Renaissance Faire

Last week end, my family and I went to the Renaissance faire. We saw a joust (the knight that was in front of our row of seats won), some really, really funny shows called Mooney and Broon, and tons of people dressed up. I ate a corn-on-the-cob for lunch and a smoothie for dessert. My brother got a monkey tail (chocolate covered banana). We walked around some more and then we left.

What a day with my friend Issy

Today I went to my brother's soccer game, They were playing against the Suns.(My brother's team won the game...Again!) One of the suns players is B., Issy's brother. While the boys played,me and Issy built a tepee out of sticks.Then we met each other a the Pow wow. I interviewed some people that were dancing for my report coming up at school. It was hard because we stayed at the pow wow for a while, plus it was really hot. Later my brother and B. left with my mom while me and Issy stayed some more with her mom. When we got bored we went to her house to play. We went on her home made go-cart, and then I left. Now here I am, writing away on the computer.

head lice

In my school, head lice is going around. About 5 people in my class were absent because of it. A head lice is a kind of bug that feeds on the blood from the scalp. It's really contagious and spreads when a person who has head lice put their head close to someone else's. The egg of a lice is called a nit. It is shown in the second picture. Other facts about lice: here. Now the school nurse comes every week to check our hair making sure we don't have it. I'm glad that I don't have it !!

Swim team

This week I had a try out for a swim team. You know what? I got in! And the best part is that I'm with 4 other friends. So far I only had 2 practices. We do laps in different strokes. The pool is warm in the beginning, but after an hour of swimming, it gets pretty cold; overall I think I'm doing quite well, but most important, I'm having lots of fun .... with my friends!!!

party time

Last weekend I went to my friend's party. I had lots of fun. An adult came and helped us make slime. She was a mad scientist! My slime was clear. I made it with Sodium Borate solution, Polyvinyl alcohol. You can make your own slime if you follow the instructions here. That was the perfect ending to a long weekend.

soccer games

Every Saturday I go to my brother's soccer games. Last Saturday my brother's team, the Geckos, beat the Scorpions 4 to 1. My family was cheering my brother on so much that we all lost our voices. When Hugo was done with his game he ran to us with his watermelon snack. He started to complain that his mouth hurts so my mom looked inside and saw his tooth laying on his tongue.
He lost his tooth!!!!
After, we went to an earthquakes game.
The earthquakes beat the DC United's team 2 to 1.
What a day of soccer!

As a family tradition

As a tradition, my family goes biking almost every weekend.
We bike 10 miles on the Los Gatos creek trail.
Last month, I got a new bike with 21 speeds. It is black and white and I put some
stickers on it; it's awesome !!!!
When we came back from vacation, whenever we needed to go shopping, we went
there on our bikes.
On the trail, the pattern usually went: dog,dad,mom and stroller,kid, and occasionally a squishy one. We had to pass lots of slow walkers. The trail is tough but it's really fun.

My first week of school ...

On the first day of school my class lined up to go inside the classroom.
Almost everyone was wearing something new.I was wearing my new tan shirt, a brown baggy shirt over it, plaid pink and brown pants, and my new shoes.
Mr.L., the teacher I wanted, told us about the classroom all day.
We started working for the rest of the week. Every time we did work, I always finished first and always got everything right. Mr.L. made us write a report about a book we read. My report is below.
I really liked my first week of school.

Among the dolls by William Sleator 

A girl called Vicky received a dollhouse for her birthday instead of the five-speed bike she was dreaming about many days before. It was an antique, and was very dusty. It came with three dolls: a mother, aunt and a sister. To complete the set, she made a father simply out of pipe cleaners and tissue paper, and bought a toddler at a store for a brother. When bad things were happening to Vicky, she would put her anger onto the dolls and make them argue and fight. The more she tortured the dolls, the more her family got tortured.

One day Vicky woke up trapped inside the dollhouse with the monsters she created. Vicky longed to get out and sometimes cried. After a while in the dollhouse with her very uninviting hosts, she started a conversation with the toddler and he told her that he was on her side. He said that he didn't enjoy living with the other dolls, just like Vicky. The toddler helped Vicky get to the attic where another dollhouse was hidden... for the dolls.

Inside it, was a mother, father, but the little girl was missing. She sticked her hand inside the tiny doll house and ended up in her real house. She went to her doll house, and ripped off the roof above the attic, and took out the tiny doll house. Right when it came out of the doollhouse, the tiny version of Vicky's house disappeared. She took the toddler out and hid it. She gave the doll house away to the little girl next door and said: " at least, she will treat them differently". She was so relieved that she was out of the horrible dollhouse!