this is something i wrote for english class. nothing big, just a one page story that had to include something about “metamorphosis.” So basically, someone has to undergo a dramatic physical transformation, or something like that. I wrote mine in a really small amount of time, and think it turned [...]
Considerably, I’m doing pretty good. The first race i went to this year, i ran 2 miles and got 18.45 as a time, places 16th. thats ALOT better than what i used to get last year(20 mins and in the 40’s.) The second race was yesterday and i ran 3 [...]
hrm… well, i guess on a whole, its better than middle school… there work load is sooo hard to keep up with though, especially in the AP class im taking. oh, incase you didn’t know, heres my schedule:
A days: Orchestra, Gym, Human Geography, World Lit
B days: Orchestra, Physics, [...]
Je suis dans Paris! I think the only way to efficiently sum up the trip is with the following video… so, enjoy!
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For the summer, we ordered this. We also got another harmonica, making our total harmonica count two. Me and my father plan to pay for our entire trip with these on the streets of Paris. I can already play all of the easy songs like twinkle and Alouette and the [...]
kk, this happened ALONG time ago, but i enjoyed it so much that i want to post it anyways… On our way to the suprise party/family reunion my family stopped in graceland, tennesy, the home of the great King of rock and roll, Elvis Presly. We went to his mansion [...]
The Math and English Exams were combined into one project. We had to make a children’s story book. Within the book, we had to include three math problems that would somehow help the story move along. For example, “Jenny has three nickels and 2 dimes. She found out that she [...]
A while before the day, my aunt, Poncho, came down. Two of our friends, Mark and Jackie, also came down. They all made the event much more enjoyable ^_^, despite the fact that I was sick for the entire time (DX why?!?) So, that day, we went to Keith’s house [...]
My parents were in this years parade. That was a bit weird, as anyone would know if they’ve actually seen the parade. They were in the group called Seeds of Decline and their theme was ‘Fannie Mae Goes Down’ Here they are, dressed as Mr. Monopoly and Fannie Mae:
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Ok… Im not gonna lie to you… I didn’t run the whole marathon. I only did the half. But my time was great! I got under 30 minutes!
Alright, so I’m still lying to you. I did the 5K with my mom, but I actually wanted to do the half. She [...]
I was in Atlanta during the inauguration speech. My father was supposed to give a leachture later that night. He had been invited to give the beer lecture for Emory. So, before I continue to talk about the speech and all else that I can fit in here, let me [...]
Ignore the title. Its more like… ‘My Delayed New Years Resolution.’ I just like cats, so thats the title. If you dont like it then too bad. Deal with it.
Resolution #1: Eat more chocolate…
Resolution #2: Blog more… i think that for every week that i dont blog at least [...]
Raising the Homan House (revised)
So, we made this video a while ago. It had a lead belly song in it, and because of it… well, its all described in the video… so enjoy! ^_^
So, school’s started and everything is going fine. I like most of the people there, when it comes to teachers. All of my friends are fawesome and all of the academic crap is easier than hell (in fact, everything is so easy that it’s hard to concentrate, so I often [...]
This was our first year in the JCC fourth annual boat race, but considering that and the fact that we made our boat within the time spand of two days, I would say we did pretty good. Here are some pictures of our boat:
Random Pics:
Today was the second annual running of the bulls in the french quarter. So, in honor of celebration my dad made a movie. It explains pretty much everything so please enjoy.
So… my Birthday this year will be held at Saint Patrick’s Park on the 19th. There’ll be a movie, Walk on the Wild Side, and we’ll have food/drink/watermelon. I’m going to have other stuff set up before the movie too, like watermelon smashing games, maybe a pinãta, and other random [...]
So, I think I already posted how I was going to sewing classes for this project called Worn Again? Anyways, the class is about to end, but to pull it all off, they had a fashion show. They had the coolest flyers in the world! They depicted a sewing [...]
It’s summer, and summer tends to be a time when people seem to often be left with little or nothing to do. So, they start falling into a vast and unwanted abyss that I have come to call boredom. In order to pull yourself out of that abyss, you have [...]
A few days ago, I went to see Kung Fu Panda at the AMC Palace. The movie, was ok, around the level of what I expected it to be. I didn’t think it to be very clever in that the jokes weren’t well thought out and that the plot line [...]
Well, so far, the wonderful season of summer hasn’t been quite as boring as I had expected it to be. But boring is good at times. I have lots of programs and camps that I’m going to so I always tend to be doing something. I’m going to a swimming [...]
CHA!!! God, I’m finally free! God I’ve been waiting for this since the beginning of last year!! Yah!! (twenty bucks says that two weeks from now I’ll be bored outta my mind and begging for school to start again) So anyways, to celebrate and because my dad is an archaeologist [...]
Happy day after Mother’s Day to all Mom’s who happen to be reading this. I hope yesterday was good to you. I am glad to report that this year, Mother’s Day did not bring upon its annual curse to me. The day is like my Friday the thirteenth. Each year, [...]
This year, Jazzfest went by fast! It seems like the first Jazz weekend was yesterday, and now it’s all over! My mother got Brass Passes from one of her friends so me and my family were able to go pretty often. But during the last weekend, my father wasn’t here [...]
On the corner of Palmyra and Olympia is a small corner store which is under construction. It will soon open and what I find so fantastic about it is that they will sell Big Shot!!! I haven’t been able to fing any store in New Orleans since Katrina that sells [...]
Last night at the Hornet’s arena, I went with my dad, and Adrastos and his wife Dr. A to a Rush concert. It was awesome!! The music was amazing, especially to have been performed by such a small band. The vocalist, Geddy Lee, has an.. um… I guess ‘interesting’ would [...]
The Bonnet Carre spillway was opened recently, and we went to see it.
[...]A week or so back, Saint Patrick’s Park in Mid City had its first movie night. They showed The Wizard of Oz and plan to show the following films on the following nights: A Street car named Desire on 5-16-08; Casablanca on 5-17-08; Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory on [...]
(wow… i haven’t blogged in a long time) Over spring break, my family and I went up to Omaha, Nebraska. The reason was one: visiting family and two: my dad was having a punk rock band reunion. In case you don’t know, my father was in a punk rock band [...]
For more vacation assignments, my dad told me to write a report on my opinion of organs. So here it is.
My favorite organs are bones because of all but one of the skeletons’ five major functions. The first of the five is Shape and Support, and those are useful for [...]
My dad thought that it would be a good idea if, for some math homework, I did a survey of houses on South Alexander and figured out percentages. Here are the results of my survey of S. Alexander, from the south at Ulloa to the North at Canal Street:
Total number [...]
I’m writing this report on Andrew Jackson because I’m trying to improve my grade in American Studies, and the anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans is coming up (January 8th).
Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767. Although he was born in the North-South Carolina region, his exact birth [...]
At my school it’s the end of the quarter and that means two things. First, Exams are randomly being thrown at us. Because of this our schedule is changing constantly, confusion is everywhere, people are so stressed that they seem to be at the point of exhaustion, and otherwise there [...]
Here’s a poem that I wrote for english class:
Rain
The rain is falling forevermore down,
Forevermore falling, falling onto the ground,
These tears from the heavens, they all fall around,
They fall all around without making a sound.
The rain makes me sad, but not for it’s wet,
Not for [...]
We got the pictures pack from Hellen Van Meene. They all turned out well and I’m glad that we got them.
My English teacher, Ms. Tunis, told us about a website that donates rice to poor countries that can’t [...]
Lots of stuff has happened in the past week. First yesterday was my brother’s Birthday. We went to see BeoWulf in an I-max theater. The movie was great, but my dad said that they changed a lot of stuff in the original story and refused to tell me what so [...]
This year’s Halloween was fun. We went trick-or-treating and I got lots of candy. So did Gil. Our costumes were also fun. Personally, I like my brother’s. He looks cool with the demonic triton.
This is my costume. Due to the lack of [...]
We moved into our house in 2002. We write the heights of me and my brother on our door posts. With the construction we are worried we’ll lose these, so we recorded them today. Here is what it says on my door:
5′4″ October 14, 2007, 5′3″ March 10 2007, 5′2 [...]
Raising Our House
See me and my brother raise our house. We are strong.
OktoberfestNOLA
We go to Oktoberfest in New Orleans at the Deutches Hause.
Abry Brothers started to dig out the foundations of our houses’s new addition. They dug out paths for the cement and did an amazing job. Unfortunately, because of the new fire policy that says that houses have to be at least 3 ft. away from the property line of the [...]
My homeroom teacher’s name is Ms. Dunlap. She’s nice and has alot of useful and interesting things to say. She teaches Pre-Algebra but my dad thinks that we should have already started Calculus and I agree but I can’t do much about it. Other than her I have Ms. Tunis [...]
About a week ago, while I was at a friend’s house (luckily -_-,) my window was broken by a cleaver blade. Nice, I know.
So, at our other house we are cleaning off bricks from a chimney so that we can re-use them. They are apparently very expensive bricks. Well [...]
This weekend has been a blast! On Saturday I hanged out here at our house. On Sunday we went to our friends Keith and Jeffrey’s house for shrimp grits which I must say were fantastic. Monday me, my brother, and my dad went to the beach in Waveland and after [...]
Today is Two-Day! Two-Day is today beacase today there are a lot of two’s in my life. It’s the second day of school for my second year of middle school. It’s my mom’s 41st birthday and I made brownies and she can have two pieces. I broke the second tire [...]
About seven weeks ago, before we went on the dig, we went to the dentist and found out that I needed a root canal. We were unable to perform the operation before we left. So today I had a root canal for a [...]
