~ My Sixteenth Birthday ~ 5/9

My birthday is in one week and it's the day I have been waiting for my whole life. I wanted to do something this year I have never done before. Like go to Atlanta or just somewhere I have never been. Unfortunately, I can't because that's the week I have Sol's. I was going to try to go the weekend before my birthday, but that Saturday I have SOL-O-RAMA. And I didn't want to have a party because that's something I have already done too many times. So right now I'm not sure what I'm going to do. However, I do know I'm going shopping for clothes and shoes. I want some Aeropostale and black label shirts, and some Apple Bottom and Rocawear outfits. The shoes I plan to get are Adidas, Air force ones, and maybe some Jordan's. I am also getting my hair and nails and maybe my toes done. I am getting a half of a sew-in with a black rinse. I was planning on getting a permanent dye, but I waited to late and I couldn't get a permanent dye and a relaxer at the same time. I really don't know what I'm going to do for my birthday because of Sol's, but hopefully I get a chance to do something. I hope it turn out okay.

~ Poetry ~ 5/7

We are currently working on poetry in creative writing right now. When I first heard we were going to stop working on short stories and start on poetry. I got nervous and kind of upset, because I hate poetry and I didn't know how to write a good poem. I never was good at writing poetry or songs. The only thing I could write and didn't mind writing was short stories, research papers, and essays. The first poem I have ever wrote was Thirteen Ways of Looking at Clothes. And that turned out better than I thought and it didn't take as long as I thought it would take to complete. While working on poetry I believe I have done much better than I thought when we first began. I also believe I have improved. Although, I do have much more to learn. I never brought any poetry or heard a lot of it. I don't have an favorite poet because I don't know that many and nothing that they have wrote. While working on poetry I have learned that there are many different kinds. Such as sonnets, haiku's, lyrics, epics, elegy's and more. My favorite poems are ones that rhyme. I don't really like non rhyming poems because it really don't catch my attention. I like poetry that I can understand and most of them I really can't. And those are the ones I really hate. That was one of the reasons I didn't like poetry when we first started on it.