Too Many Words...

For about the past 2 hours, I've been trying to memorize 60 words for my English Test that I am taking tomorrow. I've been starring at my computer screen, trying to think oof what to write and I glance down at my vocab book and I decide that I can write a post on what I've done for the past few hours.
I've always had a pretty bad memory, so I absolutely hate vocabulary test. Everyone says there the easiest kind of test because all you have to do is memorize, but they are pretty difficult when you cannot remember a thing.
This year, we take a vocabulary test every couple of weeks and because I am not so succesful at them, I decided I needed to change my study method. In the past, I've stared for hours at my vocab book, repeting each word and it's definition out loud, but that was not a very successful method.
For recent vocabulary test, I've decided to try something new.  I write down all the words on index cards and then I go through each one.  If I know what a word means I put the card in one pile and if I don't the meaning of the word, I put the card in another pile. When I finished going through each word, I pick up the pile of the words I don't know and I go through the process again. I do it over and over again until all the cards are in the pile of Words that I do know.
Hopefully this method will work for my test tomorrow!



The process sometimes takes forever because there are so many words. Next time,I'll start it earlier...

Thrifting

When I was younger, a majority of my clothing came from thrift stores and consignment shops, I remember always feeling kinda embarrassed about it. In elementary school, all my friends would be wearing the "popular" brand- named clothes like hollister and aeropostale, and I felt out of place in my second hand clothing.

Recently, due to the economy and other reasons, thrift shopping has become more popular. That's why I am excited about making our documentary on the rise of thrift shopping.  It's interesting to see how times has changed. How in elementary I felt like I was the only one not wearing the named brands, however, now a majority of students have at least some clothing that they have purchased at a thrift store.

Now I am not embarrassed about shopping at thrift stores. It's cheap,you can find clothes in good shape, for less. Sometimes it takes a while and you have to do a lot of digging through clothes, but you can find something really nice that you might not of come across anywhere else


We found a website called "http://thriftstorerunway.com/" which holds contests every month, where people model their clothes bought at thrift stores. The only requirements are that you must spend under $50 on the outfit and most of the outfit has to have come from a thrift store. On the website, there are some really nice outfits where the person only spent $30

We decided it would be a great touch for our documentary, if we were to enter, so we did. Annaleigh modeled some thrift store clothing and we put the pictures up on the website. Sadly, we didn't win, but it was cool to do!

Here are some of the pictures we put up: