Forsaken Scarlet

Scarlet was a young and cheerful girl, about 8 years old with shining long reddish brown hair and blue eyes that sparkle like clear water on a summer day. Her parents were wonderful spellcasters, and she always loved to learn spellcasting from them in a dense forest by the village they live in. They spent most of their days in that forest where they can use their magic whenever they want since the village only has sword wielders and archers, and they fear any magic users that set foot in their village and anyone that uses magic would be sentenced to death. This wasn’t a problem for Scarlet and her family, however, since with the help of their magic, they were able to conceal their aura of magic and their identities and live a normal life like the rest of the villagers. A couple months before her ninth birthday, Scarlet managed to successfully use fire magic like her parents, and to celebrate, they decided to make a feast in the forest out of the many fruits and berries they could find, and they cooked it all with Scarlet’s new fire magic. When they finished eating, they saw a hunter that stood in shock and anger at the magic they possess. “DAMN WITCHES!! YOU PLAN ON DESTROYING OUR VILLAGE, DON’T YOU?! I’LL SHOW YOU!!” the hunter yelled out with fiery eyes and he began to charge at them with a large knife. Before the hunter could slam the knife down at her dad, he burned his hand and made him let go of the knife. “You’ll all pay for this, you hear me?!” he yelled out as he ran back to the village, screaming in agony and attempting to cover his burn. “Don’t worry, sweetie.” Her sad softly said to her “Your mother and I will be alright. Hide somewhere in the forest for now, right now, all that matters is your safety.” Scarlet’s eyes began to fill up with tears as she yelled out “I don’t want to leave you! Why won’t you run away and hide as well?!” Her mom picked her up and held her in her arms with tears running down her eyes as well. “This whole thing was our fault, not yours, and we also don’t want to leave our home or kill any innocent people. We love you, sweetie, all we want is for you to be safe.” Despite their talk to her, Scarlet was still persistent on staying by her parents’ side no matter what bad things will happen. Shortly after their talk, all the villagers surrounded them wielding anything they could find, from swords to pitchforks and sickles. Before any of the villagers could say anything to them, Scarlet’s father walked up a few steps towards them and calmly said “We will freely go with all of you, but on one condition. Please, please leave my daughter out of this, she’s innocent and had nothing to do with the incident.” Many of the villagers stared at her like they were expecting an innocent 8 year old girl to trick them and burn all of them. But out of the crowd, the elder of the village appeared. He was a short man with a little fat on his belly and very skinny arms and legs, and with a sincere look on his face, he said to the villagers “Don’t get hasty, all of you, I’m sure they had a good reason towards their action. Magic users aren’t very different from us, so why do you want to kill them so much?” One of the villagers came out from the crowd and yelled “Don’t you remember when a single spellcaster nearly destroyed our entire village?! That’s why we can’t trust these magic using bastards anymore!” “Not all of them are evil, and we live in an amazing world full of spellcasters, humans with powers of dragons, and valkyries” the village elder responded “I say they should be left unpunished, so we should all head back to the village.” All of the villagers were furious and they charged in and grabbed Scarlet’s parents and took them back into the village to be executed, completely ignoring what the elder said. When the villagers dragged her parent’s out of the forest, the elder noticed that the villagers actually accepted their plea and left Scarlet untouched. Scarlet on her knees, bawling, knowing that there was nothing she can do to save her parents, not even the use of her new fire magic that was still weak and using it would cost her her own life as well. The elder slowly walked up to her, and he felt like he could hardly walk from his melancholy at the sight of Scarlet’s sadness. With the last bit of energy he could find, he bent down to Scarlet and whispered in her ear “Don’t worry, my child, the executions won’t start until morning, so I can possibly set up a way for them to be safe, but who knows if it’ll work.” Scarlet began to hold onto the elder’s arm and didn’t want to let go of him until she fell asleep several minutes later with tears still slowly coming down her face. The next day was bright and beautiful, but the day’s beauty would soon be gone by the shadows of the execution. All the villagers were at the center of the village, roaring anxiously for the executions to start. The village elder stood on a high platform with Scarlet standing beside him holding his hand very tightly. With a depressed look on his face, he slowly began his speech. “Even if I let them go, your rage will take over your judgments and you’ll want to kill them even more, and that will get you all possibly killed. So by the majority of the village and for the safety of every one of you, I have no choice but to sentence them to death.” All of the villagers hollered in excitement, cheering as if they just won the war against spellcasters. Then the executioner slowly came up to the platform and stood by the elder. He was a behemoth with a dark hood, wearing a thick, black coat covered in dry blood and wielding a distorted scythe with a shining, clean blade and a handle still covered in dry blood. “However” the elder began to talk again. “For your safety in case they attack any of us again, they will be executed in the forest and we will all stay here and wait until the executioner returns.” Many of the villagers got furious again, but it didn’t last too long and they accepted his words knowing what happened to the hunter. The executioner escorted Scarlet’s parents into the forest, and none of the villagers decided to run up and kill her parents themselves, fearing not only them, but fearing the deathly look of the executioner. As they were walking into the forest, the elder bent down to quietly talk to Scarlet again “Your parents will be fine, I told the executioner to let your parents go somewhere and he’d say that he got threatened by them and that they got away. I just hope he doesn’t actually kill them.” An hour past since they walked off into the forest, and Scarlet was still crying and tightly holding onto the elder’s hand. Right before one of the villagers would go into the forest to check things out, the executioner finally returned. As soon as he came out of the shadows in the forest, everyone noticed the fresh blood dripping from the tip of his scythe and the new blood stains on his dark coat. “The deed is done…” the executioner said in a very low and ominous voice. At that moment, all the villagers began to cheer and celebrate in the middle of the town. However, the village elder began to shed some tears as he looked at Scarlet, bawling on the ground and cry at the top of her lungs. Scarlet then began to throw out waves of fire towards the sky, and everyone became quiet as soon as they saw the flames began to listen to her cries. “WHY DID YOU HAVE TO TAKE MY PARENTS AWAY FROM ME, I LOVED THEM WITH ALL MY HEART!! THEY DIDN’T DO ANYTHING WRONG!! WE MAY BE ABLE TO USE MAGIC, BUT THAT DOESN’T MAKE US LESS HUMAN LIKE ALL OF YOU!!” As she continued to bawl, everyone began to feel sad and felt so sorry on what they took away from her. The village elder suddenly spoke with sadness in his voice to everyone. “I hope you all learned today that no matter what gifts we have as a human being, we are still no different from everyone else. Unfortunately, we had to sacrifice the lives of two innocent people trying to raise a family. All I pray for now is a better future and humanity to everyone.” After everyone applauded from his speech, the elder turned his head towards the forest, and he noticed the executioner still standing by the shadows of the forest and he noticed that the blood from the executioner’s scythe was gone and that the fresh blood stains from his dark coat were gone as well. The elder bent down to Scarlet, her face full of tears, and began to calmly talk to her with an excited look on his face. “Knowing your parents, they’re probably still alive and perfectly safe somewhere. However, I don’t know where they could be now or where they’re planning to go. I think it’s best if you stay in the village for now, you can stay at my home for the time being; you can learn more about your fire magic and other amazing spells.” A small smile began to appear on her face and began to hug his body, as if she just saw her parents walking towards the village. As the years slowly pass, Scarlet taught herself on mastering her fire spells and was also learning a few healing spells as well. She became friends with several villagers and became so friendly and happy towards everyone. Scarlet managed to live a normal life while the elder took good care of her, but she would oftentimes have a melancholy thinking about her parents that she misses so much. When she was 13, she perfected many fire spells and can use all of them expertly; however, at that same time, the village elder died from old age, and she was left with the entire home herself and no one to lead the village. It was soon after the elder’s death that all the villagers began to neglect and hate her again like they did to all the other spellcasters in the past. She tried to be friendly and kind to them again, but they were completely ignoring her and shoving her out of their way. When she first saw everyone hating her again as she was walking around the village, she thought to herself “What the hell’s going on here? Why does everyone hate me again so much now? I guess they truly didn’t change forever in the end…” A few years past, and she began to feel very lonely again and would isolate herself in her home most of her days learning more fire and healing spells. Then one day, a few young warriors came to the village and asked Scarlet if she’d like to go with them on a journey to fight the dark monsters in the land and find the people they miss so much. Scarlet was adamant about her thought on every normal human being selfish and non-accepting, but she knew they weren’t normal people; they had normal weapons of swords and a hammer, but they each had unique spells and wondrous powers with them; and in a way, they were like her with feelings of loneliness and the need to do something great with their gifts in their lives. After letting her sad emotions out about her past and wanting to find her parents, she decided to go with them and leave the village for something even greater, and before leaving, she decided to become friendly to all the villagers despite everyone still ignoring and hating her existence. While the sun was setting as she was leaving the village with her new friends, she put her hands on her breasts, felling a painful strain going on in her heart. “Dammit! What’s this feeling I’m having now? It’s making me feel like I want revenge on everyone in the village for what they did to my parents 8 years ago. To kill every last one of those bastards and destroy their homes, like what they did to me. I guess I’m glad I’m leaving that hellish village for their safety and for me to have a better life. Besides, I have a new family now, and I’m sure they’ll help me through thick and thin.” She thought to herself, and with one last look at the village, she shouted out to her friends “I won’t be forsaken anymore!!” and started slowly walking away with them as her long reddish hair waved smoothly and majestically with the gentle and cool evening wind.

Daily Journal 4/7 My Thoughts on Creative Writing Class

Creative Writitng class overall was really fun and I liked so many things that we worked on during it, mostly the poems and the stories. The song lyrics part of the class was fun as well, letting people choose songs that actually stand out to them and I'm suprised a lot of people didn't choose that annoying modern day rap/hip hop crap. I like thinking up and writing poems, and I like the variety of poems that we had to do; sure some of those poem concepts were hard to think up of at first, but it becomes really enjoyable to write it up when you finally have an idea. Doing all those daily journals was interesting and fun as well; there were some stupid concepts that hardly anyone would care about, but most of them were just so fun with the fact that we could make up whatever story we want for it or share good memories from our past. What I liked about the class mostly was that I got to use my imagination to think of every journal, poem, and story I made, and having them on an internet blog made it even more fun where people from all over the world could possibly see them. Something I would like to add to this class would be a time for everyone to share their poems to everyone, not like standing in front of the class and saying it, but going from computer to computer or blog to blog on their own computer. I'd also like to add a few more journal parts where students can use their imagination to create a story for the blog and a bit less memory writings.

Daily Journal 4/6

I've never had any truly bad experiences at restaurants before, but I did have some annoying and pretty awkward experiences. A fairly common annoying thing for me are the obnoxious screaming kids that don't know when to be quiet or stop crying, probably because the parents don't actually try; and I had these experiences in plenty of sit-down restaurants. I guess what I consider a pretty bad experience I had at a restaurant that happened occured while I was eating at Lee An Chin; I was outside with my mom, and as I was eating, a hornet got onto a piece of my chicken. The hornet completely scared me and I had to throw out that piece of chicken (damn bugs). An awkward restaurant moment that happened to me was when I was with a few guys in my group during my Japan trip and we saw this button on the table that we didn't know what it did; so we pressed it, and the most convinient thing happens, a waitress comes over almost instantly, but we weren't ready to order and we were trying to word out in Japanese about that we didn't know what the button did.

Daily Journal 4/5 My Imaginary Restaurant

I recently just opened up an awesome Japanese-style noodle bar/restaurant called Sasuke Sake Soba Bar. The restaurant isn't extremely big since it mostly looks like a traditional Japanese Ramen Bar that's pretty long and not that wide, but it has a nice traditional Japanese atmosphere that looks incredibly calm and soothing. The restaurant serves all kinds of Japanese-style noodles, from Japan's traditional udon and ramen noodle soups to yakisoba and stir fry. Not only are there noodles, but we also serve Curry and steamed rice, many kinds of sushi and fish, okonomiyaki, gyudon, different kinds of katsu, and sake. We don't have many chefs or workers here, but all our chefs know how to make the most traditional Japanese cuisine without making it seem Americanized. We also have something pretty unique for an American restaurant that's fairly common in Japanese noddle bars: a machine by the enterance where you pay for a ticket of the foods and drinks you want. You hand that ticket to the bartender, and they'll serve your food pretty quickly and with no bills required.

Science Fiction Story Project

I wake up on the cold hard floor, my body absolutely freezing and my head feeling completely dizzy. I wake up in a dark and freezing room with many wires and electrical gadgets spread out throughout the entire room. Once I stood up, I noticed that the floor was slightly damp and cold; and when I turned around to see what it could be, I noticed that there was a row of gigantic cybernetic capsules that were empty and cold as the one behind me, and a few of them were still closed, but the bodies in there turned out to be frozen carcasses with hardly any flesh left on them. “What…… is this place…?” I moan out, still feeling pretty dizzy and cold. A few minutes later, a door slides open and steam start to flow out of it. When the steam cleared up, a man in a thick, dark lab coat and two men in cybernetic protective gear show up in front of me. The man in the lab coat smiles, removes his glasses and says to the men next to him “The last man finally came out, gentlemen. And with only three casualties out of the ten people total, our capsules were an overall success.” “Ok, what’s going on? Where am I, what are you guys doing, and what do you want from me?” I say in confusion and slight anger. “So you are awake” the man replied “You were a part of a test of a new scientific breakthrough; to be able to literally be frozen in time with nine other lucky people. The experiment began in the year 2011 with the help of the United States government, and now it’s been exactly 100 years since the experiment started. The other six people got out of their capsules between one and five years ago, and living their own basic way of life. I should say that you’re a lucky young man for being able to see the world truly rise in your time, and then see what the world looks like now and how advanced things are compared to your time. Welcome to 2111, my friend!” “……100 years….?” I murmured “Let me get this straight, I have been frozen for 100 years, with all of my family and loved ones dead as I missed out on all of the important things in their life, from the marriage of my brother to seeing my friends graduate in college and getting the jobs they dreamed about their entire lives?! Why the hell did you guys choose me to be a part of this corrupt government experiment?! Why me of all people, I was having a good life with a great family, fun friends, I was looking forward to heading to college, and now you guys took all that away from me all for that damn experiment of yours!” I managed to yell out. “We knew there would be something unique about the ten of you. We weren’t so sure what, but we knew it could change things when you woke up in the future.” The man said feeling quite sad about what I said. “I sincerely apologize that we took everything you held so dear away from you, even though I know you’ll never forgive me. Come on, we’ll take you outside of the lab.” He grabbed my arm, taking me outside of the lab; and as we were walking, he happily said to me “I almost forgot, you can call me is Professor West, and don’t worry, we already know who you are, Alex.” After about five minutes of walking up many sets of stairs, we finally made it outside. The city area was very technological and cybernetic, with many slick, cybernetic cars driving by the streets with tons of people walking by. Many of the buildings were taller and much more technologically advanced than any building during my time, and everything looked so magnificent, well done and very lively. In a way, it looked like a technological part of my modern day Tokyo that finally made it to America. I stared at amazement of the cybernetic metropolis for a few minutes, then Professor West grabbed my attention and said “There is still more to show you, like the other great technological advances in this period of time.” We didn’t have to travel very far, just about a few buildings over to a very unusual looking hospital. We walked by a window where doctors were performing surgery for a man that has very severe bruises and gashes on his body. The doctors covered the man in a plasma-like substance, and all the painful marks on his body suddenly healed up from his body. “In this time frame, we can heal up almost anything life threatening disease or injuries with the help of plasma. It can even be used to help put destroyed organs back to normal.” said Professor West. “They use more than just plasma to heal up injuries; many interesting elements and chemicals have been discovered and mixed together to cure people, and there are times where technology is used to heal up any kind of disease as well. There are still a couple more places I’d like to show you.” This time, we had to travel mach farther from the city, right at the edge of the city’s border, and as we were traveling, we went past a very rural and decimated part of town with hardly anyone around and a few futuristic looking soldiers guarding the area. We came across an extremely long electrical force field-like fence with hundreds of soldiers training with an amazing militia. Professor West continued his talk “As you can see, our army force has a much stronger arsenal in their hands. Not only do they have the ability to fire their guns normally at enemy soldiers, but with more help from our plasma technology, they can even blow up a whole vehicle or a base just by firing a single bullet. Soldiers can even take refuge in the cyber robotic tanks and armored vehicles that drive and take out enemies by themselves. Oftentimes these soldiers guard the dangerous parts of the city that have high crime and murder rates.” I noticed that he didn’t look that happy at all when he was talking about the army, almost like he was forced to take me there and tell me about them. As we left the area, many more soldiers left the camp area, probably to guard the rural of the city. We went back to the building where the lab was and they showed me the main room in the lab complex. “We always experiment and try out many new technological advances that can help to help make our lives safer and easier, and we work on those experiments almost nonstop every day. So, do you have any questions now?” he finally concludes. After being silent for a few hours, I finally yell put “Now that I’m here, do you guys plan on making me you guinea pig for your freakin’ experiments?” “Nope. Now that you’re here, you can choose to live the life you want to live now; find a job, join the army, do whatever you want.” he replied. “So where the heck am I suppose to live now that my original home and family are gone, and how am I gonna get a job with no college education, an expired driver’s license, and pretty much no record left of my existence?” I retaliated. After a few seconds of silence, he slowly replied “Don’t worry, with funds from the government, we can help set you up with the home and life you need, no government problems to deal with. We also have some of your personal information saved as well so you can get your job and to help you for anything else in life.” I was silent for a few minutes, even though it felt like hours, just wondering what I’m going to do now, what career choices there are and what am I going to do about college. “I just don’t know where to go now. I need a college education, and I don’t know what kind of career choices there are now.” “Well, if you don’t know or care what you do,” Professor West softly said “One option is that you can join the Army, or that you can stay here and train and become a scientist.” Almost immediately, I said “No way in heck I want to join the Army, and I’m not good at science at all, and I fear you guys possibly using me as your test subject.” Things became silent again, but the silence only lasted a few seconds before Professor West said “……Very well. Since you were about to leave for college before this incident happened, we will apply you to a nearby college that will provide the education you need and has the possible majors you want. You’ll start your college life next week, but for now, you’ll stay in a nice hotel by the lab with the help of government funding.” He grabbed something from a hidden compartment in one of the machines and hands it to me. “The crime rates have increased over time, so you might as well take the newest high tech rifle with you for now until you’re at college where your safety is almost guaranteed.” “But I’ve never used a gun before.” I quietly said. “Don’t worry, the ammo’s already provided in it and the safety is on, so you just switch the safety, point and fire, that’s it.” He said confidently. After a few hours of waiting, they set me up in an amazing looking hotel with robotic room cleaning machines and a big screen TV, and the people at the lab provided me with clothes and other basic necessities I need. They even provided a ton of money for me to have to spend on almost anything I want, so I decided to do some shopping at the many towering stores that were around. After shopping around until nighttime, I decided to head back to my room, with the newest gaming handheld, a phone that can play music a whole lot better than an Ipod, and can successfully do anything and much more than my modern day computer, reading material, and plenty of food and beverages on hand. There was really nothing to do the next few days, just some more exploring around the city and a little bit more shopping. On the day before I left for the college, there was a stand-off going on the road by the lab between a couple soldiers and a robotic tank and many gang members with a couple hostages as I watched from the window of my hotel room. The stand-off had been going on for a few minutes, and then suddenly, Professor West started to walk by, ignoring the demands from the soldiers. He took out a pistol from his coat and pointed it right at the gang. He fired his first shot right by the gang members’ feet, causing lots of debris and dust to fly at their faces and making them let go of the hostages. He then fired a second shot right at the gang themselves and made an explosion that killed off all of the gang members. The two soldiers lowered their guns momentarily and one of them said to him “Thank you for your help, but it seemed too dangerous for you to take them on yourself.” The soldiers then raised their guns back up and aiming them right at him. “However, you will be charged for interfering in the line of duty of a soldier and possible murder charges. Please come with us.” He slowly began to move away from them, then after one of the soldiers ordered him to stop, he redrew his pistol again at super-human speed and fired two normal shots at both of the soldiers and killed them before either one could react. And at the moment the robotic tank targeted at him and ready to fire, he fired a plasma shot and blew up the entire tank, with shrapnel flying about as high as the room I was at, some of it almost slashing my face off. A minute after the smoke cleared from the tank’s explosion, ten more soldiers stood guard with electrical shields in front of them as they stood right in front of him with three tanks behind them targeting on to him. When they gave him a warning to surrender, Professor West opened up his right hand from his coat and a missile the size of his arm suddenly slid down to his hand and was holding it on his arm like it was a small rock. When the soldiers began to fire at him, he suddenly vanished right above them, and he hurled the missile right down at them and incinerated them entirely as even more shrapnel from the tanks and the road began flying into the air. When the smoke cleared, Professor West slowly walked away, and as he was walking, one last gang member appeared, and he seemed to be the leader of the gang since he had the biggest muscles and was completely armed to the teeth. He was slowly moving up towards Professor West, and as soon as I saw him point his gun towards him, I shuffled towards the Professor West gave me, aimed it for about ten seconds, then obliterated that last gang member in one shot. I left for college the next day, and after a two hour cyber limo drive, the driver gave me a note from Professor West that said “Thanks for your help on taking out that last man. I knew he was behind me, but I wanted to see what you would do. The soldiers these days are almost willing to kill nearly anyone that threatens them, even if you try to help. Get that education you need, and I can guarantee you that we’ll meet again.” I wondered what Professor West’s new scientific plans are now and if he plans on rebelling against a strong, brave looking army as his own army. The cybernetic gates into the college campus opened, and all I could think about now was what my new life would be like and what else could possibly happen now in this new time period. I wonder what college life is like here in the future?

Daily Journal 4/4

An old man was enjoying a nice game of Solitare on his computer that took him a few hours to turn on. As he was playing it, he noticed that he couldn't win that match and said "Oh, fiddlesticks, I need to reset the game again." As soon as he restarted the game, there was a loud knock on the door, and when he opened it up, he noticed a short mole with a helmet and a pick ax, and after a couple seconds of silence, the mole went on a rampage yelling out "NO MORE RESETTIN'!! DON'T YOU GET IT, OLD TIMER?!?!" The old man got annoyed and said "Not you again! Nobody cares about what you say about resettin'! You don't seem to have any respect for your elders. You know, back in my day....." and before he could begin his story, the mole yelled out "I'M THE ONE THAT'S SUPPOSE TO HAVE THE ANNOYINGLLY LONG STORIES!!" Then at that moment, the old man was furious. He grabbed out his chair, put it over is head and yelled "You kids gets off my lawn!" and he began to chase the mole inside his house. The old man tried to hit the mole with his chair as the mole was digging under his floor and avoiding every attack from the old man. When the old man was about to give up, Digglet and Dugtrio began to come up under his home, singing "Diggli Di Diggli Di! Trio Trio Trio!" as they lift up the mole from the ground and carry the mole, the old man and his home off into the mountains.

Daily Journal 4/1

Behind her, the noise escalated, full of screaming, shouting, and loud footsteps heading towards her as she was walking down the school hall. When she looked behind her, she noticed a group of her friends running towards her with excited looks on their faces. One of her friends went up to her full of excitement and joy, and feeling like she had to tell her or else her excitement would make her mind explode. With anxiousness and joy, her friend shouted out "Guess what?! There's a new male transfer student, and OMG, he's freakin' hot!" The girl was creeped out by the way her friends were freaking out about it directly at her. "Why were you all so anxious to tell me about it?" she said awkwardly. Another friend popped out from the crowd and shouted "He's gonna be in YOUR homeroom, We're absolutely jelous!" "Ok, cool...." the girl replied with a creeped out look on her face. When her homeroom class started, the new student introduced himself in front of the class, and as he was talking, the girl thought to herself "Damn, he is pretty cute. I'm going to have a ton of fun rubbing it in to my friends during lunch."

Daily Journal 3/30

The clock winked at me from a tower as I was exploring the market area in a small village. The clock began to speak to me, asking me if I would like to have the ability to move time foward and back bewteen a set amount of years. I looked around to see if any of the villagers can hear this clock talking, and I had a few people stare at me as I was trying to talk to this clock. I told him that I would like to, and with one of his hands on his face, he pointed at a temple that I should enter in. When I entered, the whole place was big and empty, but I saw a giant door at the end that was sealed. As I was figuring out a way to get in, I noticed three big jewels spread out from the temple. So I picked them up, placed them by the door, and the door suddenly vanished. When I entered that room, I noticed a sword in a pedistal, so I pulled it as had as I could, and when I grabbed it out, a blue light came up from underneath me. When the light vanished, I suprisingly got older, and when I looked at a calendar by the temple enterance, I noticed that 7 years had past, and the whole village looked like it was in an apocolypse.

Daily Journal 3/29

At the beginning of my spring break on Friday, I threw up in the morning and got sick, so I had to have a sick day from school, which kind of sucked since I didn't want to feel behind on anything. After drinking lots of fluids and having a ton of naps while staying in my bed the whole day, I felt a lot better the next day. On Sunday, I went over to my grandparent's house in Alexandria and stayed there for most of my spring break. I didn't do much while I was over there, some of the bigger things I did that day were going to see a movie with them, eating out at a pizza buffet, and have my grandma help me work on my resume and essay for a scholarship I'm applying for. Most of the time, all I did was relax by the TV playing Pokemon Black on my DSi, went on Facebook and Youtube on the computer, and watched Jeopardy with my grandma at 4:30 practically every day. When I went home on Friday, I didn't do anything else during the last few days of my break, just hanged out with my friends on Friday and worked on plenty of homework on Sunday. Overall, it was a pretty good break.

Daily Journal 3/28

I feel so dirty after I was used to scoop up some wild rice soup and put into some person's mouth, and to make things feel weirder, I'm standing next to more messy utensils in some dark and wide room with dirty dishes and cups standing above us. All I wanted was to get cleaned up and put back in my original place with my other fellow spoons. We were all standing in that samedark place for days and days still feeling dirty and sad. When we all lost hope, soapy water began to deluge us and suddenly, I began to feel clean and BLGRHGBGRLGLRBLRBGBLGRLBGRLBGRLGRLRGLGRBRLBGRGBRLRBLGBRR GNGGNRLGRNGLRNGHGRLGNGHRLGNRHGNLRGHRNGLRGHNGRLGHRGNRLHGNRGLH NGRLNGLRNGLRGNRLGNRLGRNLGRNGLRGNRLGNRRLRGRLHGNRHGRHGLRHGNNGRL BGHLEGHEGBLEBGEHBGELHBGEHGGBGBLBGEHLGLBGHEBLBGEHLGBEGLGELGHGHGL GLENRNGRLNGLRGHGNRBNGHBHGLBHGLHBRLGHBHGLBLRHGHBHGHBRLBHLGHBLR!! After that, I felt so clean and so alive again, and after that washing, we were all put back in our normal places, waiting to be use again by people and to get dirty again. I may be a utensil, and it may be a part of my job, but I hate getting dirty.

Daily Journal 3/18

Something I would like to invent to help mankind would be some sort of machine that spreads some kind of aura that calms people down and makes them happy and peacful, to stop people's minds of crime and murder, and to stop all the wars and conflict that's destroying everyone's bonds with one another. And it could possibly remove all the conflicts and problems going on in the world, like poverty and corrupt governments.

Daily Journal 3/17 A Random Dream

I have a ton of random dreams; oftentimes so random, I can't actually remember it when I wake up in the morning, but there are a few awesome and pretty random dreams I remember having. I once dreamed about trying to make plans with friends to go to a fair. However, they weren't my real life friends, they were characters from an anime called Clannad. I had three of the characters' cell phone numbers and I called and asked them if they would want to go to a fair with me. The first character I called and asked was Kyou Fujibiyashi, and she said yes and that she'd bring her sister Ryou with. The next character I asked was Kotomi Ichinose, and she gladly said yes and would like to try to show up as soon as possible. The last character I asked was Tomoyo Sakagami, and she said she'd go, but she said that she'd be running a little late because of a councler meeting since she's the student body president. We all met up by the entrance and Tomoyo showed up earlier than expected and said that the meeting was a lot shorter than usual. So we entered the fair, looked at a few things, had some food, and when there was more to explore, we decided to seperate into groups; Tomoyo went with Ryou and Kyou and I was left to go with Kotomi. After the seperating, the rest of the dream was practically a blur, probably since a lot more random crap was going on...

Daily Journal 3/16

I wish someone would tell me that there would be an opportunity for people anywhere in America to be able to go over to Japan over spring break and help out everyone that was affected by the earthquake and tsunami that happened there. Just seeing all the carnage that's happened makes me very concerned and I want to be able to them out any way I can. I also want to go over there to see my host family/exchange student's family over in Toyama and, even though they weren't extremely affected by the earthquakes, see if they're doing all right from the chaos and I would probably hug all of them and cry about my concerns about Japan and for joy that they're safe. Even though Japan looks strong and promising, after seeing the chaos from the earthquakes and tsunami, it made think a lot more differently of the lives and strength of every country.

Daily Journal 3/15

Al is a very good shoe maker who is really dedicated to his work, and he loves his job so much, he wants to make something unique that looks like a shoe. About 6 months and $100,000 later, he got a shoe car customized and built for him. He drove it around everywhere he went and a lot of people looked very interested in his awesome shoe car. A lot of people wanted to take pictures with him in his vehicle, and others wanted to try driving it, but Al didn't want any of them to drive it then have it get crashed. Others gave him dirty looks and said to him that that vehicle was a waste of money to make. The only real negative about it is that the shoe car is a big right footed shoe and it has a tendency of curving to the left, but he managed to make it drive straight after the first few test runs. After showing it off in the city, he decided to enter it in a race. When he put his foot nearly all the way down on the pedal, it wasn't going all that fast compared to the other race cars. When he made it to the jump, he put his foot all the way down on the pedal and jumped up really high, and when he landed, he stomped on top of another car. Even though he didn't win, he love his new car no matter what people think of it.

Daily Journal 3/14: My Journey on a Pirate Ship

Ahoy there, mateys! I was sailing on my magnificent ship with me amazing crew of my friends Eric and Tyler, Captain Jack Sparrow, Captain Barbosa, Tetra and her fellow pirate mateys, and Monkey D. Luffy. As we were sailing and looking for treasure, a fleet of French navel ships started chasing after us. They were firing their onslaght cannons at us, but those scaliwags missed every shoot they fired by thousunds of miles it seemed. Then a great and terrifying Kraken came up and destroyed the entire fleet, and soon afterwards started chasing after us. Then to make things worse, a fleet of British navel ships were heading towards us in the opposite direction and we were entirely stuck. Then me matey, Luffy came up with a great idea; he stretched out his rubber arms to wrap around the Kraken, and with the help of the rest of me crew, he threw the Kraken rightat the British skaliwags and took them all out, and the Kraken fled down right down into Davey Jone's Locker. And so we continued our journey to find the One Piece and any other treasure me crew can find!

Daily Journal 3/10

An old farmer was furious that all these rabbits were eating all of his carrots and lettuce, so he decided to try to hunt them with his shotgun. Unfortunately, the rabbits were way too fast for him, and the farmer had really bad aiming as well. He even tried setting up bear traps by them and have a carrot in the middle of it as bait, but the rabbits never got anywhere near them. He even put up electrical fences around his vegetable garden, but the rabbits digged under those fences and got through to the vegetables once again. Then he realized that there was one fat rabbit that was eating most of the vegetables, and he remembered that rabbits have great hearing. So he got about 50 feet away from then started saying "You know, back when I was a young lad..." The fat rabbit fell asleep almost instantly, but the farmer kept going on his stories for about three hours, and when he was done, the rabbit was still asleep. So the farmer put the rabbit in a cage and decided to keep it as a pet to have someone actually listen to his tales of when he was younger, and the rabbit was always so sleepy and bored from every single one of those boring stories.

Daily Journal 3/9

Indiana Jones was grabbing another rare and priceless treasure in an ancient ominous temple hopes of bringing it into a museum. When he swiftly grabbed the treasure, magma began to flow from behind him, and he noticed a way out from the top of the temple. He was reaching for his whip when he realized that it disappeared somehow. So Indie had to climb up the walls and jump across many stone pillars to reach the top. When he got out of the lava pit, he noticed a small hallway that lead to the outside. However, that hallway contained many poisonous snakes. Indie grabbed a torch next to him and attempted to use it to scare them away. He nearly got bitten countless times while trying to walk carfully over to the exit of the temple. When he finally made it out, he saw Shorty standing near the enterance, beating up some Nazi bad guys with Indie's whip. By the time Shorty fending all the Nazis off, Indie went up to him asking him why he took the whip. Shorty proudly responded saying "I want to be like you, beating up bad guys, getting rare treasure, and getting lots of girls!"

Daily Journal 3/8

I'm a pile of paper that had useful information on the amount on savings account amounts in the past that the person now considers useless. The person saved up 50 of us papers for good measure, and now he plans to rid of us by the use of a shredder. We all get scared seeing the sight of the gigantic glutton of paper and we hoped that the window would open to blow us out of the pile, or hopefully getting blown to the outside world. The first piece of paper that was on to was completly scared knowing that he'd be the first and he was having suicidal thoughts, even though he knew he couldn't kill himself no matter how hard he tried. We have heard the grinding of the shredder and the screams of other pieces of paper while we were hidden in a self in the person's work desk and we all hoped that we wouldn't have to die a painful death. When it was finally our time to come, the first piece of paper on top got shredded and we heard him screaming in pain. However, instead of killing the pile one at a time, he picked us all up and we were all shredded at the same time. After the shredding, we were reduced to thousands of small strips in a giant pile of other strips. Instead of being with a new family of papers, after being shredded, the person burned the rest of us and we were reduced to nothing.

Daily Journal 3/7

Mariah Bartsch and Joey Catsalgi met on his first day of work. Joey was so excited to begin his job and try out his learning experience from a business college. Joey had an easy time getting into the business college from his high grades and his parents helped him pay for some of the college expenses. Mariah on the other hand didn't have it so easy. Her parents got divorced when she was about 6 years old and both of them were pretty poor and they didn't pay nearly any attention to her since they were both trying to make a living from the poor jobs they had. She also had bad grades in school and when she was in high school, when she found out what she wanted to do and what college she wanted to go to, she had to do a lot of cramming on studying and school work and barely got into a community college. She had to get a job before she ended high school and throughout college in order to pay for the expenses, which her parents souldn't easily afford. Despite those problems in the past, Joey wanted to become great friends with Mariah and help her out with the problems she's been having recently. After seeing Joey being so optimistic and happy, Mariah mangaged to smile for the first time after her parent's divorce.

Final Poem.....

I watch the Sakura petals gliding in the breeze as I travel up the steep hill

Heading up to begin my first days of high school and start on a new journey

Ready to being my new classes and make new friends with happiness and strong will

But as I keep walking, I start to remember the fun things during by vacation that I miss so badly


Freely going to many shops, restaurants, and karaoke places with my middle school friends

Walking in parks full of Sakura trees and sitting by sand gardens calming my mind and soul

Oh, how I wished all those beautiful days of freedom never ends

But I'll feel more sad once those days of beautiful springs and summers hit their toll.

Daily Journal 3/4

I would pay for the fastest transportation possible to head to Japan. While I'm at Japan, I would eat a ton of ramen, curry, udon, yakisoba, and okonomiyaki and not care about my stomach. I'd visit all the big and awesome shops in Akihabara in Tokyo where I can buy whatever the heck I want and have it stored with all of my other memorable items. I'd also go over to Toyama to see my exchange student and see his family to see what they've been up to and tell them that I will suddenly die soon. I'd also try to visit as many shrines and temples as I can. Then I'd end things by playing as many of my favorite video games as I possibly can and watch as much of my favorite anime shows as I can.

Villanelle Poem

Soaring in the clear skies is a fiery dragon

with its tail and wings burning ablaze

and a body shining an elegant crimson.



Living freely high in a burning mountain

Full of scorching rocks, lava and blaze

Feeling safe and dominant in his fiery heaven.



Gliding in the dark clouds is an icy dragon

with body and claws covered in ice and haze

shining a beautiful sapphire and eyes glowing of jasmine.



Living in a mountainous forest that's completely frozen

with dead trees and harsh blizzards creating an inescapable maze.

staying safely and calmly in his freezing haven.


Fire and ice are two opposites, but with a bond that can't be easily broken

Living the way they've always without harm from the human's ways

No knights slaying or formations of a village rebellion.


Fighting each other because they are opposites is their only reason

Fighting with freezing ice and incinerating blaze

Burning strength and cool wisdom making a strong legion

Two opposites with a strong bond, the fire and the ice dragon.

Daily Journal 3/3

10 Great Moments that have happened so far in my life

1. Going to Japan over the summer
2. Hosting a Japanese exchange student for a school year
3. Going to Jamacia
4. Getting a dog
5. Getting accepted into Normandale
6. Being able to stay with exchange student and his family during Japan trip
7. Going on a cruise
8. Getting confirmed at church
9. Going to prom and starting my first relationship
10. Being a part of the Culture Fair

Etheree Poem

Sword
of the
light goddess,
the one weapon
that can defeat the
evil gods of darkness
and free humanity from
the end of their world and of light.
One with the pure heart of the goddess
may wield it and fulfill light's prophecy.

Daily Journal 3/2

How ridiculous I was as Aquaman. From some random marine biological science experiment gone horribly wrong, I apparently gained the useless, goofy power of Aquaman. To make this twist even more silly and stupid, my powers work less than half the time, and everytime I fail at communicating with a sea creature, they begin to attack me for reasons unknown. When I first did the marine biology studying, the only fear I had was having a shark or whale jump out of the water and splash water on me, and everytime one jumped up, I ran behind one of my workers thinking "don't drench me, man.", now I fear the possibility of an octopus putting its tenticles on my face or getting attacked by sharks or dolphins. And when I'm on land, my powers don't do ANYTHING! Being Aquaman sucks!

Name Poem

Always so calm and quiet
Laid back and full of kindness
Even very shy around people
Xcited and cheerful around friends and family


Knowledgable and good in school
Loves video games, manga and anime
Into things about Japanese culture and fantasy
Nice fun sense of humor
Great family, fun friends
Entertaining and caring
Respectful to many

Daily Journal 3/1

One thing I'd like to change about our own government would probably have to be with the decision making on new laws and bills, to make it more simple and if it passes, try to have the process sped up more than usual since it seems so hard for many bills to be passed and it takes forever for them to go into effect. Another thing to change for the government is to have anything that doesn't seem to screw up the whole country and make our way of living a whole lot easier and having that "American Dream" actually be posible. Something to change for the Real World would have to be ending all that corruption and all in countries like the Middle East, Korea, and Cuba; and also stopping the poverty/corruption in all parts of Africa. I'd also think of supplying more money and supplies to all the places that need it like Africa aand Haiti. A lot of us can only hope good things will happen to this world, but with the way all the governments are set up, it'll take an eternity before the world gets better.

Daily Journal 2/28

The house was made of dragon scales that twinkle so brightly in the sunlight, you can't even squint to look at its shine. All we had to use to move all the scales to make the house was a wobbly wagon and a couple donkies to pull it; we had to take several trips to move the scales to where the house was going to be built and the wagon kept dropping a few scales. By the time my partner and I brought all the scales over to the unfinished house, we were adding those scales onto it and finding ways to make the scales stay on was really difficult. Though our work was taking us what seemed like ages to make, my partner and I were having some fun, having a gabby and being really silly about it, talking about old people tales we were told of and the craziest things the kids like to do. By the time we finished, we were in awe that the house we made would be the prettiest and the strongest in the whole village.

Sonnet Poem

What majestic creatures dragons can be
With gigantic wings and shimmering scales
Full of power and grace and bravery
Well known and ferocious in many tales
Some can be found on the highest mountains
Some of them can be in the deepest seas
Many can be soaring in the heavens
Or even in a forest full of trees
They can have powers of wind and fire
And earth, water, lightning, and even ice
Powers of light full of good desire
And darkness with thoughts of evil and vice
Creatures that can be respected or feared
Or worshipped as strong dieties or gods
Others can think they're fun and really weird
Others think their existence has no odds
No matter if they're big, weak, strong, or tall
They are earth's most unique creatures of all

Daily Journal 2/25

The first of the three people, living or dead, I would like to sit at a table with would be Makoto Nagano, two time champion of Ninja Warrior since I would like to know all of the training he's done on that fishing boat and I've always wondered why he got so dedicated to compete in all those Ninja Warrior competitions he was in. The next person would have to be Will Smith since I consider him to be my favorite actor; I love Fresh Prince, and some of the movies he was in like the Men in Black series. The last person I would choose to be with at a table would be Jesus to learn about what his life was like back then and ask him all the many questions about all the things that happened in the Bible, and listen to a few words of praise as well.

Assonance Poem

A slash, then a crash, as a Samurai cuts down bamboo
As he trains his fighting skills, his mind and his soul
Then Sakura petals begin to sail from a short and strong gale
Calming his mind and making him forget of his worries
A Koi fish in a a lake makes a splash, then returns into the water in a flash
Waking the Samurai's mind from getting carried away with the Sakura petals
The Samurai returns to his training by slashing the small Sakura petals
As they glide away from him, then fly up to the heavenly sky
Dedicated to his training, his heart is a strong fire, burning with desire
To become a great protector of his village
Finishing his training for the day, he lies down with his muscle straining
Then he lets his mind soar into the air with the ellagent Sakura petals.

Daily Journal 2/24

One of the scariest moments I've recently had was when I got myself lost in a really long shopping district in Kyoto, Japan. My school group of 12 and I split up into groups of 3-4 and we were given about an hour in a half to explore the shopping district and buy whatever we wanted. There were a ton of nice shops, from places where you could buy actual Japanese cuisine to buying Yukatas (Japanese robes). During the shopping, I decided to try to follow two other guys in my group, not sure exactly where they were going, and in a couple seconds, I lost them and the other guys in my group from the giant crowd. I ended up getting lost for about 15-20 minutes, running to one side hoping it was near the place to meet when we were done. I didn't have my cell phone with me since American phones don't actually work in Japan. But when one of the group members found me, I felt reliefed and pretty embarrassed for not knowing where to go to get to the meeting place. I got a Yukata at a small shop and went with the group and went back to the meeting place in front of the station and left for our next destination.

Marching Band

Daily Journal 2/23

Coming from a family that's pretty laid back and clean, I have plenty of pet peeves. For instance, one of the simple ones I have are people that don't clean up after themselves and leave a pretty big mess somewhere; it just annoys me to see how lazy and how messy these people can really be. Another one I have are annoying kids that don't control themselves and the parents that don't stop or control their behavior or don't even try. There are times where kids (nearly any age) should control themselves, mainly for them, it can be in school or at restaurants or any public place to not make a scene. The biggest one I have are people that don't have respect for anyone or anything, from no respect for the law, family, friends, or even strangers. People should have some respect for one another and they shouldn't think they're "Above the law or better than anyone else."

Alliteration Poem

Soldiers wielding swords start their attck on enemy soil

Bold and brave men ready to battle until they die

Fighting to free their families and friends, for their lives will be a big recoil

So they start to storm the enemy, ready to sacricife themselves for you and I.



They thundered the gate and thrash their weapons on them

Men full of blood and bruises battling for what's believed to be an eternity

The war stops as the last soldier stands and the last Sakura pedal soars from the stem

For the warriors that fought and forfeited their lives did it for you and me.

Early Childhood Memories

One of the earliest childhood memories I had would probably have to be when my family first moved in from a small home in Eagan to a pretty big culdisac in Apple Valley. When we first moved in there, we had plenty of people welcoming us, and there were a lot of neighborhood kids that were nearly the same age as me and my brother. During the time when we first moved in, my mom began a small daycare at our home mainly for the kids in the neighborhood. We had plenty of friends there, and some of them were pretty nice and often times fun. But now, we live in a new neighborhood in Apple Valley, and while the house in the culdisac became too small for our family, it had some pretty nice memories with the nice people in the neighborhood.

Sense of Time Poem

June
June is Blue
The color of Sky and Life
June feels like Freedom and a New Beginning
It sounds like Chirping Birds and Calm Blowing Winds
It smells like Flowers and Plants
It tastes like Grilled Meat and Classic Childhood Foods
It begins your fun life of freedom and opportunity.

Daily Journal 2/18

A man walks into the cold night air. His hands are shaking from what happened. He went into an electronics expo featuring all the amazing upcoming pieces of technology and upcoming games. As he was exploring around, he noticed a long line in the Nintendo booth. Curious as to why it was so long, he decided to go into the line and wait for about an hour to see what everyone was so anxious about. When he was finally in the front line, he saw the Nintendo 3DS, and at first, he didn't look impressed at all of the look of the handheld, but he decided to play a game demo anyway on it to see what all the hype was about. When he first turned started playing it, he completely jumped by seeing that the game was being played in an awesome 3D setting without wearing any kind of glasses, and he was amazed by how well the 3D was used during the gameplay. After playing the demo, he left the booth wanting to go back in the line and play on that amazing handheld again, but he had to explore the rest of the expo. He saw so many interesting things in there from things involving computers to futurisic looking cars. Before he left, he decided to go back to the booth that had the 3DS. Thankfully, the line wasn't as long, and he decided to play another demo one last time before he left. When he finished, he was convinced that he would get himself a 3DS when it comes out in America, and with happiness and shock, he left the expo and walked out into the cold night and headed home.

Parts of Speech Poem

The Dragon

Intimidating yet Majestic

Flying and Breathing Fire

Creature of Fantasy

Daily Journal 2/17

One thing I'm looking foward to getting is the Nintendo 3DS; a lot of the games look amazing, they have a lot more awesome and unique features than any of the other DS systems and in a way similar to Wii like features, also being able to play regular DS games, and the 3DS games you play are in 3D without the need for glasses. It's pricy for a handheld, costing at $250, and each game is about $40. It comes out on March 27, but I'm going to wait until some of the games I want on it are released, like Kid Icarus Uprising, the new Mario Kart game, Dead or Alive Dimensions, and any other new games that are announced. Another reason I'll wait is that in early March, I'll be getting a new DS game, Pokemon Black, and I'll possibly get another new DS game, Okamiden. I do have the money for those things, but I really want to be saving up my money with college coming around, and I still need to find a job as well. Nearly every day, I feel so anxious to see what the 3D looks like when I play any of the games and how well it is used in the gameplay. All I can say is that the 3DS is going to be awesome.

Cinquain

Phoenix,
Wings full of flames,
Majestically fies
Into the bright and beautiful
Heavens.

Daily Journal 2/16

I wake up and try to take a deep breath, but the deeper the breath, the more severe the pain. The ground is hard beneath my back, and I feel a dull pain in my arm. While the pain felt dull, my arm was bleeding really badly, but fortunately, it wasn't my sword wielding arm. The battle's still going on, and as I get up, I wonder how in the world I didn't die, how I got knocked out, and also why no one finished me off. There were so many dead soldiers on the ground, about half of my fellow soldiers and half of the enemy's, and suprisingly, none of the enemy soldiers noticed me when I got back up, they were too busy fighting the soldiers blocking the gateway into the temple. So I covered my arm from the bleeding, and quckly rushed in to help out my fellow soldiers at the gate. I managed to kill two enemy soldiers before they took notice of me, and right when they gave all that focus on me, the gate guarding soldiers managed to take down most of the enemy soldiers before any of them could finish me off, and so we began our attack on the enemy's base.

Metaphor

A good friend is like your room,
it's one of those things you always feel
comfortable around.

They even have many memorable things
that are just so hard to let go of or take
for granite.

While it can make many rearrangements
and changes as time goes by, it'll still be the
same thing you still remember it by.

You also need to take care of it whenever
it is needed to clean things up with it and
make it feel a whole lot better to be with.

Love your friends and have some respect
for your room, they both can have great
memories all the time.

Best Friend!

My best friends are Eric and Brittney since I know about them so well. I've known about Eric ever since my first year in Marching Band before I started my sophmore year, and I've known about Brittney pretty much since she was born (she's 2 years younger than me). Eric has somewhat curled up hair, wears glasses, has pretty bad vision, and loves to make references to many things on the internet. Brittney likes to change her looks a lot; right now, she has long hair, likes to put plenty of makeup on, and swhe always like to help out make fun of the things we do, whether we're watching something or playing some video game; and in a way, I kind of like to think of Brittney as a younger sister I've never had since I'm pretty much the youngest in my family. I love my best friends!

Simile Poem

Melancholy feels like winter with the lack of life and sun shining happiness around.

Anger sounds like broken glass shattering, not being able to defend itself from the rage.

True love is like a myth because everyone thinks it's too good to be true at first.

Family feels like being in your bed in your room, all comfortable and always feeling safe.

School is like your family, something you usually don't like to talk about, but overall, you really like it a lot.

Simile Activity

1. A calendar is like a mirror because you are able to see how busy and how hard working you can really be.

2. A sandwich is like a cell phone because it can easily be convinient and easy to carry around.

3. An ice cube is like a cookie because they can both be easily crumbled.

4. A knife is like a whisper because it's silen, and it can be deadly.

5. Kissing is like a careful collision because its outcome can be very unpredictable.

6. Cold meat feels like a peeled grape.

7. A stomach ache feels like leftover spaghetti.

8. Falling in love sounds like a myth because it can feel like it's too good to be true.

9. A dentist's drill feels like torture because of the terrifying sound it makes.

10. Tomato Soup tastes like bleeding hearts because it makes you feel like you're drinking blood.

Daily Journal 2/14

Out of the dark we came, into the storm where lightning constantly rained down and it was too dangerous for us to stay out there long, and we couldn't get back in to that place of darkness. We heard a squeal coming from another building that looked like it was covered in darkness. When we entered, the place had a bad reek of cigarette smoke and alcohol, and we heardmore squeals getting all excited from the music that was playing. That's when we noticed a lot of women going crazy over an awesome and crafty trumpet player who seemed to be quite the ladie's man. So we decided to stay to have a few drinks and listen to the great trumpet music and do our best to ignore all that stupid squealing and cheering of all those women.

Change Poem

A
Beautiful
Summer
Evening

Yellow
Sky
And
Warm
Breeze
From
The
Setting
Sun

Then
Storming
Clouds
Begin
Rolling
Over
And
Covering
The
Yellow
Sky

Rain
Falls
Down
Heavily
And
The
Cold
Wind
Freezes
To
The
Bone

Then
The
Storm
Passes
And
The
Evening
Sky
Returns
To
Set
Into
An
Evening
Night

Bucket List

*Get Married
*Go back to Japan
*Own a home in Japan
*Own a Ramen or Udon Bar
*Perfect my Japanese skills
*Go to someplace in Europe
*Play the Tuba again for a band
*Have Kids
*Gain some arm muscles
*Retire Happily

Limerick

There once was an old man named Griff
Who was senile, calm, and stiff
to his kids, he would say
"You know, back in my day..."
and make them want to jump off a cliff.

10 Years From Now

I wake up in a decent bed/futon at 7:30 AM in Japan by myself, not married yet, but in a relationship that hasn't gotten that far yet. I'm eating breakfast and then I leave for work. The day is beautful and hot, and I walk to work, which usually takes me about 15-20 minutes to get to. After a nice walk, I arrive at a simple, nice looking Ramen Bar and head to the kitchen area to get things prepared and help get the noodles set to be cooked. People don't show up until about 11, so I get plenty of time to get everything ready for cooking.

Ode to Shadow

Oh Shadow, so furry and playful you are
Always so anxious to play around no matter when or where
You always lighten my day whenever I see you,
From whining when I return home to seeing you lying on your back on a sofa
I adore your talking of growls and woofs you make trying to be so demanding in a funny way
You like to claim things a lot, from pillows, parts of a bed, or even socks
But you also have that selfless side cuddling up or licking us whenever we really need it
Always never having a care in the world but the care to be around others
Which makes me care for you a lot more for when you need it most.

Embarassing Moment

One of the most embarassing moment I had was in 6th grade; one of my intructor teacher people was talking to me about something involving an assignment I believe, while I was putting my stuff away, and I wasn't really paying much attention to it since I knew what to do, and when she finishd talking, I said "Yes, Mom", and after that, my classmates laughed and made me realize the mistake I made, and the teacher apparently said to me "It's alright, you can call me mom". When she said that, I thought "No way in heck I'll be calling you mom now, I was just being stupid."

Alex
Kind, Caring, Shy, Cheerful
Sibling of Zach
Lover of Japan, My Family,Video Games, Manga, and Anime
Who feels realxed when doing the enjoyable things I love
Who needs courage when feeling uncertain
Who gives kindness to his friends in need
Who fears rejection, pain, and uncertainty
Who would like to see Japan again
Resident of Apple Valley, Minnesota
Klinger

Haiku

Summertime in Japan

with temples, castles and shrines,

so calm and unique.

Daily Writing 2/7

and sees a monkey on your back. It pounces right on you and begins to attack the monkey. As the monkey runs around, a gorilla comes to save it and now the gorilla and the monkey begins to chase the lion while the zebra walks away. Before the zebra could get away, a 5o foot dragon appears in front of it and starts breathing fire on all the creatures while you attempt to get on the dragon's back. The dragon flicks you over with his tail, and when you landed on the ground, you noticed the monkey's tail is on fire. Then you notice a group of penguins walking down and trying to team up on the dragon, but the gorilla and the lion join in to attack them with the dragon. When you tried to get away, chickens begin to fall from the trees on top of your head, then they get cooked up by the dragon's fire, along with the Zebra, the Lion, the Monkey,the Penguins,and the Gorilla, while you sit in a corner in the feddle position, crying for mommy.

Thank You

My older brother Zach,

Thank you for all the generous things you have done for me and all the fun things we have done as well. Thank you for also giving me that common sense to help me know how to act when I'm around a public place or around home. We should probably contact each other a little more often if you're not that busy with college and being with your friends or girlfriend, and listen to the new things we have going on and have a few laughs with our "inside jokes". Even though you only do the nice things you've done as your duty as an older brother, I still feel like that I would want to pay you back somehow, even though you never want anything in return, just talking to each other seems to be the only thing you want, and that's good.
Thank you once again!
Alex

Most Memorable Events

Going to Japan
getting my dog
prom
breaking my leg
having an exchange student for a school year
school stay in Japan
marching band events
getting my license
brother leaving for college
Christmas in St. John (or any christmas I had)
Target Field opening day

Journal Entry

The best place I visited ever would probably have to be Japan. When I was there over the summer, the cities were so lively and the cultural castles, shrines, and gardens were calm and looked so amazing. I had a lot of true great Japanese food there as well, like ramen and yakitori. While I was there, my school group and I were a part of a week long school stay over in Toyama; and during that school stay, the host family I had was the family of the exchange student I hosted two years ago. We also visited Tokyo and Kyoto during our two week long trip. The shops in Japan were so amazing, about a hundred times better than in America, with department stores that can reach about ten stories high and filled with the most technological and fun items. I miss Japan now, and I hope I can go back there someday.

Free Writing

Something I'd like to learn more about to write are poetry and short stories, or any small fun thing to write where I could let my imagination be put to good use, and have it nicely done.I also want to improve more on my writing and grammar skills as well.