Mmm, peachy! January 29, 2008

These little round orange and yellow candies are full of yummy goodness.  They make my taste buds water just by the smell, and even thinking about them makes me want to eat them right now.  Peach rings are what I’m talking about.  If this counts as a food, it’s definitely my favorite.

The taste of them is easy to explain, because they just taste like peaches.  They are covered in sugar, so they taste very sweet when one begins to eat them.  But not only are these candies sweet and taste like peaches, they are also quite tangy.  Imagine a peach-tasting, sweet, yet tangy candy.  This is probably the most wonderful tastes in the entire world! I mean seriously, who could not love it?

 Next time anyone makes a trip to the grocery store, or walmart, or basically any store; make sure they pick up a bag of these delicious treats.  The smell of them will make a person’s mouth water, and it will be the only thing that they want to eat for the rest of their lives. I promise. =)

The Experience of a Lifetime January 28, 2008

            Hundreds of screaming fans gathered around six different stages, waiting to hear the sound of their favorite bands play right before their eyes.  This experience was so new to me, considering I had only ever been to one concert in my life, and Warped Tour was more than just one concert, but a music festival with almost sixty bands.  With a lineup of that many bands, it was hard just to decide which ones I wanted to see, and which ones I had to miss out on.  The feeling of being there is unexplainable.  The music, the people, all the merchandise tents set up, was all part of the whole experience.

            The date was July 26, 2007.  The location: Scranton, Pennsylvania.  Me, my little sister Chelsey, my friends Rachel and Nicole, and her little sister Kayla began our day with a breakfast at Perkins, and a two hour long car ride to Scranton. We arrived at Warped Tour about two hours before the concerts started, because we knew that we would have to wait in line for a while, which was definitely an understatement.  We stood in line for over two hours, as the temperature rapidly began to rise; talking to each other about different bands that we liked, and how pumped we were for the rest of the day. None of us had ever been to a Warped Tour before, so we really didn’t know what to expect out of it besides the music.

            As we entered through the gates, we didn’t even know where to go.  There were six stages, tons of food stands, and even more merchandise tents spread across a very large parking lot.  And even though not everybody was through the gates yet, there were so many people that it was hard to just get around.  As we began to walk around, Chelsey and I heard a band that we knew, but couldn’t think of the name.  We followed the sound the whole way across the parking lot to one of the main stages, and finally realized that it was Amber Pacific.  We excitedly watched the rest of their show, and then went to the lineup board to decide what bands we wanted to see throughout the day.  We ended up seeing Amber Pacific, Bayside, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Paramore, Chiodos, Mayday Parade, Escape The Fate, Coheed and Cambria, and Hawthorne Heights.  The energy of the crowds while watching the bands were insane.  Some crowds were fun and energetic, while others were violent and basically ruined the show.  When Chelsey, Rachel, and I saw Escape The Fate, the singer had to stop his show twice because kids were fighting and getting hurt.  One fan even had to be taken away in an ambulance because he got a concussion while he was in the pit (a circle formed by the fans, which is then filled by “moshing” enthusiasts.) The two bands that I was most excited to see were Bayside and The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus.  Rachel, Chelsey, and I waited for over half an hour for Bayside to begin their set.  Finally seeing them play live was one of the most thrilling experiences.  I could tell that they really loved what they were doing and that the other kids around me loved their music just as much as me. 

            After seeing Bayside, we made our way to one of the main stages to see The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus.  We got to the stage about an hour before the band was to start to play, because we knew that there would be so many fans, especially because they were chosen to play ten minutes longer than the others.  My sister, Rachel, and I ended up being in the 2^nd row, center stage when the band came out to play.  This was the most ridiculous show out of all that I had seen that day.  The crowd was enormous, the body surfers traveled to the front of the crowd in huge groups, and the sweat just poured off of everybody.  As they began to play everybody began to jump around and recite the words to the songs that they were playing.  Just being there in front of them and hearing them play my favorite song was thrilling beyond belief.  This was the last show we saw that day, and it was definitely a wonderful way to end it.

            Going to Warped Tour was definitely one of the best things I have ever experienced in my life, and I wouldn’t have wanted to be there with anybody else either.  Everybody that I went with has such a love for the same type of music; it wasn’t at all difficult for us to decide what bands we wanted to see.  At the end of the day, we all had horrible sunburns, bruises all over our bodies, and aching feet.  We were completely exhausted from the eventful day we had just experienced, but it was all totally and completely worth it.

Come back to reality. January 24, 2008

 It was a cold winter night in February. I had just gotten off of work at my job at Subway, where I had spent the past six hours dealing with my annoying bible hugging co-worker and a handful of rude and irritating customers.  All I wanted to do was go home, get a shower, and curl up in my bed until I had to wake up the next morning to go to school.  Little did I know that the events to follow would keep me up the rest of the night and prevent me from going to school for the next two days.

As I got in my car and began to drive home, the snow fell harder, and I noticed that ice had begun to form on the roads.  I was so anxious to get home that I drove faster than I should have for the conditions the roads were in, and didn’t believe that anything would go wrong.  The next thing I know, my car is positioned on the opposite side of the road, now facing up the mountain instead of downward (the direction in which I was traveling before).  Confused as to what had happened, I look around and noticed my windshield and two windows completely shattered, the door from the passenger’s side of my car literally touching my right arm, and blood dripping from my hand.  I frantically looked for my phone to call my mom, and got out of my car, barely able to hold myself up because of my bruised legs.  As my parents arrived to pick me up, I was in complete shock.  I tried to tell them what had happened but I couldn’t even remember.  I don’t remember sliding on the ice, smashing into the pickup truck parked across the road, or even seeing any of the surroundings as my car spun around on the icy road.  The only thing I remembered was the sound of the shattering glass; all I could think about was how one of my friends had died in a car accident just days before.

I cried for hours after I got home.  Thoughts kept running through my mind about how I could have easily not survived, and how I should have been more careful, considering my friend’s death was a result from driving at a dangerous speed.  Never in my life did I imagine that something like this would happen to me; I thought that I was harmless.  Reality struck me that night, and I realized that things aren’t always how they seem.  In this way I think my story is similar to the cave-dwellers in Plato’s Republic.  I was used to things going my way, and nothing unpredictable ever happening in my life. After my accident I came to see how thing’s really are, and that one should never believe that they are harmless.

“I see it when I look into your eyes.” January 22, 2008

I see love, hatred, excitement, and many other things.  I see people being lied to and people being treated wrongly.  I see the most real things in life, but sometimes surpass them.  I am sight.  I see things that some people don’t, but also miss things that other people see.  I am probably the sense that is used most, and without it Tanisha would not know near as much as she does today.

 I have been through the transition from home to college, and all of the experiences that have been included in both of those situations.  I have seen the emotions from different people while leaving from one place to the other, and have shown family and friends the same emotions through these eyes.  I witness the making of new friends and relationships, the seasons changing, and the different ways in which people interact.  I observe the different situations that Tanisha is put into (both good and bad), and I show her emotions to other people through these eyes.

I observe surroundings everywhere I go: the people and their actions, colors, and the environment.  I see all of these things and try to help people see Tanisha’s true feelings. I believe that I am one of the strongest senses. Not only because I witness so many different things that are going on in an environment but because i can tell many stories just by my looks. I am sight; a simple way to see into ones true heart.

This is my life. January 21, 2008

 Bff. The end.

My sisters<3

College just wouldn’t be the same without them.

 Only we can understand it.

Hometown Loves.

   

   

Warped Tour=Love

I am me. January 14, 2008

I’ve never done this whole blog thing, so I don’t really know what to expect out of it.  I’m excited to have a place to just write what I’m thinking or feeling about basically whatever I feel like.  I guess today we’re supposed to write about what the word I means to us.  I never really thought about what it meant to me until I read that excerpt in class.  People use I so often and nobody really thinks about what it means.  Is it used to just talk about oneself, or do people use it and actually think who they really are?  Even in the small amount I’ve written so far in my blog, I’ve used I numerous times, not even stopping to think about what it really means.

After reading the excerpt in class, I began to think about what I means to me, and who I really am.  After actually thinking about it, I realized that I isn’t just a word used to talk about yourself in a sentence, it’s who you actually are. Your lifestyle, your mindset, the way you think about things, all of these make up “I” or who a person really is. In a sentence such as “I am going to the store.” you don’t really think about what I means. But it doesnt just mean you, physically as a person.  It means you as an intelligent, growing, i-have-alot-to-offer-in-life, human being.  If you don’t believe that you are unique and believe in yourself to be more than just another person, then I really means nothing to you, and I would assume that you don’t really know much about yourself.

I just recently started learning who I am.  College has opened me up to a whole new world and a whole new way of thinking.  This all contributes to who I really am, and what I really means.  If I would have been asked to explain “what I is” a year ago, I probably would have just described it as a word used to explain oneself in a sentence.  I’ve grown to know and love myself, and realize that I am more than just a person, and that I have so much more to do in life.  As you grow and have more expriences in life, you learn more about who you are, giving you a finer definition of what I is.  So I think that since I’ll continue learning new things about myself and others as life goes on, I will never truly know what I is, because it will continually be changing as my life does.