Alicia’s Blog

One time, during the winter, I went with my cousins on a trip. We went to a place in Arizona that it snows it’s called flagstaff. My uncle bought an Airbnb and that house was huge. Since I have a big family eleven of my cousins came so there had to be a lot of rooms. When we got there was an upstairs and a down stairs. We all brought all of our bags and ran downstairs. There was three rooms one master room the another with 2 big bunk beds. Lastly, there was just the last regular bed. And downstairs had a big nice view with couch’s and fireplace and some fun games. upstairs had a really big couch fireplace and tv and two master bedrooms and big restrooms with huge tubs. With a really cute kitchen after we explored the house we chilled and played games and went to sleep it was so cold. When we got up it was snowing a lot, me and my cousin were on the top bunk and we had a little window.
We both were so shocked it was the most snow we ever seen it was almost to top the window.

We woke everyone one up and everyone was excited and got up ate breakfast fast and then we changed into really warm clothes and went outside and played in the snow. It was snowing a lot but we had to go back inside because it was way to cold to be outside but for the last two days of staying there we just stayed in the house hanging out, chilling, playing games and just having fun. But the day came we had to go home it was the saddest day ever we loved the house but a least we got the beautiful view going back down the mountain to head home. I had a blast this is one my favorite trips I went on with my cousins.

Who I admire is my mom and my dad because they do a lot for me and they are hardworking. They are hardworking because they provided for me such as feed me, buy me clothes, give me a roof over my head. I love them very much because they take care of my siblings even though they are very crazy. I admire them because they show a good role on me and my siblings and they are great at what they do. I love them too much to explain they always try to make me a better person. I really admire them because they are amazing parents and when I get older I want to be like them.

In December I read a book called Toy Story 4 by Suzanna Francis. Woody, Buzz, and the other toys went a on a road trip with their new owner Bonnie and her fork toy she made at school named Forky. And he always thinks he is trash so he needs to be thrown in the trash every time he sees one . During their road trip Woody gets to meet his old friend Bo Peep and she is trying to question his purpose of being toy. And how to explore a new life and during exploring he faces a lot of challenges.

What I loved about the book is it was very funny. And I have watched the movie of this book and it’s very different the book gives you more details. I love books with adventures and this book is filled with a lot of that. It really shows the theme of the book and how it interacts with the characters. Overall, I was very interested about this book because it was showing you about friendship, adventures, and how it’s okay to change.

My favorite character was woody he was my favorite character because he was responsible and funny. I really thought he was loyal to his friends and always wanted to stick together. One of his character traits was responsible. In this quote page 33 it states “ Determined to retrieve Fork, he jumped out of the moving vehicle and landed on the rear bumper.” This quote means since his friend was forky was trying to leave he was not letting a man behind so took it upon his self to go a look for him.

My favorite line was when woody turned to see Forky laughing and leaping into the trash with joy. This was my favorite line because I thought Forky was really funny and just wanted to be in trash. Which I thought was hilarious.

Mrs. Tanikawa is out sick and they have asked me to step in as principal for the day. What I would is I first would make it a minimum day. So the kids would be able to get early and not stay in school for a long time. The second thing I would do is change the food lunch I would make it so everyone gets to pick. What fast food they want. Then I would be able to know what fast food everyone voted for. The third thing I would do a free homework day so no one in the school would have homework. Next, I would have like a fun movie day and get to watch movies and hang out eat popcorn and candy. Lastly, I would just always check in like walk around to the others class room. And see how the kids are.

On a random week in the summer time my 3 cousins came over for a week because there parents were going somewhere. Which I believe it was a wedding and it was really far away. So my three cousin came over and the people who was in charge of them was my grandma and grandpa. It was all good going on walks to the park, walk to 7-11 everything has all good until someone thought of an idea. One of my cousins thought that we should stay up all night and we need snacks to stay up so we asked my grandma if we can go to 7-11.

And of course she said yes so we all got a lot of stuff so we will be stuffed on snacks to stay up all night. When night came we needed some parent to ask so I asked my parents and they said okay but don’t be to loud cuz we need to sleep to. And once it got dark my grandma went to her room. Lastly, we partied and then once we thought we weren’t going to get in trouble. My grandma walked in and we got in big trouble and had to go to sleep. The end

I am thankful for many things this year, but here are the three top things. The first thing I am thankful for is my family because they are always there for me when other people and not. I appreciate them because they bring me happiness and joy. Another thing I’m thankful for is my grandmas because I have three grandmas. First I have two grandmas on my mom side and one on my dad side. I am thankful for them because they nice to me and always have them to talk to. Last thing I am thankful for is my friends because they always make my day a little better when I am not feeling happy and they always make me laugh.

It would be a dream to have a perfect day and it would go like this. First I would wake up during Christmas time when it’s raining and the house would cozy and empty. My grandparents live with me they would be in Mexico visiting family. Anyways, I would walk outside my room and visit of warm smell of tamales.I would eat the tamales and then my parents would tell me to put rain clothes on and tell me we are going to watch a movie with all of my cousins. After the movie everyone would come back to my house and we would hangout. When it gets dark everyone would go home and couple of my cousins would have a sleepover at my house. We would eat more tamales or we would have hot chocolate. Or we go to 7-11 to get snacks. Then we watch another movie at home like a Christmas movie like the elf. Lastly, we would all sleep in the living room or I would sleep in my room with nice warm blankets.

A fun age to be forever would be twenty-six years old. That age would be fun and I can do a lot of things. Things I can do at the age is drive and I can take myself places and not ask my parents to take me and also I can go there whenever I want. And I wont be old because I would be between thirty and twenty. I would also be able to get a job and make money to buy a house and pay for things I would want. Lastly, I would love to be is twenty-six is because my favorite number is six and my back won’t hurt because I know when u get old you can’t do a lot of things because your back would hurt you.

In September, I read a book called Button Pusher by Tyler Page. The book was about a kid that is name Tyler and how he had ADHD and how it affect his day to day life. This book is about the author and on he having ADHD and how it was hard to stay focus in class and how it is to grow up with that. The thing I love about this book is when Tyler works around his ADHD and finds a way to still have fun. My favorite character is Tylers mom. She is my favorite character because she works hard to help her son while still struggling with her marriage.

One character trait about Tylers mom is she is determine. It states in page 144 she say “when it comes down to it, I can’t go. This is my family. My home.My husband.” When she said this she was trying to tell her brother that family comes first and even if it affects someone she can’t do anything because she doesn’t want to break her family apart. My favorite quote is “I just wondered what it would be like to cut the seat and did it.” I like this part because I think Tyler was trying to be sarcastic and I thought it was really funny.

My favorite meal in the whole world is tamales. I love tamales because they’re just so good I can eat a million of them if I could. My grandma makes them for me always on Christmas time and she makes them to take with her to visit her family in Mexico. Also my grandma makes a-lot of other wonderful food but the tamales they are just a life changing. The thing I love the most about it is the pork tamales the flavor of the juicy pork is what I love about them.

There is many types of tamales such as pork, beef , candy ones that are really sweet and cheese and jalapeños there is a-lot but I don’t remember what they are. The main base that hold everything together is the masa but you can’t cook it just like that because the masa is like dough. So how you make is you use the dried corn husk and that is the thing that hold it in place and then you place the masa and then you pick your filling of your choice but my favorite is the pork one and then just rap it. It takes like a day to do everything but it is really good at the end. Overall, I love to make/eat tamales because of how flavorful it is.