Johanna Speaks

So I was Arwen from the Lord of the Rings. And our friend, Jonathan, was a hobbit from Lord of the Rings, and so was Ezra, our brother. Ezra looked like Sam, and Jonathan looked like Frodo. I curled Ezra's hair for the first time because hobbits have curly hair. And it actually didn't look bad at all!

Oh, and Sophie was a red fairy. 

Ezra put his costume together about two hours before we left. Jonathan had already had his costume planned out a while ago. And they look exactly like hobbits! But they need to be shorter because hobbits are small and elves are very tall. I had my brother Caleb's bow for looks. We took pictures right before we left. We look so cool!! Here they are!!!

So we left to go trick or treating! I went with my brother Jonathan, French Jonathan, and Ezra in one car, and Sophie went with my mom in her car. We met up with the Ramirazes on Freshwater and started from there! We did almost the whole street! This street is about four miles long!! I kept getting confused about where we were! But thankfully, we made it out in the end! After Freshwater we went to our friend James house and said hi and got some candy there. And even went to our old house that we will move back into. 

Then everybody went back home except me because I really wanted to get full-sized candy on our street that somebody had. So now I have a full-sized Hershey and Kit cat. 

I hope you liked our costumes!!

Okay, I made a post on when I first got a violin. I just went back to the post and read it. Back when I first had my violin, there were a lot of things that I wish I hadn't thought that was right but actually wrong. As I once said, " When the peg on the violin starts to slip, just tighten the fine tuners, and that will fix the problem." NO! That will NOT fix the problem. It was caused by the air temperature. When, let's say, the air gets hot, suddenly, your peg will start to slip. To fix the problem, push the peg more into the violin. Or a more terrifying way is to take out the whole peg, lightly swipe it with your violin bow, and then put it back on. The rosin should stick to the wood and not slip easily. Boom! Fixed that problem! Number two! When you are a beginner, remember only to use the fine tuners. UNLESS your fine tuners can't tighten any tighter or they can't loosen any looser, then first make sure that the fine tuner is almost the way out before switching to the peg. I don't know why you do that. So don't ask! I actually could be wrong here, so.... yeah. Risa, if you are reading this, you can tell me why in the comments. 

I now know a lot more things about the violin. I remember when I broke a string, and the bridge fell off. I cried because I felt so bad and was angry at myself for breaking it already! I even wrote a letter to the people at the music store asking if they could please fix it for free and telling them how sorry I was. Then I put the letter inside my violin case and gave it to my parents to take there. I didn't go because my parents had to run errands. Later, they came back with a fixed violin for me! I was just so happy! I asked them if they had to pay for it, but they said nope! I didn't want to touch it because I was afraid of breaking it again. But after days went by, I started to play it. 

Yep! That was my violin story! Now, I don't feel afraid of holding, touching, or even tuning it like I used to. Oh, I even named it Harmony. My friend Abby's violin is named Melody. I might change mine because I want a cool boy type of name for a violin. So comment and give me some name ideas! 

Bye! Thanks for reading this blog!!

Don't worry, our actual Spanish classes aren't done. Only our story is. And Today I have a Spanish class soon! Because today is Monday! We have our Spanish classes on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. 

So, let me talk about what our Spanish story is now! I will be saying it in English:

There is a girl named Elana. She lives in Omaha, Nebraska. She lives with her pet cat, Fredrick Brownie. Fredrick used to give her chocolate, but now he doesn't because there is no more chocolate in Omaha, Nebraska. So now Elana is very sad. 

There is a rock named Rocky. Rocky lives with his friend Elden in a cave. Elden is an elephant. He is a normal elephant because he is super big like an elephant. It is a good situation because Eldon gives Rocky Willy Wonka chocolate every day. Now Elden is Rocky's favorite friend. Their cave is super big because Elden is big, so it's perfect. Rocky is very small because he is a rock. He speaks rock and elephant. Elden speaks elephant because he is an elephant. And he also speaks rock. Rock is a hard language, but elephant is an easy language. Their lives are perfect. 

That's it so far. All of those English words are what we can all say in Spanish. I would write it in Spanish, but I would write it all wrong. And plus, I don't want to search it up either because that would take too long! 

Our actual class will be ending soon! I only have about two weeks or so left! It said it would end right at the beginning of November! And November is soon!! That also means......... my birthday is almost here!! My b-d is on Nov 7th if you want to know.....wink wink! Contact me for the birthday list if you want to know. 

Okay! Well, I think this is the end of the blog post!! Leave a message, please!! Bye!!

I LOVE the Lord of the Rings movies!! Super good! So I decided to be an elf from it. I wanted to be Arwen, an elf princess, but I had no clothes that would look exactly like hers. Those types of dresses cost a lot! So I decided to be an elf from Lord of the Rings who is from the elf kingdom, and I might be Arwen. I'm still deciding.

My friend Abby wanted to be a cowgirl with me. But I wanted to be an elf, so she decided to be one too. Now we have the exact same outfit. I wanted to be Arwen the elf, but Abby has the same outfit and has never seen Lord of The Rings, so I will probably be a normal elf with her. She has a crystal tiara, many cute butterfly clips in her hair, and pretty elf jewelry for her ear. I will wear a viny type of tiara and then elf ear jewelry. 

We wanted to do elf makeup but don't know what exactly. So we still have to decide on that. Abby and I already got our stuff in the mail, so we are all set except for the makeup part. Super excited!

I am coming up with a plan about where to go on Halloween. Like what streets we are going to hit and stuff like that. Also, I will write down who has full-sized candy bars or full-sized candy stuff on the streets. 

Here is what our costumes look like on us:

I have been teaching my friend Abby how to play the violin! So far, she is super good at it and learning fast! I have been taking videos since she first started till now. And so far, I have only been playing for two weeks! She has had the violin for a week longer, but that does not count because she only practiced when I was there, and I was not there every day, so this only counts as she only practiced for two weeks. I put all the videos together and will now show them to you. But don't forget she has only been playing for two weeks!

We are learning the scales; basically, doe ray me fa so la ti doe. But keep going higher. I don't know if I even spelled that correctly, so don't judge! We have been learning the scales, and Abby has nailed it down! 

 I want her to use the whole bow, the very tip of the bow, and the frog down to the very bottom. But that is pretty hard to do. I mean, she doesn't have a scratchy noise or a bumpy noise but a clear-sounding noise. So, the next thing she can learn is to use the whole bow. She has done that before, but I want her to do it for every song she does.

 Now we are learning for Christmas Feliz Navidad! I went on YouTube, and there is a video that shows numbers like 2, 1, 3 and stuff like that, so she knows what finger to put down. At first, she didn't understand it, but then she told me," Jo, the two words you said, I now understand it!" So now she is learning Feliz Navidad's song from YouTube and can play the music from the video. It's a little hard to place the third finger on the fingerboard for her because you have to stretch them sometimes, and it is hard to do, but I know she will nail that third finger over time! 

Last night, we went on a Zoom call and practiced Feliz Navidad, but when she tried playing I couldn't hear her, which also happened to Abby. But I did hear her a little bit. So it wasn't too bad. 

She is just so good at it!! So happy for her!!  :)

We also made a funny video! Obviously, it wasn't her playing and it doesn't really look like she is actually playing the song because of the shifting and all that but don't judge!