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!

Doctor Who

The TARDIS

Rory, the Doctor, and Amy

Amy Pond and the Doctor inside the TARDIS

OK, so recently I have discovered the amazing{and pleasantly nerdy} British TV show of Doctor Who. My friends know that I love British people{they're just awesome} and I've heard about it from people. SO, I decided to give it a try! It's AWESOME! Go watch it. I watched the whole 5th season because that was when the first season that the 11th Doctor came in. There's a new season this spring and I can't wait! I suggest before watching the new season to watch the 5th season to catch up. Let me explain:
Doctor Who is about the Doctor{the dude in the picture}and he travels in time in the TARDIS--or the Blue Police Box. I guess people used to use Police Boxes to call police. The TARDIS is a LOT bigger on the inside than on the outside. The Doctor and Amy are inside the TARDIS in that picture--see what I mean? A LOT bigger! Anyway, they travel in time to fix these "cracks in the universe" that involve aliens and machine-monsters and Roman soldiers.

My favorite "monster" so far is the Dalek. I don't know why but they're cool... except when they try to kill the Doctor and Amy. But the creepiest "monster" so far, to me, is the Weeping Angel. They're statues. If you look at them they don't move. If you don't look at them, they move. So, for example, I'm looking at one and I close my eyes for a second. When I open my eyes, the angels have moved into a different position. Scary, I know. For one of the Dalek episodes the Doctor and Amy back to WWII and see Winston Churchill and this scientist that has created the Daleks to help the UK win the war and it explodes the enemies' planes which is good. But then, they turn to the dark side. They start to attack the good side I guess and the Doctor. But the Doctor defeats them in the end. Yeah.

The last two episodes in the season are AWESOME. So there's this prison called the Pandorica and it holds all the monsters that the Doctor has defeated.I'll skip to the end. The Doctor gets in the Pandorica then gets out, and then puts Amy in the Pandorica to keep her safe for 2,000 years{this was during like, Roman time} and then Amy, Rory, younger Amy, and Doctor meet at the museum and the Doctor dies, sort of. Then Amy brings him back and she and Rory hop back in the TARDIS again. It might be better if you just watch the episodes yourselves. I'm not very good at explaining things as you can tell. But this song basically explains the last "Pandorica" episode:Doctor Who: Big Bang 2
This explains the whole of Doctor Who too: Doctor Who: Explanation

It's cool. See you latah!

Oh yeah and: Bowties and Fezes ARE cool. 

Basketball

OK, so yesterday{1/30/11} I started basketball. With my stake. There were like, mostly people from my ward. I was pretty bad first off, but I got better! I can shoot a ball and pass and everything so that's good. But now, I'm kind of sore. It wasn't as bad as when I was sore playing Just Dance 2.. but yeah. Every Saturday!!! I'll take a pic of my shirt when I get it! We are the Evergreen Pterodactyls{?!?!}. I suspect they'll tell us the back-story! G2G! Later!

QUIZ {sort of}

I found this thing on my mom's blog. Hmmm:
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
2) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
3) Tally your total at the bottom.

(*) 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
(x) 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
() 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
(x) 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling NO DUH
(*) 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
(x) 6 The Bible
(*) 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
() 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
() 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
() 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
(*) 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
() 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
() 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
() 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
() 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
(*) 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
() 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
() 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
() 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
() 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
() 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (Tried it. Hated it. Scarlett O'Hara drove me NUTS.)
() 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
() 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
() 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
() 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
() 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
() 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
() 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
(x) 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
(*) 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
() 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
() 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
(x) 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
(*) 34 Emma - Jane Austen
(*) 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
(x) 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
() 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
() 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
() 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
(idk) 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
() 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
() 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
() 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
( ) 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
( ) 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
(x) 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
() 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
() 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
() 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
() 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
() 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
() 52 Dune - Frank Herbert
( ) 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
(x) 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
( ) 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
( ) 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
() 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
( ) 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
() 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
() 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Tried it. Hated it.)
() 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
( ) 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
( ) 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
( ) 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
() 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
( ) 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
() 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
( ) 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
( ) 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
() 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
(seen the movie :P) 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
( ) 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
(x) 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
( ) 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
() 75 Ulysses - James Joyce
( ) 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
( ) 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
( ) 78 Germinal - Emile Zola
( ) 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
( ) 80 Possession - AS Byatt
(seen the movie :P) 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
( ) 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
() 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
() 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
() 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
( ) 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
(x) 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
( ) 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
(*) 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
( ) 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
( ) 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
() 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
( ) 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
() 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
() 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
( ) 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
(*) 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
(*) 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
(x) 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
() 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Total: 11... YIKES. Total of *:11

WELL, I guess I can find a book to read now!