A Trip Just for Me

 

  Hello everyone! How's everyone's day going? Good? Good. A question I have for you is where would you like to go around the world in the future? Now, I have many different places I would like to go in the world, but if I had to pick one, out of the many places I would like to go, then it would be France. Why? 

   First of all, I would love to see the Eiffel Tower. One, so I can see how tall it really is. Two to see how the Eiffel Tower looks like (in person) when it's night and the tower is lit up. A second reason why I would like to go to France is to try all the different foods they have. And to see if it's better or worse  compared to American food. Also, one of the main things I want to do when asking for food is ask for FRENCH fries. It's only because I want to see if French people have a reaction, like maybe laugh or do nothing. 

   My third reason I would like to go to France is to see museums, specifically an art museum. Some people know that an artist is what I want my future career to be. I could see what different art styles people in France use and get inspired to put that in some of my drawing or paintings. Hopefully, I can go to France in the future and do all the things I want to do like visit the Eiffel Tower, taste the different kinds of food, visit art or different kinds of museums, and many more. Where would you like to go in the future?

Only Ivan

   Another new genre today and it an animal story, but it is still fiction. This book is called The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate. This story is about a silverback, Ivan, and his story about living in a box most of his life. He lives on a box and other people look at him.Ivan and his other friends live in a box at a shopping mall. All seems to be normal in his life, until there is a newcomer in the mall, Ruby, a baby elephant. A lot of things change when she arrives and Ivan has to accept these changes and try to make them better. 

Different Perspectives

   A new genre today, and it is...a romance. This book is called A Little Something Different by Sany Hall. This book is about two people, a boy and a girl and their love story. But it's not just any normal love story where the boy or the girl tells how they meet the other person, in their point of view (first person). This love story tell you their story from other people's point of view. Basically other people tell you how the love story goes. Like the girl's friends, the boy's friend, the boy and girl's teacher and classmates, a banister, and even a bench and a squirrel. Each character has its own personality, which makes the story better.

Hello 2016!

   Happy New Everyone! Can you believe it's been 365 days already, because I sure can't! Since it's the  new year I need to make a new year's resolution. The first thing that popped up in my head was to do my homework early. To you that might sound like a weird new year's resolution, or not, but to me it's something that I want to achieve. For while I've got to into the habit of taking a nap right when I come home from school. And it leads to me doing my homework really late, like around 8:00pm and sometimes 9:00pm. Since I've been doing this bad habit every single day for about 3 years, it may be a little difficult to break this habit. But I need to take everything one step at a time.

   First of all, one of the things I need to do to achieve this resolution is to sleep early. Every since starting this bad habit I've been sleeping really late, mostly because I'm wide awake when I go to bed. Then when I wake up early for school, come home and I'm tired, so I take nap and it repeats itself. Second of all, I need to stop procrastinating. I could be doing homework early and then have free time for the rest of the day, but I choose not to do that. I do so many other things when I come home from school, besides my homework. And third of all I need to stop putting things to the last minute. If I have an assignment due in two days, I do it the day before it's due. However, I don't rush doing it, I take my time so I can get a good grade. But, when I do complete an assignment early, which doesn't happen often, I feel relived and I have one less thing to worry about, yet I still do my homework late. So, that is my new year's resolution for 2016, that I hopefully will complete.

   Besides my new year's resolution, I am looking forward to a few things in 2016. One of them being my graduation. This school year, I think, has been the one where I really focused on school and getting good grade and trying to achieve goals. I'm not saying that I didn't focus a lot last year or the year before, I'm saying I'm focusing more on school than I usually do. I'm excited to say I graduated with good grades, achieved some goals, and I'm ready/prepared for next year.

Confusions Lie Everywhere

Side Note: This blog may contain some spoilers in the book, if you want to read the book I'm blogging about, then don't read this blog. If you don't want to read the book, then go ahead and read the blog. And if you want to to read the book, but what to read my blog, then go ahead, no ones stopping you.

   Since one of my goals for second quarter is to read books with different types of genres, I read a book called Wherever Nina Lies by Lynn Weingarten. This book is about a girl, Ellie, who goes around America, to find her sister, Nina. However, Ellie is not going around America alone, she brings Sean, who she meet at a party and at her job. There are defiantly some shocking parts in this story, so feel free to check it out! Even though this book was good, there were some confusing parts, that I couldn't really understand.

   One part that was confusing in the book was when Nina says she went to the police to help her with someone. In the book it said that "they'd look into it," but never did. The thing that was confusing was why they didn't help her? The book says (on page 299) "It was obvious that they thought I was crazy and weren't taking me seriously and probably weren't going to do a damn thing." But why? Couldn't just one police officer go and investigate and maybe question the one person who is behind all this?

   A second thing that is confusing is when Nina first finds out that Jason died. When Jason's mom is talking to Nina on the phone she says (from Nina's perspective) "But she started saying all this stuff about the preliminary autopsy reports and how they suggested a heroin overdose." Now to me it's confusing because it wasn't confirmed that it was a heroin overdose, it was a suggestion. Did they ever do actual tests to see how he died? Was anyone questioned? Did police even investigate? They probably did, but the book never said it did, so I don't really know. What do you think? Do you find them confusing like I do, or not. If you do read the book I hope you find it as shocking as I do, because the book definitely had some shocking parts.

Middle School Reminders

    So, I just recently finished the book called Middle School The Worst Years of My Life by James Patterson. Basically this book is about a boy named Rafe Khatchadorian and his experience with his first year in middle school, which is sixth grade. He made a goal for himself to complete before the year ends. However, this goal isn't like another other goal someone would make. Also, with every goal there are challenges, and Rafe's goal definitely has challenges. If you would like to find out what theses challenges are then fill free to read the book.
    Anyways when I finished the book, I began to make connections to another book called Awkward. Just like Rafe, Penelope was also having some trouble in the sixth grade. Both were mostly having trouble with making friends and fitting in, but they did have a talent with art. An example of this in when Rafe is in homeroom, on the first day of school, on page 10. It says "So much for blending in." This shows that Rafe knew that fitting in and making friends, wasn't going to be easy. Also, this is an important detail because it kind of sparked Rafe's goal.
    But unlike Rafe, Penelope does find a way to make friends and breaks out of her shell. While Rafe is still in his, but he'll break out if it, right? Anyways I really enjoyed this book, because it reminded me of when I was in sixth grade, and all the fun times I had, and made some connections while reading the book! In the end, this book is going to be one of my favorites, and I'm excited for the next book!