Would You Rather
Would you rather stay in the country for three weeks, or take a leave of absence to a foreign country of your choice for one week? I would rather travel out of the country for a week. Where would I go? That's easy to figure out. I want to go to France, for three reasons. But let's start with the most obvious reason that I've got.
First of all, I'm in French 3. I'm still in it because I want to speak the language, so that then I'll be able to traipse over there, which of course I intend to do multiple times, I'll be able to speak the language. I've always loved the sound of it. And I can't wait for when it comes out of my mouth, too, someday. That's my first reason.
Reason deux, as the French would say, is for the food. It's cultured, fattening, delicioux, et tres bien a regarde pour. The heart attack rate down there is much lower, and, I assume, the percentage of diabetic people. It's not that all of it's super lean or anything, either -- there's is a lot of fattening stuff down there. But it is a lot healthier, and less processed than the food that's is chemically enhanced in America. Thus, the food is one of my top reasons.
My last reason is that everything in France seems more cultured, sophisticated, and rich historically. I love most everything about it. It is simply a beautiful place. I want to live there someday. I am also ready to experience something new, like going there when I turn twenty. It will be one adventure to remember.
In conclusion, I want to go to France for one week, not just because it sounds cool, but it is snowballing into a dream of mine. I want to go. After all, life is about the journey not the destination.
My Bucket List --
1. Writing a book and publishing it
2. Becoming a Famous Chef
3. Becoming a Movie Director
4. Becoming the next XC Legend
5. Going BASE jumping6. Speaking 15 Languages
7. Becoming a Secret Agent for MI6, and/or the CIA
8. Inventing the first teleportation device and Jetpack
9. Discovering that I have super powers
10. Save the world
11. And thousands of other things, too many to list
What I'm going to talk about today on my BL is being a secret agent. Who doesn't want to be a spy, anyway? I know that it sounds dumb or whatever, but it's totally the truth. I want a grapple gun, black suit with built in kevlar vest, 20 million dollar car, and sweet ninja moves. It would a great moment the day I got accepted in the land of cool, and secret espionage. However, that's not how the real world of spies works.
I know this, because I've got multiple spy books, had a birthday party on it, and watched History Channel. The flashy life I just described only lives on in alternate realities, books, and movies. So too bad for me. But who knows, maybe someday I'll make a movie, with me as the main character. My name would be Dashing Hawk, agent triple one seven.
Sinister Plots of Siblings
Sam is really great when he wants to be. He can give genuine compliments, and I love our bike rides, and video games hang time. I also love how we protect each other, and, despite the rocky road of our relationship, there's sometimes things that are bearable with him. Although sometimes we get in horrible fights, and both of us tries to bother the other into oblivion. But that's life.
Emily and I are really hyper when we are together, and many times, I find us each saying the same thing simultaneously -- creeeeepaayy! We are both really creative, and love to chill. But sometimes me and her get into nasty arguments, and she usually wins. However, we're still family, so forgive and forget.
Bekah is another case than my other siblings. She is very sweet, and generally nice to me. Sometimes she's unbearably sensitive, but most of the time we get along. Since she isn't mean to me, I'm pretty nice to her, and that avoids most scuffles. By far, she is the least fiesty of my siblings.
Naomi is about five. She is hilarious, and loves to do things her way or the highway. She's the youngest, and pretty cute. Sometimes, though she can turn like Utah Weather and just decide that today is the day of your doom, and she shuns you. But altogether we all love her, and her funny attitude makes up for everything out. I love her so much.
Pride
Pride is a tough thing. I think that it is okay to have pride, as long as it is in other people, and their successes. You can be happy that you accomplished something, just don't go overboard. Don't be vain. Don't be a braggart. And above all, compliment others. That is what pride should be -- not putting others down, but to push them up, above you.
The HOBBIT
Hobbit trailers have been going on all summer. Recently the second one came out. The day draws nigh, for tickets to go on sale. November 7th, to be exact. It's going to be huge. One of the biggest movies of the decade, if you ask me. And I want to be there for the opening night.
They've added extra things from the other books, crammed everything they possibly could into one movie. In fact, they won't be done for three more years! The Hobbit has been smushed into three separate parts, and they've added special effects and amazing things that have never been done in movies before. It definitely will be a night to remember.
The Ipad Mini
Tech Geeks all around the country rejoiced two days ago when the infamous Ipad Mini came into existence. It's the "new thing" for Apple, and a lot of people were clambering to be the first in line for this strange new technology that is fabled to be even more advanced than it's predecessor. However, some people have some doubts.
The price is higher than some hoped for, or even expected. Some wanted it to be around $250 dollars for their maximum buy range. However, Apple has again repulsed us with its price -- at a smoking three-hundred thirty bucks, and no one seems happy with it. Another downsize for Apple.
It's seems more than the price is unfortunately losing its appeal. The builder of Apple, and the previous leader of the amazing company, Steve Jobs, who has recently passed on, was not looking at this product with a positive outlook. He said that the general public would have to "sand their fingers" to even use a tablet of the Ipad Mini's caliber. Unfortunately for Apple, he may be right.
If you don't believe what Jobs said, however, just take a look at the stats. On Tuesday, October 23, 2012, Apple's sales dropped 0.75%, a big sign that no one enjoys the new mini. Instead of the positive outlook that Apple has insinuated all around its products on its website, it would appear that a smaller Ipad equals a smaller profit, if any at all.
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Reading Posts
Reading Posts: Reading Post 1 - The Unwanteds
This book is very impressive, and seems like the answer to the Harry Potter fill that I can't seem to get from any other book, if you get my meaning. It's a little strange at first, but the farther you get into it, the more comfortable you get. It sucks you in. But let's define the situation the protagonists are in before I praise it to highly.
The world of quill is a biased one. No creativity is the main rule, and the penalty of disobedience is death. Or so it would appear.
If the leaders judge you harshly, then they sentence you to death. You are put on a bus, and taken to a secluded area, where three grim reapers are left to take care of you.
If you are not creative, neither special, you are put to hard labor for the rest of your life.
However, if you are deemed special enough, you get picked to go to top universities, and so on and so forth, till you are brainwashed into thinking the creative people are bad, then you get placed in a position of power. And the cycle continues.
But instead of being killed if you are deemed creative, you live. In fact, you learn the ways of magic, and only your imagination is the limit. But this isn't supposed to be a summary of a book, it's supposed to be my reaction to it. So let's get into all those gooey hooey emotions, and outlooks, and questions that would not exist if readers did not exist. But they do exist, and I am one of them, and that is the point of this reading post so let's get to it.
Well, I admit, when I started to read it, I was a little weirded out. Quill seemed strange, and weird, and not a happy place. All this of course is true, but that's not what the book is about. It is about a happy place full of magical people, and their struggle for survival. This applies to me because it's all about how life is what you make of it. You can live either in the land of Quill, or the Academy of Artime. It's all up to you.
Reading Posts: Reading Post 2 - The Unwanteds
When I first started to read Harry Potter, I didn't think that the following paragraph was a jumpy enough start. A little interesting, and choked with foreshadowing, but if the rest of the book was about snooty dumb neighbors than who would read it? And that's why everyone is always taking a chance picking up a book. But if no one ever took chances, what would the world be like anyway?
"Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say
that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the lastpeople you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious,
because they just didn't hold with such nonsense."
--Chapter 1: The Boy who Lived, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, By J.K. Rowling
And that's why everyone is always taking a chance picking up a book such as this. But if no one ever took chances, what would the world be like anyway? So that tells you the extent of my young mind at the time. Now I realize you have to learn to love or hate the characters before you can even make the reader care what happens to them in situations such as fighting off a dark wizard. But that's just an example of how things can totally turn on you, and in The Unwanteds, that's exactly what happened for me.
The world is like that a lot. And much as some people want it, you can't plan for everything. The world is a crafty land full of plots, and tricks, and enigmas. But hey, that's part of life. And that's the point of my reading response essay #2.
