Emmy’s Blog

If you haven’t heard the news or you just don’t watch the show American Idol here is some good news for people who don’t like Sanjaya. On the April 18 or the last results show LaKisha, Blake and Sanjya were in the bottom three. But Sanjaya Malicar didn’t get enough votes to stay in! Now six contests remain. Who will get voted off next? Who will become the next American Idol? Well we know that it will not be Sanjaya.

When the nor’eastern storm hit us on Sunday lots of people lost power including me. My dad had to go on storm duty for most of that night. In the morning we still didn’t have power and my dad got frustrated. My sister and I played “Clue” and after we finished the game the power came back on.

The problem was that many people had no power still so my dad had to do more storm duty. We were planing on going to Washington D.C. with my grandparents, but their basement got flooded and we had to postpone our trip until June. On the other hand I got to see my cousins because we went to New Jersey to help my grandparents. Unfortunately we had to clean their basement which kinda smelled and was very dusty.

Super Smash Bros. Melee is a video game that my sister and I play. Click here to see the intro for this game. What you do is battle each-other with Nintendo’s All-Stars characters . Here is a list of the characters you can be.

My favorite character is Kirby and my sister’s is Pikachu. Some of these characters are hidden and need to be unlocked. They are: Falco, Roy, Marth, Jigglypuff, Mewtwo, Mr.Game&Watch, Pichu, Young Link, Luigi, Dr.Mario, and Ganondorf. Each character has their own special moves that they use to send their opponent out of the fighting field. There are also many stages that you can fight in.

 This is the stages in which you can battle in. Some stages have to be unlocked. There are even some stages I haven’t unlocked yet. My favorite stage is the fountain of dreams stage and my sister’s favorite stage is the Poke Floats stage.

 This is Fountain Of Dreams.

 This is Poke Floats.

 This is a battle scene with Peach,Donkey Kong, Ice Clinbers and Kirby battling. The percentage signs tells how much damage a player has, but if your percentage gets too high the player would get hit and would go flying out of the ring.

There are also trophies you can collect that are of the characters and other objects and even places.

 This is a trophy of the master sword. This is one of the many trophies you can get.

Well that is just about it for the main stuff anyway. Click here to learn more about this game. This is one of the most funniest games that I’ve ever played.

 This is th cover. In the left column[top to bottom] is: Yoshi, Zelda, Kirby, Samus and Peach. In the right hand column [from top to bottom] is: Fox, Donkey Kong, Captin Falcon, Ice Climbers and Ness. In the center[from left to right] is Mario, Link, Bowser and Pikachu.

Here are all of the characters. Can you find Kirby, Mr.Game&Watch and Pikachu?

Today in social studies we kept going on our studies on China. First we went over our homework. It was to choose our favorite Confucius quotes. My favorite quotes were “respect yourself and others will respect you” “Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it” “Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart”. We talked about what they meant and how it applies to every day life. After that discussion Mr.Hetherington taught us a way how to remember what inventions the Chinese made. They were compass, silk, clock, gunpowder, fireworks, paper and ink. We remember them by a story that he told us. Here is the story: One day Nichole was lost in the woods so she took out her compass and it was made out of silk. After she found where north was she flipped it over and looked at her clock, but when she opened it gun powder came out and went into her eyes. Then all of a sudden fireworks came out of her eyes and the smoke-streams turned into books. Then paper fell out of the books and one of the pieces cut Nichole in the arm. Insted of blood ink came out. Luckely she found a town and had tea with a nice family. That is how we remember the invetions that China made. We also learned a story for remembering the main dynasties of China. Here is the name of the dynasties: Qin, Han, Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qhing. That is what we did that class.

This is Confucius.

Which would you prefer?

American Idol or Dancing with the stars?

Leave a comment telling me.

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After getting back from vacation it was hard to start up, but when we were settled we started working with compass. The kind of compass i’m talking about is one that architects and graphic artists use. We use them to make circles and even to copy a line segment. Let me explain how to use on. A compass has on sharp point and a pencil. What you do is put the sharp point on the paper and make sure that it does not move. Then you turn the compass so the pencil part is moving not the sharp point and make a circle. You can also turn the paper around so you make a circle. I prefer tyning the paper[leave me a commet telling me how you make a circle with a compass]. So after we read a page in our student reference book about how to use it we exparemented with the compass. We made good and some of us made concentric circles[they look like a bulsie or circles that have the same center].  After that we did a journal page in which we had to copy a line segment only using a compass. Then we read until the class was over. It was a fun class.

    This is a compass.                     These are concentric circles.         

Hope you have a happy Easter Sunday. I know I will.

On 4/2/07 I went to my Bubby and Zedy’s house for a Jewish holiday called Passover. At Passover we remember when Moses asked the Pharaoh[Ramses II] to release the Jews, but Ramses II said no. So God put ten plagues upon Egypt and they were that the river turned to blood, frogs covered the land, lice came, flies came, all cattle died, boils upon every man, hail fell, locust came, darkness covered the land for three days and finally every first born was killed. But the Lord spared the Jewish childern by having them put lambs blood above their doors so God would pass over them. Finally the Pharaoh let the Jews go. That is how the first  Passover happend. We eat Matzah which is unraised bread. We eat it because when the Jews were leaving Egypt they didn’t have time to raise their bread so they made Matzah. What my Zedy does is hide some Matzah under a pillow and we had to try and grab it while he isn’t watching.  We also said some prayers in Hebrew and sang “dayanu”. Later I played with my cousin Tyler and talked to my Aunts and Uncles. I was so much fun.

 Matzah                                      Star Of David

My sister and I tired to prank each-other. It was fun until we didn’t believe each-others pranks like “there is a spider on your back”. Shaina didn’t believe it. But what we also did was stick a sticker of a crack on my dad’s car so that it looks like the window was broken! When he saw it he actually thought that it was cracked and he said”oh nooo when did that happen”. But then my sister blew on the sticker and it came off. It was so funny. I had a lot of fun.

Two years ago my dad fell for a radio broadcast on NPR that said if you don’t tap your maple trees they will explode! Click here to listen to the broadcast on the NPR website.

The next Harry Potter movie called “Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix” comes out July 13th 2007.Click here to go to Warner Brother’s page on Harry Potter so you can see the trailer for the movie. I really can’t wait to see it in theaters.

The last Harry Potter book is called “Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows” It comes out July 21st 2007. Here is a picture of the cover.

This is the first time He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named[Voldemort] has appeared on the cover of the series. Snape…FRIEND OR FOE,CAN WE TRUST HIM? I think he is a foe, but he might come through for Harry at the end.  IS HARRY GOING TO BE KILLED? I think that he might sacrifice himself for Ron or Herminone or he will kill Voldemort or Voldemort will get them all. I don’t want to admit that Harry will get killed but I’ve heared rumors that J.K.Rowling might kill Harry so that no one can continue the series! Leave me a comment telling me about what you think of Snape and if Harry gets killed and why.  I can’t wait to read it.

Here are some pictures of where my cousins live in Starrucca Pennsylvania.

Isn’t it beatuiful!?

This the pond we go swiming in at the summerfest.

In the summer we roast marshmellows and make smores here,but we have to lie down or put our face behind something because it gets really hot.