Last weekend, me and my family traveled to Richmond,VA for a soccer tournament. We left Saturday morning since our first game was at 1:00 pm. Every time we have a game, we have to arrive 45 minutes early. We got there at 12:15, so we walked to the field. My teammates and I warmed up until it was time to start the game. We play nine vs nine, so our starting lineup was a 3-3-2. I started that game in the position left winger. Unfortunately, we lost that game 2-4. Our next game started at 4:00, so 20 minutes later we came back to the field and warmed up again. By the time we started the game, it was raining really hard! At halftime the score was 0-3 them. Then, we got a penalty kick and my teammate scored. Then they scored again so it was 1-4 them. Then I scored! Then my teammate scored! Then I scored AGAIN! Then, with five minutes left, we got a corner kick. My teammate blasted it from the corner and it went into the middle of the field. My teammate slid and scored! A few minutes later, the game was done. We had made a MAJOR comeback and the score ended 5-4 us! We were very excited that we were going to the semifinals, but we were also drenched. We got back to our hotel, ate dinner and played games. We had to go to bed at 9:30 because we had to be on the field the next morning at 7:15 am. The next morning, we woke up and ate breakfast. We drove to the field and played our game in 25 degree weather. Unfortunately, we lost that game. It was 2-2 until the last minute where my teammate slipped and fell. The other team took advantage of this and went and scored. Then the whistle blew. The game was over and we had lost the semifinals. Everybody was sad, but we all had a very good time at that tournament.

all photos by my family

During winter break, my family and I took a trip to Aruba. Aruba is an island that is close to Venezuela. On Thursday, we woke up at 5:30 and drove to the airport. There was a HUGE line for the international American Airlines flights and you were not allowed to use the kiosks. Now, some lines move quickly and you can get through them pretty quick because they actually MOVE. This line didn’t move in inch. We missed our flight that day (300 people missed their flight that day) and we waited in line from 6:15 am to 11:30 am. That’s more than 5 HOURS just waiting in line. The next day, we woke up at 5:00 and drove to the airport. That same line was still there. Fortunately, since we missed our flight yesterday, we could use the kiosks today even though we were flying international. We made it to Aruba and checked in to our hotel. We stayed from Friday to Tuesday. Over the following days, we did some really fun activities. On Saturday, we went to the beach. I loved the beach in Aruba because the water was so blue and almost clear. Also, there were no waves. You would walk ankle deep in the water and then suddenly it would dip down and the water would go up to your waist. The beach was kind of like a pool. On Sunday, we also went to the beach again because we liked it so much. On Monday, we went to the beach from 9:00-11:00 and then we rented a Jeep and drove to the national park. On the way, we saw a lot of cacti. It was funny because there was the cacti, and then next to it was the ocean. We drove to a cave and walked inside. There were bats in there! Then, we took a stop at this cliff. It was insanely beautiful and scenic. There was a cliff and below it was some rocks and the ocean. The ocean was so pretty. It was a dark blue and it crashed against the rocks. We took some pictures and then walked down the stairs and got to wade in the ocean. The sand was so white. The next day, we drove back to the airport and flew home. Overall, this trip was so much fun and one of the best trips I have ever went on.

All photos by my family

For the past few months, my Language Arts class have been reading wisdom tales. Wisdom tales are short stories that come from different places. These stories always have a moral or lesson that you can learn from and apply to your daily life. These wisdom tales tales could have the main characters as animals or humans and are very enjoyable to read. After we finished reading these wisdom tales, we all chose one story to personalize and make into a comic using Comic Life 3. I chose to do my comic about the wisdom tale The Useless Tree. This wisdom tale is about a tree with a twisted trunk and how nobody wants to use it while all the other trees in the grove are useful. Here is my comic down below:

About a week ago, in tech class, we were learning about Flipaclip. Flipaclip is an app that allows you to make an animation using drawings. You draw each little movement on a separate page to make a story. This is kind of like how in the olden days, people used drawings. Each drawing was a specific movement and when you flipped through the pages, it looked like a story. An example of a film that used to use this technique is Mickey Mouse.

In my video, I have the food from the song Chicken Wing Chicken Wing come alive. I used about 215 pages of drawings. Here it is down below: