My Very Awesome Skiing Day

Yesterday I had the most fun day of this entire winter. I went to Afton Alps with my dad, Tina, and Michael. We went to all of the fun slopes but I was too scared to do 2 of them. Tina stuck to mostly greens and blues. Here is a map at http://www.skireport.com/dynimages/trailmaps/mid/216.jpg
We skiied all day. It was so fun and at the end of the day we went home. Mom and dad were at a party that was really boring with only one girl my age named Karina. So Tina and I rented a movie at Blockbuster called Julie and Julia. We bought some popcorn and watched it. The movie was about a woman who wrote a blog about cooking all of the recipes in Julia Child's french cookbook in a year. Okay, this post was supposed to be about skiing, but I got off track. Back to skiing. One of my favorite slopes was a trail called the Christmas Trail, but I call it the Christmas Tree Run. My favorite part about it was that it wasn't that short and you could take your speed and for me that was pretty fast. My absolute favorite part to ski on the Christmas Tree Run was the little dip in the beginning that was very steep. At the end of the dip you could jump. The not so good part about yesterday was that all the slopes were kind of icy. But that was okay. Sometime this week I am going to go to Hylands. Sometime this week I am also planning to make a giant snowbear and make chocolate chip cookies and go swimming. I haven't written a single post all winter. I have to write more to make up for that. This is going to be a fun fun week.

Bloodhound

Sorry, but I just finished the first book of this trilogy before I started writing the BBR(Blog Book Reports). So this is the second book of the Beka Cooper trilogy by Tamora Pierce who is an awesome author. So far Beka has just become a Dog(full fledged member of the Provost's guard). She is in a bad situation, she can't seem to find a good partner that works well with her. Right now she is really frustrated with a new partner called Silsbee. She got into a argument with him because along the way to duty he always has to go get a "wee tidbit" or a "sip of cider". When they hear a person screaming for help, he says I'm not falling for"that trick" again. So when Beka finally blows up at him, he says that Beka is not going to be his partner, he refuses to work with her anymore. When Beka gets back, she is depressed because she is going to go back to working with the Dogs she trained with, Clary Goodwin and Matthias Tunstall(weird names huh?). Beka loves working with them, but she is frustrated and a little bit ashamed that she can't seem to work well with anyone. It is also very strange to see three dogs together on duty. The next morning, Beka gets up to the noise of people knocking at her door. She knows that they are Kora, Aniki, Rosto, and Ersken, her closet friends. Once a week, they all have a huge breakfast. Beka says good morning to Pounce, her cat. Pounce is actually a constellation called the Cat. After their breakfast, Beka goes on duty. She comes across a riot when all the citizens of the Lower City are outraged of the fact that prices have gone up on day- old bread. In the riot, they meet some people from Port Caynn who help carry Tunstall to a healing mage when he gets both of his legs broken. After the Bread Riot and a nap, Beka goes outside to stretch her legs and sees a Senior Dog beating a hound. (In this book, dogs are called hounds because that was the way people spoke at that time and if you said dogs, people would be confused with Dogs with a capitol D.) She hates seeing the man beat the hound and finally tells him to stop, even if he is a Senior Dog. The Senior Dog is very angry and he just dumps the dog into Beka's hands. Sergeant Ahuda lets Beka keep the dog, who is named Achoo and Beka had met this dog before. Now Beka takes Achoo to Kora, who is a mage and asks her to help heal Achoo from all the beatings she's had. Beka goes to see Phelan, who was the first handler of Achoo. Phelan tells Beka the rules and commands of the language that Achoo was taught in. Beka tries out Achoo with scents and Achoo sneezed like she was famous for because this do sneezes when she gets a good scent. Goodwin and Beka go to Port Caynn to find research on the silver coles. Silver coles are fake silver coins that are brass covered in a thin sheet of silver, kind of like now day pennies. Beka soon discovers that the rogue Pearl Skinner was behind this crime. She corners Pearl and hobbles her(tied her hands and feet together. When Beka gets back to Corus, she discovers that Sergeant Ahuda is planning to go to a higher position in the Flash District and Goodwin is replacing her. That leaves broken-legged Tunstall partnerless, so Beka is his new partner. Beka finally found someone that she works very well with and is happy.

The Crow

There is a boy who is Maerad's little brother and his name is Hem.  To find out more about Maerad read the first two books in the books of Pellinor.  They are called The Naming and The Riddle, by Alison Croggon.  Hem is in Turbansk avoiding sweltering hot weather in a very important man's garden stealing his fruit.  He is really mad when he sees that there are a bunch of crows attacking another bird so he saves it with Bard magic.  When he brings it home, he talks to it and finds out that it is a crow but it is white.  He names it Irc and takes it in as a pet.  When his Bard mentor Saliman, tells him that Turbansk is at war.  All the other children leave and go to Car Amanrich or whatever you call it.  When they get to the place where all of the Bards that are staying gather, Hem finds a girl named Zelika.  She is stubborn to stay when Saliman tells her to leave.  Zelika wants to avenge her family when the Black Army attacks the house of Il Amanrad(Zelika's family).  One day, some ugly birds attack the city.  They are shocked when they find out that most of the birds are deformed and just dive down and kill themselves.  Hem plays a big part when he calls out to all the birds in Turbansk.  The birds of Turbansk attack the cloud of birds when they try to attack.  They call this the battle of the birds.  They call Hem the Lios Hlaf, which means The white crow in Speech.  Irc is responsible of that name because in the battle of the birds he is the main messenger and spy.  He locates the ugly birds and knows when they are going to attack.  Saliman takes Hem and Zelika to the underground tunnels and that's where they hide until Hared, the first Bard of the Underground Tunnels asks them to become spies.  Saliman doesn't approve of the idea, but doesn't exactly disapprove  of it either.  So they agree and undergo the training of the spies.  One day when they are deep in Black Army territory, Zelika spots one of her brothers in a child army group.  The children are bewitched by the Hulls(some sorcerers that are evil).  Zelika eventually gets captured and Hem goes and gets captured by the Hulls on purpose.  He does it because he wants to look for Zelika.  He eventually has to escape because he can't stand it anymore, and fled deep into the forest.  He meets Irc there, and Irc gives him a little trinket with runes that are very crucial to Maerad's mission, but Hem doesn't know that.  He eventually finds out because an Elidhu named Naynar tells him that.  He meets Saliman in the forest the next day, and finds out that Zelika is dead.  But in the quest for the treesong, Zelika isn't important.  But to Hem, Zelika is the very first friend he's ever had, beside form Maerad, and Saliman.  Hem understands that he will have to be a strong Bard until the very end.

Music

Today we went to listen to music at South View Middle School.  It was the Chamber Music Society of Minnesota that was performing the Camile Saen-Saens animal carnival.  I went with Jessica's family as well.  Jack is annoying......
Well I found out that my favorite ones were Fossils and the Finale and Swan.  I also liked Aquarium.  Somehoe it reminded me of Harry Potter Music.  It was really funny.  You should read this and then listen to all those pieces and then comment.
(I'm advertising for myself)  : D

Just a Normal Saturday

Today is just a normal Saturday.  I had a violin lesson at 10:30.  Then I have a drawing class at 12:45.  The normal class starts at 1:00, but I have to go to Chinese School.  For drawing and Chinese School, I carpool with Cindy and Tommy.  After Chinese School, I carpool with Alan, Kevin, Cindy and Tommy.  Alan, Cindy, Kevin and I all go to the same school, Valley View.  Tommy skipped a grade and is in fifth grade.  He is only nine years old, but is very tall so no one notices.  Tommy is in Mrs. Cavanaugh's class.  I was in Mr. Wuest's class and Alan was in Mr. Converse's class.  Mrs. Cavanaugh is the only teacher that allows pets in her classroom.  There is one more class, Mr. Strom.  He was in the Vietnam War and on Veterans day we sent letters to Mr. Strom and Mr. Wuest's haircutter's little brother.  He can't live by himself because he saw some bad stuff while he was in the war.  So he lives with his sister. He doesn't really talk, but Mr.Wuest said he saw tears in Mike's eyes when he read our letters.  Well, do you know anyone who was in the Vietnam war?

Braces

Hello guys.  Today my title is called braces because I am going to need braces soon.  They say that I am going to need rubber bands, but no headgear.  My friend, Celeste has gotten braces in second grade and is going to need them again with headgear.  She has really bad teeth.  Well I hope that braces don't hurt too much.  If you have had braces, can you comment on it and tell me if they are really painful?

Tennis

Today I played tennis with my friend, Jessica.  Her brother had a soccer game while we were playing tennis.  Then we played games with Jack's friend's brother's dog.  he was really funny.  The dog's name was king kaid.  He was named after a restraunt that the family likes to go to.  The dog was weird his eyes were like human eyes.
The music teacher at school showed us a video of a group called naturally 7.  They make instrument sounds out of their voices it's pretty cool.