My Winter Break

During my winter break, I will sleep in. I probably will play a game called Rumble Fighter, in which you fight people, basically like Street Fighter. Except, you can counter, run, and play with more than two people. Katherine and I made a new account for this game, naming ourselves superman510 and supergirl510. It's really funny when we kill people because they don't expect us to be good. This past week, I had lots of homework. I had to read a book, The House of the Scorpion, for English, do a reading log, and a book review. In history, I have to take notes, and finish my book report for Schindler's List. Chemistry I have two worksheets to do. In art, I have to do my city-drawing...which I really hate. I have a math test tomorrow, and I will probably fail it. I did not do my homework for a week since Mr. Lamb does not collect the homework. And Spanish, well, I do not have to do that much.

On Christmas Day, I would wake up at 7, and wake up my sister so we could eat breakfast and open presents. Usually by this time, it is 10. My parents always record us opening presents for some reason... The only thing we get now is money from relatives and my parents. We do not really ask for anything else, unless we request it. The one present I really hate are clothes. They are usually not the right size, I hate them, I would probably NEVER wear it. This year, I would probably buy little things that do cool stuff...like magnets or silly puddy or something. I like those round magnets that are shaped in O's. I like rolling them around and sticking them under the table and moving a magnet on top of the table.

After we open our presents, we eat lunch...and then go to our my Aunt Mimi's house for dinner. Almost every year we go there. We just talk to our relatives, share stories and stuff. It's actually pretty fun. I like visiting my relatives unlike some people.

Winter Break

Winter Break is two weeks of break during Christmas and New Years. It is a time when people celebrate for Christmas. I think everybody loves Christmas because people like presents, especially little kids. Other holidays during this time are Ramadan, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa. I actually have no idea what they do during these times, except for Hanukkah. I know they exchange gifts, and light up the candles. Otherwise, I do not know. I really love Winter Break because of Christmas, New Years, and the fact that I can sleep in.

Over this past week, I have been sleeping at twelve o' clock because I have to read a book for History Class. We have a book report due next week, and I have only started reading my book, Schindler's List. I read about 100 pages, and there are 376. I am constantly trying to force myself to read, but it is really hard for me to start reading. I get really tired when I read, I do not know. My mom says I should ask my optometrist about this. On top of Schindler's List, I have to read The House of the Scorpion for English Class. We do not actually have a date when to read the whole book by, but I have to read it, and write a summary about it. Sometimes, I think that teachers give students too much homework right before Winter Break. Also, teachers have many tests for us to take before Winter Break. Breaks in general make students forget everything they learn, and therefore do bad on tests. This is why many teachers give students a lot of homework, and a test in the end. This week, I have a Spanish test today, a Math quiz on Friday. Next week I will have a History, Chemistry, and Math test.

Santa Claus is an actual person, but dead. Saint Nicholas of Myra used to give gifts to the poor. Christmas is actually the birth of Christ. Now, we just give presents to our friends and family, have Christmas trees (fir trees), etc. I don't know many other things that we do during Christmas. We decorate our Christmas trees with ornaments, lights, maybe candy canes. People have songs about Christmas and Santa Claus. This is the time of the year, besides Black Friday, where prices in stores go down. Stores have competition over toys, who can sell the most, who can make the most money...and lower their prices to get more business.

Time

Time...is an imaginable measuring thing humans use to calculate when the sun goes up, and goes down. For years, we calculate 365 "days" for one year. If the present is now, but now is the past, what is the future? Well, I don't really know what Mr. Martin said, I heard it from my sister. We have so many units for time. There are milliseconds, seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, years, decades, etc.

One of the most common ways of telling time are reading clocks. Many people forget that ancient civilizations used sundials. They are used by using the shadow of the triangle in the middle, and are aligned with the north and south poles. Now, we have analog and digital clocks. Digital clocks are more popular nowadays, because you just look at it and don't have to think. People are getting lazy and depend on technology to do things. Just like computers, we practically use them everyday, and I'm not really sure what people did when they were bored before. Read books? I don't know if I could live without a computer. I get tired when I read books, and I read Schindler's List for my history class when I go to sleep.

Another topic on time, is time travel. When did people think they could travel through time? Many books and movies include time travel such as "Back to the Future". In "The Butterfly Effect", a man travels back in time reading his old journals. He tries to fix his mistakes in the past, but have all led to a new, undesirable future. In the end, he commits suicide by wrapping himself around the umbilical cord in his mom. Some people think wormholes are the key to time travel. Wormholes connect two points in spacetime.