Nonfiction Writing

After Halloween ends, I'm usually the person who immediately skips over Thanksgiving and jumps straight into the Christmas festivities. As soon as November begins, I put on my bright red Christmas pants and tell Alexa to blast "All I Want For Christmas is You" through every speaker in the house. I spend about 2 hours jamming out to whatever Christmas playlist Spotify has to offer, and it always includes the classic "Jingle Bell Rock." I don't know if anyone else does this or if I'm particularly odd, but every single time I hear this song, I immediately think of Mean Girls. More specifically, I'm reminded of the iconic scene where the Plastics dance to this song while Regina's mom hypes them up. I can't make it though the holidays without this scene crossing my mind. The first time I saw Mean Girls was with one of my best friends, Kate, when we were in middle school. We watched this movie a few days before Christmas, and looking back, I

One of my favorite family vacations was when my parents, brother and I went to Hawaii for two weeks. One of those weeks was spent on the Big Island. The Big Island has a lot of really interesting things to do and sights to see. There are volcanoes everywhere, and the terrain is littered with black volcanic rocks. A lot of people choose to go to the other Hawaiian islands because they are more colorful and scenic, but I would argue that the Big Island has a ton of unique and interesting features which you can't find anywhere else. However, one downside is that there aren't a lot of people inhabiting this island. My family and I didn't think much of it at first, but we would soon realize what a challenge this would pose. The first day on the Big Island, my family and I went sightseeing. There was a beautiful sunset that I was determined to get some nice pictures of to show to my friends and post on social media. I decided to venture further out into a field of volcanic ro