk me down the aisle

18.   Get to know a killer

19.   Learn to speak Latin

20.   Write a book with Nicholas Sparks

21.   Swim in the dead sea

22.   Have a family

23.   Go to Paris and speak French for an entire day

24.   Be kissed on the top of a Ferris Wheel

25.   Go to every Disney park

26.   Lie under a the stars on the Beach

27.   Spend New Year’s in Hawaii

28.   Learn to love myself

29.   Make a pillow fort

30.   Write a book with John Green

31.   Tell someone how I really feel

32.   Go to the Thames river

33.   Get kissed under a mistletoe

34.   Walk in Memphis

35.   Sing with Michael Buble

36.   Give minor surgery

37.   Visit a haunted house

38.   Get a Harvard sweater

39.   Spend a year in the Philippines

40.   Prove Richard wrong

41.   Let a lantern fly

42.   Attend the Lantern festival in Taiwan

43.   Be a busker at the Forks

44.   Go to Warped Tour

45.   Meet a pen pal in real life

46.   Hug a koala

47.   Visit ever Ivy League school and get a sweatshirt from each one

48.   Watch every episode of Law and Order SVU

49.   See Japan during their Sakura festival

50.   Go to Japan during their Tanabata festival

51.   Work at Disneyland/World as a character

52.   Go to Hawaii and play a ukulele

53.   Audition for a talent show

54.   Walk through a ghost town

55.   Throw a drink at someones face

56.   Receive a promise ring

57.   Be in two places at once

58.   Cover my room in song lyrics, lights and pictures

59.   Slow dance in the pouring rain

60.   Attach a lock to the love bridge

61.   Visit Juliets balcony in Italy

62.   Be about to get onto a plane, leaving somewhere but be chased through the airport by the guy I love

63.   See Acropolis

64.   Go through the Melissani cave on a boat

65.    Attend a masquerade in a ball gown and mask

66.   Send a message in a bottle

67.   Drive an old vintage car

68.   Stay in the Tree House hotel in Costa Rica

69.   Attend an authentic Polynesian Luau

70.   Bury this list in a time capsule and dig it back up in 60 years to cross out what I’ve done.
71. Become more than just a name and a face. 

Reading & Writing reflection #10

Writing Perspective; writing my twitter fiction was honestly a bit hard. I didn’t like that I couldn’t be as a descriptive as I usually am with stories. Some successes of mine were when I was writing it and found out that everything I wanted to say could fit into the 140 character limit, or when I had a VSS and learnt I could fit it all into one tweet. Some frustrations I had were when I had a really good creative idea for a tweet and realised I couldn’t fit it all into the 140 character limit. I like being really descriptive with my writing but with the limit I had to subtract a lot from what I wanted to say. I learnt a lot about myself as an author like I don’t really like having a limit when writing a short story or that I had to separate what I wanted to say into different tweets because I couldn’t fit it into one. In my opinion, long stories separated into tweets takes away from everything else you usually find in a long story. I didn’t really feel much different about publishing myself on twitter than publishing my work on my blog.

Reading Perspective; I read a bunch of different twitter fictions because I couldn’t find one I could simply get really really into. It just didn’t appeal to me at all, so I went and explored my classmates twitter. From our class, I read the twitter fiction of Jacqueline, Taylor and Christie because I usually enjoy the things that they publish onto their blogs. They’re really amazing writers. One thing that really surprised me was when I went to go read Christies tweets. She wrote a long extended story that was nothing like her at all. It was a nice surprise.

About Twitter; This assignment didn’t really change my perspective of twitter because I use twitter every day and it didn’t feel that much different, other than the frustration with the 140 characters. I don’t really have another idea for how we could use twitter.