week 12 not so happy thanksgiving

Over thanksgiving break I lost one of the most important people in my life, my grandfather. We never expected him to go down hilll so quick, he was doing fine on monday but on tuesday is when he got really bad. Wensday came around and I was with my boyfriend at his brothers house, my phone rang around 4 o'clock it was my mom she was crying, I didn't know what was going on, I asked what was wrong she told me she loved me and not to cry but my grandfather had died. When those very word came out of her mouth it felt as if someone had ripped out my heart i couldn't feel anything else, I just sat there in the front room and brokedown. My boyfriend tried his hardest to get me to stop crying and calm down but it didn't work, I finally told him that i wanted to go see my family so we got in my car and went over to my grandparents. As i walked in to the house i felt nothing but sadness and looked at the faces of my family members reality set in i realized that this was actually happening. Some on who I considered a best friend was gone from me i didn't want to believe it that the one person i could talk to about everything with was dead gone from me for what seems like forever. After the man came to take my grandfather away i offically brokedown I could barely breath it felt like my heart was ripped out of my chest I had to leave.
The next day it was thanksgiving everyone was trying to be happy but I knew deep down they were hurting just as much as I was. Throughout the day I just wanted to see my grandpa I didnt want anything else, he was my best friend in the entire world.

week 11

the semester is coming to a close and i think my writing has improve alot since the begining of the semester. I have learned so much from being in Stephanie's class i think that writing is still hard for me to do but it has gotten alot easier for me now i can write a paper and only have a few mistakes with the grammar which is more than what i can say about my spelling, but that is a different story. next semester i hope to do well in my other english class and take what stephanie has taught me with me to that class.

week 9

my writing so far this semester has improved greatly in my own opinion. i have to admitt it has not been easy to do at all but i think it has been fun. going through college right out of high school has been interesting to say the least not just because i am fresh out of high school and i didn't really want to go to college but also because i have spina bifida and it makes it hard to be in class. i try and stay in class the best i can i mean i have gone to class a lot more than i did in high school.

week 5

today is Sept. 23, 2009 today is going to be probably one of the hardest days for me and my best friend. Today is the 2 year anniversy of my best friend's mom's death, her mom was probably one of the strongest people I have ever known she died of cancer and a very bad infection that shuts down the organs one by one. This woman was my hero simply because no matter how much pain she was in she always had a smile on her face. She would always tell me that i was the strongest person she knew but in all reality she was the strongest person i knew. She was truly my hero she was like a second mom to me.

week 4 my writing so far

These past few weeks at ICC have really helped me become better at my writing not only because we have to write a lot of papers, but because so many things go on here that since I like to write poems about my day I have written a lot lately. Now weather they are any good or not I don’t know, my boyfriend says they are, of course I don’t know if he is just being nice or what. My sentence structure still needs a lot of work but other than that I think I am improving a lot. I’m really excited to start on our next paper for English class I feel that I will do my best on it because we get to choose the topic of what we write. I love the fact that we get to choose the topic because it’s something new to me I’m so used to being told what to write about and I tend to get really bored with what I’m writing if I’m not interested in the subject so I don’t do well on the paper, but I have a feeling that I will do fairly well on this next paper.

week 3 blog

In my theatre class we are watching the production Hamlet. Hamlet to most is very confusing, I know it is for me, Shakespeare in general was a very confused man his writing are the most well know and most taught in school across the world. Much like Shakespeare I become very confused when I write the only thing I write about is things that happen to me during the day or if I’m in school I’m told what to write. I’ve never really been able to write a paper about whatever I want in school it’s all really different for me being in an English class and being able to write what I want to write about.

Entry #2: Case Study: Yourself as a Writer (Your Reflection)

Me as writer, well I never really considered myself a writer. I mean I like to write but I don’t just sit there and think to myself “I think I’m going to write something today”, I’m more of the type of person to just be doing something or say something and think it could be turned in to something like a poem or a song. Then I’ll write it down and say it a couple of times then I’ll turn it in to something. That’s one thing a lot of people don’t know about me is, I love writing poems. Poetry to me is a way of getting away from all of the bad things that go on in a day, but I don’t consider myself a poet. I guess you could say I am still trying to find myself as a writer. Same thing goes with my song writing, I love to do it but I don’t consider myself a songwriter I just write what I feel and turn it in to something. For example my 7th grade year my English teacher was having us write a lot of different types of poems. One particular type inspired me and that was narrative poems as I sat in the class thinking about what to write about, I didn’t even realize I had already began writing on my piece of paper. By the time I was done my teacher had been reading over my shoulder the whole time she had me read out loud in class I was really surprised when I was done everyone clapped and told me what a good job I had done. The next day my teacher announced that we were going to have our 1st annual poetry night at my grade school and she asked me if I would read my poem, and of course I said I would. The poem I wrote when I was 12 years old is still sitting in my mom’s room right below a picture of my brother who died at birth. If you don’t mind I would like to share that vary poem with you.

There was a woman who had a son
Who knew his life would soon be done?
This boy’s name was Zach
That was for a fact
This boy my brother
This woman my mother
My mom always says she wishes he would come back
Even though I did not know you
I still love you
We think about you each and every day
So I just wanted to say
We miss you Zach
We miss you my big brother Zach

In loving memory of Zachary David Christian
June 10, 1988

letter of introduction

Dear Stephanie,
I’m Markie Christian I am a new student in your class. So therefore I want you to know me a little bit better, here we go. Well since you already know my name let me tell you about some of the things I like to do in my spare time.
First of all, one of the things that I love to do is dance, I have been dancing for about 16 years so I guess ever since I was 2 years old. I danced at Kim’s Academy of Dance for about nine years and then I decided I wanted to try out cheerleading for my grade school when I was in sixth grade which also included a lot of dance. I did cheerleading for about 3 years up until I had surgery which I’ll talk about a little later on. After I graduated from grade school I entered a whole new world, high school, some may think of high school as “oh it’s just another school big deal” well for me it was a big deal not only because it was all new to me but it helped me realize another one of my talents, acting.
Acting is another one of my talents, but of course for me being on stage is just another ordinary day. I love it because it’s the best feeling in the entire world. The first official play I was in (besides church plays) was The Bad Seed, I played the role of Rhoda Penmark a “perfect” little girl with a couple of anger issues shall we say. After being in The Bad Seed I decided I wanted to try community theatre so I asked my mom what she thought about it and she loved the idea. She loves coming to all of my performances I can honestly say she is my number one fan. My mom and I started looking for auditions in the newspaper, finally an audition caught my eye, High School Musical was the play so I set up a voice lesson and then I was off to my first audition at Cornstock Theatre. I went and did my best, and about three days after my audition, I was sitting at home watching T.V. with my mom and our phone rang and it was the director of High School Musical, I MADE IT! I was the happiest person in the entire world at that very moment; I think I made my mom go deaf for a couple of days because I screamed so loud. I have also been in Peter Pan and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat.
So those are a couple of my talents or as I like to call them hobbies, but back to that surgery I mentioned earlier. I have spina bifida which is a birth defect, it affects the spinal cord and most of the time the person can’t even walk, but I am truly blessed that I can. I have had about 30 surgeries from the time I was born up until now, I know sounds like a lot but it’s not all that bad it could be a lot worse. It’s no walk in the park, but I try and keep my head held high most of the time. I have always had people behind me to keep me going like my mom, my brother, my dad, and my step dad a.k.a. Daddy.
My family is the most important thing in my life, and I would do anything to help them out. I love them with everything in me, but only one thing can come before my family in my life and that would be God, my father in heaven, who has given me the ability to do the things I love to do. I’m a strong believer in the Lord; I guess you can call me a “hardcore Christian”. I don’t look at myself that way though, I look at myself as the kind of person that will help anyone no matter who you are, what religion you are, etc. to the best of my ability. Beside God and my family my friends come next, to me there is no greater thing than friendship. You have to have some friends to survive in my book because you can always go to them if you feel you can’t talk to your family about something. I know that’s how it is with me, if I can’t talk to my parents about something I’ll go to my best friend Alyssa or my other friend Ann because I know I can trust them with my life.
Now to talk about what I would like to accomplish while I am here at ICC. While I’m here I would like to be able to get a degree in nursing. The reason for that is I want to help other people with disabilities such as mine and of course other illnesses. Another thing I would like to accomplish is looking for all that ICC has to offer and possibly another career change.
So there you have it, there is a little about me. I hope that this letter has helped you understand me a little bit better I am looking forward to being in your class this year. I also hope to learn a little about you in the process.
Sincerely,
Markie Christian.