A Change of Taste

     Ever since I was a little girl, music has always been a big part of my life. It's just that important to me. When ever I was in elementary school, pop was always my first choice in music genre. I got my first two CD's in first grade, which were N'sync and Britney Spears. Back in those days, they were the coolest. I guess Backstreet Boys were too, but I didn't have their CD, so I just never had as much interest in them as I did with N'sync. As I got into middle school, and started going to the dances, my style of music started changing. Because the songs they would play at the dances were more like hip hop and dance type songs. So I started to start liking that more. My mom didn't necessarily like that my music style was changing, but since then, she's learned to put up with it...well, most of the time. Towards the end of my high school career, I started to really like Coldplay a lot, and I have loved them ever since. I am in love with their new album Mylo Xyloto. It's a bit of a different style than what Coldplay normally does, but I still like it. I feel that at the end of highschool and going on into college, I have started really liking alternative music. I guess I just like music that I think is unique and something that not everyone would listen to. But then it always seems like a "new song that I've discovered" all of a sudden becomes popular. Oh well. Not only have a started liking alternative more recently, I have also started liking dubstep and Kid Cudi. Two different genres, but it's what my roommates listen to. So after a while, I started liking them too. I didn't really know much about dubstep back in high school, and I never really though I'd ever like Kid Cudi. But I guess I was wrong. 330

Book Review

       When I was little, my favorite series of books were the Junie B. Jones books. I believe I was in second grade when I was first introduced to these books. My teacher, Mrs. Weurful, (one of my favorite teachers growing up), read a few of these books to our class. We all fell in love with them. I can also remember her reading us Ramona books as well. I liked those too, but the Junie B. Jones books were always my favorite. Any of the books that she didn't read to us in class I would check out at the library and read on my own. I remember for my next birthday, I got the book Junie B. Jones Is (almost) a Flower Girl. I was so excited to get my own Junie B. Jones book!

     
            As I got older and involved with more school activities, I found myself reading less and less, which was a shame. But the next time that I really got involved in a book series was the summer before my sophomore year. That was the summer that I discovered Twilight. Now, I know what you're thinking. "Twilight, how dumb. Everyone makes such a big deal about that series." Well, that may be true now, but when I first discovered this book was a few months before the movie was to be out. The previews weren't even being played in theaters yet. In other words, I didn't know there was going to be a movie. I think this is the most excited I have ever been to read a book. I find it really sad how all the hype from the movies not only ruined this for me, and for most of my friends. But putting all of that aside, I still believe that the series is really good; the first one is my favorite. 309
     

Introduction

         Hello, my name is Katelyn Bright. I am from Monticello, IL, which is about 50 minutes east of Normal. My favorite colors are lime green and bright pink. I was in color guard first semester, and second semester I will be starting civic chorale. As you can see, I love music. I also love to act. I live in a quad in Watterson, and I love my roommates. They're names are Sarah, Allison, and Maddie. We all get along pretty well for living together randomly. Our floor is pretty cool, too. We're all really close, and we hang out together all the time. I feel that I am pretty lucky to live on this floor because I figure this is not an often occurrence. Back home, I have 3 little brothers. Aaron is 15, and he is a high school freshman. The twins, Ryan and Ethan, are in 5th grade, and they are 11. Aaron is in drum line, and really enjoys it. Ryan plays trombone, and Ethan plays trumpet. For it only being their first year in band, they are pretty good. My dad works at Kraft in Champaign, and my mom works at Gordman's.
           Some more interesting things about me: I really like photography; not that I'm like a really intense photographer or anything. I just like to look at other people's work, and then I get ideas for how to tweak my own photos taken by my cute, little digital camera. I just discovered picnik.com, so now I like to edit my photos with that. My birthday is tomorrow (January 21st). I'm turning 19. It should be fun. I'll probably get my nose pierced. It'll be funny to see my parents reaction afterwards.
          Right now, I'm sitting in my dorm room with Maddie watching Toy Story. It's always good to go with a classic. I've got about 45 minutes before I have to go to my 2 o'clock class. American Diversity. Oh joy. Hopefully it won't be too bad. I kind of like my professor. He reminds me of a grandpa; he makes me laugh because he makes those type of "old people" jokes where he tries to be funny, which makes it even funnier. The only problem is that he likes to talk a lot, so he could almost be boring at times. But that was just when we were going over the syllabus the other day. Hopefully his lectures won't be too bad; I guess I'll find out today.
         Well, that's all I have for today. Have a good one! 425