Reflections About Blogger

When Mr. Hide told us in class each of us was going to do our own blog, I was very excited! Having a class blog was really cool! Mr. Hide posted reviews for tests and all that. I think that making my own blog is a very good experience. It has taught me how to upload pictures, create links, post comments on other peoples' blog, and more! It is also very cool to do our assignements and post them on blogger because we don't have to print it or anything, we just type and post it!

Making a blog is not difficult. When we were creating it I thought it would be much harder. The only thing we had to do was create an account on Blogger and then we just followed some easy steps to make our blog. Making a blog has reached my expectations! I knew it would be cool even before creating it, but it is also fun to comment on other people's blog. Mantaining my blog up to date has been the easiest part. Sometimes I just forget I need to do my free post still and I do it really fast, other times, I don't get any ideas on what to write about.

Overall, I think making a blog has been a very good experience for me! I liked a lot making the blog and decorating it with pictures and also I like to see other peoples' blogs from seventh grade and comment on them.

Surfin'

I think surfing is a really cool sport. Why? Some people just think of surfing as a regular sport. I think of it as the coolest sport ever. I love the sea and the ocean and swimming and all that and I love sports, surf is the perfect combination between those too. You need to know how to differ from a bad wave and a good wave. You need to know how to swim and even do first aids! There are lots of ways to practice surfing. You can do body surfing, or even get up and surf the waves in an original surf board. Surfing is not just getting in a board and waveriding. No, to surf, you need to know how to differ good waves from bad waves. Good waves will be very long so you will have a better experience, bad waves can be ridden, but maybe they won't be as long and as fast. Some of the best pros in surfing are Andy Irons, Bobby Martinez, Layne Beachley, Jeremy Flores, Stephanie Gilmore, and more! They all belong to the ASP (Association of Surfing Proffesionals). Like in tennis or other sports, surfers do tours around the world and they compete. There are also some top places to surf at, like in Oahu, a beach in Hawaii, the Fiji Islands, Gold Coast in Australia, and more. To surf, you will need to know how to swim in the ocean. Also it is good to know first aids because you never know what the sea has prepared for you. It takes a while to master the tricks, but after you do it, then you'll want to learn more and more! Surfing is just..super cool!

Personally, I think that surfing is really cool! It lets you do fun tricks and turns and all that stuff over a wave literally. Although it takes a while to master them, I think once you know them very well, they rock!

My Trip to Orlando and Miami!

Today I'm going to talk about my trip to Orlando and Miami. I was very excited when I knew we were going there! I was with my parents, my brother and some friends of my parents and their sons. I love to travel! I also love airplanes, roller coasters, shopping, and all the other cool stuff you can do at both cities. When we arrived to the Miami airport, I was really excited. Inmediatly, we rented a car and drove all the way to Orlando. It was a long way getting there. We stopped at a Burger King and at a Starbucks in the highway. When we got to Orlando, we visited my aunt that lives there, and we went to a hotel. We got to our hotel like at 1:00 AM! The next day we went to other hotel, it was called West Gate Towers or something like that. We visited Sea World, Magic Kingdom, Downtown Disney, Animal Kingdom, Epcot, and lots of other parks! The last two days, we went again to Miami. We shopped in many malls like Dadeland, Aventura, and lots more! We stayed in the Sagamore, in Miami Beach. That hotel was sooo cool! I loved it!

I think I had the best vacations ever in Miami and Orlando. We went to amusement parks, stayed at super cool hotels, and shopped in the best malls. It was really cool!

A Suspense Story

Today I’m going to talk about a story named Three Skeleton Key. It takes place in a lighthouse, on a key, some miles of the mainland. Three men go work there. It is a scary thing that happened to the men while they were working. I think it was a very suspenful story.

In my opinion I think it was also a little boring because it had hard words. Also it was soooo long we couldn't even finish it in English class.

We barely had time to leap back, close the door leading to the gallery, descend
the stairs, and shut every window tightly.

This reminds me of the movie Poseidon. The characters are trapped in a boat and it's filling up with water because a huge wave hit it. The characters in Poseidon try to be safe of the water.

Overall, I think it was a suspense story, a good one. The only things were that it is very long and that the words in the story are hard to understand so I couldn't understand it very well the first time I read.

The Ball Boy's Goal

Ball boy's goal is allowed by ref

This is a super interesting article I found on CBBC. It is about a goal in an official match between to Brazilian teams that a ball boy made. Usually, ball boys just hand the soccer balls to the refs when a player shoots it out of the court. They also clean the balls by making sure they are not dirty, or sweaty, and he makes sure balls have the right amout of air inside, and stuff like that. In regular soccer rules, that wouldn't be allowed.

One of the team's players had just missed a shot and instead of handing the ball
back to the goalie, the ball boy cheekily tapped it into the net.
The 89th-minute goal sealed a 1-1 draw between Santacruzense and Sorocaba.

I think the ref did a very unfair thing. The only people who should be allowed to score are the players on the court, not the ball boys, refs, etc, just the players. Luckily, it wasn't such an important match. It wasn't a World Cup or anything, but still, it was an important and official match. The ref can be banned and punished. She said she accepted the goal after what the linesman said. I think she should have trusted her own eyes because she is the maximum authority in the game rules in that match and any decision she takes would be important to both teams.

High School Musical!!

A very good movie I've seen these days is High School Musical. It is a very cool movie, and it is original from Disney Channel.

The actors from the movie have very good voices for singing and the coreographies they dance in this movie are really good. You can tell instantly they had to put a lot of effort into making it. A song that shows this is Stick to the Status Quo...around fifty people are dancing and singing at the same time and it ends up perfect. Another song that shows that they had to put lots of effort and time into it is Get'Cha Head in the Game. There are not as much dancers. Just a basketball team, but the dance moves are really good. They have to dance with the basketballs too so maybe that makes it even harder. I really recommend this movie, because it is also very fun!! And the song lyrics are super cool too!! ;)