Miss Poulsbo!

The process i went through in running for Miss Poulsbo was purely doing. do, do, do, do, and do. I rarely got the privileged of being explained in depth anything. Most of the appearances gave me a 24 hour heads up text saying "Be here at this time in a princess costume" and displayed an address. This was deffinately new to me, i never do anything on a whim i always plan most things to a capital T. Once i began throwing myself into activities i had no time to really mentally prepare for, i began realizing how much i had been missing out on. I like to consider myself a well rounded person. One month in, i realized how much more i had to learn. We had a weekly rehearsal where we talked about each portion of the pageant we had to rehearse and preform. I had no idea in the beginning, but each one of these sections would come to teach me a life long lesson weather it be people skills, confidence, or how rewarding it is to give back to your community in a way you love. Our pageant director did not teach us per say, she just provided experiences for us to engage in that allowed us to gain personal lessons. My favorite portion of the pageant was the appearances where we had the privilege of dealing with children in all sorts of different ways. We got to paint faces and dress up like princesses, which many of the girls believed we were real. it was just pure fun spending time making a difference in kids lives, trying to set an example for them to look up to. The lesson that was by far the hardest process and stood out the most was being a graceful loser. I might as well tell you now before you read my whole paper and realize at the end "all this and you lost?". I didn't consider losing until the night of the pageant. I left that night with the "first runner up" title. Everyone at the after party kept telling me congratulations and i didn't understand why.. i lost. But it turns out losing teaches you something as well. The rest of my story is yet to come...

 

                                          Pageant night with my "little sister" Payton!

zip blocks are most commonly associated with storing or packaging foods also known as leftovers. Often you can use it for a variety of other things such as storing silly puddy that you dont want all over your bag, carrying wet paint brushes, or portable food package for your traveling pets, and so much more. all commonly used to contain something you would not want to carry or store free hand.

A goat is an animal. it is a small horselike animal that looks more like a mix between a dog and a mule. it has four legs and hoovs for feet. they sometimes have two antlers and a snoutlike nose. Goats are normally colored some sort of brown shade and they produce milk. it has a small bambi like tail. They are known for eating cans out of garbage cans.

Traveling Solo!

"How I Learned to Love Traveling Solo" was particularly interesting due to the fact that traveling fascinates me. I plan to travel a large amount in my life. This narrative definitely showed a different format than the other narratives, it allowed for separate sections kind of like a quick "How to" lesson. This made it easy to read and more enjoyable. I loved how she expressed her exploring patterns and how she would go about it on her own, a nice walk to the park by yourself is nice now and again, but also seems to be as great way to get acquainted with a new location. I never would have personally thought about solo verses people time while traveling independently, but i also don't think i would travel on my own in the first place. As she said though, you cant sit around and wait for the right traveling buddy because that can be very difficult and take a long time. i loved the way she expressed her loving to travel enough to be independent enough to go on her own. it was inspirational to myself who would also enjoy traveling.

The most important lesson I have ever learned is to be as honest as possible. Honest with others as well as myself. At a young age my dad had always stressed "your word is your bond" and if your word meant nothing you had no bond. Trust is the most important thing someone can hold in you. If there is no trust there is nothing, it encompasses everything. Being deceiving and mischievous only makes life so much harder for you. Lying will hurt you in an every day situation. If your parents can't trust that your doing what you say your doing you will never be allowed out of the house. In school, if your teacher does not trust you, you will be caught or accused for cheating. You cannot hold a good job while being dishonest about your work ethic or doing what you say your going to do when you say your going to do it. Most importantly you cannot build healthy relationships with people if you cant be honest with them. This lesson has been so important for me because it has shaped me into a better person. I've been working since day one to hold back fibs and white lies even if they are small. It has helped me to make long lasting friendships and be given a good reputation in times that I've needed someone to stick up for me. I will always like to be known for my good word.

Pre-Writing

I've never been much of a pre-writer. I find creating a first draft out of flow of consciousness on the subject, then going back and altering and tweaking, adding and erasing, and changing around paragraphs works best for me. of course I need a useful method of pre-writing when tackling a large assignment. For the large essays I've got to write I use outlines. I create an outline for what I want my essay to look like including all of quotes and main points. I plan out little details of the paragraph so I have a pretty steady set of tracks to follow when I'm writing my rough draft. Sometimes on assignments I don't particularly take to, ill need additional guidance for myself to get myself started. a lot of times I will use clustering to brainstorm ideas of what to write about. I  will also make it look like a list as well. I consistently use these methods because they never fail to work for me.

Malcom X

Malcom X's "Learning To Read" was surprisingly inspiring for my assignment. Out of all of the models i have read, his writing was inspiring simply because he was writing about being inspired. He started out not being able to read hardly anything, and taught himself to read and write, he is explaining a moment and experience that has changed his entire life. The other two models provide good examples, but his writing gives me ideas of what to write about in my own paper, about something that has truly made a difference in my life or changed me in some way. "How to Live Google Free" and "How to Program Computers" both wrote about how they taught themselves something but not something so powerful. Malcom really wrote about the most important opportunity in his life. I plan to write about something equally as important to me in my paper.