#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.