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During spring break my mom, brother, and I got to go Disneyland. Because we only had one parent there, my brother had to go on every ride that we chose. He was excited but also nervous. We wanted to go on Thunder Mountain and he did not like that. He started to shake and get really anxious about getting on the ride. My mom and I calmed him down and said it’s ok, we will only go on it once.   He sat with my mom in the front and I was behind them. My brother started to freak out and try to get out of the ride, but my mom talked to him again and stopped him. Once the ride started we pulled the bar down and started. At first her was fine but then started to hold on really tight to the bar. It started going fast for him and he grabbed on to the bar as hard as he could. He was really scared. But soon after, the ride came to a stop and he took his hand off the bar and got off the ride. My mom and I asked him how was the ride and he said it was fun, but he wasn’t going to go on it again. So after that, to calm him down, we went on Pirates of The Caribbean and it was really peaceful. At the end of the day we went a good amount of rides and we were really tired. The day after we were all so sore and still tired. But it did turn out to be a fun day at Disneylnad.

I am currently on page, 259 of P.S I still love you. By Jenny Han. Lara Jean didn’t really want to fall for peter, but she did. Then when things were getting serious Lara was happy and I guess Peter wasn’t. Peter still had feelings for his ex and Lara was heart-broken. When another boy came in, Lara didn’t know who to choose, Peter, or John? So far I have loved the whole book, but mostly when Lara Jean didn’t know who to choose. She is really relatable in the book so far because sometimes I don’t know what to choose when it’s a hard decision. One quote to prove that Lara is relatable is that when she said, “I know now that I don’t want to love or be loved in half measures. I want it all, and to have it all, you have to risk it all.” This quote shows that Lara didn’t know what to choose just how I sometimes don’t know what to choose in tough situations. “When you lose someone and it still hurts, that’s when you know the love was real.” Was probably my favorite quote because it shows a lot about how if you lose someone and it still hurts after a while, that means you really loved them and it’s hard to loose someone you love.

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My dream job is to be a photographer. I would want to be a photographer because I get to travel around the world to take beautiful pictures. Another reason why I would like to be a photographer is because it’s really relaxing of taking photos of the ocean, or the beach, or the sunset. Also some of your photos could be bought and get money off of it. I could earn a good amount of money off of it. I could also photograph memories of peoples family and them doing things.

A magician has made me invisible for twenty four hours! The first thing I would do while being invisible is mess with people. Messing with people meaning I try to scare them. I would scare them by opening draws, slamming doors, and throwing stuff at them to make the house feel haunted. Then I would go into rooms that i’m not allowed to go into. Then after I am visible again I will tell everyone what happened and hopefully make them laugh instead of getting mad.

This month I read Love and Olives by Jenna Evans Welch. Summer was going pretty for Liv Varanaki or Olive as her boyfriend calls her. She was ready to go to senior year of high school  until something unexpected happened. Liv got an opportunity to re-meet her father that left her when she was eight years old. What I loved about this book is that there is one main conflict that everyone refers back to and not a lot of drama and big things going on other than Olive and her dad. My favorite character from this book is Liv. One reason why shes my favorite because she chose family first. She had an opportunity to go to senior year but decided to go with her dad. A character trait of hers would be sweet and caring. One quote to show that she is caring is, “Kalamata, no one knows what they’re doing. It’s called life.” In this quote it shows that Kalamata made a mistake and she cared for her to make her feel better by saying something we all need sometimes.My favorite quote from Love and Olives would be, “Trusting him was easy; it was me that was the problem”. This is my favorite because it shows that sometimes you just need a break and it could sometime be your fault and you have to deal with it. Life goes on.

• This month I read Always and Forever Lara Jean by Jenny Han. Lara Jean is a teenage girl who just got with the love of her life, Peter. Lara Jean tries to get into UVA, but while she’s struggling, her boyfriend already got in. Lara lost her mom just after the age of 9. Lara’s mom died by falling while mopping, and her older sister Margot finding her and calling 9-11. Lara has two sisters, Margot as I already said, and Kitty who is her youngest sister. All Lara’s life, she does everything for her mom. Her dad, is now on his way to marrying Ms. Rothschild. Although Lara is happy for her dad, she knows that no one could replace her real mom. Everything was going according to plan but then, her heart has a big change but her mind doesn’t. She thinks, what do you do when your heart says something but your mind doesn’t agree?

I loved that the book had many twist and turns, for example, Lara Jean Covey during the college application process. One of the main plot points is her inner turmoil between going to the University of California, Berkeley, close to her Stanford University-bound boyfriend Peter Kavinsky, or New York University (N.Y.U.), the better fit.

My favorite character was Lara Jean because she always had problems that needed to be solve but she puts it off to the side just like how I do. I believe that one of Lara’s many character traits could be smart and understanding, “Life is beautiful, and messy, and never goes according to plan. I do know that love, real love, is choosing each other through all of it, every single day. Beginning and middle and end.” This quote from her showed that she understands life and how things always don’t go the way you would like them too.

My favorite quote from Always and Forever Lara Jean is, “Peter will love Lara Jean with all his heart, always.” I like this quote because even though they might of gone through a lot of good things, and bad things, Peter will always love Lara and thats what I like to call real love.

 

It’s another day in paradise on my abandoned island. I was at the beach surfing, and a wave took me into the ocean far away from the beach. After a while I washed up on an abandoned island. This island was a medium sized island with a tropical jungle in the center, and a bunch of palm trees. On the island there was a cave and it had nothing in it, so I decided to basically live there. Every morning I wake up and start a fire with some small sticks by the beach. Then I gather supplies to make a spear and attempt to find some fish to eat, but if I can’t then I just try to find coconuts and live off of them. After that I go surfing for a little while then get dinner the same way I got breakfast, and go back to bed on my island.

It was a cold Sunday night and our team met up under the tree putting on our cleats to get checked in. After we get checked in we head back over to the tree and start warming up. This is the final game of the tournament. The championship game. After we warm up we head to the field and get our positions. 1st quarter, no goals scored from either team. 2nd quarter, again, no goals scored. We didn’t want to go into penalty kicks so we tried really hard in the 3rd quarter, but once again, no goals. It was getting down to the last quarter and our team was stressing out. Finally the forward gets the ball and scores but they call it offside. The parents were screaming in nervousness and excitement. The whistle blows, and we go into penalty kicks. We line up one by one and are extremely nervous. The goalie for the other team and we all pray for our forward to make the goal. We wait patiently for the whistle to blow for her to kick. The whistle blows and she kicks. She made it and we are screaming in excitement. Our goalie goes up to stop the shot, and we pray for her to block the ball or for the other player to miss. And she missed. Our team was silent until the referee points to our team to see if we would win. Finally the ref points to us and we all jump up. We won the Hi-5 Tournament against kids that were older than us. We celebrate with the parent and then get our gold metals. Our coach calls out everyone of our names, and we get our metal, a pin, and a shirt from the tournament. After we celebrated at Lamppost pizza and ate dinner there. Then we wen’t home, took a shower, and went to bed. The next day at school everyone was so sore and could barely walk. Even though we were extremely sore, we won and it was a really fun weekend.

“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, when one only remembers to turn on the light.” This quote from Dumbledore means that if you get hit with bad news, you could always make it better. I can relate to this quote because when my uncle passed, I was really sad then I remembered all the good times I had with him and it made me smile. Even though I just got hit with bad news, I made it a little better just like what the quote said, “Happiness can be found in the darkest if times, when one only remembers to turn on the light.”