Thanksgiving

     It was Thanksgiving yesterday and I can not believe it already happened. It just seemed like it was just the beginning of the semester and now it is about the end. It is almost time for finals already. Yikes. Organic chemistry final will not be fun to do. Anyways this blog post is gonna be about how my Thanksgiving went and what happened that day. There will be pictures. Hopefully to anyone that reads this that yours went well too and you got to see your family once more.

    My Thanksgiving day started off with watching the Macy's day parade. My family always records it and waits a little bit so we can skip the commercials. We always do that every year. It's interesting to see what floats, singers, and performers are gonna be there. That takes up most of my morning. The next thing to do is help my mom cook. I help peel the potatoes and tear up the bread for the stuffing. I hate stuffing. Unless it is pineapple stuffing, that is soooo good. I prefer sweet over savory, that's probably why I like the pineapple stuffing over the regular stuffing. Then once I basically help her prepare we wait for everything to cook at wait for the guests to arrive. We were not expecting many people. The people that were supposed to come were my dad's cousin, my grandma, and grandpa.

    My dad's cousin arrives at 3 while my grandpa arrives around 3:15. My grandma and grandpa are taking turns watching their dog because he is not doing well. We eat with them and talk about things, most of which I forget. When it becomes 5 my grandpa leaves and my grandma comes instead. We have already finished eating but we sit with her while she eats and talks. I decide to pull out my phone and pull up Snapchat. I pull up a filter and take a picture of my grandma with the filter. I start to laugh and show everyone in the room. Soon everyone is taking pictures using filters and laughing it up. Everyone eventually left but it was a fun night.

My dad with a filter

Picking a Question

 As you know everyone in this class has to write a rational argument paper. The two hardest parts are trying to figure out a question and looking for the right sources. Some sources are so biased that having it as a source would not be great. And sometimes some sources give you little to no information at all. Plus looking to make sure the date is current enough. Now the question is probably the harder part. I had no idea what I was going  to write about. I wanted to write about something I would enjoy. At first I thought of something to do with pesticides. The only reason I thought of this is because I looked over at my friend's computer and saw her doing a website on pesticides. So I thought I was gonna do that and came to class ready to write about it. But as the teacher was talking it hit me.

    I was no longer gonna write about pesticides. I wanted to write more about the pandemic since it is current and is still kind of going on. But what about the pandemic. I was thinking some more and realized I could write it about something that I have. I was gonna write about mental health during the pandemic. Specifically anxiety, depression, and stress. I have the

anxiety and stress all the time. Anyway I wondered if mental health decreased or increased during the pandemic. Yes everyone was locked inside, but there was many opportunities to find a new hobby or look back at old memories and make new ones.

    Mental health also could've decreased due to the fact that we were locked indoors. We could not see friends or family. And some family or friends have passed. But again it was different for everyone. So I wanted to see specifically how mental health was during the pandemic. I can not wait to see. I think it has decreased but it could've also increased. I guess I shall write my paper and see then.

The Conjuring House

 I am a slight fan of horror. So of course I will watch people play like horror games or even go out ghost hunting to interact with ghosts. The most recent one I have watched is where to men decided to stay alone in the conjuring house. They talk to ghosts and one even spends some of the night in the basement while the other one is outside. I like horror but you could not pay me to go and be in the conjuring house by myself. Even if I had my phone. I would rather not be surrounded by a demon or something like that. Anyways this video was actually very terrifying and I made the smart idea to watch it at around 12 at night. I suggest you do not though if you want to go to sleep and if you have class or work the next day. I shall talk about this video in the next paragraph

    So to elaborate the conjuring house is both a movie and house. The movies are based on events that have happened at this house. These two men, Sam and Colby, decided to spend the night in the conjuring house. They have went there before and they said if they get enough likes they will do it and Colby will spend the night in the basement. That is supposedly where the demon is. At first they have people with them during the day but once it gets to night time they are the only two in that house. The owners are already asleep in a different room that does not have any activity in it. They go upstairs and start talking to one of the ghosts. They get a response and find out he is a soldier. They talk more and have to call one of their friends for advice. She gives them some advice and they decide to do something that is very dangerous. Colby goes down to the basement and sits alone while Sam goes outside.

    Once they are in their places they decide to do something very bold that I would never ever try to do. Now I will not tell you what happens next because I do not want to spoil too much then have you not watch the video. That is why I tried to not to type too many details. I would love to write a whole blog post about what happened but then I would spoil everything. Now the video will be below this writing. If you do not want to watch it then do not but if you do, DO NOT WATCH IT AT NIGHT. 

Group Project

 This week we had to present a group project. Even though we had all the write information and were ready to go I was still nervous. I am always nervous about group presentations. I just hate being in front of people looking at me I guess. But I mean don't we all get like that at least once in our life. Anyways this weeks blog post was about writing and how we thought we changed a little bit for the project. For most of the project I looked up information on the past of WIC. Some of it I found quite interesting. Especially realizing that it is not as old as I thought. 

    In the memo we got to explain the challenges and everything that kind of got in the way. I think one challenge for me was trying to find the history of WIC and making sure it was right. I mean it is hard to tell what on the internet is true or not. I had to make sure that WIC actually approved of the history. Another challenge was trying to incorporate it into the presentation. Now I did not read out all the history of WIC. If I did I would bore the whole class. That is why I only did some key or important points like the salary and who made up the system in the first place. 

    Now writing the memo was a little bit trickier. You had to be more formal when writing it. You could not write it like you were writing to one of your friends in a text message. Plus explaining really did help in the long run. I think students should be taught to write in many different ways especially now. We can text now and there is slang. Students will start to use slang when writing but for a job you can not really do that. Especially if you are writing to your boss. So what I learned is that we all need to come out of our comfort zone once in awhile and write differently. Sometimes that means to write more formally.