Sammi Randoms' Writiinnqqq.

Okay...So finally, something i can actually talk about...WRITING! Omg, I love writing. But i do admit, at the beginning of the 8Th grade school year, I SUCKED at writing, like responses for tests and such. I mean c'mon. HOW BORINNGGGG is that. I guess because it was such a big SNOOZE for me, i wasn't really putting any effort into it. I now realize that it was very important to my learning, but then, I just wanted to get it over with.

This year was a bit different for me because I was introduced to a class named "Communication Arts" which is taught by both of our schools humanities teachers; Sholcker[: . (LMFAO] But my teacher was Ms. Shah. In the beggining of the year, it was all about yah' know test prep and whatever. And then we started into poetry. Something I was never really good at. And frankly, something i was NOT looking forward to.

So one day, Im sitting in my kitchen and my grandmother is making my favorite dinner ever...pork chops with rice and beans. And I come up with some stupid rap about how it smelled like puerto rico, and it looked like the slums and stuff like that. AND I HAD A SUDDEN EPIFANY!

"Ghee, wow i mean, if i can write 4pages, about how my grandmas cooking stikes up so many thoughts in my head...i can do any thing!"

So i got my notebook, and i wrote about how much i missed my mom, and how mr.locker looks like a cat, and how all the teachers probably live in a cave. And i realized that this could take me somewhere, and i can actually do something with this. So i started writing, and writing, and little by little my progress started to astonish people. Including myself. It was crazy how so many emotions and feelings can all go on one peice of paper and TELL people whats been in your head. It was crazy to me.


One of the poems, that have driven me to really push myself in writing poems was this one called "P.O.W." Writen by none other then Alicia Keys. One of the more powerful lines in her poem, that REALLY stood out to me was

"Mosly I only say what you wanna hear, could you take it if i came clear? Or would you rather see me...STONED on a drug, of complacency and compromise?"

That line really stands out to me and tells me something powerful. Because when you hear the word "drug" you imediatly think of "stoned" or "high" but shes using this word as an example. An example of how quiet and scared she is of what may happen if she were to stay quiet any longer.

I think that i have really grown, as a reader and a writing in the 8th grade. Being able to read what other people have to say and what they feel, has made me an overall better writer because i would get to inorperate all of those skills that people use and more to make my writing the best that it can be. [: