Johanna Speaks

I just started Spanish class about two weeks ago! We are starting a new story about a boy named Bart. And our first Spanish class, he had a song for us to sing to and listen to! The song was called " My Heart Will Go On," but instead of the words in the song, he put our old story in! It was pretty funny us trying to sing to it! Okay, I didn't sing to it but danced to it. I took a video of the people singing to it on my phone. I will put that video at the very bottom of this blog post. We got pretty far already in the new story that we are doing. Here is it in English:

There is a boy. The boy is Bart. Bart lives in Redding, California. But he used to live in Boring, Oregon. He lived in a small tipi in Boring, Oregon. There was an Elephant named Freddy. He was Bart's favorite elephant. Freddy is very big and fat. Freddy lived with Bart in the small tipi. Freddy was not happy because the tipi was very small, and he was big. Freddy had a friend. The friend was a cat. The cat had a cat, Cocola. But Freddy wanted an Elephant Cocola, not a cat Cocola. So Freddy was sad. 

But now Bart lives in Redding, California. Bart is very happy because he lives in a big house. He has a mosquito friend named Charles living with him. Charles is special to Bart. Charles is happy because he went to Mosquito McDonalds because he wants a mosquito Cocola. 

There is a buffalo. The buffalo is Bernie. Bernie lives in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. But he used to live in Tennessee in a hotel. One part of the hotel is part buffalo, and the other part is for mosquitos. And Bernie used to be a boy, too! He used to be Elvas Pressly! But now he is a buffalo. He speaks three languages, Cat, Buffalo, and Elephant, and lives in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. Bernie is very interesting. And this is a very interesting situation. 

The End........for now at least. 

Did you like that Spanish story? Our Spanish teacher keeps making stuff up, keeps the story going, and has us learn new Spanish words! It's a lot of fun telling this story in Spanish! I would write this in Spanish, but I spell Spanish words wrong and might get some words wrong in different spots. But I hope you liked this story so far! Thanks for reading! Bye!

So yesterday, a dog named Addie came to our house after church! Noelle and Cameron brought her over because she's always been in a kennel, and nobody ever really walks her. So they brought her over to our house! She is three years old and is a brown lab, but she is pretty small for her size. She is so cute!! I got to take her on a walk while Sophie and Cameron were on their bikes in front of me. After we walked, she laid herself on our cold floor because she and I were supper hot. Oh, and I even taught her how to shake! She doesn't know what shake actually means, but she can hear my tone of voice and then puts up her paw to me. She only does that sometimes. If I had a treat, then she would do it. And she will do it when I don't pay any attention to her. It's just so cute! I wished I could keep her forever! Like this morning, I so badly wanted to take her on a walk, but she wasn't here, sadly. :( 

Noelle and Cameron can't keep her at their house forever because their landlord said they couldn't have any dogs to own there. So they only had Addie for about three days so she could get some exercise, then put her back in her kennel at Cameron's family's house.

Here are some pics to show you of her! So cute!! <3

I just bought a violin! So I have been renting for a while, and it's been six months since I started learning! I think I actually got my violin about two weeks ago, but I forgot to blog about it. So now I am! I got $75 dollars off for the violin. The violin was $400, but then I got the $75 dollars off, so it was like $345 or something because I also got a $50 dollar violin bow. That violin didn't have one. I got to choose between one violin with a bow and a different one( that I ended up buying later ) that didn't have a bow with it. The lady said I could try them out, so I took out one of them, put on a chin rest, tuned it up, and started playing it. I did that to both of them, and surprisingly they were very different from each other. They had the exact same look and everything except that the sound was different! One was pretty loud, and the other violin seemed almost to be muted inside the violin. I wanted the one that had a loud voice and bought that one.

 The feel was different. And it seemed almost a little easier to play than my other one, which was more expensive. By the way, these are brand new violins, so they did have kind of a shiny look to them, but I didn't really care for that because the colors on the violin were so beautiful! I named it Blaze. But Noelle called it Hobbes because it had stripes on the back. Every violin basically has stripes on the back, so I told her I could name it Blazing Hobbes! :)

Here are some pics of my beauty Baze! Or Bazing Hobbes:

So I have wanted to play " He's a Pirate " from Pirates of the Caribbean so badly because it's such a fun and cool song to be able to learn! And I especially want to do it with my brother Nicholas, who is super good at guitar! He could even do fingerstyle, too! Which is plucking the strings on the guitar but also doing some strumming too! It sounds so cool! So, if he and I learned it together, it would sound amazing!! But the problem would be me actually trying to play it, which is that the song is pretty hard on the violin to learn for me. But Nick could probably learn easily because he's a pro on guitar! :)

By the way, I have actually never watched Pirates of the Caribbean before. And now I have been so badly wanting to watch it! I don't know if it's okay to watch that, though. The trailer looks fun to watch. But I just so badly want to! I love the songs! And it looks cool to watch! Oh, and Sophie and I have been actually playing Pirates of the Caribbean Lego version on the Xbox. It's so much fun, and I love the story of the game. The Lego guys are especially super funny. And they have all the character's faces and movements correctly. So it's basically showing you the whole movie, but you get to play as the guys in Legos. And they really get all the details in the game perfectly! Here is a video of a professional violinist playing " He's a Pirate". 

Okay, maybe it's not really almost my birthday, but I think it is! My birthday is November 7th. And it's going to be on a Tuesday. Do you think my birthday is soon or not? My family thinks it's not but my birthday is only about two months away! By the way, Gideon had his birthday yesterday, August 30th. He turned 20 years old. Noelle and Nicholas are having their birthday at the end of October. So mine is like a week after theirs. They are turning, I think, 22 years old. Kind of forgot. And I am going to be turning 13 years old soon. Also, I already made my birthday list. Here it is if you want to see it. :)

Also, I know what you might be thinking right now, "Man, she has bad handwriting." Well, I usually do cursive, but my family can't really read it. It's not that I can't spell in cursive, but sometimes I use some letters wrong in cursive, which I do think is right, but people don't think so. So anyway, that is the reason why. 

Back to what I was saying earlier, which was birthdays. Everybody is getting mad at me for making the birthday list so soon, but you never know. It might take them some thought about what they should get me. Wink, wink! ;)