Yeah. I'm probobly gonna close this down for a little bit. As much as I love blogging, I just have too many things going on at this moment. You guys saw that I only had four posts in December, when we have break and not that many tests and stuff. Yeah. ONLY FOUR POSTS.
But I regret that I couldn't wish you all a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, and a great Winter Break.
I also wished to tell you all of my experiences of Winter Break, but I don't know if I'm up to it now. But I will attempt it.
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I got bronchitis on wednesday afternoon before winter break started. I couldn't come to school on Thusday. In was feeling so horrible...... But I did catch up on some really beautiful things. I watched History of the World. Yes. The one my history teacher rants about. One of the best movies ever made. But I understand why its rated 'R'. OMLY A MIRACLE CAN SAVE US!!! Sri. I wuv quoting. ^^. I watched Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. It is such a beautiful. Its so beautiful, I started crying. Spirit was the movie of my hildhood. I never expected it to be so amazingly beautiful. Because it was. Guys, go and rewatch your favotite childhood movies. They are so beautiful. Go to YT. I know yoyu can find The Lion king in hugh quality, recorded from 'abc' there. Watch it. Then go and fin the soundtrack online. Its beautiful. Then go and search your parents' bookshelves for Pirates of teh Carribean: Curse of the Black Pearl. Watch it. Its beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. Then go to the movie theaters and watch Sherlock Holmes. Then the next day, go and watch Avatar. Trust me, this will be worth it.
I somehow got well enough so that I could act as teh Snow Maiden in the Russian Festival/Play thing that my Russian Children's Center does every year. I had one of the main roles, luckily without too many lines, and there were no other people to do the role. I somehow made it through the night, and the festival was amazing. I really wanted to invite Trili over, since she invited me to so many things, I thought that manybe I could ask my mom in the morning on Thursday, give it to her on Thursday, and she would come. But I was out. I'm sorry Trili.
Yes. So I went through my days boringly, without much excitement, and then Christmas Eve came. There were two HUGE bags waiting under teh Christmas tree when my bro, my mom, and I went home from piano class. I knew not to touch them, but my dad came in and urged my bro and I to. Kirill opened his first, getting out an electronic ticket to San Antonio and back. I knew mom and dad thought that he isnt mature enough to fly on his own over there, and the bags were identical. So I knew that I was going too. But I wasn't as happy as he. Shelko and her family visited us for Thanksgiving. This is much too soon. As much as I love being with Shelko, I think that a month of waiting is too little. If I get used to teh fact that I am going to see her alot, the cahrm and fun of it is going to go away. Which is why I was such a wet blanket on Christmas Eve.
Another downer was the fact that my mom didn't let my brother and I amke Christmas lists this year. And this is the first year I actually knew what exactly I wanted, unlike the other years I made Xmas lists. I wanted an ocarina, zelda-style. And my parents hate Zelda. So I thought that hey, I might get some money for Xmas. Nope. I got something better. But what I didn't also like about the present of San Antonio... Its nothing but memories. Yes, they're supposed to be the things that are closest to your heart, but I'm just not feeling it.
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I have completely no idea why, but as I'm typing this, I have this feeling in my face that I'm about to cry. I have no idea what this is about.
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So at Shelko's, we had loads of fun. It would have been better if my bro didnt tag along. He always slowed Alya and me down. We wanted to gpo bike riding, but he tagged along and made me and Shelko wait for him endless times. Then, when we went back to the house because kirill needed to go to teh bathroom, we ditched him. We made it down to some woody area, and we explored it a bit, and we found a creek/pond thing. We walked towards it, and we saw a movement, and some fonds wavering, and the sound of hooves, and saw a buck running away from us on the other side of the creek. I wanted to go after him, to explore the area, but we went a little in, and then stopped. Shelko though that animals marked their territory; it smelled so bad, but not of poo. So we went abck to teh creek. And just stared at it. Have you guys ever had those moments when you're with a friend, you guys are doing something. Then you both go into a zone, and you feel this wonderful sanctuary feeling? We had that. Then Shelkjo stood up and threw a rock into the creek. 'I felt like that' she said with a smirk. So aI took a rock, threw it in. And when the splash was bigger, went 'oooooooh.... pwned!' She started laughing. And we just stood there, throwing rocks into the creek. Then I got a flat stone and threw it in. It skipped two times. I went into a victory dance-mode, and we were trying to make more stones skip. We both fail so epicly! Then I went on the other side of the creek and started throwing rocks at Shelko. She responded by throwing rocks that were bigger than her head. But we all missed multiple times. I got her once on the leg though, and she barely bruised my arm. It was one of the best moments we had with each other. Then, while she was searching for rocks on teh ground, she looked up, alarmed, and said in a weak voice, 'nature's calling!' And I looked away. Nature calls for her more than normal people, I think. But I won't comment more than that on this matter. We decided to hike a little more into teh forest after all, but then, because it was tgetting dark, we had to turn back.
One of the other best times I ahve with Shelko is when we have our Midnight Discussions. We had to sleep in the same bed, so we had the convienience top talk to each other until midnihgt. When we had those midnight talks, we had those good friendship moments that we dont have during the day. When we had those talks, she and i talked baout problems ad solutions in school and the like. She is getting dubbed 'outcast' in her school, and since I went through this as well, I give her some advice. And I remember a talk we had. I just remembered the feeling I got when I was watching Spirit again, and I asked her if she saw something so ordinary, yet when you looked at it again, you saw its beauty? She replied with a whole spiritual lecture on how 'that thing, it completes you, it FILLS you, its ADDS to your well-being, until you have a state of CALM, a state that you feel as if the worlds a SANCTUARY... and... and that.... THING.... it CALMS you..............' and she disappears into a zone where she is trying to find words to accompany her feelings. After a silence, I reply curtly, 'it just feels good'.
Gotta love those moments. She introduced me to this book called 'The Hunger Games'. Amazing book. Dictatorship. Illigal hunting. Killing. Love. The setory of Katniss Everdeen.
If you guys haven't seen this book or read it, you have no idea what a horrible life we could have right now. i'll go and find a blurb or a plot summary or something on the internet *searches* AHA!! I have foudn it on Wiki. I'll just copy and paste the whole page.
The Hunger Games (2008) is a young-adult science fiction novel written by bestselling author of The Underland Chronicles,[citation needed] Suzanne Collins. It was originally published in hardcover on September 14, 2008 by Scholastic.[citation needed] It is the first book of the Hunger Games trilogy.[1] It introduces sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in a post-apocalyptic world where a powerful government called the Capitol has risen up after several devastating disasters. In the book, the Hunger Games are an annual televised event where the ruthless and evil Capitol randomly selects one boy and one girl from each of the twelve districts, who are then pitted against each other in a game of survival and forced to kill until only one remains.
The second book in the series, Catching Fire, was published on September 1, 2009,[2] and the as-yet-unnamed third book is slated for release on August 24, 2010.[3][4][5]
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* 1 Origins and publishing history
* 2 Plot
* 3 Cover
* 4 Critical reception
* 5 Film adaptation
* 6 References
* 7 See also
* 8 External links
[edit] Origins and publishing history
Collins says that the idea for The Hunger Games came to her one day when she was channel-surfing, and the lines between a reality show competition and war coverage "began to blur in this very unsettling way."[6] She also cites the Greek myth of Theseus, in which the city of Athens was forced to send young men and women to Crete to be devoured by the Minotaur, as inspiration for the nation of Panem; she explains, "Crete was sending a very clear message: 'Mess with us and we'll do something worse than kill you. We'll kill your children.'"[6] After writing the novel, Collins signed a six-figure deal for three books with Scholastic in 2006.[6] As of 2009, there are 500,000 copies of The Hunger Games in print[7] and 26 foreign editions;[4] rights to the novel have been sold in 33 territories.[8]
A paperback edition of the book will be released on July 6, 2010, ISBN 978-0-439-02352-8.[5]
[edit] Plot
The Hunger Games takes place in an unidentified future time period after the destruction of North America, in a nation known as Panem. Panem consists of a rich Capitol and twelve surrounding, poorer districts. As punishment for a previous rebellion against the Capitol, every year one boy and one girl, between the ages of 12 and 18, from each district are forced to participate in The Hunger Games, a televised event where the participants, or "tributes", must fight to the death in a large outdoor arena until only one remains. The story follows fatherless 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, a girl from District 12 who volunteers for the Games in place of her younger sister, Prim. Also participating from District 12 is Peeta Mellark, a boy whom Katniss knows from school and who once saved Katniss's life by giving her bread when her family was starving.
Katniss and Peeta are taken to the Capitol, where they meet the other tributes and are publicly displayed to the Capitol audience. During this time, Peeta reveals on-air his long-time unrequited love for Katniss. Katniss believes this to be a ploy to gain audience support for the Games, which can be crucial for survival, as audience members are permitted to send gifts to the tributes during the Games. The Games begin with 11 of the 24 tributes dying in the first day, while Katniss relies on her well-practiced hunting and outdoors skills to survive. As the Games continue, the tribute death toll increases, but both Katniss and Peeta are able to evade death.
Supposedly due to Katniss and Peeta's beloved image to the audience as "star-crossed lovers," a rule change is announced midway through the Games, stating that two tributes from the same district can win the Hunger Games as a pair. Upon hearing this, Katniss searches for Peeta and finds him wounded. She nurses him back to health and acts the part of a young girl falling in love to gain more favor with the audience. The couple manages to outlast all the other tributes, so the Gamemakers reverse the rule change and try to force them into a dramatic finale where one must kill the other to win. Instead, they both threaten suicide and are subsequently both declared winners. After returning to the Capitol, Katniss must deal with the aftermath of defying the Capitol publicly. Her on-screen romance with Peeta also comes to a halt when he is heartbroken to learn that their relationship was all an act for the audience, though Katniss is unsure of her feelings.
[edit] Cover
The cover of The Hunger Games is black, featuring a gold bird with an arrow inscribed in a circle. Except for the addition of the arrow, this is the pin given to Katniss by the Mayor's daughter, Madge,[8] as the image matches the description of the pin that is given in the book: "It's as if someone fashioned a small golden bird and then attached a ring around it. The bird is connected to the ring only by its wing tips. I suddenly recognize it. A mockingjay."[9]
[edit] Critical reception
The Hunger Games was received well by critics. In Stephen King's review for Entertainment Weekly, he said, "Reading The Hunger Games is as addictive (and as violently simple) as playing one of those shoot-it-if-it-moves videogames in the lobby of the local eightplex; you know it's not real, but you keep plugging in quarters anyway", but also noted that, "Balancing off the efficiency are displays of authorial laziness that kids will accept more readily than adults", and gave the book an overall B grade.[10] Elizabeth Bird of School Library Journal praised the novel, saying, "Collins has written a book that is exciting, poignant, thoughtful, and breathtaking by turns. It ascends to the highest forms of the science fiction genre and will create all new fans for the writer. One of the best books of the 2008 year."[11] Booklist wrote, "Populated by three-dimensional characters, this is a superb tale of physical adventure, political suspense, and romance."[12] In a review for The New York Times, John Green wrote that the novel was "brilliantly plotted and perfectly paced", and that "the considerable strength of the novel comes in Collins's convincingly detailed world-building and her memorably complex and fascinating heroine"; he also noted, "Collins sometimes fails to exploit the rich allegorical potential here in favor of crisp plotting, but it's hard to fault a novel for being too engrossing."[13]
The Hunger Games has also received a number of awards and honors, including being a USA Today[14] and New York Times Best Seller,[15] and being named one of Publishers Weekly's "Best Books of the Year" in 2008[16] and a The New York Times "Notable Children's Book of 2008".[17]
[edit] Film adaptation
Lionsgate Entertainment acquired worldwide distribution rights to a film adaptation of The Hunger Games, which will be produced by Nina Jacobson's Color Force production company.[8][18] Collins will adapt the novel for film herself.[18]
Yeah. Its an amazing book. At first I hated it, because its the end of the world, theres a horrible government, and life is so unfair. The plot seems totally stupid, but its much better when you read it.
In the story, a dystopic Capitol requires its twelve subjugated districts to pay tribute in the form of a teenage boy and girl who are forced to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. When Katniss Everdeen's little sister is chosen in the lottery, Katniss volunteers to take her place. Although persevering through hardship is commonplace for Katniss, she must start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love in order to win the games and return home.
Behold, a blub. Be scared.
This book would be an amazing manga. Asolutely amazing. I would just love to illistrate it, but I know that I ahve too much on my hands as it is to add on this thing. But dudes, go to yoiur library, and read it. Its an amazing book. Itts so epic.
And....... so we came home, and we had this huge New Year's Party. I fell asleep halfway through, at aroiund 2 or 3 am. But I was jolted awake by the adults, who have decided to do kareoke. Also, when we ran out of fizzy juice for teh kids, my mom quickly gave me a little of adult champagne. I trid it I actulaly got it, and didnt take a little sip, but drank the whole couple tablespoons that were in my cup. OH. YEAH. Champagne tasted weird. Like.... something. But at first when I tried it and swallowed it, I had this horrible taste in my throat and mouth. I had to eat some duck (nicknamed 'the swan' by the adults when we were talking about how good the 'swan' tasted) to get it all through. But now, the taste is gone, but I want to try it again. I think my mom amde a mistake giving champagne to me when I'm at this age!!! XD!!
OHOHOHOHOHO!! I almost forgot! I got a haircut!! Here, I'll webbie it for yoiu guys::
YTou can't really see anything, but its me. In LAYERS. 0_o. Yeah. My hair is now officially one-2 inches shorter than it was when you last saw me. Do I look younger for some reason? I think I do.
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This is the end of this post. But as said before, I might be closing this down. I may just make one post a month or something. Why do you even bother reading about this? Its nothing intersting.
Well, I have to draw. I have so many things that I ahve to finish, and in 2 days were going abck to skl/ Ta-chao dudes!
HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!
