Social Media

In my day book I wanted to write about social media and how it does help us all stay connected when we aren't very close to the people we care about. I just moved to North Carolina from Pittsburgh, Pa, and it is such a difference. Whenever I go home for breaks or just on some weekends I don't know anyone or see anyone because I didn't go to high school here. So to stay connected with my family and friends from up north I use social media, such as: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. I love seeing what everyone is up to, or if anything is new in their lives. My cousin just had her first baby and she put pictures up on facebook and he is the cutest baby ever, without facebook I wouldn't have been able to see him that easily! My grandma even has a facebook account and it is a major way of how we communicate. She doesn't know how to really use her cell phone, but she loves to message me to see how college is or how tell me how her day at work is going. Social media has helped my relationships with my family and friends so much, it made it a lot easier to communicate and keep our relationship grow. Without it, it would have made my move to Charlotte a lot harder, and I would miss my friends a whole lot more.

String Games

         In our first class Lacy had us try to make different shapes out of a circular string with our hands. Remembering that I had done this multiple times during my childhood, a lot of tricks were coming back to me. I could remember how to make the Eiffel Tower, which is the same way to make the cup and saucer, but you grab the tip of the saucer part and pull up and that makes it look like an Eiffel Tower.  Its really awesome how you can make many different crafts with a piece of string. Thinking back from a child's perspective, that piece of string could keep me occupied for hours. Coming up with different uses to it. My imagination was limitless back then.  My friends and I could go on for hours playing house or outer space. And that makes me think. As we get older, does our imagination stop... All of our dreams we had when we were little, do they still exist? Is this what the real world does to us? As we get older, yes we become more realistic to our dreams and goals, but we shouldn't shun them out completely.
      So bringing it back to playing with string games in the present, it made me think of myself back in the third grade, playing the same games. I had so much fun with one piece of string. Kids now need all this technology to keep them busy, I wonder what would happen if a parent handed their kid a string now a days what they would do with it, and how long it would keep their attention.

I never would have thought string could make me think this much.