Week Four

THE INSIDE SCOOP

Of all the ice cream and sweet treat stores in St. John's, Laura Second is one of my favorites. The ice cream and chocolate that the store sells is to die for. The prices of their treats aren't too expensive and you always get your moneys worth. The best time to go would be in the summer because they have all chocolates buy 3, get 3 free, plus ice cream is perfect on a hot day. It makes it very hard to walk by and not go in and buy anything. The staff is always very friendly and helpful aswell. Whenever I feel like trying a new flavor they always let me try a bunch and pick the best one. One bad thing I have to say about the store is the inconsistency with the flavors. Some days I go there craving my favorite flavor and they don't have it. It seems like they don't get regular stock every few days which could upset some customers and turn away business. They also don't always get the same products back each year. There are certain products that customers love around Christmas time or Halloween and sometimes they don't bring the products back even when they are customer favorites. Even though there are a few negative things about the store, I think that overall it is a amazing sweet store and definitely my favorite guilty pleasure.

Week Three

                     
                                                #1- Never confuse education with intelligence

The picture above is a sign on a little house downtown on battery road. I walk this road a lot on my way to the signal hill trail. It is the prettiest street for so many different reasons. It is unique and there is so many cool things to see, like this sign. I took this picture when I was having a really bad day. Final exams of my graduating year were starting the next week and I was so stressed out because these marks were what was going to determine if I could get into university or not. When I saw this sign, I just stood there looking at it for a minute and it made me relax. Never confuse education with intelligence. It is true. Sometimes we think the marks we get in school determine how smart we are but that is so wrong. Some of the most successful people in the world didn't even graduate high school. Everyone has their own level of intelligence and no exam will be able to determine that for someone.


                                              #2 -White water rafting

This is a picture of one of the funnest and funniest days of my summer. Me and three of my best friends drove to Grand-Falls Windsor to go white water rafting. When we planned it, it was beautiful and warm like July was, little did we know August was going to be awful. The day we went was one of the coldest days of the summer and we almost got hypothermia. Five hours on the water, wearing a wet suit, fleece hoodie, wind breaker and a life jacket.... We were still soaked and freezing. Even though it definitely could of been nicer out, it was still one of the funnest days ever. We laughed the entire time and we made a lot of new friends in the process. I'd love to do it again but maybe next time I'll check the weather network first.

Week Two

Bandages by Hey Rosetta!

It will come around
but everything is now
I know everything is right now
The loneliness is a lot
But the nothing weighs a ton
I mean the nothing weighs a f****** ton

That half of the bed
Empty like a page
Of the curses claims you've yet to make
Oh, the promising light
Bending like a spine
Or the whiteness that your pen could write


Get these bandages off
You can stand, you can walk
Leave these towels and gause
You get up, you get out
Into the sun

Thats where we belong
Been a bit too long
All our weaknesses are growing strong
And winter always ends
With water on your limbs, the April rain comes swinging in


Take these bandages off
Let me stand, let me walk
Leave these towels and gause
Let me up, let me out,
Into the sun

Oh, come she will
Come she will
Come, she will
Come she will 
She will


She comes, oh,
She comes, son,
She comes X7

The song above that I have chosen to analize is Bandages by Hey Rosetta. I love the song for not only the musical part of it but I love the words and the form. The song does not have much rhyming going on but the artist chooses words that make sense together and have similar sounds to make the song flow nicely. The song does not have a regular meter. For each stanza the number of syllabus changes giving each stanza it's own pattern, but the refrain is always the same (6,6,6,6,4). The song is very much a open form poem or song when it comes to stanza organization. Even though the length of the sentences are close to the same because the words go with the beat of the music, the number of syllabuls are different for each line so there is no specific structure.

While listening to the song many times and then reading the lyrics very carefully I realize the details of the song and the poetic language within the song. The lyrics speak about being in a bad place but leaving behind the parts of you that are damaged and seeing what is infront of you. The artist uses a lot of metonymy to pertray this idea, he uses sentences like "the whiteness that your pen could write" meaning there is so much more left of someones story. I think the person speaking is talking to someone who is sick or in a really dark place in their lives and the speaker is trying to give them hope to keep going on. The speaker could be the artist singing the song or maybe they are telling the story of someone they know. The song transforms from beginning to end. At the beginning it seems like this ill person has given up but the speaker is trying to show him the light. As the song pergresses, the person seems to realize there is more left for him in this world. The artist suggests this when he says "the winter always ends, its water on your limbs and the april rain comes swinging in". That sentence also contains imagery. While talking about winter ending and spring beginning the listeners can get a clear vision in their head. Many similes are used throughout the song aswell such as saying this person is "empty like a page". The artist used many poetic language when writting the song to make it have meaning and structure.

The song is about, like I previously discussed, someone who is sick or in a negative stage in their lives and thinking life is over. The person telling the story is trying to show this person the meaning of life and that his story is not over yet. The band Hey Rosetta is one of my favourite bands because their songs are more complicated then a lot of music. The lyrics are harder to understand then most songs because the words are more complex. I love this song because you have to really listen to the words to get the idea of the song, plus I love the simple melody of the song. The band is a newfoundland band, even though their music is indie rock. I have heard many covers of this song but the band has a very distinct specific sound so none of the covers I've heard were similar but that's what I like about them. They are unique.I also chose this song because MUN gets a shout out in the video and it shows some great shots of Newfoundland. Take a look!!

Week One

Hey guys, welcome to my first ever blog. I'm not really into this kinda stuff but MUN is all about trying new things and figuring yourself out right? So here it goes..
I am a first year student like most of you I'm assuming, looking to persue a career in buisness. I was never that kid who knew what he/she wanted to be when they were young. I honestly change my mind quite often so I'm sure that might happen a few more times before my MUN experience comes to a close, but I figure buisness is a OK place to start. I am a fairly friendly and out-going person. I love to meet new people and learn new things so hopefully I get to know some of you and learn from you throughout our English 1080 experience together. I am a very active and healthy person. I dance 6 days a week and on my spare time you can find me hanging out with my friends, going out or relaxing in my room doing my nails, listening to music or reading a book. I am definetly classified as a girly girl. For sure. I also enjoying going for adventures outdoors with my wonderful dogs, Marcy and Angel, (Marcy is in my picture). Some would say I love my dogs too much but what's wrong with that? They never fight with me or disagree, and they are always at the door waiting to jump up at me and give me love when I walk through the door. I love to have fun, I love to be surrounded by people and I love new adventures so I am really enjoying MUN so far.
I was born in St. John's, then moved to Labrador City when I was 3 till I was 7. While there, I was blessed with a baby sister which is what I always wanted because I already have a older brother which definitely is not as fun (sorry Alex if your reading this). Some think the three of us look alike but you really couldn't find three more different people then us. We then moved back here and we've lived in kilbride ever since. Newfoundland is a beautiful place to live. I feel like it's a little to small for someone like me but for all you new comers, welcome! I look forward to meeting you all during the next few months together and I hope to learn something from each of you. Thanks for reading my blog!
(PS. My brother Alex is also in this class so if he tells you anything about me, don't believe him)