Just A Few Words with Tegan and Kiah
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By Kiah Elmer and Tegan Shelton
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Q: Everything that my mother does makes me angry. We fight constantly about the littlest things and it seems like she will blow up over anything these days. She is always asking me what I am doing and trying to get into my business. What should I do?
A: The problem is probably shared equally between the two of you. It may seem like your mother is the one who is wrong, but step back and take a look at yourself. Are you really being fair to her? Put yourself in her shoes. Everybody fights with their mom from time to time; it is normal and comes along with going through puberty. She is your mom and is probably just worried about you. She also has a right to ask you what you are doing and to be included in your life. She is your mom, after all.
Q: I have this guy friend, who I really love to hang out with, but I am sixteen and he is twenty-one and my parents do not like him and say that I am not allowed to see him. Is it okay for me to say I am going to work when really I am going out to see him?
A: No. Absolutely not. There is probably a really good reason that your parents do not feel comfortable with you hanging out with him. The age difference should probably be reason enough for you to understand why they do not want you to hang out with him. Try to find someone closer to your age that your parents approve of; it will make it easier on everybody. Lying about anything is a bad idea anyway, as it will probably come back to haunt you later anyway.
Q: I have two groups of friends that I really care about. They absolutely refuse to get along, though, and I am often brought into the middle of it all. Should I choose between them?
A: Choosing between two groups of friends could be really difficult, and it does not sound like something that you want to do. If they do not get along and try to get you in the middle, tell them that you do not feel comfortable in the middle of their conflicts and that you would like to be left out of them. Stay out of their problems and you can keep both sets of friends.
Q: I am in high school and I have a step-sister in college. When she comes home from college, I have to share my room with her, which I do not really mind. She is annoying, but I usually let it slide. Lately she has been taking my things without asking, though, even going as far as taking my clothes (which do not fit her) and wearing them. She stretches them out and they never fit right anymore. What should I do about her?
A: Having a step-sister who takes your clothes could, indeed, be really annoying. Lay down the law and tell her that you do not want her touching your things without asking. If she continues to take your things without asking, tell your parents what she is doing and maybe they can get her to stop.
Q: My family never gets along. It is almost painful sitting through a family gathering with everybody because all they do is fight. Thanksgiving is coming up and my mother insists that we all get together. What should I do to keep away from all of the fighting?
A: A lot of families fight. If you feel comfortable standing up to your family, tell them your concerns about their fighting. If you are not very comfortable talking about the problem in front of them, just take your iPod and listen to it during the family brawl.
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| Dinner and a Movie: Twilight
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By Teagan Shelton and Kiah Elmer
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As die-hard Twilighters, when we heard that Twilight, the best selling novel by Stephenie Meyer was becoming a movie, we were psyched. Actually, psyched does not even begin to cover it all. We preordered tickets for the midnight showing on Friday, November 21st at 12:01 a.m. When we definitely had all of our tickets preordered, we planned to pick up some of our Illinois friend, Samantha, and a girl from Germany, Ana, who had read the first two Twilight books in German and the last two books in English. It was cool to see how global the Twilight series really was and how excited people from all over the world were about the movie and the books. Dinner was pretty short, as we had to drive to Taco Bell quick and proceed eating what we could (which was not much. We were worried about how the movie would project our favorite book. As we found out later, though, this worry was completely unnecessary.) After dinner we drove to the Lindo Theatre in Freeport, Illinois to be the first in line to get into the Twilight movie. It was only 9:00 p.m. It was completely necessary to arrive when we did because even though we had our tickets already, it was important to us to get good seats where we could all sit together to enjoy the movie. After waiting for two hours in line we were finally allowed to enter the actual theatre where the movie would be playing. We were all really excited and listening to all of the other excited Twilighters chattering and giggling about how incredibly amazing Robert Pattinson looked. (We completely agree with these people, btw.) It seemed like forever but then the movie finally started at exactly 12:01 a.m. We all gave a collective shriek that echoed around the theatre, and then we shut up to watch the movie. To our intense joy, our characters were portrayed beautifully by their actors. Our Bella, played by the extremely talented Kristen Stewart, did an amazing job at acting like the loveable klutz she is in the book, and she did an amazing job at narrating the movie. She was extremely believable in everything that she did. Edward Cullen, played by Robert Pattinson, was probably the best part of the entire movie. It was funny to hear the collective sighs given every time he flashed his gorgeous smile and opened his mouth to speak in his beautifully altered accent. If he was worried about his British accent showing through, he should not have been, because he did great. The other characters did an awesome job at filling in the rest of the story. The Cullen family, for instance, was very believable and extremely humorous, making us wish we had “vegetarian” vampire families of our own. Taylor Lautner, who played Jacob Black (who will come more into play in the second movie, New Moon) did a fantastic job as well. We are excited to see more of him in the next film. The bad guys were all awesome, too. Victoria, especially; she was awesome! A nice touch to the movie was when in a diner scene, Twilighters were able to see their favorite author, Stephenie Meyer, make an appearance. Everybody pointed at the screen and whispered about how awesome she was. Overall, we really loved the movie. We thought that it was going to be a really good film, but it actually turned out to be even better than we expected it to be. Everything was perfect and we talked about it the whole way home and still continue to annoy people with our constant chattering about it. We would, however, like to suggest that people who have not read the book actually read the book before going to see the movie. Though the two are very similar, there are a few differences to make it so that the book could actually be adapted to the movie. We got home around 3:15 a.m. in the morning, and proceeded to crawl out of our cars and slide into beds overtaken by exhaustion. The trip was well worth everything that it took to make it happen and we are extremely satisfied with the Twilight movie. It was worth the wait. We encourage anybody and everybody who can go see it to go watch it. It was fantastic.
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