Movie Review

There hasn't been much coming out recently. Although just today I went to go see the newest Star Wars movie. Basically Ray is with Luke and then she becomes convinced that Kylo Ren can be converted to the light side. The last of the rebels are giving everything they have to defeat the Sith. It was pretty entertaining. Although it was about 2 and a half hours long. If you have a short attention span then it isn't a good movie for you. There are some plot twists. I would give it a 6/10. They drew out one of the fight scenes too long. Also there were just some cheesy parts. Altogether it was a pretty good movie.     

Worst Gifts

It's the holidays! You all know what that means. Giving and getting gifts. Although there are some things out there that you should NEVER give ANYONE. So I this is a list of things that you should never give anyone. 

1.  Socks

Nobody wants socks for Christmas. Or for anything in general. At least if you are going to give someone socks, don't give them those. 

2. Water Shoes

These are probably the most cringe worthy type of shoe. You never want to give anyone this. Enough said. 

3.  Gloves

Not only are they gloves.....they are yellow.

4. Underwear

This is the thing that all grandmas give their grandchildren. 

5.  Toaster

One of the most random but horrible gifts you could get. 

6. Cleaning Supplies

..........I feel bad for you if you ever get this. 

7. A scale

This one is just plain rude. 

8. Hair Things

Just don't. 

9. Spray on hair

I don't even know anymore. 

10. Ugly Sweaters

Just because it's Christmas doesn't mean you have to.  

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.