Personal Addition

Photo Credit : Larry Levasseur

This is a picture of me, my mom, my grandma and my great grandma.  It was taken a few years ago.  Right now my great grandma is actually 102 years old.  Up until recently she was still living in an apartment all by herself.  Now she has moved to the independent retirement home that I work at.  I really like it because I am able to see her a lot more often.   I really like this picture because it represents 4 generations of my family.  

Personal Addition

Both of these pictures are my old cheerleading teams. I used to cheer with the middle school, Golden Gate Cheer team, and also with a different club team called aerials elite cheer.  The top picture was in grade 7 and the bottom was in grade 9.  There are 4 different positions while stunting.  The flyer (on top) the two bases (on either side under the flyer), the third (behind the Flyer), and the front third (infront of the flyer).  A front third is not required, but if needed it is good for extra help.  In both of these pictures I am the flyer.  Usually the flyer is the most flexible person.  I do  not fly anymore because I got really tall.  Now I third!  I have done all 4 positions, and I love them all!

Personal Addition

This is another personal addition that I decided to add.  I took this picture at the school in grade 9.  I think that it actually turned out kind of neat.  I edited it and played around with the colouring.  I think it turned out nice and I thought that I would share it.  In cheerleading, this is called a toe-touch jump.

Weekly Reflection #6

Comment #1
http://victoriasbooksandwrittenpieces.blogspot.ca/2012/10/reading-reflection-5-what-i-really-did.html?showComment=1351173305469
Comment #2
http://carolcastilhosblog.blogspot.ca/2012/10/rambling-autobiography.html?showComment=1351174303608#!/
Comment #3
http://christiebalanduk.blogspot.ca/2012/10/starting-story.html?showComment=1351174753321

The first comment that I posted was on Victorias Blog.  The reason I posted on her blog was because I sit behind her in class and I always find that she is writing books.  I thought it seemed interesting, so I decided to go and check it.  I found that she really enjoys writing and seems to be pretty good at it.  The question I asked her was if she ever planned to publish any of her books.

The next comment that I left was on Carol's blog.  I decided to comment on her rambling autobiography.  I really liked it, and I thought that it was well done.  I commented mostly asking about how she is enjoying her trip here in Canada.  I think it is very cool and brave to have come to a different country all b y herself!

The  last comment that I left was on Christie's blog.  The reason I posted on her blog was because she left a comment on mine, so I thought I would go and visit hers as well.  I was looking on her blog and noticed a story that she posted.  She wrote this story herself.  In my opinion, it was a really good story.  SHe clearly put time into writing it and I wanted to tell her that she did a very good job.  I also asked her if she was planning on maybe writing a full book and getting it published.  I think that it would be awesome if my classmates published books!

Personal Addition

This is a video of me learning a new tumbling skill at cheer.  Hopefully within a few weeks, I will be able to to it by myself!

Twitter Fiction - Writing Reflection

Twitter Fiction

The past few days, I have been trying to figure out a good idea for what I should write my twitter fiction story about.  For me, coming up with an idea of what to write about is the hardest part.  I finally thought of a good idea to write about.  I'm not going to share this idea because I think that you should read it when it is all finished.  I have only written a few tweets so far.  Even though this doesn't seem like I have done much, lots of the planning I do is in my head and I pretty much have my whole story figured out.  Now the next step for me would be trying to get it into 140 character tweets.  This shouldn't be too hard, but clearly there will be a few challenges along the way.  I decided that I will write only one story for all 30 tweets.  My reasoning for this is because it is hard for me to come up with a bunch of different ideas.  I like to come up with one good story idea and write a lot about it.  Because of this, I am writing a long twitter fiction story.  On top of all that, we have a few elements that we need to include into our stories such as pictures and also character descriptions.  I have thought of ways to do both.  At the beginning of my story I plan on have at least a tweet or two just describing my main character.  For the pictures, I also have an idea in mind.  The setting of my story is the ocean/beach type setting.  I plan to incorporate a few nice pictures of beaches.  I feel like pictures of the setting will help the reader relate and be into the story even better.  In the end, My twitter fiction will probably need a few more days to finish up.  I have to get the rest of my ideas written down and then edit it.  I am enjoying this project a lot and hopefully it continues to go well.  I will post a picture of my rough draft once I get a few more ideas written down on it. 

Personal Addition

Cheer Extreme

Over the years, I have watched so many cheerleading videos.  Youtube has thousands of them.  There is one team in particular that I really enjoy watching.  The team is called Cheer Extreme.  This is one of the best cheerleading teams in the world.  Over the past few 3 years, they have won Worlds 2 times!!  In 2010 they won, and also last year for the 2012 competition.  The Cheer extreme routines in my opinion are the best.  They always have amazing pyramids to watch.  Some of the most famous cheerleaders are on this team.  Last year in Atlanta I was able to meet one of them.  Her name is Erica Englebert.  She has a lot of videos on the internet of her cheerleading and I have been watching  videos of her for years now and she just keeps getting better.  It was very exciting to get to meet her and get a picture with her last year!  She is definately one of my role models with cheerleading. 
Last weekend was Cheer Extreme's Showcase.  This is the first time their routine is open for the public to see.  The Senior Elite routine is by far my favourite.  This is a large senior all girl level five team.  It is by far the most intense and crazy routine I have seen so far. 

This is the video of their routine this year. 

Personal Addition

I don't really have a topic or anything to be writing about for this personal addition.  So I'm just going to write.  I didn't really do very much of an introduction when I first started this blog, so I might go into more detail on that.

Okay, so my name is Missy Levasseur.  No, Missy is not my real name.  I have just always gone by it.  It confuses a lot of people when I first meet them.  My real name is Meagan.  Meagan really doesn't have much of a connection to Missy, but I like it.  I think that Missy suits me more right now anyways.  In the future I will probably go by Meagan again, because it is more professional.  Yes, my last name Levasseur is french.  My grandpa was french but no one else in my family speaks it.  I am in french immersion right now because my parents wanted me to learn how to speak another language.  I guess it was an okay idea, I mean I'm doing pretty good in school.

Next topic, I guess I will talk about my favourite sport, cheerleading.  I am in love with this sport.  Currently on the senior team Storm Lightning as well as the open team Storm Black Ice.  I love both of these teams so much.  I can't even describe how much I love this sport.  I would give up everything to be able to cheerlead.  I don't think anyone would understand how amazing the sport is until they tried it.  Every single cheerleader I know feels the same way.  Its amazing.  So anyways, cheer takes up a lot of time.  Close to 9 hours a week.  I love every single second of it though and there's not really anything I'd rather be doing.  I have made the most amazing friends ever through cheerleading as well.  It is just an awesome sport.

Currently, I have 2 jobs.  One of which I serve at an old folks home.  I love this job.  I have been working there for almost 2 and a half years.  I love working with the people and I think its great experience.  I also work at a restaurant making salads.  I like this job as well.  I have always enjoyed working.  It feels good to be independent and making money.  I have been working since I was in grade 7, so I don't really remember what it was like to not have a job to go to.  So in the end even on those days where I do not want to work, I remember that it will be okay and I actually like working.   It is definitely worth it.

Basically my whole life is cheer and work.  2 teams and 2 jobs is a lot to handle.  In my spare time I do like to have fun with friends and everything!  But in the end I love what I am doing and I love my life so I don't really want to change it.

Writing Reflection #8

Newspaper Blackout Poetry

The newspaper blackout poetry in my opinion was a new and interesting way to write.  I have never done anything like it.  I did enjoy doing it but I also found it a little bit hard.  I haven't posted mine on my blog yet, but I think I will as soon as I can.  The reason that I found this way of writing a little bit challenging is trying not to copy the article that was already written.  It was hard to try to use the words without that same idea.  In the end, I decided not to read the article first, which made it a little bit easier.  On top of that It was also a little hard when you couldn't find a word that would make the most sense.  In some cases i just used letters to make the word but other times i just decieded to try and find another word that would work.
There were also good things about doing this assignment though.  It taught me how to write with only some words being available to you.  I learned to replace the words that I wanted to use with ones that would still make sense but that were different.  In a way it changed my writing.  Usually my writing is pretty simple, but these turned out to be a little bit for descriptive.
I also learned a few things about myself as a writer.  First of all, I have enjoyed all of the different ways we have written so far in this course.  I really enjoy learning new ways to write, they will help me in the future for sure!! In the end, I hope to learn even more ways of writing!

Personal Addition

Photo Credit: Missy Levasseur

This is another personal addition that I decided to add.  I added this again because I really enjoy taking pictures.  Not only taking them but also editing them after.   I took graphic arts for 3 years and I really enjoyed it.  Unfortunately, it didn't work with my timetable this year so I couldn't continue, but I still do a little bit in my spare time at home for fun.

Reading Reflection #8

Something Borrowed

Emily Griffin

Pg. 37 - 47                              

This week, I continued reading the book Something Borrowed.  So far, this book just keeps getting better and better.  At the beginning I wasn’t very interested in it, but as I keep reading, I am getting more into it.  There are many things going on in the novel at this point.  A few of which I can relate to and make connections. 

In the story, Darcy is the best friend who gets everything.  I am sure that everyone has or has had a friend like this.  She is someone who basically just has pure good luck.  Just when you think maybe there luck is gone, they come back and get something else.  Rachel, the main character of this story also has connections with me.  In my opinion I am more like Rachel.  She works hard for what she has and earns basically everything.  I really like this story because I can relate to both of these main characters and understand what they are thinking and going through.

There are so many different ways that this story could end.  I have no idea which way it is going to go.  One idea is that Darcy finds out about Rachel and Dex.  If that happens, then there could be a wedding cancelled, and also fewer friendships.  I could also see the story keep going with Darcy never finding out what happened between the two of them.  Hopefully the story will continue to give us more hints as we keep reading.  I guess I’ll just have to keep reading to figure out what happens next!