Lindsey`s English Blog

 It may not seem like a big thing, but getting ready before the day starts and getting ready for bed at night are the times I enjoy during the day and feel the most relaxed. I get up earlier than I need to for school so I can have time in the morning to get up and do what I want to do before my day starts. It makes me not only feel better and more confident during the day but it relaxes me during the morning before schoo. Getting ready at night lets my body know when it is time for bed in a way, and I definitailly definitailly have a very extravagant bedtime routine. 

 I am the second oldest of three kids, a younger brother and an older brother. When I was born, my family was living in Colorado, and my older brother was almost two. Everyone else in my family lived in Atlanta, and they all flew out for the birth. I was the biggest baby out of all the grandchildren in my family and the chubbiest. They said when I was born, I had extremely black hair and dark eyes. They slowly developed into blue eyes, and my entire head of hair fell out and grew back blonde; it has now faded to brown, but when I was a baby, it was very bright. It was only my mom and dad in the delivery room, and I was born at 1:17 pm with no complications.

 About 3 years ago, my family and I went to The Grand Canyon and it was beatiful, a natural masterpiece created by the Colorado River. I have never seen the Aurora Borealis, but I have seen pictures, and I cannot believe that it is an actual place, but when I researched it, it was caused by polar wind.  I recently went to Jamaica and we went snorkeling and saw a couple of coral reefs. I cannot imagine what actual reefs would look like, they have been building for CENTURIES and I find it really cool and really sad how easily they are destroyed.

 My family is atheist, so we do not really go all out for holidays except for birthdays. My favorite holiday would be my birthday, and others, that sounds very selfish, but not just mine, others' too, especially my mom`s, because I get to be in charge of it. I also get to make a cake for every birthday, a lot more when I was younger, for everyone, including extended family, but now I just do it for family because of time reasons. For easter we had a brunch and an egg hunt, and then I went with my boyfreinds family to church, they are catholic, and then we had lunch. 

 In reality, even McDonald's pays more than minimum wage, and living on minimum wage seems almost impossible. To prevent this, I plan to attend a four-year college program and then pick a field in that matches my degree to have more qualifications. I might want to get my batchlers and masters degree to get a higher position in that feild. A degree from anywehere is still an degree so I would probablhy decide to go to a cheaper college in order to save money.

 During my spring break, I went to Jamaica with my brother, a friend of his, my parents, and my boyfriend. It was an all-inclusive resort, which I was so thankful to be at. We had such a fun time and I really enjoyed he food, especially the steak. We went snorkeling a couple of times, and I ended up getting stung by a jellyfish twice. We then went on a boat and saw some spots far away from the hotel it was my favorite part. We left on saturday and I have missed it sense.

 Honestly the spring break we are going on currently I have been so excited for. My family got travel deals and were able to pay for a resort in Jamaca and agreed to take my boyfriend and my little brothers best freind. We have a lot of activities planned and the resort offers a Lot. we are not going to be leaving the resort at all for safety reasons but I am still so excited and cannot wait, it is going to be really beautiful and I cannot wait to see all the sights and for the food.

It is hard for me to say what my culture is because, in my eyes, my family does not celebrate religion and we are white. I have not really seen any films that show the culture of my family. We are atheist, and it feels like we kind of just live life and don’t do anything special. I guess Modern Family would be the most accurate, with three kids and two parents, but I have two brothers rather than it being two girls. Even though we don’t have traditions tied to religion or heritage, I think our shared experiences and the way we interact still shape our unique family culture. It might not fit a clear label, but I do not know how else to describe my family culture.

 I do not know if this makes sense, but I wish I had not outgrown not caring. Currently, my main thoughts are of what other people think, and when I was younger, I never used to do that, it was all about me. That sounds sellfish, but its not how I meant it I just am always thinking about what other think and never about how I want to think about myself or what I want to do. Like for college I felt no matter where I went it would not be as good as the other people I know who had all gotten into UGA and it took the experiance of finding what college I want to go to away and made it about other people.

 I think in a high school, there are always different groups of people we sort ourselves into, theres are lots of big friend groups in the school. I do not want to speak about other people's experiences but in mine being white, it is assumed that you are in gifted or taking AP classes. Or that you are planning on going too college, not just any college, but one of the harder ones to get into like tech and UGA. Today in class, we finished our project on the stereotypes Latinos/Hispanics face and found our two clips from South Park to show the class.