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In June of 2006 my mom, and dad, and I went to California for a last vacation together. I call it “The Last Vacation” because this was a very emotional time for me… this was when my parents split up.

We awoke early that morning to pack the motorcycles with tints, blankets, clothes, and other things we needed. From what I just said, you can tell that we did not stay in hotels… we camped the whole way there!

Our goal was to go to The Redwood Forest. The last time I had been to the Redwoods was when I was 2 or 3 and I don’t remember it, so that’s why they toke me there again.

On the way we stopped to other places, like the Zoo, and the Oregon Caves, they were amazing! While at the zoo I got to play with a baby lion and pet a baby bear.

Paul Bunion Park was were we went it was awesome and the trees were amazing. On of the trees was 2 to 3,000 feet tall and 30 to 40 feet around! My favorite tree was the one that got struck by lightning and only the middle burned away. there also was a sky lift that toke you all the way too the top of the mountain… It was TERRIFYING-!!

One sad thing about the trip, was when we stopped at the Siskyou river and went swimming. We had drove all the way to the Oregon Caves and realized we left our camera there! My dad woke up very early in the morning and drove all the way back to find it was not there.

The camera had all the pictures of me playing with the lion and pic’s of tigers and other wild creatures from the zoo. It was really sad but we bought disposable cameras and toke pic’s of the Caves. To replace the other pic’s some how, my mom and dad toke me to a different zoo and we got really cool pic’s of that!

The last vacation was very fun and I wish it was not the last.

I think texting helps in some ways and hinders in some ways. It helps with the speed and understanding of what your writing but it hinders grammar and spelling. When students text they don’t write in full sentence and they often spell words how they think is shorter. For example when they spell, cool they write “kool”, and what as, “wat”, also was as “waz”. Students also abbreviate there feelings with smilies =] =[ :-] ^_^ and etc…
The most popular is “lol” which is the abbreviated form of “laugh out loud”. They spend time on misspelled words rather than spelling them correctly. That is why texting is somewhat bad.

In the book A Night Without Armor, poems By: Jewel, the poem, The Bony Ribs of Adam reaches out to me a lot. My favorite line is, “But now how my belly hollows and aches craving seed craving kisses but outside the road hisses, and I find myself packing girlishness in an old leather bag.”(pg.2) I like this line because it reminds me of when I was a little girl and how I tried to run away because I was grounded. What I did was I toke a stick and tied a bandanna around it, stuffed it with pictures and a few clothes, and food, then I tried to go out my window when my mom came around the corner and caught me.

*What is a blog?
A bloge is a page that you post, and its about what ever Mrs.Hoke tells us to wright about.
*Where have you ever heard of blogs?
The first time i heard of a blog was off of myspace.com.
*How comfortable are you with computers?
I’m comfortable enough.
*What kinds of things do you do with computers typically?
I don’t use computers that much, but when I do I play spider solitaire.
*What is your opinion of writing?
I love wrighting! If i did not know how to wright I would die. wrighting is my way of releasing my stress.
*What kind of writing do you like to do?
I like to wright whats on my mind and what i feel.
*Why are people so concerned about kids’ safety when they’re using the Internet?
Because it’s very dangerous to be online when ther are older and realy wierd people on to.
*Is the Internet dangerous?
yes and no. The yes I have alredy answerd, and no because there are places online that you have no contact with other people.
*What do your peers generally do with computers and the Internet?
They go online to check there Myspace.
*What do you think/how do you feel about the year ahead, knowing that you will be using a blog a lot in English class?
I’m not worried about it. I’m realy excited.

So I just started this book but its good so far. It’s caled Arabian Jazz, by Diana Abu-Jaber. I choose this book myself because it’s about and man that play’s Jazz and I love Jazz. The man in it is from Africa and he moved to America with his wife. He has two kids(I cant say or spell there names). It is a good book, but I can’t tell you that much because I’m not that far. I do say everyone should read it because jazz is amazing!! The language is a little wierd but it’s interesting to read.