A little too dramatic.

On Monday I went to see the play "up, down, strange, charmed, beauty, and truth" for extra credit for class and I have one word for it: Dramatic. In their defense, the main purpose and point for the play was very deep; with the mother abusing and almost killing one daughter for being a lesbian and their uncle making the sisters leave each other, it was a very intense play. With that being said, the actors took it to a whole other level. They made it very intense and even at times a little uncomfortable. I am not very into the acting world and don't know anything about it, so maybe I just don't understand. Either way, I don't believe I would choose to see this play again.

Cancelled-With a catch.

The next two classes are cancelled, which normally is something to be very excited about, but this time is a little different. I am very excited to have a couple free hours on Thursday and Tuesday I wouldn't normally have if I was in class, that's obvious. However, this annotated bibliography and outline we have to do are very daunting, in my opinion. I already have four sources for my annotated bibliography I did in class, but if I am being honest I haven't looked at it since I was in class so I have to get back into it. This entire project is a little intimidating for me. I struggled finding a thesis and how to write my analysis without sounding to much like I am summarizing. I am worried that I am going to summarize it all and completely miss the mark on the whole point. I am very happy were meeting with Mickey to discuss our progress because I have a feeling I am going to need some help!

Oh, College.

Up until these past couple weeks, college has not been too to bad for me, but once midterms hit it became extremely challenging. Thankfully I only have midterms in a couple classes, but then again they are my two hardest and most important classes. Spanish was first and it proved to be the worst by far. I am slowly realizing I may have been in over my head with the level 2000 spanish, if only I had realized this sooner. I have not gotten that grade back yet and I don't mind, I never wish to know. I also had a midterm in my Comm 1000 class and this class is extremely important because I want to minor in some field of communication and need this class to continue with that goal. It was an online open-note/open-book exam but I only had 60 mins. I was extremely worried and spent the whole night before studying and preparing, but it turns out It wasn't that bad. I finished in 40 minutes and was able to check almost ever answer in my book. I also got the results back today and got a 46 out of 50! I am extremely happy with that.

Analysis Thesis

Easy A is a movie that perfectly explains how society believes girls who "sleep around" are trashy and dirty, and how it is an even bigger crime when an innocent girl with a perfect record is the one doing it.

Interesting Week

This week we had a very interesting homework. We had to see a play on Monday called Sleep Deprivation Chamber. Being the naive non-theatre person I was I thought this play would be mostly about sleep deprivation or something along the lines of it; turns out it was, it just wasn't as obvious as I was expecting. The play in my opinion was very chopped up and confusing. It seemed to be missing a lot of things and didn't flow well. The play was extremely repetitive talking about the same things over and over. For example the explanation of the police officer's encounter with the main character was said over and over.  I wanted to just say "we get it, move on!". Also some of the characters were very intersting, like what was the point of the woman lawyer being a slut? and the grunting and heavy breathing dark figures? Once we got to class and discussed it it made a bit more sense, however it was not something I would see again.

My Weekend

Hi bloggers, I had a sort of eventful weekend. I work at Lawson Ice Arena as a skate guard and I have to work some of the hockey games. This Friday's game was my first time working and it was a training game. My sister has worked at Lawson for three years now, so I know a little bit of how it works and am not completely lost, that being said I still have never actually done it before. It was actually not as bad as I thought. Of course my biggest fear was falling on the ice but I dodged that bullet, this time. I also love watching hockey so it was a great time. After that I went home and watched movies with my friend. Saturday was pretty boring during the day but at night my friend and I traveled to the hockey game. We walked in the rain which kind of sucked but it wasn't too bad. The game was good and we won! Which is always a plus. After the game my best friend came into town and we went and hung out at her friends apartment. It was so so good to see her because I haven't seen her in about two months. My Sunday was also boring, and now we're back to the end of the weekend once again. Here's to hoping this week flies by!

Movie Analysis

This week we talked about the movie Carrie that we watched in class. Let me say once again that this was the most bizarre movie I've ever seen. We answered questions from our homework and then broke into groups to talk about certain people in the movie we thought were bullies. Once we all got together and presented, Mickey questioned us about how and where we got our information. These questions made me realize that we really need to thoroughly research our topics and have backups for our backups, if that makes sense. This information is good to know for our analysis project. I think I am going to do a movie but I'm not sure. I was thinking about doing a movie because it has one main point, unlike a TV show, I could get a lot of information on it, and I would be interested in it. I think I need to get more information on the topic before I definitely pick.

A Little About Me.

Hola Bloggers, I hope you all had a safe and exciting weekend, and didn't freeze to death! I swear Michigan weather is so bipolar! But, I love it. I thought I'd take the time today to tell you more about myself today. As you may know from my first blog, my name is Ashley Peruchietti and I was born and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan and I absolutely love it. Before I came to Western, I bounced around between a few different schools. I started out at Comstock North Elementary School. This was a good school, from what I remember of it I enjoyed it. However, I only went there until 2nd grade. Thinking about our future my parents decided they wanted us to go to a private, catholic school. I was young, so it didn't matter too much to me, or so I thought. I started my first day of 3rd grade at St. Mary's School. This was extremely different to my public school with 3 different classrooms for each grade. My time at St. Mary's was even more short lived. After my 4th grade year St. Mary's School closed due to the lack of people, we had 84 students for K-8th grade. So I started out my fifth grade year at St. Augustine Cathedral School. I stayed there until my graduation in 8th grade. After that, I went on to the only catholic high school in Kalamazoo, Hackett Catholic Central.  I spent all four years of my high school there and I absolutely loved it. I love the small school feel and knowing everyone you see. Western is a bit different then that, but I'm adjusting well.  So there's a little more about me, until next time bloggers.

Crazy Crazy Movie

Hello Bloggers, I hope you had a great week. The weekend is finally here! Yesterday in class we watched a movie called Carrie. This movie was an older film and was very strange.  At times I felt very bad for Carrie because she clearly had a bad home life and was extremely misunderstood. However, her telekinesis did not help her case. Also, the filming was very dramatic and made the movie seem very slow. For example the scene where she got the pig's blood spilled on her was extremely long and unnecesarily drawn out. All in all, I did not enjoy the movie partially because I do not like horror movies, but also because she was an extremely misunderstood girl who was hard to stick up for at times.