After all these weeks of observing my younger sister, I have come to two conclusions. The first conclusion is that my little sister does not have a regular schedule. When I first started observing her, I thought she had a schedule. I thought it went like this:
- Wake up and get ready for school
- Eat breakfast and leave to school
- Come home from school and eat
- Do homework and study on the computer
- Shower
- Watch tv and chill out
- Sleep
- Repeat!
As it turns out, her schedule is much more complicated than that! I do not know how she has the time to accomplish a lot of things in one day! I stress out each and everyday because I do not have enough time! Through out the day, Oriana is doing things such as painting her nails, doing homework, reading for her own entertainment, watching tv, drawing, and even weird things like randomly dancing or talking to herself and her toys. I barely have enough time to do homework and she is over here saving the world in one day! It's crazy.
Observing her while she does all these activities makes me realize how much I've grown and are growing. When I was little, I would have a lot of time for all that and more! Now I rarely go out because I am stuck at home, doing homework and worrying about getting a decent GPA at the end of each semester. I remember my freshman IB Biology teacher, Mr. Swigart, once said, "Choose two: Sleep, School, Social Life." Well of course I have to choose sleep and school! They are most important right now and that is okay because it will all be worth it at the end. According to Varisty Tutors, there is no reason on why I shouldn't have a social life, the trick is just to balance them out. I'm not sure if that will be easy at all. I just hope my little sister is enjoying the time she has right now, because for a third grader, she has it very easy, and she will soon come to realize that, as she advances.
The other conclusion I have come up with is that my sister will get anything that she desires, even by crying for it. Another thing is that if you do not expect to live up to the promises you are making to her, do not even promise her anything because she will hunt you down until you fulfill the promise you made. She will remind you everyday and trust me, it gets annoying. If you do not get her what you promised her by a certain deadline, she will keep adding more things for you to give to her. I certainly do not shit money so how does she expect me to buy her all the things she wants? I have not given her about four things I have promised her and I regret even promising her anything at all.
These past weeks of observing her made me think quite a bit. At the beginning of this observation, I said to myself that I would found out what she actually does and interact with her instead of being on my phone all day. I did somewhat complete that and I have noticed that my sister is quite a funny creature. The reason I say creature is because she is very odd at times and I do not know how I am related to her. But I still love her. Even though this is the end of my journey, I hope to keep observing her once in a while to see what is new in her life. She is my sister so that definitely says a lot about there being new, interesting, and disturbing things to come!
Works Cited:
"How to Balance Grades, a Social Life, and Sleep in College." - Varsity Tutors Blog. Varsity Tutors, n.d. Web. 16 Dec. 2014.
Swigart, Ray. "Daily Lives." Personal interview. Oct.-Nov. 2012.
Monday, December 15, 2014
Saturday, December 13, 2014
Cinq: Nicknames
Nicknames are always fun right? They come in handy if you cannot pronounce a person's name, if it is too long or simply because it reveals memories. I have always wanted a nickname. You know, a nickname that everyone knew me by. But sadly, my name is simply Ana. You cannot get such a fascinating nickname from that short 3 letter name. There is always 'Ana Banana' but that does not sound very original, now does it?
I wonder where and how nicknames originated! Who suddenly woke up one day and decided, "I'm going to call my friend Samantha, 'Sammy' for short?" I find that to be very interesting. I mean some nicknames are very obvious to why someone would've come up with that nickname but how is someone named Richard nicknamed 'Dick?' I looked it up because I became very curious and according to mentalfloss.com, Dick is a nickname for Richard because during the middle ages, nicknames were just names that rhymed with the original name, to save time. Dick rhymed with Rick (short for Richard) and that is how it came to be. Now that I have read all that, it all makes sense.
Anyways! As you may have noticed, I have titled my blog "Oogie Boogie." Who has stopped to think about what that even means? Well that is what I like to call my little sister, Oriana! I, in fact, got a lot of our family members to call her Oogie Boogie as well! That isn't the only nickname she has, though. I have noticed that Oriana and I are always coming up with many different nicknames. She is also nicknamed, 'Oris' or 'Oogster.'
One of the things Oriana likes to do is sing! She is not very good at it but boy does she sing her heart out. She doesn't care if she has an audience or not, or if she's in the shower or at the store! If a song comes up, she will sing it out loud, even if she doesn't know the lyrics. But she also likes to sing songs that she makes up from her nicknames! One of the songs goes like, "My name is Oriana! Everyone calls me Oriiiiiis. Ayy Oogie Boogie!" I have not yet a clue on how she made it up but I personally think it is very cute and funny. Somewhat strange as well.
I think everyone should have a nickname because they bring up memories. Everytime I call her "Oris" I think of my childhood house around Christmas time because that was when she was born and I started calling her that. When I call her "Ooogie Boogie" I think of when I would spend my summers in Los Angeles because my cousin and I came up with the nickname, Oogie Boogie, for her. I don't know if it is just me but nicknames are quite lovely.
Works Cited:
"The Origins of 10 Nicknames." Mental Floss. Mental Floss, n.d. Web. 15 Dec. 2014.
I wonder where and how nicknames originated! Who suddenly woke up one day and decided, "I'm going to call my friend Samantha, 'Sammy' for short?" I find that to be very interesting. I mean some nicknames are very obvious to why someone would've come up with that nickname but how is someone named Richard nicknamed 'Dick?' I looked it up because I became very curious and according to mentalfloss.com, Dick is a nickname for Richard because during the middle ages, nicknames were just names that rhymed with the original name, to save time. Dick rhymed with Rick (short for Richard) and that is how it came to be. Now that I have read all that, it all makes sense.
Anyways! As you may have noticed, I have titled my blog "Oogie Boogie." Who has stopped to think about what that even means? Well that is what I like to call my little sister, Oriana! I, in fact, got a lot of our family members to call her Oogie Boogie as well! That isn't the only nickname she has, though. I have noticed that Oriana and I are always coming up with many different nicknames. She is also nicknamed, 'Oris' or 'Oogster.'
One of the things Oriana likes to do is sing! She is not very good at it but boy does she sing her heart out. She doesn't care if she has an audience or not, or if she's in the shower or at the store! If a song comes up, she will sing it out loud, even if she doesn't know the lyrics. But she also likes to sing songs that she makes up from her nicknames! One of the songs goes like, "My name is Oriana! Everyone calls me Oriiiiiis. Ayy Oogie Boogie!" I have not yet a clue on how she made it up but I personally think it is very cute and funny. Somewhat strange as well.
I think everyone should have a nickname because they bring up memories. Everytime I call her "Oris" I think of my childhood house around Christmas time because that was when she was born and I started calling her that. When I call her "Ooogie Boogie" I think of when I would spend my summers in Los Angeles because my cousin and I came up with the nickname, Oogie Boogie, for her. I don't know if it is just me but nicknames are quite lovely.
Works Cited:
"The Origins of 10 Nicknames." Mental Floss. Mental Floss, n.d. Web. 15 Dec. 2014.
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