Vincent's (and my) Essays

This morning Vincent asked me to help him with his essays, so I agreed. He had to write a topical outline, and select a subject for it from a list in his English book, so I told him to pick 'family traditions'.
ANNOUNCEMENT: This composition was written by us both!!!
P.S. It's only a topical outline, definitely not real life, hahaha!!!


Our Family Traditions

I. Sunday Traditions
A. Sleeping in until 5:00
B. Playing on the computer all day
C. Eating spaghetti with our hands
D. Dancing/Singing in the shower
E. Painting our faces like wild Indians and war-whooping
II. Monday Traditions
A. Waking up at 6:00
B. Tangoing
1. In the attic at 6:30
2. In the basement at 9:00
III. Tuesday Traditions
A. Watching the Navy Seal Callisthenic Workout
B. Eating onion roots
1. For dinner
2. For midnight snack
C. Phoning friends anonymously
IV. Wednesday Traditions
A. Playing soccer
1. In the sand
2. In a pond
3. On the roof
4. In the linen closet
B. Community Service
C. Doing pranks
1. On our siblings
2. On our parents
3. On our friends
4. On our neighbors
D. Spreading toothpaste on the walls
V. Thursday Traditions
A. Chores
1. Pretending to clean the walls
2. Pretending to clean the floors
3. Pretending to make our beds
4. Pretending to wash our laundry
5. Pretending to scrub the toilets
B. Eating
1. Locusts
2. Wild honey
VI. Friday Traditions
A. Play dolls
B. Eat zucchini cake for breakfast
C. Have fun
1. Get sun burnt
2. Have a water fight
3. Answer the phone and put it in a basin of water
D. Eat unhealthily
VII. Saturday Traditions
A. Bite our fingernails non-stop all day
B. Visit our friends in retirement homes
C. Eat toothpaste
D. Watch movies all night
VIII. Everyday Traditions
A. Drink ice cream with straws
B. Play playmobile on the roof
C. Go to Disneyland
1. Ferris Wheel
2. Roller Coaster
3. Humpty Dumpty
4. Eat some cheesecake
D. Do cartwheels instead of walking
E. Chug six water bottles per person
F. Take five-hour long showers
G. Go to sleep past midnight

Speaking of essays, he also had to write a comparison and contrast essay, and so he wrote one on the difference between wisdom and knowledge. He wrote it after he wrote the "Family Traditions" one, and in the middle of it we started being extremely foolish and we both wrote this:

Knowledge is knowing knowledge and being knowledgeable; wisdom is having wisdom and being wiser than a wiseman.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

MY BROTHER IS NOW OFFICIALLY A MARRIED MAN!!! Congrats, Chris and Tete, hope you had a fun wedding and have a great honeymoon! Really love you guys and hope you have so much fun loving eachother :). Hope all your dreams and wishes come true and that you live happily every after :*.

Baman Piderman---Make Da Band

lol, this is the funniest video ever

Happy Birthday Vince and Angel!!

Happy birthday, hunny! I know this post is a day late but I really love you and hope that you enjoyed your birthday party and that you get a super nice playmobile set! I could be here forever posting adorable photos of when you were a toddler but I have to wish Vincent a happy birthday as well. Love you!

And happy birthday, Vincent! I really love you and hope that this one is the best yet! And also make sure you have lots of fun during your birthday party, OK? P.S. Don't blame me if your cake turns out bad--I've never made upside-down pineapplecake before!!!

JT Activity.....MISSED!!!!

Yesterday I got all ready to go to a JT activity (I even put on some perfume :D)....soccer,yay, even though I can't play very well....and then it started drizzling, but we went anyway. I even wore my brand new tennis shoes, knowing they would be muddy but wanting to show them off anyways :D. Then it turned out we'd gotten the directions to the wrong park, and then it started pouring rain, so we just turned around and went home. But at least before we went home we stopped at Nofrills (a grocery store) and I got 2 packs of rawmin for 64 cents :D. It's okay, we might start having JT activities every week woohoo!!!

Pink Flowers in our Front Yard

Here are some shots I took of some flowers our front yard.....if anybody knows the name of this particular type of flower could you please tell me? Thanks tons!

Déjà Vu

Here's a story I finished a week or two ago....I like writing, as I think you've noticed:D. It's called 'Déjà Vu', and it's kindofish long. It's not a comedy, like 'Hired or Fired' was, it's more of an exciting type of story, not as dramatic as a drama ;), but about halfway, heh.

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Déjà Vu

Anna awoke with a start. She gazed fearfully about her, as if expecting a ghost or goblin to spring from the shadows at any moment and pounce her. Her pillow was drenched in sweat, and she was panting heavily. Apprehensively, she pulled back her covers and, gathering courage, leapt out of bed and switched on the light. Nothing there. She sighed as she dragged her feet back to her bed. As she lay back down, she pondered on the events of the previous night.

The dream—no, more like a nightmare—it had been so vivid, so unexplainably real. Anna clearly remembered the intense reality, and the premonition she had felt. For what, she didn’t know. All she knew was that she felt something dangerous was going to happen imminently—the dream! The events had been clear enough, but Anna struggled to find the meaning.

In the dream, she had been in some sort of natural disaster—she couldn’t remember whether it was an earthquake, flood, hurricane, or tornado—she just recalled it being something of the sort. People had been screaming and running in all directions, creating a general confusion. Suddenly all the people had vanished—except her. She had been standing alone at the top of a steep rocky precipice, peering into the seemingly unending abyss below. She had then turned around to see a strikingly handsome young man standing behind her. Then she had woken up.

All of a sudden, the significance hit Anna. Why else would she have dreamt this if not for a warning? She again jumped out of bed, only this time throwing on a set of clothes. She seized a duffel bag, which lay beside her bed, and tossed clothes and toiletries into it until it was about half full. Anna then hastily descended the flight of stairs, which led into the kitchen. She flung open the cupboard doors and heaped her duffel bag full of food. Zipping up her bag and grabbing her cat, she fled out of her front door.

The sun was just beginning to rise, and as Anna stood out on her driveway, she felt very foolish indeed. After waiting there fore several minutes and seeing nothing, she turned to go back inside. However, as soon as she laid her hand on the handle of her front door, she heard a loud rumble and several shrieks pierce the calm, quiet air of dawn.

Frightened, she looked in the direction of the piercing cries, only to behold a tidal wave coming from a nearby ocean. She screamed, clutched her bag and cat even tighter, and ran blindly in the direction of the catastrophe. It was a gigantic wave, towering over eighty feet high. Anna remembered when she had taken survival class at college, and also recalled the segment where they had said to move to higher ground during a flood.

Anna dashed to a nearby cliff and struggled to the top. Just as she reached the summit, the tidal wave broke and spilled out over the city below. Anna choked back her tears as she watched her home and those of her friends and neighbours being swallowed up by the ferocious wave. Soon all was all was still again, and Anna settled down for a lengthy wait until the water simmered down.

As she was climbing, Anna had seen a young blonde man rushing up the same hill, obviously trying to escape the flood as well. She reached the top before he did, and quietly watched him as she sat down. She also noticed he wore a small knapsack on his back. When he, panting and heaving, finally reached the vertex as well, he sat down beside Anna. “Hi there,” he smiled, extending a hand. “I know this may seem like an awkward time for introductions, but I’m Steve. And you are?” “Anna,” she responded, returning the smile. “By the way, would you do me a favour?” Depends on what it is,” replied Anna. “I’m a news reporter.” Whipping out a pencil and a pad of paper form his knapsack, which he had by now set on the ground beside him, he added, “Could you please tell me, in a few words, what you thought of this disaster?” Cracking a half-smile, Anna responded, “Déjà vu.”

Happy Birthday Brandy

Happy Birthday, Brandy! Hope you have a fun birthday (well, you already have :) but have great day anyways and have a wonderful year being 14!

Finished my school at last!!!!!!

Last Monday (I know this post is a tad late, but so what?) I officially finished my school for the year, yeehaw! hehe Well, not exactly...I still have two more weeks of French, but that doesn't count, and I'm not being biased here, because if I could do it on my own, I would have been done a while ago, but I have to wait for the teacher, so it doesn't exactly count :)

JT Activity on Thursday

Here are some photos from a JT activity we had on Thursday evening.

These last two photos are of the June birthdays (the reason we had the party); however, only three of the four's birthdays were actually in June--one of them was actually an impostor and just pretended because he wanted the extra portion of cake and ice cream the birthday people get.

Bye you guys!!!!

I just wanted to say bye to Chris, Tete, and Marianne, who left early this morning to start traveling back to Tampico. It was great to see you guys and hope you have a good trip, good weather and no car problems, and a super fun welcome home party in Tampico :D. Btw, you fellas in Mexico eagerly awaiting their return, they're planning to arrive in Tampico Sunday night. They might be a bit early or late, but if all goes as planned, they'll be arriving then. P.S. This photo was taken just before they left.

Rainbow Pics

The other day after a rainstorm there was a big rainbow in the sky so I took some photos. Enjoy!

Rabbit in our yard

Yesterday morning during breakfast there was a rabbit in our backyard and as always I ran to get the camera:P and here are some pictures.