My Final Blog

Wow, already, t he semester is coming to a very quick end. I cannot believe this is the last full three weeks of the semester, not including finals of course. To be honest, keeping a blog has not been my number one priority this semester as it has been very busy! ALTHOUGH… I have completed all of the blogs assigned. I sometimes feel it is hard to write a ton of “stuff” on some of the assigned topics. It has been fun though to read other peoples’ blogs in our class! I feel some people in this class come up with very creative topics for thei r blogs, or just their use of language. Many people used their creative imagination in their blogs which kept me very interested when I was leaving comments on my peers’ blog “walls”. As for advice for people who want to do blogs, if it is not a requirement, good for you! I give props to people who want to keep a blog. It is something that would be fun to look back on when you are older and to see what you did in your day to day life. I would only keep a blog if you are really into keeping journals. As for me ,I don’t think I would have done a blog unless it was required. Yes, it was nice to get my thoughts down, but I’d rather talk to my friends rather than write it. Also, if you are a very private person, I would not have a blog online because it is open to the public! As for me, I did not share much of personal information beecuase for all I know, some creep could be stalking my blog from the other side of the country, or world, and would have no idea! To me, that is just creepy and weird :/. Well I guess I will say goodbye to my English 101 blog, it has been fun, over all. The only hard part was writing about things that did not interest me or when we were not given a topic because I always found myself writing about my weekend. Everyone take care! Have a good summer and rest of the semester.

If you were in Normal... leave...?

Before my friends would have the chance to get in their cars and drive here, I would try to convince them to choose Chicago instead. Although Normal is a cute college town, and if they are looking for many fun things to do, I believe Chicago would be a better place to visit. There is the Sears Tower to visit, which has an amazing view from the top. Also, there are many different restaurants to eat at. I would recommend them trying Ed Debevics. It is a cute little burger place and they have the servers dress up as if they are from the 60’s or 70’s and kind of have an attitude towards you as the customers. After grabbing some lunch, Chicago has some great shopping! I would suggest them visiting State street and Michigan Avenue. They are both great streets with plenty of stores to browse, Forever 21 being one of my favorites! Not only are those two streets filled with many shopping possibilities, there is also a mall called Water Tower that is I believe around 7 stories high! It has every store you can imagine located inside. If you are looking for a place to spend your money, Water Tower is one good place to get the job done! If the day is nice out, I would also suggest making a quick stop at the beach, North Ave. beach to be specific. I would of course advise you guys to go on a weekday because weekends the beaches downtown are quite packed! Also, I would advise going on a day where it is decently warm, not extremely hot otherwise you may be miserable from the hot sand and sun burn you may find on your body later on in the day. Ouch…
Let’s say you went to Chicago during a season that is not as warm, like Fall, I would suggest taking the ghost tour. There are many haunted places in Chicago and you can be taken around to see them and here the history behind each location. If you a person who does not like scary things, I would advise you to skip out on this adventure! All of the above activities are very fun to try. Chicago has a variety of things to do for every type of personality!

Free Blog

Since this is a free blog, I will talk about what I normally do when we get assigned this topic for our blog entry which is my weekend. Last weekend, I went to my friends farm in McNab, Illinois which is a very small town containing a population of 300 people. When we arrived there, the weather was really cold so we just hung out around the house for a bit and played scene it TV edition. My friends dad owns many acres of land so we went out on their four wheelers and drove around which was pretty fun. I refused to hop behind the wheel on one of those things because I was afraid I would crash. After that, we went out to dinner at this small diner located down the street. I believe it is the only restaurant in the town which is not surpirsing considering how small the town is. After dinner, we went back to the farm and went in the hot tub. Although it was pretty chilly out, the warmth of the water felt so good! I couldn’t stay in there for long because my hands started to become pruny and that is something I cannot stand!
Saturday morning we woke up really early and went to breakfast at that same diner. Their breakfast food was delicious. Next, we went back and took naps since we were pretty tired from the traveling the day before. We came back , went in the hot tub, relaxed in there for about an hour, and then went on the four wheelers. This time I drove! I was really scared but did a pretty decent job. We went to the grocery store after that to get food for dinner and then we just hung out and watched a movie.
Sunday morning, we woke up really early and I was off to ISU. It was a very relaxing weekend that I enjoyed with my friends!