My own Blog Prompt

This week Dr.deGravelles challenged us to make our own blog prompts. So, I have been sitting here for a good 30 minutes trying to come up with a prompt and they all suck. I never appreciated how much time Dr.D put into blog prompts until now. I think I finally have one.
                           Here goes: Write a Letter to younger me.
The assignment is to write a letter to a younger version of your self trying to help them through tough times or giving advice. Write about whatever you think a younger you would need. Here is my example:

Dear Young Mary,
   I am writing to you as my not-so-mature 14 year old self. I can honestly say you have done a pretty good job of growing up nicely. You  will go through some tough times in your pre-teen and early teen years but, power through them. While they might seem tough at the time, they will make you a better person in the end.
  A little Gold nugget of Advice:Be yourself because everyone else is taken. If your trying to be friends with somebody new, its better to be yourself and get rejected than to pretend to be somebody else and them like you. If you act like  somebody else to get people to be your friends, then the odds are they probably won't be very good friends back. Stand firm in who you are and don't let anyone change that.

       Stay True,
14 year old Mary

Reading Times :)

Lord of the Flies by William Golding (Reading and Annotations)
11/11-Pages 8-20 (30 Minutes)
11/12-Pages 21-43 (25 minutes)
11/13-Pages 44-60  (40 minutes)

Size 12 is Not Fat by Meg Cabot
11/12-Pages 280-300 (30 minutes)
11/13- Pages 301-345 (50 minutes)

Total Time: 175 minutes

The Basketball Star

So I think from every free post now on, I am going to write a little story. I haven't decided if to make it a series or just a collection of mini stories.

The Basketball Star

It was an eerie Friday night on the Unc campus. No body was to be seen, but screams were to be heard. As you followed the screaming you were lead to a basketball court. It was the Unc vs. Nc State game and everybody was cheering on their team. This was the biggest game of the season so far, if you weren’t at this game you weren’t considered a real college student. The rivalry was so big that when you got your ticket you had to go to a specific line, for your team. Once inside you saw the gym was split in half, one side red and black, and the other blue and white. Everyone was dressed in blue and white or red and black, students had crazy, painted afros, foam fingers, and anything else you could imagine.

          The game had started and UNC was leading the game, but State wasn’t far behind. By the end of the 1^st half UNC had gotten a farther lead, and State was getting their butts handed to them. The cheerleaders came out at half time and did several dances; one to one of Chapel Hills theme songs and then one to a popular song in that time.

Half-time ended and the teams came back out. The ball was thrown and they were off! State made a breakaway and got the ball but UNC wasn’t far behind. Then Chapel Hill had the ball and was making crazy passing patterns, dribbling like nobody’s business, doing between the leg passes, behind the back passes, fake-outs anything to hold onto their lead. At about halfway through the 3^rd quarter State made a comeback and was taking the lead, but UNC wasn’t happy about this so they once again pulled out their bag of tricks and started doing plays never before seen by the crowd. Once the final buzzer rang, UNC was considered champion of the league because they had won the game!