Our Home By Erin Stanton

Our Home

By Erin Stanton

 

You may look and think it’s nothing special

For its just wooden walls painted red

With a tangled, wild lawn

And a crooked drive way filled with cracks

The mail box fall of its post

And the street number just won’t hang straight

The shutters paint is peeling off

And the stones in the path way are popping up

But from the road no one can miss

The sing that reads ‘home sweet home’

To the world this house is nothing special

But to the family that lives inside

The world holds no greater place

To them the walls are filled with love

The front lawn is entwined with memories

And each imperfection this house contains

Is the result of a renowned story

The cracks in the drive way

And holes in the path

Mark the trail to the place

They refer to as home

How To Make Chocolate Chip Cookies

The classic chocolate chip cookie is a favorite of everyones and is a treat that everybody should know how to bake. Here is an easy recipe for this delicious cookie.

Step 1: combine 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour, 1 teaspoon baking soda, and 1 teaspoon salt into a bowl. Beat 1 cup of butter, 3/4 cup of sugar, 3/4 cup brown sugar and 1 teaspoon of vinilla extract into the bowl untill the mixture is creamy. Slowly add in 2 eggs.

Step 2: Take dough and form in to small balls and place them on a cookie sheet..

Step 3: Bake the cookies for 9-11 minutes at 375 degrees. remove from oven and let cool when the cookies are a golden brown.

Step 4: Enjoy eating the delicious snack you just made!

 

The Christmas Season

As December continues to move along we are surounded by christmas lights, decorations, songs and movie. Over the years the christmas movie Elf has become a christmas classic and favorite to many people. This movie is funny and light hearted. In this movie we see how many adults have lost the love of christmas because they get to caught up in the superfical parts of life. They forget what the true meaning of Christmas is. Through the main character, Buddy the elf we see how people of any age can be filled with the christmas spirit and enjoy the holidays. Elf is a fun and exciting movie that is enjoyable to people of all ages and will put anyone in to the christmas spirit.

Facebook

As I sit here trying to think of a topic to blog about I find myself continually drifting back to Facebook to look at my news feed. Nine times out of ten though, nothing has changed since that previous time i looked at it, yet i continue to distract myself from the assignment. This never ending process of procrastination caused me to wonder if Facebook is really beneficial to all its users. I know I’m not the only one who finds themself wondering on to Facebook when they are trying to avoid an assignment; my continuous check of my news feed let me know that others find it hard to stay off Facebook when trying to accomplish whatever task is at hand. Facebook is clearly a huge distraction, and really a waste of time. People don’t only go on Facebook when trying to avoid work but when they are bored. Instead of using their time constructively and living their life, they spend it by reading about everyone else lives. I would hate to learn how many hours a week people, including myself, waste because they are reading their news feed. In addition to the distraction it causes, Facebook also serves as a huge form of cyber bullying, which inflicts pain upon many people.

 

Even though there are down sides, Facebook’s main positive point is how effective it is in terms of communication. Family and friends can stay in constant contact and can update on another instantly about their lives. Old friends are able to reconnect now because they have found each other on Facebook. Over all Facebook helps keep the world connected. Not only in terms of personal relationships but in terms of news. Many of the important events that have happened I have found out about through Facebook.

 

So this leads me to the question I started this blog with, is Facebook beneficial to our lives? I still don’t feel that i can answer this question, but it is something I will continue to think about, as I hope all of you will!

Beyond My Backyard

At the close of my freshmen year I had the opportunity to travel with the French program in my school to France. The trip took place over April vacation and over the nine days we explored various parts of France. As a person who had done very little traveling outside of New England, this experience changed my life. It opened my eye to the amazing and beautiful world that exists outside of my backyard. It amazed me how much history different parts of France contained. Everything from the buildings to the cobble stone streets looked like they had been transported out of a history text book. After seeing a country with monuments and historical events that dated back hundreds of year it made me realizes how young our country is. Boston is one of our oldest cities and is filled with historical remnants, but it cannot compare to the history within the cities of France. I consider my trip to France as one of the best experiences in my life as it gave me the opportunity to see the world through my own eye, and not through the words of a text book or the lens of a camera.

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