Johanna Speaks

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! 

We are going to move back to our old house! The house where we used to have our dog Diego in! 

I am very excited about it! I really want to decorate my new room! I want the theme to be music! Maybe Noelle could paint music notes or something cool like that. Also, we want to get stuff into the house in December. So there's still a lot of time before we move. We could even get a dog if we move back! Since our old house has a big fenced-in backyard! 

It still has a tree house from like seven years ago. Maybe more than that, even. So we might have to re-build it since the wood might break from how old it is. But I hope we can make it into a secret little hideout place or somewhere where we can have friends up there like reading books, practicing music, or playing instruments! I have a lot of ideas already for the house! 

I hope these months move fast so we can hurry up and move! But I do love the house we are in. The reasons are a nice view, a friend nearby, it's a big nice two-story house, at the top of a hill, so it's nice to go down in the gullies, uh. Probably a lot of other reasons too! Reasons for moving to the other house, you can directly walk down a really nice pathway to the lake club that is right next to the house, treehouse, big backyard, dog, decorate my new room, woodstove, a nice big cozy living room, biking trails, friends next door practically,  probably a lot more reasons why I want to move to the other house! 

Please leave comments! Bye! And thank you for reading this!!

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!