#18 Being Charitable

I chose Autism Speaks charity, and Autism Speaks is a charity that helps with autism. They mention that there are several types of autistic disorders that are all considered as ASD. ASD stands for Autistic Spectrum Disorder. They help find ways to make any improvements they can with our society and autism. They also even have a page that talks about autism on their site, and how they’ve tried to find the causes of autism. They mention research that has been done with autism, especially the most recent.


This charity is important to me, or meaningful to me because it goes with my interests, and I have autism. I’ve always been interested in anything to do with autism. But, I don’t know if that’s because I’m autistic, or I don’t know the reason for it. If i see anything that mentions autism, I find it very interesting and fascinating. It makes me want to get caught up on it, zone out, and spending a lot of time and thinking on it. Autism in general is very interesting and fascinating to me, so knowing about this charity Autism Speaks and how they try to help with autistic people, it is very meaningful to me. It means a lot and it makes me want to pick that charity over charities that can match my other interests.

Autism stuff is a lot to me like how singing and music are. I find it really meaningful that there are people to try to help with society and everything with people who have the same diagnosis as me, and similar ones that fall into the same category. I say it that way because my type of autism that I have is Asperger syndrome. But, it even said that Asperger syndrome also is considered as an Autistic Spectrum Disorder now. It’s still a form of autism, even though I’m high functioning compared to other types of autism.

#16

GCF Learn Free typing

I think it’s a good typing website because it said that it helps you make a huge difference and big improvements with your typing. It can help you get to a normal, good typer like 60 wpm and it can help you reach your goal of helping you get to type as fast as you want. Some people that used that website were able to get to 60 wpm and they became excellent and got better and better and beat that score. Some people made comments on their website, and said they really loved it, they were thankful, and one person said she had started it and she already started making improvements with her typing and she said it’s encouraging to her and she wants to keep doing it.

Typing some more

With typing, in the last bit of 7th grade, and most of 8th grade, once a day I had a computer lab class where we’d mostly do typing stuff on the computer. It was on the internet. Then, I somewhat tried doing it online in 9th grade, but I wasn’t consistent with it and we got to a point where we stopped doing that and it stopped being part of our classroom routines and work. Then, I’ve done it with this blogging class, and I’ve had this Intro to Computers class twice now. I also tried working on my typing when I was doing other things on the computer in Miss Plunkett’s room at one point, like when I’d have free time on the computer, or whatever it was. That was sometime last year, when I was a junior. I believe that’s it as far as my typing education.

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Free Choice- Friday

I really love Miss Plunkett. In my class with her, it’s a RSP class. I catch up on my work in other classes. But, she’ll also have other stuff for me to do too. We did this Holland Code project. That project had us doing these personality assessments in this little booklet thing. From there, we had to find our three holland coded letters and description words that match our personality best. My code was SAC, which is Social, Artistic, and Conventional. Once I got that code, then I did this project where I did some research on careers that interest me that go with those personality types.

In the ending of 2012, I went with Miss Plunkett during the holiday break to a Nutcracker play. It was something our class did together, but we had to get permission from our parents/guardians. I liked the play, but there were sometimes during it where I got bored and felt like leaving. I think the little kids did great with their singing and acting. Some parts were funny, and some parts were scary. I think for the most part it was interesting and there was a lot of action.

 I look forward to my graduation and I’m really thankful that she’s always been helpful to me.  She’s done so much for me.  I look forward to even continuing my connection and relationship with her after my graduation as well.

My Favorite Hobby

My favorite hobby is singing. I normally sing songs that I know or have heard. I started songwriting, but I’m working on getting help for getting beats and melodies for the songs I’ve been writing. Once I get that part taken care of, then I’ll have a better understanding how to sing them.  I’ll practice and practice them and go from there.

There’s different kinds of music that I like. But I like pop, rock, hip hop, and R&B. Those are the main examples, but I do like some country music. When it comes to my singing and music, I don’t think I’d do country. If I was going to make an album right now, I would make it either pop or hip hop. My favorite singer is Gwen Stefani and I also love her band No Doubt. I love all of her music, with and without her band.

For my songwriting, of course it’s about my feelings. I write down my thoughts and about whatever I’m feeling at the time. I get whatever out. It doesn’t always work, because there are times that I just journal and don’t take it any further than that because I feel like I don’t want everyone to know it. I journal about whatever, and if I want people to hear it and know the lyrics, then I’ll make it into a song. But, if I don’t, then its just journaling and won’t make it into anything. It all starts off with journaling. Also, I just started songwriting a couple weeks ago or so. Before, I would just sing and not do any songwriting.

About Me

I am 17 years old and I love singing, listening to music, and socializing. My favorite singer is Gwen Stefani. I love Gwen Stefani and her music. She is my biggest inspiration when it comes to my singing. My dream is to become a singer, and I’ve started working really hard, doing my very best, and working on it as hard as I can. I also recently got someone that can help me make this dream of mine come true.

The person that I got that can help me with it is my best friend Brisa’s sister. Her name is Yesenia. She sings, raps, makes her own music, and started posting music videos on Youtube of her music. Yesenia writes her own music, and she has a friend that helps her. She is going to start helping me as well with getting melodies and beats for our songs that we write. I just started talking to her last Friday evening.

Also, I’ve also been dreaming of being a wife and mother.  I imagine myself as a singer, mom, and a wife. These have been my dreams and wishes since I was really little, like 4 or 5 years old.