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 Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 8:10 pm
She's not the only one with a weird name. Cindarella is called "Askepot" which means something like "Ashpot" or something...
In the real fairytale, she was raped... If my memory serves correctly, she woke up after giving birth to twins.
Ah, I wasn't much into the whole princess-fairy tales. I liked the more touching ones, such as The Ugly Duckling, the Nightingale and the likes.
The Little Match-Seller is about a girl who tries to sell matches in the cold... Her family is very poor. However, she hasn't sold a single match at the end of the day, and she isn't allowed home untill she's sold the matches. She freezes to death.
It's a very touching story. You should read it!
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Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 8:35 pm
Kineka: Movies with a lot of sexual humor in it.
Your mom never read you bedtime stories? My mom always did, so did everyone in my family. I used to know the books by heart and correct them whenever they got it wrong or tried to skip a page xd
Kitsune: She was? That's interesting.
That's what I thought too. Annabelle Lee was the first thing that popped in my head when Kineka said Anabelle.
I have no clue how she woke up. I'm guessing it wasn't by the prince's kiss.
I've read the Little Match-Seller. I cried after I read it too. Disney and Pixar even did a short for it: here.
It wasn't really a fairytale, but I used to love the book Strega Nona. About a woman who has a magic pot that cooks tons of spaghetti. This man, Anthony, learns of the pot and when Strega Nona leaves town he tells the village of it. The pasta pot eventually overflows, filling the village with pasta. I also really liked Sleepy Hollow
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Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 10:22 pm
Sorry for the absence lately. Ive been busy. Ive Finally decided what im going to do with my life....sort of. I want to get into Anthropology,whether Cultural, Biomedical, or Archaeology wise im not sure yet. But i am incredibly excited that im not going to sit and rot for the rest of my life. I just need to get into school now, hopefully they'll take me even though i screwed up so bad before >.<
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Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 5:51 am
Kitsune: Hmm. I never knew their real names, I just thought of them by their movie names, so to speak. But that's interesting.
O.O Wow. No wonder they didn't put that in the movie. Disney wouldn't DARE have raping in one of their movies.
OH! I REMEMBER THAT ONE! Although, my 3rd grade teacher read it to our class, not my mother. Isn't it like, she uses her last matches to warm herself, but it's not enough?
Blanc: Oh! Haha, that'd be interesting.
Nope. She did start reading me Harry Potter when I was in kindergarten, but I don't remember it. Maybe she did and it was too early in life that I don't remember. But I just remember always reading with my mom or my grandma, but it was never before bedtime. But my grandpa did pay me whenever I read a chapter and got no mistakes and could pronounce everything right. That's why I loved going over there, I got $10 just for reading, which, to me, was easy money.
Haha maybe that's where I got it. But I never knew Sleeping Beauty's real name, I just thought of her as Sleeping Beauty. When I was on the Disney site, and they said 'Aurora', I was just like 'Who the heck is that?!' Shows how much I know about fairy tales, huh?
Wow, nice story. I don't remember much from my childhood, to be honest with you. The only children's books I read were these religious ones that they had in our library that told Bible stories. But after I read Superfudge, that's when my obsession with chapter books came in...but I don't remember many of the books I read before that though.
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Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 5:55 am
Oh hi Thulie! Didn't mean to ignore you!
Oooh, that sounds interesting! I'm glad you found something you truly love to do. I'm sure they'll take you if you execute good behavior from now on. They will look at your record, but they should let you in if you're good now and don't get into trouble.
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Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 12:45 pm
Thank you kineka biggrin Im so excited to actually get started. Its going to be tough,but that just means i get to learn more ^.^. Yay For Being smart! biggrin
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Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:36 pm
Thulie: That sounds pretty interesting! (: I'm glad you figured out what you want to do with your life. Considering it is so hard to decide x.x
Kineka: Yeah they are xd Pretty funny too, depending on the movie.
Oh wow. I wish I was paid to read. My parents usually yelled at me for reading too much xd Which is true once my aunt gave me the first four Harry Potter books one Christmas (I think it was '01 I'm not sure though).
She had like three names in the movie. Sleeping Beauty, Aurora, and Briar Rose. I liked Briar Rose the best, it sounded prettier razz
I never really read religious books. Maybe one or two, but I don't remember them. I don't remember much either, just little snippets here and there. I moved from children's books to chapter books amost instantly. I loved the American Girl series a lot. I have three of the dolls too whee
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Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:50 pm
Thank you blanc smile It took me over 4 years to figure out what i wanted to do >.< from my junior year till now. I always had it in the back of my mind,anthropology that is, but i tried other things. Now it just shows me even more that i really want to do it.
ahhh the american girl series. I remember those! my cousin used to read them a lot a lot. I read one or two of them, couldn't really pull myself into them. I was more into mangas and my mothers biomedical anthro books haha. Im such a nut. Man and Microbes was the first full book i remember reading. I was in a summer program at my elementary school, and one of the older kids, the ones who ran the program yelled at me for reading it. She was like "you're too young for that, you shouldn't be reading it" And i looked at her and said "Why is that? is it because you don't know what it is? You Only fear what you don't understand" and i got kicked out >.< I was quite the mouthy/witty child back then haha. I learned well from my mother ^.^
Edit: MERLINS PANTS Blanc! where did you get that icon?! i wants i wants lol
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Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 4:37 pm
Thullie: Since you know what you want to major in, do you know what school you would like to go to? What exactly is anthropology?
I remember the American Girl books. I used to read them a lot. Those and Nancy Drew were some of the first chapter books that I read. I think I was reading those by the time I was in second grade or so. I've always loved reading, and every night when I was younger, I would get a huge stack of books, and my mom would read them to me. Then when I got older, I would read them to her. So I've always been a bookworm, probably always will.
Oh, and I got to watch my older cousin play mud volleyball (quite funny), and I also got to clean out my uncle's house with my mom, aunts, and grandma so the realtor could put it on the market over the weekend. It was a busy weekend.
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Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 4:49 pm
Nari: Well i plan on starting at the local community college Broome CC, because my record right now is not very good. But then after i go there for about a year I want to transfer to either SUNY Albany or SUNY Oneonta biggrin My mother went to oneonta, and i used to come sit with her and her teacher while they talked smile . Anthropology is the study of Human origin. How we came to be, how we've evolved, how we communicate, etc. And of course each field is different,but thats complicated to get into.
mud volleyball? very very dirty lol don't think ive ever seen someone play.
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Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 5:04 pm
Thulie: That sounds interesting. I think I want to major in meteorology (weather), or cytotechnology (studying people's blood to look for stuff that shouldn't be there), and I already have an idea of where I would like to go to college-Hawaii, Arkansas, or Florida.
Yeah, my cousin signed up this year, this was his first time. He was reading us the rules, and some were pretty funny, like "Don't bring any alcoholic beverages, but if you do make sure that it's the good stuff." Because if you bring in drinks, then they confiscate them, and I guess keep them, so they want the good stuff. This farmer about 2 or 3 miles away from my grandma's house lets them use part of his land to host the mud volleyball tournament every year. So they bring in tankers full of water, and who knows what's in that mud, because I think the cows normally graze there.
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Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 5:46 pm
Thulie: That's good (: My cousin just turned 32 and she's still trying to figure out what she wants to do. She's working at a daycare now and really likes that, but still isn't sure.
I loved historical books when I was little. I still do a little bit. I was like that too :3 I'm not at mouthy or witty as I was when a few years ago. I have some decent moments though whee
I found the icon floating around on some website and swiped it x3 There was another one with a halo that said 'saintlike' underneath. I need to find that one...
Nariko: Sounds like mud vollleyball is definitely a dirty sport. I like the rules though xd
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 6:38 am
Wow, not on for one night and I miss, what, 3 conversations going on at once? xD. Okay, I'll answer now.
Thulie: You're welcome. Of course, it's going to be tough, but I have faith that you can do it. smile
Blanc: My mom and grandparents encouraged me to read, they said it would help me later in life and they were glad I could read so early. The religious books were just in our school library and we had to do AR (Accelerated Reader, which is where you read a book and take a test on it and you get points depending on how many questions you got right) and the point value got higher as you ascended in grades. But those religious books were 0.5 points, so I figured that I could read a bunch of those and somehow get up to the 5 points I needed. I never got into American Girl, it always seemed so boring...no offense, I'm sure it's good, but I wasn't into history books much. I THOUGHT I was, but then I read part of those, and I got really bored really fast. I used to beg my mom to get me biographies, but I never read them because I was bored to death. Then I tried mystery with Nancy Drew, and I got through one book and I'm like "Okay, moving on..." Then I got into A Series of Unfortunate Events, I think that's when I started liking more depressing books...and that kind of led into my obsession with vampires, werewolves, and witches....
Nariko: Mud volleyball? o.O That must be hilarious to watch, although probably not to play.
I actually never really got into reading that much once I finished a series. Like, after I read all the Judy Blume and Beverly Cleary books (they were my favorites when I was younger), I didn't know what else to read, so I didn't. Then I got into A Series of Unfortunate Events, and kept saying that I wasn't going to read anything else until I'm done with that whole series, so I didn't read in between them, for fear I would forget the storyline of the last book. I think I became a REAL bookworm after I read Harry Potter, to be honest with you. Then I read Twilight, House of Night, Blue Bloods, Vampire Diaries...so now I think I'm more of a bookworm than I was before. I always LIKED reading, but I never did, because I always thought a book would SOUND interesting, but would really be boring. That was a problem I had when I was finding books, I would read the back and it would SOUND interesting, but it was really so boring I couldn't even turn the page. I guess that's how book sellers get their money, huh?
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:39 am
Kineka: My parents were like that for me, but for my little brother they weren't. I was always the little kid who wanted to live in a different time period and wanted to know everything that happened then, I still am a bit whee I could never get into Nancy Drew, it bored me too much. I loved a Series of Unfortunate Events though. Those made me laugh pretty hard (: I liked the Austere Academy, the Ersatz Elevator, and the Slippery Slope the best. I only own about five of the books out of the series. Hopefully my brother gets into them and my mom buys him more of the books. I really want to read the Ersatz Elevator right now.
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 12:54 pm
Haha I think I'm more like that now. Like, when I'm reading a book and it's really interesting, I want to be in the book. It happened with all the books I read, although my parents don't know about it. They just think I like them a lot, which I do. But I also kind of imagine myself in the books too sometimes. Nancy Drew WAS pretty boring...my mom only let me read them because she wanted to expose me to every kind of book there is out there, just to find out what I like and don't like. Series of Unfortunate Events was like, the thing to love when I was in 4th grade. I actually got The Slippery Slope for free in a drawing at my school. We had this Series of Unfortunate Events Day at school...we had this Scavenger Hunt where we had to figure out puzzles like Violet would and the clues were related to it...there was this game where our princepal ran around these cones that represented bad characters from the series while getting water balloons thrown at him...we had a costume contest, where everyone dressed up as someone from the series (I was Violet, obviously). It was a lot of fun. I need to re-read them though, I don't remember the details...and I have all of them, in hard cover too. I couldn't wait to read the next one, so my mom bought them for me before they came out in paperback.
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