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.

Kirby

Kirby is a Nintendo character made by HAL Laboratory. The first Kirby game I played was Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards. In this game, there was a darkness after the big crystal shard and Kirby flies away with it. But, Kirby is attacked and the crystal shard breaks and becomes little shards in 8 different worlds. Kirby has to regain all these crystal shards. In this game, you are able to combine abilities. After, Kirby's teacher gets possessed so Kirby defeats the teacher, but the darkness goes to a new planet. With the help of faeries, Kirby defeats the evil eye.

In Kirby games, there are many abilities. Sometimes you can even combine them. In the games, you inhale them, and swallow and yayy you get an ability. Some of them are fire, ice, cutter, etc. My favorite ability is sword because I like killing enemies with it. In Kirby Super Star, you just collect trophies representing the ability, and you just click on it and you get the ability. Inhaling enemies do not give you the ability. Well, this is just in Milky Way Wishes part of the game. It's my favorite Kirby game to play on Super Nintendo. They made a new updated version called Kirby Super Star Ultra, and included four new games. I still prefer the old game.

After a few years, Nightmare in Dreamland came out. I always played that game. I beat it twice already. Kirby can fly, suck things up, and spit them back out. It's actually a really fun game to play...I just explain things bad. Kirby's Dream Land was the first Kirby game ever made. It was released on the NES...which was way back when. I remember I used to play Super Mario Bros. on it, Duck Hunting, and Karate something... My dad really liked playing Nintendo, I think that's why I do too. He used to play with me sometimes but not much anymore since he works a lot more. He usually says no to me because he says he's watching Bobby, my dog, but he only works part time now and gets Friday off.

Fire Emblem 6 and 7

Fire Emblem 7 is about a character named Lyn, Eliwood, and Hector. They live in the continent Elibe. In Lyn's story, she travels through Lycia, a country to find her grandpa. Both of her parents are dead, and wants to find her family. Along the way, she finds many people willing to help her. Eliwood's story is about finding his lost father. A long time ago, his father went away and never returned. Eliwood sets out to find him, and goes throughout the continent to find him. During that time, he learns that Nergal, the protagonist, is trying to revive dragons. He finds Athos, one of the legendary heroes. With his help, he faces Nergal and kills the dragons. Hector's story is about himself helping Eliwood find his father.

Fire Emblem 6 is a prequel to Fire Emblem 7. It is set 20 years later, and the main protagonist is Roy, Eliwood's son. In this Fire Emblem, Bern, another country is trying to revive dragons. Sounds the same basically. There are 3 types of dragons...divine dragons, the dark dragon, and war dragons. The dark dragon makes war dragons for Bern to kill people. So after a while, Roy defeats Bern's king and the dark dragon. (I actually don't know the plot that well, it was all in Japanese.)

Fire Emblem games always have something to do with the Fire Emblem, and dragons. In the 6th game, it is used to get a sword called the Sword of Seals. In the 7th, it is used as a symbol for the new king. Anyways, I like these games, but sometimes I get bored of them and play another game.

2nd Quarter Statement of Purpose

My posts so far have been about random things like tv shows, Schindler's List, and McDonalds. I want to write about games or something else. I have written everything on my original Statement of Purpose except for Fire Emblem and Golden Sun. I usually write about whatever is on my mind that i can write 3 paragraphs about. I might also write about a few more restaurants or tv shows I watch.

My impression of my old posts are...okay. I think I could have done better but I'm too lazy to fix them. My first post was in my perspective, not so much what other people think. Sort of like a one sided story. Well, I'm the one writing so...yea. I usually try and hurry up finishing my blogs before the period is over and I make mistakes. I don't like doing blogs at home because it takes too long and I have other homework to do.

To sum up, I will write about different things just not one topic. I'd still like to write about games and other things. I'll write about Fire Emblem next week if I remember. I usually forget things a lot and usually I won't remember unless somebody reminds me. My old posts are okay to me, they're not the best, but I like them. They have all been things I wanted to write about.

Golden Sun

The Longest Word in English

Do you know what the longest word in English is? Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word in Oxford English Dictionary. It means "a factitious word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, causing inflammation in the lungs.'" The whole word itself is 45 letters. It actually just looks like Pneumonia-ultra-microscopic-silicosis-volcano-coniosis? Why do people make these long words that nobody uses? It looks pretty stupid to me how "volcano" and "microscopic" is in it.

The second longest word in the English language is pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism which is an inherited disorder. (I don't know what it does.) You know what? Long words usually are a combination of many words. Psuedo-psuedo-hypoparathyroidism. Hypoparathyroidism is a combination of many things that harm your thyroid. I don't get why science words are sometimes really long or really short. I.e. boron and psuedopsuedohypoparathyroidism.

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu.
Woahhh...that's a place? It's a hill in New Zealand. Ugh, who names hills? Wikipedia says this long word means The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his nose flute to his loved one. Haha, nose flute? That's interesting...they blow air out of their nose into an instrument. It has 85 letters in it, and it is ONE of longest names in the world. Some other weird names are Mamungkukumpurangkuntjunya Hill which means "where the devil urinates" and Muckanaghederdauhaulia which means "pig-marsh between two saltwaters".
(I guess the picture was too long and can't post the picture all the way.)
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Schindler's List

Schindler's List is about a man who has Jews working for him making pots and pans. He saved about 1200 people. In the movie, he gets Jews to work for him by telling them they can get out of the ghetto area and get better rations of food. Money is worthless during the Holocaust. During the Holocaust, the Nazis made concentration camps where they basically worked people until they died. In Schindler's List, they show them having to shovel snow, cleaning, and sometimes in a factory making nails. If they didn't work as hard as they could, the Nazis would push them to the ground and shoot them in the head.

How did Oskar Schindler save his workers? He had his workers live in the ghetto, but left to work in the morning so they didn't have to go to concentration camp. Oskar Schindler was a very generous man. He used all his money to save Jews from concentration camp to his factory, and to feed all of his workers. Today, he is seen as a hero during War World 2. After a while, Schindler had to bribe Nazis for food. Schindler's List is called "Schindler's List" because Oskar made a list of people he wanted to save from concentration camp. He paid for each individual, and it costed him a lot of money. He mainly chose people who have suffered and decided to buy them from the Nazis. Although, Oskar Schindler was a Nazi himself.

When the Red Army was advancing towards his facility in 1945, Schindler had to flee with only a gold ring. He was apart of the Nazis and was seen as a murderer. They did not no of his good deeds. After the war, Schindler went to Argentina, where he went bankrupt. He left his wife and daughter in Argentina and went to Germany to start a new buisness. After a series of failing buisnesses, he moved in with his friends. He died of a heart attack on October 9th, 1974. He was 66 when he died, and was surrounded by family and friends when he did.

Disneyworld

Disneyworld is a very fun place where people go to ride roller coasters, eat food, and have fun. Disneyworld is currently located in Florida, and it's very hot there. Usually all theme parks are located in a hot or dry area. Disneyworld has 4 theme parks inside itself...Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Hollywood Studios, and Disney's Animal Kingdom. Magic Kingdom has roller coasters such as "It's a Small World", and "Thunder Mountain". Epcot stands for experimental prototype community of tomorrow. They have "Mission: Space" where they spin people around and one would press different buttons to do different tasks. Epcot also features different "places" of the world like Japan, Italy, and Canada. They all sell different food and have different shows to show off their culture. Disney's Hollywood Studios was previously named MGM Studios, has the roller coaster "The Twilight Zone: The Tower of Terror", which is actually a roller coaster ride that puts you in an elevator and drops you for about 12 seconds. Disney's Animal Kingdom shows off different animals to people like black swans and white rhinos. They don't have many rides in Animal Kingdom.

Downtown Disney is a shopping and eating area. There are many good restaurants that have great food. It's like Kincaid's but in Disneyland. They have some interesting things in their stores. They have a variety of Disney plush toys, pens and pencils, and sell lanyard pins to collect and trade with other staff members. I bought a stuffed Nemo toy because it was the form of a pillow. It looked sort of weird because his eyes and fins were huge.

During my trip to Disneyworld, I stayed at the Sheraton Resort. They had decent rooms and nice views of the parking lot. The pool was very cold and filled with leaves. No wait, that was Best Western. Sheraton Resort had a very nice pool and wasn't that crowded.

This Past Weekend

This past weekend, I've had the flu. It started on Saturday with a runny nose, cough and fever on Sunday. I hate getting sick. My constant cough makes my stomach hurt, and I have started wheezing too. I went to school on Monday and died. Pacers in 0 period PE were very hard. Whenever I get sick, I feel weak. My mom says I got sick because I didn't take my vitamins. But I know that's bs. I only started to take vitamins last year. Last year, I got sick like 5 times. I had a runny nose a lot, and coughing twice.

My mom would never let me stay home because I would miss instruction from my classes. This year, I have skipped Tuesday and stayed home. I slept for an hour and a half, and just watched tv the rest of the time. I bearly have enough time to do homework now. Grr, I'm so hungry right now because I only ate half a bread because I'm slow at eating, and being sick makes me slower. I usually walk slow now...I actually have no idea why.

You know what I hate when I go to school when I'm sick? People start ******** to me about getting them sick. I hate it. It's not my fault I HAVE to go to school. I usually keep count of how many people I get sick, and I got two people sick in my 1st period, and so far nobody else. My dad says the more you get sick now, the less you will later. This actually makes sense because I'll be immune to these viruses/colds later on. My parents force me to go to school unless I have a fever or throw up. Well, except today because I want to take a chemistry test, which was yesterday. I think I might go home again today because my stomach really hurts and I'm getting tired of coughing. My stomach is dyinggg. Hmm, I will go to the nurse's office to go home during lunch. I hate coughing and I want to make a doctor appointment. I should've asked my mom yesterday.

Tantum Article

(8.) Missing information can have similar effects. For example, another young woman, preparing to be a high school English teacher, expressed her dismay that she had never learned about any Black authors in any of her English courses. How was she to teach about them to her future students when she hadn’t learned about them herself? A White male student in the class responded to this discussion with frustration in his journal, writing, “It’s not my fault that Blacks don’t write books.” Had one of his elementary, high school, or college teachers ever told him that there were no Black writers? Probably not. Yet because he had never been exposed to Black authors, he had drawn his own conclusion that there were none.

I think this is a significant part of the article because the English teacher, has never read a book written by a Black author. If you're an English teacher, you should read any book that seems interesting right? English teachers should know that anybody can write books. I wrote some questions like "Why hasn't she ever read books by people with different backgrounds?" and "Why can't she?" The White male student doesn't seem so bright either. He says "It's not my fault that Blacks don't write books." He actually doesn't know the author's ethnicity that writes the books. There's usually a picture in the back, but sometimes there isn't.

My Every Other Year Trip to Maui

Every other year, I go to Maui. Why do I go there? My parents bought a timeshare from the Westin Resort. There's lots to do in Maui; I go snorkeling, swimming, jet skiing, etc. We always go with relatives, because it's more fun. We go to the airport, then...I wait there for an hour. My parents like to go to the airport early for some reason. Then, the plane takes 5 HOURS to get to Honolulu. From there, we take a plane to Maui. We rent a car from AVIS, and drive to Costco for food. Afterwards, we take a 45 min drive to the hotel.

Inside the hotel, we have every utility we need. They have forks, silverware, dishwasher, etc. The first day, we go swimming, eat dinner, go to sleep. The second day, we go to Whaler's Village and rent snorkel gear. Did you ever notice there's at least ONE ABC Store in every shopping area? One day, there'll be too many and may cease to exist. Well, funny story...my mom bought a calendar for my cousin in Ohio and there were tons of guys in them. We go snorkeling at Sheraton's Black Rock, and outside of the Westin Resort. We like looking at the different types of fish. So, to sum up, we go snorkeling everyday, went kayaking, and once out of the week we go jet skiing.

When I go home, I get cold because it's cold in Alameda. I like it humid in Maui. There's nothing really fun to do in Alameda. I sometimes actually enjoy going home though. I like playing games on the computer. Anyways, it's almost time to go to lunch so I'll blog next week. Now Elaine and Michelle are laughing. Dina is now staring at my computer screen looking at my blog. She missed the first paragraph though.

Disney Channel - Phineas and Ferb

This is a series called Phineas and Ferb. They always build something, Perry the platypus goes missing, and Candace, their sister, tries to bust them for building. There's characters such as the Mom and Dad, grandparents, Isabella and the Fireside girls, and Dr. Doofenshmirtz. Phineas and Ferb are experts at building things. They'll create rollercoasters to monster cars. But for this blog, I'll write how they build a submarine to find a lost goldfish.

To begin with, Phineas says "Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today!", and they start building. When they sign contracts they say "Aren't you a little too young to be building something this big?", Phineas replies "Yes, yes I am." Ferb doesn't talk that much until the end of the episode. Phineas says "Where's Perry?" Then, scene switches to Perry going to his boss to find out his secret mission. It's always something about Dr. Doofenshmirtz and his company called Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorperated. Then, Isabella and the Fireside girls come to help them build a submarine to help Phineas's friend get his goldfish back. But as they're building, Candace comes and says "I'm telling Mom!" Scene switches to Perry going to Dr. Doofenshmirtz and looks for him near a levy. Scene goes back to Phineas and Ferb going in the submarine to search for the goldfish. They find it, and A GIANT OCTOPUS APPEARS! Candace takes a picture of this and tries to go back to her mom. Phineas and Ferb's friend punches the octopus and are saved. Scene switches to Dr. Doofenshmirtz destroying the levy and the whole town is covered in water, and it goes away after a minute. Candace's photo gets wet and shows her mom the picture, but it's all white. The Mom says go outside and dry off before you come in. Scene switches back to Perry saving the day (I forget how). Phineas and Ferb come back and their Mom tells them to come in for some snacks. The end.

Nick - SpongeBob SquarePants

SpongeBob SquarePants is about a yellow sponge that lives in a pineapple under the sea and his everyday life. There are side characters also, Patrick Star is Spongebob's best friend, and Squidward Tentacles is Spongebob's neighbor. He goes to school at Mrs. Puff's boating school and works for Mr. Krabs at the Krusty Krab. Plankton is the main antagonist in Spongebob, and always tries to steal the Krabby Patty formula. Gary is Spongebob's pet snail, and in one episode, Gary ran away because Spongebob did not feed him food. Spongebob met Sandy the squirrel when he thought she was being attacked by a giant clam. Whenever Spongebob goes over to Sandy's undertree dome, he wears a helmet filled of water.

Some of Spongebob's hobbies are jellyfishing, working, and going to Mrs. Puff's Boating School. When Spongebob goes jellyfishing, he wears glasses and uses his jellyfishing net to catch the jellyfish. There have been several episodes about jellyfishing...like when Spongebob loses his net, Spongebob creates giant statues which makes the jellyfish migration, jellyfish abusing Spongebob's boombox, etc. Spongebob likes working everyday. One time, Spongebob and Squidward are working, and Squidward tells a story when the lights flicker, the telephone rings and nobody's there, a bus will come, and the Hash Slinging Slasher will come. He has replace his hand with a spatula and knocks on the door, and comes in. So when it's nighttime, the lights flicker, the phone rings, and nobody's there. AND GREEN SLIME OOZING OUT OF THE WALL? "No that always happens" - Squidward. A bus comes, and a man with a spatula comes...and suddenly, goes into the Krusty Krab. When he goes into the light, it just appears to be a man holding a spatula. He explains he wanted a job and was too nervous to talk on the phone so he hung up. He even brought his spatula. "Then why were the lights flickering?" - Spongebob. Screen turns to Nosferatu turning the on and off light for the Krusty Krab.

1st Quarter Statement of Purpose

I plan to write about Mcdonalds. Mcdonalds has kids eat a burger, fries, and a soda for a happy meal toy. Mcdonalds has toys like the TY's. Kids get addicted to these toys. I used to be addicted, I got all their Power Ranger toys, and after they got boring. Their fries have lots of fat. Now, they list the daily percent and I don't like it. I love their fries, but they stay fresh for 3 weeks. I prefer In-N-Out fries, they're always fresh, and not packaged fries. You can see them using that white potatoe smasher in the back. Mcdoanlds has gone trying to serve "good" food that is supposedly healthy. Their salad is healthy, but people overload on dressing which contains fat. Also, their chicken strips, have fat at the end, and have extra fried batter. I'm not surprised that their dressing for chicken strips does not have the daily percent. They only have the ingredients. They have snack wraps, which have one grilled, or fried chicken inside with lettuce, cheese, wrapped in a tortilla, with ....WHAT? More ranch? (whichever dressing you prefer, I like ranch) They put tons of it inside. When I was young, I started eating one of their cheeseburgers, and at the time curious to see what it looked like when I was chewing. I went to the bathroom and it was YELLOW! I was grossed out I never eaten one of their burgers again. Now, the only thing I eat there are chicken strips and I take most of the batter off. Mcdonalds is a multi-millionaire which sells food for low prices. They have spread mostly everywhere throughout the world. There is at least ONE Mcdonalds in every populated city. Everytime I go in, there are kids. Even though the food is addicting, I only eat there about once every four months.

I also plan to blog about other restaurants next week because it's a good topic and I like eating food. Maybe I'll write about Nintendo and it's history. I like learning about history...except dates and names, I like learning about what happened. I plan to write about games also, like Fire Emblem or Mario series and Golden Sun 3 which is coming out next year. I love Fire Emblem, but the new games aren't great. Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon wasn't worth it. The only Fire Emblem game I enjoyed were numbers 6 and 7. They had good plots, but the next were boring.

Fire Emblem 6

McDonalds

McDonald's is a very big multi-millionaire business all around the world. There is at least ONE restaurant in every city. But why does it get so much business? Their toys. Little kids love their toys (TY's right now) and they'll beg their parents to buy a happy meal. Happy meals consist of a cheeseburger, small fries, a small drink, and a toy which is about 530 calories without counting the soda. McDonald's has ads on TV, about what KINDS of toys they have. I used to collect their happy meal toys. I got so addicted I got the power ranger toys. I would BEG my mom and grandma to ask if we could go and order a happy meal, but they'd only let me go once a week. One day, I was really curious how food looked like when I was chewing, so I looked in the mirror and the cheeseburger was all yellow and funny looking. I also decided I would NEVER AGAIN eat a burger from McDonald's.

From my traumatizing experience, I only eat their 5 Piece Chicken Selects...which is a lot more fattening. I usually just take off the excess batter and eat the chicken. Actually, anything with their chicken selects is pretty much loaded with fat. i.e. their salads, snack wraps, etc. It's pretty addicting eating their chicken it tastes sooo good...

Actually no, I love McDonald's packaged fries and vanilla cones more. When it's a hot day, and I just happen to be near a McDonald's, I order ice cream. It's yummy, and is portable. I usually don't order their fries after I've been told how long they can stay fresh...which is 3 weeks? I forget.

AHHHH hash browns! I used to eat these for breakfast. After a while I started to notice they looked the same, and tasted better than my mom's hash browns. I would ask my mother to make hash browns for me sometimes, and...i have no idea but it just wasn't the same as McDonald's. I love how the outside is crunchy, small, and can be filling.

So to conclude, the only food I deem worthy to eat is their vanilla ice cream in a cone. I always get them when I'm stuck in the car for hours and it's hot. The ice cream made me happy :D and they're always nice to eat.