3. Burrata

Watching the American High School rendition of Mean Girls was an outstanding experience. I really enjoyed the musical thoroughly and it made me remember the importance of memories. One of the common themes in the story was trying to remove their past, their younger memories. The characters decided those old moments were not a proper representation of themselves anymore. They wanted to forget it forever. For instance, Cady tried to let go of her past in Africa. She changed how she dressed and her personality; pretending to be less smart and hoping to be more attractive. However, she realized her mistakes when talking to Aaron. There was such a memorable scene at Cady’s party where she was upstairs with Aaron. Cady was drunk and opened up about her past. She talks about her experiences in Africa, closing her eyes with her mom to identify how many bird species she can hear. Cady constantly emphasizes how she does not do it any more again in America, adding “obvs”, to highlight how it is ...

At the moment that I am writing this blog, my current craving for the day is seared salmon sake topped with miso cream cheese. How often do you get cravings? I feel like I crave something every day, and it always varies between drinks, snacks, candies, entrees, and everything else. Eating in general is really relaxing for me especially after a long day of working. Just like in the daily survey, I’m intrigued to know how other people spend their personal time and take care of themselves. Today, I finally decided to rummage through the thousands of photos that I kept buried within my gallery. When I scrolled through 12,928 photos to get to the top, the first date was marked September 24, 2015 of a photo that I had not even taken. It was a picture of me taken by my sister, me wearing a red Christmas sweater thinking it was a good decision. I scrolled for a while. 2021, 2022, 2023… wow. Little Casmin was so naive. She just kept a big (sometimes evil) smile on her face, unaware of the horro...

Did you remember the vocabulary words on our past few VQs? I’m sure you did, but for some of them, especially when the words are close synonyms of each other, picking a word becomes russian roulette (or eeny meeny miny moe depending on your preference). Getting one wrong is an automatic C (help) and two wrong is a left hook to the test category. However, if you get them all, it’s 20/20 extra points for just four words! I’ve noticed, though, that we have many different ways of actually remembering the vocabulary words. Given that it’s wraps if you get just one word wrong, I’ve tried many different methods of studying for them myself. I’ve drawn mind maps, made flashcards, listened to myself on the bus, and all the other techniques that people seem to swear by. For me, though, the primary thing that seems to work seems to be writing the words over and over for some reason (Umbridge flashbacks).  It’s a really weird way of remembering it. It’s not like I remember them because I see th...

  Jaycee Snelson Week 15: Ripple Effect When walking home from the play I was thinking about the memory that was created, of watching some of the friends I made throughout high school take part in an amazing production and how some of them would be graduating soon, and how I would remember this memory for a long time. Then I started thinking about if this would be a memory for the people around me.  For instance, I was sitting next to this third-grader who was watching the performance for the second time to support her sister, who was a part of the live orchestra. During the performance I heard her whispering. At first I thought she was whispering to her mom who, at the time, I thought was sitting behind us. However, after the third time it happened I glanced over and realized she was whispering to me. Not wanting to disappoint her, I responded to her commentary on the play, thinking this would be a one time thing.  It was not. The...

Many old Indian houses traditionally have an indoor swing. (Photo from Pinterest ) i tend to forget by Acintya Shenoy i remember the first day it happened. i am sitting in my great-grandmother’s room, her only room in the house, the only blue room in the house, the only blue room in the house with a swing. i am sitting on her lap, on the swing, and her hands are made of branches. her hands are made of branches, and they are holding me, and they are singing me a song i don’t understand. they are clasping around my chest and whispering in my ear and swaying in the wind like a dead man and i don’t understand. i don’t understand the copper around her wrists, i don’t understand the barklike silk covering her chest. i don’t understand why she is trying to look me in the eye when i am facing away from her, sitting on her lap, on the swing. my grandmother walks into the room and eyes her with pity, then carries me to her lap, and her hands are made of branches, but there are still a few leaves...

If you ever mention visiting Lake Tahoe to me, even if I really want to visit the beautiful place now, the first thing that would come to mind is the bad luck my family has had there over the years. We’ve had blown tires, torn muscles, and the worst one happened when I was around the age of 7 or 8. It was a warm, sunny day, and the first time that my family had visited Lake Tahoe during the summer. Usually, we would travel there during the winter and my sister and I would go skiing. Well, my parents used to go with us until my dad tore his meniscus one trip and didn’t realize until around 3 months later, getting surgery on it then. Anyway, we were with both my aunt and uncle and their spouses from my mom’s side, and we decided that it would be a good idea to rent out a boat and take it out on the lake, even though we had never driven a boat before. The first half of the day was great, with fun banter and laughter, until we stopped in a certain part of the lake shaped like a small semic...