Journal #32

At first when I read this journal topic, I did not understand. I was then old that I was supposed to write about what it is like to change the way people think and how they do things. This foreshadows how Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson revolutionized the way people thought and did things during that time period.  Their writings most likely still affect people, but probably not as much as it did at that time.  At that time, everyone was used to seeing poems with iambic pentameter and themes of patriotism, love, nature, religion, and death.  From what I know about Emily Dickinson, I know that she writes with full rhyme and slant rhyme but also writes about the meaning of life.  I got to a youth group at my church and my youth leader always has good lessons to teach us.  Some of the lessons he teaches makes the people who are listening step back and have to reevaluate their life and how they are living it. That happens a lot because he knows exactly how to capture our attention make us realize that they way we are living is not the best way to live.  Today I have poms and I do not want to go.  This Friday is the last home basketball, which means that it is senior night.  On the poms team, there are six seniors. Everyone but the seniors has to bring in items to put in goodie bags for the seniors.  The school provides flowers for the seniors, so we do not have to do that.  That will save a lot of money because flowers can be expensive.  My mom told me she got some items for the girls, but I never found out what they were.  I will have to find out tonight what the items are because I have to bring them in tomorrow and give them to my coach.  WE have to start learning the dance tonight and it is going to be interesting.  Wish me luck.