Blog Post #9- "Pretty Boring"

Describe the Rusty Ruins. 

• What are they?
• What happened during this time period?

The Rusty Ruins are the remains of a land that once existed.  I think that it is like what we, as people of 2010, leave behind are the Rusty Ruins to Tally and Shay.  It was the place before Uglyville and New Pretty Town.  I imagine just like the ruins of the ancient Greeks- pieces or parts of buildings and structures, images of people that no longer exist.



Define peer pressure.  Think of a time when it happened to you or someone you know and explain the situation in a paragraph.

Peer pressure to me is when someone is trying to make you do something you know isn't right and you wouldn't normally do.  When I was in junior high, I had a friend that had gotten into an argument with our Humanities (English & History together in one class) teacher.  My friend had gotten in trouble for talking and our teacher had called her parents and she was grounded.  She talked me into writing some bad things about the teacher on one of the bathroom walls.  By the next morning, I was feeling so guilty, I approached the teacher and told her what we had done and how sorry I was.  I remember being so embarassed and crying because that just wasn't something I would do.  My parents had raised me better than that.  I ended up having afterschool detention for two weeks and had to clean/scrub graffitti off all the bathroom stalls.  It was awful.  I knew I shouldn't have done it, but my friend pressured me and I caved.  It never happened again.



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