The New Year Tag

It is the last day of 2016 and my last blog post of 2016.

I can’t believe I just wrote that.

Today, we have some questions here, and it is questions about the New Year. I will try and answer some of them. In the blogosphere, we call it the New Year Tag.

Anyway, let’s get started.

Pick 3 words to describe 2016.

Achievable, Great, Thief

What were the best book you read in 2016?

No Sweetness Here and other stories by Ama Ata Aidoo

Hidden Rainbow by Christmas Carol Kauffman

Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Skipping Christmas by John Grisham

What was your biggest change from January to December?

Cutting my hair

What was the biggest thing you learnt?

Life is short. Live in the moment

What was one New Year resolution that you accomplished?

I have stop the habit of making New Year resolutions

Something you’re looking forward to this coming year.

Something concerning education…..watch out for it.

Kelewele Date with Marietta (30/12/2016): A Letter to 2016

Welcome to our last kelewele date of the year!!! WHOOOOO!!!! Can you believe it? I still remember when it was the beginning of the year and I wasn’t feeling enthusiastic about it, but it is almost over, so we thank goodness about that.

Anyway, 2016 was a mixture of everything. In this kelewele date, I have written a letter to 2016.

Dear 2016,

Oh, you are almost ending I can see. Your last day is tomorrow. I can’t believe that is the end of you. I remember when I was a little younger, I thought you would be a very strange year. I thought we could have pen pals from space and drive our cars in the air. How wonderful. You are ending tomorrow and I obviously know nothing like that would happen tomorrow.

Or would it?

You made the beginning of my year less enthusiastic. A loved one of mine was seriously ill, but she is ok now.

I made new friends in you. I made some achievements during your time.

But you know you took some people away, right. That’s what we hate about you. You gave us broken hearts.

You made us put our broken hearts on paper. We wrote more than we expected.

But you are going away, and we won’t see you again. That is somehow a good thing, but we will keep the sweet memories with us and the achievements and the milestones. Just the good aspects of it. For the bad sides of you, you can take them away. Take them away, and never let them come back. We have no room for them.

It was a privilege to meet you, 2016.

Good bye.

Let’s meet 2017.

Highlights of 2K16: The Marietta DeGrant Blog

Hey world!

2016 has been a mixture of everything year. There were good times and bad times, but we thank God for seeing us through.

There have been so many highlights of the year, but I would like to share just a few of them.

14 days of MarieAmour

14 Days of MarieAmour was a series on the blog where we spoke of mostly love and the St. Valentine’s Day. We spoke of self-love, shared a love poem and talk aimlessly about chocolate.

Nominations

We were nominated for Best New Blog and Best Blogger in the Ghana Blogging and Social Media Awards. We were nominated for NUGS Excellence Awards for Most Influential Student Writer/Blogger, and we won. We were also nominated for Most Influential Student Blogger in the Ghana Tertiary Awards.

Accra Theatre Workshop

Our play was accepted and got featured in the An African Series. This year’s theme was An African Walks into a Voting Booth in honour of the coming elections.

YouTube Channel

We have created a YouTube Channel. Go subscribe and watch out for more videos in 2017.

Internships

For this semester, instead of us to go for lectures, we were required to do student-teaching internships in any school of your choice.

Interviews

The Marietta DeGrant Blog had wonderful interviews with wonderful personalities. We interviewed Rojayjay, Rita Benyiwa, Khemikal, andKrizick.

Blogmas: #DeceMberMiracles

Whoa! Blogmas is over, and I can’t believe I was able to blog continuously for 25 days, and still blogging. I will truly miss blogmas. Blogging about the festive season, my favourite time of the year.

Light the World

If you follow me on Twitter and reading my blogmas posts, you will realize that I was involved in the Light the World campaign. I will write more about it tomorrow.

These are the highlights of us through the reading of the Marietta DeGrant Blog.

What has been the highlight of 2K16 in your life?

A Day in the Life #2

Hello! Everyone and happy Monday. I am so happy April is running a little bit faster. I mean, it’s been 11 days since the DKB and AJ prank. (Please, allow me to still talk about it. I know it’s over, and past, but hey I haven’t said anything about it yet, so let me still say it. Hehehe xx.)

By the way, AJ is a good actress, she SHOULD be in the movie industry.

Back to today’s post. You know, as I type this post, I am thinking about my “a day in the life” posts. I actually love writing things like this because it is so easy for me to write it. It’s something I have been doing since I began learning to write, just that, I do them in my diaries and journals and it is recently I started doing videos of such (I don’t share the videos online).

Such stuffs about my life is easy to produce. But there is one problem. It is not as exciting as you expect. I don’t live a luxurious life and I don’t have super exciting life. I am the wake-up-go-to-class-eat-kelewele-laugh-all-day kinda girl. Yes! Just a student who is trying to build an empire and is doing it underground.

But if you want to still read about a day in Marietta’s life, go on ahead.

A Day in the Life as at Wednesday, 6^th April, 2016

04:40am/05:07am: the two alarms go off. I lay in bed, turn and turn and turn for about 15 minutes

05:30am: went for a walk

06:20am: personal morning devotion

06:40 something: shared blog post link on all social media

Past 07:00am: Washing

08:00am: get ready and playing UB40’s I Got You Babe over a hundred times. It reminds me of the movie The Little Rascals Saved the Day

After 8am: Ate breakfast twice. Don’t judge.

10:30am: lectures

After 13:00: class was over and clouds began to gather.

14:48: Removed clothes from the lines + Lunch time

After 15:00: watched Like Stars on Earth to write a movie review on the blog. Coming soon, so watch this space.

18:30: Bath time. The weather was so good for moisturizing and a good hot beverage

19:27: Bed time. Don’t judge, I don’t normally sleep at that time but I needed to sleep.

See you in my next post.