Mr. Gatsby

Hello again!

So this week we are reading the infamous "The Great Gatsby" and I can not even begin to explain my excitement! When I was in high school I never enjoyed english or reading anything that had to do with english, but when we read "The Great Gatsby" I actually really enjoyed it and I was surprised.
I started reading the first two chapters the other day and I forgot how much I enjoyed Fitzgerald's writing style and the type of terms he used throughout this novel.
When you are reading the Great Gatsby, the way that Fitzgerald writes it makes you feel as though you are there in the 1920's era. I would have loved to live in this era, with all the parties and outfits and bling! I always thought that if I lived during this time I would be a flapper girl. Maybe that is why I really lean towards the character Daisy. She is the typical example of what a flapper was, and in my mind she was beyond gorgeous and had gorgeous things.
In the first chapter of this novel you are introduced to Nick Carraway, who is new to the town and goes to a dinner party at his cousin's house, whom is Daisy. There you sort of get a background about Daisy's "Fabulous" life, which actually turns out to be not so great. You find out that Tom (Daisy's husband) is having an affair with a women that lives in town, also you find out they have a child and it sounds as though neither parent is too worried about the child and it is just in the other room the whole time. Nick was not to fond about finding out about Tom's affair and he seems pretty uneasy in this chapter of the book with all this new information he has come upon.
I really forgot how much I enjoy reading this novel and I cannot wait to get more into the book so I can really grasp the true meaning of the story again!

Thanks for reading :)

I am back!!!

Hello all!
Man oh man has it been a busy week! Sorry it has taken me such a long time to come back to blogging, but I have not had a day off work since last sunday! It is good to be back though! 
Hope everyone enjoyed their poetry week! Like I talked about in my last post I was very very nervous about poetry week because I just do not understand it, no matter how long I sit down and try to read poetry, it does not comprehend with my brain, so therefore props to everyone that thought this week was easy! I actually enjoyed my last week's readings of poetry. 
One poem that really caught my attention was "mother". It is a poem about a woman who had an abortion, and in my opinion regretted it. I liked the way that this poet wrote the poem, it was very easy to follow and understand. At times it made me mad, at times it made me sad, and other times it made me happy. It was all over the place, but I am glad it was not just a depressing poem, because at the first few lines that is the direction I thought it was heading. I felt that the mother did not want an abortion, that maybe she had no support or help and just went off her initial reaction, and that was she could not do this alone. I do not think that the mother would have done what she did if she really sat and thought it through, because throughout the poem the poet talks about the life the baby is missing out on, and she will never hear their life or cry, or never know what that baby could of been. To me that seemed as though she really did not want to do what she had done and if she could taken it back she would.
I am not sure why that poem stuck out to me, but it did. 
One poet I was not to fond of was e. e. cummings. I found him VERY hard to follow and if I read it all together in one big sentence it made some sense, but still I just had a difficult time grasping what he was trying to get across, but that just may be my struggle with poetry coming out.
Well thats all I had to say for this week:) Hope everyone else did well this week with poetry and all I can say is I cannot WAIT to read The Great Gatsby coming this next week!!!
Thank You
Too da Lou
Chelsey Meyer

I am nervous!

So I have never blogged before in my life! I hope that I am doing this all right. So this in general is very nerve racking for me. Also this week is very stressful for me because I have never been that good with reading and understanding poetry. Since the next two weeks is strictly focused on poetry, I will probably be having minor headaches here and there. Also I looked at the reading selections and I was like OH MY GOODNESS! Please send good thoughts for me for the next couple weeks to get through all the rhymes and rhythms of poetry!