I was reading through my new April 2011 issue for National Geographic Kids Magazine when I stumbled across page seven. It told me that lions, tigers, leopards, jaguars, and many other different types of cats were disappearing at an alarming rate! I knew I had to do something about it. I decided to help save cats from extinction on causeanuproar.org. I read about how I could help; by spreading the word, expressing it on t-shirts and so on.
I also found one that I did. Anyone can do this with their parents' permission; send a letter to National Geographic on why they should protect the cats (specifically lions) and why they are important to you. You can also send drawings of lions and cats. If you are interested in doing so, go to kids.nationalgeographic.com/letters-big-cats.
I did this by asking my parents, who signed a form you must mail with your letter to National Geographic, wrote my letter (which can be up to two-hundred fifty words maximum), drew a small picture at the bottom, signed it, and put it in an envelope. My dad is going to stamp it and drop it off at the post office sometime later to next week. I am now currently scanning my magazines for other interactive things to help the world, or just for fun!
-Dominique
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Friday, April 29, 2011
Pointless watchamacallits that you probably don't care about.
If you read a previous post of mine, I play Animal Jam, which is a virtual animal world by National Geographic Kids (much better than Club Penguin in my opinion!) that is very fun and entertaining, but also educates the subject of animals, habitats, and the environment. There is an optional paid membership (it makes little difference, unlike Club Penguin, where more than half the game is P2P ((Pay 2 Play)); you just can't get more than two animals, extra dens, and some clothes) in which my parents let me get. If you pay for the six month membership like I did, you get a six month free subscription to National Geographic Kids Magazine. I've been waiting a month or two, and finally, my April and May issues have come in the mail today!
I was obsessing over them. I even almost squealed when I found a very small tear on the back cover of my May issue. And by very small, I mean minuscule. Not even an inch long. I was very, very obsessive over it when I realized each issue has at least one code for Animal Jam that, if you type it in on the game when you log in, you get 1,000 gems or over. In this way, I got 3,000 gems in less than five minutes! I then spent it all on the new restaurant den and some den furniture/items.
My sister has a Club Penguin membership. She prefers it over AJ, which I am very sad about. I do not get why, especially because she practically forgot about Club Penguin when I first showed her AJ. I guess the money you pay is the game you play.
As I enjoy my new magazines and Animal Jam, I guess this is a farewell until my next post. Goodbye!
-Dominique
I was obsessing over them. I even almost squealed when I found a very small tear on the back cover of my May issue. And by very small, I mean minuscule. Not even an inch long. I was very, very obsessive over it when I realized each issue has at least one code for Animal Jam that, if you type it in on the game when you log in, you get 1,000 gems or over. In this way, I got 3,000 gems in less than five minutes! I then spent it all on the new restaurant den and some den furniture/items.
My sister has a Club Penguin membership. She prefers it over AJ, which I am very sad about. I do not get why, especially because she practically forgot about Club Penguin when I first showed her AJ. I guess the money you pay is the game you play.
As I enjoy my new magazines and Animal Jam, I guess this is a farewell until my next post. Goodbye!
-Dominique
Finally a Tumblr!
Finally, I created a Tumblr to upload my pictures. I'm very into photography, I find it interesting and I way to express life in such a way you can't find anything bad about it; even in the simplest pictures that may not mean anything at all.
Surprisingly, I usually only take the pictures with my phone or one of my parents' phones (G1 or MyTouch). I use picplz, Vignette, and the default camera tool for MyTouch to edit my pictures quickly. I don't usually add heavy effects, just things like Russian Toy Camera and Cross-Process.
I hope you enjoy my Tumblr. Stick around!
Rock it acoustic.
So far, the only things of done today that was interesting was take a hot shower, re-paint my nails out of boredom, rock out on my acoustic guitar, and now, blog.
I've been growing more attached to my guitar by the minute. I've learned all the major chords, most of the minor chords, and I'm going to go on to more complicated chords later on. I have no guitar teacher, so I practice songs I like at home and read through a how-to "Ultimate Beginners Guide" by myself. The beginners guide confused me after I reached halfway through.
My brother, who sits at a desk next to mine, gave me a look when I got up and started to rock out to Bad Romance by Lady Gaga--on acoustic guitar. I did the same to Pretty Girl Rock by Keri Hilson, Break Your Heart by Taio Cruz, Party in the USA by Miley Cyrus, Yellow Submarine by the Beatles, and so on, so forth. He finally sang Grenade by Bruno Mars while I played the chords, too, once he gave up on silencing me.
When I first played guitar for a talent show in my grade last year, people gave me looks and gapes as if I had a wart on my face. "You play guitar?" was the top question asked to me throughout the day.
At one point of the summer last year, my guitar's strings screwed up and sounded like a dying walrus. I had to live without it for quite a while until my cousins came this month and fixed it. I couldn't thank them enough.
Once the guitar was fixed, I began playing it daily like I did before. The reason why I'm so attached to this guitar is because I practically got on my knees to beg and plead to my parents every other day, no matter what day it was, for a guitar. Once I got one last June, I couldn't stop playing it. It was surprisingly fun, entertaining, kills time, and my dream since I was like, what? 5?
I'm planning to finally post a decent cover to my family's YouTube channel of me playing guitar, probably to Bad Romance, as I can't get the song out of my head at the time and it was the most fun to play so far.
Two more months until the release of House of Anubis Season 2. :)
-Dominique
I've been growing more attached to my guitar by the minute. I've learned all the major chords, most of the minor chords, and I'm going to go on to more complicated chords later on. I have no guitar teacher, so I practice songs I like at home and read through a how-to "Ultimate Beginners Guide" by myself. The beginners guide confused me after I reached halfway through.
My brother, who sits at a desk next to mine, gave me a look when I got up and started to rock out to Bad Romance by Lady Gaga--on acoustic guitar. I did the same to Pretty Girl Rock by Keri Hilson, Break Your Heart by Taio Cruz, Party in the USA by Miley Cyrus, Yellow Submarine by the Beatles, and so on, so forth. He finally sang Grenade by Bruno Mars while I played the chords, too, once he gave up on silencing me.
When I first played guitar for a talent show in my grade last year, people gave me looks and gapes as if I had a wart on my face. "You play guitar?" was the top question asked to me throughout the day.
At one point of the summer last year, my guitar's strings screwed up and sounded like a dying walrus. I had to live without it for quite a while until my cousins came this month and fixed it. I couldn't thank them enough.
Once the guitar was fixed, I began playing it daily like I did before. The reason why I'm so attached to this guitar is because I practically got on my knees to beg and plead to my parents every other day, no matter what day it was, for a guitar. Once I got one last June, I couldn't stop playing it. It was surprisingly fun, entertaining, kills time, and my dream since I was like, what? 5?
I'm planning to finally post a decent cover to my family's YouTube channel of me playing guitar, probably to Bad Romance, as I can't get the song out of my head at the time and it was the most fun to play so far.
Two more months until the release of House of Anubis Season 2. :)
-Dominique
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
States and sickness, pretty much.
Unfortunately, I became sick with a runny nose, sore throat, violent cough, and headache. I'm stuck sitting at home listening to my brother sing Big Time Rush while I blog alone while drinking lemon-lime Gatorade. I would play guitar, but the strings screwed up somehow and now sound like dying walruses when I strum. I would Skype call or chat with a friend, but they're all at school. I would play with my brother, but..it doesn't come out pretty.
I'm sitting at my desk in the basement. It is very cold downstairs on a day like this, so I'm wearing my fuzzy Eskimo winter coat from Old Navy. I'm surprisingly growing closer to this jacket. It's so comfy.
I might as well talk about yesterday for me. I had a "State Show" at school, which is something the fifth graders at my current school do every year. We all get an assigned state, in which mine being Colorado. We gather up in groups of regions (In my case being the Mountain West) and create skits for the show, region boards, commercials, programs, and other pretty fun stuff. We had two shows; the afternoon show at 1:30 in front of the school, and the "easy show" at 6:00 in front of our parents and other relatives.
We decorated and set up the gym for the show and practiced. Afterward, my teachers announced what drawings were going to be put into the programs (we all had to draw a program cover as a part of our grade). I was surprised when they called out my name, because I personally thought mine was horrible. It came out pretty well anyway.
The afternoon show was shorter than I thought it would be. We were all so nervous and worried we would mess up, but it was perfected and we didn't miss a single word. The easy show was even easier. Our parents laughed whenever something funny in our skits would show (even though we weren't aiming to be funny. "Shop in Delaware, it has no sales tax!" How exactly is that funny?). We had to bring in food relating to our state, and we sampled food for about an hour before the show and guests during. I ate crab cakes, Milky Ways, yellow bell peppers with ranch dip (I brought it in anyway), pineapples, hush puppies, potato chips, biscuits, cheesecake cupcakes, salt water taffy, you get the point. Yesterday was pretty awesome.
Why couldn't it be awesome now? I'm stuck sick in my cold basement with nothing to do..
-Zoe
I'm sitting at my desk in the basement. It is very cold downstairs on a day like this, so I'm wearing my fuzzy Eskimo winter coat from Old Navy. I'm surprisingly growing closer to this jacket. It's so comfy.
I might as well talk about yesterday for me. I had a "State Show" at school, which is something the fifth graders at my current school do every year. We all get an assigned state, in which mine being Colorado. We gather up in groups of regions (In my case being the Mountain West) and create skits for the show, region boards, commercials, programs, and other pretty fun stuff. We had two shows; the afternoon show at 1:30 in front of the school, and the "easy show" at 6:00 in front of our parents and other relatives.
We decorated and set up the gym for the show and practiced. Afterward, my teachers announced what drawings were going to be put into the programs (we all had to draw a program cover as a part of our grade). I was surprised when they called out my name, because I personally thought mine was horrible. It came out pretty well anyway.
The afternoon show was shorter than I thought it would be. We were all so nervous and worried we would mess up, but it was perfected and we didn't miss a single word. The easy show was even easier. Our parents laughed whenever something funny in our skits would show (even though we weren't aiming to be funny. "Shop in Delaware, it has no sales tax!" How exactly is that funny?). We had to bring in food relating to our state, and we sampled food for about an hour before the show and guests during. I ate crab cakes, Milky Ways, yellow bell peppers with ranch dip (I brought it in anyway), pineapples, hush puppies, potato chips, biscuits, cheesecake cupcakes, salt water taffy, you get the point. Yesterday was pretty awesome.
Why couldn't it be awesome now? I'm stuck sick in my cold basement with nothing to do..
-Zoe
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Hello, Hong Kong!
Today, I skyped with my good friend, Emerie. She had left to live in Hong Kong because her dad had gotten a better job there. My heart practically leaped into my throat when I saw the familiar Skype notification appear on my laptop screen. "Emerie is online!"
The first thing I did, of course, was chat with her. The first thing I said was extremely typical. "EMERIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
She immediately replied back. "Hey, are you free to skype?" Of course, I said yes. We greeted each other, smiling widely and asked simple questions. How is school? How is the state show? What is it like in Hong Kong? What time is it there?
Soon, she had to leave to go to school. I nodded and smiled, waving my hand slightly. "Goodbye!" We both said in unison and she signed off of Skype.
I remind myself of the time I went to Forty Winks with the Sphinx, a sleepover at the Penn Museum. We went with other friends (Thea, Elena, Isabella) and bonded with one another. Landmark trivia first thing, museum exploration, scavenger hunt, night expedition, sleeping by the sphinx, and a light breakfast. We were the two tiniest in the car, so we had to share a seatbelt on the way there, plus, we were the only two girls who didn't have their mom come with them.
Now, I have four pen pals. Isabel, Emilia, Valeria, all from Chile, and Emerie. Former American citizen and classmate. Occupation? Hong Kong.
-Zoe
The first thing I did, of course, was chat with her. The first thing I said was extremely typical. "EMERIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
She immediately replied back. "Hey, are you free to skype?" Of course, I said yes. We greeted each other, smiling widely and asked simple questions. How is school? How is the state show? What is it like in Hong Kong? What time is it there?
Soon, she had to leave to go to school. I nodded and smiled, waving my hand slightly. "Goodbye!" We both said in unison and she signed off of Skype.
I remind myself of the time I went to Forty Winks with the Sphinx, a sleepover at the Penn Museum. We went with other friends (Thea, Elena, Isabella) and bonded with one another. Landmark trivia first thing, museum exploration, scavenger hunt, night expedition, sleeping by the sphinx, and a light breakfast. We were the two tiniest in the car, so we had to share a seatbelt on the way there, plus, we were the only two girls who didn't have their mom come with them.
Now, I have four pen pals. Isabel, Emilia, Valeria, all from Chile, and Emerie. Former American citizen and classmate. Occupation? Hong Kong.
-Zoe
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Finally, the first day of spring.
Today is the first day of spring, and my family and I had what a day.
Firstly, we went to my friend Dianne's house for her mom's birthday. The highlight of my period of time there was picking at a piece of loose lint hanging out of my shoe. Yeah, I didn't have much fun there. All I really did was talk to my friend Owen (the only real friend I actually had there. He was the only one who talked to me by choice and the only one who didn't curse every five minutes. -_-) while I watched everyone play Call of Duty: Black Ops. He made me laugh once during that while I was drinking my Sunkist, and I blew everything in my mouth on my friend Aaron's jacket, who was unfortunately sitting in front of my at the time. Then, one guy named Andre screamed so loud I spit again, this time standing up, though (conveniently) only a little came out of my mouth, which caught onto a little boy named Angelo's shirt while he was playing Pokemon on his Zelda DS.
Dianne and all her other girl-friends left to go to Rita's, CVS Pharmacy, and other convenient stores. I was stuck (after the room got crowded while they were playing PS3) being chased by Aaron's sister Arianne and a little girl named Tristan up and down the stairs for three minutes.
After we left, my parents drove up to Rita's. Since it was the first day of spring, everything was free. So, chyeah, guys! :D Free gelatis! :D
We ate our gelatis in the car and then drove home. Now I'm waiting in my room quietly blogging while my parents order Domino's Pizza for the second time this weekend.
-Zoe
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