Self-Portrait

12 years old

Cat Poems: Cat in my Hand

Cruising down the beach with a cat in my hand
Sitting on the beach put the cat in the sand        

                                                                    

Chilling on the beach putting on cat lotion      
Swimming on the beach with the cat in the ocean

Playing on the beach building sand castles
Running on the beach the cat is such a hassle

Looking on the beach for sharp shark teeth
Scuba diving on the beach see that cool coral reef?

Dashing on the beach like all the little fishes
Sunset on the beach making wavey wishes

Cruising down the beach with a cat in my hand
sitting on the beach put the cat in the sand

Cat Poems: You had to of Known

What?                                                                               
Why are you screaming?
911 emergency?
Should I say you are drowning?
Or bleeding?
Perhaps suffocating?
What?                                                           

Oh, that?
Come on
You had to of known
That I kept a secret stash
Of dead mice
In that corner

Washington D.C.... The trip of a lifetime!

Last week I went on my amazing safety patrol trip to Washington D.C. It was the trip of a lifetime, and I would like to thank all of the people who contributed money donations for this trip. Ok, first of all, the first day of the trip I had to wake up at 3:45am and get ready. Then my mom and I left at about 4:00am to go pick up my friend and we drove to the mall where the buses were. The buses left at about 5:45am and were driving all day long to Washington D.C. We got at the hotel at about 8:30pm and we were all SO tired. For the next three days, we went to memorials, The Capitol, even the White House! They were all astounding, but my favorite was the Jefferson Memorial. I liked it because the people who made it put all of his writings around the statue of him on the wall. It was really inspiring, and made me want to be like Jefferson one day. The next day the patrols took a little trip to Busch Gardens, Williamsburg. It was a pretty blue-ribbon theme park, if you ask me. There were roller coasters so insane, that you were dropping straight down upside down with your feet hanging. Pretty intense, if you ask me. My favorite ride there was Der Whirlberwind, the swings ride. Anyway, overall, this was a mesmerizing trip. I saw life-changing things, and read transcendent writings. To rising (or not rising) safety patrols---this was, is, and will be one of your most stunning trips that you go on. I know it was one of mine. So enjoy it while you can. And I know you all want to see these fabulous pictures that I got/took from my trip, so here they are!:

My friend and I at the Capitol

Looking across from the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Monument

At the Lincoln Memorial

With my friend Charlotte at the World War 2 Memorial

At the Iwo Jima Memorial

Safety Patrols at The White House

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial

Eleanor Roosevelt

Meeting with Congressman John Rutherford:
Note:  Just because I am with him in this picture does not mean I am FOR him.  All the Safety Patrols had to meet him in the Capitol whether we agree with his policies or not.  He did say one thing that I liked-- that in his day there were only boy safety patrols (he was one), but now they are also girl patrols and that is the right way. 

Library of Congress

The most healthy thing I ate during the trip.

Meeting with Congressman Ted Yoho
Note:  Just because I am with him in this picture does not mean I am FOR him.
All the Safety Patrols had to meet him.
I wish he didn't support Trump.

Busch Gardens Williamsburg

I am home!

The Holocaust

We were supposed to go to the Holocaust Museum with our Washington DC trip, but it got bumped so we could meet two of our Congressmen, so my parents asked me to do a small report on the Holocaust.

They asked me to answer these 5 questions:

1.  What was The Holocaust? Well, I will do my best to explain. The Holocaust took place in World War 2 and was from 1933-1945. It was basically the killing of 6 million (out of the 11 million) European Jews. A man named Adolf Hitler was the man running the whole thing. He was a German politician, and the leader of the Nazi Party (the soldiers who killed the Jews). One of his quotes was," Make the lie big, make it simple, and eventually they will believe it." I don't know about you, but that quote is literally the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Anyway, in the Holocaust, there were camps. Certain camps...for Jews, where most of them died because they just simply didn't have enough resources to. Even worse, in the camps, the families were separated, and at the end of the War they rarely got together again. The Holocaust officially ended on September 2nd, 1945.

2.  What is the Holocaust Museum? Okay, so the Holocaust Museum is the official memorial for the Holocaust. It's full name is the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). Inside, there is everything you need to know about the Holocaust. There is documents, pictures, even diaries or stories of people who experienced the Holocaust wrote. The museum was built not only for a Holocaust memorial, but also to help citizens around the world prevent genocide, promote dignity, strengthen democracy, and most importantly, confront hatred. I like that. Anyway, it was built in 1980, Washington, D.C. The museum has approximately 12,750 artifacts, 80,000 historical photographs, 200,000 registered survivors, and 40 million visitors. Surprisingly, there has been one shooting in the museum in 2009. But other than that, the museum has been perfectly safe since then.

3.  Why should people go to the Holocaust Museum/why must we always remember the Holocaust? First of all, you need to know about the Holocaust. Like, NEED to. So a good way to learn about it is by going to the Holocaust Museum. Also, the Holocaust Museum has really cool artifacts and documents, pictures, too, and in general, it's just a really cool thing to see. You know, what other people experienced. That's why people should go to the Holocaust Museum. Now, we should always remember the Holocaust because of what a hard time it was for all of the European Jews. We have to remember it because it could have been something much worse. Also to show respect to the people who died in the Holocaust, and to acknowledge the great evil (things) done. I think we should also remember the Holocaust to be glad that someone hasn't done something like that to us.

4.  Reflect on the Holocaust. Ok, I can't really answer this question, because then I would be saying everything I did in question one, and that wouldn't be a good blogpost. So, instead, I will put in pictures and say a little about them:

Ok, so this was a quote from a Holocaust survivor. He was a writer, professor, and political activist. He was born in 1928 and died in 2016.

This was also another quote the same survivor, Elie Wiesel.

This was a quote from the USHMM. I really like this quote because it really says how much damage words can do. For example; if you tell a lie, and something bad happens because you told it, the damage is the words of the lie, not what happened.

This was a quote from Martin Niemoller. He was a German theologian. I don't know exactly why or how he died, but it possibly was because someone killed him. He was born in 1892 and he died in 1994.
   Those are all the quotes and pictures I have in this post. You can find more quotes about the Holocaust here.

5. Do you think the Holocaust could happen again? I hope not. I googled someone who made some signs to follow to see if something like the Holocaust is happening. Two of the signs were classification and symbolization. Classification means to classify groups of things (or people) that have the same similarities. Symbolization is sort of the same thing, except it also means what the thing or person symbolizes. Another two signs are discrimination and dehumanization. I did not know that dehumanization was a word. Anyway, discrimination means to discriminate certain people who have certain qualities. Now, dehumanization refers to depriving a person or a group of qualities. Basically like looking at some one and saying, "Well, they aren't human. They are an animal. Or a monster." It's a really cruel thing to do. Then there is polarization and organization. Polarization is like to cause people to separate into opposing groups. Like the North pole and South pole. They repel each other. An organized body of people with an particular purpose is organization. Those signs were the only one obvious to me, but you can read the article here.


Interesting Fact: The Holocaust was longer than World War 2.
Interesting Fact:  Another word for "Holocaust" is Shoah.

MineCraft

MINECRAFT. Have you heard of of the game MineCraft? It is one of my favorite games to play. People say that it is a video game, but I think it is educational. Some schools even have kids play MineCraft in classes! MineCraft is a game where you create your own world. You have ten lives, and you can lose them if you fall from a high place, drown, get killed, stuff like in real life. The only thing that is not realistic in MineCraft is the mobs. Mobs are monsters that spawn in the dark. They are usually things like skeletons, zombies, spiders, creepers, etc. They all try to kill you. Another unrealistic thing is portals. We don't have portals on Earth...yet. Well, at least I hope so. Anyway, there is two game modes you can play in; survival, and creative. In creative mode, you have it all easy. You have access to every single block or thing in MineCraft, you can make portals, even fly! But in survival mode, you have to basically get everything by yourself: you have to hunt, make your own home, kill anything that attacks you, etc. Just like you would in real life. Well, except for you basically are born in the forest and have to go on from there. That is not realistic. Ok, one last thing; how you can play on MineCraft. You can play it on a iPad, Xbox 360,

iPhone, computer, phone, laptop, stuff like that.

Sooooooooooo that's pretty much all about                  Here's a pretty cool picture I found of

MineCraft, you can check it all out on YouTube.         something someone built in MineCraft:

 I hoped you learned a few things about this game

and maybe even download it! Byyyyyyyye!

                                                                           

                                                                     

                                                                                                                                                                  

                                                                           

Rainbow Loom

Stretch. Pull band over. Rainbow Loom bracelet! Rainbow Loom is awesome! It is one of my favorite things to do when I'm bored. I make bracelets, charms, pencil decorations, even barefoot sandals! Pretty much anyone can loom, just start out with the single chain bracelet and you can do much more from there. One of my favorite creations is the Flutterized Butterfly Pencil Hugger/Ring. It is SOOOOOOOO cool. But it is the hardest design that I have made with Rainbow Loom yet. But it is worth all the hard work. In the end, it turns out to be really pretty. You can make it into a ring, pencil hugger, charm, ring, bracelet, or necklace. Barefoot Sandals are also one of my favorites creations with Rainbow Loom. It isn't like a normal sandal, though. it has a pretty top that goes around your ankle and toe, but no bottom to it. SO pretty. You can check out Rainbow Loom designs on the internet and you can make them on YouTube. So the next time you feel bored, go make a beautiful and fun to make Rainbow Loom creation! 

                                           

                                        

                                          Here is a picture of the Rainbow

                                  Loom