what I loved.

As a child I loved music, I mostly listened to Nigeria music because it had a lot of meaning. I always loved the music in the Nigeria movies, it always told the truth of the situations the actors and actresses were in. Sometimes when in a bad mood, recalling a beautiful song got me to smile again. In my country or rather were I lived we loved telling each other stories especially in school and wasn't like gossiping about what happened yesterday or last year. It actually were real and fictional stories our granparents told us, when we get together we tell each and what I loved most about it is that everyone always sat attentively listening to the story, gasping when something horrible happened or singing along to the song in the story. My friends and I always remembered each others stories through the songs. We all loved telling stories everyday even coming up with our own stories, it was creativity in disguise because we never though we were being creative, we just knew it was a normal thing to do among ourselves. I love how we all seem interested in every little thing, I took that for granted it was normal to me so it did not seem important. Now I wish I could go back in time and cherish every moment and pay close attention to every story they told. I say this because now I can't remember most of the stories told, I would love to but I can't because my enviroment has changed and as adviced I have adapted to my new environment. I am happy I had no problem getting used to new things but they made me realized how special my freinds and every other thing in Cameroon was. you never know how special something is until you lose it.

a quote

Most of the time before I go to sleep, I always read the quotes on my Ipod touch. I read them sometimes to gain knowledge and sometimes because I read a scary book and would not like to have nightmares. This is my favorite quote today about life " I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see".
John Burroughs.

my doggy

One november afternoon I went to the garage and was suprised to see a dog, I dislike dogs. At first I was so scared of dogs, if I saw one coming i'd run as fast as i could and it'd probably follow me, so i would look for somewhere near to hide or someone to hide by. They probably would look and think "who owns this child", I know because it's happened before and after that i felt embarrassed. And before i never thought dogs could be reffered as cute, until i came to the US and the most common word was "cute". Now I am a little used to dogs, so when I saw the little sitting in my garage , I went and told my mom. After a few days my mom decided to bring the dog into the house and we put pictures of it around the street, hoping someone would claim the dog as theirs but no one did so we took it in permanently. One day my sister came back from school and startted calling the dog Micheal, and when i asked her why she replied " my thought it'd be a good name for him and because Micheal Jackson is great " I did not really like it but I couldn't come up with a better name at the time so we went with that. Micheal is really nice but sometimes he can be a little too aggressive especially if he does not know someone.

Digital journaling.

In my digital journaling class, we are required to be creative. Creativity is something I lack, because there is no one to tell me exactly how a picture should be taken, or what pespective of an object I should capture. I like doing things that have a procedure linked with: such as Math each problem has a fomular, History each question's answer is in a text book or online etc. Digital journaling makes me nervous because everyone has a different opinion on even a sheet of paper. I really dislike failure in any form which creates great doubt in my mind before I even post something. Sometimes I post things because I have to not because i think it is good enough to be posted and also because i don't want to fail. Though if it was up to me it would take me weeks even months and thousands of opinions before i post something, but since there is a deadline to almost everything, I have to put the thought of failure aside and just do it. I also have to remember "The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure" by Sven Eriksson