My Friends

I am going to tell you about four of my best friends. Their names are Natalia, Juliana, Sara and Nora. Their personalities and most of their likes are very different like the sports they like. But also they are alike in some other ways for example the music we like.

First, I'm telling you the things in which they are different. First of all are sports. Juliana, Sara and Nora like soccer and assist to practices. Natalia also likes soccer but doesn't assist to practices like the rest. She prefers tennis and hopes to be a professional. Juliana also likes basketball and goes to practices, which makes her different than the rest.

Second way they are different is the way of dressing up. Naty likes a lot to wear sport clothing. July and Sara prefer and informal and a little elegant clothe to go out. Nora is using clothe that is the very fashion. By the other side she also wears retro clothing.

Now I'm telling you the way my friends are alike. They all like the same music. We all think reggaeton is the best! Also we like the same type of food. Some examples are the crepes of a restaurant here called Crepes&Waffles. Finally, another thing is that we are friends of the same people, other than the five of us.

In conclusion, my friends and I have more different things than similar things. At least, I can tell more details about our differences than our similarities. These differences sometimes make us argue. However, if were more alike, we would be a lot less friends than we are now.

How I Feel About My Blog

What I expected of my blog is very similar to what I feel about it now. What I expected about my blog was that it would be fun and interesting. I thought that it would be interesting to edit my blog changing the settings. I also thought it would be fun receiving and making comments, and writting about my thoughts.

Making a web log was harder than what I expected. When Mr.Hide, my teacher, told us that we were going to do links, I got excited. However, when he explained us what we had to do to open other windows, to show the words we wanted, to make the link blue and underlined, I thought I was never going to understand! We had to write a lot of symbols and be very careful with what we wrote and where we did so. It took me time but now you can see the results (that at first view seem simple but aren't) in another of my posts.

What I feel of my blog now is that I now understand more things. I learned how to work with technical aspects. First of all, like I just said, are the links. I still think they are hard but at least I know how to work with them better than before. Settings are technical aspects that I like a lot because in the setting you can make your blog look prettier or more interesting.Another thing that I feel I understand a lot more is the publishing. At first I got zero in some work because instead of publishing it I saved as a draft but that happens no more.

I'm surprised of many things of blogging. First is that it is very similar as if you were writting in Microsoft Word. Second is that I can do spelling check so my posts seem better. Last thing that surprised me is that I thought that my blog would be a lot like a MSN space but it is much better.

"Three Skeleton Key" Was OK!

"Three Skeleton Key" is a story by George G. Toudoze that I liked in some ways and disliked in another. I'm starting by telling the things that I liked.

"Three Skeleton Key" was a good story in some ways. I liked that the story had a lot of suspense. Also I thought it was good that the setting was well described because like that I can get a mental picture of most of the things. It remind me of "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi", which is another story, because I also got a mental picture of the setting in that story.

I also think that this story was bad in some ways, for example, one of the problems in the story: rats. Rats are this horrible animals that I think nobody likes, but in the story, they are mentioned a lot, and to make it worst, it has a lot of pictures of them. "Three Skeleton Key" is very similar to a culvert because it has rats, smells and strange noises.

Another reason I didn't like this story is that it was supposed to be scary but it wasn't. I can't understand why the author thought that rats driving a boat was something scary. It is mostly funny! I think that if someone reads this story, he or she will think that it is a normal story making fun of scary story, like happens in "Scary Movie". This is a problem that happens in most stories that try to be scary.

This story was okay. It will never be my favorite because it has bad things. But it also had good things so it wasn't so bad. However, if someone asks me for a good story to read, I will never recommend "Three Skeleton Key".

A Sad Date

In the last September 11th was the 5th anniversary of the destruction of World Trade Center 1 and 2 ( Twin Towers).

In CBBC Newsround I found the testimonies of an 11 years old boy called Eric, that lived in New York. Eric said:

"The morning it happened, I was sleeping. I heard a bang and I woke up.
I went downstairs and my brother and sister said that one of the towers had gone down. I was really shocked. I wasn't scared, just shocked.
We didn't have a TV so we couldn't see what was happening but our friend called us and told us exactly what was going on."

My experience with 9/11 is very similar to Eric's. I was very confused. I didn't know what was happening so I was happy because we where leaving school. It wasn't until a few days later that I got to know what had happened with the Twin Towers. That's when I got worried and understood how bad things where.

Still when I knew that things where bad, I didn't understand why everyone was so shocked. I didn't even know what the Twin Towers were. I thought that a few people had died. Finally, my father explained me a LOT of people had died, that the Twin Towers were the World Trade Center and how important it was. Finally he also explained me that the reason of why we were taken out of school is because we are an American school so we had the risk of being attacked too. I got very scared.

Now, after 5 years, things have changed. I still feel sad for all that people that died. I'm also worried that something similar may happen again. But I'm not so scared as I was in those days that I was so little. Now, every September 11th I remember that day, and I think I'll ever forget it.

Reggaeton

Have you ever heard reggaeton? I do, and I like it a lot. Most songs have cool sound effects and rhymes. Also there are singers with a great voice. Many of my friends and a LOT of people more like reggaeton. However, some people think it is horrible. Most of these people are adults. They hear the lyrics and don't like their children to hear the songs. This is because most songs have lyrics that talk about adult subjects. I've heard about kids which parents force there children to stop hearing reggaeton. I think this is a problem.

Sometimes I think in ways to solve this problem. One is that if children want to hear reggaeton they should talk to their parents and tell them that is what they like and they should respect it. Another one is a recommendation for parents. They should hear reggaeton every little once in a while and instead of concentrating in the lyrics they should concentrate in the talent of the singer and in the music that it is VERY cool. Also the rhythm is contagious because it is very fun and exciting. Oh! and also there are bad reggaeton singers so I recommend Daddy Yankee, Wisin & Yandel, Omar Geles, Don omar, Rakim & Ken Y, Tito el Bambino... and a lot of others, but however, this six are very cool.

Hope you liked my post. I know there is a lot of people that know this problem. If you write a comment, it will be great!

Links

Here are three blogs of three of my friends that I think are very cool.

This is Catalina's Blog.I recommend you this fun space of her's.


The second blog I like is Sara Ch's blog. She is one of my best friends and she likes going out.


The last blog that I like is Lisette's blog.She likes basket.