Saturday, July 23, 2011

The Winning Color!!!!!!

In the poll, the color that was picked the most was... BLUE! Congratulations to everyone that picked Blue!!!!!!

Snorkeling

Today I went Snorkeling for the very first time! It was really fun. My friend Manuel and his family went with me and my mom. I saw many different types of Coral and Fish. I don't know the kinds of Coral I saw, except for a Brain Coral, the only one I recognized amongst the many Coral, and there was only one. Manuel and a few of his family members saw a barracuda. My mom and I saw REALLY BIG Parrot Fish and other fish as well. I noticed a fish that looked like it was lying down in a flat section of coral. I wanted to take a picture, but my waterproof camera wasn't steady from the waves and I couldn't get it to work. I figured it out later with the help of my mom, but by then we were far from the fish. When there was around five minutes left to snorkel my snorkel came out of my mouth, this had happened before a few times, and so I raised my head to fix it and get all the salt water out of my mouth, but my goggles started getting all messed up. They started to slide around my face, going up over my eyes and getting lots of salty water in my eyes, which REALLY STINGS, and then my mom helped me get them back on right and they went down under my eyes. I couldn't see because I kept my eyes closed to make sure no more ocean water could get in them and i kept my mouth closed so none of the ocean water could go into it so I felt like I wasn't capable of doing anything. I held my mom's hand and told me to kick, so of course, I kicked and now that I was moving she started to guide me back to the ship. When we made it I took my goggles and flippers off and I wiped my eyes and opened them. They felt a lot better. I went up the ladder to get into the boat and Manuel was already on. He told us that the boat was going to leave soon so we shouldn't go back in the water. After Snorkeling we went to a beach and swam there and saw a re-creation of a spanish shipwreck in the water and more fish. I swam over EIGHT schools of fish. We had a wonderful time. I will never forget my first time Snorkeling.

Friday, July 22, 2011

Thank You

I'd like to thank all of you that got on when I texted you! I am hoping to update my blog A LOT! Please tell me if anything doesn't work right or if you have any ideas of what I should post on here! Oh, and PLEASE COMMENT! It makes my day when I see what you think about my blogs. Your opinion, good or bad, means a lot to me.

I will also update my poll every once in a while so check often!

People I'd like to thank:

Mommy - For getting me a blog
Daddy - For helping me get back into the blog
Yiayia and Pappy - For telling me their thoughts

AND EVERYONE ELSE OUT THERE WHO IS READING MY POSTS!

The Poll

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The Hunger Games and Catching Fire

The two books The Hunger Games and Catching Fire are the first two books of a trilogy. I read these books during my trip to Miami to see Grandma Wilbur.

The Hunger Games is a book about a girl named Katniss Everdeen and she lives in a place called Distric 12 or The Seam in part of a country that is where a place called North America was. Every year in each of the districs they have a reaping where kids 12-18 put their names in a bowl, one for girls one for boys. They draw one name from each bowl and the names drawn are the names of the kids who have to enter the annual Hunger Games, where the two children picked from each distric 1-12 must fight every child, including the other person in their distric, to the death. I won't tell you everything that happens, but Katniss gets put into the Hunger Games.

In Catching Fire Katniss finds herself in the Hunger Games yet again, but the plot isn't just about that. There is much, much more going on than anyone can imagine.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Blog 2 - Annabeth Chase

Facts from The Percy Jackson and the Olympians books.

Some of this stuff I don't have because it isn't mentioned in the books.
PLEASE READ ALL!

Name: Annabeth Chase

Birthday: Un-known

Place of Birth: New York (she lives in San Fransisco now)

Mother: Athena

Father: Frederick Chase

Favorite Drink: Diet Coke

Favorite Place: Camp Half-blood

Favorite form of transport: Un-known

Best at: Architecture

Worst at: Nothing

Friends: Grover (satyr), Percy Jackson, Thalia (daughter of Zeus)

Enemies: Kronos and Her Step-mom

Interview with Annabeth Chase:

COMING SOON

Percy Jackson and the Olympians Facts: Blog 1 - Percy Jackson

Information From:
Percy Jackson and the Olympians - The Ultimate Guide
By, Rick Riordan

PLEASE READ IT ALL!

(In the Percy Jackson Series, percy is the son of the greek god Poseidon and he meets other demigods 'hslf god, half mortal'. He has to defeat the titan Kronos in order to save Olympus, the series is based on greek mythology.)

Name: Percy Jackson

Birthday: August 18th

Place of Birth: New York

Mother: Sally Jackson

Father: Poseidon

Favorite Food: Anything blue and sweet

Favorite Drink: Coke and nectar (Nectar has the power to heal demigods and it tastes sweet. It is a drink of the Olympian gods, though, so if a demigod drinks to much they could explode.)

Favorite Place: Summer cabin at Montauk, Long Island (cabin 3 on half-blood hill)

Favorite Form of Transport: Pegasus (Blackjack, who insists on calling Percy, Boss)wh

Best at: Sword-fighting

Friends: Grover Underwood (A satyr), Annabeth Chase (Another demigod, In the end she is his girlfriend), Tyson (His half-brother, A cyclops), and Mrs. O'leary (His pet Hellhound)

Enemies: Kronos (A Titan) Gabe Ugliano (His 'used-to-be' step-dad, his mom used medusa's head to turn Gabe to stone), and Mrs. Dodds (A furry from the underworld that posed as Percy's math teacher for part of the year)

Bad Events In Percy's Early Life:

A very young Percy Jackson was having a nap at a nursery school when a snake slithered up to him. No one knew until his mom came to pick him up and found Percy playing with the dead snake which he had strangled.

In third grade a man in a black trenchcoat stalked him on the playground. When the teachers threatened to call the police he went away growling. No one believed Percy when he told them the man only had one eye in the middle of his forehead.

Expelled:

Percy has had trouble with school for as long as he can remember. By age twelve he'd been to six schools in as many years because he kept getting kicked out. He'd been diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD, but those weren't his only obstacles - inexplicable things had happened to him at school and on field trips.

Percy's Blunders:

In fourth grade his class went on the behind-the-scenes tour of the Marine World shark pool. Percy hit the wrong lever by the catwalk they were walking along, and the whole class took an unplanned swim with sharks.

In fifth grade he visited the Saratoga battlefield and had an accident involving a Revolutionary War cannon. He claimed he wasn't aiming for the school bus, bit it took direct hit anyway, and that meant yet another expulsion.

The Trip to End All Trips:

Percy's sixth grade feild trip was with his classmates at Yancy Academy. They visited the Metropolitan Museum. It was there that the extraordinary events began which eventually led Percy to Camp Half-blood (Half-blood means the same as Demigod)

What happened was that his math teacher, Mrs. Dodds, transformed into a shriveled hag with yellow fangs (a furry) and attacked Percy. Mr. Brunner, Percy's latin teacher, threw him a ball-point pen that turned into a bronze word in Percy's hand. One swing and the metal blade passes clean through his math teachers body.

Mrs. Dodds was a sand castle in a power fan. She exploded into yellow powder, vaporized on the spot, leaving nothing behind but the smell of sulphur and a dying screech and a chill of evil in the air, as if those two glowing red eyes were still watching me.

~Percy Jackson

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