blog # 4-Spring break

This year for spring break I have lots of random things that I’m going to do. One of the more boring things that I will be doing is sleeping and relaxing. I definitely need to catch up on sleep. One of the more important and exciting thing that I will be doing is re-doing my room. I am getting hard wood, which is not fun because I really like my carpet and I find that carpet in a bedroom is better and makes the room more comfortable. But of course my mom wants hardwood and what she says goes. I’m also getting a double bed which is exciting for me! My favourite part about re-doing my room is the whole decorating and organizing of it, like buying cute decor pillows and new bed covers and going to Ikea is really fun. We did go to Ikea already to get a wall mount with a  TV spot and extra space to put clothes and random things, so I’ll be putting that together. My mom said that we were going to a place that I forget what it’s called, but she said it was a place you could go to get decor and cute things for pretty cheap! We actually did not plan on doing this whole project on spring break, we planned on doing it earlier but of course the flooring was delayed a lot! That really frustrated me because I never even wanted the hardwood and all I really want is the new bed and now it’s being delayed for something l would  rather not have so that makes me kind of mad. Since this project isn’t going to take the whole week it will probably take just the weekend, I have to find some other things the preoccupy myself. Il probably just hang with friends and go to the mall and just relax!

 

    I chose this picture because my friend Baily and I every year have a snow day.We take little toboggans and go tobogganing and this year we are trying something new and building a fort, of course it is not going to be as professional as the one in the picture, but the one that ours will look like is boring! This has kind of turned into a tradition for us! This year since there is so much snow on our street we decided to make a snow fort. I’m really excited because whenever I’m with her we end up doing something really stupid and funny which is like the best part of our friend ship. So far this year we have had three snow days all of which have been super fun! We usually go to the park on our street first and toboggan down the slide and make snow angles and things like that. Then we go to hills that are hidden around a fence and it’s a big strip of hills that are fairly large and steep and they are so much fun to go down and we always have a good laugh. We usually stay out for about three hours before we start to freeze and are forced to go back inside. This time we are making a fort so hopefully it will work out. The snow hills are so big that the fort is practically premade for us we just have to dig out the insides and the entrance. We are going to do it in her back yard because hers is a bit bigger. I’ll probably hang out with Baily the most because she lives so close and a lot of my friends are going on vacations. I feel I’m really lucky to have Baily just down the street and to be such good friends with her is great!

blog # 3

Blog # 3

The book that I am reading right now is called Vampire Diaries I really like the book! I like the whole plot and events that happen throughout the book. The author is Lisa Jane Smith also known as L. J. Smith who also wrote the Night World series. What I like about this author is her writing style. For me, it is very easy to read. I am now on the second book of the series, I feel like I went through the first book really fast, but not too fast because I could still understand everything. This is another part that I like. I feel like I can really understand what I am reading which is always an essential part in reading. I feel I barely ever have to stop to re-read something or stop to think about what I just read. I really love those kinds of book where you can just get lost in reading and that’s how I feel when I read this book. Lastly I really like how she uses lots of visuals when writing. I am watching the Vampire Diaries series on TV so I kind of already knew what each character looks like. Since I’m so far into the TV series and this is only the second book in the series there are some characters that I have forgotten about and with Lisa’s descriptions of the people it helps me really remember the character. These are some of the things that I enjoy in this book!

blog #2 Text to Self Connection

Entry Blog # 2 Text to Self Connection:

 

The book that I am reading right now is called The Vampire Diaries. It’s obviously about vampires so it’s a little harder to relate to anything in the book because it is mostly about the vampire lives and killing. The main character is Elena who has a thing with Stefan who is a vampire and I can’t really relate to her because she is experiencing a lot of death and scary situations which I usually don’t encounter on a daily basis. What I can relate to in this book is the setting. A lot of the people in my book go to a high school which I can relate to because I am in high school. A specific part that I can relate to is after a killing that happened just recently to the students of the schools Halloween party, one of the teachers was killed. The teacher was Elena’s social studies teacher. When they got back to school they had a new teacher. A lot of the students were still really sad about what had happened to the other teacher that the new teacher decided to have a talk with all of the students so that they could share the stories and how they felt about the whole situation. Everyone ended up sharing their stories and it was pretty dramatic. When I was reading this part in the book it reminded me of my social studies Westwood 1 class. After the take your kid to work day my teacher said that we could all share our experiences. I don’t know why it reminded my of this but I think it was that we all sat in a circle and in the book they kind of all sat in a circle facing each other, so that was probably why.