Hope House

I am a part of a group called Article 13 which is a group of girls that do all they can to abolish human trafficking. We do fundraising, volunteer work, and educate others on the dangers of human trafficking.  Two weekends ago we went to a place called Hope House which is being built to be a shelter for victims of trafficking to help them get back on their feet. Two friends of mine and I went to volunteer at Hope House. We were prepared to do whatever they needed us to do and we got the extremely exciting job of scraping paint off of the sides of the windows. We were there for 5 hours and we got through 24ish windows. It took a while to get the hang of it because none of us knew what we were doing. We tried so many methods until we found the easiest one and by the time we found the easiest one we only had 4 windows left. It was a good experience and now I know how to scrape paint off of windows. It felt really nice to give back to my community and help with Hope House.

Reading Response- Insurgent

My question for my outside reading was "How do peoples experiences change the way they live and function?" I feel like the book Insurgent really portrays this well. In Divergent Tris goes through a lot and learn a lot about herself and her world/faction and she really used that knowledge in Insurgent. As I was reading Insurgent I couldn't keep myself from wondering how Tris and Tobias would stay together with Tris keeping the secret about Will and Tobias having to deal with Evelyn and Marcus. I really like the way Veronica Roth is building their relationship, though. It is a very dysfunctional yet functional relationship in the sense that the people and events going on around them are causing struggles in their relationship, but they are so in love that they wont let it get to them. I think that throughout the book my question will be answered more and more as I see how Tris handles situations using her knowledge of her Abnegation and Dauntless past and her Divergent image.
Insurgent, Veronica Roth
8-21-13- 45 minutes- Pages 35-69
8-23-13- 1 hour- Pages 69-130
Total- 95 Pages
Total time- 1 hour and 45 mins

Reading Log

Insurgent,Veronica Roth
8/13/13- 35 mins
Pages 1-45
Mini Zine
8/11/13- 30 mins
Book Chat Prep
8-15-13- 45 mins

My Taste In Music

I'm Katie Campbell. I'm basically just what you would expect of a 14 year old. I spend a large quantity of my time in my room on tumblr listening to Marina and the Diamonds. I was thinking of what the best thing to write for my free post was and I decided that I would talk about something that I really love which is music. I have a strange taste in music that has just recently changed. Some of my favorite singers/bands are The Neighborhood, Marina and the Diamonds, Alt-J, Bastille, Ellie Goulding, and the Kooks. I honestly don't even know what genre that would be. All of those artists to me have very calming music, other than Marina. The music just puts me in a good mood. I honestly listen to all of the time. When I'm getting ready in the morning, doing homework, cleaning my room, falling asleep, and any other time of the day that I can get my hands on my Spotify playlist. When I listen to music I don't just listen to it to hear something. I listen to it to hear the words and what message the artist is trying to portray. Therefor, my music usually corresponds with my mood. Marina is more for when i'm happy and bubbly, while The Neighborhood is more for when I feel a little more overwhelmed or stressed. Overall what i'm trying to say is that my music really defines me and who I am and I just really love music.

My thoughts on Divergent

This past summer I read Divergent. I really enjoyed the novel. I loved the ideas that the author had about the future world that she wrote about and what it was like to live there. The development of the ideas and beliefs of the world she wrote about were very strong and helped me understand the story. I really liked how each faction had its own belief which essentially "defined" its inhabitants.

I was really surprised when Tris chose Dauntless in the beginning of the book because from what background I thought I knew about her she did NOT seem like a dauntless girl, especially being raised in Abnegation which is essentially the "opposite" of Dauntless. My favorite thing in the entire book was the romance between Four/Tobias and Tris. I loved how Tris went from being terrified of Four to being in love with him. I also noticed how they brought out the best in each other. Tris made Tobias more compassionate and trusting of people and Tobias made Tris braver. Also, I feel like their similarities, unknown or not, are a real component in their love. I am literally in love with their relationship. Overall, I really loved the book.