Inkheart

I recently saw the movie Inkheart. As you know, I love the book of Inkheart by Cornelia Funke. It is full of adventure and magic and all that good stuff. The movie was okay. I'd give it 3 stars. The book was definitely better. The movie was funny and scary in the right places and all. It was just that they left out important stuff. The beginning was all wrong, too. They did something completely different from what actually happened. Instead of putting the right thing in, they put something else where the right thing should go. They also made the ending wrong. The end had things that happened in it that they put in that weren't in the book. The movie was amusing, though. I guess it is always that the book is better than the movie.

Meenah

I made this video about Meenah!

Twilight

I finished reading Twilight! It is a great book! I've been reading it non stop since the day I got it. Now I'm going to start on New Moon, the second book in the series. Everyone I know has already read Twilight or is reading it or is going to read it.

Twilight is about vampires. There is this girl, Bella, who is 17 and goes to live with her father in Forks, Washington. She meets this really perfect guy named Edward Cullen who turns out to be a vampire. Edward has a craving for Bella's blood. Bella's blood smells much better and different from other humans blood. That's why Edward wants it so much. He and his family hunt animals though, so that they don't have to be monsters and suck human blood. Edward and Bella start to like each other a lot. One day, Edward and his family decide to bring Bella when they go to play vampire baseball. It is different from regular baseball because vampires are very strong and fast. The bases are a quarter mile away from each other. The pitcher stands far away too. They only play during thunder storms, though, because when they hit the ball it makes a loud boom. As they play, these other vampires come to join the Cullens. These vampires hunt humans instead of animals. They are the evil ones. One of them, James, wants to eat Bella because she smells so delicious. "The hunt is his obsession". James tricks Bella into meeting him somewhere so that he can suck her blood. But the Cullens come crashing in and save Bella from becoming a vampire!

So it really is a good book. I want to see the movie but I'm not allowed :-( But I love the book!

Winter Social

On Friday, the sixth and fifth grade had the winter wonderland social. It's kind of like a party. The seventh and eighth graders have a dance later on Friday. So at the social, there was a DJ who played all the new pop music. He was set up in the cafeteria. All the tables were folded up and pushed to the side. Then the disco ball was turned on! (Hey, does anyone know how a disco ball works). Last year, I used to chase the little lights that the disco ball made around the cafeteria. There was a table set up where you could buy refreshments. The kids at the social put their backpacks lining the halls. In the gym, some games were set up. There was stuff like Frisbee throwing and mostly throwing games. The seventh and eighth grade student council sets it all up. If you play them, you get raffle tickets. You write your name on the back, and put it into a bucket and at the end of the social, the seventh graders raffle things away. They raffle away sport shirts and hats and gift cards. On the other side of the gym there is basketball. The adults put a few basketballs in the gym and people just start playing. Another fun thing at the social is the thing where you guess how many tootsie rolls are in a container and then you get the tootsie rolls if you are the closest. Some parents volunteer to help out at the socials and teachers come too. My homeroom teacher, Mrs. Trainer came with her new baby. The baby was so cute! The funnest thing at the social is when Cotton Eye Joe and Cha Cha Slide come on. Almost everybody at the social (I mean all kids of course) get in lines and dance them. I always wonder if the teachers think it's funny to see everyone dance. I imagine it would be!

A Poem

I wrote this poem on January 19, 2009. It is called Rainbow.


A man walked down the dusty street
one dull and rainy day.
As he walked, the sun came out
and children ran out to play

The man looked up at the sky
and saw a beam of light.
It looked faint;barely there.
The rainbow's colors were so bright.

This man was very glum-
he was feeling quite sad.
As it turned out, something bad had happened
He had lost his dad.

His dad was the only one left for him
and he was very tearful.
But looking up at the rainbow
he was almost cheerful.

Jemma's Birthday

Yesterday was my sister Jemma's birthday! She turned 7. Me and Dahlia went shopping for her and got her great gifts. I got Jemma a cute stuffed dog and this kind of clay. She loved the present. Dahlia got her a stuffed moose. Grammy and Grandpa got Jemma a skirt that plays the Hokey Pokey music. The skirt is fun and colorful. For dinner, we had Jemma's dream dinner: Plain pasta with steak and green beans. For dessert we had a small chocolate cake with vanilla frosting. It was delicious. I'm pretty sure Jemma had a great birthday!

Break is Over!

Uh-oh! Tomorrow I have to go back to school. We didn't really have a lot of school in December because we had a two 2-hour delays, three days off because of the ice storm, I think a snow day, and a week and a half of Christmas break! But now I have to go back to school and I feel like break has gone by too fast. I have been getting up at, like, 8:00 in the morning but suddenly I have to get up at 6:30! I can't wait till February break. That will be awesome!!

Happy New Year

For New Year's Eve my family went to my Mamuma and Ajja's house (my grandparents) because my new baby cousin was there. He is so cute and Meenah found him very interesting. Meenah got a little bit jealous when everyone gave attention to the baby. At our house, Meenah was outside and Rowan (my baby cousin) was inside and they were staring at each other. It was so funny.

Then, later we went to our neighbor's house until midnight. Our neighbors have two boys and one is my age. There were a lot of kids at their house. We made a funny movie using the dress up stuff that they had. Meenah came to their house too. We also played pinball at their house. They have a lot of fun pinball machines in their basement so every year we play for a long time. After that, all the kids went outside and we played hide and seek in the dark. It was very cold and windy. When we came back in we watched a movie called "The Amazing Panda Adventure". It was a good movie. At midnight, we stopped the movie and put on the TV and watched the ball drop. And of course we saw ancient Dick Clark. He was the living dead!

On New Year (today), my baby cousin and Mamuma and Ajja came over and we had a super early dinner and everyone is downstairs watching Wallie. Around dinner time we are going to just have appetizers instead of a meal.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!