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.

 

 

 

Thanksgiving. One of the most enjoyed times of year because you get food, break, and you get to spend time with your family. But where did this all start and what are some of the traditions that have been cutoff and continued. Today, we’ll be going over the history of thanksgivings.

It all started when Colonists in New England and Canada founded “thanksgivings” as a day of prayer for blessings and safe journeys, army victories, or good harvests. Us Americans celebrate our holiday on a 1621 feast for both the Wampanoag and the Pilgrims. Americans today celebrate with foods like turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, and mac and cheese but it used to be a lot different.

https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/american-tradition-thanksgiving-harvest-festival-roots-old-world-004694

On the first thanksgiving, they were served foods like deer, cod, bass, assorted wildfowl, cornbread, and porridge. In 1863, Abraham Lincoln declared thanksgiving as a national holiday. Since colonists have been hunting and gathering turkey for so long, it immediately became a staple in the thanksgiving tradition.

https://www.thespruceeats.com/classic-thanksgiving-menu-with-recipes-3061631

Since thanksgiving is all about gratitude and gratefulness, I will name 10 things in life that I am grateful for.

• My family
• My house
• My friends
• My sport
• My health
• My race
• My religion
• My food
• My cloths
• My freedom

Hello readers! Today I’m gonna be going over where I go every summer. So you’re probably wondering where I go. Well every year my family goes to a country in the Middle East named, Jordan. You see, the reason we go here is to visit aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents.

 

Every year we stay for about 2-3 weeks in our grandparents apartment. Every year we go, we try to make the most of the time because it’s such a short period of time when we’re all together as one big family. Some very fun activities that we’ve done over the years would be going to Petra, going on hikes, and going to rum valley, a sand dune. We just haven’t gone to one thing yet. The Dead Sea. If you didn’t know already, the Dead Sea is not called that because people die there. It’s called that because the water is so salty that no aquatic life can survive in it.

 

We do all of this with our family. The only thing we don’t do with our family is going down the street to get ice cream. But the problem is, the prices are rising at a scary rate. They’re making us stay for less and less time. So we try to do everything with them.

 

Some highlights about Jordan are the malls, the food, Petra, The Dead Sea, and all the activities that have open gates for you to do. One down side though is that it is EXTREMELY HOT. During the summer, it would get up to 105 degrees Fahrenheit. Overall its a beautiful country and a really fun place to be in.

 

So you should consider maybe going to Jordan for vacation or maybe you already are, these are some attractions that you should remember.

 

Welcome back readers! Today we have a lot to unpack because I decided to talk about my vacation in Dubai. So let’s get right in to it. On spring break this year, we decided to spend our vacation in Dubai. If you didn’t know, Dubai is a city in the country of the United Arab Emirates located in the Middle East.

 

So we go to Dubai and right when I stepped foot in there, I could tell that it was gonna be a very fun trip. But we arrived at 1am so really all we did on our first night was eat and got to bed. I came to Dubai prepared to try and do everything on a list that I brought with me everywhere. You see this list just had a bunch of ideas and I mean like, more that 20 so they were just a lot of ideas and we could just choose the best ones.

 

All the things that we did were: Go to the Burj Khalifa (The worlds tallest building), Go to the Burj al Arab (The worlds only 7 star hotel), go to the palm jumeirah(A man made island shaped like a tree), and go to the Dubai Mall. I will talk about each one of these fun activities.

 

So the Burj Khalifa was pretty thrilling. It had a 5 minute elevator but that didn’t matter because the views from 2’717 ft of a night life city are absolutely stunning.

 

The Burj al Arab was awesome too. We were greeted my a man in a suit who served us some very bitter but fancy lemonade. It only tasted good because it was in this fancy crystal cup. But the things that I was seeing were insane. There were escalators, ocean views, and a lot of colors. The ground was a soft and plush ground too. We looked at this room called “The Master Suite” and it was bigger than my house. It had a 24k gold TV, a bed on a podium that can spin, and a BIIIGGGG bathroom decorated in pink. This was my favorite experience. Fun fact: There was a tennis match on the helicopter pad.

 

The palm Jumeirah was amazing too. It has a big tower that you can go up on and once your up there you can see the whole ocean. It was some of the best views I’ve ever seen.

 

I really enjoyed my trip in Dubai. So much that this was definitely my favorite vacation. I recommend coming here for vacation.

Hello! This post will be talking about camp Kirkwood, a field trip that I went to  this year. It was the second week of school and already had a 3 day 2 night sleep away camp 2 hours away from home in a city called Watha, NC.

 

I was looking forward to going to this camp mainly because of last years camp called Camp Hanes. I enjoyed Camp Hanes so much because of the zip line over the lake, the hike, and the pool so I was sure that it would be the same, just a longer experience.

So I get to school with my bags and I say my last goodbyes to my parents. I see the whole grade in the front with all their, duffle bags, suitcases, and pillowcases. I find my friend group and we just hang out with our 10 pound bags until the buses are ready and everybody arrives. The weather that day was very cloudy. We were all scared that the camp would get rained out and just be boring with no zip lining, kayaking, or V swing. But it was too late to go back now.

So now they gather the whole grade up in this little courtyard and they say whose advisory is going in which bus and fortunately, I get almost all of my friends. So we throw our bags in the back of the bus and we hop on. I try and figure out a perfect seating arrangement while they get the bus ready to go on this road-trip. Once we figure out our seating arrangement, we sit down and the bus starts to move. This road trip was 2 hours long and its hard to write about 2 hour bus ride when all you did was talk so I’m just going to skip to when we get there.

 

So once we get there, we all sit down on the basketball court and we listen to some ground rules but then it was the big moment. Cabins. I was really hoping that it would be the same as the bus. So they start announcing other cabins and once they get to our cabin. For the moment of truth… It’ll be the same as the bus! So we all rush to our cabins event though the teachers tell us to slow down because the whole camp was drenched in water. We made it to our cabin and it is the most isolated out of them all and remember it is next to a lake. But we enter the cabins, get settled, and we go to the dining hall for lunch.

I’m not gonna lie, their food was not the greatest but its not meant to be a 5 star meal. So after that I guess they wanted to do this team building thing with your group. But the problem was the group wasn’t the group from your bus, they were randomly selected. My group wasn’t bad its just I would’ve preferred to have the ones from the bus. So we did a team building game where everybody would  hold a hoola hoop with 1 finger and we would try and get in to go above our heads. I don’t know why or how, but that took around 30 minutes in the freezing cold rain which made it feel like an hour. Then we went back inside the dining haul to have a quick snack before my group learned about forest ecology how to use a compass. To end off the day we went to the pool and had dinner and went to bed.

 

The next day when we woke up we saw that it poured over night. Oh ya and remember that lake, it was up to our window. The activities we did were pool, a V swing, and kanga jump. Kanga jump is basically just a big trampoline blob and to wrap up the last full day, we made s’mores and had fun watching skits. On the final day, we started with kayaking in the big lake and our final activity was the zip line over the lake.

 

This trip was a very fun and interesting experience that I wanted to share with you. So when I made it home I took the longest shower ever because I knew it was MINE and a long nap in MY bed and watched TV on my TV.

Today I will be writing about my backpack project. Now you’re probably wondering, what is the backpack project? Well to tell you what it is, it would make most sense if I start from the beginning.

So during summer break, we had our yearly summer reading and this year we were reading a book called Finding Someplace by Denis Lewis Patrick. If I’m going to be honest, I was not looking forward to reading on that summer break. I just felt so free and there would be nothing to worry about but then this required reading comes in and ruins my flow, is what I thought it would do…

So I started reading the book and to my surprise it wasn’t that bad but I still wish I could do anything besides reading. So I just kept on reading every day and eventually the book got really interesting. So at this point I’m done with the book. In a couple weeks I get a project for LA and in this book, the main character has to leave their house and not come back for a while because of a hurricane so she packs a bag with things that she will need.

But before the backpack project we had to write an essay about who was the hero in the story. I chose a person named Dré because his bravery and leadership was unmatched with the other characters.

Now after that, I get to start the backpack project. So the backpack project would be that there’s a backpack drawing and you would draw what you would bring in YOUR backpack if you were in this situation. When I get my backpack drawing I immediately wonder what I’m gonna put in this thing.

So I start to brainstorm and obviously I think of the things that would be most important so I thought toiletries, clothes, food, and maybe even a blanket. Then I started think about small essentials to me or things that would keep me entertained like candy, a soccer ball, headphones, and my phone.

When I started to draw and color them in I was thinking to add as much color as possible without it looking like a hot mess. So I finished it and it didn’t look that bad.