I'm back! {sort of}

Sorry I haven't been on so long... I have no excuse for it ;)

Anyway—great books have come out recently! First there's the Vespers Rising book that follows the 10th 39 Clues book. I finished it a while ago and could not put it down. It was really action-packed and awesome!

Also, the second Kane Chronicle Book came out, the Throne of Fire. I haven't gotten to it yet, but I heard it was another book you couldn't put down.

For school, we are doing a sort of "book club" thing where you have a group of friends, people, whatever and you pick a book to read and you have to make a homework assignment, 2 quizzes, 2 vocab lists, and a final exam to go with the book. My group picked "The Upstairs Room" by Johanna Reiss. It's about the Holocaust and how some sisters had to hide with another family for 1 1/2 years. I didn't like it very much, but it was almost like the Diary of Anne Frank.

Another thing that happened recently was that I had 3 concerts in the past month. 2 were for school and 1 was for a competition. The competition is called "Great East Festival" and schools go down and play their concert pieces and get a Bronze, Silver, Gold, or Platinum plaque-type thing. All of my school's orchestras and bands got gold, which is second best, but that's OK. After the competition, all the participating schools get to go to Canobie Lake Park, an amusement park. This was my first time on a roller-coaster or anything, so I was pretty scared. I went on a roller-coaster type thing called the Boston Tea Party. What happens is you get into a boat(really like a  roller-coaster seat) and then you go up like a normal roller coaster. Then, you turn right. THEN, you go down really fast and there's water there, and when you go down, all you can see is this big wall of water! You get SOAKED. And of course, the last time I went on was before we had to leave the park, and so I was very uncomfortable on the way home.

And, yeah. That's all :)

Happy Memorial Day! 

Basketball!

Jimmer!

Today in about an 1/2 hour I will be going to a basketball tournament! Hopefully we'll win! Our stake has two teams, so we ALL have to be at the place where it is at 8:30.. which meant waking up EARLY. Ugh. I'm really tired. But I'll sleep in the car or something.
Later!
~Abby

Cambridgefest {Part 3}

Lyrics! It was really fun :)
Pioneer
by Kylie Romano
To the Tune of "Firework" by Katy Perry

Do you ever feel like a limp oxen
Moving so-o slow
Compared to all your friends

Do you ever feel like a 'tater sack
Falling off a cart
Rolling on your back

Do you ever feel so tired and hungry
You just wanna sleep
Because of your great fatigue

Do you know that there's  
Still a chance for you
'Cause there is faith in you

You just gotta believe
And see
How great we can be
Have faith in Christ
And we'll trek through the night

(Chorus):
'Cause baby you're a pioneer
travelin' all the way to here
comin' from near and far
we're all pushing our hand ca-arts

baby you're a pioneer
with faith ye shall not fear
Make it to Zi-i-on
We're gonna build up God's king-dom

You don't have to feel
Like a waste of space
You are so special
Just like the golden plates

If you only knew
What the future holds
After all of this
Comes Salt Lake, oh

Maybe your reason why
All this tragedy
So you could prove that faith
Is belief in what you cannot see

From the Holy Ghost
Your heart will know
And when it's time
You'll go

You just gotta believe
And see
How great we can be
Have faith in Christ
And we'll trek through the night

[Chorus]

Carry on, on, on
'Cause we just gotta hold
on, on, on
The spirit is inside of you, you, you
And now it's gonna help you through

[Chorus]

Carry on, on, on
Because together we're
stro-o-ong

Carry on, on, on
Because together we're
stro-o-ong

Yup! Later
~Abby

Cambridgefest {Part 2}

Cambridgefest was last night and it was SOO fun!! All the wards in our stake performed a song that lyrics were twisted so it would fit the Trek theme for this year! It was really fun! Our ward did 'Firework' by Katy Perry. We re-did it so it's 'Pioneer'. 4 people dressed up as pioneers and the rest of us were in the front as angels because we were supposed to be 'encouraging' the pioneers to move on! The Trailboss did one to the tune of 'Billionaire' it was great!!! I'll post the lyrics soon with permission of my friend who wrote it! It was really great!

Abby

Cambridgefest!

SO, our stake does this thing called 'Cambridgefest' which is where all the youth in our stake get together to do skits. BUT, since people 14 and up are going on the Trek this year, we're doing pioneer parodies of popular songs. Ours is to the tune of 'Firework' by Katy Perry! It's pretty awesome! It was written to my friend Kylie! I'll post the lyrics after! This Tuesday the YW/YM are going to practice it!! So excited! It's my first Cambridgefest that I get to actually be in! Most of the normal skits are hilarious!!! The theme was Olympics last year and my ward did 'Figure Dating'. It showed three different dates(they were ice skating of course) and one was really good and cheesy, one was normal, and one was just.. bad. A bunch of other funny ones were years before. Another ward in my stake did Twilight the Musical, which was Twilight+High School Musical. It was HILARIOUS! It's on YouTube so I would go and watch it!!! Got to go! See ya!

~Abby

LA Project

Tomorrow in class in front of the whole entire class, I get to show a video I made. We had to make a trailer for 'Max the Mighty', a book we read. We also had to make a poster. I was Worm, one of the main characters. We HAD to have at least 2 boys in our group(UGH!) and when we were trying to film the trailer scenes they were REALLY annoying(shooting baskets, just being annoying,etc). Finally we got all the filming done and I was left with the job to edit the whole video and make it look like a real movie trailer. Yay. It actually turned out pretty good! There's epic music, the rating at the beginning, and the date(last day of school)at the end. I'll post the video and a picture of the poster sooner or later don't worry!

About the book we read, it was a sequel to 'Freak the Mighty' which we read. You'd get the title if you read it! The first book was A LOT better than the second one. The second one seemed a lot quicker than the first one and had less details or plot. The first one was about Max, this HUGE(meaning tall)guy who doesn't really have any friends because his dad is in jail and he lives with his grandparents, Grim and Gram. Then one day there's this kid named Kevin that moves in next to him and they come to be really good friends. Kevin can't really walk and has braces on his legs, and so Max carries Kevin(aka Freak)on his shoulders. They like to call themselves 'Freak the Mighty'. Then one day Kevin dies and Max is sad and alone and yeah. End of book numero uno. The second book is about Max finding Worm, like Freak, but a girl. They go to Montana to find Worm's dad because her step-dad, aka the Undertaker, is hurting her mom a lot. In the video we made a guy had to slap a friend of mine and it was fake of course. Max is wanted by the cops though and so they had to run away from a bus called the 'Prairie Schooner' and Dippy Hippie, the driver of the bus. Finally, the undertaker goes to jail and Worm and her mom come to live with Max, Grim, and Gram, the end.

For the poster we had to pick celebrities to play the roles of the characters. Then, we had to act like the actors/characters in the video. My friend Abby was the Dippy Hippie and it was hilarious! My other friend Elena was Sheriff Goodman and they both had to do really funny accents! We're all going to be SO embarrassed though. I'm nervous because no one in my group except me has seen the completed video! I hope they like it!! Got to go read now see ya!
~Abby

Book Releases!

 

So, remember the 39 Clues? That series finished. I thought there was going to be 39 Clues and 1 clue in each book. Wrong. There are 10 books--more than 1 clue in each book. Whatever, it was good. So I heard that the new series would be coming out soon, I think in April. I'm SO excited! There are some other books that go along with the 39 Clues books that I got. They're called: The Black Books of Secrets and the Agent Handbook. I haven't started either because I'd like to finish some of my OTHER books. 

There's another book that's coming out fairly soon called The Throne of Fire which is the second book in the Kane Chronicles series. The first book was called The Red Pyramid which is about Egyptian mythology. The second book in the Heroes of Olympus series is coming out sometime this year--I think in October. It's called the Son of Neptune. I can't wait for both! They're written by the author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, Rick Riordan. Hopefully I'll finish all the books I need to finish by the time one of them come out!