Carla's Creative Blogs

Dear Evan Hansen is a Teen Fiction/Romance book by Steven Levenson, with a musical of the same name by Pasek and Paul. It's about a high school senior Evan Hansen, who has extreme social anxiety, and often prefers not to put himself in which he could be judged. Over the summer before his final year in high school, it is revealed that he had broken his arm due to falling from a tree. He hears about the suicide of a boy named Conner Murphy, the brother of Zoe Murphy, who Evan has a crush on, but he can't bring himself to say it. In the wake of Conner's suicide, Evan finds himself creating a new identity when he decides to show that everyone is not alone, but ends up failing in the end when he begins to make the project about himself, despite him winning Zoe's trust and friendship. He's able to persevere through all of this by the end, despite his mishaps, and begins to accept himself. I would definitely recommend the book (and the musical) to anyone who connects de

Well, it's almost the end of the school year, which means that in less than two weeks, I'll have graduated and now free to relax and enjoy the summer. I'm honestly extremely anxious whenever I think about graduating. At the beginning of the year, I was excited–I would be going to a new school, meet new people, and just have fun over there. Now, however, my emotions are starting to combine, and I'm having a difficult time organizing  my thoughts and focusing on only one thing. I guess it's because I don't really want to leave school now. Not because of the teachers–I'll miss them, definitely–but the fact that I won't see my friends for a long time, maybe only once or twice through my high school years, if I'm lucky. I only want to spend as much time as I can with them and just enjoy the last few weeks of school without getting overwhelmed.

Stereotypes are not something a person wants to experience. They shove someone under a general umbrella about something associated with what they identify as, like gender/sexual identity or sexual orientation, or something they were raised up by, like their race and culture. These sort of things are unfair, and everyone in a particular race or culture either don't find it as fun to endure, or they live up to these stereotypes based on what society says about them. They either think, I'm associated with [insert stereotype here] so it must be true. I'll do what they expect me to do , or, this is not what [insert race/gender identity here] are like at all. I'll do what they won't expect me to do. By influencing stereotypes, we are only forcing them to behave they way we see them as and not what they see themselves as. This behavior is harming our society and only causing us to become more small-minded and believing what we put out there for everyone to see.

The Fixer, by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, is about sixteen-year-old Tess Kendrick who has a normal life, living in Montana with her grandfather, who is revealed to have Alzheimer's. She believed everything was perfect before her sister, Ivy Kendrick, stops by for a 'visit,' declaring that Tess must move to D.C. with her. It is later told that Ivy is the number one Fixer in Washington, to which she fixes problems that the capitol has (political problems, controversy, etc.). She, however, prioritizes her work over anything else. When Tess becomes involved, she finds herself tangled up analyzing her sister's problems, and she must balance both her life at school and her life before she goes too deep.    I would recommend this book to anyone who likes plot twists and suspense, as well as Science Fiction or Political Dystopia. I did like this book, but I felt as if it dragged at times. Overall, though, The Fixer is a book I would also recommend to anyone when they can't fin

What I like most about spring is the change in temperature, since we don't have to wear massive winter coats all the time. I also like the blooming flowers and trees, since they are preparing for the summer, and they just look so beautiful when they are almost fully developed . Allergies bug me the most about spring. Along with the change in temperature, the pollen, mold, and other particle count increases, thus leaving them vulnerable to the after effects of spring.

Credit! I'm most excited about all the fun fields trips and incentives we're going to have in the last two weeks. I feel it is beneficial to have breaks after the long year of working as well as feel like we have worked enough to earn what's in store for us. I'm also incredibly excited for the fun projects we are going to do in class, since they spark my creativity and get me thinking about what's really going on with the world. For example, the essays that we were working on earlier in the second and third quarters helped me see the issues in the world from a different perspective. Critique! However, I don't really care for how many essays we have to do for all classes except for math. I understand they are preparing us for high school and all, but I feel as if they are not challenging my creativity and my passions, dreams, and interests. I understand that school can't change the entire course just because of one student having different beliefs or some