#August8

I have this friend. He's my best friend in the entire world. I love him so much, he's like my older brother that I always wanted. Well he went to college down in south carolina and he wasn't able to come back for Thanksgiving break or my birthday. I haven't seen him since August 8 when he left for South Carolina. That was the worst day of my life, watching him leave was the hardest thing I've ever had to do. I know that sounds beyond dramatic and lame but if you knew how close we are you'd understand. Not seeing him since August has been so hard. It's been hard on both of being away from each other and not being able to get in the car and drive to the others house just because you're having a terrible day and you need a hug and to vent. It's been hard on us making new friends knowing that the other will probably never know them. It's so weird. It was REALLY hard having my birthday with out him for the first time in as long as I can remember. But he comes home on December 11! And he's driving down to Western to pick me up after my last exam. I can not put into words how excited I am! It's going to be the greatest feeling in the world to get a hug from my best friend again, I won't be surprised if I cry.

#CarrieAndHunter

I am the worlds biggest Carrie Underwood fan and I would be willing to fight someone on that fact, I seriously love her so much. I love her voice and everything that she stands for, I don't really idol any celebrities except for her. I want to be her. Well her and Hunter Hayes are having a concert in Grand Rapids, my home town, tonight and I want nothing more than to be there right now! Me, my mom, my brother, and my grandma were all online trying to get tickets the minute they went on sale but we couldn't get them, so I couldn't go. I am honestly so upset, I sound like a whiney baby right now, but I love her so much. My DREAM would to be able to sing with her at some point. I have the voice, I could totally do it, but thats a little far fetched for a girl from Grand Rapids Michigan.

#CouldaShouldaWoulda

So when I was looking at colleges Western wasn't actually my first choice. I got accepted to a couple school down south and I was planning on going to one of them, most likely a small private school in Charleston SC where my best friend currently goes. But when it came down to actually committing to one, I chickened out about moving so far away from home with out any family near by and ended up choosing to come to WMU. Don't get me wrong, I love Western. But I hate cold weather. Hate it, hate it, hate it. That is the number one reason why I was planning on going down south. So now I am seriously regretting my decision as I  currently can't feel my feet from being so cold at band practice.

#ResearchPaper

When this paper was assigned I thought it might be a little difficult at first but that once I got into it a little more it would get easier... Yeah no. I was wrong. I am having such a hard time!  I have the research I need and its all really good information and I can prove my point really well using it, I'm just having a really hard time putting it all together to make a paper that flows well and isn't too much just stating information from the research and isn't too much summary of the movie. GAHH! I can't seem to find the happy medium! I'm getting so frustrated! I have completely started over on my paper three times since Friday. And now I'm freaking out because I'm staring at a blank word document realizing that I have to have a good rough draft done by Wednesday...

#ThesisStatement

I'm writing my paper about the movie Easy A. I'm going to look at why Olive feels like she needs to spread the rumor about her being sexually promiscuous to break out of her shell and become more well known and popular because: 1. Society promotes it 2. She wants to fulfill stereotypes of the "popular" girls being slutty.

My thesis is:
When a rumor about Olive Penderghast spreads around her high school she lets it become known as true to create a new, more vulgar image of herself and break out of her shell because of the pressures from society and wanting to live out stereotypes.

#Weekend

So this weekend I am going home to see my family and support my high school band at their competition. I am so excited to see them! I miss them more then I ever thought I would and I can not wait to see them! The thing about high school marching bands is that they become the most close knit and dysfunctional family, and they're all so close. Thats the thing I miss the most, I thought coming to college that college band would be similar to that, but its not. Not at all. And it stinks. I get text messages and phone calls from girls in my section back at home telling me how much its not the same about my friends and I in the band and how they miss us so much, it makes me so sad! So, I'm super excited to see them on Saturday! And then also to celebrate my youngest cousins birthday too! It's going to be a great weekend!

#Homecoming

So this weekend was homecoming! obvi... It was fun and all but it really made me miss homecoming at my high school. I feel like in high school its so much more interactive and everyone participates more I loved all the spirit days, and all the excitement or sometimes drama to do with the dance and dates and dresses and plans and all of that! I loved everything about it! But in college I feel like its completely different, it just seemed like any other weekend except they crowned king and queen during halftime at the football game. I'm not quite sure how to explain it, but I guess I just miss high school homecomings and I wish I would have realized how fun and special they were while I was still there.

#Carrie

Wow. I'm just saying that movie was SOOOO messed up! And I definitely wouldn't put it in the horror movie category. I am the biggest wimp ever when it comes to scary movies, and that didn't scare me at all. That was just plain creepy! I couldn't ever really decide if I felt bad for Carrie or if I thought she was so creepy that she did it to herself. Also, I couldn't figure out if Tommy was being sincere in how he was treating Carrie or if he was going along with the mean kids. I'm glad that he was being sincere though, I thought he was super sweet and nice! It takes a big person to go against what's cool and be nice to the weird kid, especially to go as to far to take her to the prom and not be afraid to actually start to fall for her. I did really like that part of movie. Carries mom was off the wall nuts! She freaked me out, especially at the end. I couldn't help but think that she needed some serious psychiatric help.

#ShoppingAdict

So I have a slight problem. I think I might be addicted to shopping. I go online to my favorite stores "just to look" and then I end up with like five things that "are absolutely necessary for my wardrobe" and drop like one hundred bucks before I know it.... one hundred dollars that I shouldn't be spending. Right now I'm in a complete dilemma because there are two dresses that I am absolutely in love with and I really really really really want to buy! But the only problem is that one of them is a more summer like dress and to wear a jacket with it would cover up the coolest part of the dress so that would be pointless.... and then the other one is 100% sequins so its a little to formal for day to day wear, but it would be KILLER with a black leather jacket and black pumps. I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO!!!! I WANT THEM BOTH!!!!!!!!!! AHHHH!!!!!!!

#WritingProblems

This Literacy Narrative is so much harder than I thought it would be. I have a really good idea what to write it about but I'm struggling on where to start it and what to focus it on most, since what I am writing about happened over a weeks span on a mission trip to Chicago..... I'll figure it out I guess. I'm already planning on having to do some major re-writing when I get the rough draft back from the professor. Man. And I'm probably not devoting as much time working on it as I should be, this weekend is super crazy busy. Most likely I'll be pulling an all-nighter Sunday to try and get this sucker written half way decently.

#TwitterIssues

I feel like a rant a lot about things that bug me on this blog, I'll try to cut back on that..... BUT....
I can not stand the people that don't understand what twitter is for. The people that tweet every single little thing that they are doing need to get off twitter. "Just woke up #goodmorning" "Brushing my teeth #MintyFresh" "Getting Dressed #WhatToWear?" People like this make me want to scream, NO ONE CARES. JUST STOP. Or then theres the girls that tweet obsessively about their boyfriends. "OMG I love my boyf #InLove" "My boyfriend is the best ever! #ILoveHim" "I haven't seen my boyf in 4 hours, #IMissYou" Okay honey, I know you love your boyfriend, thats great! But no one wants to see your seven tweets about him in the last five minutes, It's annoying.

I'm sorry if you are one of these kind of twitter users, I don't mean to offend you, Just don't expect me to follow you.

#BMBProblems....

So I had to miss class on Wednesday for a band performance, which was kind of a pain in the butt because I hate being behind in classes. Then on top of that, the performance was completely pointless.... All we did was go to a high school competition full of bands that aren't good enough to do the big hard core competitions an play for them..... so dumb. Then we had to do this stupid meet and greet with all the high schoolers, which I thought would be fun, it wasn't. Every person that came and talked to my friends and I were super strange.... not just a little weird, I mean like off the chain WEIRRRRDDDD! Then when we finally got to leave we had what felt like a forever long bus ride that got more boring every minute as more and more people fell asleep. Then getting back to Miller Circle at 12:15 am and having to walk back to the Valleys carrying all my band crap and uniform.....yeah. It was a bad night. I would have much rather been in class. Okay, I'm done ranting now.

You know.... Just another story about my hometown.

So I'm not sure if my last post counted as a "class related post" soooo I'm just going to do another one just to be safe.....

    So I'm from Grandville Michigan, a suburb maybe 10 minutes outside of Grand Rapids. It's a medium to small sized town with a big mall and TONS of different places to eat. But theres this gas station, on a corner kind of between the more residential area and the commercial area where the high school is, that everyone stops at after school. Its the kind of place that all the workers know everyone that comes in and they hit up all the parties after the football games. Anyway, the traffic going in and out of this place during the time period from 3-3:30 is absolutely RIDICULOUS. One day, the traffic was backed up as usual, and some nerdy little sophomore had that had just gotten their license pulled out in front of a car and got into a car accident. With out hesitation, five  of the more "popular" upper class men got out of their cars to help. At school those kids wouldn't bother even speaking to them, let alone helping them out at a car accident. That poor kid in the accident was SO thankful. I'm not sure why, but I'll always remember that day.

Where I'm From poem...

So I came home this weekend! YAY! And I remembered that I had to write this poem, so I thought to myself "Perfect! This will make it easier being at home!".....yeah no. I realized there is pretty much nothing to write about in the little town of Grandville Michigan. All there really is here is a mall, more restaurants than a small town could ever need, millions of churches and schools. Talk about a boring town. Don't get me wrong, I love it here! But if someone were to ask me why I love it, I would have no idea what to say, since it's so boring. I guess it's just because this is where I grew up and have lived all my life so most of my memories come from here. So I guess I'll just figure out how to turn those memories into a poem!

Holla for a Dolla Honey Boo Boo

Oh hey! My name is Alexis Terpstra, and I have never in my life written a blog. I am from Grand Rapids Michigan and I am a freshman at Western Michigan University. I for some reason decided to live in the valleys, worst decision of my life, everything is so far away! Well anyways, I am in the marching band, umm I really like shopping, the TV show Friends, I like to go out on the weekends and I am an extremely sarcastic person.  I apologize if my sarcasm offends you, I don't mean to in anyway. I'm pretty sure this may or may not be the best blog out there. ALSO I'M OBSESSED WITH TWITTER. FOLLOW ME @alexisterpstra.