Dailey Blogger February 14

            On the day of February 14, it’s not only Valentines Day, but it’s also my birthday!  As I walked around the school this morning, I was overpowered by the scent of flowers.  I could see that FCCLA was selling carnations.  Even though I didn’t get a flower from a special someone, my friend managed to give me a flower, putting a smile on my face.

            In our science class we are working on making a rap about Pangaea and plate tectonics.  Our group managed to get almost half of ours done during the class period.  In Civics we finished up our recreation of the Constitutional Convention.  Although the person I was representing didn’t sign the constitution, I got the honors of making the first speech about the Virginia Plan the week before.  In reading we read a story and answered some questions about it as a practice for our Unit test tomorrow.

            English class was fun today.  We each found a picture with scenery and wrote some details about it.  Another students asked some questions about the picture to make us describe it the best we could.  After we started describing the picture, we wrote a few descriptive paragraphs about it to help us with our poems we have to write.  

This was the picture I decided to use for English.  

Photo Credit: Katie Morrow

     At the end of the day as I was walking from the activities building back towards the gym after P.E., I was given flowers.  I opened the card and found that my dad sent me flowers.  Just like my friend did, my dad put a smile on my face.  Overall, I don’t think today was just an average day, but maybe it’s because today was Valentines Day.

Blindsight

Sometimes the blind can see better than the sighted.

            While watching Blindsight, we all obviously know that the students were blind.  Luckily, not many of us will have to understand the struggles it is to live life being blind.  What I got out of this theme was that the people who don’t have something, will appreciate it more than someone who’s had it all there life.  Like us for example, we see every day and think nothing of it.  We don’t take full advantage of being able to see.  If blind people could see again, I don’t think that they would under-look anything; they would look at the simplest of things.  They could see beauty in the ugliest of things.  What we need to do is see as if we knew you could never see again.

            This theme compares to my own life because I myself over look many things that I shouldn’t take for granted.  I drive down the same road to school everyday, sitting there doing nothing, when really I should look at every single little thing and see something different in it.  The stop sign could be a miniature fire truck, stopping it’s own traffic when people see it.  The dotted lines on the road could be the beating of our own heart.  As I said before, we shouldn’t take being able to see for granted when we could see things in a way we’ve never seen before.

My Favorite Place

         “Let’s go this way!” I insisted, thinking I knew where I was going.  Andrea and Emily had no choice but to reluctantly nod because they were just passengers in our ranger, having no control of where we were going.  We drove to a creek I’ve always known was there, but never visited often.  I was trying to find the end of an old 4-wheeler trail, but realized the trees overgrew where we needed to drive through.  I parked the ranger, and started to look around.  The first thing I noticed was a new bright green gate put in between our fence line property with a fresh trail leading up our neighbors hill.

         I saw the gate and was very curious to where it lead; the only problem was trying to cross the crystal creek without getting wet.  I saw this beautifully tall twisted tree that had been blown over, but not enough to have fallen over, so we decided to try and push the tree down. After I realized the tree wouldn’t fall because it was too tall, I noticed that up the creek a little bit, it was extremely thin and shallow, so I decided that would be a much better way of crossing the creek.  After crossing the creek, walking up the trail gave me almost a spooky feeling, as we didn’t know where we were going. The trail seemed like it was going on forever and slowly getting steeper and steeper.  Once we got to the top, we found our neighbor’s house and green shed right at the opening, so we decided to start our journey back down the hill.

         Once we went down the forever trail, we started walking around looking for new things out of boredom.  On this old fallen tree towards the point where we crossed the creek, we found out that if you used a firm stick, you could write on the tree and it would keep the words printed on there like a piece of paper.  We called it the carving tree.  We all wrote our names and dates in huge monster letter so you could see it from far away.  While we were carving in silence, I noticed all of the different sounds that could be recognized.

         I don’t think I will ever forget the delicate noise of the leaves lightly dancing through the narrow openings in the trees.  The peaceful noise of the flowing creek could put you at ease without doubt.  The creek not only has a soothing sound to it, but also a fresh taste to it.  When you get on your knees, dip your hands into the refreshing water, and touch your lips to the chilly liquid, the taste seems to fit the moment perfectly.

         We all started walking back to the ranger.  As I was walking, I started realizing all the different things that happened within that hour: crossing the creek, walking the trail, the carving tree, and the soft noises. I never realized how the simplest thing could leave an echoing impression going through your mind.  Even though I’ve only visited that creek a few times, it is most definitely one of my favorite places.

A Person I Look Up To

     A person I look up to is my aunt Janet.  I look up to her because she isn't afraid to say what she thinks.  Also, she isn't afraid to stand up for herself, her family, or her friends.  Not only does she care about others, but she also has a sense of humor.  She can make any awkward, serious, or boring moment fun and enjoyable with a funny side comment.  She can get scary at times, but she will always be light-hearted at heart.