Nonfiction Blog (Harmen Alleyne)

Prompt: How often do you curse, and why? Let’s just say that I swear a lot more than adults would want me to swear. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t actively try to offend people. In fact, I try my best to not offend people. I just subconsciously use swear words when speaking in my peer group. It started roughly around the same time that I entered Uni and discovered my freedom. I previously went to Urbana Middle School before entering Uni, and had a decent upbringing. My parents didn’t swear at home, and I had only some knowledge of taboo vocabulary at that time. Also, UMS handed out detentions like halloween candy. Teachers would give out detentions to people who asked others to stop talking during a test (I know from personal experience). I had tried my best to not use any swear words during my time at UMS. But then I came to Uni High. When I arrived at Uni High, everyone was using swear words, and I was a little surprised at the absence of detentions. Surprise quickly turned into curiosi...

Standard Critiques. This came in at about 610 words. Prompt: Do you ever eavesdrop? Yes. Constantly. Now, before you say that I’m weird or a stalker, I will provide the reasons to contradict this notion. My ability to pick up information about people is a skill that I have honed over many years, and is (probably) not something you should be concerned about. It probably all started in elementary school when people would talk about me behind my back. I was always known as one of the “nerdier” kids at school, and people would occasionally make fun of me. I eventually got paranoid and began listening in on other people’s conversations. It was mostly just my friends at first, and nothing they said was all that hurtful. I could even jump into a conversation that some friends were having just by listening into what they had been saying for maybe a minute beforehand. I was also able to locate anyone who said something mean or hurtful about me, even when they thought I couldn’t hear them. I had...