Author: Vwala

Hello Vella Karman here, a homeschooled 11 year old. I am in 6th grade. I like to dance ballet, especially point, and I also write my own stories. I can't see what I am doing in ballet but I can feel the beauty of it, and I praise God with it. Maybe later I will post some of my stories, I want people to see my work but I am afraid they will think it's terrible and say I am awful at writing. But I still want your comments even if that's what you have to say, I'll try not to take it personally, I am looking for constrictive criticism so say what you really think.

journal 10/3/16

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Today is a Yom Teruah. It is the day of shouting, and yesterday was the feast of trumpets, We try to do the calls on the shofar but it a small one and it is very hard to do, picture this, me red faced and huffing blowing into a little rams horn about the size of dad’s hand making a sound like a dying cow. It is one of the fun Jewish holidays, it lasts until sundown tomorrow.

The Mycenaeans were the first to use horses in battles, they were really good at gold work too. We learned about Passover in bible, we were supposed to learn about it, but sense we celebrate it every year mom said that we don’t have to do it. We read the Trojan War, I don’t like it, I don’t understand most of it because it is a hard book to follow. Poems were okay, mom liked one of them today.

Mexico-U.S. wall

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There is a wall in between Mexico and the U.S. It is a big wall and it makes it so that relitives can’t even touch more than grazing a finger, much less hug. They let people hug every once in a while, but only every once in a while. When it was dedicated, in 1971 First Lady Pat Nixon said “I hope there won’t be fence here too long.” Well so much for that, here we are in 2016, and that fence is still there and even more preventive.

journal 9/30/16

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I am supposed to do a good news, bad news bible story, and post it on the blog. So here it is; good news: Joseph got a cool new coat, bad news: Joseph was sold as a slave by his brothers, good news: he got in a good position, bad news: he got put in jail, good news: he gets out of jail, bad news: there’s going to be a famine in Egypt, good news: Pharaoh put him in charge of getting ready for it, bad news: his brothers come to get grain, good news: they have changed, are happy to see him, and move to Egypt.

journal 9/28/16

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We are learning about ancient Egypt, I like learning about tutankhamun and the kings. It is really interesting and we were reading a historical fiction book about a king who has to run away to keep from being killed by the Assyrians. It was really interesting and he meets king Hezekiah in it, it was really fun to read.

journal 9/27/16

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Did you know that some pterosaurs were about as big as a fighter jet? They were, and it was amazing. These huge, fish eating, winged creatures with tales and big beaks were not the type to mess with. Swooping and soaring through the air, diving to get a mouthful of nice fish, these mammoth creatures were strong, athletic dinosaurs, so why did they go extinct? My personal outlook on this was that the flood caused it, it could of been the reason that dinosaurs were wiped out, I thought. But God didn’t have it happen that way, the Bible says in Genesis 6:19-20 “You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.” And in Job, a dinosaur was mentioned, so it didn’t happen at the flood, so what did happen to the dinosaurs? The plain and simple answer to that question is……………………….. I shouldn’t tell you, never mind people, this was just a big hoax to get you really interested in reading my journals, you have wasted your time, no not really. The plain and simple answer is…………………………………………………………….. maybe I’ll tell you after you comment your thoughts, I wouldn’t want to ruin the surprise… because I truly don’t know the answer.

journal 9/26/16

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Today we learned about sea lions, and seals. Did you know seals can dive six-times deeper than a submarine, and it can also hold its breath for two whole hours!!!! What amazing animals God has made!!!!!! If we were at church somebody would be saying amen at that, because you really can’t disagree.

I was learning about demonstrative adjectives, and indefinite adjectives. I had to find the demonstrative adjective in my dictation passage for this week. I also found the demonstrative adjective in their sentence, it’s underlined. Then I had to write a sentence or two using both a demonstrative adjective, and an indefinite adjective. It was pretty easy, and it didn’t take long. Now I am going to go play chess with Reed.

journal 9/23/16

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We are learning about Egypt in history right now. The pharaohs were awesome fighters, one pharaoh, Tuthmosis the 3rd led his army into 17 battles!!! The houses in Egypt were made out of bricks as you probably already know because of the Bible, but did you know that they had guards at the gates?

We learned about mice, and new blue tooth pieces in science today. There is a watch that tells you your texts, and who’s calling you, as well as the time. They have wireless mice, I thought that it would be an awesome practical joke. You can click on things, zoom in, zoom out and such from the other room!!! It would be so funny.

Blind Ballet

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A blind singer is taking ballet to help her on the stage. It is hard for her, but she continues on enjoying the challenge. She of course needed private lessons, and the teaching method is very different, her teachers have to move her to the correct positions, even 1st position is a bit of a challenge. So it’s different but 40 year old Elizabeth Whitaker is trying hard, and picks things up quickly. Her teacher has studied at Shuffles and Ballet II, (Where I go!) under Miss Tracy, and Miss Jana, (Two of my teachers last year!!!) and at Ballet Arkansas, (It’s their Nutcracker I’m in!) with Kirt and Linda Hathaway. Mala, her teacher also has a University of Oklahoma degree in ballet performance. All this should help her on stage, may she reach her goal.

journal 9/22/16

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Later today I’m going to get my first pair of point shoes!!! My goal for this year is to be better on the stage, and be the best soldier that I can be in the Nutcracker. Not to brag bu the Nutcracker that I’m in is supposed to be the best in the state!!! Maybe that’s why it costs $75 to be in it, and I don’t even get to keep the costume, but it is way more than worth it, my three life dreams are to be on point, be in the Nutcracker, and get one of my books published, and two of those are happening THIS year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today for Bible we had to think of a way that we are like Moses, it took a bit to find something iother than we both have a relationship with God. But I finally came up with the fact that we both inlove people, and we stand up for what we think is right, when I have strong feeling towards something then you don’t want to mess with me, I was the one who got in trouble in preschool for telling kids that Santa wasn’t real, they deserved to know the truth, they shouldn’t have been lied to, and when they find out that they had been lied to by their parents all those years won’t they feel hurt, and like they can’t trust their parents anymore? But no, I am not allowed to simply tell them the truth and save them from that without getting in trouble with the parents, no less. I just wrote this whole  153 word count thing to find out that it was a mistake, and I was supposed to be writing how I am like Abraham. UUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am like Abraham because I worry a lot and sometimes doubt God’s plan.

The story of the world said that Moses just told Pharaoh to let the Israelites go it skipped him escaping and the 40 years after, and it missed most of the plagues, including the last one.  I don’t know what Bible their reading, but it sure isn’t the same one I am reading! And this hasn’t been the first time they’ve done it, there has been several other Bible stories gone wrong in the book.

I thought The Kingdom Strikes Back was interesting today. It was talking about Jonah being mad at God for not destroying Nineveh, and they had quite an earful to say about it too. It was as I said, Interesting.