Adam -- Blogmeister

The Rope

One day, the one and only Rodrigo Diaz experienced a life-threatening situation. What an amazing time it was to see the predicament he was in. My best friend Rodrigo Diaz and Tyler Lancoon were expected to arrive at seven o’ clock sharp. And as always, I was right, they were right here, standing in front of me about to begin a whole night of amazing partying!
What a night that was, but the next day started the day of the impossible. Rodrigo wanted to climb trees for the excitement of the task. Before we were about to head back inside, Rodrigo wanted to climb the tallest of all trees. A forty foot tree. Hanging over the edge of a coolie, Rodrigo was determined. For safety precautions, he found a long piece of rope in my dad’s extensive workshop. He said he was going to tie the rope around his leg, around his waist, then through his belt to be used as a harness. As you can imagine, this cannot end well.
Tyler and I warned Rodrigo that something bad was going to happen, but of course he did not listen. He began his adventure up the ginormous tree. Tyler and I had to get this on video so we started to record from our phones. Once Rodrigo reached the top, the harness began to break and the next thing you know you see Rodrigo suspended forty feet in the air dangling helplessly from the tree. Apparently the rope around his belt snapped his belt in half, leaving only the rope around his leg holding him up.
Rodrigo could easily climb back down, but the rope was cutting off the circulation around his waist and wouldn’t budge. He was getting really worried that he would be stuck up there for a long time, so we all brainstormed. Our first idea was to take one of the smaller ropes and tie a small log at the end so we could throw it up just above where he was dangling so Rodrigo could hoist himself up and climb safely down the tree to the ground. But every time we tried to throw the log up to him, it just kept hitting Rodrigo and falling back to the ground. So we needed another plan.
Rodrigo then had a simple idea that could have worked of cutting the rope piece that was cutting off his circulation then climb back up the rope to the tree. But there was one issue with that. My dad did not know that this was going on, and he if were to find out, we could be in some serious trouble. So I screamed out to Rodrigo “I’m not cutting my dad’s rope!”
It came to the last resort of putting Rodrigo’s ultimate strength to the test. With the rope literally about to make his leg unmovable, he climbed up the rope with all of the strength he had, allowing him to unhook the stuck piece of rope on the tree, making him able to climb down to safety. What an adventurous day that was!

In Red Scarf Girl, there are a few things that can be connected to my real life. To be tied to a theme, I would have to say I relate to the way Mao Zedong overrules and a leader to everyone below him. Every day in my life and for the rest of my life, there is always someone that is going to tell me something that I can’t fight back at. Just like how Chairman Mao made all of the peasants work in farms or large industries, leaders in my life, such as my school principal or even my own parents, tell me to do things that I cannot fight back at or change one bit in any way. Even if it’s not in the specific way, Chairman Mao made the peasants kill their own landlords, which is something that doesn’t hurt the peasants physically in any way, but in the mind and heart the is something wrong that should never be done.

Just like in school, you may be told something that doesn’t hurt and/or benefit you in any way, but is something that you would never want to do for no reason on your own ability. When we’re told at school that we can’t wear what we want and that we have to wear uniforms, we don’t rebel; we just accept it as something that would be impossible to rebel against. If we would try to rebel, the officials (in this case, the school board) would have too much power and overturn us in an instant. It’s only until the school board heads themselves that make the decisions have to follow their own rules where they see that it isn’t such a good idea after all. For example, if the school board heads were to wear uniforms every day and follow the strict dress code that they enforce on us, they wouldn’t like it too much and think again before passing another rule.

So again with connecting to Red Scarf Girl, if the school board would look at it the same way Chairman Mao did at the end of the Cultural Revolution, maybe a rule here and there would change to make our lives easier and our learning experience more enjoyable and less of a dredging pain to go to school every day.

The story, the Bad Beginning, starts off with three young kids, Violet Baudelaire, a 14-year old amateur inventor; Klaus Baudelaire, a 12-year-old bookworm; and Sunny Baudelaire, an infant with unusually powerful teeth. In a tragic accident, their parents died in a house fire. An evil relative, Count Olaf, took full custody of the children, only to take their wealthy fortune.
At first, Olaf treats them like kings and queens, but no one knew that he had a terrible plan in mind. With the help of his theatre group, Count Olaf puts on a play which involves marrying Violet. At first Violet thought it was just a play, but it was actually a real marriage involved inside of the play. Once she marries Olaf, he will have the Baudelaire’s fortune in his hands. Violet then refuses to marry Olaf, but of course he knew Violet would say that, so he locked Sunny in a Sage dangling from the highest tower in his building. Once Olaf would push a switch he had, the Cage would fall, crushing Sunny. Violet was basically obligated to marry Olaf.
At a last minute thought, Violet consulted a lawyer in the audience who told her a way to get out of this misfortune. When Violet signed the marriage papers, she signed it with her non-dominant hand, making the marriage and Count Olaf’s plan invalid. Once Olaf realized this, he turned out the lights during the performance, allowing him and his theatre group to escape and run away. Their whereabouts are discovered in the second book.
The theme is to tell you to tell you that there is a way out of basically everything, even if it seems impossible. If you set your mind to something, the outcomes are endless. If you don’t try, then how will you know if you will succeed? I think this book sent a great message out, and I really recommend for everyone to read this book, and the rest of the series.

So far, I really like the book I am reading. Whenever Rusty wants something done, he does it, which makes everything better for leadership. Just about all of his decisions are the ons that should be made against the other clans. If they ever do get a new leader, the fire clan will never be the same. Just like in real life, a lot of people try to take over and try to be the leader of something. Sometimes it's for a good thing, like Rusty, and sometimes it's for something that goes terribly wrong.

Today we talked about things for the iSearch paper for most of the period. At the end of the period I worked on the I Knew Assumed or Imagined paper.

Today I worked on putting info. on the Google Docs.

Today I went to the library to work on the book source for the iSearch

I wasnt at school these days

Today I worked on putting some info on the Google Docs and toward the end of class I worked on the Edusoft

Today I worked on the Edusoft Test. After I finished it I talked to you about some stuff I missed.