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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.