Final Blog Post

Which in class writing was your favorite? Why? -The this I believe essay because it made me realize what I really believe.

Which in class writing was your least favorite? Why?-The sex education powerpoint, because I didn't understand the point in that assignment.

Review all your writing chronologically (earliest to latest). List three interesting observations or changes in your writing. Which are the most profound (obvious and important)? Why?-My early writing from the first part of the semester were a lot shorter because I didn't know what to write about. But by using the "never stop typing" method my writing were longer.

If you could change anything about your writing this semester what would it be? Why?-I would probably have wrote about other things than just sports. sports is just an easy topic and I wish I would of branched out a littler more.

What did you like best about this course?-The fact that you let us have the freedom of usually writing about whatever we wanted.

What did you like least about this course?-Sex Education PowerPoint.

What would you have done differently this semester if you could have a do-over?-Study more

What did learn about yourself as a student, a thinker, a writer this semester?- That I have more thoughts and ideas than I ever thought I would.

What could I, Ms. A., have done differently to improve the course?-Maybe a little more one on one time.

You begin this course with an engagement and participation score of an A.  Attendance, participation in activities and group work help you to maintain this grade.  Evaluate yourself and assign yourself a grade for the in class portion of this course.  Don’t forget the reasoning behind your self assigned grade.- I believe I should receive an A, I participated in every group activity and I believe I worked hard in class, yeah I missed a few class periods but I still made sure I participated in class and made sure all my work was turned in.

What's In The Way?

What’s in the way.

I worry about everything and anything. I worry about my future a lot and what I am gonna be when I grow up. I have so many ideas of what I want to be but I doubt myself in what I can achieve. I want to be a college wrestler but I’m afraid to be away from home, I’m afraid to be away from my girlfriend, I’m afraid to fail and not reach my goals like I did in high school. I have a mental block, and I don’t know how to get rid of it. I’ve even tried mental training, I’ve read books about succeeding in wrestling and they didn’t help. I feel like I’m in a rut, I don’t know how to get out of this rut either. I’ve been it sense the day I graduated high school. I had it all figured out in high school, after those plans fell through I went into to this rut. I want to be a teacher, or a dietitian or business owner or something like that. I don’t know its all so complicated to figure out right now. I have a feeling that I want to go back and wrestle but I don’t want to be away from my family or my girlfriend. So what do I do? I think about it everyday. Some days are better than others, some days I stress and freak out a lot, some days I think about it very little  and it’s a good day. I wish I didn’t have this mental block. My mind is my worst enemy. Its always telling me I cant do something, and against better judgement, I listen to it. I want nothing more than to be successful in life. I want to be somebody and not just average, but to be great you have to go above normal human expectations, my mind tells me to be normal and that im not special, but my body and my imagination tells me im capabale of achieving anything. To me the human body is a machine, and with proper care, nutrition and excersise it is capable of doing almost anything. Im trying to get my self that way, but like I said, my mind is holding me back on a leash. Where do I go to college next semester? Do I wrestle? Do I move on to bigger things? What will I be successful at?

 

What If...

What if…

1.      I actually tried in high school

2.      I applied myself to my grades

3.      I tried harder at wrestling

4.      I went to Mizzou

5.      I was rich

6.      I lived on my own

7.      I had a new car

8.      I wasn’t in school

9.      I was married

10.  I didn’t have anxiety

11.  I was a college wrestler

12.  I was actually good at fishing

13.  I was a pro athlete

14.  I had everything I wanted

15.  I lived on the beach

16.  We had a different president

17.  Everyone wasn’t sick right now

18.  I had friends

19.  I was on a wrestling mat right now

20.  I was with my girlfriend right now

21.  I was with my family right now

22.  I was a chef

23.  I went to school for nutrition

24.  I knew my major

25.  Coffee didn’t exist

26.  Everyone was nice

27.  Everyone said thank you when you opened the door for them

28.  Cars had auto pilot

29.  Bad things didn’t happen

 

 

If I had it my way I would be a professional athlete that lived on the beach. My sport of choice being wrestling of course. Right now I wish I was living on the beach training for the next Olympic games on the beach. That would be my ideal life. Every day I would wake up next to my beautiful girlfriend, who would probably be my wife by now, and go run on the beach and workout, then I’d to the wrestling gym and wrestle for a few hours. After training I would go fishing with Kelsey on the beach then cook dinner for the two of us. Sense I would be rich of course we would sit on the deck of our 1,000,000 condo that overlooked the beach and watch the waves all night long. Oh how good it sounds in my head, everything I ever wanted right in front of me. An Olympic athlete living on the beach with his wife and kids. Everything would be perfect. Getting paid to do what I love. That’s my dream, why not chase it right? For one theres no money in the sport of wrestling, and for two my girlfriend and I go to different schools, and for three im in Missouri. I know that’s a very pestimistic outlook on life, trust me I know im king of being negative nancy. Maybe im just a realist? Maybe I should be a dreamer right? A little something in my head tells me to slow down and just be average, but my ego tells me be different than anyone else. Who do I listen to? It sucks that theres a 99.9% my dream will never come true. Yes ill probably live on the beach with my girlfriend, but wheres the money? Wheres the Olympic gold medal? Im sitting here wasting my potential and opportunitys away. That’s life I guess right? Sometimes things don’t play out like they did in your head in high school.

 

 

What if I went to Mizzou, if I went to Mizzou im sure by now I would know my major. I would be training in a division 1 wrestling room everyday training with the best guys in the nation. I would be working hard towards my enitial goal out of high school, that being be a national champion. Everyday I would get to workout and lift weights with the guys, go to class at an awesome school and have lots of friends and at the end of the day work on some home work and work towards my goals, graduate college and national champion. I wish that was my life right now, but its not. That would be perfect, that was my dream in high school. Wow, dreams change quick, well not necessarily dreams, but the way things pan out. But in the end it was all based off of choices I myself made! It sucks having to live with choices. I’ve never been to Mizzou but ive seen pictures and videos, and it looks so awesome. Just that college atmosphere looks great. OTC is literally like high school but with not as many rules and no sports.

 

 

What if no one saw color, that would be crazy. We would be like animals I guess. I couldn’t imagine not seeing colors. Like red, blue, green, purple theres so many of them! When you think about it we really take seeing for granted. Its an every day thing for most of us. We see color at school, when were driving, when were walking, etc. We don’t think about it or really appreciate it for what it is. Im sure some people do, but most of us do not. Right now I see several colors just from where im sitting, it would be so hard seeing things and not telling what color they truly were. I stopped writing, ive run out of things to say. My mind has shut down for the day. That’s okay I typed quite a bit of stuff. I like this class its fun. I like typing and writing its pretty fun. I hope time is almost up cause ive got nothing. My mind is drawing a blank, im tired so that’s what im thinking  about. And how my car is making me mad. Im just mad at everything right now. Ive had an angry week. This week needs to be over! On the bright side its gonna snow this weekend…said no one who hates snow ever! Go away winter! I do not want it to snow. I want it to be 80-90 degrees and hot! Move to Hawaii right Kyle? Wrong, very expensive living. Maybe it would be worth it. Not the volcanos. Vocanoes are no fun. Ive never seen one maybe there cool. Hey volcanos are colorful they kinda have to do with what im supposed to be writing about.

Decribing A Person Using Traits

Kyle Campbell

 

Bob was a tall, buff and attractive man, he used to have a lot of friends until he became a little too cocky. His favorite color is red. He liked to wear short shorts all the time. He used to be friendly and funny, now he is just so serious all the time. When he was in high school he got picked on because he was skinny. Even though now he is tan and stocky, he still has no friends. He lost all his friends because all he seemed to care about was himself, I guess it’s kind of understandable sense he was picked on in high school. Bob does have one friend though, this average height and fat friend sees past all of bob’s nonsense. Bob’s friend Tom’s face is covered in freckles and pimples yet is always happy and hardly ever sad. Tom usually wears long clothing unlike Bob who wear short. Tom has blonde, boring straight hair unlike bob who has flowing brown hair. Yet enthusiastic Tom sees past Bob’s flaws, always by his side Tom always calms Bob down when he is sad. Bob has a well built, active body type and Tom is just a fat normal dude the two are best friends because even though Bob has his moments, Tom knows he’s a good friend still.  

Stress

I could do with less stress in my life, I think that too much stress can take years off your life, but I also feel that just a little stress can be good for you, it makes us feel human. Stress is a reminder that no one is perfect and that everyone has problems. Too much stress can make you a very unhappy person, which could cause you to push people out of your life, which could lead to depression. I guess there is two types of stress, good stress and bad stress. Bad stress being you have to go to work every day to some job you hate, or a loved one dying, etc. Good stress being you have something fun planned at the end of the day and are hoping nothing gets in the way of it. 

 

A conflict I struggle with is deciding what to do with my life, I like so much but have no idea what I want to be. I know I want to finish 4 years of college, but I have no idea what to do. Part of me wants to be a nutritionist, or a teacher, or a fitness coach, or a MMA fighter, or a wrestling coach. But it all seems so hard and seems so out of reach. I feel like I’m in a constant rut and battle with myself. I don’t want to be that 40 year old still living at home not knowing what to do with his life. Out of high school I had it all figured out, I was going to go wrestle in college, then things took a turn and now I’m going in circles with my emotions. I struggle with adversity.

 

Deep inside you know what to do but are scarred to try anything because you don’t want to fail. You need to try something! It’s better than not trying anything like you are right now. So what if you fail? Get back up and keep trying. If you face adversity in your life, join the club, welcome to being an adult. Get back up and keep pushing. Even if you don’t wrestle in college it doesn’t make you a loser. I know you feel like one right now, but you’re not. Don’t let fear stop you, you always said you don’t want to be just some average every day guy, you want to be special, you want to be known for something. Well go get it, keep trying, finish school, you’ll find out your degree along the way, keep working out hard and striving to be the best you can and do something special with your life like you always said you would. You’re not alone, many people have been thrown off course, they either let it get them down, or they step their game up and kick life in the face and say I’m the boss. In life you’re either a wolf or a rabbit, don’t be a rabbit, you promised yourself you would never settle for that, you would never settle for less than what you are capable of. Set a goal, achieve it, set another, and achieve it. Keep on going all the way to the thought.  

 

Kyle I have followed you for years, I know what you are capable of. I’ve always known you’re special and I have been waiting for you to believe it for years. Your parents have always believed in you, no matter what. Right now you are settling for less than what you deserve. Yeah you have been tossed off path, get back on! You’re 20! Be special, show people the real you and go be great, it’s what you’ve always wanted, time to stop wishing and go get it. Get after it Kyle, you’re better that this.

Pigeon Impossible

As detective Beckett sits on the park bench eating his morning breakfast doing some important CIA work, a pigeon came up to him wanting some food. This was no ordinary pigeon, this pigeon worked for an enemy group of the CIA and was after the CIA. The pigeon quickly swarmed detective Beckett knowing the bagel and brief case out of his hands. The pigeon then trapped himself inside the brief case. The pigeon started chasing detective Beckett around shooting at him and shooting at cars. Detective Beckett started thinking of a plan, he then found his bagel laying on the ground. He began to manipulate the pigeon, holding up the bagel as if he was holding it for ransom over the flames of a burning car. The pigeon really wanted this bagel more than he wanted the CIA’s information. The pigeon then opened the case to take the bagel then detective Beckett quickly charged the pigeon knocking him away from the case, the bagel was launched into the air and fell right in the case on the missile launch button. The missile was heading straight for Moscow, Russia. Detective Beckett grabbed the brief case and started after the missile. As he was in midflight the pigeon had returned for his bagel, detective Beckett aimed his gun at the pigeon and fired, but nothing happened. The two had an intense stare down, detective Beckett then pulled out the rocket launcher on his case, right when the pigeon thought detective Beckett was going to shoot him, he opened up the brief case and the bagel went flying out, and the pigeon flew after it. Beckett then fired his rocket into the missile blowing it up and saving American from going to war with Russia. Detective Beckett flew back down to the ground where the pigeon was enjoying the bagel, Beckett gave the pigeon one last stare, put on his glasses, and headed back to the office like it was just another day.    

Things I Enjoy

1.      Wrestling

2.      My Family

3.      My Girlfriend

4.      Food

5.      School

6.      Working Out

7.      My Coed Softball Team

8.      My Friends

9.      Fishing

10.  Being Outdoors

 

I really enjoy food, I love cooking it, I love eating it, I love looking at it. I just like it. I really enjoy cooking and baking. In high school I took all the culinary classes that the school had to offer. I was also on the culinary team. I consider myself to be a great chef, but my dad begs to differ. He considers my cooking to be maybe a D+. My dad is a great cook, he learned from his mom (my grandma) and she is a very good cook. My dad helps me a little and give me little tips here and there, but I still like to do it my way. I used to want to be a restaurant owner, after working in a restaurant I do not want to own one anymore. My grandparents are very passionate about cooking, take in mind I had an extended family so this is just one set out of the three sets of grandparents I have. But anyways my grandparents are very passionate about cooking, BBQ to be exact. They do BBQ contest year round and are participating in the Rock n’ Ribs BBQ contest this weekend at the fairgrounds. They cook for every occasion, they cater weddings, church events and even just family gatherings, and they are very good at it. I am not very good at baking, I’m not much of a sweets eater, but I still like to bake. The stuff I bake always looks so much better in the picture they put on the internet. But I try, I prefer to cook non sweet items, like meat, pasta, stuff like that, main entre stuff. Maybe one day I may decide to try owning a restaurant once I’m older, but for now it’s just a fun hobby I enjoy to do in my free time.

 

I suck at fishing, I’m the guy who has the $100 rod and reel who can’t catch a cold. I also get jealous when the people I fish with catch fish and I don’t. I love fishing, I go all the time, and maybe 1-10 times I catch something. Every time I go I expect to catch a record breaking bass and I end up losing about $20 worth of lures in under water snags. Yes I have anger issues when I fish, just last summer I was having technical difficulties so I freaked out, took the rod out of my girlfriend’s hands that she was using, and I snapped it in half. It probably cost me more money to fish than anything. But I love it, I wouldn’t change those times for any amount of money because they are great memories, I love catching fish, but what makes it special is who I go with, and it’s a great time to be with people and just talk about life. I have so many great memories fishing with my buddies, we used to go like twice a week to the lakes and rivers staying out till 1 in the morning not catching anything and going to krispy Kreme at 1 because that’s the only place to get food at that time of night. Don’t get me wrong, I have caught some decent fish, I got a gar once and a sting ray and some nice bass, but I have more problems fishing than anything else. Getting trapped on rivers in the dark and having to walk the canoe back to the dark because the current is to strong. These are the stories I’ll tell my kids one day when I have a family and tell them about my old fishing stories, hopefully my kids will be better at it than me. Fishing is a great past time, it’s defiantly a great hobby and you don’t have to be good at it to do it, just have a good sense of humor, some great friends and family and a fishing pole.