Mariel Olenick

So this is the last blog aaaaaaand i still don’t have a theme.

But I’m actually super excited to go back to school now cause i have SO many ideas to improve our paper. Our staff sucks. All they do during the newspaper period is their homework, but now i’ve thought of all this new stuff i can give them to do so that they’re busy during the class.

This workshop was a lot of fun, more so than i expected, and i’m definitely gonna miss a lot of people once i get home and have nothing to do.

Thanks to everyone who brought me soda and crackers when i was sick.
aaand to all of the instructors for actually being enthusiastic about what they’re teaching. That always improves a class.
and to arian who answered all of my annoying questions (mostly about football) when he was trying to write his own articles.
and to yeon woo for providing me with endless entertainment.
THANKS CSPA. it was fun.

Washington D.C. — Obama will be stepping down from his role on the Capital basketball team due to a knee injury inflicted by LeBron James in a pickup game last week, said White House Press Secretary Todd Harmonson.

“James took out his knee. We think it was in retribution to the president wanting him to go to the Bulls,” Harmonson said. This injury will in no way affect the Obama’s presidential role, who will be undergoing surgery. “The president will not even be out.”

According to Harmonson, James reportedly responded to President Obama’s injuries “in the same callous way as he did to the people of Cleveland.”

Harmonson also commented on James’s announcement today that he would be leaving Nike and forming his own shoe company King Size Shoes, saying that James is not loyal to anyone.

1. Teaches students who are interested in journalism how to write all different types of stories. Lessons are in depth and students really learn how to write well.
2. Not only is it about print and newspaper, but students learn about the television, media, and radio aspects of journalism.
3. The deadlines and writing assignments feel like real situations.

1. you could interview some of the people who are being displaced by the fire, or homes are being threatened, or firefighters and interview them on a voice memo. Then you could post the audio on a blog or facebook or some other type of news site.

2. you could take a video of the fire and maybe interview some firefighters on the status of the fire or what precautions are being taken and post it on a blog or elsewhere.

3. you could take cell phone pictures.

I’ve always been pegged as the quiet girl. I never raise my hand in school, I never speak in big groups, I never ask questions in class. I’ve just never been comfortable with it. I don’t like being the center of attention, I don’t like everyone looking at me.

And i hate it. I feel like its totally not my personality, but for some reason I can’t help it. I’m just quiet.

But for some reason, here, I’m not. Ok I’m not the loudest, or most talkative, or most outgoing person in the group by a long shot, but for the first time, i feel completely comfortable. And I have no idea why. But on the first day I struck up conversations with people I’d never met before, and I was friends with my roommate within instants, and I was talking to the people next to me without worrying that I was annoying them, and I’m raising my hand in classes. And yeah, maybe it’s only once every other day, but thats SUCH an improvement for me.

This past year at school, I was sort of thrown into a totally new group of friends, and it honestly took me almost the entire year to feel like I was friends with all of them and knew all of them. And then I get here, and I’m friends with and have had significant conversations with almost every single person before three days are up. And I don’t think, that for the first time, people are thinking of me as ‘the quiet girl.’

And it totally dawned on me how much I like being here yesterday when I was sick, because instead of thinking, “This sucks, I wish I was home in my bed,” I was thinking, “This sucks, I wish I was in class.”

So I’m not sure what it is. Maybe its something in the air, but the fact that I’m posting this whole long thing without worrying what people are gonna think is so big for me. And I know the theme for this blog is pretty non-existent but I was kind of trying to make it some ways that we’re all different, and some ways that we’re all the same. So this blog entry fits perfectly, because it’s about me, and how different and happy about it I feel.

So thanks CSPA I guess, hahaha

Rachelle Aguilera is a Youtube sensation!

In February 2010, Rachelle and her friends made videos of themselves singing to popular songs, but then then changed the voices on the computer so that they sounded really deep or really squeaky. Little did they know how famous they would become.

They sang songs by such artists as Lady Gaga, Ke$ha and Katy Perry, and would dress up as them or wear colorful wigs. Not only did Rachelle’s peers watch the videos, but random Youtube goers would comment on the posts, asking for new videos, and fast! Their most famous video even got up 15,000 views!

In April, Rachelle’s video making group hit a rough patch. “We broke up,” Rachelle recounts sadly, “We stopped making them and deleted the account. It was just a phase.” Maybe it was just a phase, but the hearts of many video watching addicts were broken.

Rachelle will be appearing on VH1′s “Behind the Music” to explain the rift and quell rumors of a reunion. “Me and the band have grown apart. So… yeah.”

So some of the girls finally had a pow-wow last night. Since apparently the boys have nightly discussions or card games or whatever we stayed up and did GIRLY things like stuffing our faces with microwave popcorn and talking about politics. We were missing some people though, and it didn’t last very long since some girls wanted to go shower in the dark, but it was fun. Wednesday phenom maybe?

Reasons why I decided that I kind of like my dorm room.
1. I put a bunch of towels under my sheet on that horrible Nurse’s office mattress so now it’s semi-comfortable.
2. There’s a big window.
3. Yeon Woo and I are decorating the walls.
^^^^ Cause it turns out that no matter who you are or how different you are, no one likes plain white walls.

Here’s another reason why we’re all similar.

Can we all discuss that Vampire Weekends being sued now? k.

So the awesome radio guy that we interviewed the other day suggested some music. And I thought he was pretty cool, so I’m willing to trust his opinions:

Ariel Larson/Biba Pickles – will apparently be huge in 2015
Hatfield and the North – this was his favorite band.
Love – A band that he said was so ahead of the curve they were behind

During his show he played Chrystal Castles, PIL, and some jazz music.

Just another person who I thought was totally different from anyone I’d met before.

So everyone here is from different places and even the people who are from the same state speak in different ways. In Southern California we say “Froyo”, which is apparently weird in the midwest. I thought it was pretty normal. And in Northern California, they say “hella”… which is weird. No one says that in the rest of the state. In the chicago they call it “Pop,” and sound really out of place when they try to say “soo-duh.”

So I decided to teach Yeon Woo, who doesn’t drink soda, or pop, but Oksusu Suyeomcha (corn hair tea) (…) to say some of the slang that we use here that the Korean school system most likely did not teach her. Thus on my post below, the comment that says: “Mariel, that mattress was whack!”

all my doing.

heres another one

So there’s some of the really lame stuff that we say in the San Fernando Valley, said by Yeon Woo! (However, most people don’t say “Wassap playa!” thats just me.)