The Search for the Perfect Review Topic

Things I Want:

• Time to cook
• Lots of time to sleep, every night
• A boss that makes sense when he talks
• To not have to work out to keep in shape
• Siblings that are closer to my age
• To be done with school
• Free college after I’m done with HS/PSEO

The Jury’s Still Out:

• Whether I have an attention disorder or just don’t bother to pay attention
• What I think of the Kardashians
• If I like cats or not
• If I like black coffee for the taste or the ease (not having to mix it or wait as long)
• Why I can’t ever stay awake when watching something on the TV but can on any other device

My Media and My Obsessions:

• Netflix/TV shows 
• El internado
• Gossip girl
• Scandal
• Friends
• The Flash
• Supergirl
• Jane the Virgin

• Movies
• The little princess
• Chalet Girl
• Hush
• High strung

• Snapchat
• Instagram
• Spanish
• Coffee
• Artists
• Adele
• Zayn
• Jon Bellion
• G-Easy

Things That Bother Me:

• Substitute teachers (Arns-Radai) who act like they the teacher whenever they are there. Arns-Radai goes as far as to make her own lesson plans, trying to make everyone participate in class in things that she shouldn’t oversee
• People who don’t know when to shut up (when I put earbuds in and am trying to do homework, you shouldn’t try to have a conversation with me, I’m busy)
• Kids who skip class at the HS, you are there for a reason and if you need an escort to each of your classes, you are doing something wrong. Like, why are you even here?
• People who walk super slow when they know there are people behind them. Then there are people who seem to try to not let you get past them, especially when they are walking in a big group.
• People vaping or smoking in general
• The Fault in our Stars (more so how everyone was so obsessed with it)

Why do I love Spanish so much when the people around me seem to be so negative about Spanish/leaning foreign languages?

            My mom started trying to teach my brother and I Spanish when we were probably in kindergarten. At that time, I hated learning Spanish. We had a book that we would “learn” from, but we never did any of it consistently, so all I ended up knowing was numbers and a few colors. Once I got into middle school, we had to start a language, and I chose to do Spanish the whole year, rather than try three languages throughout the year. I didn’t like the first quarter. I didn’t try, I thought that it was stupid, like a lot of the people around me do now. Then, we started learning by listening to songs, and I started to get it. I started to love the language and how I could actually communicate (even if it was only things like asking what someone’s phone number was)! I think that was when I realized how much I loved the language. Now, I’ve been in Spanish for the past six years and I love listening to the music, watching TV shows in Spanish (my current obsession is El Internado). I can’t imagine not having continued with the language for so long. I think that so many of the people that I am around never give the languages enough of a chance. As soon as they think it is hard, they give up. They never put in any effort to get better, only doing the bare minimum while talking in class or doing different things to help them grow in the language. Leaning a language takes effort, and so many people see that effort as negative because of the time it requires, but I love it.