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Hi all! It's already the summer, and I'm going through my daily routine (which I planned out down to the minute) that is busier than school, possibly. But whatever. I made it so that by 3:00, I'm done with everything and I can do whatever I want after that point.
You'll all be glad to hear that I put BLOGGING in my schedule! I set aside a whole hour to blog. From 7:30 to 8:30! I can blog on my innumerable annoying blogs (many of which I have not posted more than thrice on) for a whole entire hour! (Although I'm probably going to erase the majority of my innumerable annoying blogs due to their inactivity and vestigial purpose.)

So yesterday, I went on a trip to the library and got my summer reading books. Thank goodness I live on the edge of town--the scramble for the summer reading books had already begun. It's inevitable that most kids are going to go to the library to borrow the summer reading books (unless some people decide they're worthy of purchase), and there's obviously more than five people in my grade. This means that by perhaps the first day of summer vacation, all of the libraries are out of that specific book and it's on hold for so many people that they're not sure when it's going to be available again. (This actually happened.)
So again, thank goodness I live at the edge of town. The library that we go to is in another town, who doesn't have the same summer reading books as us, meaning it's available. (:
Unfortunately, though, there are more students living at the edge of town than just my family, so quite a few books were on hold for 'an indeterminable amount of time' as well. But still. One book was still not checked out! (The Book Thief by Markus Zusak)

I am going to try to stock up on some good books this summer. I've gained interest in non-fiction books, as well, which is strange, because before, non-fiction never really seemed to appeal to me.
(I'm going to have to decipher the Dewey decimal system, though. I really can't find my way through the library. All that stuff from second grade. Have to pull that out of the back of my brain again.)
I think I should start reading a lot more biographies, since I'm at the age where I have to start thinking about professions. Where else to start better than in books about the successes of human history? (Or the tragedies, for that matter.) Perhaps they will serve as an inspiration, give me an idea of what some jobs are like, and also give me courage for my future.

Aaaand, I've found a new interesting author to search for. John Green! I've been watching their (John Green and his (awesome) brother, Hank Green's) CrashCourse videos (which are short, concise, entertaining, yet very informative videos about a range of subjects such as Biology, Chemistry, US history, and even Literature) on youtube, as well as their Vlogbrothers channel. It's funny, seeing 'nerds' vlog and rant about nerdy things. I've also heard about how great an author he is (or rather, how great his books are), so yesterday, before going to the library, I checked on the online catalog if they had any John Green Books. (We do that a lot--before going to the library, we check if they're actually in the library in the first place.)
So apparently, a lot of people think that John Green is a great author. A LOT. Because ALL of his books, and I mean all were checked out--not only checked out, but PUT ON HOLD for an "indeterminable amount of time"!!
Thankfully, one book was just on hold by one person (and not, cough, an indeterminable amount of time-amount-of-people COUGH), so we put that on hold, too. I have a feeling that it's going to be on hold for an indeterminable amount of time in the near future, as well.

Welp, I commend you, John Green, for driving me crazy, and making our library busy with your books. And giving us only two weeks to read the book when other people put the book on hold after us (heh, we usually renew the books for nearly months, until it's too late and we forget and we have to pay a fine to the library).


Happy reading!



PS. Oh, and regarding how my "very loose" English essay went, she actually gave me an A! Which is the weirdest thing. I guess some people like my sarcastic tone. Yay! Huzzah! (I've always wanted to say that. Huzzah. Heehee.)

So I am extremely surprised at this sudden advance not only in design, but in convenience and up-to-date-ness of blogger. Again, I shall say--Blogger fails to fail me once more.
Actually it's the first time I've said that.

Anyway, here comes the idea of a DW. DW is an abbreviation for Daily Writing, meaning I write every day, literally. It's part of my Summer WorkBook plan. Of course, I wrote daily in my notebook. In fact, I had five sections in the notebook  (It's the sort with the folder/dividers to make five sections). The first section for DW, the second for Summer Study Books, the third for Geometry Notes, the fourth for Geometry problems, and the fifth, you can name whatever, but the truth lies beneath nothing.

Anyhow, I changed the first section to essay-writing, and the DW will be transferred to here, this blog. It will be filed under the label "Daily Writing", and I greatfully respect blogger because of their sudden convenience in making new labels without publishing it then naming it.

It feels very high tech, yet it seems to be missing the coziness of the previous blogger, with the two layers of tabs and multiple links.

So here is today's DW. Quite bloggy, and shortly thereafter I shall change the mood of a bloggy DW to a writey DW. Anyhow, here I am, writing in a public blog, which is, wherefore, I am not revealing much personal or of the sort information.

Anyhow, my Emsred story is quite well planned out, and in fact, I am working on it very well.
The progress of the actual plan, however, is not, and in fact, I fear I must be failing myself and any of those who truly follow this blog (which I regard as none). Therefore, this is just failing myself, but yet I'm not so happy even if I'm just failing myself, because as it is only one and just me whom I am failing, the importance is that I am failing at all. Therefore, I must quicken my pace or at least modify it (which would be wimping out), so I shall just quicken my pace.

I honestly think Emsred was quite a fit name, because it sounds like Emerald; green, bright, shining, inspiring, wondorous, yet brave but beautiful emerald. The 'red' part was not included because of the color, but I dunno.
I started out with Emerald, and then the name just sort of came to my mind, and then I knew. I knew I had found The Name, and that Emsred was just fit for it. Nothing further said about it.
And then the Grendall. My brother says that Grendall was in Lord of the Rings, but when you think of it, my brother only has seen three minutes in the middle of the Lord of the Rings movie while surfing the TV (and not the web) in Delaware when we were bored, so I don't really trust him. Yet, I sort of do (which is highly irregular), because Grendall did feel like a name I had also heard during that three minutes of intense Lord of the Rings movie. But it also felt like the perfect name for Grendall, an old, wise, yet kind man who helps Emsred.
Although I had never read Lord of the Rings before, I wanted it to be slightly the mood of Lord of the Rings. And honestly, I know nothing besides the fact that there is a hobbit, an old man, and that it's fantasy. No lie.
But for some faint reason, I sort of pretended to myself that Emsred was like Lord of the Rings. Emsred was like that whoever-it-was that I saw in the movie, probably the main character, hobbit, and that Grendall was like that old man whoever-it-was who died for the group of whoever-they-were, and that the story would be like whatever-it's-like. Honestly, I have no clue why it has anything to do with Lord of the Rings besides the fact that they're both fantasy.
Perhaps those three minutes, those three intense minutes that I watched ever so intense-fully, had inspired me to write Emsred. In fact, I actually like Lord of the Rings. A lot. Imean,
I never read it before, heard of only the first book--The Hobbit, from school, and that's all. I didn't like it before, because I didn't like dragon-fantasy books, (Harry Potter doesn't count, it's not dragon-fantasy. You have to be me to understand) and Lord of the Rings sounded very much like one of those fancy dragon-fantasy books.

Right now is very late, and my brother is bugging me about a bug on the wall (HAH. get it?), so I will go to sleep.
I must resume writing my "Emsred and the Order of Death" story tomorrow. I drastically changed the plot and characters, so I am in a slight cloud of confusion. If only...
it'll clear away, as a mist slowly gathers away from the beautiful landscape.

Until then,
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A very surprising thought, indeed, that a historical fiction book which won the newberry award with a normal boring cover written in the old sort of style about a historical time period would be, actually, fun. Now, besides the last four words of the prior sentence, it seems like an extremely boring, dreadful book that drones on about "tis this" and "tis that" and "twas this" and "twas that", but it actually was sort of suspenseful and fun. I found myself reading beyond chapter two, and I thought I was on chapter three, but it turned out I was on chapter four. So, so far, it isn't a bad or dissapointing book. Better than I thought, actually, because I thought it'd be best to force myself to read such boring book (I thought this before reading this, you must presume and also understand),  so that I wouldn't just leave it there on the shelf until it was due two weeks later at the library.
So, what book I'm talking about is called (of course you might have caught on)
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by (searches on Google because too lazy to find the book herself) Elizabeth George Speare.
It's purely historical fiction; I wouldn't be surprised if there was a girl named Kit who was suspected of being a witch; (anyhow, that's beside the point, so) it's about those times in the US history when everyone was quite religious, and Puritan was The Way, if you know what I mean, and people got very tense about witches and wizards and killed you if you were a witch or a wizard.
Now, how they proved that was very inevitable. In the way that,
if you were suspected, first, you'd be put to the test if you were a witch or not.
That is, to drown you in the water.
And, if you floated, swam, or didn't drown, you were a witch (or a wizard).
If you drowned, well, too bad, an innocent fellow at the bottom of the pond.

Sad, isn't it?
So this girl, Kit, lived in England, and she learned to swim there, of course, she lived on an island. Barbados, or something of the likely. Anyhow, she moves unexpectedly to her Aunt Rachel's house (without telling her first, just sort of barging in saying 'and by the way, I'm going to live here from now on) and on the way swims (in an adventure you'd have to read to find out), which causes mass suspicion (one person, mainly, actually).
That's as far as I got.
The End.

So, summer is soon to come, and assuming it already has, I shall begin my plans for this year's summer.
I shall, (insert cheer here) visit Korea for a while this year, which may be of slight interference, but no matter. I shall have internet connection and a computer whilst my visit, so it may not be much of a cease in progress.

I shall try to read most of my summer reading books (if read-able, as in fun, enjoyable, or lesson-learning), and this is what I shall do:
Write three reasonable questions per chapter (that I have thinked of, not thought) of wonderings, references, etc. Please refer back to the Reading/Writing Workshop Worksheet (I must find that somewhere). One reasonable question that would be on a prospective test about the book (open ended, multiple choice, no matter). Summarize that chapter. Give a prediction.

That will be a slow process, so I shall do this on "Summer Study Books". (SSB, Study Books, etc.)
I shall try to do this every summer, or just whenever I have time or feel like it (besides all of summer).


This may become an arduous task as summer sets in and laziness comes around, so I shall try to shoo away this being of perezoso, and try to become more trabajador.
SPANISHHH!

Anyhow.
That's it.
So, thanks for faithfully reading.

--
Celine.