50 Things About Me:

1. According to my friends I have bottomless satchel that I have everything in.
2. I would rather get lost driving to a destination with my friends, then arrive on time.
3. I can be a good liar 
4. I could, if I had to, fix a computer
5. I have to have the last word
6. I burst out spontaneously in song, every where. I basically have my own theme song!!!
7. I'd prefer talking to someone over the phone over texting.
8. I am pretty indecisive
9. I'm pretty nonsensical almost all of the time.
10. I'm dyslexic and because of that can't spell worth even a lick of a lolly pop.
11. I love futbol and football.
12. I wish I could be a librarian, someday....
13. just so I could read as a job.
14. I read like its my drug.
15. stupid people drive me crazy.
16. I've had my heart broken
17. stuffed animals freak me out. I have this paranoia that someone is watching me or that toy story is based off of reality.
18. at night I become loopy....:)
19. I wish I could find neverland.
20. the only reason why I run so that when the doctor comes I can keep up.
21. when I'm alone i dance around like a freak, actually i do that normally so...
22. when I get the chance I really want to go diving with sharks and perform tonic
23. when it comes to life I just go with the flow and don't freak out...usually.
24. I cry when I'm reading books or when I watch some movies
25. I hate the term y.o.l.o
26. I love love love the concepts involved in Quantum theory and mechanics.
27. I speak fluent Spanish
28. I've snuck out of my house at night.
29. I become a fish when I'm in water.
30. I haven't seen or read Harry Of The Potter.
31. I drink so much tea that I'm surprised that I haven't drowned yet.
32. I have communicational problems
33. I open my ketchup packets sideways so that I can dunk or I draw pictures with my ketchup on my food because I think eating should have some level of fun.
34. I make noises when I do things(like Meh or meeer or blehck) or i like to act like Shakespeare and make words up when I can't find one that fits.
35. without my Pandora I would die.
36. I wish I had permanently curly hair so I wouldn't have to do it in the morning.
37. I can't handle it when someone hugs me without my consent
38. the majority of my friends are male.
39. This is so difficult I don't think I can reach 101!
40. I play the mandolin and the piano
41. I(I know this may sound a bit morbid) when i die want to die in a spectacular way that it has to be posted on the front of a paper(like "woman skydiving gets shot with an arrow over the cost of Australia").
42. I've climbed several mountains
43. one of my nicknames is gimpy because I sprained my ankle stepping into a hot tub.
44. when people yell 'stop' I don't know whether its in the name of love or its hammer time and I feel the need to ask them but decide otherwise.
45. my favorite flavor of ice cream is this raspberry cream I once had in El Salvador as a child
46. I wish my name was Jane
47. I once wanted to be a para-rescue jumper but then found out that females can't
48. once I called the fire department because a cat got stuck in a tree and spoke to the head chief and he came with the whole shabang(meaning fire engines and blaring sirens)
49. I am tactile...meaning I need movement or interaction in order to learn
50. my favorite magazine is popular science.

Matched and crossed

 

Currently I am reading the second book in the Matched trilogy and hope to get my hands on the third book soon. I've really enjoyed the books and Ally Condie is an amazing writer. I would personally suggest these books to all of my "peeps", but I do have to warn you that since the first book is on the Gate Way Readers Awards book list for this year that they are fairly hard to get.

The stories are told from the perspective of a young girl named Cassia, who had just turned 17 and had lived in the society her whole life. The society is a place of perfection and almost no death, a place where you are matched with your life partner and your job when you’re 17, and a place where you don't know how to provide and think for yourself.

 

The society was created, as far as the people know as a protection from the evils of the world, but cassia soon learns that, that statement doesn't hold to be entirely true. The trouble began when in the first book cassia was matched with her best friend Xander and another boy, Ky. The matching of two people was simple, when you turned 17 your name was put in a sorting that would sort people based on who they are with their perfect match, but cassia’s sort went a little differently than most. Most people when they are matched are rarely matched with someone in their own region better yet with their best friend, Xander and another boy also from her region but of a lower status, Ky, they are usually matched with someone entirely new from another place and have to learn of them from that moment until they die.

 

The first book mainly deals with her trials of love and hardship and applying what she learns though them to the society and what she thought it was to learn of what it really is. Then in the second book deals with the rebellion and the crucial part that she plays in taking down the society. I don’t want to give too many spoilers so I’m probably going to end with an encouragement to, PLEASE READ THEASE BOOKS!

 

 

This is who I am.

 

I came into this world colorful and screaming,

And I’m determined to leave it the same.

 So far I’ve succeeded at keeping to my name,

And staying true to who I am.

I said I would do and so I did,

Colorful and screaming I am.

Climbing trees and skinning knees,

Not ever being chained.

My middle name might as well be,

Adventure, no fear, no pain.

The hardest parts were the beginnings and the ends,

The hellos and the good-byes to friends

Memories lost in photos and picture frames,

In meaningless junk that should be thrown away.

The happiest parts are the ones we remember,

But sometimes they just fade away.

So this is why we hold onto the meaningful junk

That should never be thrown away.

Holey sneakers covered in paint were my magic slippers,

T-shirts that went to my knees became my ball gowns,

Baseball caps were my crowns and a large stick was my Excalibur

That made my childhood what it was and made it one that counts.

I know who I am now,

And hope I never change.

I don’t know what the future holds

For I am still young

But I know that forever

Colorful and screaming is how I will always be.

By Katie lafon