Sabrina's journal

Updates

2011-06-30T11:40:00.000-07:00

That was rather long celebration, but I promised to share the news as soon as i was done, so... USA WON!!!! 2-zip. yay!

Today, at 12, was the Canada vs. France game and for the first time in the tournament a team scored more then 2 goals. France won, 4-0 (WOW) and it may not sound like it but Canada put up a good match. A debatable maybe off-side goal, a great shot by the same person, a header by Thiney (i think..?!) and a great beat-the-goalie-one-on-one score to end it up.

I missed the game before that (there are two games a day, one at 9, one at 12...usually) because my couz and my aunt are going to India (BYE GUYS! <3) and ya... sorry!

But the game I did see, France vs. Canada, were played by teams in the A group. The other two teams in that group are Germany and Nigeria. Germany played Canada in the opening game and won, so Canada's only chance to go farther in the tournament is for Nigeria to beat Germany, which, at this point, seems unlikely.

So from group A i am expecting France and Germany to continue. USA is in group C and they beat N. Korea, so i am also expecting them to continue too! Plus their the #1 team in the world right now!

Other updates will come soon!

Sabrina <333!

Oh ya, women's WORLD CUP!

2011-06-28T09:21:00.000-07:00

Who? Usa Vs. North Korea. What? Game. When? NOW.

Watching the game and it's a great start! Updates on previous games are coming soon, but right now, Korea just got a foul...

So far, 0-0 and ... A great shot! It's a pretty awesome game and Korea's young players put up a good fight. Any other observations include: Abby Wombat got a HAIRCUT!!!! She looks different! But she still plays her game, thank God.

Go USA! I hope they win! I'll share the news as soon as I finish celebrating!

Sabrina

-------------- HALF TIME! ----------------------

It is half time, and the score remains zero zero! It's surprising because 10 people, TEN!, from N. Korea are teenagers!!!! ya, you heard me, not drinking age yet! And USA is the oldest team in this tournament. So oldest team vs. youngest team, plus USA title and #1 team in the world, and NO SCORE! Scary!!!!

Lots of shots and good defense, but the possession and shooting needs a little work. The defense is working well, and only slipped up a few times, and the offensive part is doing great but they need to range there shooting and not shoot at the keeper :) The main problem is the middle of the field is a little too congested and N. Korea likes it that way. It's harder to move the ball from the defense to the offence and the center mids aren't getting too many touches on the ball.

Hopefully the middle clears up and the full field can be USA dominated. Go USA!

Sabrina

Solar System

2011-06-27T14:54:00.000-07:00

So few posts back I had my attempt at an example to explain the scale of the Earth to the Sun... an attempt. I do not consider my self as accomplished at that task. So now, in this GRANDER scale, I will probably fail even more grandly. I don't know if that was grammatically correct, but prepare to see another attempt at an example!

So... The Solar System! Big place! The Earth is a speck compared to Sun ladies and gentleman, so if you think your bad, your not! The Sun kills you in comparison! So say there's a basketball, aka the Sun. The basketball is placed on a football field. The speck, aka the Earth, is like, 60 yards away. 60! More then half way!

Now Jupiter, which is bigger and badder then the Earth, is a ping pong ball. Scary. And place that about THREE football fields away! Tres! So just IMAGINE that in your head. Small world we live in, eh? Understatement.

Because, Saturn, the Queen planet, ya, she's TWICE the distance of Jupiter. So when they say a place, far, far away, they mean Saturn. Or no, they could mean what's BEYOND Saturn too, but they could still mean Saturn.

And we all know... We all HOPEFULLY know the order of the planets. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and the debatable Pluto. Well, there's more to that in the Solar System. Yup. More!

There's the Kuiper Belt... or something like that, I'll look up the proper spelling later XD and it holds asteroids. And that's right outside the outer planets. Then outside that belt... eh, i'll continue later!

(As you can see, it is to be continued!)

Sabrinaaa <333

Soccer

2011-06-23T11:24:00.000-07:00

I am so tired, so I'm not going to make my brain concentrate (not the orange juice people, THAT JOKE IS OLD!) on more videos right now. So how about a break, and me telling you what I did today.

So i woke up around 7:30 and got ready to go to this really fun soccer camp. It's this new team that's starting up in the Premiere division (one level up from travel i guess?! for those of you who don't know what that means). And it's coached by high level coaches and even though it's really fun doesn't mean it's not educational. I went there on short notice, the camp was monday-thursday w/ optional foot skills friday and i started on Wednesday, haha. And even in these 2 days i learned quite a bit.

This camp was co-ed from ages below 8 to 14 year olds. We played together at times, and we also split up into our age groups. It was REALLY fun. We had a girls vs. boys scrimmage yesterday.. We KILLED them! <333

The team is called One United and just was organized. I think it'll be a great club for those who are interested. They still need some players who have some soccer experience. I'll probably play with them too!

Sab.

Left Hand

2011-06-22T13:31:00.000-07:00

Hey guys! As I told the world a couple of posts back, my life DOES consist of more then just Khan Videos :) so I'll tell you about my newest interest... Learning how to write with my left hand! I think it's really cool how some people can write with both hands, being ambidextrous, and thought "why can't I give it a shot?"

So the idea sparked when I was really sleepy and my right hand wouldn't co-operate. I sleepily picked up the pencil with my left hand instead and wrote a few things, and the hand writing didn't look half bad! By that I mean it didn't look like it came from a foreign language. It looked like it was a kindergartens scribble, but I could deal.

Then I really concentrated and started writing with my left slowly. Pressing harder helped because this way you could keep more control. Stupid left hand has a mind of it's own otherwise... Can't blame him, he's mad for not being used all these years.

So ya, I tried that and it worked! Looked sorta bloated thought, like it drank too much water and was expanding to the other lines like it couldn't handle being in that little space... I wonder if letters could be claustrophobic? Maybe that's why some letters always cross the line.

Anyways! Then I tried writing more and more sentences and the letters were cured! No more claustrophobia!

But the letters were deformed... I think I need to go to a letter hospital.

But for now, my wonderfully deformed letters will do! I'll keep practicing and by the end of the summer I'll be a pro B-) ... that's a lot to expect by the end of the summer. Learning so much from the Khan videos and learning how to write gorgeously with my left hand...

Oh well! I will do it! <3

Sab :) <3 XD!

Astronomy!

2011-06-21T10:26:00.000-07:00

So the past few posts have been about biology because that's my favorite subject, but I got tired of watching only those videos, ESPECIALLY after watching that MIND BLOWING (literally) video about DNA.

So now we start with, ASTRONOMY!!!! Yay!!!! Woo-peeeii!!!! And other less dorky celebrating phrases!

So the first video was the scale of the Earth and Sun. And WOW the sun is huuuuugeeeee!!!! And I know, everyone says "The sun is way bigger then the Earth, cupcake." (imagine that in an old lady granny voice) ladidadala, and I'm like, OKAY, I'll go with that. But you REALLY need an example before you get the scale down in perspective.

So, it would be pointless just to repeat the examples he used in the video because you could just click on it and listen for your self. But! I can try to come up with my own examples with out my head exploding like yesterday!

So. Say the Earth is a bouncy ball... ya I think I could do this. Bouncy ball... and umm, Earth is a very NON-bouncy bouncy ball... wouldn't that just be a ball? You know what, Earth is a marble. okay? a marble. And say you place the marble on a ... soccer field. And the Sun is the goal. Oh, i faiiiiled at this example, lol.

LIGHT BULB! WAIT! I got a better idea!

OKAY! SO! The Sun is still the goal, but the Earth is the soccer ball! Now pretend the goalie, or if in real life, Green Lantern, took the ball/Earth and punted it across most of the field until it reached the top of the 18 on the other side, and that's where it landed.

So as you know, goals are generally way bigger then the ball, right? And the ball is really far away from the goal/sun. And there's a non-mind-blowing example of the scale of Earth to Sun! Well... it actually IS mind blowing as to think that the Sun is so much bigger then the Earth and how far we are from the Sun.

Some other things to know!

- Light travels super fast, but it takes 8 mins for the light to travel from the Sun to the Earth. So if the Sun spontaneously conbusted then ... well, we kinda would all die... so never mind! So say the sun's light went off, then we wouldn't know until 8 mins later!

- The Earth is about 40,000 KM in Circumference

- The Sun is 109X bigger in Circumference!

And did you know that a good bullet can travel about as fast as a jet? wow. XD about 280 Meters/second!

And that's it for now!

Sabrina!

DNA... jeesh

2011-06-20T10:25:00.000-07:00

Well, I have got to admit, that video was a wee bit overwhelming! Like, a lot. :) And if I try to go through all the new concepts neatly and clearly this post may be longer then The Bible. So I'm going to have to smush things together and hopefully the concepts like each other and get along because they're just going to have to deal w/ being smushed.

Which video you ask? The Khan Academy Video about DNA...jeesh! I get confused just thinking about it! I didn't know DNA was capable of making me this confused. I just thought it made me me and left it at that. I tried going over the concepts I didn't understand, but after the 56th new concept I just kept what I got and hoped what I didn't get wasn't that important. And don't get me wrong, he did an awesome job of explaining DNA, but I just think it's too much to take in at once! :P

So, first things first, DNA is what makes us... us. I bet everyone has seen a picture of DNA before, those windy things that sorta looks like a Chinese staircase or a ladder. So say DNA is a Chinese staircase (not the bracelet type :P). The structure would be called a "Double Helix" and the stairs them self, the things you put your feet on and climb up, are made up of Guanine, Cytosine, Adenine, Thymine. Or for short, G, C, A, T. The letter corresponds to the first letter of the actual name of the molecule. So, G = Guanine.

Now, there are certain bonds with them. G bonds with C, and A bonds with T (and visa versa). These are the base pairs. So if the strand was,

GCATTGACCAGT

then the bonding strand would be

CGTAACTGGTCA

As you can see, the C is below the G symbolizing that the C bonds with the G and visa versa. Now, this much I have down, but now is when I get utterly confused and I really don't have the authority to teach or explain this because I'm just as clueless as half the people reading this. I got few concepts here and there but I'm probably going to have to sit down and watch the video again with my dad or mom and ask questions, because it's just too much information!

(for those of you who plan to watch the video, I encourage to do the same thing. Watch the video once even if you don't understand everything, and then go over the parts you're sketchy about w/ a parent and/or friend, sister, uncle/aunt etc.)

So now I'm going to say some concepts that I think I know for sure....

- It take about 3 Billion base pairs to make up someone... like you... or me... about 3 Billion base pairs.

- When the base pairs split up, (So say the example above, the strand and it's bonding strand, they split up, break up, they don't like each other anymore, they've moved on ) it can transcribe to something called a MRNA (and btw, DNA stands for Deoxyribonucleic Acid, so RNA would stand for the same thing w/out the "Deoxy" part in the front) and in a MRNA the Thymine molecule is now a Uracil. So in other words, where ever you would expect a Thymine you would get a Uracil. S0 A would bond with U now.

So for example the split strand was

ATGCTA

The MRNA strand would translate to this:

UACGAU

- Once the MRNA is transcribed (which takes place in the Nucleus) it detaches it self from the DNA strand and goes to a place outside the Nucleus called the Rybizones (i don't think that's how u spell that particular word, but that's how it sounds!)

Then some more stuff happens and that where my concepts get even more foggy. I really need to get my concepts cleaned up...

But i think that's a lot of information for now! Once I get my concepts cleaned, I shall share more about the dangerously confusing DNA we have in us.

And just some other fun facts!

- We have 23 pairs of Chromizones (I don't think that's how you spell that word either...).

- The 1st Chromizone is the longest. It has a TON of information! It has 220 MILLION base pairs!

- Girls are XX, guys are XY ...

Now my head hurts from all this information, confusion to the next level, so i am going to enjoy some meaningless television!

I hope i didn't give you a head ache!

Sab <3 :) XD!

As you may have noticed...

2011-06-20T08:51:00.000-07:00

As you may have noticed I have few Khan Academy videos in my posts. I am going to do a LOT of those now, and just thought I'd let you know that my life consists more then just videos of the Khan. :)

If you ever want to try out the videos, then you can go to this website: http://www.khanacademy.org/.

Sab

MORE VIDS!

2011-06-16T13:42:00.001-07:00

WARNING!

BEFORE i start this post, i APOLIGIZE! i aaamm SOOO! VERY hyper right now! and i may make typing errors, and or may giggle uncontrollably!!!!!! Thank u!!!!!!

NOW! i was watching the NEXT video!!!! AND it was about MONKEYS!!!!! It said, eh hem

APES DO NOT HAVE TAILS! THEY DON'T! u see us having tail? maybe some of ya'll do, but I DON'T!

They're LESSER APES and GREATER APES! we're GREATER apes, cuz we're GREATER! chimpanzees and stuff are also greater apes! (OMIGAWED I MAY HAVE SPELLED CHIMPANZEES RIGHT!!!!!) and GIBBONS and stuff are LESSER apes!!!! (HAHAHA gibbons!!!!)

Just thought I'd let you know!

http://www.khanacademy.org/video/ape-clarification?playlist=Biology

SAB! <3!

Natural Selection

2011-06-16T11:54:00.000-07:00

Ever heard of Evolution? Well, another word for it is Natural Selection.

http://www.khanacademy.org/video/introduction-to-evolution-and-natural-selection?playlist=Biology

My mom and dad recommended that I watch a video from Khan Academy everyday. There usually no more then 20 minutes long, and there easy to follow with visual assistance along with a guy talking you through the lesson.

Like "an apple a day keeps the doctor away", "You'll be a comer in every subject if you watch a video a day over the summer!" Not really... but it sorta rhymes right?

Well anyways, I watched the video above while munching on some food, and turns out you can learn something from these videos! In that particular video, it shows how evolution, or natural selection, works.

So, what kids or many people usually think when given the broad subject of evolution is that "Over a bunch of time, something in some animal or something changes to make life easier for it self. The end. " Well, that's not really correct. Say there is a Giraffe. Many people know it developed from a species similar to a horse, but do you really know how? Do you think that the horse couldn't reach the branch, so it urged it's DNA to make it's neck longer?

Well, you may not, but this is what really happened. The horse type creature, species, what ever! It had different variations. This means that there are different types of the same species. Take humans for example. You go to my school, you see short people (GO LIA! <3) you tallish people (Moi XD) and you see people in between. Not everyone is the same height, has the same hair color, eye color, and skin color.

So this means that the horse thing (maybe it was a unicorn? :P) had different length in necks. Some had a little longer necks then others. Not like a giraffe size necks on one, and a donkey size neck on the other, no, but maybe a difference in few inches. Then say as they were living life in a luscious field, the food source came down to a tree. The tree had many branches, and they all fed on the branches closest to the ground. Later on, those leaves all disappeared because the unicorns were feeding on them. So you can imagine what happens next?

The unicorns fly off into the sunset and create rainbows?

No.

The unicorns with the slightly longer necks can reach the slightly higher branches, and the other unicorns eventually die because they don't get the food. It wasn't like these unicorns were smarter, and said "I am going to have a long neck! And eat food the others can't reach!", they were just born that way. (YA I'M ON THE TRACK BABY I WAS BORN THIS WAY!) So ya. Their kids had their DNA so they grew taller too, and then eventually, there were MORE variations and some kids were taller then others. So the taller kids got the taller branches with more food, had kids, lived happy pot belly lives, and the cycle continued!

AND! now we have GIRAFFES! Ha!!!!! So I now told you the story of how a mythological creature turned into a zoo animal!

THE END!

Sab <3!

Writing

2011-06-15T19:20:00.000-07:00

In writing class, we were studying about Mozart (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, oh ya, i remembered!) and his music/life. Out teacher went to Austria and took a class there and learned quite a lot about him! From her experience, she educated us, and then we watched one of his operas. The Magic Flute.

Some things we learned about Mozart was that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wasn't really his real name. He changed his name as he went from country to country (to share his musical talent) to match the language and culture better. I forget his real ridiculousness long name (and i don't feel bad because even our teacher did when she was teaching us :) and i don't want to look it up because the point of this is to write down all of what i DO remember!

Another thing was that he came from a musical family. It wasn't like he was a swan born into a family of ducks (not referring to the ugly duckling, but now that i do think about it, it does remind me of that story...), he already came from a family of swans, because his dad and sister were both talented musicians.

His dad pushed him a lot in his music career, and at a very young age, he performed for royalty. As many of you know, he's one of the best musicians in history.

After we watched his opera "The Magic Flute" we wrote a interpretative story about it... it's hard to explain, but I'll post the story later!

ALSO, I learned how to spell musician! Yippeeee, and other celebrating phrases!

SAB! <3

What I learned...

2011-06-03T18:32:00.000-07:00

Today I learned that I get really sleepy after I exercise and then eat... I also learned that 10 teachers could take out all of the 8th graders in dodge ball... AND that the current 7th graders in our school make terrible spies.

You happy Dad? I learn things!!!!

With love, SAB! <333

Old time favorite

2011-06-01T14:04:00.000-07:00

If you don't already know, I love to read. If I can't reach a computer, readings the next thing. Sadly, I was out of books yesterday (just finished Lament by Maggie Stiefvater, it's amazing, high level reading, and a great mystery/adventure/romance. Also great for musical people and poetic readers) and computer was off limits, so I fished out an old time favorite book of mine.

Now it's not Cinderella (because I always loved Rose more anyway... she's WAY prettier, right?!), and it's not any Dr. Sues books. Actually, it's a book about human biology.

As a kid, till this day, I was always interested in Human Biology. Maybe it was a trait from my parents (both doctors), but I always loved learning about it. So as a kid, my parents got me this set of books. They're called "A child's first dictionary" books, and they go from "How the Universe works" to "Architecture" to, of course, "Human Biology".

So now, at the age of 12, I went back to these books and I actually learned somethings from them!!!! ... Well, haha, what I learned was from this little box on the side that says "To the parent", but whatever, it counts!

You wanna know what i learned? Well you probably do, otherwise you would have stopped reading... so anyways!

1) THE STUFF THAT TURNS YOUR HAIR BLACK IN CALLED MELANIN! And when you get older, that stuff is harder to make, so your hair turns gray! Isn't that sad?!

2) Girls hair usually doesn't fall as much as boys hair... we don't get bald, IN YO FACES!!!! ( i kinda already knew tht, just thot id brag <333) and also, girls hair stays in for like 5-6 years, when guys hair only stay for 4-5 XD! ooohh ya <333. AND! Girls hair grows fasterrr XD!

3) The tears your eyes make are produced from a gland in your upper eyelid. It's called the Lachrymal gland. (omigawed, i didn't look at the book once!!!! I remember all this!!!!)

SO! i hoped you learned something, cuz i did! yay!

- Sab XD!

Med Vs. Mex

2011-05-28T08:28:00.000-07:00

Guests are coming to our house, and we want to make some pizza! Average pizza won't cut it this time... Though, home made regular pizza does tend to lighten everyones day. We decided to make either Mediterranean pizza, or Mexican pizza. Here's what we found:

Mediterranean pizza is quick and simple to make if you just use regular pizza tortilla to start the process. Lightly layer sauce on the tortilla. Then equally layer mozzarella on top of the sauce, but don't cover up the whole tortilla. Leave some space open, for the cheese will expand. After the mozzarella is properly set, add cheddar cheese by covering the open spaces the mozzarella missed. As a result, the cheese will melt together. On top of the cheese, put a layer of tomatoes, again, equally distributed on the tortilla. Once the tomatoes and in place, put one more layer of the two cheeses on the tomatoes, but leave some space open so the tomatoes can be seen.

(Additional topping may include, pepper, garlic, olives, and mushrooms.)

After the toppings are set, bake the pizza around 350 Degrees F for about 30 minutes, which should be plenty enough time for the crust to brown and the cheese to melt.

Now I know the most satisfying part of the process is eating, but since most people are too lazy to make their own pizza and will probably go out and eat some pizza and Pizza Hut or what not, let me inspire you by showing a picture of the result! <3

(I'll post a pic of our finished result after we make the pizza, haha.)

The other option was the Mexican Pizza. It's pretty easy to make as well, but in my opinion, a little less appetizing. I believe Mexican food tastes best in burrito form :). But I'll explain the process anyhow.

Take a pizza tortilla and layer it with beans. For this pizza, the beans will sorta act like the sauce. After the beans are spread out, put a layer of salsa on top of the beans and sprinkle it with tomatoes, chilies, green pepper, onion, olives, and cheese.

(Additional toppings include whatever Mexicany food you like, haha :) )

Again, if your like me and think that burritos are the best Mexican food... We have something in common! But I encourage you at least TRY this recipe! Because they DO taste pretty good! Here are some pics I found from the internet:

I hope I inspired you to try to some DIFFERENT types of Pizza! ENJOY!

Sabrina <3!

Red Rockin' Sock!

2010-10-20T16:55:00.000-07:00

Ok, so, if i haven't already told you guys like 10 trillion times, I WENT TO HAWAII!!!!!!! And one of the best parts was that I was on a CRUISE!!!!

I'll tell you guys more about the beginning, but right now I wanna talk about my Dad's sock in Kauai, one of the last islands we visited. ... I know, it's weird for me to talk about the ending first, but just listen.

Now, in order for me to "learn from this" I must write some facts... sigh....

#1. In Kauai, there is this red soil stuff.

#2. and IT STAINS, and it, like, never comes off.

#3. It was VERY annoying to the people whose clothes got stained.

And then this genius comes by and says:

"Why don't we purposely stain our clothes completely red, so this why it looks like we have a red shirt on, and if the red soil comes on it, it doesn't matter?"

Pure genius, huh?

So now that's what they do, and they make money from it. Ya, that's right, they sell this stained stuff for like 40 bucks to tourists.

That's like staining a shirt in some American paint, and selling it to some Japanese tourist guy for $40... and I know what your thinking, Cu-Chingggg, free money!

So, my dad came up with THIS genius idea... WHY NOT STAIN IT YOUR SELF!

And that's exactly what we did.

We went to this park somewhere near the docked cruise ship. Who knew one park has a enough red soil to make a stinky, boring sock, to a Hawaiian smelling, red sock?

So, were just walking around, and my dad said, "Wouldn't it be so cool if could just stain some cloth and take it home as a souvenir?" Now, that idea excited the b-shizzles outta' me!

... ya, I have a weird way with words. Anyways, I got right to my nagging. "Dad! YES! WE HAVVVEEE TO!!!!! NO!, We can NOT go home with out a stained cloth! COME ON! THINK

, what can we use???!!!" It went on, and on, until my dad, yet again, had another idea.

"Why don't we use my sock?"

And I said, "YESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!" Who knew uncreative, plain, white and gray socks came in handy?

I got right to work. "DAD! TAKE OFF YOUR SOCK! NOW!"

"No, let me just step in the soil, it'll make it red"

"NO! TAKE IT OFF! IT'LL WORK BETTER!"

"Sweety, let me try this first?"

"FINE."

So he rubbed his sock in the soil, and ... It MAGICALLY BECAME RED!!!! ... wait, he rubbed it, and most of the red came off...

I told you Dad, it wouldn't work, but NO, don't listen to me.

I sighed. Time to show them how it was supposed to be done. As they say, "If you want it to be done right, do it yourself."

This time I basically ordered. "DAD, take OFF the SOCK." (No, I'm not spoiled... just... hyper.)

He took off his sock, and handed to me. I rubbed the sock in some soil, and in became some what red... I rubbed a little, but most of the red came off again.

Then, of course, ANOTHER brilliant idea from my genius dad. "Maybe you have to dampen the sock before you can stain it?" Why not become the next Albert Einstein?

Well, he may be smart, but I'm lucky, because I spotted a hose. And look, it worked! Water and all.

I dampened the sock, and walked my way back to the red spot. I rubbed it pretty well, and went back to the hose, and where my parents were sitting. I smiled as I showed them the sock, but the smile slowly disappeared as the red washed away, again, as the water drizzled on it.

mmmhhh... what am I doing wrong? ... Maybe this will work....

With out a word, I went back to the red spot, and got right to work. My parents called me, but I waved them off, I had work to do. I rubbed the sock thoroughly and smiled triumphantly. I walked back and started the hose... My dad said he rather have him wash it.

Fine, I'll let him do this ONE thing...

I watched carefully. Do it slowly... SLOWLY... No, that was too much water!!!

"STOP!"

"What?!"

"THAT'S TOO MUCH WATER!"

"OK, OK, calm down!"

He drizzled the water on it... No! It was washing away!

"STOPPPP!"

"WHAT NOW?!"

"TOO MUCH! Let it dry for a bit! Set it down!"

"Sweety, no, come on.."

"DAD!"

"OK, OK!"

He set it down, and we waited for a while... NO! He was starting the hose again!

"DON'T YOU DARE!"

"Whaaaat?!"

"DON'T YOU DARE TURN THAT ON!"

"What on?"

"THAT!!"

"The hose?"

"YES, THE HOSE!"

"Huh?! We still have to wash it!"

"NOT YET!"

And under my command, operation "SOCK STAIN", was under control.

I finally let him wash the rest of the dirt off, and the stain actually worked! VICTORY!

"SEE, I TOLD YOU!"

"Ok, you were right, happy? It looks great."

"Yes."

I bragged the rest of the way home.. well, to the cruise.

Now you may be wondering, where my mom went... Well, who else took all these great pictures and videos?!

Till' we meet again,

Sabrina.

P.S. In case you are wondering, here are the socks after surviving a laundry cycle!

Now if he had only let me do both the socks he could have one complete pair of the famous Red Dirt socks and could have sold them on eBay for 40 bucks!

Today

2010-09-10T10:05:00.000-07:00

Well, i woke up at 9, to find Lia sitting next to me... At first I was startled.... Oh ya, i had a sleepover....!

She came over yesterday night, basically 9:30, and we went on the computer, played with my dog, and eventually fell asleep talking. The next day, after we woke up, we went down stairs, ate breakfast, talked, watched a little tv, and like 10 mins ago she left.

It was pretty fun ... !

Today, at 6... i think,... I'm going to play a soccer game vs. Mayfield travel. I bet we're gonna win, and that's the type of "fire" quote, quote our team needs to win. After that people are coming over for dance practice because tomorrow there's a big 9-11 dance program.

So ya... that's my day....

-Sabrina.

School's on

2010-09-09T11:26:00.000-07:00

Wow, it's been 2 weeks of school... well not quite, but about, and it feels like forever.

At first it didn't seem like school was even school, it was SO different then last year- new people, new teachers, teachers teaching new classes - it felt like camp! But of course, the first week is always wacky, and really fun.

I just got back from my cousins house... I slept over there. And today my friend... Lia, is coming over for a sleepover. I got to catch up on my sleep.

But you would think at a sleepover, you would sleep most of the time, that's what the name intends... but no, it means u sleep less... weird.

Why am i having sleepovers on a Thursday? Because i have no school today or tomorrow, and i didn't have school Monday... labor day. So a 4 day weekend after a 2-day week of school.... cool.

ttfn

-Sabrina.

SCHOOL!

2010-08-27T09:34:00.001-07:00

Hey, omg, SCHOOL STARTING!

Summer totally flew, and you can tell, because you didn't see any posts, between the start of summer until now : ).

So yesterday there was a 'before the school' student council meeting. It felt like I was in the a real political meeting! I mean really, there was food and a rectangular table, and folders with paper and... ya you get the point.

And then i went BACK to school, to greet some new people who are coming to my school, and i met some really nice people. I had a great time, and i think i got a new friend... A lot of new friends. Imagine, half an hour and i got to know some great people. It was pretty fun, seeing all my friends again.

Well, school's going to start on Monday for me, and I'll miss everyone of my friends that left my school, but greet the new people, who'll hopefully replace the gaps.

For now, i got make sure my flutes working, and get my back pack ready.

TTFN

- Sabrina.

Wow... :-/

2010-07-11T10:41:00.000-07:00

OK, so i woke up today (which was at 10:50 because y'day, or should i say early today, at 2:00 A.M. we finished watching a movie, so i woke up late... so did my mom : ) and i asked my mom what time the big game ... she said 2:30. So i was like, OK, sure, that great, I'll wait.

So on my Gmail account and on buzz i posted I'll be online at half time of the big game so we can chat about it.

Then later on today i was chatting with my cousin and the soccer game came up as the topic. My dad was there and he over heard ( we were video/voice chatting ) and said we were going to my neighbor's house for the game, so i was like, OK cool, I'll have to bring my laptop to their house.

So just to make sure, i asked my dad what time the game was, HE said ONE thirty, and he's pretty good with the timings and everything so i trusted him, and i had to change EVERYTHING. (My status message, the buzz post, and emails. ) because they all said the game was at 2:30 so i had to change it.

So it was about 1 o'clock so we went to my neighbor's house, and when got all settled, and i connected to the Internet, it was 1:15, and then when we were watching for a while, adds and stuff, and THEN we found out it was at REALLY at 2:30! INCONCEIVABLE.

So my family and my neighbor's are hanging tight, aand we're waiting for it to start, so i started my laptp, and guess, what? I had to change everything, AGAIN! And further more some of my friends were confused so i ha to explain.

So i'm at my neighbor's house typng furiously on the laptop, chattig and blogging, and changing buzz posts, and sending emails, and waiting for the game to start.

IMPORTANT MORAL OF THE STORY: Women are always right.

:)

- Sabrina.

Rules on the Road

2010-07-02T17:58:00.001-07:00

Today we went on a field trip from my camp, and let me tell you, I am EXHAUSTED.

We went biking on the towpath by Eeri canal. You probably think we got our bikes and just started... that's a good guess, but false.

The day before, this instucter came and told us these saftey rules about biking and wearing helmets, but he went into to details, not just "wear your helmet, you'll be safe" and all that stuff everyone tell you. But today he explained it again as a review and for the people that weren't there yesterday.

Here's some of the rules:

He explained how the helmet was to be worn, he didn't just say wear it. You remeber by singing the "head shoulder's knee's and toes" song XD (that's a smily face), i know, I know, it's corny, but it helps to remember it. The middle part of the song is the part that helps you remember, "eyes and ears and mouth and noes." Here's how to wear a helmet:

- Eyes: When you look up you should see the tip of your helmet.
-Ears: the two small side trape should be right under your ear.
-Mouth: When you open your mouth, it should just reach the buckle under your chin.
- And Noes: You shouldn't be able to push your helmet forward to your noes :)

Thats the helmet safty rules.
The bike safty rules are...

- the seat should be between the soft part of your stomach and a hand down from the soft part of your stomach.
- Put the wheel in between your legs, then try to turn the handle bar, if it turns too much then you need to make it tighter.
- To make sure the tire presure is fine take the palm of your hand and press on the tire. Even if it presses the slightest bit, pump it.
- Squeeze the brake tight, it shouldn't go all the way to the handle bar, it should go about halfway.

That's bike rules.

The rules took a while it self so i'll write a blog on saying what i atully did.

Sabrina.

Parachute video

2010-07-01T17:10:00.000-07:00

Now this needs a drumroll. This is the video of me racing one of my friends, you can't see the ending that well, but I won, of course XD (thats a smily face) u can see the previous post that says parachutes, which will explain this post better.

-Sabrina

Parachute video

2010-07-01T17:02:00.000-07:00

Here the vid just incase

Download

Parachutes!

2010-06-29T18:00:00.001-07:00

Highlight of today was i raced people with a parachute tied around my waiste!

We ran to a certain place and back, i won BOTH times, beat that.
it was for fun, right after my soccer game, it was a friendly soccer game though, i dominated :)

I'll post a vid later!

Ups and downs

2010-06-26T13:45:00.000-07:00

This post is called ups and downs, and that's exzactly what it is. Right now i'm in a down situation. I'm in a pretty bad mood right now because Usa isn't doing good vs. Ghana, but let me start my day from the beginning.

It all started this moring when i woke up and my left eye lid felt really heavy. I thought because i selpt on that eye too heavily. So i tried to look up and down and get my eyes adjusted but it still felt weird. So i went to brush my teeth and that's when i looked in the mirror. My right eye was normal, but my left eye was half closed and open. I got pretty worried, panicked, because i have a friend who has an eye like that and she had to get surgery, and the eye is still half closed all the time. I was wondering what i did to myself. Then i went to my mom, lucky for me she's an eye doctor. She said... it was a disease, i was horrified, she said i have to get surgery. This was the first down part.

I'm just kidding! She said it was harmless and it was just a bug bite on my eye lid. She put some medicine and said it'd be gone by evening. That's the first up part. But the down part is that it still feels really weird.

But here comes the next up part. I was gonna dog sit for my friend, and she has a really cute dog, so we went to pick him up. After we got home i saw the ending of the soccer game that was going on. I ate some food, relaxed, and then, the moment we've been waitng for, the USA vs. Ghana soccer game. But the bad part awaits.

Ghana scored in the first 6 mins. I was truely mad. Up part, USA scored with a penelty kick by Donovan. The regualar game ended in a tie, so an half an hour extra time was added. At the end, one country was victorious, but as you know, after an up part comes a down part, Ghana won.

I was writing this blog as the game was going on and when i ended this Ghana had won.

It's been hard so far, started with down, ended with down. But the day's going and something good will happen, bye for now.

-Sabrina.

today

2010-06-22T18:47:00.000-07:00

Today at camp we went to trinity cathedral and we prepared food for people who can't afford it. The church serves food every sunday. that was the special thing we did today.

After camp we went to a soccer game, it was just for fun, all ages, boys and girls, it was a good learning expierience. it taught me to be more agressive!!! after the game we had these cool parachute things u tie to your waste and then run and see if it goes in the air, that means ur running hard. I race against someone, i won!!!

after i got home i went to my friends house for a second dinner :). pizza n' soup, yum. plus watermeon as a dessert.

I got home and now i'm writting this, i had a pretty fun day.

- Sabrina

Ps. i think my dog is sick cause he keeps throwing up :(

COINCIDENTAL!!!

2010-06-18T18:26:00.000-07:00

OMG, y'day was SOOOOO coincidental, i went bollowing from camp, and i had spares and stuff, but no strikes yet, and then at like the end of the bollowing time, when there like 30 sec. left and it was my turn, and then i threw the ball, and just as the ball got to the pins the light went out on our lane and our time was up, and guess what??? IT WAS A STRIKE.

And today, we went canoeing and it was really fun, but some of my friends got tipped it water... the water was brown. ick.

First day

2010-06-14T14:23:00.000-07:00

Today was my first day of camp! oh, and just to tell you, we didn't win the tounement y'day... :(

But, today kept me going cause it was the first day of camp!!!

I started the day with a start, I couldn't wait to get there! I got out of bed got ready and went to hawken middle/lower school. After we reached there, we went to hawken high school to start the day. It was familiar, but different, because i play soccer at hawken upper school but had never gone so deep into the making. We did an introduction game and then we got started. We had a choice of dance, soccer, tennis, or art. I play soccer ALOT and i don't like tennis THAT much, and art didn't rilly strike me so i chose dance. It was rilly fun, the person who taught was only in college but she was amazing! I was really impressed and tried to copy her way of dancing but at the same time didn't try THAT hard because i was a lil sleepy :)

After that we went to lunch, i was expecting your everyday, ordinary food, but at the same time was expecting ONE thing extrodinary because i was familiar with the food they serve at hawken day camp, so basically i had some idea, but not really. I went in side and wasn't that surprise untill i hit the salad bar, it had a LOT! Fudge w/ wip cream, salad (of course XD), and tons of side dishes to go w/ the salad, they also had a soda fountain, and fruit bar, plus you had an option to make a sandwich, it was SO cool!

After that we watched a movie, i don't know why we watched the movie we did, based on our age, because it was a Dr. Sues based movie. It was ok, pretty boring if u ask me, people were basically falling asleep, but it was ok, because i ate sugar and that kept me awake!!! After that we went swiming, don't know what i can explain about that... you use your arms, and you kick, and breath... ya.

Then we made a surprise... My dad/mom is probably going to read this so i don't want to give it away!!! I'll tell you guys after i tell them about it!

Well, that's basically my day so far!

- Sabrina

Ps. OH! and i knew TONS of people there and made like 10 new friends! Now i know like most of the people there.

Talk about soccer

2010-06-13T05:51:00.000-07:00

Friday was a relaxing day compared to the weekend! Although Friday I watched the 2 world cup soccer games, RSA vs. MEX which turned out to be a tie 1-1 and the URG vs. FRA which was also a tie, but was 0-0.

On Saturday I went to sleep early so I can get a good night's sleep for the tournament... and to watch the next game for the world cup. This weekend, which is still alive, has been crazy... crazy about soccer.

On Saturday, I saw the ending of the S. Korea vs. Greece game, which was fun to which since S. Korea scored to 2 goals, the final score ending at a 2-0. But the big game still awaits, USA vs. ENG. (Zoom to 0:15, and 2:20 for goals)

So after the game ended I got ready for my soccer game, which was the first of the Eerie Flagship Cup. We headed out from Cleveland all the way to Pennsylvania for the game. When I got there it turned out two of our players were sick, but an extra player joined us so we would have enough subs, just in case the two players couldn't play. We were... well, at least i was determined to win the game. Our Cleveland Select coach had 3 goals for my team, win against our cross town rivals (Check), win the tournament, and move up from the division 1 team to Premiere. And I was, still am, determine to win the tournament.

For the first time, we had a big cooler and we put our drinks and sweat clothes in to keep them cool, and we a had a tent to keep us under the shade, it was one of the hottest days I've played soccer in. Well, those additions I did make it easier and helped us keep cool.

Finally, we started playing. It was a tough game, we had some history with the other team, we won against them the first time we played them, the second time they beat us, and guess who won? It was a tie. I guess we're about the same level... (But Select is better :) We all wanted to watch the USA. vs. ENG soccer game, knowing the fact we are soccer players. We went to Quaker Steak and Lube, and it was SO COOL! It had cars and motor cycles hanging from the ceiling, and there were flat screen TV's everywhere!

The whole... well most of the soccer team ate together, while the others went to the restaurant down the street. Our coach said to "eat light" so that's exactly what we did. Everyone was moaning that they couldn't get the awesome french fries, or the vanilla with chocolate on the side. Most everyone got baby carrots w/ ranch dressing as the side dish.

Finally, the game started, USA vs. ENG ... It was kinda' cool to watch a soccer game with your coach and team mates :) As it started all the TV's changed to soccer from basketball, baseball, or whatever sport. All the TV's showed one sport, soccer. But in the first 4 minutes of the game, England scored, u could hear the "NO!!!" or the "Awwww" and the moans all over the place! It was really funny, but at the same time sad because the other team scored. After a while the goalie got hurt, but continued to play. Later, the Quaker Steak and Lube cheered when USA scored! IT WAS SOOO LOUD!!! All my friends started laughing and i couldn't help but to join in. The goal was just a stupid mistake by the goal keeper, but, at least that goal got us to our tie with England!

After that inspiring game, we went back to the field to play our second team from New York. It was a pretty poor team, we won with the satisfying result of 5-1; that sets us up to give us a place in the finals and gives us a wonderful opportunity to win the tournament! I think we have a pretty good chance, and just in case you want to know what's going on here's the link to our scores and what's going on and where the teams are. Remember, I'm in Cleveland Select.

Today I'm watched the ALG vs. SLV game (can't find any links because it just ended!), and Slovenia won, 1-0. And just as I type the Serbia vs. Ghana team is beginning to play! They just finished the national anthem, and are now shaking hands.

Today my team will play again and if we win we will go to the finals, if you have any questions about my tournament, or the world cup, then just leave a comment!

- Sabrina

Student council

2010-06-10T07:59:00.000-07:00

Hey!!! I'm so excited for next year! I won student council at my school.

At my school there are 6 equal leaders from middle school, 2 from each grade.
I ran for 6th grade, and i was so nervous to do my speech, but turned out it wasn't too bad...
I made an awesome poster and my speech went good.

I asked what other people voted, lot of people voted for my opponents but I was still pretty convident, until my friend said lot of people are voting for my friend lia. it was going down hill, until the next day, when i won!!! Now i can't wait for next year!!!

Moral of the story, don't give up until the end!!!

Gerbil!

2010-03-27T11:24:00.000-07:00

Hey, i'm taking care of my friends gerbil and she's really cool, but i prefer a hamster...

See you next time!

Sabrina.

December Chills

2010-01-24T10:47:00.000-08:00

How was ur holidys? Mine was great!I visited my cousins in Cinci ... It was so much fun!!!

Ok ...
And if you guys have any blogs tell me about it!

jUST TEll me When YoU Go TO WriTE a CommEnT!!!

K.

Sabrina ... !

2009-11-25T14:58:00.000-08:00

Loli Pop, Loli Pop Oooooh Loli, Loli Pop, ..... Loli Pop!!!

ME B - DAY!!!

2009-11-23T11:13:00.000-08:00

My Birthday just passed few days ago!!! YAY!!!

I am a pre - teen ... AWESOME!!!!!

HEy, guys ... I forgot to ask U ... how was ur Halloween?! I met a couple of people I know On Halloween! It was a real Quincidence!

And guess what ... I went with my best friend! Not Lia ... ANOTHER best friend out side of school ...

BUT I DIDN'T GET TO GO IT THE HAUNTED HOUSE!!!! i WAS TO LATE!!! noooooooo!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Laters ... L8rs ... What ev!

K.

Sabrina

2009-11-23T11:11:00.000-08:00

Are you looking at ALL my blogs?!? If you're just looking on my first page, don't! I have some neat blogs on my other page too! This is just a reminder, but if you don't look at my other pages, they'll get lonely- and you do NOT want that to happen right?

Well now you know what to do to make my blogs happy again!!!
Keep in touch,
Sabrina.
PS. To get to the other, lonelier pages, all you have to do is go to the bottom of the screen, and click on the word "older"-OK?
PSS. I have this blog posted on
other pages ... if you were looking at all my pages then you would know that!

O well!

2009-10-22T08:19:00.000-07:00

I know tat was a long story but I wanted to tell you what hppened! I didn;t ue spell check ... Even right now I'm not using spell check! I just was in a rush to finish ... Even though it took m an hour to write all that ... O well!

K.

Sabrina.

Continued... Read previous post.

2009-10-22T07:24:00.000-07:00

I got some more Ice and then we went to our cabins. We played around and told stories. I tried to laugh but turned out ore like a cry. Kinda' like this ... "hahahehehewa!" that blue finger is REALLY annoying! I had to throw out the ice cause it was getting leaky. Lights out at 10:00. I went to sleep in pain! I woke ... it was dark ... as I opened my eyes I was COMPLETELY awake! That's REALLY usual for me. It has to be 6 in the morning! I thought. I looked at my watch and it was only 12! I was shocked! how could I be so awake? I looked at my finger ... Oh ya. My pillow was a little wet ... it wasn't drool. It smelt salty ... like tears. Climbed down and went to the bathroom. My eyes were a little red, like I've been crying for few minuets. I WAS CRYING IN MY SLEEP FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE i WAS 4! My finger was hurting like crazy!

I didn't know what to do. Should i wake Up the teacher? that was the only thing I could think of. I was kinda' scared. I heard noises and I didn't know what to do! I'm only 10! I know this doesn't sound like a big thing to threat over, but If you were in my position you would understand!
I froze. I just stood still ... In the middle of the floor. I guess I was thinking. To my relief the teach said, "what's up?" Thank God! I went to her and told her what wrong. She went to my rescue and in the middle of the night, got out of bed, went to the Mess Hall and got me some ice!

Went to bed but woke up every 2 hours. I just should of tooken a pain killer! I just remembered i had a pain killer medicine! I didn't want to wake her up again though so I just kept sleeping ... Or trying to sleep!

In the morning I was the last to wake up on my side of the cabin ... just by few minuets though. when I woke up I looked around an saw no one was there. got out of bed and I was like a celebrity! People were asking, how's your finger? How's your finger? I was starting to enjoy it! I took a shower and got dressed.

We went to breakfast and I got more ice. But it's the weirdest thing ... At night, I heard a thump and woke up, I'm usually a deep sleeper , ... not that today! I look around and I couldn't find my ice. In the morning I look under my bunk and around it but couldn't find it?! I don't know where it went!.

So any way, I had breakfast ... only a bagel though. I had a little hot chocolate (that made me feel better!) and relaxed. One of my teachers got some medical tape and made some sort of splint. It REALLY helped!

I went on the nature hike ... it was really Our last stop on the hike was up by a lake. We found 2 pairs of under pants! we made a flag out of it and made a pledge of allegiance for it! It was my idea.

After we got back from the hike, a teacher first asked if I had gotten a swab few days ago ( I was sick ... I was still sick when I went to Camp Wise!) I answered yes. She said I got positive for Srept throat! That means I had Strept throat on the field trip!!!!!

I was shocked! I sat down in amazement when they say we're splitting into 2 groups again. I was separated from Lia! AGAIN! One group does rock climbing ( jut my luck) While one packs up, then we switch. I did rock climbing first.I amazed myself when I said that I want to try rock climbing with a bad finger. I dare say I'm pretty good, I've been doing rock climbing since I was 5. But today was different. I just didn't care about my finger. i was mad at my self for putting my finger on the piano in the first place. I was going to do every thing i could at Camp Wise ... Including rock climbing.

I started climbing and gained speed. I got to the mid-way point. My finger started aching. I was half way there and it just HAD start aching. I said i wanted to come down, but I really didn't. When I reached down I took of my harness. When everybody had gotten a turn we went to the Mess Hall. we relaxed fr a while then when to my cabin to pack up. The teacher asked if i needed any help, i said no. I could do tings my self and I wanted to. My finger being hurt doesn't mean I can't do things my self. i was really irritated with myself.

I took my stuff to the Mess Hall and set it down with the other bags. i was really tired. I sat by the fire and relaxed.

My mom was goin' to pick me up early because of my Stept throat. And so she did. when she came she looked at my finger and she got all my stuff in the car. We waited until lunch came out. I ate some food an then we left Camp Wise.

It was PRETTY AWESOME WITH A CHANCE OF PAIN.

K.

Sabrina

PS. Now the story is complete.

Sports .. Continues.... READ PREVIOUS POST!

2009-10-22T06:37:00.000-07:00

Ok, So I'm at sports right now ... At sports .... well, just listen to THIS!
There was ... A basket ball court with 6 hoops, a soccer field, a swimming pool (we couldn't go swimming), tennis court, mini golf, hockey, volley ball court, there were frisbees, and more!
I started out playing frisbee with the teacher, who is REALLY nice, and 3 of my friends. We played for a little and got board so I play 3-way mini put - put with the teacher and my friend ... I WON!
Then I play a little volley ball. Played some basketball. Then play some of my favorite sport, soccer.

It was time to switch around. My group's next activities was challenge curse. We went into the woods and reviewed some rules. Our first challenge was with a tire. the object of the game is to only put on foot on the tire and lift up the other foot of the ground ... there's a catch ... EVERYbody, all ten people, have to be on the tire ... and for 15 SECONDS! We Were SO close, but we F I E ! !
A L D !

next challenge ... I like to call it the titanic but they called it the same thing as the VERY first challenge ... remember? The one which we have to get of Earth? Ya' that one. But this time we had to do something different. We stand on a piece of wood and grab hold of a rope. We swing to another piece of wood about 5 feet from the platform that we are currently on. The catch is that all ten people have to get to the wood safely ... they can't fall of the wood once they're on, and they can't touch their feet to the ground when they're swinging. We got this challenge the 3rd or 4th time we tried.

when we got back to the Mess Hall, we had free time. I didn't get to do the nature hike, but I do that tomorrow. We decided to have AMERICAN IDAL! It was REALLY funny! I did something with Lia and my other friend Deep ( that's her nick - name). Then my MOM came to teach Indian dance! You see, at my school, we celebrate lots of different cultures. She us JAI HO from Slum dog Millionaire. (I already knew it!) after that my mom said she had some stuff for me.

Flash bacK! : when we wee still at school, I had brought the smallest amount of luggage, my
friends, and friends parents kept asking,"THAT's IT?" And I said YES! I told my mom to bring me a sleeping bag when she comes to camp to teach us so it'll look like I have more! It turned out that I needed it! Se also got me boots to wee for the nature hike, but I didn't need it.)

After I had unpacked what my mom got for me, she took some pics, and then she hugged me good bye. I had free time. I played theder ball (I don't know how you spell theder! The COMPUTER DOESN'T EIGHTHER!) and helped my friend write songs, and hung out in the girls cabins.
It was now time for dinner. Here is the sad part ... this is where my finger gets injured ... If you want to know more about my finger's blue nail (Which I have right now! I'm typing with it!) look at a post I typed about five posts back. ... so... I am a vegetarian ... lot of Indians are ... So is Deep. she's Indian too. But because I am vegetarian, they made a special meal for me! and they served to me! Other people had to get up and get there meal! I got pasta and eggplant as a side dish. I ate sadly because of my finger, but happily because of the GREAT meal! I had gotten ice for my finger, and it hurt alot but I surprisingly didn't cry. It was hurting a ton. The teachers said that we are watching a movie, and to get out sleeping bags and pillows. we did. The movie was back to the future. I Enjoyed the movie but had to get up to get ice water ever now and then for my finger.
After the movie we roasted marsh mellows and mad smores. It was a Pretty awesome day.

To be continued ...

Sabrina.

# contined! READ PREVIOUS POST!

2009-10-22T05:49:00.000-07:00

So now that you know what my cabin looks like, let's get on with the adventure!

After we unloaded our stuff, we went out side. We cud see the Mess Hall from outside our cabin. But as Sssssooooonnn as us girls step out of our cabin, we're in playing distance of theder ball and "gaga" In the Gaga pit because it is right outside our cabin. When we (us girls) got outside, the boys were already playing football and theder ball and Gaga. We joined there games and it was soon time for the tour of Camp Wise.
After the tour we played some team-work games in a small lounge building such as ... fixing a "space ship" and getting out of Earth because it has become unlivable. How that exercise worked was from our 30 people in our class, we got split into to two groups ... 15 &15 ... How this worked was the teachers laid 15 papers on the floor, each has a number on it. The object of the game was to press the code -1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15 - in 15 seconds ...But the numbers are sensitive. All of us had to pick a number to be their number. After we decided who gets what number we have to step on the number at the right time ...
I know it's confusing to understand but here's an ex sample ... Let's say "Bob" has number one, "Bill", has number 2, Bub has 3 and I have #4. When we start the clock, Bob has to jump on his number and get off, then Bill has to step on 2, then Bub has to step on#3 and get off, then I have to do four ... Get it now?
Our team basically got it but some people didn't step on there number but stepped beside it. The other team didn't get it at all!

after this challenge we had another challenge ... a blind fold challenge. In the exercise we all split into groups of 3 ... THIS TIME WE GET TO PICK OUR PARTNERS! ... Then we blind fold somebody and guide them ... I picked to be with Lia and someone else in my cabin. I was second to be blindfolded ... after this we talked about how it felt to be blindfolded ... THEN WE haD lunCH!

Lunch Was AmazInG!

We had grilled cheese, tater-tots, tomato soup, there was a salad bar, juice, and more! I had a grilled cheese and TWO helpings of ta tor tots. When we thought it couldn't get better ... DEsSErT!
It was chocolate brownies with chocolate on top! And the there was the best hot chocolate I've ever tasted! LUNCH WAS FANTASTIC!

After lunch we hhhad a little time to relax ... We sat by the fire, hung out, and relaxed on the couches.

Then we split into 3 groups ... I WAS SEPaRATED FROM LIA! NoOOOOOOOO!
... One group goes to sports ... That's my group ... then one group goes to the nature hike ... Lia's group ... and the last group does some challenges.

I'll continue next post.

Sabrina.

CONTIUED! ... !! #2!

2009-10-22T05:29:00.000-07:00

This is continued ...
(READ PREVIOUS POST!)

Ok,So , once we got of the bus, we went to the OTHER bus to get out bags! I still cccccccan't get over how there was a separate bus to carry our luggage!

After we got out stuff, we were assigned cabins... I got 3/4 of the people I wanted! I'll explain how the cabin looked ...
Ok, There was a RIGHT side of the cabin and a LEFT side.
I was assigned the RIGHT side with Lia and 3 other of my friends. (YAY! I'm with Lia!).
One of my friends on my side of the cabin was used to camp wise 'cause' she has went there 3 years in a row!
She gave a mini tour to all of us on the RIGHT side. When we walked in, there was a bunk bed in front (which was my bunk!) of you and two on the right side and one on the left, it was sorta' like a maze being in the cabin ! The if you stepped toward my bun then you see 3 other bunks! Then, made for the teachers, was two bunks behind a wall ... Ya, I know, LOTA' BUNKS!
If you head toward the wall, then take an immediate left, you should open a door which leads to a bathroom with 2 stalls, 6 showers, and 2 sinks. If you walk through the bathroom you should see a door . i you open THAT door, It leads to the LEFT side cabin. I don't know, but I assume the boys' cabin was the same way.

Again ... I' going to have to continue on my next post!

K.

Sabrina.

PS. So when you read the next post, that hopefully will be the 2nd last of this story!

Ok, so I promised.

2009-10-22T05:11:00.000-07:00

Ok, So ... I promised that I'll write about Camp Wise, so I'll write about Camp Wise!

So, As I said in my previous Post, my second class field trip was an overnight trip to Camp Wise. IT WAS AWESOME! .... Well, Pretty awesome because of my finger (READ PREVIOUS POST). So, we got to school at normal time ... 8:45 .... and we put our bags in the chapel ... Then we went upstairs to our homerooms and put on our jackets and stuff.

We got excited when the bus came to pick all of my homeroom and classmates up. (I can't tell you which grade I'm in ... Sorry! I can tell you I'm in middle school though!) We played and talked on the bus and we couldn't believe how big Camp wise was once we got there!!!

And did I tell you there were TWO buses?! One for us kids, and the other for our BAGS! Can you believe it? A BUS FOR OUR BAGS! No joke... Ask Lia! (Lia's my friend I have blogged about in my past few posts... we have a shared website if you ant to check it out!)

This ... is getting too long! Already!

I continue on the next post ...

Your truly,

Sabrina.

OmG!

2009-10-21T06:33:00.000-07:00

OMG! I can't BELIEVE I didn't notice this!

OMG omG omG!

So, ..... What was I gonna say? ....... Oh ya!

My second class field trip .... It was an overnight one ...... it was at Camp Wise, And It was awesome! I'll type you another post that'll tell you what I did there ...
so, at, or just before dinner time, my class was goofing around, having fun. ... Chill - axing!
so, there were too Pianos there and people were playing it. One of my friends put the top lid of the piano ...
you know the one which hides all the strings and stuff?
... ya, so she put it up so the piano would play louder and I put my finger there
... and ...
Well, the lid fell on my finger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IT WAS BURNING WITH PAIN! My friend felt and still feels REALLY bad ... I forgave her, but my nail started turning BLUE! As a daughter of two doctors I realize that it was just a bruise, but it was scary!

And guess what? I typed the last five blogs with a bad finger! And dare I say pretty fast too!

I'll tell you more about camp wise later ... I'll maybe even put it in my other blog shared with my friend Lia. ... she was there too.

( http://www.sabrinanlia.blogspot.com/) Check it out!

K.

Sabrina.

Check - IT -OUT!

2009-10-21T06:27:00.000-07:00

ChECK IT OUT!

Me, Sabrina , and my friend Lia have our own NEW Blog!

!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!! !!!!! !!!

YA' GOTTA' Check it OUT!

It's called Sabrinanlia.blogspot.com .
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ya' GOTTa' ChECh It OuT!

K.

Sabrina.

Ps. Both the Blogs have the same theme color so be sure you're on the write one!

Odiogo gone Bongo!

2009-10-21T06:16:00.000-07:00

Odiogo ... that thing at the top of each post? well it isn't working.
In stead of playing the post that it is on, it is playing the post underneath. ... I don't know what to do!

If you guys have any Idea of what to do, please tell me!

K.

Sabrina.

Ps. I'll ask my dad and see if he knows what to do. Otherwise I'll try my mom. Just saying! I like to keep you posted.

Tutorial Rival!

2009-10-18T11:43:00.000-07:00

You know that youtube dance tutorial i have posted?
How i acted on that video is NOTHING like i am in real life.
People who know me ... you hopefully know that.
I'm not a girly-girl type of person ... actually that video is really kind of embarrassing!
I was 8 & a 1/2 when I made that video.
I was WAY carried away in those videos!

I have more tutorials that are popular on youtube but I much rather you watch my dances and piano recitals! I even have a ski video on youtube!

K.

Sabrina.

Ps. Leave comments! ! !

Don't be mean and check it out !!!

2009-10-18T11:38:00.000-07:00

Are you looking at ALL my blogs?!?
If you're just looking on my first page, don't!
I have some neat blogs on my other page too!

This is just a reminder, but if you don't look at my other pages, they'll get lonely- and you do NOT want that to happen right?

Well now you know what to do to make my blogs happy again!!! Keep in touch,

Sabrina.
PS. To get to the other, lonelier pages, all you have to do is go to the bottom of the screen, and click on the word "older"-OK?

PSS. I have this blog posted on another page ... if you were looking at all my pages then you would know that!

No more of that.

2009-10-18T11:00:00.000-07:00

You know that neopets air fairy blog I posted?
WELL, I just wanted to say that i DON'T play neopets anymore.

Neopets is a fun site, don't get me wrong . I had played neopets when I was 7, then I got board and quit. I wanted to play it again when I was 9 but forgot my old password and got a new account. I got over a million Dollars /neo money and got board And ... you guessed it ... quit again.

I think that it's an addicting site for a year then you get tired and sick of it. If you don't go there, like, every day, your neopet loses health and gets hungry and it's a pain to play 5 games and buy food for it AND feed it to him/her. It's fun at first but gets boring.

I don't know why but I just wanted to tell you about neopets ... So, yeah!

K.

Sabrina.

PS. I'll tell you more about neopets if you guys just tell me in a comment!
It's the same for any blog really! Just write me a comment!
(PSS. It took 15 min. to write this blog! Same for the one before! Color and italics takes time!)

SORRY!

2009-10-18T10:21:00.000-07:00

Ok ... I lied! I said that I would write every now and then and I ... well I didn't.

Sorry!

I REALLY will keep writing to you guys.
I write a weekly to u guys, otherwise you can review my old blogs? Sounds like a deal???

O! If you check out my blogs then you HAVE to see my youtube videos!
THEY ARE AWESOME!
I'll blog up some links some time.

K.

Sabrina.

PS. It's really fun using color and italics!

2009-06-21T15:48:00.000-07:00

Hey guys!

Sorry that I didn't write to U for a long time, I was realllllly busy!

But I'm back now!

I'll write to U now & then!

Ok.

Sabrina.

Oh happy day!

2009-04-23T08:20:00.000-07:00

Right now, you would think I would be at at school, learning.
But, I am my Dad's office, because it is Bring Your Kid To Work Day!
But I am still learning things.

When we parked at the Cleveland Clinic, where my Dad works, we went to his office, and got ready for an research experiment. It has to do with Second Life.
Second Life is a Multi User Virtual Environment. That means that lots of people have accounts on Second Life, and it is on the computer. Second Life is like a game without any story, meaning, that U could do whatever U want!

So as I was saying, the research question was, "Could Medical Students Learn How To Interview Patients from Second Life?".
How they did it was, that the part playing the patient was actually a doctor, and the medical student was playing the part of the doctor. The 2 were in different rooms, and chatted through headphones. It's hard to explain, but if U want to know more, make an account on Second Life!

After that, my dad worked on the computer, while I got to spend time with a graphic designer! He showed me some REALLY cool things!
Like how to change what a button says on the internet, and how to make things glow, and the other things stay the same, so that U can make one thing stick out!
It's REALLY awesome, and I can't wait until I try it at home!

After that, I ate lunch, and went on the computer to write a new post on my blog, which I am doing right now!
Soon, it will be time for me to go to school for the rest of the day.
Then go home, and get ready for soccer pratice.

See ya' later!

Sabrina.

Crazy weekends anyone?

2009-04-21T15:15:00.000-07:00

I had the most CRAZIEST weekend EVER!

I had to get up at 8 in the morning on Saturday-
- can U BELIEVE waking up at 8:00 on SATURDAY? -
And get ready for this, I had drive ALL the way to Lodi, which is ONE WHOLE HOUR away from my house. I was SOOOOOOOOOOO tired!
Then I played OK on the soccer field, which is why we had to do all this, go to Lodi to play soccer.
After that wasn't SO bad.
I got to watch a movie with my friend, then I went to Taco Bell for lunch.
But get this, at 3 o'clock, I had to go ALL the way back to Lodi soccer fields, for AGAIN, I had to play another game. But I played good this time. I guess I was cranky before.
I got home at 6PM.
I basically spent a WHOLE day there!

Then, the next day, I had to wake up at SEVEN! SEVEN IN THE MORNING!
Can U believe THAT?
Then I had to go ALL the way to Lodi, for ANOTHER game, and WE LOST!
So we didn't get to go to the semi finals, or the finals.
I had to wake up at SEVEN to lose a game, and drive ALL the way back home.

Top THIS crazy weekend!

Sabrina.

Bees and Butterflies!

2009-04-07T17:18:00.000-07:00

Hi!
I made a game from sratch. What I mean is I used a program called SCRATCH, to make the game I am going to show you.

Scratch was developed by MIT, to help kids learn how to do programing.
It's really fun and easy to learn!

You can see the game below, click on the image to go to the game.

Let me know if you like the game. What do you think of the ending?

I'm a Neopet air faerie!

2009-03-29T06:51:00.000-07:00

I have some neopets, and I took a personality quiz on neopets.com! If you haven't been there, be sure to check it out!

Guess which faerie I am like? An air faerie! "I am most like an air faerie, because I enjoy fresh air and have a positive (if somewhat relaxed) attitude about life." And that's what I look like as a faerie!

Don't believe me? Well here is the certificate I got from Neopets, so there!

Now you can listen to my blogs!

2009-03-23T16:53:00.000-07:00

I went to my Dad's blog and saw, or heard, something really cool!

He has a button that says, "Listen Now" on top of each post. When you click on it, it reads aloud the whole post!

I had it installed, and now when you look at the top of each of my posts, you can click on the button and hear the post!

It is a free service from Odiogo.com.... it also let's you subscribe to my blog on iTunes. So, everytime I post a new post, you can download it to your iPod... If you wish.

So please check it out!

Sabrina.

Inspiration for our School's blog!

2009-03-21T17:31:00.000-07:00

You all know that I have a blog. That's why you are here!

My parents mentioned this to my teachers at a parent-teacher conference y'day. They also suggested to the teachers that it might be a good idea for the school to start a group blog by the students. The teachers really liked the idea. So the school is thinking about starting this.

Wow! My blog might be the start to a school blog! Cool! Lets see what happens. I'll keep you posted!

It's finally here! The dance tutorial!

2009-03-18T16:02:00.000-07:00

I've told you about a million times before, but I am now going to show you how to dance!

To make a video, it takes a lot of work, and planning. You need lots of light to film, and lots of space to dance. You also need a good cameraman, and I had the perfect one! It took 3 days to shoot this, and another day to edit and upload it to YouTube. And of course, the video was too long. So we had to chop it in to two parts, and upload it again. I had got couple of assistants who helped me do the end of the dance tutorial.-can you guess who they are? Post a comment and I'll see if you're right! Then I'll reveal my answer! You can also guess who my cameraman was, you know, the perfect one?

I hope you dance along with this video!

Here's Part two! Dance along with this one as well!

Coming out soon!

2009-03-16T06:32:00.000-07:00

Do you know how to dance?
I know I asked this question before, but, in my next blog, I'm going to REALLY show you how to dance!

I have a cameraman who's going to tape me while I do some really cool moves.
I'll start with simple steps, and go to hard.

If you already know how to dance, this may an easy task; but I do warn you, this isn't ballet, or hip hop, or jazz, this is Indian, or Bollywood, dancing.

You may think I, by mistake, put a "B" instead of a"H" in Bollywood- but I didn't.
For those of you who don't know, Bollywood is like Hollywood, except it is in India.

I hope you stay tuned for my next blog and dance tutorial,

Sabrina Masala.

Here is the real thing!

2009-03-15T07:37:00.000-07:00

I have told you about the Holi dance, I was going to perform in.
The last and final song is the oscar winning "Jai Ho", from the movie "Slumdog Millionaire"
Here is the real thing!

Choreographer in Training.

2009-03-10T18:09:00.000-07:00

Do you know how to dance?
If you look at my profile on the right hand of the page, you would know I do!

Actually, my mom is a kind of a part time choreographer - I said "kind of" because my mom only choreographs for fun .

But, as I was saying, my mom choreographed a Holi dance recently. I -by myself- choreographed the end of the dance, I'm a choreographer in training!

If you didn't know, Holi is an Indian, festive, holiday,it's very fun to celebrate.

I hope this influenced you to work on new dance moves,
I'll keep you posted-Sabrina

Are you looking?

2009-03-09T15:51:00.000-07:00

Are you looking at ALL my blogs?!?
If you're just looking on my first page, don't!
I have some neat blogs on my other page too!

This is just a reminder, but if you don't look at my other pages, they'll get lonely- and you do NOT want that to happen right?

Well now you know what to do to make my blogs happy again!!! Keep in touch,

Sabrina.
PS. To get to the other, lonelier pages, all you have to do is go to the bottom of the screen, and click on the word "older"-OK?

What do you think?

2009-03-08T12:26:00.000-07:00

Do you like dogs or cats?
That was a question in my Scholastic News-"Debate Of The Week".

I would say DOGS- ................
You know what's so weird, I ask a girl this question, they ALWAYS say cats! I ask a boy this question, they always say dogs!
I don't know what it is, but it's driving me nuts!
Just because you're a different gender, doesn't mean you like different animals!

I would say THIS is something to debate about, what do you think?
I would say yes, so let's debate!
Are you a girl who likes dogs like me, or a boy who likes cats?
If you are, then tell me! I would love to hear what you have to say about this debate!
Leave me a comment, and maybe you could have the lucky comment, which will be part of my next blog!

Can't wait to see your comment.-Bye! -And keep in touch!

Talk About Iowa Testing!!!!

2009-03-07T16:39:00.000-08:00

I had Iowa testing this past school week. -And yes, it only took one week to finish testing!

Last year I was nervous, and kind of scared, because it was my first real test.
But it turned out to be really fun!
After each portion of the test, we had a break. During the break, you could eat your snack that you brought, play games in the classroom, and chat with your friends! It was much funner than I expected!
This year, however, it wasn't as fun as last year.
I was expecting games and fun, during the break. Instead I got only a little snack, and 5 min. of chatting!
The point is, every time I took the test, I expected the opposite of what happened!
Well, at least testing is over!
Ciao!

Is there such a thing as too much fun in one day?

2009-02-28T08:32:00.000-08:00

Friday I had no school. Here I am, excited, and guess what my dad said, "You have too many holidays!"and my mom says,"I have to find some activities for you!" Mom's comment was actually positive!

SO, I ended up with a play date with two of my friends, going to a soccer practice, a sleepover with two other friends, and the next day, dinner at ANOTHER friend's house, plus a soccer game!!!!! It was almost too much fun!-

I asked my Dad what I should put in this blog and he said, "You did not learn anything new all day. Maybe you should say that you should have gone to school instead?!?" As if I would ever write that in MY blog! Actually I just did, didn't I?

Maybe I did learn something. My soccer coach who is from Argentina taught me the right strategy for 2 on 2 defence in soccer. So there Dad....

Did I tell you I love dancing?

2009-01-28T09:25:00.000-08:00

I did a dance with my Mom at a cousin's wedding. As you can guess my cousin is muuuuch older than me.
Actually I am the youngest of all the cousins on my Dad's side!

Hope you enjoy this dance!

I THINK i just turned nine when I did this ... ?! ( I wrote THIS part 10-21-09)