Is It Worth the Hype?

    

This weekend I decided to watch Squid Game. Squid Game is where hundreds of people who are in debt play children's games to win money. I kept seeing it all over Tik Tok. I usually do not watch popular shows that everyone seems to watch. But I saw it was kdrama also known as a korean drama. I have watched a few kdramas. Some to name are High School Love On, Reunited Worlds, and Cinderella and the Four Knights. So I thought why not add another kdrama to my collection. I looked it up on Netflix and saw that there was only 9 episodes. I'm used to like 40 episodes that are 30 minutes long. But then I found out each episode was an hour long. I knew it was gonna be bloody so I decided to brace myself. Not like I have watched any murder documentaries or anything. 😅 So in these next few paragraphs I'm gonna talk about all of it and my overall view of it and try to give out any spoilers.

    Watching the first like 30 minutes of the episode was a little hard it doesn't get too interesting right off the bat. You basically have to force yourself to sit down and watch it. I think it gets more interesting towards the end of the first episode. And boy was the end of the first episode bloody. I won't go into detail but let's just say lots of people died and there was blood everywhere. I think the first episode was the most boring only because of the beginning.

   

From Episode 6

Each episode got better and more heartbreaking. The most heartbreaking episode was episode 6. Episode made me cry so hard. It takes a lot for me to cry but that episode really did it for me. Every time I got on Tik Tok and saw a video on Squid Games and someone commented that they were on episode 6. People were like oh no or oh you poor thing because they knew what was coming. This episode made me hate one character way more in particular but I won't say who. Like I could literally write a whole paper on why I hate him. There is another character I cried for because the two even though they barely talked to each other where such a good team. Like I swear the people who ran the games knew exactly what they were doing. Anyways I think that episode is the one that gets everyone. 

    Even though I didn't write too much on the squid game I think it is a really good kdrama. I could write more but I might end up writing a whole paper probably with spoilers. Even though it is obvious who wins I still think that having someone else win would not follow the rest of the show. I think if you can handle blood, people dying, and seeing people fight over lots of money then you should definitely watch squid game. Also there is one sex scene in episode 4 just for a heads up. Anyways I think it is worth the hype it has been given. But that is my opinion. 

College Online

     

    I feel like the first year of my college was not ideal. When I transitioned from high school to college it did not feel like it. They were both online so it was like I was just changing classes. It only felt a little different when talking to the guidance counselor about classes and the classes for the rest of the year. In high school you just look at the classes for the next year not all 4 years. Anyways I think online was not a good choice for anyone especially the ones who need hands-on learning. I am one of those people.

   Doing online learning can make me loose focus a lot. There was many times where I found myself not paying attention to what the professor was saying. I would often either go on my phone or play a game or just start thinking and tuning the professor out. Also I was on my computer so I could just watch YouTube instead. It is hard for me to focus when I have like everything on my computer. I feel like it was that way for other people too. It's like do I choose to watch this boring lecture or do I want to watch videos or see the latest trend on Instagram or Tik Tok. Most of the time it would be the second choice. 

Procrastination. I know that having online classes has made my procrastination go up. I always think I've got plenty of time to do this and wait until last minute or that night. And of course I would always have questions but it would be too late to ask them. Since we were, and still are, in this pandemic we feel like all we can do is just stay at home and basically do nothing. So having schooling online means we're at home and don't feel like doing anything. I mean we were told to stay home and couldn't go anywhere. It is in our brains to just do whatever we want at home. Our home is where we relax so procrastination is bound to happen.

    Online school was not bad but also awful for me and others. I guess there was not really a choice since in the beginning we had no idea about what was to happen next. I'm just glad I get to be back in class where I will still have distractions but way less. That way I can actually learn and get my degree.

The First Days

       

So today I went to the Popcorn Festival. As usual I have to wake up early to get a good spot for the parade. I thought the parade was gonna be longer but it was way shorter this year which surprised me. But I did have to fight kids for candy. They kept getting in front of me. They didn't have it last year, in retrospect the parade should have been longer and had more people. After the parade was over my family and I headed downtown to look for food and little tent shops. Most of tent shops were stuff for Halloween or to hang up somewhere in your house. But there was one little tent at the end of the road that I should not have saw. And my family regretted me seeing it.

    The tent was for the library and they were selling books for a one dollar. Some where twenty five cents but most were a dollar. I just had to get some books. The books I usually go for are the horror books. It's weird because I am not much of a horror movie kind of fan but horror books, games, and podcasts I love. So I immediately started looking for horror books. I found some like autobiography books about people I did not know. To me they sounded boring. It took me awhile to find some but I found three. The three I found where Lux Consequences, The First Days, and Desperate Measures. I handed the lady a five dollar bill and gave the rest to donations and she was so thankful. We around some more then decided to go and listen to the band that was playing. 

    It was country. I'm not much of a country fan. I decided to sit down and grab one of my books. I pulled out The First Days. I opened the book and read the first few sentences and could already imagine what the scene would look like. In the first few sentences it described small little hands underneath the door trying to reach to her, the main character. When suddenly blood was running out from under the door. I know I would just start running and not just stand there and watch. The book then goes to describe how her husband ran into the glass to try and eat her. And one of the first thing she thinks of is that she should have had her husband put in the weather stripping. I think there is more important things to think about than the weather stripping! Her son and husband are dead and want to kill and eat her! Why would you think of that at a time like this?! Clearly you're not gonna have your house anymore so it doesn't matter. Anyways she then gets on this women's truck and learns a little about her life. While they try not to get eaten and get away from these zombies.

    The chapters in this book are short but there is still a lot of pages to read. I can not wait to read more about it. I wonder if the two of them will have to kill off hundreds of zombies or If one of them will die and the other has to find a group of people to help her. I figured out that this is the first book and there are more books, at least two more. I'll have to find the others so that I can figure out what happens next and not just read the first book and have no idea what comes after.

Thoughts on Chasing Coral

         

Normal Coral                             Bleached Coral

The movie I watched this week was Chasing Coral by Jeff Orlowski. The movie is about trying to show people about coral bleaching. A specific scene that got to me was probably was when they were looking at the video footage. It went from clear to becoming more unfocused every time. That angers me because they put in all this hard work and the footage came out worthless. I know if that happened to me I would be so mad. Also earlier they said that they had no time to test the cameras, but they  decided to make new ones and test those. Why didn't they test the first time they made the cameras?! It wouldn't of been unfocused if they would have done at least one test. That is what also angered me about the scene. If I was in that situation I would have tested so that I knew they would work and would not have to start over. They were working on something really important and had like no time to fail. They wasted months of work, coral bleaches fast.

    

    I think the one thing that surprised me is how much the ocean temperature has risen. Some has risen to almost as high as 12 degrees and as low as 4 degrees. 4 degrees may not seem like much but for the coral it means death. It caught me off guard because normally like say the temperature outside went up like 2 degrees. It probably wouldn't feel like much of a difference. So when I think of the temperature going up a degrees or few I don't think it would be that bad. But in the ocean that is really bad. I was not expecting like 2 degrees to affect coral and make it start bleaching. Seeing the heat in the ocean on the screen really showed me that the ocean is really heating up from climate change.

    I've noticed in this documentary they say we need to tell people about it but they don't say how we can stop the coral bleaching. That is a question I have. How can people help with stopping the coral bleaching? During the film I experienced the feelings of sadness, anger, and happiness. I was sad towards the end because it was showing what the reefs look like today. I experienced anger when they messed up the cameras and people did not care at all. And I experienced happiness when I saw the coral alive. Also when people wanted to learn about coral bleaching towards the end of the documentary. I just feel like people don't care much about the coral reefs and don't think it effects them in anyway when it does a huge bunch.

   

 We avoid research in summaries because we will want to explain the research we found. Once we explain it becomes more of an analysis. We won't focus on what is happening on the documentary but more on the research and connecting it to the documentary. In fact there probably won't be much on the documentary. The summary wouldn't even be called a summary anymore, it would be more of a research paper.