Writing Challenge # 4

Saying Too Much

Once upon a time in a teeny tiny village was a teeny tiny lady that lived with her teeny tiny cat. They lived together in a teeny tiny house, with a teeny tiny garden, located next to a teeny tiny creek. They lived a very happy life in teeny tiny land. The village was very quaint and everyone that lived there was very very happy. There was only a teeny tiny bit of sadness in the village. The town had a teeny tiny airport that had teeny tiny airplanes. There was also a teeny tiny market. The Market sold teeny tiny food for the teeny tiny people in the land. 

The outside world was seemingly very very large for the people of teeny tiny land, so they rarely left. In the summertime, it got very very warm, but the teeny tiny creek kept them cool. In the winter it got very very cold, so they all had teeny tiny stone fireplaces to keep them warm and toasty.

When they got sick, they visited the teeny tiny clinic. The doctors name was Dr. Hodge.  People were not very fond of her as a person, but she was the best doctor they could find. She lived in a giant palace and controlled all of the land. She did not like trash cans, so she threw all of her food outside. Her beautiful palace was wrecked by her nasty nasty food. Luckily for the rest of the teeny tiny town, she lived in the deserted part. ( Just kidding Hodge, you're actually my favorite person and the earth loves you even if you leave crap everywhere :) )

You might think that life in teeny tiny land would be very very boring, but it was exactly the opposite. All of the teeny tiny kids went to the same teeny tiny school and had fun fun play dates in the teeny tiny yards. There was no college in the town, so they all had to leave teeny tiny land when they reached the old age of 18. Eventually, they all moved back to teeny tiny land because they missed their teeny tiny families and their teeny tiny friends; and sometimes they even missed Dr. Hodge. 

Teeny tiny land was probably the most annoyingly annoying blog you are going to read, and looking back at it, I think I said too much.

Writing Challenge #3.

Last fall, some friends and I were hanging out. It was late at night and we had nothing to do. We decided to go for a drive and just see where we ended up. As we drove, we came upon a eerie and dank cemetery. I was wary of entering the cemetery at first, but as soon as I saw how ardently my friends felt about going, I decided it would all be fine. As we walked along, we began to hear voices. We looked around, but we did not see anyone else there. In the sky, there were crows circling the sky and squirrels running around the tomb stones. In the distance, there was a dog barking. We continued walking, and as we walked, we kicked the superfluous leaves around. We all stopped kicking the leaves as soon as we heard someone else doing it. Again, we looked around, but could find nothing. We decided that it was all in our heads, but thought maybe our parents would be worried so we turned around. Just as we turned around, we saw a shadow creeping across the lawn. As soon as we looked in the direction of the shadow, it disappeared; it was no longer existent. We began to run and as we ran we all felt as if we were being chased. Just as we were walking up to the gates, it swung shut. We could see are car, but were not able to get to it. The wind was so strong that we were not able to open the gate. We decided to go to the next gate. Just as we turned our backs, the gate swung open. We escaped while we could and went to the car. That was our adventure in the cemetery...

Writing Challenge #2

TORTILLAS DECLARED KOSHER FOR PASSOVER;

CREATES DILEMMA FOR JEWS.

Minneapolis- Local Rabbi's announced today that they were in agreement over a new set of foods that can be labeled as kosher for passover. Tortillas have now been declared kosher for passover, the Jewish holiday that falls this week. " Besides matzah, there are not many other options in terms of foods that can be eaten during passover" says a MN Rabbi. He went on to talk about the introduction of ethnic foods into passover " in the past, we have never had a mexican food item that is kosher for passover. This is really exciting!"

A member of Temple Israel who wished to remain anonymous felt just the opposite. " I think this was a horrible idea. Chinese food has always been our go to cuisine, but now we are forced to choose between mexican and chinese. It's going to be a stressful transition." The MN council of Rabbi's agreed unanimously on this decision over a lunch of peanut butter and jelly matzah sandwiches. They said they were all sick of relying on the bland, tasteless cracker to get them through the holiday. 

Does this introduction mean we might start seeing quesadillas on the seder plate? Guess we will have to wait and see!

Writing challenge # 1

One evening, My best friend Charlotte and I went down by the Guthrie Theatre. It was a spring night and there were tons of people out and about. We parked by MTN and then walked accross the Stone Arch Bridge. We had met up with some other friends along the way and took our time walking accross the river. When we got to the other side, we were debating what we were going to do. As we made some potential plans, we saw a group of people congregating around a fence. We decided to go check out what they were all watching. As we walked over, the amount of people around the fence grew. When we got there, we discovered that there was a beaver that could not get back into the fence to get back by the river. Noone was helping the ebaver, they were only making it more difficult. People were chasing it and taking pictures. We hung out in the back and watched as people started to lose interest and continue on with their walks. Soon, we were the only people by the beaver and decided we needed to do something to help it. When we tried to go near it, it would waddle the other way. We then realized that it was injured ( people later told us it had been hit by a car). We called animal control but they were closed. We realized there was nothing we could do for this beaver so we walked towards the guthrie. On our way back to the car, the beaver was gone. Later that evening, we were driving down Chicago Avenue and came accross some more wild life. On 46th street and Chicago, we saw a deer walking down the side walk. At first we thought it was a dog, but as we got closer, we realized it was a deer. This time, we called 311, but they were closed for the evening. We continued on with our evening but kept thinking about all of the wild life we had seen in the city. It was sad, but also kind of exciting. Later that night, I got a text from Char saying " That was some adventure, huh?" and it sure was.

Documentary Blog #10!

I thought this poem had a lot to do with fitting in, or struggling to fit in. The author of this poem was born in Pakistan, but grew up all over. In this poem, it seemed as if she was detailing the struggles of fitting in, fitting in a country where the culture differs greatly for your home. You will not always feel comfortable and adjusting will take time, but you begin to accept that this is home for now. I'm not usually a huge fan of poetry, but I did really like this piece.

Our documentary is almost done. We are editing Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Unfortunately, I have had a busy work schedule and a lot of family things going on, but I am hoping to be able to put in as much time this week as I am able. We will definitely have a finished project on Monday!

Documentary Blog #8!

I think that everyone, in their lifetime has given a gift to humanity. This could be any type of gift. Mainly, their presence is a gift. All the gifts that they have contributed to humanity, have created our society today. Without the traits and gifts contributed by everyone, our society would lack any type of originality. Our gift to humanity is our personality, something that benefits us all.

Our documentary is coming along! This week, we re-did some of our interviews that were originally not the best. These re-do's will allow us to use larger segments for our final project. Our filming for our project is complete! We just need a little more footage of bikers on the greenway, but then we are set to edit! It seems like we might actually have this project done early!

Documentary blog # 7!

After reading this, I started thinking about social change and what it really is. I guess that before, I had assumed that it meant it impacted society as a whole.  After thinking about it, I think that Social change can mean either that or the impact that society has on an individual member of society and the changes they experience. Tying in with the theme of homlesness it this reading, I think that any of the people who stand on the corners asking for money have made meaningful social change, or have undergone changes as the result of society. The courage that it takes for one to stand on the corner and put themself out there to ask for money is remarkable. It is something that I don't know If I could ever do. This has to do with social change because the changing ways of society on this individual have led them to become homeless.

On Friday, we finished our documentary trailer, so we were happy to have that done ahead of time! We were not at MTN for as long as we were expecting, so that was nice. We are now working on lining up several interviews for our final documentary. We are talking to some environmental planners for the county and we are hoping to line up an interview with Mayor Rybak soon.