Words of Advice

Today, as I sat in class,  I learned a  few very important lessons from my professor Dan Owusu and I thought I should share it with you. Life is full of struggles and there are many times when you want to give up. You are put in situations where you need to speak up for yourself and not allow others to bring you down. The struggles of life do not define who you are and who you will become. As humans we have the ability to overcome the many obstacles of life. Many times I allow others to step over my dreams. I allow people to tell me that I can't achieve what I want to achieve. I let these people get in my way and at points I believe that they might be right but there not. I will face many people in life that want to see me fail. I will face many situations where someone will not cooperate with me and my ideas. I will face situations where my dreams are seen as a child's fantasy but that will not make me stop. What I am trying to tell you is that we all struggle at one point or another. We all face obstacles that seem hard to overcome and we all have had our dreams crushed. I just want you to know that we will be alright. We will be able to overcome all our struggles because we are strong. Never allow anyone to define who you are and what you will become. Smile and keep moving on.

Ninth Ward

Love??

As I rode the train today, I thought about love.  I sat their thinking will I ever find the one? Now, I know this may sound cheesy but I am pretty sure that a lot of single ladies and gentlemen think about love and finding the right one. We have all watched romantic movies where at the end love always perseveres and the couple lives happily ever after. No one want to be alone forever. Now, as I dreamed about my prince charming I came to a realization. I came to the realization that I wasn't sure what love was? I began to think and think and I just couldn't come up with a clear definition. Then I remembered my media classes and began to draw a conclusion. My definition/idea of love is what I have seen in media. Media has created this image in my head of what love should look like and feel like. I like to think that I am smart enough to not let media influence my thoughts because I am a communication student but I realized that like many people in America and around the world I have fallen victim of media. Media makes love seem like a wonderful experience where a man and woman go through hardships but at the end love conquers all. I don't know if it's true because I don't know if I ever have been in love but I think that love is more complex than that. Now, you may be asking yourself why is she writing about love and media? As I sat there in the train, I couldn't help but think to myself if anybody knew the real definition of love? How do you determine if you are in love? Is love a physical attraction, emotional, or both? Media has created this image of love in our heads that is impossible for most people to come up with their own definition of love. I guess my question is what is love and will we ever know a true definition of it? Or like my proffesor said " How do we know that it is real?"

Any one there?

I know that I haven't written in a while. I took a break from writing but today as I sat in my computer I thought about this blog. I wondered if anyone actually missed reading my stories and learning from my experiences. I'm not really sure if anyone reads this blog or not but I hoped that someone out there actually did gain something from reading my stories, stories that I lived and experienced. I started to think a lot about the our society. We all walk around with our headphones and technology on hands that we forget there are others around us. We never stop and listen or pay attention to anyone but ourselves. So as I sat in front of my computer i wondered is anyone there? Is anybody listening to me? Sometimes you just need someone to listen to you even if you aren't making any sense. You need to know that someone out there cares and that they feel the same way as you do. Life goes by really fast and before you know it your life disappears. You become a memory. So maybe instead of ignoring the person next to you, you should say hello. A simple hello can become the salvation of someone who yearns a listening ear. So one more time I'll ask is anybody there? Are you listening?

Theater: My Salvation

Me as Tracy Turnblad my senior year at Chelsea High School.

I have always had this passion for performing arts. All my life I have dreamed of being a super famous Broadway actress. I know of course this is very unlikely to happen but it is something that I just dream. Since, I know that becoming a famous actress was nearly impossible I started to use my performing arts skills to help my community. The first thing I did was work as an actor instructor for ELL students. Through performing arts, I was able to get these students to feel comfortable with themselves and with their abilities. I then moved on to hosting karaoke and talent shows at nursing homes. Performing arts brought a little bit of cheer to the life of patients living at the nursing homes. My whole life has revolved around theater. Theater was my way out of hard situations and believe me when I say I have lived through a lot. It wasnt easy moving from one state to another. I left everything and everyone I knew to start fresh. Theater was the only thing that saved me from losing myself and hope in this world. Theater allowed me to be anyone that I wanted to be. I could travel to any world without any fear. For one moment in my life I could be anyone and do anything without fear of being critized or failing. Now you might be wondering why I am writing about this and what the heck does this have to do with service to the world? Well I guess what im trying to say is that sometimes something as simple as a dance and song can be enough to get a great message across. Your passion can be used to inspire a world of good. I also wrote this blog because I am finally getting the chance to change lives with performing arts and I needed to tell someone that im afraid. I have been given this excellent opportunity to teach performing arts to children that may never have the chance to experience theater because of economic status and I am afraid of failing. In my hands I have the opportinity to teach children valuable lessons but im afraid. I just need to know that someone else feels the same way. I need to hear that it will be okay. I have to trust in my abilities but when all your life you have been told you are too young to make a change in this world it is hard. What are you supposed to do but panic and be afraid?

Beauty of Earth

This past two weeks have been  rough with finals around the corner. I started to think a lot about life and about how sometimes we just don't enjoy the beauty of nature. I started to think about how we destroy nature and its beautiful gifts. It is sad that we do not take care of this beautiful planet. I then started to think what can we do to make sure that this planet lives on for our children? Well the answer is pretty simple. We need to make sure that we are recycling, turning off the water when we are not using it, picking up our trash, making sure that we do not kill innocent animals. Small changes like these will make a huge difference in us preserving the beauty of our Earth. We need to take the time observe nature and you will see how beautiful it is. Recently, I went to the park and took a couple of shots of nature and you would be amazed to see the beauty that I saw. So, I put this video here for you to remind you that we need to take care of this planet. We can't just sit back and watch our planet die. Do anything!!! This planet is what gives us life.

New Orleans Video

Hello everyone here is the link to my video. I hope that you watch it and see the love that I have for New Orleans and can see the passion I have for volunteering. Before leaving to this trip,

I had lost my hope for humanity. The violence that surrounded us had me disappointed but when I

went to New Orleans I found humanity back. There are some amazing people in 

the world inspiring good.

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