This has been one great year in computers! We 7th graders finally made it, and I'm really happy about that! It was tough, but we all got done! In Computers, I learned so much that I never knew existed, or how to use different tools. I think it will help me a lot in the future, and I'm really excited for it! I learned how to make my own webpage, and how to manage it. I also learned lots of different things that were in the stuff I used, but never knew I could do! It was so much fun this year in computers, and it's really memorable!This year, I learned how to be safe online, how to work with webpage design, and even how to animate videos! It was really cool to learn those things, and I know in the future I will be using those skills in my different classes, and I will have lots of fun with it! I'm so excited that this year has finished, and that we all made it through! I suggest the Computers class next year, because it was a really effective class, and I can do so many things that lots of other people don't know how to do it. It really expanded my knowledge of technology, and I will never forget this amazing class and year here at ComputeHere's a shoutout to our computer teacher, Mr. Kimbley! :)
I love lots of different things, and one of the major things that I love besides: drawing, Zelda, and Selena Gomez, is music. Music is my life. I've been playing for four years, and now I can't go a day without playing on my viola or my piano for at least an hour. Ever since I've discovered Lindsey Stirling, I realized that I really do love to play, and I had become obsessed. I heard lots of her songs, and got the music, and started learning how to play them, and I learned how to do vibrato during my craze, and it sounds even better. After I learn some of it on my viola, and can't do it too well, I turn to my trusty piano, and play it on there first, and then it's easier playing it on my viola, since I'm more comfortable with the music. I plan on connecting my jobs with my siblings. I'd be an animator, and my sister will be part of that, and because my brother wants to become a video game creator, I'd be playing his soundtrack, and I know that will be really fun and enjoyable for me, because I love music so much.
Music is such a beautiful thing to learn, and know about. If you don't play an instrument, I suggest you play one, and I know some gamers might be interested, but you can play games from your favorite songs, and you feel even better, and I do know this from experience. I love the Zelda game series, and its music is really amazing. I learned many of their songs, and even the little sound effects they make. I'm now learning the Assassin's Creed 3 theme, and it sounds pretty nice. After that, I'll be learning the Lord of the Rings soundtrack, in which my cousin, sister, and myself would be very pleased. So, I suggest you play music. If you like high-pitched music, you might want to try the violin, flute, and other instruments of that kind. If you like lower instruments, a viola, cello, bass, sax, and other instruments of those types would be for you. If you like both, piano is the instrument for you, because you can go through many different ranges of pitch. I might seem really crazy for being this much in love with music, but it's true. Music is my life, and I love it so much.
Next week, there will be no school on Monday! That means that we have a 3-day-weekend! I love extra long weekends. My sister got back from college about a week ago, and I'm happy to say that we have been having a lot of fun together. My sister has started Skyward Sword, and now she's really into the storyline, because it has a really sweet storyline to it. Here is how the story goes:
Loftwings are flying about in the sky. People are jumping of the edge of Skyloft, and are whistling to call their birds, and take them on a flight. A blue bird flies to Princess Zelda, who is playing a golden harp, and singing in Hylian as she plays. The blue bird picks up a letter from Zelda and flies off. Next, we go to Link, who looks like he's in a dream, with someone telling him to awaken. Then, Link is rolled off his bed, and the Loftwing spits the letter in his face. Link picks it up and reads it, remembering that this was the day of the Wing Ceremony, and Zelda wanted to meet him before they went off.
Link runs over to Zelda, and she tells him that she will be playing the role of the Goddess in the Wing Ceremony, and she wants him to win so they can perform a ceremony together. Zelda pushes Link off the edge, and tells him to call his bird, but it doesn't respond. Alarmed, Zelda jumped off, called her bird, and saved Link's life. They found out that the jock of the school, Groose, had stolen it. He wanted Link to lose because he loved Zelda. He started to pick on Link, and Zelda showed him her sass, and Link won the competition.
This is how far we've gotten, and I'm excited to play much more!
These past two weeks, I've been working really hard on making different things from different video games. I'm a huge gamer, and I love to play! I've played The Legend of Zelda, the Mario series, Assassin's Creed, and lots of other cool games. So, lately I've finished making the Master Sword from the Legend of Zelda, and Zelda's sword, too. I've made a lot of other things from that game series too, like rupees, hearts, heart containers, and even the annoying, but helpful friend of Link, Navi.
For Assassin's Creed, I made the tomahawk from the 3rd game, and it actually looks pretty cool, and I found some great tutorials if you want to check them out. The youtube username is epicfantasy. He does really cool artwork from the games and movies and knows how to make the hidden blade from Assassin's Creed, and it works too! I think that making these different video game items is pretty fun, and hard at the same time. The end product looks really nice. The things I really used were only: dowels, foam board, and different paint colors (depending on whatever you are making). I'm actually liking building this stuff, and it's a really fun craft project!
I am skipping lots of detail, but I will come back to it. I really wanted to share that I finished Twilight Princess! It was an amazing game, and I highly recommend it for you. First, you had to fight dark Zelda. That was pretty hard, but it got easier after you got used to it. She was being controlled by Ganondorf, the high and mighty enemy, and she would use her magic and sword to try and come shoot us. We had to repel her attacks by using our master sword to block it off, and hit it back to her. After we defeated her, she became back to normal, but she was fainted.
Next, we had to fight Ganon, and we had to be in our wolf form, as he was in his animal form which looks like some sort of a pig. We had Midna's help, and we grabbed him, and kept on throwing him to the side. It took me a few tries at first, and I lost a fairy doing that, but I finally got rid of that beast, and we defeated him. Then, Midna returned Zelda back to normal, and she awoke, and she and Link smiled at each other, and then Midna warped us out, and she put on her fused shadows to try and get Ganondorf, as he was returning to his original form...as a dark lord.
Sadly, Ganondorf tore off Midna's mask, and he came on his horse outside, and threw it on the floor. He started charging towards Link and Zelda, but, Zelda used her magic to let us escape, and they both had to team up together, and defeat Ganondorf on horseback. Then, they together both killed him, and Ganondorf died in the light. Midna, who was an imp, became her true self, the Twilight Princess. However, Link, Zelda, and Midna said farewell to each other, and Midna leaves, and Zelda and Link are left together.
My favorite singer and actress is Selena Gomez, but I do have a favorite violinist. Her name is Lindsey Stirling. She's really amazing and has so much potential. Lindsey has done so many songs, and even dubstep. Her dubstep is amazing. My favorite songs by her are Crystallize, and the Zelda Medley. The Zelda Medley is filled with classic songs from the game series. In the music video she made, she is dressed up as Link in his blue tunic and is playing the violin while dancing in the amazing setting she's in. It's such a great music video, and I think all Zelda fans should watch it, because it's amazing!
Crystallize is an amazing song. It's a dubstep too. Lindsey Stirling with dubstep music is epic and sounds spectacular! for this music video, Lindsey is playing her violin and is dancing to the music that she's playing. The scenery is amazing. It's like a crystal palace that her crew team built for her, and it's now in Colorado for everyone to come see it. She's amazing at playing the music. I'm really in love with Crystallize, and I listen to it over and over again every day. You should check out Lindsey Stirling's music on YouTube. Lindsey's YouTube username is: lindseystomp. You should subscribe to her if you love the music, buy it on iTunes, and you can even buy the sheet music, if you play a strings instrument, from her website. Search up Lindsey Stirling! She's amazing!!
Last week, our orchestra participated in Festival, where you play for judges, and they rate you on how well you played. We played the following pieces: Arlington Sketches, Dragon Dances, and Westminster Prelude and Fugue. Those were really fun pieces, and I liked them a lot. They were lively, and fun to play. Overall, our orchestra got a rating of 'Excellent.' I think that we could have done better, but we were just nervous when we played. Afterwards, we heard the judges' audio commentary on a CD, and the comments were nice, and he pointed out that we needed to work more on our dynamics, which I agree on.
Festival was really fun to be a part of. Finally, after a tedious week of working, the weekend is finally here! I'm so excited for the weekend, because we finished The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, and I've started The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. So far, I really love that game, as much as I do as Twilight Princess. So far, I've found my loft wing, competed in a race, and Zelda's been captured by a black hole. I can't wait to play more. Even though I'm not that far, I still really love it. I've finished my homework as fast as I could, and now I don't have homework, so I'm really excited for playing on my Nintendo Wii. No doubt, I'm really excited for the weekend after this long and tedious school week of work and CST prep tests. I'm also learning songs from the game series, and I'm really excited to keep on learning and playing that over the weekend, too!
Well, our state competition for Science Olympiad finished, and our school placed 8th out of 23 schools. That's a huge improvement from last year, and one of the highest places in the state competition ever. We aren't going to nationals, but it was a great experience, and we know what we are going to do for next year, and we are really excited. Our school placed very well. My partner and I got a 2nd place in Helicopters, and two other members got a 1st in Rocks and Minerals, two other members got a 4th in Keep the Heat, and three other members got a 3rd in Mission Possible. That's extremely well, and I can't wait for next year.
After Science Olympiad, our orchestra had to go to festival, which is an opportunity to perform in front of judges, and receive an overall score about our orchestra program. Our orchestra played Dragon Dances, Westminster Prelude and Fugue, and Arlington Sketches. We sounded pretty nice, and we scored an overall of Excellent. I think that we could have done a little better, but it's pretty good. We had to repeat a verse in Arlington, where we sped up a lot, but it went well, because we all listened to each other, and played together. This was a nice opportunity for our orchestra, and I'm looking forward to next year.
I'm in a competition called Science Olympiad, and in that competition, teams from different schools prepare for the competition, and we all compete against each other. Regionals went really well for us, and we placed first in regionals, meaning Computech, us, get to go to the state competition. State is coming up pretty close, and we need to practice lots, to make sure we do our best! We have 23 events, and we have to study them, or build in them, depending on your event, and there are certain things you can and cannot do.
Say you had the event called Metric Mastery. First, let me tell you a little about that event. There will be different objects in competition, and you would have to guess how long it is, it's volume, density, mass, force, and how long it takes for something to do something by not even touching it. It's pretty hard, but to make it even harder, judges have put a time limit on it, making us do the task in 30 seconds. In this event, you can't bring anything, except for a non-programmable calculator. This seems like it is unnecessary, but it is. The event supervisors didn't want people to be cheating, which made everything unfair for anyone else.
After that, there is an actual measuring part of it, where you get one minute to find out the task, and measure whatever it says to measure. This is pretty hard, but once again, there are the same regulations. These events are really fun, but hard, and I can't wait for the state competition!
We have now entered the cave in which the evil baboon stays, and we had to kick him off his totem poles, and then hit him with our sword. Once the baboon lost, darkness came out of him, and I realized it was the twilight. He dropped something, and when I looked, I realized it was the famous Gale Boomerang. I was waiting to get that, and when you throw the boomerang at something, it brings it back to you, which is really helpful later on in the game.
After we defeated the baboon, we had to once again, with Midna's command, go back to the twilight. I was really reluctant, but I knew I had to save the other light spirits. So, I, Link, walked slowly back across the bridge, with the monkeys' help. Then, I walked across the whole village, made my way back to the spring, and I saw the bridge that led to the twilight. Once I got there, Midna asked me if I really wanted to go. I said yes, because she had told me to, and then she pulled me into the twilight, where I was once again in my wolf form.
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