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Babysitting on St. Patricks Day

  On St. Patrick's day, I was called and asked if I could babysit two girls; one from my church, Hannah, and her best friend, Caroline. I immediately said yes for two reasons: I love hanging out with them because they are so sweet and Spring Break is coming up, so I need to save money! As I arrived, I was immediately welcomed by the lovely parents of Caroline and eventually Hannah's parents. They gave me an overview of the rules and obligations I would soon take in order to take the best care of them. One of the rules was to get ready for bed at 8:30 and for them to be asleep at 9:00. Another was to keep the dogs in their crates. After that, the parents were on their way to dinner. When I approached the girls, they were so excited to be playing and having a house without parents. They began their play by building a fort and playing veterinarian. They eventually became hungry so we headed upstairs for some pizza the parents ordered for us. Bluey was the main source of entertainm...

Maps as Metaphors

  Last Monday, Mr.Brewer assigned a project about maps to our Theory of Knowledge class. The project was to contain some sort of geographical map, in this case, a map of specific placements with meaning to represent our life. At first, I needed clarification of what I wanted my end product to look like. I had many ideas in my head of what to do, but it took a week to come to a conclusion on what I wanted to produce.  In the end, I came up with the idea of making a cutout of a human body. If you think about my map as the earth, the ocean is the newspaper and the land is spaces of pink. The newspaper represents the media and how it affects my whole way of being. In a literal sense, the newspaper holds the information the news source only wants you to know. I thought of this to be an underlying meaning for my vulnerability. Because the media has altered my perception of myself, the pink demonstrates how it has changed me in the specific places it is set in. For instance, the medi...