Piano In the hall of the mountain king

So I recently got into piano a little more than usual and I wanted to learn the song called In the hall of the mountain king. It's a really good song but it is really hard to learn on the piano. I had already learned how to play Pachelbel with arpeggio left hand. It's like a 5 minute song and it goes really fast at times, I really love it. So then I start to play the new song In the hall of the mountain king. It's not too hard at the start but after a minute or so it gets really hard and it goes really fast! It would be a lot easier with like four hands :) I think it will be hard to get done but in the end it will sound incredible and I will be glad I stayed with it and kept playing it. I also started learning a song called I Heard Him Come, It's a very good song, and I like it too. My grandpa really loves the song In the hall of the mountain king so I think it will make him very happy if I learn the entire song. The song was composed by Edvard Grieg. It starts out very low and slow then it gradually starts getting faster until you can barely play it that fast unless you are on fast forward :b.  My dad is teaching me the song and he is the best teacher ever, I play by ear and don't know how to read music but I don't have to because I can pick it up by ear.

The adventure to Latitude

So normal day and all but then out of the blue we decide to go to Latitude to play soccer.
Now you might be thinking why would I all of a sudden want to go to Latitude to play soccer, well is starts like this.
London, Skye(with an E at the end, she always makes a big deal if someone spells it without an E), Ian,(who were home taught) and Mom were off to a trip to go to play soccer at the Triton high school.There was snow outside and London's breath fogged up the window he was looking out of, he really hoped that there wouldn't be snow on Triton's turf soccer field so he could use his new ball he had just got from Dick's sporting goods store. He was twelve years old and loved playing soccer, his older brother Ian was fourteen years old and he really liked drawing and was really good at it, (He also played keeper for when  London wanted to practice his shot) Skye on the other hand had a passion for animals! She had 87 to be precise  (47 of which were her chickens) She had chickens, bunnies, geckos, birds you name it (she was also ten years old the youngest in the family). And their mom was a very nice woman who had a knack for cooking the best meals, and also was a professional photographer! She sold her art for quite a bit of money. "Were a couple of minutes away kids" said Mom "London you might want to get your shoes on now" she said while narrowly avoiding a crazy driver that was on his phone, "I already have them on mom" said London who had a fair amount of soccer shoes. They drove up to the soccer field and to their utter dismay the field was covered in snow. "Noo!" cried London he felt awful he had waited all morning to come here and now it was covered in snow. "Well to bad guys," said mom "Let's go swing by and get the raw milk for Colby's farm" (they were a very healthy family and they liked raw milk a lot!) "But mom" whined London "Can we please go to Latitude then?" (latitude was forty minutes from their house and it was almost lunchtime so everyone was pretty hungry) "Honey I am really hungry right now, maybe tomorrow" said mom who was truly hungry and wanted to go home. London just sat in his seat folded his arms and didn't say a word. 

Once they had arrived to Colby's farm and got the raw milk London's toes were getting pretty cold and he kept them by the heater of the car. On their way home though London kept persisting to go to Latitude, but mom kept saying that "We don't have membership there and I wont just drive for forty minutes just for them to say, you don't have membership you can't go play" So London had to settle for playing at Triton in the snow for half of an hour, even though Skye kept saying "Mommy please I don't want to go please!!". They went back to the high school to play soccer in the snow, now you might think this sounds fun (and it is with snow boots and snow pants) but London had been wanting to do knuckle shots on a perfect turf surface, so when he walked up to the snow and found that when the ball rolled on the wet snow it stuck to the ball and it was very heavy and he couldn't shoot it it was not fun at all.When he walked back to the car where Skye and Mom waited with the heat running.London had Ian put the ball in the back of the car and slammed the cars door when he went in, he was really vexed at how bad it had been. 

The atmosphere in the car on the way back home was full of tension because of London's bad mood.When they got home London didn't do much and just wanted the next day to come. When dad came home he was not as happy as he usually was.When he went to bed that night all he could think about was hitting the perfect knuckle balls at Latitude, his mom had told him that he could go to Latitude if he did his touches routine that morning.

When he woke up the next morning his clock showed 3:24 AM "Seriously" thought London and went back to bed but this time set an alarm on his clock for 7 AM (he could do this because he was home taught) and went back to bed.

DING!DING!DING!DING! DING!DING!DING!DING! DING!DING!DING!DING! was the sound that the alarm clock made at exactly 7:00 AM London jumped out of bed and ran downstairs as if it were Christmas morning. Mom and Ian were out running.

London opened the door of the kitchen and a gust of wind caught him by surprise and blew him back into the house, it was freezing cold and the door banged against the wall "Crapit" yelled London who had fallen hard on his back.He rushed to shut the door before it hit the wall again. He wondered how on earth Mom and Ian were running in this gelid weather. He went to the room to do his touches and started doing them with some music. He did his Bobbles, his Toe taps, his Triangle touches, and his passing. Once he was done he had that good feeling once you have done something hard and you can go and do the thing that you really wanted to do after, like going to do knuckle balls at latitude for example. SO they ate breakfast and mom called Latitude to see if anyone else was playing there so we could go play. The lady said "Oh no, no one is playing at this moment" how she said that it sounded like no one was playing but someone could pop up in a few minutes and start playing there. So mom said "Has anyone booked the field? Because if they haven't then we would like to go play there" "No, no one has booked it" said the ladies voice through the phone "do you want to book it?"
Mom said No but the lady insisted "No one is playing there you can book it" so mom just hung up on her. London started laughing and said "Atta' girl mom" they did a fist bump and did that thing with you fingers from big hero six.

Later that day they were driving to latitude and making the plan on how to get into latitude without them asking "do you have your card with you?" London thought back to when they had played at latitude on a Friday. They had been carrying soccer bags and looked pretty professional at the time. They had gotten through without a word from the lady who was at the front desk.
They decided that they were going to go in with the soccer bag, then if they asked them if they had there card we would just say "oh we have soccer" So when they got there they put the balls in the bag and the cleats. then they tried to walk in with someone else but there was no one else around. So they braved it and walked into the doors. Skye was nervous and clung to mom. The warm air hit their faces and everyone sighed(It was really cold outside)"The lady at the desk turned toward us with a red hot stare" London later recounted mom casually said "we're here for soccer" the lady's stare changed to a nicer face and said quickly "OK" though she looked a little unsure. We rushed up the stairs and once we were far enough away that no one could hear us we couldn't hide our jubilation, Skye was the first to shout a cry of triumph everyone was so joyful! London got to the doors first and opened them. He walked inside, it was a pretty good sized field with U-12 soccer nets to shoot on.

Chess

So I recently got really into chess. I started getting into it more when my dads family came over for thanksgiving. Now since then I have been watching a lot YouTube videos on how to checkmate opponents quicker and a lot of traps. I try to use some of these tactics from YouTube vs the computer but then they just do a different move that was not in the YouTube  tutorial. So I keep hitting the undo button until they do what I want them to do:)
I really like chess and I want to be able to beat the computer on 7 in 13 weeks.
I hope I can do it it's going to be hard and fun though.
I really like putting like the computers horse in danger and then having him run away and I say "That's what I thought!" :)
I also like putting the computer in a trap with my queen, I put his king in check he moves away and then I kill his Rook.
I am going to get a Chess set for Christmas It is going to be awesome. I am going to play a lot of chess over the rest of the winter.
I also like doing the four move and two move checkmate.
The two move checkmate usually doesn't work unless your opponent is very weak.
Basically you have to be the white pieces so they move first. They move their pawn to G4 then you move your pawn to D6. Then they would have to move the other pawn to F3. In which you would move your queen to H4 and you have your 2 move checkmate.
For the 4 move checkmate it's easier to do if you are white. So you would move your pawn to E4, in which they would usually play E5, so then you would move your bishop to 4C .Then they would take there horse out onto C6, then you would play your queen to F3 to attack the weak F7 square, then if they were not careful and they just moved a pawn to D6 then you would just move your queen to F7 and it is checkmate. I really enjoy chess and hope to get really good at it.

LionBoy

So I recently read this book called LionBoy.
At first it wasn't that good and it took a few chapters to actually get into it, but when I did it was hard to put down!
So it's about this kid named Charlie who has an ability to speak cat! He has a mom and dad that are very smart and have a room full of cures for everything.
One day his parents are kidnapped and a kid from his town named Rafi says he was goign to take care of him now.
Then he goes on an epic chase on trying to rescue his parents.
The cats help him on the way to Paris and bring him and send letters for him to give to his parents.
He goes onto a ship that has a circus.
He meets some lions on the ship and he becomes the lion trainers assistant.
Then he talks to the lions and has them help him to get away from this circus ship and to go find his parents that were by chance heading for Venice, (he was going to Venice too before he went to Paris.)
Then he gets away from where the circus was going on and he ran away with the Lions.
But Rafi happened to be there as well and he ran after them, one of the lionesses bit him and threw him into the water.
Then they got onto a train and he put the lions on top of it.
Then he finds that the kind of Bulgaria is on the train.
He turns out to be a very kind person.
He found out that there were lions on his train but he was nice and asked Charlie what he was going to do with them.
Charlie told him his whole story(leaving out the part about him being able to speak cat.)
The king got his adviser Edward into the room and Edward told him that his parents knew how to cure asthma and the people who kidnapped his parents didn't want everyone to know how to cure it because then they wouldn't make any money anymore, so they captured his parents.
I really liked this book and look forward to reading the other two books in this Trilogy :)
   

Echo audio-book

So we have recently been traveling a lot with soccer and needed to be doing something in the car.

Read a book? Eh it is way to hard and u get tired after a while, but listen to a book? Yes, it is perfect, it doesn't take much energy and it is great for everybody to be part of it.

So we got the audio-book called Echo.                                             it started out awesome with a little boy that found a book and it turned out to be a book that the things inside it like the 3 sisters were in real life. Then it goes to a composer and a few other people and they all love music, they play the Harmonica. It kept on stopping on the worst but very interesting parts, like Fredrick's father just went to the natzi camp when you have to work for your life. Then on a little girl when she just finds out that a reporter comes to home and her brother is in the war. And someone else falls of a tree and stops breathing. But in the end it wrapped everying up and said that all of the characters come together and start an orchestra and the little girl (that is now big) played the Harmonica, and everything works out great. This book actually inspired me to start playing the Harmonica and I now know how to play the song happy birthday.

recent things

So I have a couple games this weekend in New York with the New England Revolution youth academy squad.We have to leave our house at like 4 thirty to make it at six Thirty at Gillete.It is going to be crazy, we are going on a bus playing at 11 then staying at a hotel then sleeping then playing in the morning and then going home.

We went to the beach today from 11 to 4.It was really fun we played in the waves and I read out on the sun and we ate some good food.We drew a lot at the beach with some sticks.

I have been doing some algebra on Khan and am getting a little better.Some of the problems are hard and me and my brother argue.

I was doing some history with the book and it was pretty fun trying to memories it then right it down. I did pretty good, I am reading Harry potter again and also The series by Lloyd Alexander like the Black Cauldron and the High King. They are really fun reads.

PES 2018

Ok so I just pre-ordered Pes 2018 and I got it yesterday (the day it came out).
It is just like Pes 2017 when I got it, the players didn't run as fast, the screen was zoomed out more, and it was just better altogether.
I think I will be able to learn more tactics now because it is not as like glitchy, it is a lot more realistic.
The passing is a lot better like not every pass is on the ground, and I like how the graphics are.
I got Luka Modric for the all black ball spin, he plays centre midfield for Real Madrid.
I also got Wilfried Zaha from crystal palace.
I haven't played a lot but I think it will be awesome.
I am going to try to get 50 passes and then score, that would be awesome, I also got Diego Lopez in goal, Then I got Javier Mascherano, who plays for FC Barcelona. So then I got Luisao  left center back with Mascherano as the right centre back.
Then I got a really bad left back and I don't know his name, Then I got Danilo at right back. Then I got a really bad defensive midfielder, then Arturo Vidal and Modric in the centre midfield (Vidal is on loan).
Then A silver centre forward, Usain Bolt LWF and Zaha RWF.                                                         I am going to try doing some penetrating passes and getting numbers up.                                       In PES 2017 All I did was run up With Carrasco and then have Ibra head it in.                             I think Pes 2018 will teach a lot more tactics.

I am going to play right now:)