Last One

Terrell Artis

Journal Entry

The last week of school is finally here, this has been a long, stressful, crazy and productive semester. Finals are finally here no one is in the courtyard or out socializing because it’s a serious time now more than ever. I’ve switched my major again to something I think fits me more than anything I’ve changed it to previously. Something I could thrive and be successful in. I changed my major from education to business. I’ve always wanted to work for myself because working for others at times can be a major hassle don’t get me wrong teaching/teachers is something we definitely need right now but I see myself going in a different direction professionally. Every summer just about I go out doing yard work (raking leaves, cutting, grass, planting etc.) as much as I can and I make a pretty good amount of money a day from doing that. This semester really made me look at the big picture more than anything. I feel like I’ve been spinning my wheels for so long at a standstill maybe now I can start driving in the right direction

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Thanksgiving Break

Terrell Artis

Journal Entry

Today my group had our last grammar schmammar presentation and our first reading presentation. I can’t lie I thought we were doing them after the thanksgiving break but yet again I was wrong. We awkwardly assembled in front of our classmates and presented both presentations. That was our last class before thanksgiving break which besides Christmas break is our best break. I left the school late on Wednesday and came home to the smell of thanksgiving food galore it was dishes all up and through my house I couldn’t have been happier. The only downer to me on thanksgiving was the fact that I and my brother had to wake up at 7ish to get ready for church which I wanted no parts of but I was doing it for my mom. So after church we head out to Blackstone VA to eat. I was too hype because I hadn’t seen any of my family since I left for school in August. When we got there most of the family was already there. So we just joined in with everyone with the eating and conversating, it was too good of a day.

Taboo

Terrell Artis

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For this week we had our second peer review because everyone didn’t bring their papers the first time so Sweeney gave everyone a second chance. I missed this class for a reason I can’t remember but it was a good reason not just random bullshit. But the second half of the week we played Taboo which I play all the time at family functions. The class was split up into two teams and the winner got 5 extra credit points the runner up I think got 3. That was probably the most fun I’ve had in a class all semester. Taboo is like a guessing game you have a word that your group is trying to figure out like "Knob" and on the card there are clue words you can’t say like "Door", "Handle" etc. If you say one of the words on the card the person holding the buzzer making sure you don’t say those words hits the buzzer and you lose a point. And you have a time glass as your timer you’re supposed to do as many cards as u can before that timer runs out. My directions probably aren’t as good as those that come with the game but it’s a really fun game to play.

Crime and Punishment Revision 1

Terrell Artis

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Today we had our first rough draft peer revision groups for our crime and punishment essays. Most of the people in class didn’t bring theirs so whoever had theirs would just read to the people in their group just like a regular revision day. We of course got tips, pointers and other feedback on how we could make our good papers better ones. I wanted Mr. Sweeney to look over mine before my final draft but he was occupied doing the same for another one of my classmates. I got some pretty good feedback from my classmates in my group, most consisted of checking grammar and spelling and broaden my ideas a little more and not be so one sided which is a valid point I guess; but in a sense there supposed to be sided because it’s a persuasive essay but I took all criticism as constructive. This paper so far was the hardest to write but I did learn a lot that I didn’t before about the subject. People do such crazy things to get punished in such a barbaric way. Why cant we all just get along.

Hurricane Sandy

Terrell Arti

Journal Entry

Hurricane Sandy came through and was more of a scare than a catastrophe. She was supposed to come through on Monday October 29 and leave on the 30^th. They predicted the storm to hit harder than Katrina but as it came up the coast all we got was wind a mild rain. The school told us that we didn’t have to leave the campus but they urged that we did as a precaution to Lady Sandy’s rage. We didn’t want to be stranded at the Bland with no power leaving us sleeping in the gym. I’m nowhere near down for that, so me and my boy Rek headed out for Richmond. The closer the storm got the more school got delayed all the way up to the day it was rumored to hit. It was like a mini vacation almost we stayed in Richmond the entire time I was expecting power outages all over but thankfully we kept power the entire time.