BLoGGiNG aRouND DoS

Steph wrote about the difficulty in editing a poem, sometimes having to omit things you initially really liked:

love this post, steph... When I first wrote my poem, i had so many great ideas and it all just, came together SO WELL and i thought it would be perfect... needless to say I was SHOCKED when i found out it wasn't an A+ poem. So I got rid of the stuff i wasn't ABSOLUTELY in love with and replaced it with even better stuff. When I still didn't get my A+ i had to take a few steps back and realize that my opinion wasn't the ONLY one that matters in a poem... but it's still really tough to give up what you love about a poem to please someone else.

Mitch also wrote about editing his poem (am i the ONLY one who didn't?)... and how it's trick to avoid fixating on just one little phrase at a time:

There may be a better way for you, but for some people, this could be the best way. Or maybe there is no best way. It's so hard to know when you've got something "right" in your poem, especially after rewriting it so many times. Editing a particular phrase in a poem can be very difficult to do without messing up something else. There's a delicate balance to keep. Good Luck!

Metacognition: Me in 12 Years (Spanish)

For a project in Spanish, we had to make an outline of what we would do in the next 12 years... When I started, i had NO IDEA which direction i could POSSIBLY be going in... What job would i have? What would I major in? Not like I can even really think about that yet, because I don't even know what colleges I want to apply for yet. Okay, I'm overthinking this... right? So I took a little break, and when I came back... I decided just to write our what I wanted to do. Maybe it'll happen, maybe it won't, maybe only some of it will. Who knows? I came up with a good goal to keep in mind, anyways. Finally, I decided that, in the next 12 years, I would:
-Graduate from high school
-Graduate from college (no idea which one yet) with a double-major in Musical Theatre and Philosophy
-Teach preschoolers (build up an awesome immune system!)
-Live in Italy. Learn to speak Italian the hard way. Live with relatives, find a job there, for a while, at least.
-Come back to the States, and act, sing, (mayyybe dance, if i have to) professionally,.
-Have a family. Get married, have kids, but STILL work!
After i wrote this all (in Spanish, of course), i STILL wasn't sure if this is what I really wanted to do in the next twelve years.. but I kept it anyways. I realized that I'll probably never have it all planned out, and the uncertainty is scary. But I'll learn to be okay with it. Thinking positively: Anything can happen, so maybe it will turn out perfectly =].