Top 10 List of Things I Learned in Shakespeare this Semester

1. I learned what an Oedipus complex is and that it is sick and wrong!
2. That Shakespeare was a pervert.
3. That sugar blackened teeth and was seen as a symbol of wealth.
4. There are lots of words that Sojin and I did not know the meaning of. And probably could have lived without knowing the meaning of.
5. That both Garrett Jeffrey and Jacob have really good girl voices!
6. That sharing journals is really fun and entertaining. There was a lot of laugh until you cry moments. 
7. Shakespeare is actually understandable when you have an awesome teacher to explain it to you.
8. That theater companies performed in London in the winter and spring and traveled during the summer to avoid the plaque.
9. Elizabethan era food in general does not taste that good.
10. Lastly, I learned how to blog and that it is bittersweet.

Magazine Feature

 

Are you a thinker or a doer???

          Take this quiz to find out!!

Circle either A or B.

1. Your mom asked  you to wish the dishes you _______________.
1. Wash them right away.
2. Consider it. Then go watch TV, and finally do them after you have been reminded four times. 

2. Your friends ask you if you want to go on a trip to Vegas you _______________.
1. Say yes and immediately go online to buy your ticket.
2. Say you will have to check your calendar and think about it.

3. You want to through a birthday party for your friend you __________________.
1. Send a mass text and post the event on Facebook.
2. Start planning and coming up with ideas, but fail to execute the plan.  

4. Your have been chosen to go to a leadership conference through school you ____.
1. Say yes!
2. Say you will have to check with your parents and the date and then get back to them.  

5. An old lady is shoveling her sidewalk across the street. You _____________.
1. Run right over and start helping her shovel.
2. Think about helping her, but decide to stay inside.

6. You see a little kid getting bullied on the playground at recess by a group of middle school students. You _____________________________.
1. Go over and tell the group to stop bullying the little kid.
2. Watch. Think about how mean they are being to the little kid, but you decide to walk away. 

7. You hear about a video contest where whoever receives the most views receives a trip to meet Taylor Swift. You _________________________________.
1. Begin making the video right away and have it posted that night.
2. Brainstorm ideas for a video, but fail to put together the video.

8. You want to start a new club at school called Relay for Life. You ____________.
1. Ask permission for the principal. Then, find a teacher to sponsor it and start having meetings.
2. Look it up online and find out more information.

Totals of responses:

_______ Number of A’s

_______ Number of B’s

If you responded with mostly the letter A, you are a doer. You tend to take charge of situations and come up with an action plan. You see plans through and make them happen.

If you responded with mostly the letter B, you are a thinker. You ponder your ideas, and often have trouble carrying them through. You struggle with taking action.

To be or not to be...

To live, or to die, that is my question:

It is manlier to others to endure the pain

The problems and challenges that face our future

Or to face all our struggles in life,

And by facing them stop them. To put life to an end-

Anymore; and by this action we die

The pain, and the hurt

That we all go through. Death is a dream.

Death is good and a wish. To put life to an end.

To die- we dream about: but it ends the dreams!

When you are dead no dreams may come

When we have ended our troubles,

Must give us time. There’s the respect

That makes trouble throughout life.

For who would endure the pain and suffering of life,

The downers wrong, the proud man’s insulting,

The pain of condemned love, the laws postpone,

The disrespectfulness of people in office, the scorn

Good people take from the unworthy,

When he might take his death into his own hands

With a knife? Who would choose,

To groan and sweat through a draining life,

But that fear of what comes after death-

The unknown, from whose destination

No visitor returns- which we wonder about,

And makes us endure our misfortunes

Rather than escape to what we don’t know?

Our morals and fear of death make us cowards,

And then the natural determination

Is weakened by our thoughts,

And our undertakings of great pith and moment

With this look their currents are misdirected

And stop all actions. - Be quite now!

The beautiful Opheila!- Pretty woman, in your prayers

Remember me and all my sins.

A Story of a Ghost Experience

It was the summer before my freshman year. My mom and her friend decided that it would be fun to take a trip down to Bisbee, AZ. I friend of mine went with us. She had an obsession with ghosts. She was always one the look out for them. Also, she claimed that she could feel their spirits. We stayed at the Copper Queen Hotel. The stories that we heard about at the hotel made be believe in the supernatural.

At the Copper Queen Hotel it is said that there are three well known ghosts that occupy the hotel. First, we heard of a lady by the name of Julia Lowell. She was in her thirties and known for being a seen on Brewery Gulch. She often used the rooms at the hotel for her clients, until she fell in love with one. However, he wanted nothing to do with her, and she made the hotel her home. There is a room dedicated to her that it is said is the room she usually used for her clients. She is said to haunt the second and third floors. There were stories told of her whisper in men’s ears, dancing proactively, and tickling men's feet. There was another ghost the also occupied the second and third floors of the hotel.

      Another ghost was named Billy. He was said to be between eight and nine years old. He supposedly drowned in the San Pedro River. His mother or father was said to work at the Copper Queen Hotel. Billy is very mischievous. There are stories in a book at the hotel of him moving objects in the room from one table to another. Also, he is known for hiding peoples’ belongings. Often, his footsteps are heard running down the hallway and he is giggling. Billy is never seen, he is only heard.

     Unlike Billy, there is an old man that is seen. He is said to be tall, have long hair, a beard, black cape, and a top hat. He appears on the fourth floor right outside the Teddy Roosevelt room. My friend, my sister, and I all stayed in the Roosevelt room by ourselves. We stayed up all night thinking that we would have a supernatural experience. Just as we were finally shutting our eyes, we all smelled a strong fragrance of cigar smoke. Immediately, we went to open our door and saw no one in the hallway. The next morning we were talking of our experience, when an employee of the hotel overhead our conversation. She said that the old man ghost that is often seen by our room usually smells of cigars. Our stay at the Copper Queen Hotel opened my eyes to supernatural beings.

Letter of Compaint

Holly Galen

Big Timber, MT  59011

November 18, 2011

Counseling Service

Bozeman, MT  59715

To Whom It May Concern:

Re: Letter of Complaint

I am currently in a slump in my life. To start my weekend out, I lost four dollars in scratch tickets. Those dumb tickets. They get one so excited, because they only have one more letter, number, or box that they need but than it fails to become a winner. Besides the likelihood of winning from scratch tickets, I am also feeling overwhelmed.

I feel as if there are way too many decisions to make. As I start applying to colleges, I need to have somewhat of an idea of what I want to do. The time and the money that it takes to fill out applications really make one reconsider how many schools they want to apply to. So far, I have applied to four colleges. I feel like there are a ton of different roads that I can take and I need to pick one. Also, I need to find the motivation to fill out scholarships. I do not find the excitement in senior year; so far it is just overwhelming. How is someone who is eighteen supposed to know what they want to do with the rest of their life?

I am currently seeking advice of how to make senior year less stressful. I am interested in coming out of my current stage of where I feel as though the world is collapsing on me. I look forward to advice and help in this situation.

Sincerely,

Holly Galen

 Holly Galen

Time of Exhaustion

It was just last week that I was overly tired. I had been to school everyday that week by 7:30 AM working on our marketing plan for FFA. There had not been a night that week that I had been asleep before 12:30. To add to the chaos of the week we had volleyball tournaments that Friday and Saturday and football playoffs Saturday to cheer for. On Friday, it was my birthday I turned eighteen.

          Friday night we were on our way back from Bozeman after cheering three games. Maureen, Lauren and I were talking about winter formal and who to ask. Maureen and Lauren were complaining about how when they are seniors there will not be a lot of good options for dates. They were coming up with plans to ask little freshmen.

          I started to fall asleep as they continued to scheme. They were both getting excited and saying how it will be legal for them because neither of them will be eighteen before winter formal their senior year. I pondered whether I could ask a freshman to winter formal.  I looked up at them seriously and asked, “Wait, you don’t have to “do” your date, do you?”

A Typical Sunday

	My Typical Sunday
7:30 AM	Wake up and get ready to go to church.
8:20 AM	Go to church with my family.
8:30 AM	Church begins.
10:00 AM	Have breakfast with my family.
11:30	My Sunday afternoons vary. They may include: -          I work on homework. -          Watch TV shows that I missed during the week. -          Clean my room. -          Work on college applications.
5:30 PM	Help my mom make dinner and set the table.
6:30 PM	Eat dinner together.
7:30 PM	I help with the dishes.
7:45 PM	I finish my homework.
8:30 PM	I watch a movie with my sister.
10:00 PM	I take a shower and get ready for bed.
10:30	I go to sleep.