Hello! Today, I will be talking about my planet book. It all starts when we started a book called The Last Quentista and the book is about a girl who has to leave earth because it is going to explode and she gets selected amongst some important people. She is one of the people that gets to test out the conditions on this new planet. So we had an assignment called Ideal World and that was just about how you would want your perfect planet to look. My planets name was called Monkolopia.

On Monkolopia there is a 0% crime rate and there are 0 people in poverty. The weather everywhere is perfect at 75˚. Natures animals consist of oxen, yeti, birds and a LOT of monkeys. The different terrain are grasslands, mountains and beaches.

So the project is making the story in to a book. I started by choosing a background for both of my scenes. I wanted one of my scenes with a red sky with sand for a beach with monkeys on it because Monkolopia would not be the same without monkeys.

My next seen would show the grasslands with of course, monkeys. It was pretty simple I just used green and I cut out monkeys. I thought it was too plain so I added the Yeti Mountains and I also made a red moon. Once my book was fully designed, we moved on to adding the words.

To glue words on to my book I would obviously need a paper copy so we printed out our entire story. We then had to cut very precisely and instead of using regular and boring scissors, I used some fancy ones that make it look like a ticket that you get at the fair. Lastly I just glued my paragraphs throughout the book and the I was done!

I overall had a lot of fun with this project because it was a fun way to spice LA up with art.

Hi! Today I will talk about how we contributed to our community by planting trees. This year at DA we took an extra field trip to a patch of grass not too far from the campus. Well the reason why to do it was very straightforward. Help the environment.

The first time we were going to do it ended up getting postponed til 2 weeks. So everyone in the grade was waiting ready to get in the buses. And when it was time and we would go to do it, there wasn’t as much energy because it rained a few days earlier. But we pushed through.

The group who was hosting it does a lot of stuff like this (I forgot their name) but they quickly went over some ground rules with the shovels and rakes, then they thought us how to do it. Each person got the plant to plant 1 tree but you can work in groups so I was in a group of 3 and we all planted 3 trees as a team.

The process was simple and it would take 15 minutes on each tree. You would just dig a hole, detangle the roots, cover the roots with the dirt that you dug up, flag it then you’re done. So it didn’t take too long. I think my favorite part was when I got to use the shovel.

Yes this did get our shoes and clothes a bit dirty but I think the whole experience was completely worth it.

Welcome back! The subject for today is a mystery author. You may be thinking, “Why am I playing guess who when I want to read.” And my answer is, your already reading…

This probably seems very random but it ties to our first clue which is: This author has been to DA. He came to talk to us just about everything. His backstory, his famous books, why he’s a writer etc.

The next clue is that he wrote the book A Tale Dark and Grim. Now if you dont know the book or just haven’t read it, I highly recommend it. If you dont know what it is, it’s like an assortment of different stories that are very gory, bloody, and nasty. So if those adjectives call your name, get the book.

Our last clue is that this author got a Newberry book award in 2017 on his book, An Inquisitors Tale. This is definitely his most popular book out of all of the ones he’s written.

If you were correct you would’ve guessed Adam Gidwitz! That’s right he came to our school to talk about his life and why he’s an author and how its his passion to write books.

I think this is one of the coolest things that has happened this year and it is just crazy that we brought one of the best authors in the world to our school.

Hello! I want to discuss our extra field trip to the planetarium at UNC. So we went to the UNC campus to visit all of their sciencey and planetariumy museums and simulations. Our first thing that we did was we walked around the campus and the gardens.

I dont really know why but it was peaceful I guess with all the flowers and birds and stuff like that. Next, we went in to a museum that was small so its hard to talk about but it had some cool machines like the magnifying glass, the UV lights, and information on different insects.

After that, we went inside this giant dome kinda like the one in Las Vegas but smaller and less advanced. It was playing a video that felt like a movie. Some of the videos we played is, why haven’t humans gone to mars, we watched some information on different planets, lastly, a video on different constellations in the night sky.

The last thing that we did was that we went to a different building and there was a scientist that showed us a lot of different things like static electricity, balloons, and my favorite, liquid nitrogen. So apparently it is so cold that it always has smoke around it and you can’t touch it without special gloves. It’s also very expensive for just some cold water. But all jokes aside the coolest part was when he put an empty sonda can in the nitrogen and it crushed the can.

This trip was definitely a very cool and interesting one but it also left me with so much wonder.

Hola! Today, I want to write about my cooking journey. It all started on one thought and that was, “How can I make food better than it already is now?” Ever since, I have found it one of my most enjoyable and fun hobbies.

My first ever meal that I created was avocado toast and I have continued in the Mexican cuisine. I have made foods like chipotle salsa, carne asada tacos, air fried takis and I know it’s not Mexican but very recently I made tiramisu.

The reason why I love cooking so much is because it is relaxing, it knocks out time, and well if you spend time on it and you focus, it tastes good.

Soon I will learn how to cook a Dave’s hot chicken meal in the air fryer. Which is just a fast-food chain that makes the best chicken. I also have to learn how to cook under a time crunch because I always take forever.

I Really recommend trying it just once because it is fun and beneficial for your future.

Today, I’ll be talking about the comic that I made. So I didn’t actually make a story up but earlier this year, we were reading these story’s that were called wisdom tales. These stories always had a meaning behind it and a lesson.

So there was this one story that really stuck out to me. The Lion and the Clever Rabbit. The story is about a cruel lion who kills animals for fun. So the animals come together and they think of a plan. The plan was to send one animal to his den for each meal. So they sent a rabbit to the den. But the rabbit had other plans… He got to his den late on purpose but when the lion asked why he said that there was a big lion that got in the way. Wanting to humble this lion, he asked where it was and the rabbit took him to the well. When the lion saw his reflection, he immediately jumped in and could not get out.

I also chose this because I thought it would be very fun to draw the lion, rabbit, and the reflection. I also love how the rabbit went off the script and did it his own way. The lesson of the story was to not be cruel and that you don’t have to do what others tell you to do. I really enjoyed this project because it felt a little more than just sitting in a desk and taking notes.

Today I’m going to be talking about when I recently went to OC Aerial for a birthday party. If you don’t know about OC Aerial, it’s basically a place with like American Ninja Warrior challenges and slides. It’s even got a FREE ice cream machine with infinite toppings. So the ages really go from like 7 year olds who just want to have fun to people in their 30s trying to get a good workout in.

Since I’ve never been here before, when I walked in, I was amazed by all the fun that I could see from the entrance. After we signed in, I immediately found my friends and we put our shoes away. The first thing we did was go to the ninja course and I completely failed the first level so that was fun.

Then we went to the slide but it wasn’t any ordinary slide. You would lay on a mat and go down straight down like practically 90 degrees. The first time I went down I sorta out my face down and hit my head but after that I learned one thing. Don’t put your face down while going down a slide.

We went to go eat pizza and right after we went up the stairs to get FREE ice cream. And the line was very long to say the least. Probably because it was FREE. But when we finally got to the front, there was absolutely no vanilla so we had to go chocolate with this one. I got sprinkles and Oreos. It looked like a unicorn spat over the FREE ice cream in a good way.

When we were done eating we went back to playing around on the slides and with the dodgeballs until we got called over to get cake and when we were done eating the cake we tried to go back to the ninja course but all of us were so full that’s we had to take a 10 minute break so we didn’t throw up. After the break was over we played a game of hide and seek tag in the whole building but 30 minutes in I had to leave. To be honest it felt way shorter than 3 hours.

That was the most fun thing I did in a while and it told me that that is the perfect spot for a birthday.

I’m going to talk about the time when I went to Charlotte for my brothers a soccer tournament as well as the charlotte FC game we watched. So a few months before, we find out that he has a tournament in Charlotte and right when we heard this, we started looking for hotels, restaurants, and fun things to do. We come across a hotel we like, A LOT of restaurants, but not to many fun things to do. We brainstorm what we want to do and we look if Charlotte is playing on one of the days and they are so we ended up buying tickets.

So we now have our plan on where we want to go and what we want to do so now we wait around 3 more months until it’s time to pack our bags. I think it was around a 5 hour drive and when I stood up for the first time in 5 hours, it hurt. Like really bad.

For the first day in Charlotte, we checked in our bags, went to the my brothers games and watch them lose both, walked around the city, and went to this burger place where I got a chicken sandwich but instead of the buns they had waffles and I put a lot of honey on it.

The next day, we went to his last 2 games and lost both AGAIN, when we were finally done with all of the soccer priorities, we spent our last day in Charlotte to the max by going to this fine dining place and then they best part of this trip, the game.

We arrived at the game just to be greeted with no parking spots in a 2 mile radius. It was so packed because this was their rival and when we bought the tickets we didn’t even know. We go find someplace for food because we haven’t eaten in maybe 4 hours. We find the only place without 50 people in the line and I got a burger with fried pickles.

We shuffle our way through the seats and when we sit down we realized we were like 5 rows from the ultras. Now if you don’t know ultras are the super loud people chanting, waving flags, and setting off flares. When the whistle was blown and the game started, it got very loud because of them and at the end, Charlotte tied 2-2.

That was a trip that I wouldn’t expect to be so action packed and filled with joy. I’ve never really been on a trip like that before so I had a lot of fun.

Today, I will talk about my final project in theatre. So let me give you a little background on theatre. It’s not really what you think it is. My teacher didn’t want to make a class where you would have to just read off a script and nothing else. But she made no script and let you create your own theatre and be creative within things like improv.

So since this was the final project, my group knew we had to do something big so our idea was called Field of Screams. A murder mystery that incorporates the NFL Super Bowl that has a big plot twist at the end.

The scene starts at the “wide right” kick at Tyler Bass and in the locker room the lights go out and when they turn back on, he’s dead. This happens to other NFL stars like Jason Kelce and Lamar Jackson. The police asks all of the stars teammates but they dont know what happened either.

But there was something special at the crime scene of Lamar Jackson. There was a knife left behind decorated in sparkles glitter. But it had writing on it. The writing said “Go Travis” and “Swift.” The police could tell that Taylor Swift was the person behind all of this. So they set up a plan that they would confront her with the knife at the Super Bowl.

The police see T Swizzle screaming her lungs out saying, “GO TRAVIS KELCE” and once she sees the police she starts to get really nervous. When the police walks up to her, she tries to run but she’s surrounded. It was over. She got taken to prison for life.

And in prison, she peeps behind the guards soldier just to see the score, but the game was over. “All that prison for life for no Super Bowl ring!” Then she watches the interview with Travis Kelce and he says, “Taylor, I dont think this is going to work out for us. I mean, you killed my brother.” And she forgot that Jason Kelce is related to Travis Kelce. “Oops” she says. The end.

I really enjoyed this project because of the creativity and freedom we got to use. I loved working with my friends and the feeling when we got to présente our hard work was amazing.

Hello again. I’m back with another story and today I will talk about the middle school ski trip. So earlier in February, there was an announcement where there will be a ski trip for the whole middle school later on but there was one problem… There was only 76 seats for the whole middle school. Which means that my friends and I would have to sign up quickly so we could all be together.

Well, that was the idea. But only me and my friend made it. The bus ride was 3 hours. And you’d think since it’s 4am, it would be all peaceful and everything and everyone agrees to sleep. Well think wrong because that was definitely the most chaotic bus ride I’ve been on. People screaming, flashing cameras, and phones volumes at 100%. Oh ya so I forgot to tell you but I’ve never been skiing before, so this is going to be interesting.

So when we finally get there, they had us set our bags down in this room with lockers. Then we got in a line to get our skiing gear and that line was looonnngg. But we finally got our gear and got on the beginner slope. The feeling of when you step on the snow is just like nothing else.

I was learning how to put the skis on and when they snapped, I just started moving backwards but thank god there was somebody behind me to catch me. They told me to not put my skis on when my skis are facing down the slope but he was speaking like really fast  so I didn’t catch a single word that he said. At that point I was just too scared that I was going to hit somebody so I just took them off until they started the lesson. So we start the lesson and they teach us things like turning and stopping.

After the lesson, they took us to the bunny slope to test out our skills. I’m not gonna lie, I just kept on falling and I was out of control. So when we were about to leave we realized it was time for lunch so we get to the hall and we see there are 2 options. A very long line for really good food. It felt like red pill blue pill. But my legs were too tired to wait in a line so I just chose the short line.

So we get back to the bunny slope and as usual I’m at the top and I just send it. But this time it was different. I got to the bottom without falling. I went down one more time and I did it again! We rush over to the teacher and ask if we could go down the green slope (the easiest) and they said yes.

We’re on the ski lift and I can’t help but notice the drop but right before I know it, we have to jump off. He asks me if I want to go first but right before I get to answer I’m already moving. While I’m skiing I notice that I’m going insanely fast. Even faster than the adults. So I started to pizza but the pizza wasn’t pizza ing meaning I was not slowing down one bit. I realized that I had to do a pit stop like in hockey. And it works! I’m not going 100 mph.

At the end, we both comment on how easy that was, so we decide to up the level to a blue. But this was a big mistake. We were both ready to take this mountain on so we sent it. But we made the wrong turn…

We didn’t turn to a green or a black, we turned to the terrain park. We both had to just fall so we could talk on what we were gonna do from there. We couldn’t get back up the mountain to the blue so we had to go down the park. I was terrified but my friend not so much. He went down like it was nothing when I’m scared someone’s going to jump on me. He even went on a jump. And finally we got to the end.

I was so tired I just fell. But there was no time for that because we had to get back to the bus in 3 minutes. We quickly return our skis and helmet but we didn’t have an extra pair of shoes so we had to run back the cabin, put on shoes, take our shoes back and put on our bags. But we make it back to the bus.

The bus ride on the way back was fairly calm. Not any screaming so that was nice. When I get home I was exited to tell my family everything that happened, but I was even more exited to take a long hot shower.