Blog entry no. 4

“The journey, not the arrival, matters.” –Montaigne

It was eight minutes until the bell rang for the start of Christmas Break. Hands sweaty, and heart pounding Taylor sat anxiously awaiting the bell of her freedom for the next two weeks. Her family is planning on traveling all the way to Hawaii for vacation. It will be her first time there so she is extremely excited. Finally the bell rang and kids shuffled out of the classroom where they entered a very chaotic hallway. When Taylor got to her locker she realized it had jammed. This was the worst time to get a jammed locker because the office would be so busy and she wouldn't have a chance to get help fast enough to catch the bus. Once she got her locker open and her things together the buses were long gone and she was left stranded at her school during Christmas break. To fix this problem of course all she had to do was call her mom and have her come to her school to pick her up, but when her moms number went straight to voicemail she knew her mom was in a meeting. So she left a brief message and sat down on a bench and waited for a call back from her mother. An hour later her mom called said she would be right over to get her. When Taylor arrived home she went straight to her room to start packing for Hawaii. She soon found out that her new favorite t-shirt had been ruined in the wash and she wouldn't be able to take it on vacation. The next morning Taylor's family left at 4 am to head off to the airport where absolutely everything was going wrong. Her carry on bag had items that kept on triggering the alarms to go off, and then after all that trouble it turned out that her bag was too large to be a carry on. So she had to go back through security to get the bag checked so she could claim her luggage later. A little while later Taylor was sitting on giant plane with nothing to do for 12 hours. The twelve hours slowly passed and she wondered if they would ever be there. She decided to start a conversation with the girl sitting next to her. She found out that this girl was staying at the same hotel as Taylor and would be taking the same flight home too. Taylor couldn't help but smile to know the fact that they could become friends over the week. The two girls talked about everything on the ride to Hawaii and hadn't had enough of each other by the time the plane landed so for the next ten days the girls were attached at the hip and did everything together. It turned out that it seemed like the journey was taking for ever but if she hadn't taken the journey she wouldn't have came out of the experience with a new friend.

Blog # 3 Ten years from now

Blog Entry No. 3

Ten Years From Now
I like to imagine my life ten years from now, and hopefully I will be in college or be graduating from University Of Illinois, in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Education is very important to me so I know I will go to a nice college. I will be applying for jobs in whatever I major in, which at this time I have no idea what it will be. University of Illinois is in Champaign Urbana so I will live in a nice apartment until college is over. After college I would like to buy a nice house somewhere. I think California would be a really neat place to live but who knows where I will be in ten years. Some of my friends will go to U of I too so I can keep in touch with them. I hope to be in a serious relationship but not yet married. The headlines of the day will be about all of the new technology. Technology is becoming more and more advanced each and everyday so I think there will be some great new invention ten years from now. The Bears will win the super bowl, and the Cubs will win the World Series. David Hanks will be the president of, if not the USA, something important. If I live in California I will live in a huge mansion, and live a great life of luxury and days at the beach. I want to become a world traveler, and go on vacation to as many places as possible. In ten years I wish to have traveled to Fiji.

Entry No. 2 my bedroom

My bedroom
We just recently moved a few months ago and my new room is huge! It is eighteen by twenty four feet. I still have some boxes left but otherwise my room is usually very clean. My room is decorated with a lot of different things, but mostly my room resembles a beach. My walls are aqua blue, the color of the ocean in Cancun, and my carpet is the color of sand. I have sea shells and sand dollars everywhere, and picture frames with palm trees. All of my furniture is white, which I think makes the room look bigger. I have a sign in the shape of a surfboard above my bed that says, “Memories are made at the beach.” I bought it in Osage Beach in the Ozarks. I liked that sign the best because I have been to the beach so many times, and I remember every moment of it. When I was decorating my new room I chose to make it like a beach because I think the beach is a very soothing, calming place, and I love going there to just relax. I also keep boogie boards that I have gotten from different places in Florida on my walls. I keep them there to remind me of all the great times I’ve had on vacation. I have one corner in my room that the whole wall is covered in posters of Zac Efron. In that same corner, I keep all of my scrap booking supplies. I have made three scrapbooks, and it is something I really enjoy doing. If someone were to walk into my room they would know I love the beach, shopping (hints all of the Abercrombie bags everywhere), scrap booking, and they would know my favorite colors are hot pink and aqua blue.

Entry No. 1: welcome to my blog

My name is Anna Goujon, I am a freshman at Olympia High School in English 1 writing, and I am going to be keeping a blog through the first semester of this school year.

I stand at five foot five inches tall, and I hope I will grow at least one more inch. I have straight light brown hair, and gold eyes, or according to Robbie hazelnut coffee eyes. I love to shop, and most of my clothes are from Abercrombie and Fitch and Hollister. I would describe my clothing style as classic. I don’t like the trendy styles of a lot of the clothes these days, but I think Abercrombie and Hollister have the most classic clothes that won’t go out of style in one year.
I have many likes and dislikes. My favorite sports teams are the Cubs, the Bears, and the Fighting Illini. Four wheelers are a huge part of my family. My brother races all the time and I love to jump all the huge jumps on the tracks. I love to sing and dance and I am in tap, jazz, ballet, and I used to be on dance team. My favorite movies are High school Musical 1 and 2. I love Monical’s Pizza, and Mountain Dew. I love most kinds of music and country is probably my favorite. Kenney Chesney is my favorite country music singer. One of my favorite places to go on vacation is the Lake of the Ozarks because you get to ride jetskis and go boating all the time. I dislike when people have bad attitudes, and I don’t like the Cardinals.