Premonitions... ~OOO Scary~ ...not really.

To tell you the truth, I have not had very many special premonitions- and by many I mean none. I can read what people are thinking or what they are feeling pretty well, but that's pretty much it. Sometimes I feel like something will happen for sure at school and of course, being me, it never happens! It's actually quite annoying.. But the most memorable premonition-type experience happened a while ago in elementary school. I really hope nobody in my class that year remembers this...

I had a crush on this guy, (There was nothing better to do! Just kidding..) and I knew for a fact he didn't like me. But a group of the class sat around a campfire in the morning kind of playing truth or dare, minus the dare part. People went around in a circle apparently openly telling one another who they liked, and then the circle stopped at me. I was really embarrassed because I was sitting a couple feet away from him. So I told everybody I didn't know who I liked, and he came over and kept asking me over and over quietly while everybody was talking. Annoyed, I finally explained that I would tell him later. When later came, I had my friend come over with me, and I had a "premonition" I was going to let him guess and he'd just accept it. But when after he guessed all those barneys, (just kidding, they were all really nice) in my class, he finally guessed himself and I said yes. It didn't happen exactly the way I saw it coming- he climbed up a tree. So my premonition came true to somewhat of an extent, because he didn't seem weird about the whole thing- he wanted to know! Sometimes we have premonitions about the future- sometimes good ones, sometimes bad ones, sometimes crazy ones... But to answer the question, yes, I guess I have had a premonition.

... kind of.

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Shakespearean Stories.

William Shakespeare has written plays that have influenced many modern movies. Most involve love, death, etc. which make good plots for many films currently. Many movies that I have seen I now realize have been a somewhat parallel to some Shakespeare plays, and there was one in particular that I favored the most. I have seen this movie probably a couple more times than necessary, (lol), 10 Things I Hate About You. This movie is not listed under one of the categories Mrs. Gilman mentioned, but is actually based off of the play, "The Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare..

I think that Shakespeare has influenced the cinemaas greatly. There are many concepts that he took from everyday life, (sort of) and transformed them into plays using his Shakespearean language and with a little, (and by little I mean usually a lot) more drama.. Shakespeare invented some interesting plots that many people love to read, recite, or watch many times because of how wonderful his stories are. William Shakespeare's stories were so popular, that when movies became remakes of these plays or parallel to their stories attracts a lot of the general audience. Many people who maybe think Shakespeare is boring and complicated will be suprised when they may have actually liked a movie based off of his plots and translated to modern language, but then again1 they may not. Shakespeare has most deff influenced movies nowadsays and are really great!

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Shakespeare

Watching A Midsummer Night's Dream in class was actually a lot easier than I anticipated. I expected (from what I have heard about Shakespeare) that it would be extremely difficult to understand the Shakespearean language and I also assumed for some reason that this movie would be really boring. After pausing the movie a few times, discussing what was going on, and taking notes (although I hate taking notes) I found the story to be pretty entertaining.  The language has become more understandable to me every day and I actually enjoyed it. Apparently the movie was set in the 19th century when Shakespeare's plays were really set in the 17th century, so I don't really know what to think about the setting. The characters are kind of interesting and I thought the language was understandable and I didn't mind it too much, although it definitely wasn't like the writing we read in books now.

Well now that I have understood Shakespeare isn't as tough as I thought, I am actually kind of looking forward to reading Romeo and Juliet. We are apparently going to read the play aloud in class and I have heard many things about it. I have heard it's very dramatic with the ending, and the fact that Romeo and Juliet are not allowed to be together. Another thing I have heard about this play is that is really beautiful yet really sad. So I am not quite sure what to expect yet, but I am looking forward to trying it out!

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