Self - Reliance (CRR)

Self -Reliance is one of those difficult texts that takes time to understand. You have to read and reread certain parts to fully comprehend what the writer is saying. Ms.Hegeman made a point and said that that's how good pieces of writing usually are. Even though I know we read together as a class to help each other understand the text, I find it more helpful when I read alone. I feel like when we read as a class there are certain parts of the reading I catch on to faster than the rest of the class and other parts that take me longer to understand. But when I read on my own in complete silence I can move at my own pace.

Once I understand what the writer is saying I usually understand the points he is making. Man does have a lot they can learn from nature. And humans do have to learn how to have more reliance on themselves and their ideas. Many of us sell ourselves short. We don't give our ideas enough credit or the benefit of the doubt that they might work out. Humanity has to learn to believe in themselves when nobody else does.

Senior Year Chronicles: Prom

Prom is an even every teenage girl has been looking forward to since their freshman year in high school, except me. I didn't really start getting excited for prom until I had found my dress. It's crazy because all of my friends really believed I would show up to prom in sweat pants. Now I can not wait for June 12th, I have a countdown in my phone that includes the seconds left until prom.

Prom was also something that brought my mother and I closer together. In our culture they don't really have proms, so it was something new for her. It was fun making her part of my prom experience and for us to find our way through something new together. Even though she wasn't there when we found my prom dress, I still liked having her there when we shopped for my heels and decided on how my makeup would look for the night.

Now all there's left to do is wait for the actual night. This sounds very corny but I hope it's everything I imagine it being because at the end of the day that's the real last "hurrah" with the Class of 2014.