07.14.09
Posted in Uncategorized at 12:20 pm by rachel02
She walked up the dark flight of stairs towards a soft, natural light. Entranced by the light’s beauty, she fixed her eyes steadily on it, only blinking when the dryness of her eyes became too much to bear. After a few minutes, her toe caught on a step, tripping her and sending her crashing onto the lower landing. Rubbing a bruised hand, she looked down the stairs she had already climbed. Shivering, she picked up her pace, so eager to be in that light, out and away from this dreadful hall. She stumbled up the last few steps and reached toward the white light coming through the cracked door. In her hasty attempt to fly through the door, her hand bumped the door shut. Darkness filled her senses and she desperately searched for a doorknob. It simply was not there. She searched again, panicking as she felt over the door with her shaking hands. Defeated, she stood there for a sickening moment, raised up her hand in a fist, and knocked. The sound echoed down the stairs, fading off in the far distance. The door opened slowly and she fixed her eyes on the greeter. Eyes flooded with joy, she entered into the white light.
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05.26.09
Posted in Uncategorized at 9:22 pm by rachel02
National Volunteer Week began in 1989 and was the first effort to promote volunteering on a nationwide scale. Organizations and programs are encouraged to recognize volunteers who put in their time without anything back. Volunteers contribute a lot to our world today and deserve to be recognized.
I myself am a part of a volunteer program at Thurston High. The Well Water Project, or water testing, is something I can call hard work with sacrifice. Missing school creates extra work and most of the time stress. However, this is something I enjoy and am glad to be a part of. In my water testing group we go out to Camp Creek and write down measurements and survey the creek and surrounding area. We measure creek width, depth, section length and take count of how many logs in the water. We also look for percent erosion and foliage cover along with several other things. The work sounds dreary in writing but the people in water testing make the work fun. Hiking up creeks all day in our waders, laughing at people falling in due to rapids, then falling in the water yourself is something you can’t get in many other places. Volunteering is an opportunity to do crazy and fun things you would have never done otherwise. It always comes with work but the experience is worthwhile.
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05.21.09
Posted in Uncategorized at 6:15 pm by rachel02
O.C.D. or in alphabetical order as I like it; C.D.O. Though I am not extremely O.C.D. I have several preferences that several people feel inclined to tease me about. By writing this post does not give the reader permission to tease me also, unless the urge is too great. Thank you.
All lines must be drawn with a ruler. If no rulers are in sight, resort to the side of a notebook or drawing no line at all. Example: I cross out the days on my calender with a ruler to the great amusement of my mother.
Crooked pictures, lampshades, papers sitting on a desk, or papers stampled crookedly together drives me nuts. Sometimes my sister goes in to my room and tips things or moves things crooked just to aggravate me.
Clothes in my closet are organized by color, type and use. Dark to light and different types on different color hangers. Even I think this is a little much sometimes and I mix it up once and a while when I don’t have time to be so particular.
Maybe crazy, maybe perfectionist, maybe O.C.D.? What do you think?
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Posted in Uncategorized at 5:48 pm by rachel02
This was a hard post for me to write on because I don’t have a very defined hero in my life. I think of story book characters who come riding in to save the day or a person who acted upon something that was right no matter what the cost. In the end, I think we all have a hero in us, though some show it more than others. Most of the time people are quite cowardly, putting on a fasle frount and going with the majority thoughts and wants. Sometimes it comes out, like a breath of fresh air, in the form of kindness, compassion, or love.
Heros are made
not born
heros are brave
not torn
between what is right
and what is wrong
they put up a fight
though the battle is long
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05.09.09
Posted in Uncategorized at 8:56 pm by rachel02
Do you find yourself fixing crooked pictures hanging on the wall? Or maybe you can’t stand touching bathroom door handles. You may have a mild case of O.C.D. Don’t worry, you are not alone. One in fifty people have O.C.D. and twice as many have had it at one point in their life. I feel I have a very mild case, yet some people tell me different. Over the next few weeks I will be creating a series of blogs relating to my daily life with O.C.D. Have you ever watched the T.V. show Monk? Well here is a link for those O.C.D. gamers that want to annihilate, obliterate, eradicate, and exterminate some germs!
Monk\’s Germicide: Outbreak
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Posted in Uncategorized at 2:44 pm by rachel02
Mountain lion, cougar, puma, or whatever name you call this cat, this is the animal I wish to see in the wild. This is the largest cat in North America (that eats meat, not cat food). They are rarely seen in the wild and so have become known as the “ghost cat.” If that doesn’t sound like an amazing challenge, I don’t know what is. I would not want to meet up with a mother cougar however, they are pretty vicious! Here is a link to a mother protecting her cub against a Grizzly bear. mountain lion
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Posted in Uncategorized at 2:01 pm by rachel02
look! see?
circling her sparkling eye
in the waves crashing against the shore
look! see?
stained on the little fingers of berry pickers
faded on a loved stuff toy
look! see?
painted on the sky
on the wing of a jay
look! see?
a beauty called blue
I see it, do you?
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04.13.09
Posted in Uncategorized at 8:37 pm by rachel02
I might have said this before, but I am not the best with technology. I normally don’t like to do anything with computers except the bare minimum. My mother set up a facebook before I did. Enough said. Having this blog as a requirement for my literature class as really pushed me head first into some technology. I struggled a lot at first to be motivated and get my assignments done but have started to enjoy blogging more and more. I have been able to communicate with people half-way across the world and read about the ideas and interests of many other people I don’t know. With blogging I am more conscious about how and what I write, making me a better writer knowing I have peers actually reading and commenting on my work. Overall, I think blogging is a creative way to get some interest back into the classroom.
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03.29.09
Posted in Uncategorized at 6:31 pm by rachel02
Earth hour is a moment where many spoke out for our home; the earth. This year I did not participate in earth hour being on vacation. Now, reading about this cause and knowing more what it is about, I am still not sure I would have done it. I am not the type to get into causes like earth hour. I do believe in respecting our earth and not destroying it, but find it hard to grasp how turning out our lights for one hour is going to save the environment and our world. I’d rather do my part through the three “R”s; reuse, reduce and recycle. I can’t say I am the worlds greatest at the three “R”s, in fact, I am not very good at it at all. However, I am aware of our environment and do my part to keep it clean.
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