This Past Year

This has been a great year. I turned 10 this year and got into a few new things that I really loved.

I'm still playing club soccer for GPS North Shore and Stefano Franciosa is my coach. He is really good and I keep working to get better. This year I got 198 juggles, just 2 away from 200. This summer I am going to get to 200.

I also started playing tennis which I really like. I have been watching it too and I think Djokavic is my favorite player.

My grandpa just built us a ping pong table in our yard so now I am playing that too and I have a really good forehand. I can beat my dad and my grandpa, but my mom is still the best.

Our family went to Europe this year and I got to see England where I was born which was great. I really liked Scotland and France though.  While there we traveled a lot so I read a lot of my book Harry Potter. Now I am on book 6 The Half Blood Prince. JK Rowling is a really good author.

My other favorite author is Brandon Mull. He is writing the Five Kingdoms series and I read the first three. He is also working on a sequel for Fablehaven which I can't wait to read next year.

I memorized the periodic table this year and my brother has been teaching me some chemistry. I also did a lot of cooking and baking this year trying different recipes.

I am pretty good at math and finished 6th grade math and got most of the way through 7th grade math on Khan Academy this year. Once I understand how something works I can solve it pretty fast.

I also got really into Origami this year and spent three months learning and practicing folding. I even made a whole Origami Castle with dragons and pigs and bunnies and flowers and trees. I entered the castle in the Newburyport Art Association Kids Show and I won $25. I think I was the youngest kid who won. I have some of my Origami on my DIY portfolio here: diy.org/sandman7

Other that than I still really like the Middle Ages and both learning about knights and castles and also playing stories with my toys. I got a real trebuchet and crossbow at a castle in France and now I am reading a book on how to make different catapults and trebuchets and things which is cool.

I am still playing the piano and I discovered the band Pentatonix. I really like A Capella music and think it's amazing how people can do those things with their voices. I learned Mary did You Know on the piano recently and Oh Come Oh Come Emmanuel with appregios.

Now that it's summer I am learning to Boogie Board. The waves aren't as big as the ones in Australia but it's still a lot of fun.

Africa

here is a cool fact: Africa has the most modern day countries 54 or so.

plant science book volume : 3

So i started reading this book my dad got for me. It was a science book about plants. Its about these twins Tracey and Blaine and their uncle Cecil. They have this zip-line that takes them to different places like the Amazon. They go to the Amazon in this book. They have this friend named Arrio. Arrio taught them about this flower. It's name is Moth Orchid. There is more than 20 thousand species of Moth Orchid in the Amazon rainforest. Orchids are emphytes. Emphytes means that they grow on tree branches. They get a lot of sun because they are high up there. They do not hurt the trees. They manage to get their sunlight and water from the air and the rain that falls from the canopy. A lot of people around the globe know about this flower because of its beauty and fragrance.

Fastest car in the world

I love fast cars. The fastest one I think is the Hennessey Venom. It can go 270 mph (434.5 Kilometers per hour).

The periodic table

Recently I memorized the periodic table. It is full of elements. We are made up of hydrogen the first element in the periodic table, also nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon. There is 118 elements in the periodic table and I can say all of them without looking in under 2 minutes

The Good Samaritan

So a lawyer asked Jesus one day how to gain eternal life and Jesus said you must know the law what does it tell you the lawyer said you must love god with all your heart and you must love you neighbor as much as you love yourself and then Jesus said you have answered right, the lawyer then said who is my neighbor, and Jesus replied in a story.
So a man was traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho. But then on the way some thieves came and they tore his clothes, took his money and beat him, then they ran away leaving the man on the side of the road nearly dead. And then a little while later a Priest came and saw the man but walked quickly on the other side of the road. The next man that came was a Levite a man that assisted the Priests in the temples. And then a third man came by he was a Samaritan he saw the man and healed his wounds an bandaged them then sent him to the nearest inn and looked after him for the night and then gave the innkeeper money to take care of the man.
Then Jesus asked the lawyer which of these three men was a true neighbor, the lawyer answered the samaritan. Then Jesus told the man to remember this story and be like the Samaritan.

Jesus feeds the five thousand

So the parable is like this these people were hungry and it was lunch time the disciples told Jesus that they should just go to the market and buy some food but Jesus told them to go and see if anyone had brought food, so the disciples went and found a boy that had a basket of two loafs of  bread and five fish and then Jesus makes it enough for more than five thousand people. There were even 12 baskets left that they saved for later.

Adventure at Europe

So we planned a trip to Europe. We went to Ireland, Scotland, Edinburgh, London, the Isle of Skye, Beynac, and Then Paris to Ireland back home. 

So the trip started with going on a bus to the airport. But when we got of the bus we couldn't find one of are bags, someone else had taken it. But we went on the plane to Ireland and then we went so Scotland, In the Isle of Skye There were lots of sheep and lamb. We went up this hill had a little picnic and went up two more bigger hills and then we came down we were tired after that. After we went to the fairy pools and we went off the path up the waterfalls, I found one that we went under. We found a heart rock and a fern. After that we went to Edinburgh and saw some of its castles and then we took a plane to London where I bought a soccer ball and a wallet. Then we went to Beynac where I got a trebuchet and a crossbow up in one of the castles. It was hard to speak there because nearly everyone spoke french. When we were in Paris I ate a chocolate Croissant every where we went in Paris. I got and Eiffel tower there and we went under the Eiffel tower. Me and my brother both touched it but we didn't climb up because it was a 2 hour wait. Then we went to Ireland and back home.:D