I've been watching a lot of period movies and mini series lately. All in the 1700 to 1800's. I love Jane Austen and I have been re-watching many those movies. I started watching the mini series of Tess of the D'ubervilles, and also re-watched The Duchess.
I was thinking about the contrasts between now and then. Communication during these times was so different. The time you would have to wait for news to reach you. It was incredible. If you were a woman, you usually could not write to a man, unless he asked if he could write to you first. So many things were miscommunicated because you couldn't just come out and say what you felt. You wouldn't be able to walk up to a guy and say "I like you". You couldn't even hardly, if ever, be alone with a man. All communication would happen in the company of others, at parties, dinners, and other gatherings.

I think I love Jane Austen partly because of her happy endings. I know that when I read one of her books, that even though there are hardships, that in the end the heroine will always end up happy and in love. In all her novels the writing of letters between characters is so important. Can you imagine waiting days, weeks, or months, to hear word from the person you love? or even a friend. So much can happen in that time. Today there are dozens of ways to talk to the people you love everyday. If you want to talk to someone on the other side of the world all you need to do is get online. I have not personally used Skype, but I hear great things about it.
I watched most of Tess of the D'ubervilles, but I couldn't finish. The main character Tess, she kept having the worst things happen to her. She was an innocent young woman who was taken advantage of, because of one incident her whole life was changed for the worse. I was deeply saddened by her story. Even though it is a fictional story, it could have been true. What the women of those times had to go through could be horrible. It makes me feel very lucky to live in the time I do.

Okay so even though the times could be tough back then, I still would love to go back to that time period in a second........just for a little visit :)

What's been happening

Went fishing on last Sunday afternoon with my dad. We go in the creek at our farm. I got 3 or 4 nibbles but only caught one. One tiny sad little fish, I felt bad b/c he was so small! Dad thankfully took him off the hook (he always does, b/c I can't deal with that part) This isn't why I don't take the fish off the hooks, but when I was 5 I got a fish hook in my thumb! It got caught on my dress, I didn't know what it was so I tried to brush it off. Well I brushed it into my thumb! It went in one side of my thumb and out the other!! My parents rushed me to the hospital, which took about 2o minutes, the whole time I'm screaming my head off! All turned out well, the doctors took it out, and my parents bought me ice cream afterward.
It was really great to be away from technology and noises, and to just be out in the country. Very calming and peaceful.







Tuesday night I went out with some friends and I sang Karaoke! I've never done it before, but have always wanted to! My friend Katie and I sang Hall & Oates "make my dreams come true"
we wanted to sing a beatles song, but they didn't have it.

Thursday I went flying with my dad at Lafayette Aviation. He is a retired pilot. It was great, except as soon as we took off my head started to hurt so much! It kinda ruined the whole time for me, but I was still glad I went. Then later that night I had my astronomy lab and it was the first time we got to go outside to look at the stars. We charted constellations, saw the milky way galaxy, jupiter, and the andromeda galaxy. I saw two shooting stars! Such a beautiful night!

After school today, my mom called and said that a family friend would be flying through Lafayette. He couldn't land, due to some law about government contracts and gasoline. So He just did a few touch-and-go's. I saw him fly over our neighborhood in the T-4 he was flying.
That was very cool.

Now I'm just trying to decide what to do for dinner.....I'm SO hungry....Bruno dough sounds good

First Blog

Congratulations to me, I successfully created my first blog. It may get some getting used to, I am confident all will turn out well. I'm kind of excited to start this, even though I am not sure how interesting it will be. Hopefully I will become more proficient in blogging over time. This blog was created for my Communication & Emerging Technology class at Purdue.