Journal 39: Christmas Holiday

 I think for myself, and many other teenagers around the world, would want to spend their holidays in fornt on techonlolgy, I would like that as well. i would finally get to play my games in peace, and no homework to pressurize( at least not tat much), that would seem rather lame to be honest, and Christmas is short of more pleasant and very short, and I would like to spend some time withmy family as well.

  So in general, I would spend the morning with my family, and the night gaming cause night times tends to be more boring and also online population tends to be more abundant during the night.

  Yes I think tat is pretty much my plan for winterbreak, it is nothing much, but yeah, a few books here, a few family activities, a few computers games, just basicly, chilling, and not doing sports I have been prersurized too much this past few months, and I am simply just gonna chill.

  I am not expecting Christmas this year, due to some disagreement me and my parents have, but I would like to brows around and see if any nice technology is released durignt he holiday season, and maybe get my hands on some outdated version with cheeper prices and my own allowance to buy myself a gift.

Journal 38: Mars

What I have know about mars is that it is really the closest planet to earth(hopefully is) and that it is red, made out if minerals, roughly the same size of earth, and may once have water and might have supported life forms, and thus the water disappeared and also that there might be life forms on it now. Mars lacks water and the atmosphere consists of different gas , unlike earth, so far we have found no life forms on mars and that is a difference as well It’s surface is largely iron oxide, which gives it its reddish color, unlike earth which is made from soils There is no liquid water (there is ice at the poles). Because is it has a much thinner atmosphere, and is farther from the sun, it is much colder.
   us humans have already successfully launched a space probe into mars, and I think it is still up there or that there are a few more operations when I stop putting interest into space programs, anyways with sending stuff to mars doable and successful, I imagine that it will be possible to send humans there and also it will not be in the too distant future, since we know how to do it already, I would give it to about 5 to 10 years

Journal 36: Writing is Difficult

 The author of there will come soft rains, describes his corrier as really difficult and really terrible thing to do, so I really don’t understand if he hates it so much , why he would he write instead of doing something elese that he really enjoyed, I mena, isn’t what all the suscefull people say when they are interviewed? Something along the lines like “I did what I enjoyed the most and worked very hard on it” or just presue your dreams and what you want to do the most, try hard, and enevtually you will succeed.

  The only reason I think the author would do such work is either because he likes to toruture himself, he is really desperate to get money or some other things, or simply because he think that he is only talented in writng and would want to contribute to the world by writing good literature.

  If I were to choose, I would certainly not want to be a writier, I lack the patience and vocabulary base, and even now I am struggling to type a two hundred word journal blog posty and is now coming up with random worlds just to fit the limit.

 Other things that is difficult and people still choose to do it is war, americian soilders volunteered themselves to be trained and may also sacrifice themselves in the battlefield for what reason I do not know, but I think it is for their love for their country.

Journal 35: Chronological Order

The story starts at 7 am when the alarm clock announces that there is a new day, then the house go though the day’s drill, making breakfast, lunch, and dinner , playing music, reading, washing the dishes, mowing the lawn, almost everything is done by the house. It even reads a poem at nine-five and closes the light by itself.

  At ten o’clock the house got on fire accidentally when a tree crash into it. The house tries to save itself, but eventually can’t do it and the house was burned to the ground except one wall. The story does not tell when the fire burned out, but we know by seven the fire was over and the house destroyed.

 My guess was that they fire burns really quickly and the fight was over really soon. The author gives us a scene of the house standing in the middle of a ruined city, with no more resident and occupants to show us that when humans become extinct, life on earth will go on as usual, because eventually our structures and city will disappear through time, and life on earth will go on as if nothing has happened before. We do not feel anything even though the dinosaur was extinct, and who knows, maybe there was once a superior civilization who lived on earth, but the evidence of their existence might be lost through time .

Journal 34: Irony

In the story there will be soft rains, the author writes about a very techonolgical house, still serving the same thing everyday, even thought there was no human in the house anymore.

  The house was the only one left stading out of what use to be a city and also mentioned that it is radioactive .so we can easily guess that it was what happens after a nucler war. If humans have everyting they wanted and everybody is happy, that short of thing would not have happened. It would be the same as just throwing away lives for no reason at all, which is really unlikely.

  The best guess I can come up with is humans are fighting over resources, they have achieved perfection in techonology, yet they do not have ehough evergy to run it. Earth cannot generate enough oil in time for everyone to spend, especially with all the growing population and people living a lot longer and less people die, earth became so crowed that people have to fight for food, resources, that eventually led to the extinction to the human race.

  I think this short of thing would not happen to the world right now, because we have nice techonology, yet we have a lot of resources to spare, but when it runs out, maybe in about 60 years, we might have a full-out battle for survival. In my opinion, I think the best way to avoid this is to use as less energy as possible, so we might be able to last longer

  

Journal 33: My Invention

If I can invent anyting I would event what every student desires: a homework writer. It would basicly do what it says and maybe a few more functions, it will be small and we can take them anywhere , maybe a size of a computer mouse with helicoptorlike wings that can fload around behind you and maybe act as a pc, phone, mpps, and projector.

  The robot will do anything ti says except to harm another human, and will also do your chores for you, its designs will mostly be like a round sphere and whene activated , two legs will appear out of the sphere in order to write homework. The sphere could also be like a computer, except it will project the screen into air you know? The stuff in star wars that those characters talk to.

  The robot would be made out of metal to have a cold feeling when u touch it, and the color will vary, each peoson will have its very own bot tat activates only with the person’s fingerprint.

  So I would say this will be a very usefull invention indeed, and estimating with our technology development in this 10 years, I would confidentally say that within the next ten years, those robots will be invented and used daily by most of the world’s population.

Journal 32: Modern Technology

having watched a lot of sci-fi movies and a  sci –fi fan( not a sci-fi nerd though)

I have enjoyed sci-fi movies more than anything elese, and will often admire the authors creativity. Sometimes I will wonder myself what would the future be like.

  I have a feeling that in the future thechnology will replace a lot of workers and employee’s job, and there will be a really chaotic age until humans and teconology found a working balance. I think the most likely form on government in the future will be communism, bcause techonology has been so advanced that every human can have what they wanted and the price of teconology will turn cheaper until every human in the world can afford it.

  The medical technology would also be really advanced too , I suppose humans will not likely die in the future of old age, they could just transfer their brain to a robot or to their clone, resulting in living forever.

  Humans would star to form colonies outside earth as well, since if people don’t die humans will need more resources.

  I also predict that students would nt have to go to school, in the future there might be some data transferring device that transfers information into your brain, that means u can learn calculus in 10 seconds!

  Without no demands for working or studying, I imagine people would get bored and eventually  do a few sports, resulting in a healty advanced technology civilization

Journal 31: Compare and Contrast Dogs

I have two types of animals which I encounter with a lot, in fat thus two types of animals are my pets. So today I will compare my pet dog toby to my pet beetle

  I liked both of them very much, and both are awesome in their own ways my beetle doesn’t really do much, but was really good to observe and look at, while my interacts and plays with me all the time.

  To compare both animals, I think Toby has emotions and actually can fell what you are feeling and sometimes snuggle with you to show compassion and will come to us if we call his name and actually knowing he is called Toby, he will even bark when my mother or father hits me , as if to stop a fight. So I think there are intelligence In there. My beetle on the other hand, seldom come out of the soil and when I try to touch him, he either runs away or bite me. He never really does anything and ignores me when I tried to bugg him, so I think the beetle ahs no emotion, and is its brain is only filled with instincts.

  Both pets have its own unique personality but to be honest I prefer my dog better, since it does a lot more stuff and shows its emotions.

ournal 30: Thanksgiving

Today is thankgiving, we are reallty happy about the luch and the day in general, every class was losen up a bit, and the teacher tries to make the class as enjoyable an d as easy going as possible. The luch was really great and pretty dieicious.

  I am really thankful of what the school has done for us to pepar such a good lunch. I think its mainly the paresnts who is preparing the food, but I think the school organized the things and ordered the turkeys.

  I am also very thankful to my family, who raised me and cared for me for such a long time, and I would prefer if they continue doing so in the near future.

 I am also really thankful to George lucas, for creating star wars, which is a awesome movie series. Without him, star wasr would’ve have existed, and the awesome video games by lucas arts as well. For example star wars battlefront, star wars the force unleashed, and a lot more.

 And finally I wanna thank my teachers for teaching me, but not for assigning us a lot of homework and a lot of hard tests.

Happy thanksgiving yeah and enjoy . 

Journal 29: Heroes Revisited

he·ro

   [heer-oh] 

1.

a man of distinguished courage or ability, admired for hisbrave deeds and noble qualities.

    From dictionary.com

(hîr'ō) 
n., pl., -roes.

1.

In mythology and legend, a man, often of divine ancestry, who is endowed with great courage and strength, celebrated for his bold exploits, and favored by the gods

From Answers.com

 In the two definitions above, of those two definitions got almost the same meanings, they both include courage and bravery and ability and his great deed and actions, but they also have  a lot of descriptions and additional meaning that makes them different of each other.

  The meaning from answers .com says that a hero has to be from a legend or a mythology, the meaning form dictionary.com didn’t mention this. I disagree with the meaning from answers.com, since a hero can be from modern days as well, like a firefighter or a doctor who sacrifice their time or got themselves into danger to save others.

  The meaning for answers.com also includes being favored by god, which we don’t know if it is true or not, but I don’t think heros have to be favored by god to be hero’s, in fact, a lot of hero dies to save others.

  I think I prefer the meaning from dictionary.com since it is short and to the point, the one from answers.com however, is too long and adds terms that does not really have to be there and messes up the meaning. It contradicts with people who are called a hero, and I does not necessary have to be favored by gods

Journal 28: Great, Old Knowledge

In the story in trouble, the author mentioned how similar the animals are to human, how they have emotion and sense of humor, and how they came to his aid. He also mentioned that the animals have an ancient knowledge that us humans have lost.

  I think that knowledge that the author refers to that dog that what we have lost is instinct, us humans gradually come to ignore of lost our instinct once we learn more things and knowledge and starts to replace instinctive action to thinking, and we have forgotten to use our senses to appreciate our surroundings and acknowledge our emotions. We mask our emotions with false sincerely, ling and other things. Our actions and think has been contaminated, and I think the dogs; on the other hand have used their instinct and trusted on them and as they grow, wheir sinking combines with their instinct. They stay loyal, do what they really want to do, and expresses their emotion very well even if it gets them into danger.

   So I think us human should rely on our instinct more, and do what we believe is right , like the loyal animals who helped us, and we that knowledge we lost is instinct, the most useful knowledge of all.

Journal 27: Animal v Human

It has been scientifically proven that human is a kind of animal, so I don’t really see the point of this journal; I have to assume it is a comparison between human and other animals.

 I find human and other animals very similar, for we all do the same stuff mostly, we all hive, eat other animals or eat plant, drink water, and sleeps. We all grow up and have offspring, and we will all care about them and try to get the children to have the best future possible. I encounter animals by having a dog at my house. I found out that a dog’s personality is actually quit similar to a humans, since it gets angry when it is mistreated, happy when playing, and took care of there children and will attack anyone that threatens them. And after encountering a lot of dogs, I found out that each dog has its own temper and personality, so I think they are very much similar to humans.

  So overall I think human and other animals have a lot in common, including, feelings, personality, and the way we live and took care of our young. The only difference I think that separates us are intelligence, which might not be true since we would never really know what a animal is thinking about. 

Journal 26: Game Character

Since the story is about stopping the aliens form going back into the past and murdering certain historical heroes and try to cause chaos in order to invade earth; you will have to be pretty badass and will be able to predict where who and when the aliens will appear and murder what historical character. So I think the best and most logical solution is that the one of the characters would have to be an alien itself and would have to give technology and information to stop the aliens

   So I created the main character, who would be a human being working for eh national alien defense center. His name will be Bob, he was fascinated as a child by aliens and would want to discover more about them, and his cunning computer hacking skills plus his amazing physical ability got him hired to their agency. Bob looks like any other security guard, people with a bunch of muscle; he is shaved bald, and has red eyes. He feels really loyal and wants to help save his world, even form aliens, which he likes a lot. He soon made quick friends with the alien spy and traded technology so he can stop the assassins. His main motivation is to stop his world form being attacked, and also to form peace between the two races

Journal 25: EMERGENCY

A lot of movies has those last second save like disableing the bomb at the last second or like jump out of the building and walking really slow with the building exploding behind them and they just take off the sunglasses and trying to look really badass. But in real life, emergies means life and death situations, and one misstep, or one single flaw in you movement, the position of one of your celss , would cause your death.  A lot of people in real life experienced emergicies, nut seldom lived to tell the tale. In the recent Japanese earthquake, thousands of houses are washed awain, and over 18,000 People died. The same happens in the Indian tsunami, where people are just washed away from the shore.

    In the typical movies, the hero are always calm and brave when an emergency occurs, they always act immediately and rush back to help the injured and traped behind, and ther complanion wil;l always say “ you are mad’ and “it is impossible” or something like that. If I were to experience an emergency, I think I would just panic and stand there and wait for death, and I think I won’t be able to make myself move.

Journal 24: Setting in Art

In the artwork, the background is mostly white, and decorated with some buildings in the top right corner in the drawing, and I think the background is based on a village who is just experiencing a snowstorm. In the center of the picture there is a cow, and within the belly there was a bird colored in red, ( if I remembered well enough.) next tot eh cow there is a knight who wears plate armor and has a house popping out between his legs. I think that was kind of weird; in fact, the whole picture makes me feel very uncomfortable. The who paint has a midevial- ish painting, and those with eyes that are staring into the distance, and not directly at you, like the mona lisa- which makes it less creepy to look at.

   The painting looks unrealistic, and I think its going more towards a mood expressing direction. it is mostly based on cold color which are blue, white, black and maybe purple.

   The birld in th e center is kinda weird, because I think the painting doesn’t really make sense, and I cannot possibly get a grip on what it was trying to express. So yeah, it was a weird picture with cold color.

Journal 23: Game Conflict

I have played a lot of video games, of which a few that I really enjoyed and liked. That is because , in my opinion most of the game these days only cares about graphics and gaming experience, but not the story , nor the conflict.

  The game I think is the most boring is call of duty. I always skip the cutscenes, but all yo do in the game is go around and shottign people. I like the graphics, yes: but you will get bored of it if everyting just repeat itself, aim boom! Aim Boom!

So with my game, I wish it would notbe as boring as call of duty. As I said in the previous journal the setting is about time travel.

  the idea is think is pretty good, but what of the enemy? So I Ive decided that their si going to be aliens attacking, but they lack the numbers to attack earth by military actions, so they sent assassin back in time to kill important historical figures and chause chaos, they have already got Abram Lincoln murdered after the civil war.

It is your job to protect the historical figures and eliminate any alien assisins. 

Journal Entry 22: Game Setting

   I have enjoyed countless video games since I got my laptop( which my dad regrets every giving one) and all for them are pretty good with good story line and awesome settings and graphics, but of all I enjoyed the mmorpg World of Warcraft the most.

  The game itself I set in three continents and the world is real massive. You get to explore the world and fight npcs, each stronger than the previous. This is was what I like about the game, the ability to do whatever you wish go where ever you want.

  This is what I would want my game to be, free will instead of an interactive movie like call of duty and battlefield 3. I would want to make players able to explore and have as much freedom as possible.

   The setting of the game will be time travel; players will be able to travel back in time and do whatever they want, and it will effect he future and you’re an travel back and see what the outcome is. So if you assassinate Lincoln, in the future the U.S will still have slaves and it would be some white dude as president instead of Obama

Journal Entry 21: Describe a Place You Know

There are a lot of places that I have been through, and the place I have the most memories of is of course the one I have spent more than half of my life in, which is my house, I remember description about my study room in the past few journal, and my house in general is pretty much the same thing.

  My house is pretty humid, and most of the time it feels really hot. It makes me feel really safe when I am in it, as I suppose what most people feel about their homes. My house composed of 4 floors, from the basement to the place where we dry our cloths. The basement is really dark and almost always cold, I always try to avoid it since I think it is really gloomy and scary. On the ground floor is the living room. It is usually very bright in the day and I spent most of my time there, so does my family. It is very warm and comfortable. On the second floor is my studying room, which is very comfortable and a little messy due to the stacked up workbooks and the worksheets lying around the place. Next to it is my grandpa’s room. It is really dusty and makes me sneeze a lot, but I often go in there to bug my grandpa. On the third floor is my bedroom and also my parents. My parents’ bedroom is huge and also very comfy. But the room I like the most is my bedroom, because in my opinion I think the size of the room is just right, and also it the walls are painted with bright colors that made me feel cheerful.

Journal Entry 18: Setting

 I have been on his world for thirteen years now, and have been to a lot of places, of all each and everyplace gave me different feelings and memories, some fainter than the others.  I don’t really observe that much about my surroundings as others did, so I really only know them based on the appearance, what it does to my senses, and any notable memories that I have at that place.

   To me, I think that the auditorium in my school is very cold. Not because of aircon, but because I always felt cold when I’m nervous, and I felt very nervous that day in the auditorium, in which the speech contest took place. The place that makes me really happy is my house. Because I basically spent half of my life here and this is the only place I can go besides school.

  Just like other people, graveyards make me uncomfortable, and temple makes me fell safe. I think the place I have most memories of is my house, which makes me feel really happy can free, since its quite big. My house also has a woody and humid smell, and gives me a familiar and happy feeling

Journal Entry 20: The Influence of Setting

I think a setting will affect the plot and characters a lot, and usually more than the reader would know. A setting ,a s the name suggests,can “Set”the whole story. The settings can literally chage the whole thing, even the characters fate. Even If the character’s characteristics are the same, the thing will change everything; and also the reader’s moods. If the setting is in the will west, even if the main character’s characteristics are the same, the story will still make a lot of difference. The steeing would also limit a story as well, a story about a realistic time in the past will not have spaceships flying around to zap people, that would more likely happen in a sci-fi.

   In my own setting, I am a kid living in Taiwan, during 2011. I go to a school with white walls surrounding me and make me depressed always. Since I went to a depressing school, my life is not really happy as well, because I’m having day- javos every second and nothing interesting ever happens.

   So, as you can see, a setting effects the story a lot, it might even change the main characteristics moods and characteristics later on,  causing the whole plot to change

Journal Entry 18: Do the Right Thing

 A typical hero will fight for other people, for their beliefs, and would often sacrifice themselves for the good of others. In the selection of stories form the textbook. This section is mostly about people saving the poor or brave deeds to show their loyalty.

      In my opinion, I think Harriet Tubman is a hero, because she risked her life to free the slabs, and sacrificed her freedom and time for them.

She fit the helping the weak statement, sacrificing herself one, and fight for her beliefs. So I think it is just right to call her a hero.

      As for Barbara Frietchie, I have to admit she is brave, and fought for what she believed in, but her acts help no one, and didn’t make others life any better, so no I think she is not a hero. As for stonewall Jackson, I think he is a hero because he left the lady to live; meaning he saved the weak from further harm, and the noblest thing of all was not harming woman that was provoking him.     

I think my own code is staying neutral, and get aggressive when someone bugged me. That way no one can get hurt and I won’t get hurt too

Journal Entry 17: My Hero

There are a lot of people that I lists as my hero, I am not in great danger for anyone to save my life , so my hero would not be exactly fit the Hercules type, I think my hero will be the ones who encourage me when I am sad, urge me to fight on, produces products that cheers me up , or simply being my role model. Here’s my list of people who fits my terms: Steve jobs, George Lucas, Robert Kotick, and Rowan Atkinson.

   Of all the people I think Rowan Atkinson is a hero, he was the Mr. Bean at the TV show Mr. Bean. I think he is a hero because his show made me laugh really hard, and cheers me up a lot when I’m really sad. He is really nice and seeks always seek and work hard for a perfect work. As a fan, i like him because he sacrificed a lot of time to create a perfect movie, and even got mental sickness while doing it. By sacrificing himself to make others laugh, he suffices one of the property of a hero, to sacrifice one self to make others safer or more content

Journal Entry 16: What is a hero?

   In my opinion, I think heroes are people who sacrifice something they care about a lot to save the majority of the people. A hero don’t have to be perfect, but in most of the movies they are muscular, brave, and have super powers. Super man is a good example, along with Yoda, obi-wan, the character in kick –ass, and a lot of other marvel characters. They all have other thing in common: they always fight the “bad guys” and almost always faced a lot of danger and in a brick of sacrificing their lives. Obi-wan Kenobi got killed trying to stop Darth Vader from destroying a planet. Superman saved countless of lives form the villains, and the hero in kick ass is just a random punk, but is really brave and tries to save other people from harm, even though he is powerless.

   I think my old friend is a hero, because he helps on the less popular people from my class, even though he has nothing to gain from it besides friendship and he has no problems with the bully. I do not think I can be a hero, because I will not throw away my life to protect a random dude on the street, I have no more powers than they do, so if I can protect, I trust that they can protect themselves too.

Journal Entry 15: Leaving Everything Behind

     There are a lot of historical events that causes a people to leave everything behind and thing they love. In fact, things are happening right now! Soldiers are sent to war, leaving their home and family and probably will never return during WWII, people are fleeing a faire, watching as their house are burned up in flames, floods and other natural disaster causes a lot of loss, and always results in some unfortunates losing everything they own beside their life. Refugees fled their country from riots and government. There are countless other examples. Such examples also happened in the bible too! People are forced to abandon their homes to go on the ship to reach safety.

      I think Harriet Tubman’s experience is pretty much the same as others: fearing that bad things would happen, nervous and trying to get away from a place: she. However, is lacking the grief of leaving her loved ones and her house, because she came to retrieve the slaves, not to run away as one.

      I never really moved so I don’t know what it is like, since I never moved and or live in a place for a long time before. I do not know, and I would to stay that way

Journal Entry 14: Why Risk Your Life?

I think Harriet Tubman does it because she has been in their place, and don’t want others to suffer from this , grateful that someone came to free her; so she will be there for the other slaves when they need help . I think she is very strong willed and helpful. I don't think she can gain anything besides trust and popularity in this trip. Still, I dont think it is worth a life, so I think the reason is more on a sacrificing term than greedy and hoping to get some thing I return.

I remember once doing a kind of thing that can only mean harm to me to help others , but I still do it. My best friend was being laugh at at and had a fight with another classmate, which is short of like a bully, so I have to speak up for him and the bully hated me too, the hatred lasted till fifth grade, when he suddenly turned nice and we turned into friends.

So I think it is very brave of Tubman to do so, and her actions result in benefits of others, and a lot less to her to be worth the effort, I respect her selflessness and her love toward the slaves.

Journal Entry 13: Freedom Fighter

Today my mood is not as good as before, I was pretty thankful to be free, rich and all but I hate it when other people suffer such fate, espiclaiiy they didn’t do anything bad to deserve that.

During lunch at work, my coo worker: who has been my best friend since sixth grade, told me that he has been smuggling slaves to freedom and asks if I want to join. I became very worried about my friend because of what might happen to him when he got caught.

I think that helping slaves are good, but the risk is to much, I eman its not like if I dotn help them they will die, but if I do I will have a good chance to die, and so would the slaves. Freedom is worth a lot , I know : but I do not have the courage, nor the stubbornness to do it.

I finally found out a perfect solution. I know that I cant sacrifice my life for some strangers freedom, that is too much; but I can buy the slaves and set them free. I already have everything I needed, and if money can buy freedom, it is well worth it.

Journal Entry 12: To Be A Slave

I am feeling more miserable than ever, I fell so depressed since the guy offer me a opportunity to be free. Should I escape and be free? But what if I got caught? Is freedom worth so much that I will have a big chance to lose my life? But I really hated the life here, and my master always beats me up for no reason. Life here is so different than ones I have before got separated with my family. And I get to live if I don’t run away and risk my life. This is really a tough decision to make, because I value my life very much and don’t want to throw it away as if it is some daily disposal contact lenses.

In the end I choose to escape, because I think life is worth nothing if you cant control your own destiny. I ran with the stranger out of the slave camp, but was quickly chased down by enemy gunships. I am not hanged since the gunship fired at me and vaporized me, oddly enough, I felt no pain. I am currently writhing this from heaven. My suggestion is never do something when your not sure of the enemy's strength and what your up against.

Journal Entry 11: More Freedom

In my opinion, I think no one can be truly free, because no country in the world is totally free, even in the republic system ones. You are not allowed to kill people, smoke, drive , or register a credit card when you are below eighteen. You will still have to go to school, still be forced to write homework, and do whatever our parent says. Basic, we have few rights even on a free country. I have to practice violin, sleep early, and do stuff like all other kids does.

However, living in a democracy based country is way better than living in communist or empire, at least we get to own property and have basic human rights, they don’t, they cant do anything and the government can do anything to them. We benefits from able to criticize go on face book, and enjoy internet; they don’t.

So in general, I am pretty grateful to have such rights, but will be happier if we don’t have to do everything repeatedly and make life seems like a never ending cycle: go to school, come home, go to sleep, how boring it is!! if we can mix up the schedule a bit, or have an extra day off, that is certainly gaining more freedom!!

Journal Entry 9: If You Were Billy

If I am billy, the first ting I went to bath I would go to the pub, because I like company and two people in a building makes me fell uneasy, because there will be no people to warn or help you if that other person tends to be a insane killer( just like what happened to billy)

If I am billy, I would leave right away when the landlady starts acting weird, because u never know what a mad man/women would do. If the landlady acts more normal than in the story. I would not suspect her. I will start getting suspicious when I saw that there are no guest except me. I would leave because I will conclude either something spooky is going on, or the place has bad service.

So yeah, I think I will survive and get out the break and breakfast alive(provided that I choose that instead of the pub, which I wont) because I will be uncomfortable sleeping in a house with no-one except me and a crazy old lady.

If I overlook the fact that there are no guest, I would run screaming from the place once the lady told me the two previous guest never left.

Journal Entry 10: For the Sake of Freedom

Freedom is really important thing, without freedom we will not have the ability do to something we want. I think I a not complete free right now, due to school , homework, and parents telling me what to do.

Throughout history, people have fought for freedom against dictatorship and communism, and many had died believing their faith, I think that freedom is worth that very much, enough for a life. Without freedom, a human might just as well be dead.

But throwing your life away for freedom is under the circumstances that you have no rights at all, like the slaves from the American Civil-War. I would not throw my life away just because of a small restriction. If so, everyday on news there will be people dieing because they don’t want homework anymore.

I will pretty much given anything in my possession for freedom, for once you have that, you can earn back pretty much anything. One thing I will not give away for freedom is my family members, for what will it matter if you are free and there are no one you love to share the happiness of freedom?

So I think freedom is more important than life, but not your families, for if they didn’t exist, you will not as well.

Journal Entry 8: After The End

     By this time, Billy is starting to get a little bit scared; after all, he will be sleeping in the same building with a crazy old lady who has a hobby of mummyfying her pets. Billy also heard that a kind of dangerous poison has bitter almond taste to it. He soon thought that the landlady is going to poision him," that explains it all" he thought, the way she say he is exactly right, and the way she mummifies pet. The landlady was goint to mummyfy him!! As he was regretting his decision to stay at this house and not go to the pub, his eyesight starts to get fuzzy , he soon saw nothing but utter darkness. " So this is it" he thought, then he suddenly feel nothing.
   After what feel like ages Billy opened his eyes, and screamed. For he thought he was dead and that the landlady had followed him to heaven. Why is it that the landlady will haunt him even in the afterlife!!? " why do u keep on stalking me, even now that I am dead?" shouted Billy. The landlady had a worried expression written on her face" you passed out when i gave you the bitter almond tea, is something wrong dear? "she said. " Nothing , just that i thought you are going to poison me and mummify my corpse " said Billy. The phrase made the landlady laugh out loud. " You have a wild imagination Billy, why would i mummify a nice gentlemen like you?" she said. "Then what happened to the two previous guest" challenged Billy. " Oh, those two, they like this place so much that they decided to stay" replied the lady happily. As she finished her sentence, the two guest came down the stars, greeted billy whit a tip of their hat, and went through the front door. " You see" said the land lady "those two went to the bar yesterday to get a drink, that is why i said we have the place all to our-self", as for why I keep teh price so cheap; it is becasue my son, who died in a war ten years ago, looks exactly LIKE you, and also in the age of seventeen.
     Billy finally managed to let out a sign of relief, the Landlady is nice after all!!

Journal Entry 7: Three Pigs

Once upon a time, in a galaxy far far away, there are three little pig Sith pig who ruled the galaxy with an iron fist. They ruled cruelly and treated its people like slaves.  The wolves, the pigs’s peaceful and their people are really mad for the Sith warriors behavior and formed a rebellion called Wolbel Alliance. The pigs; controlling their empire, began to build defenses to fight the alliance.

   The first Sith pig built a defense station out of wood. But the wolf’s light sabers and laser guns swipe right through it, and the defense was breeched in an hour.

  Hearing eh grave news that one of their Sith pigs have fallen, the second Sith pig, named Pigarth Mual, built a stronger defense out of metal, but the fort was no match for the overwhelming numbers of the wolves, and the second defense was wiped out as easily as the first.

  Knowing that the was the only Sith still alive of the three, the third pig, named Pigarth Vader, built the most secure and strongest defense ever, he built a space station that is the same size as a small moon, the space station its self has the ability to destroy planets, and almost impenetrable; the space station is called the death star.

This time the wolfs cannot penetrate the defense, and was swatted like flies when the empire star fighter shoots their star fighter down. After wiping the rebels out with eh death star, Pigarth Vader lived happily ever after while his people still continues to suffer and treated like slaves

Journal Entry 6: Imagine a Place

I think the inside of the place will be full of people and heavily guarded. No mummy animals or things like that, and i imagine there will be a lot of servants and employees and not just one. If i were to sleep in a shelter, i would not enter one with a crazy old lady as the owner, this much I have learned from reading the landlady. The place will be full of fast computers and a high speed internet. I would travel with friends so I will feel same if someone wants to murder me. The place will be like any other hotel, but with swimming pools and arcade gaming machines. Also free meals and basketball field. It will have pretty decorations and refreshing smells. The place will be really clean and cool. There will also be table tennis table when I look through he window, and I will see everybody having fun. The whole lobby will contain all that, and there will of couse be no murderous lady who tends to mummify her customers. Pet will also be allowed in that place too. I imagine looking thought eh window to see dogs playing and cats fighting in the lobby.

  So in short, it will be a welcoming place with no strings attached, no attempt murder you or any of the customers whatsoever

Journal Entry 5: Advice

Dear Vader:

I am Ernie, recently I have bumped into a lot of troubles, and  have faced hard choices that I cannot decide myself and would like to seek out your advice.

  Recently, my brother told me that he had found a cute girl and needs to borrow my bike in order to impress him and to have a date. But the description of her sounds a lot like the girl that has triked me into waiting for two hours in the meeting spot!!

  I am still really mad at that girl, and am scared that my brother will suffer the same fate of being tricked like I did. My bro is apparently sad when I refuse him. The problem just got worse when my friend asked me to go catching frogs with him. The place where the frags are is three miles anyway and requires a bike . Now if I agree with my brother, I will lose both a chance to have revenge and time spending with my friends.

  I feel soo frustrated, especially when my brother looks at me with that sad face when I refused, I really don’t know what choice to make, so please help me, darth vader, should I help my brother or spend more time with my friends?

Sincerely,

Ernie

Journal Entry 4: Girls v Boys

In my opinion I think boys and girls are completely different, and have a lot of different view of things. Me as a boy, think we are way more awesome than girls are, but that is only my opinion.

  Ok, so what I’ve learned about girls so are is that they like to travel in groups and gossip a lot. They don’t do many sports and spent most of the time… I actually don’t know. For me, I think that girls have no life, because they don’t normally play sports and they don’t play computer games too, so I dunno what they actually do.

  As for boys, I think we are stronger, fit and will be more willing to take a risk. We normally fight for useless stuff and usually have more argument within boys, and I have never seen girl fight before.

  We usually same say random stuff, and girls never talk when teachers are around: but once they teacher is gone they start gossiping and it is really annoying. 

  So overall, I girls and boys have  a lot of difference, and if I should say, opposite. One is really noisy, other calm, one dashing, the other one calm and sneaky.

Journal Entry 4: Girls v Boys

In my opinion I think boys and girls are completely different, and have a lot of different view of things. Me as a boy, think we are way more awesome than girls are, but that is only my opinion.

  Ok, so what I’ve learned about girls so are is that they like to travel in groups and gossip a lot. They don’t do many sports and spent most of the time… I actually don’t know. For me, I think that girls have no life, because they don’t normally play sports and they don’t play computer games too, so I dunno what they actually do.

  As for boys, I think we are stronger, fit and will be more willing to take a risk. We normally fight for useless stuff and usually have more argument within boys, and I have never seen girl fight before.

  We usually same say random stuff, and girls never talk when teachers are around: but once they teacher is gone they start gossiping and it is really annoying. 

  So overall, I girls and boys have  a lot of difference, and if I should say, opposite. One is really noisy, other calm, one dashing, the other one calm and sneaky.

Journal Entry 3: Popular or Intelligent?

 The advantages of being intelligent are that u can learn everything really fast and easily find solutions to problems. Being smart can get u a good job or a good test score even if you spend less time on it than other does.

  Being popular has advantages like never being lonely, and u can get help from a lot of people. You will not have to worry about falling out of place or being “ not cool”.

  In order to fit in you will have to sacrifice things u care about a lot, like a nerd will have to show that he is not getting too good grades, or others will be jealous. A geek will have to try to act better etc.

  I sometimes feel like an outsider, because all my friends have like cool technology video games like psp and iPod touch, and when they are playing it together I felt out of place. Btu sometimes I felt in place too, like when we play basketball or any other team sports.

  If I get to choose, I think I will want to be the smartest in class, because being popular can’t really get u a job( unless you’re a celebrity) and I am not planning to be that. I think smartness is also better than popularity is because u can achieve a lot more if your smart, like get good scores on sat and go to good knowledge, but no one will test you on popularity

Journal Entry 2: Teen Feelings

I think as teenagers we fell deeply confused and don’t know what to do, and were always caught in between adult and child. We will also be frustrated about parents being bossing us around and telling us what to do, because we think we can take care of ourselves, but in truth we are not that good in it yet. We will also want to do stuff by ourselves and try to prove our worth’s. For some reason teenagers will often spend less time with family members than they have before. I, for example spent more and more time on technology and things instead of hanging out with my family. And my dad sometimes tells me that to him, I think everything besides technology is boring.  Teenagers will also think stuff about their classmates and have peer pressure, like doing a certain thing to be cool or etc, for me that is not as bad because my parents will certainly not get me technology my classmates have, so there is no point in arguing at all.

  I think what causes this bored behavior is because of u getting use to everything around u, and you’re still too young to experience new things like driving and traveling. And it also explains why younger people are always happy, because they have new things to discover, while we don’t.

Journal Entry 1: Introduction to Me

I have actually a quite boring life, full of pressure and most of the time I’m not happy( and even during summer break ) well  it is because I’m the only child, and i think it’s better now when i reach middle school, cause i have a bunch of classmates, and a less desire to play. The discovery of computers also helps, and it ahs make me less pressured.

  I like to play toys when I was small, as for now I enjoy reading, basketball, tennis and computer games, I did mention I was bored most of the time.  But during the summer my cousin will come back from the us and it will be much better. My cousin too is a only child, so she has become something like my sister.

  I transferred school three times, counting from elementary, of all I think this school is the best, but I still miss my 6th grade students.  I also liked star wars a lot, because I think the story is really good, and the director has a lot of imagination. I think the technology in star wars is really cool too, but what makes me like it the most is the force. I mean how many sci- fi movies has like a mysterious power like that? Besides star wars, I also like to watch TV, and sometimes like national geography it they have shows about dinosaurs.

   I think having journals is good because u get to improve your writing skills, and also u can. Get an excuse to us computers, but I think the word number requirements are too high and I have difficulty making up things and thinking what to put in.