Thankfulness

I'm sitting in my nook and as I look at all of my 116 books I think of all the things that I have to be thankful for. Here are some things that pop in my head. 
1. I'm thankful for all of my family. They have been extremely supportive of me and everything I do.
2. I'm thankful for the my house. I'm very fortunate to have a house in general some people aren't able to afford one on their own.
3. Money. It's not like I'm loaded rich or anything but I have enough for everything I have.
4. My education even though I may not like school sometimes I'm very thankful for it because some people aren't getting educations and I am.
5. The necessities. By this I mean food and water and that type of things. Without that I wouldn't really be alive so yes I'm thankful for that.
6. The internet. This gives me entertainment when things are really boring and I have nothing to do.
7. Books. Another cure for my boredom.
8. Music/creating music. I love being able to play my viola and making music. I also am thankful for just being able to listen to music on my phone.
9. I'm thankful for my phone. Which as I said previously is a way that I can listen to music. Also it let's me keep in touch with my family and friends.
10. Lastly I'm thankful for life in general. I think that one is pretty self explanatory. 
There are plenty of other things that I'm thankful for but maybe you can look at all that you have and think of things your thankful for.   

Perseverance

Perseverance. Well I have a lot of examples for perseverance. I displayed some quite recently actually. It was just yesterday when I was at a family gathering. At one point it got extremely boring because they had brought out the family albums. Thankfully I was prepared for such instances and had brought my book. When I was trying to read  the quite large group of my family started cooing (rather loudly) over a old picture. Then Ray (my uncle) started ranting about how Sprint sucks and how everyone should use Verizon. Even though I was in a rather loud environment I persevered and continued to read. Perseverance is very important. This is a life skill that you kind of have to learn at some point else you are going to end up broke and living in your mom's basement. Even if you fall you have to get up and stick with it. 

Binges

My most recent binge was Stranger Things. Which is a really good show if you haven't watched it you should. So it all started on Friday which was when they released the second season. Nichole had invited me and a couple other people to go to her house and watch some of the new season. I stayed there until eight. Because I didn't get to watch the entire season I was going to watch the rest over the weekend. I ended up having to go to dinner with my aunt and little cousin. I don't know if it had to do with something I ate or someone sneezed on me and got me sick. For the whole night on Saturday I just kept on puking. I couldn't go to sleep because every couple minutes I was puking. It was either staring at my ceiling and being bored all night or watching Stranger Things. I watched the whole season that night. I kept on puking until about three in the morning. At that point I didn't have anything in my stomach. When I stopped puking I just passed out. I woke up the next day not feeling so good. I had a fever and all that. I got to take the next day off school. 

Outsiders Comparison

If I were to be a outsiders character. I think I am more of a Ponyboy. I think this because he likes books and I also like books. Also he says that he never really talks I never really talk only really to my family I also talk to and to my friends. Our family relationships are pretty much the same. My Father who is kind of like Darry (Ponyboy's older brother) because he is more hard on me. My mother is more "fun" in the way that Sodapop is.

Orchestra

Hello! I'm going to talk about my orchestra instrument. If I haven't mentioned it already I play viola. It's a little bigger than the violin. It also sounds a bit lower. It also has one less string than the violin. We are currently working on the piece called Gaelic Castle. It's a very nice song. Only the people who have been playing for a while are playing that song. This would be my third year playing. The new people are doing really basic stuff and I get stuck having to do this song where we literally just play on one string. I guess it can be good practice though. We only have two days of practice, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. I usually leave my viola in my orchestra locker after rehearsals on Tuesdays because we have it again on Wednesday. After the rehearsal on Wednesday I take it home. I can't really practice the rest of the week because of homework and stuff. So I usually practice on the weekends. Playing the viola is hard but fun at the same time.  I hope to keep doing this in high school too. 

My Identity

Hi. I'm going to talk about my identity. What makes me me is that I am a only child. Which might contribute to my huge imagination. Something that also makes me me is that I'm a non athletic  person. I'm a very noncompetitive person. Another thing is that I am very quiet. Although if I want to I can be loud but most of the time I'm very quite. One more thing is that I play instruments. I currently play viola in orchestra. I used to play saxophone. I'm also teaching myself how to play piano. This is how I identify as me!

My favorite toy as a kid

Hello! This is Sam. Today I'm going to be writing about my favorite toy from when I was a kid. So one of my favorite toys was a kitchen set. I had little play food. I would also play restaurant. It's kind of funny because now I like to cook.