AmandaP -- Blogmeister

The Ball Bounced

In the bug blue house

Off the square table

Over cool awesome tall Olivia

Through the huge candy-filled candy-made door

On the tarred black street

Down the hot lond road

Across the trustful neighbors yard

Aboard a boat

Across the wet smelly deck

Into the vast harbor

Across the Pacific sea

By the country Japan

Into crowded China

Through the restarunt shop

Without it's tall boy-like master

In the big blue house

My book I am reading now is called WaterFall by Lisa T. Bergren. I am only reading the first of the trilogy because the author herself is coming to talk to ME!!!! (and my book club) but that doesn’t matter. I am going to buy the first book from her, she’s gonna sign it, and in 30 years it will be worth a lot of money, like$50!!! It is about a girl in Italy who comes across an ancient tomb and discovers herself in Ancient Italy. I am also starting to read a book called The Looking Glass Wars for my book club….. Its sorta like Alice and Wonderland. Anyway, Waterfall is turning out to be a very creative book, and I’m loving it so far.

My book is AMAZING=http://=http:// It is called Crossed. Its about a love triangle in like, the year 3000's. They have a Society that decides EVERY THING about the citizens life. Like Where you work. Who you love.When you die. Right now I am reading the sequel the the prequel. Its called Crossed. The Prequel is called Matched. The main caracters are Cassia, Xander, and Ky. Right now, Cassia has escaped from the Society, which is like, impossible to do. She has run off to find Ky, and a rebellion against the Society, called the Rising. She has found Ky, but he will do anything to get her AWAY from the Rising. He has a fear of what he might become in the Rising, since his late(late means dead)father started the whole program.They are travleing to get away from the Society, and go back to their home town, but the problem is WHO their traveing with. Hunter, the only Farmer left, is going to get the Society to notice them in The Carving, with is a bunch of gorges, and get them all arrested, and maybe reclassified to Abberations, which are descrasful people to the Society. They can never have a good work position, and get matched with any one.I hope they all get to safty. I love the thought of all this happening in the future. This book is so amazing to me, I can never put it down!!!

I believe the "tools" that good poets use are just using the right words to describe a situation. In the poem I'm learning, Henry Longfellow uses a lot of similes and resemblances of the situation. Because of this, I can picture the scene in my head and all the right details of people, things, and ideas. To write with a picture in your head also helps the readers to picture it. I think just using the right words and pictures in your mind help you put together a very good poem.

~~~Amanda

I believe that this statement,"Love is the olny force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend" Marten Luther King Jr. means the only thing able to turn your enemy to a friend is to show them love and show you care. The way I would bring this into my life would be to just show love to the people I want to punch. It would make a VERY big change in my life. I believe that it would make at least a small impact on other peoples life if I am nice to every one. It might make them not hate me even!! To make an impact on the world, I would have to work hard and not hate people. If people saw I was so nice, it might influence them to be nice and so on. I would love to make a very big impact like that.

2012 is going to be an exiting year for me, with a new school and such. My goals would range from getting better grades, to begging my mom to get me horse riding lessons again. I have very simple goals that might not be good to you, but are VERY important to me.

My grades have never been the best, or what I know I can do. I’ve never liked studying, though no one probably does. Setting a goal to get better grades, for me, will have to be learning to pay attention a lot more often, and getting use to the fact that I am not in my old school. Grades are the one place my sister has been a master at, but for me it’s just something to keep you working. This year, I plan to get a lot better grades in ALL my classes.

Getting horse riding lessons would be another goal I really want to achieve. I use to take riding lessons, but we got into school and then moved, so it’s been kind of hard for me to go to a barn every Saturday, with homework and all. From the first time I got on a horse, I fell in love, and to this day I still am. I have all the equipment I need, but not a horse. Riding a horse, to me, would be like a squirrel finding his nuts. Riding a horse is like flying, almost. With the reins in my hand, I feel I can do anything in the whole entire earth. When we canter as fast as horse-ly possible, I don’t think. All I care about is me, the horse, and staying on it. Riding is my dream, my passion, and I really want to reach the goal of getting a new barn