Pro's and Con's

I do not really have a feeling towards blogging in English class. It is not something I wan't to do and it is not I don't want to do. But it is something that I have to do so I do it. What I do find annoying about blogging is that in my life only once in awhile in my life interesting stuff happens, and in blogging I don't like writing about random things, they have to be something worth writing about. So I am glad that the amount of posts that we had to write was reduced because then I can save the posts for the exciting things that I know are going to happen, like Caissa and spring break. A pro of blogging is that it is a creative way of writing. I would rather write on the blog then keep a writing journal like in my old school. Even though I don't really mind blogging I would rather not do it and do something else. I am not sure what else we could do instead of blogging. I'm just throwing idea's out but maybe we would do pen pals or something, it would be like blogging except between you and a person, then we could also learn how to write letters.

Caissa

I know Caissa was a couple of months ago but I am going to write about it. This Caissa tournament was for soccer. I love soccer, it is my favorite sport even though it is not the sport that I am the best at. In this Caissa tournament we sadly got 3rd place out of 4. I think it was a reality check because before this tournament we had never lost a single game we played. In the tourmanet there was a 50% chance we would get 2nd and a 50% chance we would get 3rd. We could have gotten second becasue our skill level and Equador's skill level was the same. The first game we played against them, they totally dominated the game but we luckily score in the last 10 mins of the game. When we played our second game against them, the one for 2nd and 3rd place, we definatly out played them but the literally scored 2 goals in the last 5 mins of the game, lucky for them, not so much for us. So as I said we got 3rd Equador got 2nd, the Dominican got 4th and Trinidad got 1st. For the placeing of the 1st and 4th teams from the moment those two teams started playing it was obvious they were going to get those places.
I had lots of fun. I roomed with Maggie and we stayed with a 12th grade, she was very chill. We did lots of stuff with her we went to a concert(where Maggie talked to the guy) and we went the a lime(a party) and we just hung out with her friends. For the things that we did with the school were; we went to the beach, and we had a little party thing the lalst day we were there. The beach was ok, kind of lame it wasnt that nice of a beach and the party was pretty lame too, lots of people were into the party but our school and another school were not into it because we were so tired. Overall it was pretty fun, but I liked the Caissa volleyball better.

Cake boss

Recently I have found my new favorite show. My new favorite show is called Cake Boss. Cake Boss is a show about this very successful bakery that has been running for 100 years as of 2010. Carol's Bakery was opened in 1910 by a guy named Carlo, in the 1940's it was bought by the Valastro family. Currently the guy who runs Carlo's Bakery, his name in Buddy Valastro the son of the guy who bought the bakery in the forty's. Origionally everybody that worked in the bakery was family or close freinds who they considered family. Now because the bakery is so big that they have so many people, family and randoms, working for them. Because they have gotten so big they are going to move the production of cakes from the current location to a place down the block that used to be an old train station. You can imagine how big that must be and once they are in there every inch is going to be used. Carlo's Bakery is one of the most famous, if not the most famous bakery in the world. They are known for making extravagant, huge, out there, totally awesome cakes. Not only do the cakes look good but the costomers say they taste amazing. The special thing about Carlo's Bakery is the not only do the have small cakes and pasteries and cookie etc. They also have specialty cakes, thats what they are special for. Specialty cakes are when the customers come to the bakery for a consultation with buddy about what they want and the bigger the better, the specialty cakes are the extravagant ones. Th customers range from soon to be weds to Snooki to the Mayor or New Jersey.

When I turn 21 I'm going to go to the store and order a specialty cake for my 21st birthday :)

International Fair

This weekend at our school there was an International Fair. An International fair is where all the students and there family's get together and make food and or make bits an pieces of things from their country. Each country has it's own booth and the booths are set up outside or insidethe school, depending on your school. So once the people get to school on the day of the fair they get their booths ready and try and make it the best looking booth possible, so that more people will want to cone to their booth. The booth that I helped out in is the Canadian booth, seeing as how my family is Canadian.

About two weeks before the international fair there was no Canadian booth. My dad and I really wanted there to be a Canada booth, cause what would the world be without Canada? So we quickly got together the booth; we asked people to bring decorations, make food etc. It was finally the international fair and our booth was together and it looked pretty good! I mean it definatly was not the best most popular booth, but that's ok. I had a very fun day though. I hung out with my friends, we played sone games ate lots of food, threw arepa batter at teachers, it wad fun. What also happened that day was that there were performances all day. I am in the highschool band and we got to play. Every part of the day was fun!

I Am Number Four

Last weekend me and Val saw a movie that just came out called I Am Number Four. The Genre of the movie was action/ romance. Val and I really enjoyed the movie and we hope that theres going to be another one. We also think that if there was not another one that it would be stupid because the ending of the movie very much suggested a sequel. The main actors that were in this movie are Alex Pettyfer and Diana Agron. After the movie the two started dating and Val and I think they make a very cute couple.

Anyways... back to the movie. So the movie is about these Aliens that come to earth because there planet was destroyed by the Mogs, and now there are 9 of the aliens left and the Mogs have a list of them and they are killing the 9 aliens one by one. So the first 3 aliens are killed and now its Alex Pettyfer's characters turn, he goes by John Smith. So John and his warrior, Henri leave there current town and relocate so they loose the Mogs. So they are now in Paradise, Ohio. In Paradise John goes to school where he meets Sarah(Diana Agron). So they fall in love and then Henri tells him that they don'y love the same way, they love forever. Then the mogs come and they try and kill him, but he find number 6 and they defeat the Mogs together. At the end of the movie John and number 6 leave to go find the rest of the aliens on the list.

Picture This

Recently I was at a sleepover with a whole bunch of my friends. We did many things that night. One of the things that we did was watch lots of movies. We watch Picture This, The Hangover, etc. The movie that I really enjoyed was Picture This. Picture this is about a girl named  Mandy, who is a nobody. Mandy has a major crush on the most popular guy in school, Drew Patterson. At the beginning  like i said she is a nobody and she is doing all she can to get Drew to notice her. The first thing that she does to get him to notice her is she joins the swim team, but when she is walking by the pool she hits her head, falls in the pool and then Drew saves her and that is when he starts to notice her. Then a couple days later Drew asks Mandy to come to the "Legendary Patterson Party" with him. So she says yes. On the day of the party Mandy is grounded so she says she is going over to her friends house to study. They go to the mall to buy the perfect outfit but while they are at the mall, Drew's old girlfriend and her friends try to sabotage Mandy. Not only are they girls trying to sabotage Mandy, Mandy's dad is calling her every 30 minutes so make sure shes okay, and he calls her using video chat. So not only is Mandy getting sabotaged by the girls, she phone punks her dad every 30 minutes and she comes out in the end. Mandy makes it to the Party all right and there is a happily ever after. I really liked this movie. It was very girly and very corny, so if you are in the mood for a good chick flick watch this movie.

#2 More Mad, Marvy Confessions if Georgia Nicholson

In the 6th book of the Confessions of Georgia Nicholson series Georgie and her friend and family all go to america, or Hamburger-a-gogo land. Georgia is extremely excited to go to America because the half American, half Italian Stallion, Masimo is going to be in America. When Georgia is getting ready to go to America, she thinks that is is going to be exactly like England. But when she arrives in America she realizes it is totally different.  One of the first things that she thinks to her self is " I have not seen anyone who hasn't got a mustache. And frankly that is not attractive in a woman" (106). Georgia is completely surprised at how friendly the people are. " The receptionist(Candi) practically split her mouth in half, she was smiling and saying 'alrighty' so much"(110). Georgia is also surprised at how much the people eat in America. When Georgia was at the pool they ordered tea and ham sandwiches as a snack. When the sandwiches arrived, the" sandwich was made out of two loaves of bread, chips, a huge gherkin and a piglet" (112). All the humor in these books is why I enjoy reading these books so very much.

Reading Journal #1Confessions of Georgia Nicholson(series)

The quotes I am choosing to talk about are form the fourth book in this series, Dancing in my Nuddy-Pants. " I love my sister, I really do, especially when she is sleeping. I bent over to give her a kiss on her forehead. Without even opening her eyes she biffed me on the head and said 'Notty boy Gingey, notty boy'" (87). This book series is about a girl named Georgia Nicholson. Georgia has a 4 year old sister named Liberty, or Libby for short. Libby is quite a character, she is quite a crazy little girl. She runs around without clothes on, she dresses up and puts makeup on their cat, she is very funny. Seeing how she is only 4 she is in pre-school and can not talk quite properly, which is why she say naughty as notty. He favorite song to sing is "Baa baa bag sheet", and it later becomes "three bind lice." One time Georgia is taking Libby for a walk (she has to be on a leash or else she will run away) and they run into Georgia's crush. While Georgia is talking to him Libby climbs up on his motorbike and starts kissing his cheek, when she was done she said "Gingey did a smelly" (120). When I was reading this book all the parts with Libby in it made me laugh.

Nachi.B

As you know this year I am new to my school. I have made very many friends, but there is this one girl who is very unique. When I first met her she was very nice to me and never left me out, I think she was being cautious of me because I was a new girl. Her characteristics are; short, olive skinned and has pretty hair. She is very girly and likes stuff such as make up, nail polish, and magazines.

She always makes my day because like I said she is a very funny person. Now that we know each other better she is not so cautious about me being the new girl and stuff. She is from Latin America and she has the coolest accent ever. I often make fun of her accent because she does not always say things properly. But I think it is ok when I make fun of it because she doesn’t take too seriously because she knows I am only fooling around. Lots of times she always says she hates me and not to talk to her and she doesn’t love me, and I always just smile and hug her and shes like “Uhhhh get away from me” but I know she loves me J She is so silly that when I asked her what I should write about for my blog, she said I should write about her, so I took her advice and did!

Caissa!!!!

This year I made it into the Varsity volleyball team!! When the coach told me I was super excited that I was that privileged to be in varsity and only a freshman. So, just this past week for 4 days, my team and I went to the Dominican Republic to get our game on! It was super fun! We got to the DR on Wednesday but only started playing volleyball on Thursday. I got hosted by a 9^th grade girl with my other freshman friend Vero, who my hostess called Varri. On Wednesday my host, her friends, Vero and I just chilled at my hostess’s house. She had a super amazing house! It was really big and pretty it had a pool and a ping pong table, etc.  At first my host was cool, but then as the days progressed she got annoying. She made Vero and I late every morning and late for curfew one night. I didn’t really like her much, and I don’t think she liked me very much; it’s a good thing Vero was there.

                Games. On Thursday we started the games. First we had the opening ceremonies, with the whole host high school there and all the teams ( there were only 4). First the athletic director said hello and whatnot, the we stood for all the national anthems, then introduced all the teams and their coaches. One of the funniest moments was when they were introducing our boys team and they got to the boys coach (our tech teacher) and introduced him as Mr. Nile …… It was super funny. Then our games went well through the whole tournament. We were not un defeated though. I was really lucky because during the tournament I got “promoted” to a started in the front row, but then I got subbed out when I was in the back row.  Some coaches even came up to me from other teams and commented on how well I played, I felt really good! In the finals we played horrible. We kept messing up all the time but It was fortunate that the team we played was not as…advanced as us. We ended up winning the tournament even after how we played. I was really happy! My first Caissa in 9^th grade at a new school and we win. I was super proud of myself and my team!