Summer Reading

Hey everyone, it's Steph. Ugh, I hate summer reading. Summer should be relaxing and fun. Plus, people actually go places during the summer. So, I'm still here, working on my essay and trying to finish Great Expectations before school starts, which is in around a week. Ugh. Plus, I think I kinda forgot all the Algebra I ever learned, which is not good.

Video Contest

Hey Creww
I was reallyy bored one day, and found this cool video contest. The requirements are, to make a 30 second video that shows middle schoolers how bad alchohol is, or persuades them to go against drinking alchohol.
Some of the ideas are really cool, so I thought we should try it.

Here's the link: http://www.courageouspersuaders.com/

Check it out.
<3,
Anna Chenn

What is a name?

What is a name? Names actually play pretty important roles in plots and help set the mood for stories. They can be common names, too indicate that the hero is a regular person (like Harry Potter or Alex Rider). Or they can be heroic sounding names that sound fantasy like (such as Gandalf or Eragon). And then villans always have evil sounding names, full of evil intent (like Voldemort). Seriously, try saying Harry Potter evily. Doesn't work out too well does it? And imagine if all the Lord of the Rings characters had names like Bob and Joe.

"The Evil Dark Lord Bob has stolen the ring! Now I the mighty wizard Jim must set out to stop him!" Ridiculous.

Which is a reason I'm a bit mad at Hot Shot. The main character's love interest is named GuGu Chicken. Everyone else has cool heroic Chinese sounding names, like Dong Fang Xiang, but seriously, GuGu Chicken? Sure it was a pretty good joke for a while, but now it sort of dampers the mood. Especially in dramatic scenes where Da Ying talks about his love for GuGu Chicken. It makes is seem likes he's addicted to some type of Chinese poultry dish.

But, in real life, there are some pretty cool/weird/strange/bizzare/why-didn't-I-think-of-that names out there, as the following list shows.

1) Cutout Dissection.com

That's right, someone named themself after a website. And yes, it is completly legal. She's technically Ms.Dissection.com. Pretty good advertising actually. Maybe I should change my name to Theazncrewdot Blogspotdotcom.

2) Zealand-New

A girl born in, you guessed it, New Zealand! Creative parents.

3) @

Wow that must be pretty confusing. In school teachers will be like "Spell your name." and @ will be like "@". How do you even say that? At?

4) Autumn Sullivan Corbett Fitzsimmons Jeffries Hart Burns Johnson Willard Dempsey Tunney Schmeling Sharkey Carnera Baer Braddock Louis Charles Walcott Marciano Patterson Johansson Liston Clay Frazier Foreman Brown

Probably the longest name in the world. 25 Middle names... I wonder if she has to write them all out when asked for her full name. Must've taken a long time to memorize too.

5) Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk and The Flash Combined

Now THAT is a cool name. Imagine being asked what your name is by a policeman or teacher. And imagine their reactions when they find out that's your real name. But you know what's a cooler name? I'm Faster Than Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk and The Flash Combined.

Writer's Block (aka I Was Procrastinating But I Won't Admit It)

Hullo everybody! I have just returned from 3 days of camping with some friends... it was quite fun except for the bugs. And the rain. And the boy scout invasion. And the bathroom with no lights. And the muddy hike. But otherwise... a good time. Once again I have failed to post for quite some time, but that has maingly been because I've been ridiculously busy even though its summer. However I've managed to get some free time and will try to post more frequently (I think this is the third time I'm saying it... but third time's the charm =]). Anyways in recent news Sophy (aka Sophia) has created a website:

www.theazncrew.webs.com

I haven't really had an inspiration to write something in a while, but I'm trying to work on that... hopefully I'll get into the habit of posting on the site more often. Hope everyone's enjoying their summer, I'll post more soon (hopefully...).

Back From China!

Heyy, Anna here.

Just got back from China two days ago. I've missed so much. I leave and everything falls apart. ;D JKK.

I'm trying to do summer assignments/texting Justin/ looking up the MLA format for the summer reading homework. Does anyone in the AZN Crew know what it's supposed to be for notes? And are we supposed to site the book, or our notes on the book? So confused.

Then there's the physics assignment. So yeah, gtg.
see ya!

List of 10 Most Idiotic Things Ever Done

Hey everyone, it's Steph. =] We're starting a list of the top 10 most idiotic things done, so post them in the comments. =]

New Hampshire

Greetings from New Hampshire! I'm leaving to go back home tommorow... it's been a busy first week of summer! Mostly I've gone hiking and almost found a moose... I also nearly died multiple times by walking off the trail (hey, it was hard to see) and trying to climb a waterfall/river/stream/brook thingy. So then my mom said I was going to give her a heart attack so I had to stay on the trail... Also my sister went crazy and melted crayons and attacked me with them and also whacked me with her hat repeatedly. Hmm... what else...

I watched Princess Protection Program with my sister and it was OK I guess... I like the classic Disney movies better =P Well the time's flown by pretty quickly and now I've got a 7 hour drive home to look foward to tommorow... great =( Then I'll finally be back in NJ, just in time to start my summer school which lasts for a month! Hurrah! xP Well that's about it... I'll try to post more frequently...