For my last writing assignment for this week, I decided to When and Where would you live. For this assignment, I wanted to connect it to our theme of the 80s. This is when I decided I would think about what my life would be if I grew up in royalty in the 80s. I decided that I would choose to live in the Buckingham Palace as if I was related to the queen of England.

First I want to find a good picture of the Buckingham Place to show everyone where I would be living for this assignment.

The reason I decided to pick this place to live in the 1980s was because ever since I was a little girl, I have always thought about what it would be like to be born into royalty and what would be like to grow up in that type of spotlight.

When I started thinking about what it would be really like growing up in royalty, I realized that I probably would be as great as I thought it would be as a little girl. I would be in the spot light all the time, and I think I would feel like I would not be able to make a mistake. I think I would be a lot harder than I first thought it would be.

On another note, I do think it would be fun to see everything that would be going on behind the scenes. Like all the drama that the general public does not get to see. I think if I lived in the Buckingham Palace in the 1980s I would be running around trying to see all that was happening with everyone and learning everything there is to know about being royalty.

I really enjoyed being able to tap into my creative side and go back to something I used to dream about as a little girl!

For this assignment I had to think about a place and time period in which I would want to live. My dream location and time would be southern California in the 80’s. I chose this because the mindset of everyone during this time was so free spirited and I love that. I don’t have a particular building picked out for where I would live, but I know it would probably be a small place (because I would be broke), and definitely on the beach. Being so close to the beach is so important to me because I have always lived somewhere warm. Living on the beach would make me overall happier. Since California is so expensive, it would probably make more sense to buy an RV and live in that, or even an old school bus and redo in the inside. Some may think that living out of a bus is absolutely insane, but to me it sounds so much fun. I would probably start out working as a waitress or even for a local business doing marketing. I would’ve wanted to spend my free time either on the beach or at a music festival. These things to me seem like the epitome of what the 80’s in southern California.

Honestly, I think about this all the time. If I got to pick when I was born, what year would I pick? What would I change about my family? About my life? Friends? Where would I live, if anywhere in the world? Would I be different? Would I still be me?

I’m usually in my head, regardless of what is going on around me. There could be an extremely important meeting going on at work, and I would daydream about the world and it’s connection to my life. My creativity might be practically nonexistent, but my imagination runs like hundreds of wild horses on a plain.

This project wasn’t so difficult. I already had a decent idea in my head of a life I’d love to have, a time I’d love to grow up in. The biggest thing I had to do was try to find photos to explain what I always envisioned and explain it all. Especially since the 70’s-80’s is when I’d love to be growing up as a young child, so this works out perfectly with the theme for this semester.

With that all being said, this would be my dream life, if I got to pick it.

Where And Where You Would Live

Description: Pick a time, place, and if you want a building from then (real or fake) that you would want to live. It can be from any time period or any place, be creative. You can create your own building or find one already made. Write a story about why you would live there and what you would do if you did.

A time I would love to grow up in is the 70’s-80’s. It was the perfect mixture of electronics and no electronics. While growing up, I constantly played outside and tried to go on adventures and so on. However, no kid was doing that when I was younger. Kids were too busy with TV and their electronics, so I played with the same 3-5 kids. Whenever I came home, it was all electronics everywhere. I never liked it, I always wanted to play with board games, cards, or just a simple game of hide and seek. And none of my family or friends wanted to do that. In the 70’s-80’s, there was little to no electronics. It was just starting to be a part of people’s lives, but plenty lived without. I feel one of the biggest ways to play on electronics at that time was to go to the arcade or watch the TV. That was it. Even with that, you still had to go to an arcade, not sit on your bedroom chair. That might be my own unpopular opinion, but I was a highly energetic kid. I needed to run and be crazy. I also recognize that I’m now extremely dependent on electronics, and I really never wanted to be.

I also have always loved the small to medium sized houses they show you in every 80’s movie or TV show. I grew up in many places: basements, apartments, shared homes with people, etc. Since I was a kid, I didn’t want nor need a lot to be contempt. Though the house we have now is slightly small, I love it every square inch of it. I know if I got to pick a house, I’d pick something small/medium and simple styled just like the one we have now. I would never pick a mansion or a giant house. The photo above is super close to what I have always envisioned my house to be, minus the garage (though that’s a plus).

I never had any preference where exactly in the US I wanted to live. I have always wanted to live in a small town, I loved the idea of everyone knowing everyone and the very strong bond within the community being evident. Though, any place that their weather is mostly rainy throughout the year, the air is cool, and during the summer it isn’t blazing with the heat of a thousand suns, I’d love to live there. Also if there is plenty of greenery around (like the picture above). I love Virginia, but I’m trying to move to North Carolina. So if I got to pick a place, my first choice would be NC. Though, I easily change my mind about this all the time, so even though right now I want to move to NC, that could be different by the time I graduate.

This was a mess of thoughts, but overall, I’d love to live in the 70’s/80’s where there is a lack of electronics. If I got to pick where I’d like to live, I’d live in a small-medium sized house that’s simply styled. I’d also like to live in a rainy area with plenty of greenery throughout a small town. However, even if I plan hundreds of different lives I’d wish I had or see myself living, I would never ask for a different life. I love my family, I love where I came from, and my experiences in this life shaped me to who I am today. I could not be more happier with the life I have now.

I often think about where I would live if I could live anywhere in the world. I saw this assignment (3 stars) and knew the answer pretty much immediately. I would love to live in London or really anywhere in England. I think I would like to live there anytime after World War Two maybe the 1990s or early 2000s. I visited there two years ago and fell in love with the country. The weather is not the best, but London has so much history and has so much to do. It is also very nice that they also speak English, so I would not have to learn a new language. I would definitely want to live in one of the palaces like Kensington or even Buckingham. I know it sounds cheesy to say one of the palaces, but it would be so amazing to live somewhere with so much history and where so many world leaders have visited/lived. Living in Europe is also nice because they have so many trains and ways to visit other countries. It would nice to be so close to other countries like France and Spain so easily! I would want to live there with all my family and friends that way I was not lonely.

I really enjoyed going back through my memories and pictures of my trip to England for this assignment. It also let me live my dream of living in London.

Until next time,

Emily

The year is 2025 and I live in post-apocalyptic D.C. in my storage container tiny house. During the years of the apocalypse, my home protected me from viral diseases and extreme, destructive natural disasters. Now that the initial collapse of the old society has died down, I have been adjusting to life after the apocalypse.

I have begun adding outdoor space to my modest home. There is a front patio where I enjoy eating breakfast and watching the sunrise. On the side, I have a garden, where some crops are beginning to sprout. I cannot wait to eat some fresh food; canned food is becoming sickening to even look at.

My tiny storage container home is perfect for me right now. It does not require much maintenance, which is extremely necessary because I need to focus on meeting my basic needs for survival as necessities are scarce these days.

Life in the storage container can be lonely, but it is built for one and it works for me in my situation. It can be pleasant and cozy at times when I lay in my lofted bed and listen to the silence of the world be drowned out by my tiny box house that protects me from all that can cause harm.

If I could choose any time and place to live, I would probably pick somewhere in Europe in the 13th century. I am a huge nerd for medieval history, so I would probably love it. Ideally, I would live in a castle or defensible manor, where I would eat roast pheasant in my awesome dining hall with a super long table lit by torches and candles while my servants tested my food for poison and refilled my solid gold goblet with ale. Then, when the time came, I would probably have to skirmish with other local lords and nobles. I would obviously ride my trusty steed everywhere and own an awesome sword and an array of other kick-ass weapons including but not limited to bows, morning stars, hammers, halberds, and axes. On weekends I would go to church and admire the incredible Gothic architecture and stained glass windows as they were meant to be seen. Conversely, there would definitely be a lot of drawbacks. People in the Middle Ages were surprisingly clean compared to people in the Early Modern period (e.g., people in the Middle Ages actually bathed pretty often whereas someone like Isaac Newton probably thought bath water gave you the plague), so that would be nice, but I’d also have to go the bathroom in a chamber pot or a hole in the ground. And there’d be a huge change that I’d die of some plague or the common cold at the age of 45. And I would have to deal with rabidly nationalistic hyper-religious elites hell-bent on stealing land and natural resources from the Middle East in the name of western civilization (ha ha ha ha ha). But all in all, living at any point in history would probably suck to some degree, and medieval Europe would at least be cool and interesting.