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Sitges is my summer heaven By Bea Morodo Although the town has other fun things for example go for a walk you’re at the beach relaxing. The sour, salty, sea water smell under your nose. The burning sand under your feet. Now imagine yourself at a long, blue, cold pool getting refreshed and playing around. Then still wet running and hopping around the green grass. After going for a bike ride with a sweet, creamy, cold surprise waiting for you. You must be wandering if such place exists well you are now in Sitges. Sitges is a town situated next to the Mediterranean coast, near to Barcelona and Tarragona. Sitges is divided in 4 parts the town, the coast boardwalk, the This is Sitges where the arrow is pointing church and the garden houses. That’s where my Sitges house is. Sitges History the garden houses are divided in blocks with 1 or 2 different houses in it. My family’s house shares a “block” with our neighbors. Though before the whole “block “was ours. About 8 or so years ago we had the whole “block”. It belonged to my grandmother, her siblings and her father. They had to decide who would have the house some of her 5 siblings had already found beach summer house or a place to stay in but Totona (that’s her nickname) didn’t find a different place to spend the summers on. So they sold the other half to build an exact replicate of our house (only on the outside) next to us for her. We have it in two sections Totona’s part and my grandma’s part though we all share and go wherever we want (in our houses) Ready let’s go! I like to go to Sitges. I go about 2 to 3 times a year. One is in summer and then we go there a few times a year. When I’m there in the summer I go 1-3 weeks. I go with my family, my parents, my sisters, Ana and me. If not we go with my grandmother and my parents arrive to Sitges later or before. Normally we go in Ave to Tarragona and get a taxi to Sitges. When we go in airplane (happens an only a few times) we go to Barcelona and get a taxi from there. Airplane is shorter though Ave is more practical for us. Activities y holidays there are different activities you can do and some of them are in the town. You can go there for shopping (necessary things) like bread and
Palmas: symbolic structure made of straw usually with decorative around it can have lots of sizes though normally small Jet-ski: motorbike that has a ski under and it rides on water instead of ground
newspapers in the morning. My grandma goes once a week to Mercadona. So you see that you can go there for groceries, newspapers, and bread. The final stop at the ice-cream shop. Or for example the fairs and holidays. One holiday we People from Sitges all go to celebrate in Sitges is Gigantes y see the fireworks. The beach Cabezones it consists in seeing is full. like a parade of people with very tall (surely have walking sticks or they are 2 persons) dressed as giants and masks that some people put of huge head persons (these are like a type of whole head huge head mask. Another holiday is Domingo de Ramos what you have to do is with the Palmas almost everyone goes to the church with their Palmas or Ramos de Romero. Then there’s the night of fireworks it takes event the 23 of August. It is then most beautiful night of Sitges the different colors and patterns of the fireworks. It really fun, but maybe that’s not what you’re looking for. Water Activities There two options for water activities: 1. Beach 2.Pool. They are both really cool and wet!
Interesting fact: La Guindilla still floats even If it’s cut in half
Going to the beach is awesome you can play, surf, swim and make sandcastles .Though I have done a different activity in the beach one that people describe as ocean activity . Do you know what I’m going to say? Yes, Boat riding. A few times in Sitges I go on a boat but now I am going to explain a certain trip. It was a sunny morning a bunch of persons were hunched up in a group my uncle would take us in La Guindilla his boat. I decided to go before we went to Carrefour bought some sodas and ice-pops and headed to the port. When we were leaving the port we saw Daniel, my cousin (actually my dad’s cousin) also leaving the port with her jet-ski. It was skipping in the water .We met at a hidden bay they showed us. Danni attached a rope from the jet-ski to La Guindilla. Her jet-ski didn’t have an anchor. We ate our snack and we all wanted to ride the jet-ski with Danni. I was going to be first but Cosima was I got a little angry but I was second and that’s good. The floating motorbike was bumping and hopping in the waves .There were gigantic jelly fish you didn’t want to fall. I was holding her waist tight when I finished me screamed and squealed my happy awesomeness. Then we went back home and I told my parents every detail. You can also go in the pool. All of us; my cousins, my sisters and me do swimming classes. Sometimes we hide and plead to not to go but other times we want to be first. It’s basically doing lots and lots 20 -50 pools of different swimming styles. Afterword, we play and splash around the pool. We put the slide so that we slide to water. Once someone pushed me to the pool when I had my clothes on it was fun though wet, cold and the fact that I just soaked my clothing. So you see that there are lots of things you can do in Sitges: go swimming, plying around or celebrating holidays. I love Sitges and I can’t wait for this summer .It’s going to be the summer of my life, as always.
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New York By. Sandra New York is a state that is very well known. A visit to New York would probably be very expensive but usually a tourist would go shopping, watch musicals, watch some sports and visit very well-known buildings. A lot of movies are made there or the background is copied from their buildings or important places. It is a very important city and there is always something to do, it is a very busy city.
Important places In New York a day or tourist are very busy and there is always some special building or special place that you have to go see. They have really important building there and really well known. Some places that tourists should go to are: Grand Central Station, The Empire Estate, 5th Avenue The statue of liberty and many other interesting places. Grand Central Station is a amazing train station with shops restaurants and of course trains. There is a certain part of a movie that is made in that train station, Madagascar. New York has a lot of important places that you should visit. Central Park Another place tourists should go to in New York is Central Park. It is a huge park that is so well known. There are so many things to do there. Something that a lot of little kids would usually like to do there is visit the zoo it is very entertaining and has a lot of animals. In Central Park since it is so big many people like to run around or ride on their bike. There are some
horse carriages that can give you a ride and there you have runners and cyclers next to you. There is one big pond in Central Park that has some ducks and fish. Some people take a toy boat that you can control and there are loads of those in the summer. It is a very lively place to go to.
Sports
Some New York sport teams are: Nicks (basketball) Yankees (baseball)
In New York there are a lot of fun places to go and so many fun things to do. Something that is really fun to do is to watch sports. They have really good athletes and very entertaining things in the breaks. What would be your favorite sport to watch? My favorite to watch is NBA basketball. It is so fun and when you are on a team of a certain sport and then you go to watch it you learn. In the basketball games there are cheerleaders and they do there short dances in between the quarters of the game. In addition they have other sports to watch like, American football, Bull riding Musicals: and baseball! They all have Annie, Matilda, Blue something in common, they Man Group, The Lion have entertainment in King, and many between acts and during. more. They are all fun to watch. Broadway In New York they have a lot of plays. They have very good actor and very good costume and awesome decoration. The plays are really well rehearsed and there are no mistakes. Everything seems really well prepared. New York is a really busy city with a lot of tourist and a lot of important buildings. New York is a city that you should visit at least once in your life.
Under the water
Surfing by Luis Botin Do you know how to surf? If you don’t, then you should probably try surfing in a nice beach to learn with easy waves. Maybe, if you learn enough, some day you can be a famous big wave rider and ride the big monsters like Mavericks or Teahupoo. To be a good surfer, you need to do lots of things. 1. When you are learning how to surf, you need to pick the just right place to surf with easy waves. 2. While you are riding those
The only thing bad about surfing is that if you fall, or if the wave devours you, I call it the washing machine, the wave pulls you all the way down and the it pulls you up and then down again then to one side then to another and to survive all of that in a big wave you need to be expecting that. The most important thing when you are down there, you CANT panic. If you do then you lose your breath and if it’s a big wave, it’s a 60/70% chance that you may drown. So basically, don’t panic.
waves you need to improve your position. 3.
Quality Surfing
After that, when you have stepped up to a higher level wave, you can use that wave to get used to staying under water when you fall or when you are paddling up and a big wave series
The funnest waves are the quality ones because they let you do
catches you. 4. Those days when you feel like having fun, you can pick a good quality wave
anything you want like tricks, tubing, and you have lots of
and with that wave everything is easier and you can improve your surfing.5. You have to make
balance which makes it easier to finish the waves and when you
sure that you pick a board that matches your level 6. After doing all of those things, if you are
finish the waves it feels like paradise. A really good quality
good and brave enough, you can go big wave riding.
wave is is a beach called Nihiwatu, in Indonesia. The waves are medium size and it can get really big and the good thing is that
Learning how to surf Learning how to surf is really
the current always goes the same way and when you fall it carries you to this kind of channel where there are no waves at all so you can paddle back out
important because if you choose the
Boards
wrong place to surf, maybe if the wave is too easy for you, you can get
When you are riding a wave, sometimes
bored and go home or maybe the
you get a feeling that your board is too
place you chose is too hard for you
big or too small or too thick or too thin.
and you keep getting eaten by the waves and keep falling and you decide that it is too hard. I
Every single surfing brand has different
learned how to surf in Biarritz, in France but there are lots more like Florida or Santander. The
boards. Some famous short-board brands
reason I picked that place was because there are lots of surf schools there. I also picked it
are Al’Merrick, Bradley, DHD. And a
because the waves are easy to catch and it is easy to stand up in your board. And your board
really famous brand called Dick Brewer
has to be big so it is balanced when you stand up and the board drops in the wave when you
makes really good long-boards and guns
are getting it.
which people use to ride the big Monsters in Mavericks or Teahoopu. There are lots of types of surf-boards. There are short-boards, long-boards, fishes and guns. Short boards you need lots
Position Position is also very important but your position will affect your surfing for the rest of your life
of balance and its easy to turn but its really hard to control. Beginners, use longboards because you don’t need balance and its easy to stand up but some really good surfers ride big waves with longboards. Fishes are for everything except for big waves. And finally, Guns are only for the REALLY big waves
so you better have a good one. When you are catching the wave, your chest has to be up and your head has to be facing the side of the wave where you want to go to and then you paddle hard, stand up, and enjoy the wave. In the “Take off” you need to have one foot in the back of your board and the other foot in the middle of the board and flex your knees to stay balanced. Then, when you are riding it, to gain speed, you go up and down with your body.
Big wave riding There are lots of big wave riders. Some of them film videos of the big monsters that they ride. I have seen lots of videos of big wave riding but most of those videos are in these three places: Mavericks, Tahiti and Portugal. There is more big waves in other places like Indonesia or California but they are not that famous for having big waves. But all of the big wave riders know how to survive those waves when they fall and MOST OF ALL, they know that they cant panic under that. And once they are up if another big wave of those pulls you down again, then your having a really bad day but normally, there are jet ski’s picking you up and taking you back out.
TAKING CARE OF DOGS A dog is a wonderful creature. It can guide humans and can track down criminals with its amazing senses of smell. But over this dog are still like humans, they need exercise, sleep and need to have medical checks as well.
Sleep Sleep isn’t usually a big deal in a dog’s life because there usually always sleeping or resting in or out of the house. If a dog isn’t sleeping for a long time it needs to go to a vet urgently. Dogs need to sleep or rest more than humans since they do more exercise. They also need to relax to store and “charge” energy. Dogs like to sleep inside on hot days the most because they don’t want to run to get even hotter. On the opposite dogs don’t sleep that much on cold days, they want to run get hot then go to sleep!
Exercise Dogs exercise is very important to a dog and its safety. A dog should run, walk, mile a week, at least, that is if you have a medium sized dog. If you have a small dog it should run, walk, half a mile every week. On the other hand, if it’s an old dog it should run, walk, half a mile as well so it doesn’t push its self to hard and die. Dogs have to run or walk to survive and stay healthy, just like any other animal on earth.
Feeding To feed a dog you need a good bowl and good food for them. There bowl should be a little larger than there head, so they can actually eat from it. To give them their food there bowl should be filled a little over the middle so they don’t get fat and unhealthy quickly. The size of the food is necessary for a dog. Each part of dog food should be, roughly, about the size there eye; this is something I have figured out.
If you think this is too much information to remember just look at the bag that you buy the dog food in.
Grooming Grooming a dog’s fur is something you should do often to keep a dog fresh. Dogs should be groomed once months if they have lots of fur, but this rule will only apply to every season except winter. Dogs shouldn’t be groomed in winter FUN FACT because they would be freezing cold. Some people groom
Health
dogs with lots of nice fur and make clothes out of them!
Dogs, just like humans, have to take pills, medicine and injections for they have a wider variety of diseases than human beings. One of the most horrible deceases is a sort heart worm. It’s found in hot countries like Spain, Africa, Egypt and New Zealand. The only way for dogs not to get this worm into their fury body is by getting a vaccine, it can’t be cured after they’ve had it.
It’s not just you, nobody likes moving
“Noooooooooooooo!” you scream, and then you run to your room and burst out in tears. Anyone can tell that you just got the news that you’re moving. Nobody likes moving. Moving is more than going on a plane and living in a hotel for a couple of days or weeks, moving is….. well……. It’s starting a new life all over again from the start, moving is trying new different foods and schools and friends and more, moving is getting news from your parents that will kill you in just half a second, moving is just plain hard. If you are trying to survive moving then take it from me, it’s not worth it, you can’t survive it.
From the start
Like I said before, moving is starting all over again it’s like erasing everything you had, did or made and then doing it all over again but you know it’s not going to be at all like how it was before. You just throw your life in the trash and then go buy a new one like it’s that easy. Trying to take your life away to make you get a new one and besides, I’m not sure why but for adults it’s much easier to start all over again. I think it’s because adults always just say “hey we should have a coffee tomorrow” but kids have to call and then ask their dad and then dad always tells you to ask your mom but you’re busy that day so you wait another week.
How hard? Very Hard Telling you the “Big news” Every parent has their own little way of telling you the “Big News” that you’re going to move sometimes they call it something really awesome like “a great new adventure” or “a great new beginning” when really, it’s just a great new argument. Most parents will try to “spice it up” which never really helps at all. Some parents don’t, in fact they do the opposite they try to make it sound terrible to make you think that they understand you. Most parents try to find your happy place and then they shoot it right at you: “hey there kiddo, guess what, we’re moving”. Besides they say guess what, and they get you all exited like you think they’re going to say like we’re going to be on T.V or we’re going to Micropolix. In addition to this I would like to point out the time my parents took me to Glee live, then to eat pizza, then bought me a HUGE glee live T- shirt and a glee sign just to find my happy place to tell me that we’re moving. Although moving is really hard on the other hand, even though it’s the end of your life in one country, it’s also the beginning of a new one in another country.
Everyone knows how hard moving is. IT’S SO HARD! And I should know, I’ve moved 4 times, been in 13 countries and now I’m going to move to Miami which is going to be my 5th time. Moving is hard for many reasons. By this I mean you miss your friends your school your house, you neighbors, you even miss your teachers! Your parents always tell you it’s going to be fine and easy to find new friends and “Come on, it’s not like it’s the end of the world” but it’s not easy it’s not fine and most of all, it IS the end of the world. Moving is really hard but whether it’s hard or not, your parents always win and you always have to go through with getting on that evil vicious plane and hear that mean cruel voice saying we are now landing in _____________. UGH! I HATE THAT! Moving has its ups and downs, mostly downs but that doesn’t matter. Just remember moving isn’t your parents trying to kill you (in the end they do end up killing you), so don’t just yell and throw pie at them. Sometimes, you just have to move and it’s not their decision. Please, take it from the experienced one. Andrea R.
Catching Up Moving Having to go and live someplace else. If you think about it moving is starting all over again but this time completely differently you try completely different foods that you didn’t even know existed, sometimes there is the exact same restaurant but the food tastes really different like when I went McDonalds in Spain and said “boy, the food here sure is really different than the food back in England, apart from the food there are different cultures in different countries, obviously different languages, a different school, different friends, sometimes even different clothing! This is one of the reasons moving is hard: because you have to get used to something completely new that you’ve never seen before. Besides, it’s not just getting used to something different, it’s also catching up to the people who have already gotten used to it and I don’t know if it’s just me but I’m usually the last one in my family to catch up to all this new stuff. IT’S SO HARD!
Big News When your parents tell you that your moving Argument A Fight Spice it Up When your parents make something sound better than it is Vicious Mean
Taylor Swift By Roosa K. Table of Contents: • • •
Was It An Easy Walk To Stardom? Amazing Albums What Taylor Accomplished
Do you have a dream that you wish could come true? Taylor Swift did. And she made her dream come true. Taylor Swift sings songs spectacularly! Putting it simply, that is why decided to write this article on her. In this piece you’ll learn how Taylor became a star, a little about her amazing albums, her terrific tour, and a few of her awards and achievements along her journey. Was It An Easy Walk To Stardom? At the age of 14, Taylor had begged her parents to move to Nashville Tennessee, the place where a country music singer could make their dreams come true. Eventually, the Swift family did move to Nashville, from their home in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. There, Taylor went into the buildings of record companies around Nashville asking them to sign her to record deal. At 14 Taylor actually did get signed to a record deal at RCA records, a major record company. RCA records had signed huge stars like Kelly Clarkson and Christina Aguilera. Taylor was excited about the deal, but the records label told her to wait. They said that they were going to sign her, but not put out any of her albums. Instead, they were going to “shelf” her and see if she makes any progress in a year, and depending on that they would sign her. After, a whole year had gone by and Taylor had worked her best to sing at as many karaoke contests and fairs as she could, but that still wasn’t enough. RCA records told her to wait until she was 18 and then they might put out her albums. Finally, Taylor decided that RCA records wasn’t where she belonged, so Taylor walked away. One night while Taylor was performing at the Bluebird Café a man named Scott Brochetta came up to her after her song, and told Taylor that he had just left Universal Studios (another record label) but that he wanted her to sign to his small record label called Big Machine. He admitted that he didn’t have a building for his label, or the equipment, but he would not give up on this. It was risky, but Taylor knew in her gut that it would be the right record label for her, so she signed to it. And that is where her dream began. Amazing Alums
Taylor Swift has release 4 albums in the past 7 years of activity. In 2006 she released her self-titled debut album. It sold over a million copies in its first week! That was a great achievement for the new star. Taylor had now become pretty popular, and the people couldn’t get enough of her, so in 2007 Taylor had to release a new “mini” album called “Beautiful Eyes” including deluxe versions of the songs from the album Taylor Swift” and songs like “ I heart ?”, and “Beautiful Eyes”. 2008 was a year of success for Taylor Swift. She had released her new album “Fearless”. The fans and critics loved it! The songs from this album had made it up to the Billboard Top 100 charts, Top Country charts, AND Top Pop charts which was a major accomplishment. Finally, in 2010 Speak Now was released full of diary-like songs. In 2011 Taylor launched her Speak Now World Tour because her songs were so popular. At last, Taylor Swift released her 4th studio album in October 2012 called “Red”. By the end of October her songs were by far the most popular. Songs like “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”, had become #1 on UK’s itunes most downloaded tracks. Taylor Swift’s albums have been doing so Taylor performing Mean and Our Song well! What Taylor Accomplished Taylor Swift is the proud owner of many awards. She has won eight Grammys, and multiple ACM awards. Taylor has also set two world records! What Glossary: really matters, is that Taylor has stolen the hearts of all her fans! Taylor has followed her dreams and is living it! After all her hard work Taylor finally has become what she has wanted to be all along! Dream is what she did. It doesn’t hurt to follow your dreams, does it?
A debut album is the first album an artist releases A Grammy is an award that artists get for outstanding work in the recording industry An ACM is an award presented by the Academy of Country Music
The Farm By: Genevieve Krieger Introduction Do you like to get dirty? Walking down a muddy trail on a sunny day, as the fragile ferns sway with the breeze, and the towering trees hover above you. If you do, then you’d probably like the farm. The farm is called The Farm because it was one up until 5 years ago, filled with the noises of the playful little lambs, the soft neigh of the horses, and the loud squawks of the chickens at 6:30 in the morning. If you just want to get away from it all, the farm is a great place to have fun!
Up Into the Branches of a Tree Sometimes when I want to get away from it all, I climb my tree. You probably have no clue what I’m talking about, do you? Well my tree is a GIGANTIC evergreen tree surrounded by soft ferns that sway gently with the breeze. The tree smells sweet, with sap slowly trickling down the trunk. It is the tallest climbable tree near the house, and has been alive for over 100 years! I enjoy climbing up vigorously, but I get slowed down a lot because I have to make sure that I don’t step on any loose branches. I poke around for a place to relax when I get to the top, making sure to still cling on to a secure branch. The summer breeze softly pushes me back and forth; while I watch the friendly looking clouds slowly travel across the horizon. The climb down isn’t easy! All the muscles in my body are tense. Every time you take one foot off of the tree and move it to a lower branch is terrifying. Looking down is torture. And when you reach the ground you feel as if you just might kiss it!
Make Sure You…
But if you want to venture up, you simply climb. Up you go, over the boulders that used to be a bluestone quarry. Once you get to the top, you see a network of streams flowing towards the falls. It feels surreal up there because even though you are feet away from all of the racquet and noise, all you can hear is the soft trickle of the water. All that you can see is the sun shining softly, making the temperature just right!
Berry Season Has Come Around The different kinds of berries are located in different around the farm. The blackberries are at the top of a mountain called liardi, up there is a picturesque view of the “town” which is basically just one street with a couple of houses and stores. You never know where you’ll find strawberries, so when The top of the falls you see them you pick them. The strawberries are tiny, and they grow on thin vines on the ground. Every time you find a vine, you feel like you just won a gold medal! Blueberries are everywhere! We literally have thousands of them. Even so, we have to get our hands on them before the bears do, because they can strip a whole bush in less than 5 minutes! Raspberries grow on the very top of Liardi (the same place as the blackberries but at a higher elevation). The raspberries are extremely hard to pick, because they have ten times as many thorns as a rosebush… So if I could wear armor when I pick them, I would! It is extremely hard to find night berries, and even more so mystery berries, which I have only found once. That is just another wonder of nature at the farm. ☺
Percentage of Berries Blue Black Night Mystery Ras Straw
-Don’t grip on places with sap (a sticky situation might occur) -Check to see if a branch is sturdy before leaning on it -Clear all spider webs from your path -Don’t fall off ☺ -Don’t try to grab a branch that breaks and hits you on the head
The Waterfalls Oh, the waterfalls. They tower above you, sending a constant flow of water down, down, down. Even though the sound of the water is so loud that you have to scream in order for the person next to you to hear, they are defiantly my favorite place to be! When I’m there, I feel engulfed by all of the beautiful nature. Every year we need to re-route our path up the waterfalls. This is because whenever there is a flood, the structure changes. I’m always the one who does most of the route testing, I don’t know why but this has been happening ever since I learned how to climb! Last summer the climb was really long. You had to leap from rock to rock, (that is, if you don’t want to fall into the cold water!) hoist yourself up and over a slippery boulder, shimmy under the tree that had fallen 2 feet away, and then you start the exiting part! You can slide down The Rockslide the all-natural waterslide, or continue up the waterfalls. If you choose to go down the slide, you wade over to the left for about 15 seconds, and then the current pulls you down, letting you crash into a small pool of water back at the bottom after a series of twists and turns.
Conclusion The farm is one of my favorite places to be. It is the place I have known as a home for my entire life. When you’re there, you get intertwined with the beauty of its nature. The birds chirping a happy song in the trees as the sun makes its way across the sky. The soft rustle of leaves as a deer frolics in the bushes. If I had the option to stay forever in the forests, living peacefully with the other parts of nature, I just might.
Glossary: picturesque: as if it were a picture evergreen: a type of forest tree that doesn’t die in the winter sap: a sticky liquid that is produced by trees quarry: a wall of rock that people excavate to help them with construction surreal: something that doesn’t quite seem real
rothers Are Special by: Emma Gimeno
Fun, Fun, and FUN!
Brothers. Brothers are special. You won’t find anyone like them. They are like, another best friend. Sure, they can be incredibly annoying, but they’re brothers, and a brother’s job is to be annoying. They are annoying, but they’re not always like that. They’re fun, kind, they’re hilarious! You can trust them more than anyone else. You might say you have a BFF, but BFFs don’t last forever, because you eventually grow apart. But brothers, they are true BFFS because they will always be there for you, right by your side. Brothers are special.
Even though brothers can be EXTREMLY annoying, they are EXTREMLY fun too. They come up with really cool games, and things to do like, making a go cart, skateboarding down a hill without stopping, playing hide and seek around the whole house, making a fort out of pillows. They play baseball and soccer with you, they make up really weird sports like, crazy-ball (that’s what they called it…) It’s like tennis, but instead of using a racket, you use any part of your body when the ball comes to you. It’s actually pretty fun. Whenever I’m bored, I just go and hang out with my brothers, and I end up having a lot of fun!
They Drive You CRAZY! Brothers can be annoying. Especially when there is two of them and you are the only girl. Brothers go into your room and start looking through YOUR stuff, looking for something to entertain themselves with. In YOUR room! Why can’t they use their own things? They think its ok to just, go into your room, while you are doing homework, and start playing their clarinet right in your face JUST to annoy you! They play baseball in the yard, and throw the ball at your bedroom window. Every minute you hear, “Thud” coming from the window. You go over to the window and tell them to stop. They say, “What? We weren’t doing anything!” But of course, you didn’t even buy it for a second. You walk back to your room, and then you hear “Thud…….Thud……Thud” again. By that time, you’re about ready to strangle them. But of course, you can’t because that would get you into big trouble…. Brothers sing, shout, and make strange noises. They NEVER stay quiet. It’s like, if they stay quiet for more than a minute, they might die or something. They are SO loud, it drives me crazy! They get on your nerves, they insult you, they make fun of you, they mess with you, they will do ANYTHING to get on your nerves. They are so annoying!
Incredibly Kind Brothers can sometimes be a bit mean to you, but usually, they are very kind. They help you with your homework, if you need help with it. They let you use their things. They include you in their games. They support your ideas, and the things that you do. They give you good advice. They teach you new things. They are helpful. (If you don’t have a brother, I bet you want one now don’t you?) Another reason why brothers are so kind is because they understand you, sometimes even more than your parents.
Brothers don’t only stand up for each other, but they stand up for you too. If one of their friends is trying to be funny, and starts insulting you and making fun of you, and hurting your feelings, your brothers will say, “Hey man, back off! Don’t be a jerk,” Brothers stick up for you, they get protective of you, because they care about you. At times, it may seem like your brothers absolutely hate your guts, but they love you and they know it. When you have brothers, you always feel like someone’s always got your back. Your brothers are always there for you. They will always be there for you.
Funniest People You Will EVER Meet! Brothers are hilarious! They are probably the funniest people you will ever meet. What makes them hilarious is that they don’t even try to be funny, they just are! They’re so random. They say random things, they make weird faces, they dance, they sing. That’s what makes them hilarious. One time, I was in the car with my brothers, my mom had run into the grocery store to buy dinner. I was sitting in the car with my brothers. The car was quiet. There wasn’t a single sound coming from any of our mouths. Suddenly, My older brother screams as loud as he can, like a little girl. A high pitched and loud scream. Then, he goes quiet, as if nothing happened, with a straight face. My little brother and I looked at each other. We both burst out laughing, hysterically. I literally couldn’t breathe! It was hilarious. And my older brother sat there, as if nothing happened, just looking out the window. It was so funny, I couldn’t stop laughing! Brothers are so special. If you don’t have brothers, I bet you want ones now! They are so amazing. Some people, think that brothers are terrible, but they’re only focusing on the not so good things about them. If you think about it, brothers are the best! They are so cool, fun, funny, special. Brothers are brothers. And no one can change them.
Intro
you kill the first big cube
In this you will learn about one game that I
another two will appear and
really like called Minecraft. I really like this
then when you kill one of the
game because it is a world of blocks were you
medium size one three little
can build your own house and things don’t have
ones will appear.
gravity so you can build things in the air. In this essay you are going to learn about many things in Minecraft. These are all the things you are going to learn about in Minecraft: Monsters, Portals, and cheats, Things with gravity and good houses you should make so that monsters don’t get inside. I hope you enjoy reading this essay.
There are many cheats in
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minecraft. One of the cheats in is to change to creative. To do that cheat you have to put: /gamemode 1. And then there is also a cheat to change to survival and to do that you have to put: /gamemode 0. Then there is a cheat
Monsters There
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/help a bunch of other cheats will appear. And I
already know about. The first monster that I am
can’t remember any other cheats so I guess
going to tell you about is the zombie. If one of
that’s all.
these green creatures sees you you have to either kill it or he kills you or you go running super-fast and he doesn’t
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final boss called a Wither. The wither is actually
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see you anymore. Then we
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arrows
that could kill if you didn’t have any armor on. We are now going to see about the spider. Big
them at you and he has infinity. Then there is also a portal to this place called “the end”. In the end you are supposed to kill a dragon called the ender dragon.
and black with eight red eyes, this spider
Conclusion
wouldn’t leave you alone if you hit it it would
I hope that you learned a lot about this cool
jump at you every single time until you killed it.
game. I hope you enjoyed reading this essay and
Now introducing the Enderman. This creature is
I also hope that you buy the game so that you
big and black grabs your blocks and teleports so
see how fun it is to play minecraft. I hope you
you don’t kill it. Then we have the slime. This
keep reading my essays.
humongous green cube won’t attack you, and if
Tyrannosaurs Rex Have you ever been inspired by an animal? I’ve been. The animal I’ve been inspired by is the dinosaurs. Dinosaurs were enormous, amazing, fantastic animals that once lived on earth. Their name meant “terrible lizard” but hey wait a second weren’t they amazing and fantastic? Well, yes they were but during all those millions of years they were alive they brought a terrible reign of terror and chaos to earth. All those three periods of time where dinosaurs lived were just plain wild and dangerous. Oh alright! I’ll show you the three periods but be careful. The three periods are the Triassic, the Jurassic, and the Cretaceous. Now that’s all you have to know finally now we can get to the dinosaurs and the one you will see next will make the hair on your back prickle.
Tyrannosaurus Rex You now know that dinosaurs were terrible beast but not all of them. The ones that were terrible were the meat eaters and the one here would happily munch on a human being. But now suddenly in a split of a second you find you find yourself in a cretaceous forest. You explore and you try to find out how you´ve come here. Hmm…… I was reading a nonfiction writing and then Boom! I was here but suddenly something interrupts your thinking the ground starts to tremble! It can´t be an earthquake there were no earthquakes in the prehistoric time or were there? When you look around to see what’s happening you spot a gigantic, colossal lizard with gaping jaws launching towards you. You can see the weird creature has amazingly small arms for its body with only 2 fingers in each arm. But just in time you see everything vanish from your eyes. You’re your now reading again the nonfiction writing. Sorry if I made you suffer. I won´t do it again. My purpose was to see if you could guess what dinosaur it was. Well what dinosaur do you think it was? You really can´t guess. Fine, I will give you a clue. It’s the most famous predator dinosaur( gave you the answer in the title oops!). Do you finally know who he is? Well our first and only guest is…………Of course our big old pal Tyrannosaurs Rex (I´ve agreed with him and now for short he lets us call him just T.rex) T.rex was a 6 meter tall, 14 meter long, 7 toned beast with 68, 16 centimeters long, 2,5 centimeters wide, serrated dagger-like teeth. It terrorized what it is Alberta (Canada), Colorado, Dakota, Montana and Texas. Also like seen in this map T.rex also lived in Asia. T.rex was the land animal with the strongest bite force with the record of 57,000 newtons. That’s 10 times more than a modern day alligator and 3 times more than of a lion. Being bitten by one is like being sat on by an elephant! Or if you understand it better like this, T.rex’s bite was equivalent to three tons. Its bite could practically crush a pickup truck. Good gracious T.rex is not living in our time with all the cars roaming around. It was such force that when it bit it prey it could crush the big bones of its victim and leave a hole 11 centimeters deep. Its jaws were practically like a giant bulldozer ripping tons and pounds of meat, flesh and bone. Actually scientist think T.rex was a warm blooded animal because of the appearance of smaller members in
its family having feathers. T.rex may have had feathers himself. If T.rex was a warm blooded animal he would have to eat a quarter of the weight in his body with meat from his prey every day. He would need to hunt all the time. For detecting its prey T.rex had an excellent smell just like of vultures and condors. It could smell prey kilometers away. Actually if a T.rex entered a room full of people in a few seconds or minutes it could tell how many people there would be only by their specific smell. It also had great eyesight which in Jurassic park it’s incorrectly said that’s its vision is based on movement. T.rex eyes were facing forward which made each capacity of vision in the eye to cross giving it the power to see its prey from all the sides and angles which means this beast could see in 3D, just like us. T.rex not only ate herbivores, and carrion but other T.rex. Either from a carcass or cannibalism. If two T.rex fought for prey and it killed its opponent the prize would be eating its opponent and the carcass. Scientists argue all the time if T.rex was a scavenger or a hunter. There have been T.rex bite marks in other dinosaurs like Hadrosaurus and Triceratops which is a fantastic proof that it hunted. There may have been also the
possibilty that T.rex hunted in packs. In this way there would be enough food for the young T.rex. T.rex probably ambushed its prey and then sprinted after it taking large steps at 30 kph (kilometers per hour). Though being so heavy maybe meant it couldn’t run after prey because it could risk falling and injuring itself. Adding to that since his little arms couldn’t make the T.rex stand it would die from hunger or being eaten by another T.rex. Also its great sense of smell and vision just like vultures and condors use it today may have meant it used it to scavenge dead animals. T.rex was big enough to steal carcasses from smaller carnivores. Actually the only dinosaur that could steal a T.rex’s prey was another T.rex. T.rex was an apex predator that’s for sure. Anyways I think T.rex is like modern day carnivores for example lions, lions both hunt and scavenge. So it’s logical that T.rex would do the same. The only thing T.rex had that was useless were its incredible small arms for its body there were actually as small as an adult’s arm ending in two fingers with claws. This is one of things scientists are stunned at. How would T.rex use those tiny arms? There were too short to reach the T.rex’s mouth. However those arms were pretty strong and scientist think they were strong enough to hold down its prey. But amazing even though T.rex was a fierce dinosaur it had its gentle side like every other animal. Its gentle side would be with its babies. Knowing that these Cretaceous terror would actually be a good parent left scientist with their mouths open. That same powerful smell would also be used to see if their babies were in danger. At that point T.rex would burst out running towards the attacker. In the nest, the mom would go on the hunt for meat since she is the one that needs more energy to lay more eggs while the father would protect the nest. Baby T.rex were small compared to their adults. I mean you think the bigger the animal the bigger the baby but it wasn’t this case. Baby T.rex just out of the egg would be 30 or 40 centimeters of diameter. Baby T.rex were in a world of terror. There were lots of animals that would kill baby T.rex. Well looks like were to the en d of this nonfiction piece. I hope you have enjoyed learning about this amazing interesting, creature and that reading this nonfiction piece has made you be at least a little more interested in dinosaurs. Remember, you never know when you may find a dinosaur. The next new discovery may be just around the corner.
The Beach of Kraljevica
tides never pull you out to sea, so all in all not a place that you would want to go to if you want to go surfing.
Kraljevica (cry-yev-itza) is an amazing place…Especially the beach when you walk on the nice hot and humid sand boiling your feet in a relaxing kind of way, the sand is almost white it’s soft so soft to the touch; it’s like a blanket of comfort and warmth. When you look up to the sky the sun glaring down at you and you smile knowing that the weather is great and so is life. I chose Kraljevica, because it is part of my families’ history from my dad’s side and I go there every year once we even rented an amazing boat there. Plus they have great foods.
My last reason why is that everybody and I mean everybody is super nice and will talk to you in a calm and patient voice and if you don’t understand it they will very patiently go over it with you in a way that they think that they think that you can understand. Also the people you meet on the beach are as nice as the people that you might see in the middle of the town, because it’s a very small town.
Where Is Kraljevica Kraljevica is on the edge of an independent country called Croatia (Cro-asha) Croatia is located right next to Italy and is an hour away from Venice if you go by boat (recommended.) It is also in Europe just saying in case you wanted to know in Croatia the national language is Croatian (duh) Croatia is also a very talented place, because if you see that you are having trouble understanding what it is that they are saying they will try using many, many, many different languages until they see that you understand them whatever language they are speaking to you in and that is very good.
Child Friendly? Kraljevica’s beach is super safe as long as your child knows how to swim, because if not you have to swim with them which my dad said was quite the workout, because it does get very deep, because first it’s shallow then it goes straight head first drop. One Reason why Kraljevica’s is so safe In case you wanted to know is that was only inhabited by sharks once and the inhabitants left about a week later while nobody had gotten hurt and that was the only time in its entire existence so that’s one reason down why it’s so safe. Another reason why Kraljevica’s beach is so child friendly is that there are never any riptides or gigantic waves or and the
Yummy Foods! A few of Croatia’s famous and international foods are the civappcici (chi-vap-chi-chi) which is like a sausage that and it is either fried or grilled and usually comes with French fries and ketchup and sometimes a small or medium salad that you don’t want it you don’t have to eat it (I don’t eat it.) Civappcici can be found in any Croatian or Serbian restaurant. Another Famous Croatian food is risotto. Risotto is any type of rice, but must be kept wet at all times so that when you for example put some cheese in and wait for it to finish and when it finish’s you look in to the risotto the cheese has been melted (yummy.)
Time For The Beach! Really anytime is good for the beach, but the best time for the beach is when everyone is having a snack and that means that there aren’t as many people as usual. Also you should try is to get there at around sunset or just before cause than you can relax with your family while enjoying miraculous sunset right in front of your very own eyes.
By: Mario Kehler☺
A Kriljevica sunset
Champions is a really hard tournament where grate teams try to win, and play really well, and try to make it really hard for the team they are going to play against. This is what you should know about champions. How to get in champion Teams get into champions by getting 1, 2, 3 in their league. Like Real Madrid, Barca and Malaga. In Germany the teams are Bayern de Munich, Bayern Leverkusen and Borussia Dormunt. From there they go to a mini league of 4 teams and the 2 first teams pace to the next level that is elimination. But I will talk about that in my next writing. Spanish teams that have won Champions There have been many Spanish teams that have been in champions League but only a few have won this European cup. First I am going to tell you the the teams that have won it and they are really good teams AtlĂŠtico de Madrid has won 1, Sevilla has won 1 to, Zaragoza has won 1, Barcelona 4 and Real Madrid 9. The teams that have are in champions are Real Madrid, Barcelona and a new team Malaga. Those are the teams that have been in champions. How to win champions Teams win Champions by passing all the levels. The first level is the mini league is when there are 4 teams trying to get into 1st and 2nd place because if
you get in 4th and 3rd you lose and do not pass to the Eighth of final. That is when sixteen teams are divided by two so two teams play and only the teams that win go to the next level so 8 teams are left to go to quarterfinals. And the same thing happens 8 teams for example Madrid vs Milan, Barca vs Chelsea, Manchester vs Malaga and Bayern vs Man.City and only 4 teams win so they pass to semifinal where 4 teams play like Madrid vs Bayern and Barca vs Man.City. Then only to teams are left like Real Madrid vs Barca and who wins that of course Real Madrid would win, wins champions. Other continental cups Champions league is not the only European cup or the only continental cup there are many other cups in other continents or even In Europe there is the UEFA cup that one is for the teams that got fourth, fifth And sixth in their league. But then there are other cups in other continents like the Copa America that cup is for South America and their is the Asian Cup and the African Cup. Those are all the other cups. Champions is really hard to win, and it is really hard to admit that your team lost, and is eliminated and can’t win. But there is times that your team wins and other and other times that they lose. Last year Chelsea won champions against Bayern in the final but this year those two teams have been eliminated or not classified. This year there is lots of good teams and teams that are really dangerous in attack and in defense. Champions is really interesting this year and you should see it. But this is all you have to know about Champions.
Far Cry 3 I am going to show you the parts of Far Cry 3.
Missions When you are doing missions and side missions you have to kill people if not you will die. Missions and side missions give you money and xp or experience. They also unblock new skills you can get. If you do a side mission where you have to kill an animal for its skin you can keep the skin to craft something. Most of the time they tell you to grab a weapon that is not yours to kill the animal. In some side missions they give you weapons like a flamethrower to burn drugs… Some side missions are more fun than others.
Things in the game Let’s start with cars and boats. First of all the most common cars are jeeps and these trashy cars. Then there are quads and buggies. The best and rarest cars are the jeeps with a mounted machinegun. Then the super rare indestructible trucks are super rare but the only nonindestructible truck is the one that carries gasoline. Then the boats are jet skis, rafts and the rarest ones are the ones with machineguns.
Crafting
Crafting: To
create something with another thing.
Then there is hunting, crafting and plants. You have to hunt to craft objects like weapon holsters and wallets etc. and you have to gather plants to get hunting senses and medicine plants to get cured while fighting. You have to kill 2 sharks to get all 4 weapon slots and 2 shark skins to get the wallet of 6,000 bucks and tiger skin etc. Also to get some crafting things you actually have to do side missions like to hunt the rare 1 horn buffalo to get the wallet of 10,000 bucks. The better the crafting thing you need the harder it is to get the animal or plant.
Camps Then there are camps the camps have bad people but you can make them yours if you kill everyone or everything. There are alarms in the camps you can shut them off. When you shut them off they can’t call for reinforcements to kill you but they won’t call reinforcements until they see
you. You should try to do silent assassinations to get no alarms on. Also if you do it silently they give you stuff if you do a certain amount of camps silently without any alarms or them seeing you. If you think alarms are all you are wrong they can also shoot into the air a flare so they can call reinforcements manually if you turned off the alarm. These are things in camps.
Extra things you should know Some extra things you should know are that if you collect a certain amount of Relics you can get new weapons or other things like upgrades. You should also now that don’t throw away or sell animal skins unless you have already crafted all you needed with that animal skin. Especially if they are rare. Some other things you should now are like try to be more stealthy than brutal or you will die more often.
Relics: A hidden object in the game.
Gameplay There are 3 types of gameplay one of those is campaign it is the fun nest and the best. It is the best because there are side missions and missions and also there are more weapons and hidden objects. The other 2 types of gameplay are coop and online. These two are the same except for one thing that the coop is with your friends not with people you don’t now. In online you play with people all over the world
People Then there are people that play games with you throwing knives and they give you money if you win then there are Rakyat warriors they help you but don’t kill them or try to they are very strong also. Some people don’t do anything because they are civilians then there are different types of bad people. The first ones are normal then crazy people that come at you with knives and they are crazy also there are types with explosive bottles. Another one is sniper or RPG that means that he has a sniper rifle or he has a type of rocket launcher. Then there is the last one that is heavy he has a lot of body armor and has a very heavy machinegun. These are things in Far Cry 3.
Rakyat: A warrior of the island making the island safe.
STOP MOTION AMIMATION Have you ever wanted to have your little toys or things come to life? All you need is a camera! You can get a toy car and move it, little by little, take a photo every time you move it a bit. Watch the results on the camera. You will probably be surprised. At least I am when I see the results. Any kind of camera that can take photos works.
WHAT YOU NEED TO DO AN ANIMATION To start stop motion, these are the main things you will need: A Camera A figure (you can use a person to do the animations) And A Background (if you are doing a little film) You make the animations by taking a photo of your figure, then move it a bit and take another photo, Then again, again, again, and again.
ADDING DETAIL In Stop Motion detail is important to add. There are many tips I have, homemade detail. I’ll tell you about Eyes, Texture and, Jumping. For the eyes, get round beads that have a hole through them, mote like beads you can make necklaces or bracelets with. Around the hole, you paint with a permanent marker, a ring around the hole. Then you put the finished “eye” in your clay figure, wherever you want the eye to go. For the texture, you can find things in your house like the sides of a bottle top, or probably a wire cup with the wires in some crossed shape. If you want to make them jump, hardest of all, take a photo of the background and then the animation of the figure, floating by wires, on the same background, don’t move the camera during the photos. On software, I use, “GIMP*” you open
the background photo, and open the first flying photo in another layer. Go onto the flying layer and erase the wire stands you used. You will see the background photo after you erase the stands. It looks like it flies for real!
ARMATURES In lots of animations, the character has a metal skeleton inside called an armature. They are used to have the character stay in place. Because clay sculpture without one would simply fall apart. People even do the animation with the armature, like some tests to see if they work… I see pretty awesome animations with the pure armature. Some you can buy on internet, others can be homemade. The ones that you buy are made out of metal bars and bolts, for the homemade ones all you need are wires. For me armatures are the biggest advantage for stop motion! The “simple ones” all you need are wires, easy to move, but hard at the same time, paperclips are not so helpful for this because they are too hard. For the base all you need is two strips of wire (it can be one long one too), twist them together until it is a pretty hard but bendable wire. For the arms and legs all you need is to do the same, then, stick it in the part you want it. The other armatures you can buy on internet. After that you can put A little drawing I made. Pic.1 clay on, here is a is an armature, Pic.2 is with tip for the “hard clay armature”, you can put clay on everything other than knee down, and then focus the camera Knee up. Put strong magnets on the bottom so they stand still. You save clay and have good balance.
*GIMP is a program that comes with almost all windows computers, but you have to download it on mac
Guitar feelings By Fernando Urrutia All types of music. All types of feelings. Playing an instrument is something beautiful. Knowing you can make music, feelings. It is a way of letting a door open for your feelings. The guitar is also a magical instrument, like all. You can play all types of music. All types of feeling. That’s why I want to leave a door open for some people on playing the guitar. Even though you can’t learn so much from a book, here are some basic tips of how to play the guitar.
How to hold the guitar? The first thing you need to know is how to hold the guitar. With your left hand you hold the weight of the guitar. You put your right hand on the mouth of the guitar like on the picture bellow.
The pitches that the guitar hits when it sings?
The notes The notes, or how I like to call it, the pitches that the guitar hits when it sings, are very simple. There are many notes when you play chords but I won’t explain it.
Glossary: Guitar- a string instrument Mouth- the mouth of the guitar is the hole in the guitar where the strings pass above.
THE MARVELOUS
VIOLIN by: Leyre
INTRODUCTION Thousands of people are staring at you in amazement. You are one of the greatest violinists of all time. Your sound is pounding throw the place .You finish and people start cheering like crazy but wait is that really you if you want to become that picture you have to know the basics of the violin and some violinists. If you want to become a violinist the secret is practicing. Wouldn’t you like to know about the marvelous violin?
Parts of the violin There are lots of parts to the violin. Some are important and some are not so important. What I consider the most important part is the stick or sound post that holds up the violin. If you break that the entire violin falls down. The curved holes are named the f-holes. The f-holes are where the sound comes from. Then there’s the string. That if not tensed weigh a lot. The bridge, which gives you a separate place to play. Next the tuners for when the violin is untuned, the strings don’t sound right. There are two tuners one tunes better than the other; it is the spiral kind tuner for bigger mistakes. Finally the chin rest that helps you’re positioning. Each part has a job and there all very important without one of the parts it would be much different. Now for a little challenge the quiz.
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Which is the most important part of the violin? (a)Stick (B) F-hole(c) Tuners Which tuner tunes the best? (A) top (b) bottom (c) both Where does the sound come from? (A) Strings (b) f-holes (c) none
ANSWERS:
1.A, 2. A3. B
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The position of the violin In violin there are 3 positions. One for the bow, another position for the violin and a position for shifting but that’s more advanced. The position is easy once you get it. Let’s start with the violin position. First you look and see the chin rest; you put your chin there. Next you put right hand beyond the bridge. Then you slowly put you put your hand so it touches the strings and makes a little hole where two of your fingers can fit. Finally that’s the end, violin position perfect. Now bow position. First you put your thumb in the little kind of semicircle there is. After you put your pinky standing up in the tip of the bow. Finally you put all your fingers touching the bow. Now you’ve got the violin position gear. For advanced players the shifting position. In shifting
you have to have the two positions I told you already. You just have to let your finger slide so it sounds like a kind of police alarm. Shifting is to make the notes you play higher. Position is practice and don’t worry if at first you don’t get it perfect.
TRICKS There are an infinite number of tricks. I only know some of them. You start learning tricks depending on what piece you are playing or what you are a doing. I know tricks about how to care the violin and for playing. Tricks don’t have names. The first trick is about caring the violin. When you see that a string from the bow has popped off, you don’t just pull it. If you do there is a possibility of all the strings falling off. Another trick is when you’re playing a finger on a string and 3 notes or less on a different string continuously you leave the note on the string and when you play a different note you just don’t press so it’s easier. At first it’s hard because your fingers want to go to the correct place but it’s easier. What I do is memorize the part and instead look at your fingers. The next is never ever leave your violin upside down it would be bad because it could get un-tuned. Those are some of the most important and helpful tricks I know.
VIOLINIST There are lots of violinists but I am going to tell you about the ones I have watched .Ara Malikian is a violinist born in Armenia. He has practice since very little and now has gone around the world. He has done many discs. He plays in many different styles. He plays for adults and even children. The children really enjoy him. He is a very good violinist and unique. Not many violinist come from this country. He is very modern. He is getting known by people and that is good. Now he has a very good, fantastic courier. Joshua Bell a professional violinist from the United States of America, very well known for his skills. He has played with many famous orquestra.He can play in different tempos and styles. Once he played an act in the metro and only one person knew who he was. He is known by people who are music lovers. He was introduced to the violin when he was 4. He didn’t choose. He was born in Indiana and when he was 14 he played in an orquestra as a solo. Now he has a Stradivarius that cost 3, 5 million and is playing around the world.
Joshua Bell
CONCLUSION I remember when I started playing the violin, I didn’t really like it. I started when I was 5 until when I was about 8 and I started to like it. You learned something that can inspire you to play the marvelous violin. Wouldn’t you like to start playing now?
Have you ever watched a baseball game and thought to yourself, maybe one day that will be me, making an amazing play? Well, to be able to do that you have to love the game and you have to know how to play. So after reading this piece I hope you will have gained both. To play 1st base you always have to be alert and ready because the ball could come from anywhere at any time. You have to wait a few Smart Tip: If you feet of the base until are only running to the ball is hit. Then if 1st base then you the ball isn’t hit to you can run through then you hustle back the base so you to put your foot on the base. If you have the don’t have to slow ball in your bare hand to a stop. or in your glove and you have touched the base before the batter, they are out. Try not to take your foot off the base unless totally necessary. If the ball is far away then you have to try to step out as far as you can with your other foot that isn’t on the base to get as close to the ball as possible. Both of the positions have to always know what the Smart Tip: When other one is you are running to 2nd doing. When the and 3rd base you ball is hit to the always have to stop on left side of the the base because if infield, the 2nd you step off the base basemen covers nd the other team can tag 2 base. But if you with the ball and the ball is hit to then you are out. the right side of the infield, the shortstop covers 2nd base. When the ball is hit to the left side of the outfield, the shortstop has to be the cutoff. A cutoff is a person who runs out to the outfield and the outfielder
throws the ball to him/her. And if the ball is hit to the right side of the outfield the 2nd basemen is the cutoff.
3rd base is in the infield just like 2nd base, shortstop and 1st base. If there is a force out , meaning runners on 1st and 2nd base, then all the 3rd basemen has to do is step on the base to get an out. But, if there is no force out, only a runner on second, then the 3rd basemen has to tag the runner to get an out. The balls that will come to the outfield will either be a grounder or a pop-fly. A pop-fly is a ball that comes high in the air and then falls and if you catch it, before it touches the ground, then the batter who hit that high ball is out. A grounder is a ball that comes rolling on the ground. To field a grounder you have to always keep your body in front of the ball so it won’t go all the way into the outfield. The pitcher’s job is mainly to pitch to the batter. There are 4 basic pitches that a pitcher can pitch. One is a fastball; a Pitch: When fastball is basically when the pitcher throws the baseball the Pitcher as fast and as hard as he/she throws the can, strait down the middle. The second basic pitch is a ball curveball. A curveball is when the pitcher throws and curves his wrist in a special way which makes the ball curve in towards the batter. The third basic pitch is similar to the curveball because it also curves, just away from the batter instead of towards him/her. It is called a screwball. There is one more common pitch left and it’s called a change-up. The change-up isn’t really a specific pitch; it is kind of a trick that the pitcher plays on the batter. The trick is that if the pitcher has been throwing the ball really fast then they throw the ball a lot slower so the batter wouldn’t expect it and they won’t be able to hit it. The catcher is really an important position because it is the only one facing out to the field so he can see everything that the batters are doing so if someone is trying to steal a base the catcher can get them out. Baseball is a great sport for many people have said so, for an example, in the words of the famous George F Will: “Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.” That quote shows that to most people, baseball is more than just a game. And as the amazing Babe Ruth once said, “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” So, if you ever think of giving up, think of all the other people in the world who achieved their dream because they decided to follow it.
A Board with Wheels that you Ride
3. Quickly with your second foot, slide across to the part of the board that YOU MUST DO THIS QUICKLY
The wind is blowing in your face and hair, you feel free. Do you know what you are doing? You are skateboarding. And that is why I like skateboarding. Because you feel free, wind in your face and it is wonderful. Have you ever had this feeling? As you can tell from the beginning, I have.
KICKFLIP- this is when the board flips in the air. I am not going to explain how to do this because it is too hard to. This also has the same use as the Ollie.
The fantastic feeling of freedom. In this piece I
POPSHUVIT- This is when the board flips around in
will go over the skateboarding competitions, the
the air. It is easier than the Kickflip and has the
types of skateboarding, the main tricks and the
same uses.
skateboarding pro’s 1. THE TYPES There are two main types of skateboarding. There is street skating and ramps. I personally like skating ramps.
Put your feet on the board close together
2. With the foot on the end of the board, push so the board goes up 3. With your other foot, push back so the board turns around.
STREET – Street skating is what it is called. Skating on the street doing tricks and grinds*. You
COMPETITIONS
might do lines* and go down a few hills. In skateboarding there are many competitions. Some are only focused on skate boarding such as the Maloof money cup and some are focused on many other sports like the X-games. In competitions there are rounds of types of skating for example a round for vert skating and a round for street skating. Maloof money cup is as I said only focused on *grind- too put your trucks on a surface and slide
skateboarding. There are rounds such as best
across it
trick or best grind. You can win a lot of money if you win this competition.
*line- a sequence of tricks without stopping. The X-games have many other sports such as BMX or rally cars. But it is also has MAIN TRICKS In skateboarding there are many complex tricks such as the Ollie, Kickflip or PopShuvit. Ollie- This is the easiest trick and the first you will probably learn if you want to skate. This is just a jump in the air. You might use this to jump on ledges and grind or onto other surfaces. 1.
Place your feet close together on the board
2. With your foot on the end, push so the front of the board goes up
skateboarding and rounds such as highest jump.
INTRODUCTION Have you ever been in sinkable beds? Have you ever burnt your feet in the beech? Because I have and if you really want to know read on this is your story… THE HOUSE It is a magnificent place sense it has 3 maids making delicious food. It has a big fat fluffy sofas that sink when been sit on. A big table to eat big meals with families. The floor is a big fluffy carpet that make your feet sink into them (not that fluffy, but they are ruff.)It has humongous comfortable big rooms with big double person beds; they are big dumpy sinkable beds that make you sleep in no second. And from the top (it has three floors) you can reach and open the window and feel the breeze blow on your face see the shiny sun and see the birds way high up in the air flying and the ocean so blue with crashing waves, fish, shell’s, boats, fishing boats, police boats, tourist boats, cruise liners and so on it goes. Then you can go and sit down in one fluffy sofa and turn on the TV and start watching cartoons, eat, sleep what can’t you do in this house.
piece of land with shape of a cup cake when looking from the distance. It has a train with normal road wheels; it is just a tourist attraction. It has 3 models of the boats of Christopher Columbus (very small Boats) and 1 model of a famous boat that I which I don’t remember the story. It has a big park with a beach right beside it which has a slide that slides you down to the beach. And best of all it has a big zoo with lots of penguins and sea lions and 1The Cupcake ducks that get knotty and climb to the roof. And at the top there is a castle which is now a university where my grandfather used to teach. From up there you can see everything, the birds, Santander, the misty fog of the morning and the sea.
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BEACH Beach, beach, beach the best thing of all where my mother takes the sun, and burns her back. Where we have baths to refresh. So you go to the beach and step on the sand, so first you feel your feet tickle then the tickle transforms into hot, HOT very HOT to burning. Then you start limping and looking at your bag for sandals. Then there are people one kilometer away from you and laughing at your burnt foot while you limp, then their feet start burning also, you booth are laughing at the same time now. Now you’re running to the water, then you jump and splash. Now you are all soggy and you are walking towards home. Now you know you always have to wear sandals when you are in the beach! THE CUPCAKE It is called the cupcake. It is called like that because its form looks like a cupcake. It is not an island since it is connected to Santander. iIt’s a
CONCLUSION Know you know where to go in Santander and what you need and special tips that I’ve given you. Now you are ready to start a new adventure!! (CHRISTOFER COLOMBUS IS AN IMPORTANT PERSON)
BY SANTI D.