Fav. Christmas Tradition

Christmas is one of my most favorite times of the year. There are many traditions that my family has over the season. One thing that we do is open one present to all the family on Christmas Eve. On Christmas morning, we have cinnamon rolls for breakfast. We make homemade pizza for dinner on Christmas Eve. At 6:00 in the morning on Christmas, Cassidy, Emily, and I get up. We go to the tree and wait for mom and dad to get up. Last year my sisters and I started a new tradition. There is this war game called Call of Duty Black Ops 2. We were on a team against the AI players. We went to a 1000 kill limit. We decided to do this every year on every new Call of Duty. This year we will do it on Call of Duty Ghosts. That's a fun game. When we open presents, we choose someone to give everybody their gifts. Then we open our gifts one at a time to see what everybody else got. My favorite tradition of all is opening the presents one at a time. I enjoy seeing what my family got. It makes me happy. That is my favorite Christmas tradition.

Natural Occurence Myth

A myth is a story that is orally passed down from generation to generation. They explain things about the past that are unclear to some people. A natural occurrence is something that happens naturally. Tornadoes, hurricanes, and volcanoes are some natural occurrences. A tsunami happens when an earthquake in the ocean causes a ripple on the surface of the ocean. The ripple slowly moves inland. It gains speed and size. By the time it reaches the land, the ripple has become a giant wave known as a tsunami. Normally, the wave is about 50 feet tall. Sometimes it is smaller or larger. The largest recorded tsunami was 1720 feet tall. It hit Lituya Bay, Alaska on July 9, 1958. Nobody knows the actual way a tsunami is formed. It all started when a bird made the sea god, Moonstury, mad. Moonstury decided to send a giant wave unto the bird. The wave hit the land and killed the bird. The land god, Sunstury, did not like Moonstury on his part of the earth. Thus a huge battle took place between the sea's greatest creature and lands greatest creature. Leviathan versus Behemoth. Both monsters killed each other. There was a great feast in Israel that day. The wave is still imprinted on the Mexico coast. Most people think the imprint was where the meteor hit that killed all the dinosaurs. That is not true. When a tsunami hits somewhere, it is just Moonstury telling Sunstury to stop drying up bodies of water.                                                                                  

My Biggest Time Waster

There are many things that I do to waste time. The biggest one is probably playing board games. Whenever I do not have anything to do, I go up to my room and play a random game. Most of the time I play Axis and Allies. Other times I will play Risk. Even Monopoly, if I feel like playing a game with money involved in it. I especially like to play a mixture of games. I will take teh Axis and Allies pieces and use a Ten Days game as the board. They will battle it out over whatever continent they are on. Playing board games by myself has to be my biggest time waster.

Movie Classification

Movies can be classified in many ways. One classification area is western movies. Western movies are movies that take place in the 1800s western America. Two movies in this category are"Big Jake" and "Cowboys and Aliens." Another type of movie is action. Action movies involve some violence and drama, as well as having not so violent parts to them. Some of these movies are "Mission Impossible" and "The Hunger Games." Another classification is science fiction. My favorite movies fall under this class. "The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings Trilogies" and "Transformers" are some of my favorites. Dramas are another type of movie class. "Les Miserable" and "Twilight' fall under this category. Finally, christian movies are the last category in this list. I also like these movies. 'Courageous" and "Facing the Giants" are examples of christian movies.

School Rule

There are school rules that not many people care about. There are some that none of the students like. One of these rules is "backpacks under the lockers." Personally I don't care about people putting their backpacks under their lockers, but some people think the backpacks are just plain annoying. Some good things about putting backpacks under lockers are: they aren't in the way when you are eating lunch. Another thing is everything you aren't using can be stored without it being in the way. Also, whenever you grab a book, you are more likely to grab the right one. Your back won't hurt because you don't have all of your books on it.
Lastly, it provides a place for the to be put so we don't have to try to cram it into our lockers. There are some bad things too. One is that clumsy people might somehow trip over the backpacks. Another is the backpacks are easy targets for people who want to steal something. Also, people with great authority might think that our school is a dirty place. People might lose things that could have accidentally fallen out of the backpack. Lastly, you could forget that it was there, and you end up going to class without anything that you need. I think that we should be able to put our backpacks under the lockers.

How I Would Describe a Skunk's Smell to a Person Who Can't Smell

Skunks are cool and awesome little mammals if you leave them alone. They are black with one white stripe that splits into two stripes, going down the center of their backs. When they are alarmed, they lift up their tails. This is just a warning for what will come if you keep messing with it. If you decide to keep messing with the skunk, it will emit a spray that smells bad and hurts your eyes. The only way to get the smell off of your cloths is to take a bath in tomato juice. It is a really long process to do this. So just don't mess with them in the first place. The smell that is emitted has a weird description to it. When the skunk lets this odor out, the normal reaction is to run for your life. If you don't run, then the smell will get all over you. The smell is like rotten apple mixed with dead animals and digestive smells. It is very disgusting. I have never been sprayed, but we have driven over dead skunks, and our tires smell really bad. That is what the smell of a skunk is like.

What advice I would give someone if I was a dog

There are many things that I would tell my classmates if I was a dog. First of all, dogs can't talk to people, so pretend that we are all dogs in this instance. I know a lot about dogs because of my older sister, Cassidy. I can ask her a lot of questions about dogs and she can answer them for me. The very first thing that I would tell everybody is that we are color blind and we see in two-d vision. Then I would say that cats are really nice if you are nice to them first. I would also let everybody know that it is never okay to eat anything you see, unless your owner says that you can eat that thing. Another thing is if you are a hunting dog, never wander off and bust birds without the hunter's consent. There are many things that dogs would tell each other. This is just what I would tell them.

Obvious Warnings

There are many things that give us obvious warnings. One of these is "Caution, Contents Hot." There are to many to name. Most of them are ridiculous and random. Now I will name all the ones that i can think of at the current moment.Contents Hot, Blade is Sharp, Glass is Fragile, and If Door Does Not Open Do Not Enter. Some more are: Peanut Container May Contain Peanuts, Do Not Breath Under the Water, Do Not Hold Wrong End of Chainsaw, Water on Road During Rain, and Slippery Puddle. Those are all the ridiculous, and obvious warnings that I can think of right now.

How to Sleep in and Get to School on Time

Sleeping in is an excuse that a large population of young kids use for not getting to school on time. It is important to get to school on time, but it is also important to sleep, too. When someone is late for school, they receive a tardy slip. I will tell you a way to sleep in and still get to school on time. This is how I do it some times. I will get up around 8:00 A.M., and eat breakfast. Then I will get all of my stuff ready that I need for the day. Next I sit and talk til about 8:10. Then I ride my bike to school, and speed walk to home room. That is how I sleep in and still get to school on time.

Two colors, compare contrast

Colors have many uses for our world. Colors are used to describe feelings and emotions. They also liven buildings up, and make them awesome. My two favorite colors are blue and white. My two least favorite colors are orange and pink. But orange is my least favorite color though, while blue is my most favorite. Orange makes me feel sad and glum. The only exception is for hunting because of hunter's orange that we to wear. Blue makes me feel happy and joyful. Orange is normally used during October and November. My two favorite months. Blue is mainly during April and May. Blue is also our school's main color. Orange is Manhattan's main color. Blue was my favorite color before I moved here almost seven years ago. Orange has been an all time not favorite of mine. Blue is the color of water, while orange is the color of fire. I like water more than fire. Also water puts out fire. So blue wins. That is a contrast of two different colors.

Journal for 9-27-13

There are four seasons in a year. Each season is about three months long. My favorite one is fall. There are many reasons that I like fall. The number one reason that I like the fall is because hunting season is in it. Also, my birthday is on October 25. The new Call of Duty always comes out in November, so I always get that. Another thing that I like about the fall, especially this fall, is that the new Hobbit movie comes out in early December. There are many more reasons that I like the fall, but I didn't want to bore you. That is why the fall is my favorite season.

Journal for Friday 9-20-13

               This summer was a fun summer for me. My family went to the Oregon coast in early to mid August. We visited Portland, Lincoln City, Seaside, and Newport. First, I will describe the ride there. We had just gotten back from Sidney, Montana, for the State Swim Meet. We got back from Sidney at about 10:30, so we were pretty tired. At about 5:00, I got up from a very rough sleep, and took all of my stuff to the car. At about 6:30, we left home. The first third felt the longest from Fairfield to the Montana, Idaho border. We went through Idaho like it was nothing. In about what it felt like five minutes, Coeur d' alene was right in front of us. My dad wanted to stop at Best Buy for some reason. We drove into Washington about ten minutes after we left Coeur d' alene. Now we were half way into the second third of the trip. First, Washington was a lot of cities and towns. Then all of a sudden, there was a huge amount of farm land. When we made it to the Tri-Cities, I forgot there names, we took a break and prepared to cross into the last third of the trip. We left the Tri- Cities, and crossed the Columbia River. Then we went straight with the river to Portland. My dad's sister and her family lives there. After two days, we went to Lincoln City. There, we settled into our rented beach house, and messed around the town. There we went zip-lining, which I was really good at, and surfing. For some reason, I learned what to do before anybody else. My dad and I went ocean fishing. My dad got seasick and threw up twice. But our entire group caught our entire limit of black rockfish, lingcod, seatrout, and starfish. That fish tasted really good when we got home. We went to the aquarium and this museum in Newport. Then we messed around in the 50 degree waters of the Pacific Ocean. This took place over the course of one week. The trip up took one full day. We packed up our things and left early the next morning. We stopped in Coeur d' alene for the night. There is this place there called "Triple Play." It is a miniature amusement park with a whole bunch of stuff to do. We messed around there for a while. The next day we went the rest of the way home. That is the funnest thing that I did this summer.

Superstitions

              

                   A superstition is an irrational belief arising from ignorance or fear. There are many superstitions. I will only talk about two of them. The one that I will talk about is if you spill salt, you will get salt in the devil's eye. People used to believe that the devil was always on their left shoulder. This is one of the dumbest superstitions in my opinion. Another belief from this superstition is that throwing salt over your left shoulder symbolizes offering salt for him to use for his bad things that he does. That is the superstition of throwing salt over your left shoulder. Another superstition is that if you knock your fist on wood, you will prevent yourself from jinxing yourself. First of all jinxing is not a very good thing, and second knocking your fist on wood can hurt. This superstition came from the Pagans who believed that all things had a spiritual property. When that thing would die, the soul would die as well and become hollow. That is the origins of two superstitions.