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Monday 25 February 2013

What is the What?

At times I enjoy reading what is the what. I enjoy reading the parts of the book where Valentino is talking about all of his experiences in life in Sudan. I don't really enjoy reading the parts when Valentino is in the US, these parts are far to long in my opinion and a little bit boring. In the first book I got confused at parts because then change of Valentino talking about Sudan and then being on the floor of his house talking to Michael. This book is a bit too long in my opinion, I still havent finished it but by the looks of it, it is. I think this book could be a lot shorter if Dave Eggers would have cut out a few parts of the book when Valentino talks for about 30 pages on one thing, for example when Valentino talks about going to this one basketball game in the US and he continues for pages and pages, which get really boring and you have the feeling of just wanting to skip it all. Furthermore I have learnt a lot about what happend in Sudan and I have learnt about what some people experienced in their life's at all sorts of different ages, also when we think about this it is happening all around the world.

Monday 4 February 2013

Do I agree with Blogging or not?

05/02/13

Blogging is an online sharing that can be very useful for the English curriculum. Even though I don't use it a lot, I still agree that it is important, as we can all learn from one another and also have an everyday learning by writing a little bit everyday. I do agree with this even though I do not blog very much myself, this is because I don’t really have any ideas of what to post or I’m not so sure if what I want to post will be right.
Furthermore, blogging can deepen our writing skills as we are writing a small or big amount each day. By blogging something each day and also reading other peoples blog we can find out many things about others. A blog is a place for you to write what you want to write and be free in your own opinions where people can write back. You can choose to write personal, school, funny, sad, fiction, non-fiction…lets say what ever you really want to write. As I mentioned before I don’t blog but some days I do have some ideas, though I never know if they are going to be okay. This is what may happen to people who have a blog but never use it. I think English teachers should keep coming at you with blogging and keep telling you that what you want to write is fine; there is not wrong or right answer.

How To Write About Italy


04/02/13

In english class we read a story called: how to write about Africa and fror homework we had to write how to write about Italy (the country we come from).

When writing about Italy mention a lot about food, dancing, cheerfulness, weird English accents, nice fresh ice cream, old buildings.

Always talk about Italian food. No matter what you say about it (only good things, like its the best food in the world) talk about food. How Italians cook it what’s been rated the best food, is it pizza or pasta? Is it margarita pizza or pasta pesto?

In your writing include Mario and Luigi, include the dumbness of some Italians but the smartness of others, include all the small markets along the road with all the elderly selling paintings or flowers, include the small tabacchi shops on the street which are small shops in Italy which sell all sorts of things: from magazines to newspaper to stationary to toys to cigarettes to bus tickets lets say sort of everything.

Make sure you write about the Italian plays and opera singing. Make sure to take your reader to Venice the city of love. Deeply explain a ride on a gondola and the beauty of the street with all the excitement and feast of the costumes and masks.

Talk about the beaches in Italy, about Sardinia, explain the water with such good descriptions he/she feels like they are there living the wonderful moment. Talk about all the mothers’ sun bathing on the nice silky sand as their children as paying in the water having the time of their life.


Describe Italian cultural clothing for men, women and children. Describe the different clothing in one part of Italy and in another, like in the mountainside all the dresses with patterns and in the city the cool new teenager fashion H&M.

Describe with detail all the different kind of scenery in Italy. Grass fields, vineyards, mountains, beaches, countryside, flower fields and a lot more. Describe each place with fancy words.

Always end your story with something to do with food.

Monday 28 January 2013

Baking!

Last Sunday my two friends Celia and Sarah (twins) came over to my house for a sleepover, well actually Celia was sleeping over because we had swimming at 5AM on Monday morning. I live really close to school and so we have a deal where she comes over to my house every sunday and she'll do something in return. Celia and Sarah came from 4.00 to around 7.00pm.

We all decided to bake cookies when they came over. We made our own recipe which turned out great! :) Our cookies were really yummmy :)


A picture of our cookies.


Tuesday 6 November 2012

Books

I am very sorry I have not updating you guys about Pretty Little Liars but this is because I stopped reading it. I didn't sop because I didn't enjoy it but because I got a different book from one of my mum's friends who wrote the book her self called How To Get Your Own Dog. I started reading this book because I love dogs and I really want one! Tough my parents dont want one but they still torture me. Nearly ever night my dad gets and email or a message something that has to do with cute dogs and guess what he will show them to me and talk about how cute dogs are and when he was little he got to see one of the cutest dog ever!!!! (in my opinion). Oh just as I remember a few nights ago my dad called me and told me to sit down (i knew what he was going to do) he was hiding the ipad from a adorable picture of a dog. When he showed this picture to me he told me that I could have it! That exact one! I was so happy I starte jumping up and down and screaming finally  THANK YOU THANK YOU I LOVE YOU THANK YO THANK YOU!!!! YES THATS MY DOG. Then he told me to sit down again and said well only if we lived in Italy.....

That KILLED ME! I was the happiest thing on earth and then he just killed me.

Anyways thats my story. Back to the books, I am reading How To Get Your Own Dog which is not a book about how to get your own dog but I like it. At the same time I am reading The Princes Bride and The Perks Of Being A Wallflower. I have just started reading The Perks Of Being A Wallflower and I think I am going to enjoy it. I have stopped reading The Princes Bride but I will continue reading it after I finish How To Get Your Own Dog and The Perks Of Being A Wallflower.

P.O.V Final Post - Horses


Horses

The first time Laura rode a horse I was so scared she would not like it or she would be scared. Laura told me that she was fine and that she was not scared, she decided to call the horse Black Beauty, this was because my son and I had read a book called Black Beauty and we had told Laura all about the black horse in the book and she had seemed to love it. 

Laura could not stop thinking about this one horse. She was annoying me so much going on about wanting to get on that one horse, I could see that laura was blown away by the beauty of this creature and as it ran around, from her face that feeling and she couldn't wait any longer before she could get on the horse I could not believe it my own daughter loved horses (since I was little I always loved horses), laura was making me go mental from how much she wanted to get on the horse. I could not believe Laura felt like she was waiting for life time, It felt like a minute to me. 

We could all smell the horses dung which was making Laura think again, she was making weird faces and blocking her nose from this smell and trying to find excuses to get out of the que as we were getting closer. As soon as it was Laura’s turn in line she was freaking out (she was last out of us three me first Edoardo second and then little Laura), as Laura got on the horse I hear the loudest scream I had ever heard in my life and I got really scared!!!!! Laura got frustrated that she was waiting for a lifetime and as soon as she got on the horse she wanted to get off immediately!!!!! Laura couldn’t believe it. Laura could see me and my son Edoardo galloping across the beach, having so much fun, laughing with the sun setting behind them and all Laura was doing, was sitting down watching. 

When Laura screamed because of the fright she got. The horse itself got a huge fright. The horse moved faster as a natural instinct down wards and scared Laura even more. Luckily a man was holding the horse and calmed it down before anything bad could have happened. Laura got told to get off the horse and had to sit and wait till my son and I finished riding ourselves. As we finished our turn on the horses, we walked up to Laura and saw her crying (still really scared). Laura told me she was never going to ride a horse again. 

Laura said she never wanted to ride a horse again but I could see that she still wanted to and that she still loved the way the were. I told her we had to go back and she wanted to stay, she was just amazed by the way they move and everything about them, Laura did not want to leave but I told her we just had to go. We all got in the car and left on they way back home I was telling Laura and Edoardo all my stories about when I was a little girl and when I rode horses. 

I told them this one story, “When I got on the horse and started my lesson for the first time, I was so happy to be on a horse, I slowly moved towards learning how to gallop and as I got to the point my horse moved so gracefully just like any other horse, all horses move with extraordinary movement, they are friends to anything and are stunning the way they move and their gracefulness. When I had finished my lesson I was so happy and I told my mum that I wanted to horse ride, and she told me I could. So I went with my friends and informed myself about horse ring lessons. I had found the best place and started there.” 

My children asked for more and I told them, “I traveled very often on horses with my family and friends and just the thought like you see in movies the horses mane blowing in the wind as it gallops on the river banks. The way it moves its legs one by one in such a fast movement. The horse is a very smart animal, a horses life expectancy is about 25 to 30 years. The horse's senses are much better to those of a human. As prey animals, they must be aware of their surroundings at all times.They have the largest eyes of any land mammal, and their eyes are positioned on the sides of their heads.” We got home and went to the kitchen to prepare dinner, as we sat at the table as a whole family we talked about horses and from then on my daughter loved horses and she also started horse riding. 

THE END

What I think I did wrong was the way I just turned my old P.O.V into a new one by just changing a few things: "I go mad for horses" changed that into "My daughter goes mad for horses". This is very important because it is very important to totally change the view when you change character.

Tuesday 9 October 2012

Abnormal Character

The character I have chosen is August Pullman from a book called Wonder by R.J Palacio.

This character with that fact that he was born abnormal with his face all different to others. I can relate to him because when it was his first day of school he probably was no feeling the best and scared about what people would say about him, this realtes to me because when it was my frist day of school I was really scared of what people would say bout me and what would happen at school and if I would find any friends. I think he would have felt around the same for different reasons but the same way. I have not read this book but my school librarian roughly explained the main part of this movie which I can relate to. I think by the end he makes a new friends and so did I. I am not that sure because of this fact that I have not read the book but if I do then I will update this post and make sure it is right.