Soccer Ball

Sitting there in the grass, round and firm.  Rolling fast, rolling slow, not knowing where it's gonna go.  Getting kicked around in the air or on the ground.  Flying in the back of the net, winning games, making dreams come true.  

Something that made me laugh

When Lacy asked us to think about a memory that made us laugh I immediately had a vivid memory from when I was younger.  I am the youngest of three girls and when I was younger  I wanted to do everything that my two older sisters were doing.  We grew up on a street with a bunch of kids our ages.  Everyday after school and on the weekends all of the kids on the street would play outside and ride bikes or roller blade.  I begged and begged my parents to let me take my training wheels off but they kept telling me that I was too little to ride a bike without training wheels.  Finally, after months of begging they finally let me do it.  I remember being in the street and my mom was holding that back of my bike so that I could balance.  I was a feisty four year old and I wanted to do it all by myself.  I pushed my mom away and took off down the street on a two wheeler with out and struggle at all.  My parents and myself were in udder amazement.

As I was thinking and writing about this day in my day book I couldn't help but laugh.  What four year old gets on a bike and rides it with out any practice? At the time, if I was my mom, I think I would have had a heart attack.  When we get to write about fun memories it always puts me in the best moods because I get to think about all of the fun I had growing up.  I love reminiscing on the past!!

Annotated Bibliography

When I read the description of this assignment I was actually excited.  I was mainly excited about this assignment because it gave me the opportunity to think deeper about my project and grasp a better meaning of it.  The three primary sources that I used were and interview with my roommate Robbie, a picture that I saw on Pinterest, and a trunk that is in our room.  

When I sat down with Robbie to interview her for this assignment she was kind of skeptical and didn't really know what to say.  When I was explaining to her about our ethnography and how my group is looking at messages and quotes she started to think more about it and her thoughts began to flow easily.   She told me that when she reads quotes, no matter where they are, she tries to look deeper into the meaning of the words.  She said that she never thought about how quotes and messages could be a form of literacy until now.  She thought that it was really cool that there is a connection.  

Corrigan, Robbie. Personal Interview. 1 2012.

I was looking through my Pinterest earlier today and I came across this quote.  It is very simple, but I think that it could stand for so much.  In life, one has to step out of their comfort zone and go out onto this so called limb so that they can experience all that is out there for them.  Once somebody has gone out of that limb, they can experience so much more than they would have if they stayed in their little bubble.  I believe that this quote completely pertains to literacy because if one goes out of a limb they can experience so much with their writing.  When Lacy responded to my literacy narrative she told me that it would be good/ interesting if I took some different approaches in my writing.  I think that that is probably the best advice I have gotten.  I was really kind of down about my writing because I didn't think that it was good and I didn't really know what to do for it.  After Lacy gave me some ideas for my literacy narrative I definitely wanted to go out on that limb and take those chances.  There is most definitely "fruit" out on those limbs that make taking risks worth while.

"Quotes." Pinterest. 4 2012: n. page. Print. <http://pinterest.com/all/?category=quotes>.

"When you look at a field of dandelions, you can either see a hundred weeds of a hundred wishes."  In our dorm, we have a trunk that has this quote painted on it.  I think that this is one hundred percent right.  You have to have a positive outlook on life in every situation to see the beauty in everything.  I think that this pertains to literacy because you have to have a positive outlook on your writing or it won't have as great of a potential.  If you have that positive attitude than you can accomplish so much more with your writing.  

Artifact. Trunk in my dorm. Quote painted on it.