Graduation speech

I have been in district 67 since kindergarten. It has been my family. I've made so many friends in my years at Golf and Hynes . I remember my first day of kindergarten. My family and I had just moved into the neighborhood that summer. I thought I would be  the only new student, but when I got to school I realized that everyone was new, and I found that all the kids were nice. I also really liked my teachers and it was a very successful first day of school. I remember in 2nd grade we went on a field trip to a pond and caught  tadpoles. People were allowed to take them home. I already had two from when my older sister was in second grade two years before and they lived until I was in sixth grade.In fourth grade I remember graduating the teachers gave speeches about each student and then the auidence would be guessing who they are taking about. I remember in fifth grade we dropped from the oldest to the youngest and it was scary. I was the shortest girl in my grade and when I saw the eighth graders walking to science and tech I  was scared. The fear soon wore off I came to enjoy Golf and felt like a part of it . In sixth grade we got used to having multiple teachers. In seventh grade we moved up to the commons and I felt like I did not belong there but I got used to it and adapted quickly. Then eighth grade we became once again the oldest in the school.  I definitely learned the most in my eighth grade year, maybe it's because our teachers realized we were not prepared for high school because we are so immature or we wised up and focused on our future ,but something made us learn and mature for our future years at Niles north. So now it's the end our eighth grade year it definitely flew, so future high school get ready for us because we might just be ready for you.

Test blog

One of my favorite things to do is to bake. I love baking all sorts of sweets, today I am going to test my readers on their baking skills . Take the test below to see if you can pass baking cupcakes!
 The possible answers will be highlighted as if it is a link , its not if you press it the link will say correct or wrong

1.  When mixing your batter you put the entire bottle of vanilla extract     True    False

2. If a egg shell falls on your batter when cracking the egg do you:
                                  a) take it out with you fingers
                                  b) leave it in for texture 
                                  c) take it out with a spoon
                                  d) leave it in and hope no one will notic

3. You  should always use caution when taking your cupcakes of the oven  True  False

4. To know when your cupcakes are done do you:

                           a) poke them with a fork
                           b) hope for the best 
                           c) ask your mom 
                           d) leave them in for an extra hour

Thanks for taking the test :)

Endings and beginnigs

In may I will be graduating from Golf  Middle School and going to Niles North high school, but before I can graduate I must finish the last quarter my goal for last quarter is to get all A's . I came very close to all A's 3rd quarter but I got one 78 in math. Since the first quarter my friend and I have made an agreement on whomever gets all A's the other must buy her ice cream. My second goal for the end of the school year is to raise $500 for the Avon walk because I am on the youth crew for the the Avon walk this summer. The end of my golf career is the beginning of my high school career I don't think I am ready yet but I have all summer to prepare.

Holocuast Trip

This week my class and I went to the Holocaust museum. When we got off the buses they split us in to two groups, I was part of the green group. When we first got into the the exhibit we saw some common items found in a Jewish home during 1930's, We saw a picture of a Menorah that is in the Holocaust museum Israel it was from a family who survived the Holocaust, they donated it and every year the take it back from the Exhibit to use for Hanuka. A main topic we learned about was Resistance. There are big and small ways to show resistance, we saw a picture that somebody took during that time period  there was a menorah on a window sill and through the window you can see Nazi flags raised. In my opinion that picture is a big sign of resistance. At the beginning of the trip we saw the Nazi armbands in display cases all nicely preserved and I was think that they should be burned and buried not in nice display cases but then a little bit later in the exhibit they had Nazi pins and pictures of Hitler i the group over a piece of glass so people could step on it and I was glad or satisfied and I thought that was a really great idea. The whole architecture in the Museum is really cool there was one part where you go down a ramp and you are in a ghetto. The whole Museum was built around a freight car that was used to transport people to Auschwitz , we got to go in and see it was small but they said 100 people were in each car .I really liked going to the museum because I love to learn about the Holocaust.

Someone named Eva Diary post

March 13, 2016

Dear Diary
 I have been at this place for two weeks, Two weeks ago the Nazi's took me and my sister and many other girls and brought us here. We were taken from our homes and then put on a bus. What I noticed about the bus was all the girls on it had blond hair and blue eyes like me. Why would they separate all the blond hair and blue eyed girls. I'm happy that my sister and I are together but where are my friends they are not on the bus. Since we have been at this place we have been giving new German names y name is Elsa and my sister's name is Heidi. We have to go to school every day but we are only taught in German. We are taught to be perfect Germans, but my sister is falling behind she doesn't understand German she very little I don't know what to do.
         
 Goodnight
                    -Elsa

Goodnight Maman

Recently I read a book called goodnight Maman, (please do not read this blog if you are or will be going to be reading this book because it has spoilers) it is a WWII story about a french Jewish girl named Karin who has to leave her mother and go to to america with her brother Marc. Karin must escape the Nazi's but her mother cant go because she is too sick.Marc and Karin go on a boat that will take them to america. During their trip Marc leans their mother died but he loves Karin to much to tell her. Marc keeps it a secret through out the whole book until Karin figures it out. Karin was mad at Marc but understood why he kept it a secret he was trying to shield her form being hurt which is Marc is my favorite character.

Cheer leading

At our school when basketball season starts so does cheer leading. Our cheer leading coach is really nice and she was a cheerleader in highs school. Practices are really fun we have them every day after school. First we stretch then we work on sidelines the we run half-time an finally we stunt. For half time we do two groups of knee stunts and I am a flyer. At the end of practice we go to the mats and we do chin stunts which is bringing somebody's feet up to your chin and the we cradle which is letting that person fall into your arms. The only person that is brave enough to do the stunt is my best friend Isabel, Isabel is a amazing dancer and she a great  cheerleader.I really like cheer practice by my favorite part is games I love cheering at games when we win the whole squad runs into the hallway and we start scream a high five an then our coach lectures us about screaming.
I really enjoy cheer leading and I m excited to cheer at the tournament.

Chromosome Baby

My deformed chromosome baby has a really hard time fitting in. She's not ugly but she does have a few things  people make fun of like her pig nose ,her horns and tail also her big lips and small ears and her long arms, but there are some things that are beautiful like her big brown eyes that just gaze around and she is also an angel because she has this round shiny halo on top of her head . So even if people call her names like alien that is okay because in my eyes she is beautiful.

Head:Circle
Fingers:5
Toes:2
Knees :Knobby
Eyes:round
Nose:Pig
Belly:big
Arms:Long
Lips:Fat
Eye Lashes
Ears:Little
Neck:long
Feet:big
Hair:long
Thumbs:Big
Eye Brows
Hair:curly
Horns
Tail
Halo

Dolphin:"Hello Carl whats happening outside the water"Dog:"The humans and my master gots a big shipment and it smelled fishy" Dolphin:"It could just be new animals like more dolphins "Dog:" or its sharks there gonna let them free and have them attack us!"Dolphin:" that is ridiculous why would they do that?'Dog:"Has you not seen jaws? nope we cant take that risk we got to get out off here"Dolphin:"Sharks cant swim out of the water Carl you would be safe if that would ever happen"Dog:"oh , but what about you "Dolphin:why would they put sharks in my pool that is not logical"Dog: "right that makes sense thanks aqua"Dolphin;Your welcome Carl you know you come up with these weird superstitions every day"

Food Blog

In the summer when I go to Greece every day I go to the beach and I go swimming I love swimming  and snorkeling in the waters and try I to find seashells,  but when I snorkel with my friend and her dad they taught me how to catch  octopus. Octopus normally live in rocks by the reef so you have to swim out far to get to the coral reef . It takes a lot of energy out of you if you swim there but if you snorkel its very different when you snorkel you can look down and see the sand and how perfect each line is and you can see the fishes swimming all together in one lot and you can see the sun shinning into the water making the ocean shimmer when swim you don't focus on that and in my opinion you really miss out. Once you get to the reef its so pretty but scary its darker and deep its around 30 feet down and I gazed around for a minute and when I looked up everybody will be further ahead and a wave of fear will rise over me until I catch up.The way to find octopus is to look for there house they live in rocks and they are very clean the clams and mussels that they eat they always put the shells out side of the house to keep their house clean. After looking in the reef we couldn't find any they were all out getting food so on our way back to shore we were still pretty far out but past the reef  we saw an octopus just sitting in the sand it was probably only 15 feet down so I went down to go get the octopus I grabbed it then brought it up then my friends dad took it and bit it's head and flipped it inside out and a sack containing the heart and organs came out and then Myrto (my friend) told me to put the octopus on my stomach because the suckers still worked and that way I could swim without holding it when we got back to the beach we went to a big rock and threw the octopus on the rock 70 times to make it thicker then you let it dry and then we went to Myrto's  and cooked the octopus in olive oil then when its done you serve it in olive oil and vinegar with a side of cucumber and tomatoes and it was a really good memory.

My Summer

Every summer  my family and I go to Greece. We have a house right by the water, and every day we go to the beach. my sisters and I will wake up every day around 11  and have breakfast and get dressed for the beach by 12 we start walking to our friend's Myrto And Artemis's house to pick them up. Myrto and Artemis are my best friends, Myrto is 15 like my oldest sister and Artemis is 18  they aren't too close to  my age but in Greece nobody cares about your age because its the summer. When we get them we all walk to the beach.  When we are at the beach we go swimming, we tan, we play card games and running games like  one that we made up called NCIS which is basically tag hide and seek tag. We play volleyball and we play a game in the water your partner gets on your shoulders and there are 2 or 3 groups and then you try to knock the others down. Then after the beach we go home and eat dinner and then go to the park and play cards, running games and eat ice cream and we go home at midnight. Then we wake and do it all over again. A lot of my friends ask me why I have to go and if I can stay because I go every year but I honestly would rather be in Greece every summer I love going I wouldn't trade it.

One of the best movie I have ever seen is Frozen. Frozen is a Disney movie about two sisters Elsa who is powerful but scared and Anna who is kind. Anna is trying to fix a problem that Elsa caused but Elsa is just sending her away and closing the door on Anna. This movie is also a comedy even though I have watched Frozen more than 7 times I still laugh at all the funny parts.  My favorite character is Olaf he is a snowman who loves to sing and just wants to see what summer is like. I would give this movie 5 stars.

                                        New Years !!

   For new years eve my family and I went to Cheesecake factory. I had Fettuccine Alfredo and for dessert I had the Godiva chocolate cheesecake it was so good. Then we went home and played a card game that is like black jack but instead of going to 21 you go to 31. My oldest sister Athena started with the most money but my dad and I kept whining her money. My dad won but I was a close second. Then when it was twelve o'clock we had champagne (carbonated juice). Every new year my mom makes a cake and hides a coin in it.The cake is covered in powdered sugar when we cut the cake the first slice is for god and the second slice is for Mary the third slice is for the house and then my dad my mom my oldest sister Athena sister me and Zoe. Zoe got the coin in her piece which means she has good luck for the whole year!    

                                     Debate

For English class we are doing a debate our group is debating if Sex Ed should be taught in high school in my opinion sex ed should be taught in high school because in our age more teenagers are more sexually active so they need to learn how to be safe when having sex to prevent pregnancy and std's.Other people argue that sex ed should not be part of the health curriculum because its a whole different subject and talking about it and even providing condoms at school makes people more inclined to have sex. I understand why people would argue those reasons but sex ed is part of health because it is teaching safety and how to be healthy by avoiding std's.