Creative Writing: We analyzed a poem today about Havisham, which I really like and suggest that you look into. We also wrote about abstract thoughts- courage, love, etc. and answer a few questions about them as if they were living entities. I chose Faith, explaining that she lives in a hollow cave far away from all: one has to reach for her to bring her closer, on a journey stressful and tedious. She creates songs for the depressed and she tastes like sweet chocolate chip cookies and milk. Though her mother, Desire, once shared love with her, and though Faith and her sister, Hope, miss her, they have never met again since their birth.
Another prompt was to write a poem about an emotion. I chose confusion:
Help
Ow; stab
Lips kiss
Yes no
What is this
all meaning
full of
how should
why it could
have
who to believe
when to think
pondering
wishing
slapping a face
hard
wishing this place
was different, why
love?
wait,
what?
After a break, in which I played UNO with my best friends and prepared for what I didn't realize would be the trigger of my interest in psychology, something that could forever impact my life.
Experimental Psychology: We watched a short video regarding the Milgram Experiment. The participants signed up for the experiment, believing it to be a memory test. Its real goal, however, was to discover how far people would obey authority.
Please research this topic. It could change the way you perceive humans and yourself- what would you do when confronted in a situation that could end someone's life?
Our teacher also described to us the Stanford Prison Experiment, in which the participants became the roles they were acting as- and they had no idea who they had been.
Onto a more positive (and random) note, free time in the afternoon led my friends and I to many different shops, but the only things I ended up buying were desserts, which were all sadly mediocre in taste except for an amazing chocolate chip cookie that I split with Diana, one of my best friends.
Anyway, after laundry and dinner, Diana and I went to a park, where we sang songs, Diana played football (soccer) and though she happened to be the only girl on either team (some of the boys were doubting her abilities), she proudly scored the only goal.
< At the park, there was a pretty sunset! I loved the strange way the clouds floated in the sky with the colors blending into them... it looked better in real life, but here's a picture. You can't see it very well, but the sky was tinted red, and the clouds faded into the red... it was cool. :)
After a long, hard day, I was ready to go to sleep after the evening shout, and so I did.
~Cora
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