Eulogy-Eliezer To His Dead Father, 66 Years Ago Last Friday

When my father died, he left me with no one, but I feel I abandoned him before he left me physically. He always loved me and took care to make sure that I had enough bread and water to sustain my dying body. In his last dying instants I was not able to be with him as he was always with me. Because of cowardice and indifference I let him die at the arms of the guards who ripped his life away from him. I feel guilty for not having been able to save him from them, and for not having died with him. I feel deeply sad that he could not have been with me for longer, but I can't do anything now. I'm sorry father, I miss you and I know that you still watch over me from heaven. I love you so much, We all do.

Zoos, Good or Bad?

Many people believe that zoos are bad, but they don't really know the entire story. They usually believe wildlife should not be kept in captivity because they don't get to live their life to the fullest, but they should really find out more about how maybe being in the zoo is better to ensure the animal's survival. Animals do actually live better in a zoo. They have all the food they need, and so they won't die of starvation. Most have all the space they need, and there are others of their kind to keep them company. Also, being in a zoo won't let animals die out, won't let them become extinct, and anyway, where else would you have a chance to see all of these animals in your life? Nowhere else right?  I didn't think so. You can learn a lot from these magnificent animals, and you don't have to read a boring book, or sit lazily in front of a TV all day watching some even more boring documentary on how these animals live. It's more interesting to actually be able to see the animals socialize with one another, eat, and even play than to have to see or read some 2nd hand account from some australian dude. Probably. THat's just why Zoos are good and should be kept.

Book Review: Blue Bloods

This amazing book by Melissa De La Cruz is about a young Schuyler Van Alen, a blue blood, or as humans know them, a VAMPIRE! She doesn't know this though, until she turns 15, and things start getting kind of strange. First of all, she's getting blue marks on her arms, just like veins, but dark blue, and itchy. She's not the only one, though. All around her school, Duchesne, a rich New Yorker academy, students right around her age are starting to go through this change.


But that's not the only thing. A few of the older students who already know that they are vampires are being killed off. And as many people already know, vampires are supposed to be immortal. As Schuyler soon finds out, the world is not perfect for the young vampires in their sunset years, which are their weakest. With a lot of research in the library that the Blue bloods and their helpers made, she and her conduit, or helper and best friend in life Oliver and new friend Bliss, they learn that silver bloods, blue bloods who sucked the blood of others of their kind are now hunting them down. 


One of their close friends, Dylan, has been infected and corrupted by these creatures, and has continually attacked Schuyler in the streets. At first, they all think that this silver-eyed, red-pupil, shadowy creature is Jack and Mimi Force's father, but are proved wrong, and find out that he is actually the purest of them all. 


Mimi, the daughter of the accused Mr. Force is friends with Bliss, and and hates every part of Schuyler. Here's the reason: Her brother has fallen in love with Schyuler, believing she is her mother, the woman he has searched for through out his many past lives. You see, Mimi and Jack are meant to be. It doesn't matter that they're twins, that's the vampire way of things. Jack, who had agreed to help Schuyler now realizes that she is not her mom, and leaves her heart broken. 


Schuyler and her friends don't need Jack, though, they figure out that the silver blood is Dylan, and that there's many more silver bloods. But, Schyuler's grandfather knows how to get rid of silver bloods. Only one problem, no one knows where he's at. So, of course, Schuyler and Oliver decide to go too Venice and tfry to find him there, hoping that he'll know what to do now that Scuyler's only living relative has died, and her mother is still in coma. And that's where the story ends. A really good story, but it could use an ending. 
I highly recommend it if you're a fan of fantasy novels and vampires. :P

Haunted House!

I can't wait for tomorrow! THe Haunted House is going to be beast! I love being the grudge! All the work we put into making all the props, posters, costumes, decorating the library, it's all going to have a n immediate effect. It's amazing to see the final product after so much work and effort, and to be able to scare people, to work in the haunted house, and see how people react to everything just gives you a feeling of fulfillment.  It's freaking amazing! I just can't wait to be a part of all of that. :)

ScHoOl LiFe

School is sooo stressful right now. WE have the Stanford tests this week, and then I have the SAT on Saturday. Then, next month we have the TAKS Olympics, and I'm on the flag committee, so i get to work on a flag for our class  college mascot, the Columbia lions. A little while later, we have the TAKS writting, math, and reading. And most importantly, in between all that are clubs, like little mini vacations, and friends, who can be real pests some times, and other times, they can be the best person to talk to when you're feeling down, because you know that they will support you the same as you support them. But sometimes, people can be mad at you, and you can be mad at them. It gets to be really bad. Sometimes, you wish that you weren't mad at them, and that they weren't mad at you. You wish that they would at least listen to you apologize, instead of ignoring you every single time you tried. So yes, school life can be very stressful, especially, when you have all this going on, and even more at home.

Great Summer

This summer has been great! am so happy. my new quote: Love conquers all, it's weird, yet very true. <3

Summer already?

This year flew by just so fast! It doesn't feel like I'm already becoming an 8th grader. It can't be. It feels like just yesterday it was the first day of 7th grade. but no, It's already the END of 7th grade. I look back and wonder how the year went by so fast? 6th grade felt like it took for ever to end, and now, I'm beginning to think that 8th grade will go by even faster. I hope it wont because then i will miss everyone so much! Oh well, i can always come visit!So yeah, this year went by fast. I 'm going to miss middle school when i leave. :P

homework!

I have had so much homework right now! In two days I have to turn in a portfolio with like 15 things I've writen. I just barely started with that! Then tomorrow, I have an entirely diferent project with like 84 index cards, and I've only filled in like 25. I really should quit procrastinating, but its sooo boring! I know I'll finish it, but I'm going to end up staying awake till like 2-3 today. Imma go crazy for sure.

School's almost over!

With only a couple days until school is over it still feels like the first weeks for me. This year went by really fast, and I really wish it hadn't. I know that I still have summer school, but that's only for a little while and I'm really going to miss all my friends.

hahaha

Sometimes, you're going to do something, but in the end you don't have to do anything cuz someone did it for you with out even knowing. Is that cool or what? This happened this week and saved me lots of time. Not gonna go into details here, but I basically got almost everything I wanted. I'm so happy! :D It's so relaxing just to sit back and just watch as things unravel over these last few days of school. Too bad schools almost over....but still, I'm so happy!

BLah!

Why does everything have to be so complicated? I'm really getting tired of all of the things that are going on. Seriously? Why can't people just say things straight out? Do people really have to make a big deal out of everything? It could be way easier if people would just tell you what's wrong with them! It's always like "whats wrong?" and then the other person's just all like "nothing" and then when you find out, it just makes it all worse cuz you could have helped to solve the problem in the beginning, but now its all just worse! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I really can't stand this torture anymore! Some people are really getting on my nerves cuz they just can't say things straight out, they beat around the bush or some old saying like that, and I just wish it would all just stop and everything could just go back to normal, but some people just want to make it all the more complicated! What's wrong with them? With me? With everything? Blah! I'm tired of this whole stupid situation! Why can the person quit being so stupid and ornery? Their point is so stupid it just doesn't make any sense at all! What to do?!?!?!

walk two moons by sharon creech

So right now, I'm reading the book Walk Two Moons. It's a really good book, and although I'm only halfway through it, I have liked it a lot so far. It is about a girl named Salamanca Tree Hiddle; a girl with indian roots, whose mother has died, and who talks to trees. It is a very good story, and I highly recommend it. It will really make you think twice about how you act and what you do.

Fruits!

Fruits are so awesome! Especially oranges, they're so juicy and sweet! Don't get me wrong, all fruits are really good, its just that oranges are better. I mean, you don't drink pear juice, do you? No, you drink orange juice! You can do anything with them! That's how multi-functional they are! maybe they're toys, maybe they're juice, or maybe, they're just plain oranges! 

Spring Break

WOW! Spring break is almost over. It feels like only a couple of days have gone by, but its been more than that. I wish the break would have been longer, it really does help you to have some time off to think about things and not feel the pressure of being in school and having so much drama going on around you. I missed all my friends, but not their drama. I did miss laughing and giggling and even the teachers (a lil bit), but it was really cool to feel "free" for a little while. I'm gonna miss this time i had when i get back to school.

Friday

so yesterday, almost all of my class went to San Antonio on their end of year field trip. I didn't get to go, but I still went to school. It was really boring. i spent a lot of time in the computer lab using the computer, and drawing. All in all, it wasn't that bad. I got to listen to music, draw, and eat takis.

Writing TAKS this Wednesday!!!

Writing TAKS is this this wednesday nd im goin CRAZY!!!!! i don't know how ima do? i'm not sure what i'll get nd i'm seriously worried. please wish me luck ppl!oh, nd thanks 4 da letter michael! ILY! ur awesome! PO-TA-TOE!

SAT test was today!!!

Today I had the SAT. It took about 5 hours to complete. I thought it was going to be harder than that, but it wasn't. It was kind of easy, but some questions just felt way out of reach. I think I did pretty good, and I hope that all my friends who took the SAT did good. Like I said, it took like 5 hours, so when I was done, my friends and I had to go to the restroom. By the time we were done, we were mostly by ourselves. We tried to go out the same way we came in, but the door was locked, so we asked for directions. A lady told us to take some stairs and go this way and that way. We tried, we rally did, but we got lost, and had to go ask for more directions. A guy told us to in another set of directions, and we did, successfully getting lost. Man, I was sooo scared, the whole place was so quiet, it gave me the creeps, I kept thinking I heard footsteps, and the lights were kinda dim, so there were loads of shadows. We decided to try to look around the first floor, and we finally got out. It was a relief!

Sad vs. Happy

Have you ever had someone ever hurt you and make you sad? It's too easy to be sad, but if you stop being sad, and realize that being sad doesn't make it any better, than you'll be happy. This happened to me yesterday, and when I realized I had to stop being sad because i was making it worse. So i stopped crying, woke up the next day, and was happy. I realize now that i prefer being happy than being all mopey and deppressed.

SAT next week

Well, a lot of students were chosen to take the SAT. It's next week and I'm worried. I don't understand some(a lot) of the math problems that we've been doing in the saturday tutorials. I know it won't be for a grade, but I'm still worried. I hope I do good. If I do, then I'll be really proud of myself. This helped me a lot. I learned a lot of test taking strategies, and I know I can use this experience in the future when I have to take the real SAT. Also, and most importantly, if I do good, then my name is sent to universities and high schools, and if it does, i have a way better chance at getting accepted! So yeah, no pressure. Wish me luck!!!

Wow. thanksgiving break is almost over, and we have only hours to be free. School starts tomorrow, and I'm just finishing up my homework. You know, I had so much homework this break, that I didn't have much time to do anything. I only wish it would have been a bit less filled with homework.

My Birthday!!!

As many of you may know, yesterday was my birthday!!! I wanted to thank all of you people who actually remembered. Also, I want to thank my parents, grandparents, Celeste, Alex, and Isabel for yesterday. I especially want to thank my parents for getting me a laptop so that I could actually be posting this. LOL

Texas Renaissance Festival

Last Tuesday we went to the Renaissance Festival. It was totally awesome. The rides were super cool. There was a swing one where they pulled you back and it felt like you were gonna fall. There was also this thing that turned back and forth and made you super-throw-up-dizzy!  I loved the haunted house, it was super scary and i was screaming my head off into Omar's (a sixth grader's) ear. It was  soooooooo funny! The food was good too. I really liked the strawberry lemonade and the turkey leg was also good. It was all really expensive. But still, it was awesome! Also, there was jousting! (Basically, these guys tried to hit each other with spears while riding horses.)

United Way Field Trip

Today, all the almost all of the girls went to a United Way field trip. It was cool since we did a lot of cool activities and were away from the boys. We first talked about the media and how they try to persuade, inform, and entertain us. Sometimes the media also lies to us to try to make us buy their products. We also were able to talk about song lyrics and how they can be positive and negative, but then we watched the music videos for each, and they were also positive and negative, but some conveyed different messages than their lyrics. Then we had some delicious chic-fil-a lunch! It was so much better than the yucky, blucky school lunch that the boys had to eat! (poor them!) After we finished eating, a couple lucky girls got gifts. (I was not one of them!) Then, we decorated some totally awesome materials to design some jeans. Mine didn't turn out so good though, they were covered from top to bottom with feathers! They were hilarious! Well, then we got our pictures taken, and we wrote on our message boards. When we finished that, we left, and got some really awesome purple bags and journals and colorful gel pens! Overall, I had an awesome time away from the guys! There was no worrying about how we would look to them, we were our crazy selves! I loved it so much and I really want to go back next year.

So yesterday i got my tonsils taken out. Right now i feel really bad. I can barely swallow anything and I'm on a stupid liquidish diet!!! I can't drink milk right now, either! I only get icepops. This is so boring!!! Ok, so I guess I'll see you all later....... when I'm better. BYE!!! Missing you all already!!!!!

My Summer in GUATEMALA

This Summer my family went to GuAtEmAlA!!!!! The plane ride was really cool, although there wasn't that much to do exept look out the window and maybe fall asleep. Then we went to this super cool hotel wich is called Grand Tikal Futura hotel, and guess what? A lot of famous people stay there including Wisin & Yandel! The hotel is really awesome because its like the Galleria, it has its very own mall right in it!!! It's really cool and really expensive, but it was worth it staying there. I hope that I get to stay there next time I come to Guatemala. It's really a good hotel and I highly recomend it.

Another thing I got to do is go to XOCOMIL wich is a water park by Retalhuleu (reu for short) It's really cool and I have also included it's picture. Right next to it there also is an amusement park, but we didn't go there because it was too hot and we would get sunburnt, wich sucks because I would have loved to go on a roller coaster.

Today I am at my grandmas house wich is why I am writing this . She has a computer and I am glad she does. I guess I'll see yall later. Missing all my buds!

Some of the cutest dogs ever, prairie dogs!!! These cute little guys are furry-cute!!! They burrow underground and have a ton of little tunnels through which they travel through. these are smart little furballs, they use team work to build those tunnels. Th students at pcms are like that. We are like a family, and we   help and support each other in  any way we can. I really appreciate how everyone is so friendly and nice.(including teachers)

My new class !!!

Oh My God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm in 7-2!!!!!!!! I can't believe it!!! The best part is that I have some of my best friends there like Jackie M. , Nataly, and Melissa. Now I feel way older!!! I am gonna miss being a littler kid! It was so much fun! =] I just wonder who my homeroom teacher is going to be? (The rumor is that its Mr.Stocker!!!)

transformers sequel

Ok, so we all know that transformers 2, revenge of the fallen just came out. People are saying that it's really bad. Iwouldn't know, I haven't seen it.But i'm guessing that it is good, since the original transformers movie was so good. I'm not really sure, though. Critics think it's horrible, so I don't know what to think.

Another thing I don't get is why this movie has made so much money if the critics think that it's horrible?!?! The article that I read says that it has made about 400,000,000 dollars!!! I can't imagine a bad movie making so much unless it's like a sequel to a great movie like the original transformers.

I hope that I get to see it though, I really don't care what the critics say a movie can be great even if it's only because of special effects and great graphics. Hope that it's a great movie and  that I will like it a lot too.

My evil sister

My little sister is pure evil. She bites too! You can ask a lot of people who were at last year's spring carnival too. Here's what happened; We had both gotten 5 dollars worth of tickets and she had already spent hers and wanted a fishy! I said no, that she had the same amount of tickets as me, and then she got mad and started trying to bite my arm off!!! Thats just one of the things she's done to me!!! She got smarter, and made a blog. She said that I was mean!!!!!! Can you imagine that? My evil little sister says that I'm mean to her!!! Now she is gonna pay!! (I'm just kidding!!!)

Goodbye Mr. Johnson!!!

OK, a few days ago I found out that one of my fave teachers, Mr. Johnson isn't coming back anymore!!! He says that he's gonna miss us a lot, and so are we! He was really cool with us and I feel that even though he gave us tons of homework, he really loved us!!! So, I am gonna say............. 
GOOD BYE JOHNSON WE REALLY ARE GONNA MISS YA!!!

What I think of the book Of Mice and Men

I think that this novel is great. John Steinbeck is a totally one of the best authors ever!!! His book is great. Even though I've only read 20 pages, it has been a great book. I hope all of his other books are as great!

My Dream Summer

I thought that my summer was going to have a setting like the one in the picture..... at the beach! I would have gotten a tan, gone to the pool, and had fun, but I had summer school! I wasn't that sad after a few days though! I have the coolest teachers who are all fun! They taught us cool stuff, and then we had the coolest clubs right after! I love it! Even though I was spending a lot of time at school i still love it! =] I wish we didnt have homework though!