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Going Dark-by Melissa De La Cruz – I have not finished reading this book yet; I am currently on page 171. This book is about a girl named Amelia Ashley and her boyfriend Josh. She posts blogs, but the last photo uploaded on her blog was a photo Josh had taken, her eating pistachio gelato. Head tipped back eyes closed, towards the sun. The go to Rome and she stays at someone’s house on this trip, but after Josh thought she was with her friends safe and sound, a dark turn came suddenly.

I like this book so far, it gives good energy, enthusiasm in the words and entertainment. The story starts off with Josh introducing himself, and soon in chapters the book is written in different perspectives form different characters in the book. Then later on in the chapters, it explains the friend she stayed with, or an influencer that wanted to collaborate with Amelia Ashley. The author gives you a glimpse of each character in each chapter, and with good description.

My favorite character is Amelia Ashley, and a character trait I would say she shows is creative. A quote to show the character trait is, “We stepped into a world that felt like it was on the cusp between life and death, teeming with its own heartbeat made of music and lungs made of bodies breathing the same musty air. It felt as if our every move were being followed by the watchful, gaping eyes of our hosts. I chose this quote because instead of saying We entered a place of dead bodies breathing the same air, she was descriptive of the surroundings around her.

My favorite quote is, “On campus, Josh felt all eyes on him, burning into the back of his skull like hot irons.” This quote is meaningful to me because the author used one of the figurative language. The author uses lots of figurative language in her book and it gives depth and structure to the sentences of this book.

If I could have any job in the entire world, I would be a marine biologist. I would like to feed the animals, and I have never had a pet to take care of. This would be an interesting job to do, like researching about an animal you’ve never heard of. An example of this could be a marine biologist finding a vaquita which is part of the porpoise family with only a few left. But it is rare to find a vaquita. They are endangered. A secondary reason would be learning also about plants, but like corals, they are animals and some species are more delicate than others because of how they are adapted. Some plants in the ocean is phytoplankton. This plant is a big part of many animals diet. Last of all, marine biologists work directly in the ocean to do work other than maybe a lab. Working directly on an ocean can also be fun as doing hand on things could be fulfilling instead of guess doing work all the time on the computer if marine biologists do so you get screen time off.

This month I read a book called We’ll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han. In the book We’ll Always Have Summer, this books talks about Susannah, the mother of Conrad Fisher, and Jeremiah Fisher. Two years after the incident which was initially introduced by the last book called It’s Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han, Jeremiah bends down a bended knee, to Belly Conklin, puts forward what her fairy tale dreaming Belly has always dreamed of. Not to be Belly Conklin, but be Belly Fisher. On the other hand, Jeremiah and Belly return to where they all spend their summers, most of the time, to Cousins Beach to plan out their wedding, Conrad goes to Belly to apologize what he did that broke her heart. Not deliberately, she has to confess her true feelings to both of them and resolve the conflict between Conrad and Jeremiah.

For this month, I read the book, We’ll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han. I would recommend you would read this book, Two books come before this one, first The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han, then the second book after is It’s Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han. In this book, you’ll mainly be reading about Belly Conklin, Conrad Fisher, Jeremiah Fisher, and many other characters. Belly Conklin has feeling for Conrad and Jeremiah, but she doesn’t want to break Jeremiah’s heart and says she’ll only be with him, but Conrad tells Belly how he honestly feels about her. Belly can’t process what to do and expresses her emotions about Jeremiah. Later on she feels sad and confused, but in the end she knows who in the end how she truly feels about Conrad and Jeremiah.

My favorite character in the book in Belly, and a character trait to show this is that she is honest. A quote to give an example is, “ I had clung like a barnacle all these years, and now I couldn’t cut away.” this shows that she couldn’t let go of Conrad, but also couldn’t just walk away from Jeremiah and leave no trace, she showed how she really felt about them.

My favorite quote in this book is, “ I stepped out of the dress, and it slipped to the floor, a silky white puddle.” I like how Jenny Han didn’t say, “ I stepped out of the dress and slipped to the floor to a puddle.” She was descriptive and said a silky, white puddle, giving a vision for the reader to see while reading the book to give a sentence more life and uplift a sentence, because be just being more descriptive in a story, you can really bring up your story, and give a sentimental perspective and a insight of the moment happing at the moment or point in the story.

The possibilities are endless when you are invisible for twenty-four hours! I would first make my bed, then go up to make breakfast for myself. While my parents would be sleeping, during breakfast, I would still be making breakfast if they enter the kitchen to scare them. They would be wondering why the pan is moving on it own the stove. I think my parents would try to put flour on me so they maybe would see what was going with the floating pan. Then I would go to the store myself but walk
To target and pick up my target pickup, then go home and sprinkle glitter on the floor to see who would find me and put post it’s around the house, to see if my parents would find me, eventually I would sprinkle flour on myself when someone finds me.

Life on my abandoned island is lonely. On this Island, I was abandoned with my family from a cruise ship that sinked. Luckily, we were in time to find an island nearby. In the morning, we had a gallon of water, food, a half charged watch, and blankets. We had a phone barely charged. We found some wood around, and made a sign that says, “ S O S ” spelled put big. After that, we drank a bit water and ate some fruit. While we were stranded on this island, in the afternoon we found wood to make a shelter. We put together a shelter, but failed miserably. Soon, the shelter was ready big enough for my family and I. Two days pass by, and a helicopter comes and sees the “ S O S” finally! We had almost ran out food and water. In addition, we had access to an oasis for support of water. But the helicopter came.

On a sunny morning, I woke up to hear the sound of sounds of laughter It was summer! Finally after all those tiring days with ringing alarms, it was summer. I got out of bed seeing the dark arising sunrise. It was so pretty. My pajamas were kind of wrinkly from the dryer. Making my bed, I went to go brush my teeth and get ready.

As I finished getting ready, I took off my matching pajamas and put a new t-shirt with the words, “Zion.”

and some tie dye sweatpants. Looking out from the door, I smelled something .I ran downstairs to see what was alluring my nose. Seeing my mom from the mirror, I saw her making pancakes. Specifically, banana pancakes. I ran upstairs to get a hair tie. I washed my face and put on lotion on my face. It was a new day! I ran downstairs again. My mom called me down, as I was ran down the carpeted stairs. “Hurry, we are going to the store!” Thankfully I was already dressed up to go to the store. On the way going outside, I grabbed I quick drink before leaving. Through that, my mom waited in the car while I grabbed my breakfast too. We were going to target, I did need some things from there. But, I wasn’t so surprised that I was going. Before all of this, I told my mom if we could go to target. Most of the time, it’s no. This time, she said yes. In fact, my mom always turns on the radio. Every morning no matter the day or time.
She said, “We are ONLY getting the things you need, not what you want.”

I responded, “okay.”

We arrived, finally. My mom took the keys, turned off the car and shut the door, I take a long time to get out, my mom says to me. I don’t so, I think it’s because most of the time, I just am in the middle of taking something with me or finishing my breakfast. Trying to hurry, I set down my breakfast so I could eat it later, and shut the door. My mom had already walked to the store, I think she gets tired of me getting things excessively when going out. After I get my things to go the store, I walk up to the store to find my mom. Where is she?

Eventually I find her in the clothes section. She says, “Hey where have you been?”

I respond, “I’ve been trying to find you, since I was getting my things from the car.”

she says back, “ Oh..”

I say, “ I’m going to go find the things I need to get like toothpaste.”

my mom says, “ Okay I’ll be here in the clothes section.”

I go on to find this really cute claw clip, a pink flower clip with half acrylic beads on it. Walking out of the clothes and claw clips section, I walk down to another aisle, I try to find some toothpaste, and floss. Normally, the toothpaste I get is not minty. If it isn’t minty, it feels weird in mouth. I put in the mint toothpaste and mouthwash in the cart. Even though that’s all I needed for now, I kind of wanted a snack, but my mom said only to get what I needed and not what I wanted.
Catching myself wanting something I go wait near the line for checkout and text me mom, “ Hey I’m here waiting are you done?”

She responds, “ Yes, I’m making my way there now.” I look around meanwhile I wait.

My mom makes her way to me, and says, “ Okay, let’s go to pay this then if you want, we can go get a drink from the eighty five bakery.”

We pay and make our way out. My mom and I collect our bags and leave Target. On our the way to the car I put my bag in the Target bag and carry it. When we made it to the car, getting inside, I set down the bag and sat down and put in my seatbelt, thirty minutes later, we arrive at the eighty five bakery and take off our seatbelt and go inside. Ring! The door made when we entered. Looking inside, I see the breads ad sweets. I get an egg pudding and a hotdog bread with ketchup and cheese. My mom gets a chocolate bread. In the line, I see all kinds of cakes, velvet cake, mango cake, strawberry shortcake, chocolate cake, and many other types of cakes. The lady says, “Hi what would you like any drinks?” My mom responds, “ Yes can I get a a Jasmine green tea with no ice please?” The lady says, “ Okay anything else?” My mom says, “ No thank you that’s all.” We get our number and sit down. After they call a few numbers and minutes pass, they say, “Number thirty five!” We walked up from our chairs and my mom gets her drink and we leave the store. After a long day, we go home.

This month I read a book It’s Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han.

I enjoyed this book because it is about Belly’s past relationship with Conrad from past winter. The first summer she will stay home. But her best friend Taylor, has plans ahead for Belly. Like boat parties, tanning beside the pool, and new boys to obsess over since of her brief relationship. When Jeremiah, (Conrad’s younger brother) calls, he says Conrad has disappeared. All clues lead back to the beach house. Will she get over Conrad, or keep chasing him.Or will she finally move on?

I liked this book because It taught me even when things are hard, or can’t let go of someone, you just have to. In the beginning, Something terrible happened to a relative of Belly. This book is about the brief relationship she had with Conrad. The first summer staying at home. Taylor on the other hand wanted her to get over Conrad as Belly wasn’t so aware of the situation. Taylor for a new relationship hopefully, she planned. Although Belly just couldn’t get over the fact Conrad wasn’t talking to her. For tans, boat parties, and new boys Belly could obsess over and move on, Belly didn’t feel a spark in the person she was introduced to, but still waiting for Conrad’s decision. Read this book to figure out what might happen next.

My favorite character was Belly overall. She is caring. A quote to describe this is, “ I release you. I evict you from my heart. Because if I don’t do it now, I never will.” This quote showed hope she was caring because When she didn’t want to let go of Conrad, she did anyways. She knew it was for the best. No matter what Conrad or she did, It wouldn’t be the same as it was before. Knowing she loved him, he didn’t really change. She tried to make up, but in the end, she had to move on.

My favorite quote from the book is, “ I will never look at you in the same way ever again. I’ll never be that girl again. The girl who comes running back every time you push her away, the girl who loves you anyway.” This quote is meaningful to me because she always came back to Conrad trying to make him be with her again, even when she didn’t do anything, she’d be left at times. She realized even though she loved him, what he would do wouldn’t replace that.

For this quote spoken from Dumbledore, “ Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, when one only remembers to turn on the light.” think for what it means even when you are struggling with someone or something, you can resolve things if you find a way to bring your self happiness if its from a belonging or someone. On the other hand, it could mean not everything that happens is for a bad reason, it could be for a good reason as well.

Somebody I really admire is my mom. I admire how she works hard and doesn’t give up. She says, “ If I can do something, and someone else can too, so can you.” When I’m confused on homework or don’t know how to answer to a problem, she says , “Use your resources when you can, or ask your teacher for help because that’s what their there for.”

Something else I admire about my mom is that she is kind. Whenever I’m sad or bothered, she finds a way to make me happy. Either that she surprises me with something, or she makes me a hot cocoa. Or in any way she will take me to the bakery nearby and get drinks. I like going to the bakery near our house. It always comforts me.

To finish, I admire how my mom is so organized. At most times of the day, she will plan out what’s she will do for the day. I sometimes am not very organized, she helps me a lot to be organized. I need to be organized at times because if I don’t, I will forget to do something or to do homework.

My word of intention for 2024 is focus. The word focus for 2024 will help me be on track. A few reasons I chose this word is because sometimes I am not always in mind what I’m doing. When i want to do something quick, I need the quiet time to focus. Finding a quiet place to work really impacts me mentally and physically. Once i find that quiet spot, I can be more active and relaxed. When there is lots of noise, I don’t have that focused mentality anymore.

Something I do to focus on what I’m doing is first I might go outside to walk around to keep myself focused once I come back to finishing my activity. Just going outside relaxes me and I sense nature calmly. The wind ventilating through me, relaxes my body and sense throughout my lungs. Breathing in an environment with plants can be one thing I like to be present in the room.

At last, When. I eat a snack, it’s refuels my body to work faster. Chemical energy is what refuels the cell in our body to stay focused and active. By having a snack, i can stay focused and not be distracted or tired. It keeps me from getting tired while doing an assignment or task.