My Weekend

I had a great weekend once again I found myself at notre dame visiting my boyfriend. It was fun because everyone was dressing up for the halloween dance. It was sponsored by redbull and I was surprised how many people went. It was to raise money for the troops so the name of the dance was 'rave for the brave,' it was a nice cause that they were raising money for. On Saturday notre dame had a football game and they have a winning streak so everyone on campus' faces were glued to the tv while the irish played against Oklahoma. Notre dame won and in all the excitement someone pulled the fire alarm and everyone had to evacuate the building. It sucked because it was cold, wet and raining outside. I had fun but I would have been much happier if I had stayed dry!

Class

After finding my thesis and posting it in my blog for class we scheduled our research paper conferences. We had to do our annotated bibliography and an outline. For the outline we had to state our thesis then bellow that find a scene in the movie that supports our thesis then describe the scene. Below though with a bullet point we had to relate that to our thesis and then an article or any written work that would support and prove our statement. The next thing we had to do was create an annotated bibliography with 8 sources. We had to write a summary of all the research of the sources and how they related to the topic of our paper.

Thesis 2

In the movie, Ever After, Danielle’s modern views and feminist ideas help her go from commoner to court life.

THESIS

In the movie, Ever After, Danielle is a modern women in the settings of a classic fairy tale.

The Weekend

I went home this weekend to turn in my early ballot. It was my first time voting so that was pretty exciting. It was also nice that I went home because I got to see a lot of my friends that were home for Fall Break (which is also frustrating because we don't have one. ) I got to see my cousins from Australia and they got to meet my boyfriend, who was home from Notre Dame for break. It was great to see my friends and family. I also got to see the movie Pitch Perfect. It was so funny and I really enjoyed it. Fat Amy, was the funniest character. It was fun to watch the actors all sing and dance and they were all really good too! So overall a great weekend! :)

10/17/12

Today in class we went over some of our favorite songs and alot of them were Rap. I wasn't really surprised but I  didn't really find any common ground with those songs and I couldn't really relate. I was disappointed that we didn't have much of a variety of song choices. So we had to pick either a book, song or movie that we had to do a analysis of. I think I want to work on an old Irish song that I've known since I was younger. I am pretty worried about how I'll find research on my paper but I think it will turn out fine.

Fun Post

This weekend was my Nana's 88th birthday so I went home to celebrate. It was so nice to see my two brothers come home from college to come to the party. But the even bigger surprise was that my cousins from Australia were in town. We saw as a group 42nd street. It's a musical. It was pretty good, alot of tap dancing. My favorite part of the show were the costumes. They were so pretty and sparkly. I had never seen a show in Stradford, Canada but it was very highly recommended. I had a fun time but I was mostly just happy to see my whole family home for my Nana's big day!

Class

The class this week I thought was pretty slow. The one day I was pretty excited to have class canceled (no offense :) ) We talked about the questions we had as a assignment for the Carrie movie. It was pretty freaky the movie and I didn't really enjoy watching the film or answering the questions about it. I'm not very good at analyzing movies so this assignment was pretty difficult. We also talked about finishing up our final draft of out narrative paper. I enjoyed the paper though. I thought my creative side came out through that piece a d I'm really not looking forward to the research paper.

10/01/12

Today in class our first two pages of our narrative were due. I really wasn't happy that our classmates were asked to read our papers out loud and give their input in. I felt kinda embarrassed. I wish that we stuck to the partner corrections instead. I also felt like I didn't know what to look for to correct my classmates papers. I felt awkward about giving my peers corrections when I wasn't sure if I had been right or not. But I guess it wasn't that bad but now I'm just nervous if my paper was rightfully corrected. I was relieved to have my paper done but now I'm stressing about the final draft. It's not a lot of time to get all this editing and assigned reading done. STRESSING