Spring Break

This Spring Break I am going to go up to Mt. Baker, Forks, and La Push. (It wasn't my idea) :P I really want to go to Baker though. First we're going up to Forks and spending two nights. Then we're going to go to La Push and look around. We will probably go on some of the beaches and stuff. After that we're going up to Baker. I love snowboarding and i can't wait for that part. I'm the only snowboarder in my family though. Everyone else ski's. I used to ski until this year when I took the ski bus up to Stevens Pass every Saturday and took snowboarding lessons. That was a lot of fun and I'm really sad that its over. The cold weather here is really starting to bother me though. I love snow and being in a cold climate for a month or two but after that it starts to get old. I miss the warm weather in the Marshall Islands. The only bad thing about that though is that there's no snowboarding because there's no snow. haha figures right? I wish there was some kind of thing where it could snow one day and then be 80 degrees the next day. A teleporter would be cool too. I could go to Mt. Baker and go snowboarding one day and then i could teleport back to somewhere warm like Hawaii. That would be soooo awesome. But yeah! Thats my Spring Break........and my warm and cold weather issues haha

Just to say poem

The delicious cookies
in the cookie jar
have disappeared

I know you thought
they were going to be
as delicious as
Grandma's secret recipe

One minute they were in my hand
and the next they were gone!

What am I?

I'm dark and light
I'm mysterious yet known
I'm helpful but sometimes feared
I'm close but far
I'm a part of everyones life
What am I?

(Highlight below for answer)
The Moon



I run and fall
I'm life and death
I'm beautiful yet hazardous
I can be smooth or rough
I'm needed
What am I?

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Water

What If?

What if
Rain was liquid candy?
Everyone would be sticky instead of wet.
No one would go hungry unless there was a drought,
and everyone would be hyped up on sugar all the time.

MONSTER!

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This is the monster I made in Mr. Bergquist's class. What we had to do was create a monster and write a descriptive paragraph about it so someone else could get it and draw it according to your descriptions. Mine is supposed to be from mars, so i called him Marsman. His hair is like purple snakes and his body is huge, green and round with blue polka dots. His legs are checked blue and green and he has two toes on each foot that curl up like an elve's. His face is shaped like a skull and his arms are long and pointy. He has huge eyes, a unibrow, and a nose that's pink and pushed up like a pig's nose. He doesn't have a neck. He has wrinkles around his mouth, nose, and eyes. It looks like he could be 100 years old. He lives in this really cool area with mars mountains and really weird creatures. There is a little bird with really long arms sitting next to him. The cave behind him in one of the mountains is his cave. The circle in the corner is the moon incase you didn't know what it was. It's really interusting to see how other people draw your monster. I'm pretty sure that the one i drew that was someone else's looks nothing like the real thing. Some of them were so different, you could barely tell they were supposed to look the same. It was funny. Well that's my monster!

Winter Break!

I know that everyone else is probably writing the same thing but oh well. It's all I have to talk about :P Ok, well, this winter, my cousin and her family came over and stayed at our house for a week. We went up to my grandma's house to celebrate Christmas with the rest of our family. My mom has one sister and 3 brothers so it was a big get together. For Christmas Eve dinner we had salmon. It was so good. My uncle makes it for us every year. When all of the younger kids went to bed, me one of my older cousins, Sarah, and the adults put out all the presents. On Christmas morning we all woke up and sat in the living room waiting for everyone to get there. When they finally got there we all opened up our presents. I got rockband 2, some clothes, $100 itunes gift card, a wallet, a chinese yoyo and some other stuff. It was tons of fun. I think overall I played rockband the most. Then we all had Christmas breakfast which was well, basically a regular breakfast only with more food. My favorite part was the egg dish. I look forward to it every year. The snow was also a lot of fun. I went sledding down one of the streets. It was pretty steep. I fell on my face a few times though, that kind of hurt. I didn't go skiing or snowboarding or anything, but Ski Bus starts on Saturday which is in like 2 days!!! i can't wait!!!!

Our Claymation

Last quarter my class did a claymation on famous explorers. My partner, Elli, and I made a claymation on Vasco Nunez De Balboa. The rest of the essay will tell you a little about the good and bad parts of the production of the project.

The most enjoyable part of the project would have to be taking the pictures and modeling the clay. That was a lot of fun. For the first scene we did we had to make three people, a dog, a few barrels, a background, and a ship. We made the ship out of cardboard and the sails out of paper. Then we had to make the people. That was pretty hard to do because we had to decide what we wanted them to look like. We were originally going to make them look like their pictures in the book, but that was way too hard. We eventually ended up making them like normal people with different colored shirts. Elli made the dog that was the size of a cow. She put toothpicks in it to hold it up. When we were finished with the claymation the dog was all deformed and had the toothpicks poking out of its body. We used all of the characters multiple times throughout the project, so they got a little dirty.

A few of the most difficult parts of the claymation were probably writing up the script and computer editing. You might be thinking oh wow, computer editing is so easy, but I think that Mac's are hard. I couldn't figure out how to use the desktop or the movie editing thing. Elli kept trying to help me figure it out for when she wasn't at school, but it didn't work that well. After a while, i figured a little of it out, but elli did all the computer work while I took the pictures and stuff. Writing the script was also hard because it took a lot of thought. We had to decide what stuff we wanted to put in the claymation and what stuff to leave out. There was a also a lot of unnecessary things in my book that we didn't need. It didn't tel much about what Balboa was doing, so we used Elli's. After we found our information we had to put it in our storyboard.

One of the most important things I learned would be learning how to make a claymation. This was a lot of fun. What we did was we would start out with a making a background for the scene we were doing and then make the props and people. After that we would set up the camera so that it's in the right spot for taking pictures. Then we would start taking the pictures. After each picture we would move the little people and/or props each time. If you took enough it would turn out to look like a short movie. Another important thing that i learned was about the person, Vasco Nunez De Balboa. If you watch the claymation, you will learn more about it, but basically what it was about was a guy that sailed by South America and Central America. He had a dog and was stuck on an island and stowed away to get off it.

In conclusion, the claymation was a lot of fun. My favorite part was making the clay figures and taking the pictures. I hope you like it!

My family

My family... My family is me, my mom, my dad, and my brother, aaron. We also have a cat named lilly. I have three fish and two pigmy frogs. My cat doesn't really like my brother because whenever she's laying on the couch or something he runs up to her and practically lays on her. She ends up either running away or scratching and hissing at him. It's actually kind of funny. Ok, outside of my personal family, theres a lot of other people. My mom has three brothers and one sister which means that I have a lot of cousins. My mom's sister, Katherine and her husband Tom, has two kids, James and Allison. Allison is a year younger than me and James is two years older than me i think. They live in California but they're coming up to our house for christmas and stuff. It's going to be fun. Then my mom's brother, Mic or Michael and his wife, Mary lives here in Washington and they have two daughters, Robin and Erin. Another brother of my mom's is Matt. He's really nice and really likes Japanese movies and stuff. He's giving money to a girl in Japan! i think that's really awesome. She's really cute too. The 3rd brother is Steve and his Wife Kaki. They have three kids, Ella, Kate, and Maggie. We do a lot of things with them. This Christmas we're going skiing. I'm really excited. I love to ski. I am also doing the ski bus but im snowboarding for the first time. I'm excited for that too, i think it's going to be a lot of fun. Christmas time is probably my favorite time of the year, not because of the presents but because my whole family gets together and has a lot of fun. I also love the smells and the cool food that you can't eat any other time.

Random Topics

~Right now i am sitting in the computer lab. Elli is sitting right next to me and her computer won't let her print, and phalen is on the other side of me and shes writing comments and stuff. I have no idea what i'm going to write in this blog, so i'm just going to write whatever comes to mind.
~Halloween is next week! It's going to be so much fun. My parents decorated our house and i'm going to go to a halloween party. It's going to be awesome.
~Theres a creepy concert this Thursday! I'm going to be playing in it. The songs we're playing are House of Horrors, Music for a Darkened Theater, and Chillers and Thrillers. They're pretty cool. Theres also going to be a whole carnival thing. I heard that there was a cake walk, but i could be wrong.
~I can't wait until Christmas. I get to see all of my family again. Some of them live in Illinois, Michigan, California, Seattle, and another place in Washington but i don't know where it is. I love Christmas here because it actually gets cold. In the Marshall Islands its warm year round and it's no fun at all. They even bring in pinetrees from the states but it's still not the same.
~I hope it snows this year. Then i can actually build a snowmen or something.
~ I can't wait until it's January because i'm going to go on the ski bus and snowboard for the first time. It's going to be so much fun! I already know how to ski, well i havn't taken lessons but i can ski down a hill pretty well. I heard snowboarding is more fun and easier so i can't wait to try it.
~This last weekend i went to the broadway show, Spring Awakening. It was so awesome! It was a perfect show for teenagers even though it was made a long time ago. It has causes and effects of what could happen to teens. The music was really good too. I really want to see it again but I can't.
~ Now Elli is writing a story for her blog entry and i have no idea what it says. I'm going to read it in a minute. She's going to get mad...o well! That was all of my thoughts for the past 10 minutes. Aren't they interusting?

Bali!!

I went on vacation to Bali which is an island in Indonesia. I went during winter break and i had to miss about two weeks because we took such a long trip. I had a lot of homework to make up, but I thought it was worth it. We were living in the Marshall Islands at the time. We took a plane to Guam and then another one to Bali. We had a guy waiting for us that showed us around the whole time we were there. He was really nice and had a family and everything. Right when you walked into the airport there was this smell that was really overwhelming. I couldn't breath at first but i eventually got used to it. When we started driving down the road to our hotel that we were going to stay at, i got really freaked out becuase i forgot that you had to drive on the other side of the road. It looked like you were going to hit someone everytime you passed a car. The first thing we did the next day was go to a waterpark. It was so much fun! The next day we drove up to a different town and we went to a monkey temple. That's where i got bitten by a monkey. :) What you do is you buy bananas to feed to the monkeys, and if a monkey jumps on you and you don't give him a banana, he'll attack you. Especially if it's one of the big ones. There is a lot of other cool things you can also do in Bali. They have great shops and really low prices! I bought a lot of stuff, and by the end of the trip, i hadn't even spent a hundred dollars! I felt rich! :) Bali was an awesome place to visit and a cool experience! You should vacation there sometime! I was at the place in the picture!!! :)