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Big Hair and a Book

 This post is an essay that I wrote for my junior year of high school/freshman year of college English class. It’s a personal literacy essay where I discuss my experience with books. I hope you like it.  Throughout my entire life, including now, people always recognize me by my hair. Curly, brown,  and perpetually frizzy hair. My trademark. Although hair is important to who I am, I think books will  forever be the biggest part of me.            According to my mother, I started reading when I was 3, I can’t corroborate that since I don’t  remember being 3. In fact, I don’t remember much of my childhood. But I remember the books I read.  There were 3 extremely important books that have shaped my entire life, or at least my life until now,  but I can almost guarantee that they will always be important to me. These books represent different  types of reading, or different reasons you might read.   The first type is reading for knowledge, represented by the Egyptology book. As a child I wa

My Trip to Monterrey, Mexico!!!

  This month, I took a 1 week trip to Monterrey, Mexico to visit family and explore the town. It was extremely hot and I ate so many tacos and burritos that I got tired of them, and if you know me in real life, you know that that's practically impossible.  This post will mainly be pictures because 1. my mom and I took many pictures and 2. I have a terrible memory, especially when it comes to trips.  I first need to talk about my aunt's ancient dog, Nacho.  Technically, he isn't ancient, but he is. He's 15 in human years, which means he's 76 in dog years, according to  this  calculator.  The first thing we did after taking a full day of rest (which consisted of 2 long naps for me) was go to the  Tres Museos . We only got to go to 2 of the 3 museums, which kinda sucks, but we still had an amazing time.  I love this top so much I'd wear it to the grocery store.  These 2 pictures are of clothes from the colonial era of Mexico (I think).  I'm 99% sure this is a C

I DID AN INTERNSHIP AT FRED HUTCH!!!!!!!!

 Ok, I have a word limit for this so I'll just give you guys a bit of background info on what this is then I'll get into the post because this post is actually an assignment for the internship.  1.  This  is Fred Hutch  2.  This  is the internship I did  So I  have a few favorite things from this internship, ranging from the scenery to the labs. (Mostly the labs) But the thing I loved the most, were the tours. Seeing the labs and meeting people who work there and what they do is fantastic.  This is from the first tour, a picture of the view from the sky bridge. Yes, a skybridge!  Unfortunately, I didn't get any pictures of labs when we did tours, but I did get pictures from the labs that we did.  This is from a PCR lab. PCR stands for polymerase chain reaction. It essentially makes a bunch of copies for a specific gene. Copies are made by putting DNA into a thermocycler. Changes in temperature can change the bonds of the DNA, for example, heat breaks the hydrogen bonds, col

Crochet Mushroom Top

 Hello! Today I will be sharing a pattern for a crochet mushroom top. This took me about a week and a half to do without breaks (I took a lot) and it looks absolutely adorable!  Now before we begin, this post does contain affiliate links that I made using  Chirpyest , these specific links are used for the styling ideas portion of this post, but these links are not the particular products that I am wearing in these pictures. Still, they are similar ones from brands that many people buy from. Please go to my  disclaimer page  and my  privacy policy page  to learn more.  Materials:  Weight 4 yarn in red and white, tapestry needle, and a 5mm hook.  Top:   In red  1:  Crochet a chain the length you want your top to be +1.  Single crochet into the second chain from your hook and chain 1.  2-50: Repeat row 1 until the top is long enough to wrap around your torso. You can either slip stitch the ends together or make a lace-up closure by making a very long chain and inserting the chain into eve

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