Thursday, December 31, 2009

I'm going somewhere... FINALLY!

Like the title, I'm going somewhere... FINALLY! My parents decided to go somewhere during this holiday finally. We decided to go to Bali! I've been to Bali once with my family, and it was a really good and convenient place that everyone would enjoy. For this holiday to Bali, I am going there with my dad, mom, younger brother, baby brother, his maid, me, and 4 of my dad's friends. It's going to be awesome there and I'm going to enjoy there every night. I'm going to Bali tomorrow (New Year's Day) and coming back on the 4th of January. So it means that I'm going to sleep there 3 nights. We ordered a villa (I think) and I'm sure we're having some great food. I'm really excited of going to Bali tomorrow morning. We leave home at 6:30 in the morning and return at 4:00 afternoon on the 4th of January. I'm going to be blog posting about me staying at Bali everyday (1st of January, 2nd, 3rd and 4th. GO BALI!!!

The Story of the World 2 - The Middle Ages

Susan Wise Bauer
*****

After I finished reading 'I know what you did last summer', I decided to take a break on English books. As a result, I decided to read a history book called 'The Story of the World 2' by Susan Wise Bauer in Korean. There are 5 of these books. No. 1 is the Ancient Times, No. 2 is the Middle Age, No. 3 is right before modern times, No. 4 is Modern (1), and No. 5 is Modern (2). This is a 580 page book and it is really long and it took me 6 days to finish this. This book is hard to tell about this story so in this blog post, I will tell you about this author and also about my favourite part of this book.

This book is written by an author called Susan Wise Bauer. She is a mom of a child, and she doesn't like her child studying in school so she decided to teach her child history herself. As a result, she made a book about history and this is the one. This book is the easiest history book you could ever find because she wrote this book for a little child. This book was very successfully made, so this book was published, and when I read it, I got into it even though I don't like history books that much. Even though it is a very long book, it tells every little thing that happened in world history very clearly that everyone could understand easily.

'Story of the World 2' starts from the early Middle Age part and ends at the last part of the Middle Age. This book starts with Rome collapsing and getting attacked, it moves to the starting of Britain, moves the the Byzantine Empire, goes to India, Islam, and then moves to the story of Arabian Night. Then, the history is focused on China, Korea, Japan and goes down to Australia. It moves to Europe, France, Spain, Portugal and England again. When the book was almost finished, America starts appearing; about Christopher Colombus, Amerigo Vesepucci, and Ferdinand Magellan. King Martin Luther appears, and it ends with Queen Elizabeth and William Shakespear.

My favourite part of this book is the beggining of this book when Britain appears. In that chapter, it tells the story about Beowolf, and I can bet you know about it. Here is how it goes. The king made a nice place for his servants to sleep and rest. Fire up above the ceiling protected them from fear and nothing bad was happening. One day, a big monster (bigger than two trees combined together) attacked that place and ate a lot of men every night. This monster was so tall that the tallest man only reached to his knee. The King's knights and fighters couldn't handle this problem. A man named Beowolf came to the rescue and said that he wants to fight the monster. When the monster came, he threw away his own armor and swords. He wanted to fight with bare hands. Suddenly, Beowolf stood up and held the monsters' arm. He twisted the monsters arm harder and harder. Then at last, when he twisted so hard, his arm broke and came out. The monster got out of the castle and ran away for his life. I think this story is really good and I read this part over and over.

I think it is a really good book that teaches us history. I learned a lot about this book. Even though I knew some parts of this book already, I learnt more about it clearly. I would give this book 5 stars out of 5 and I recommend this book to everyone. Susan Wise Bauer is a really good author.

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

I Know What You Did Last Summer

During this winter break, I have read two books and they are all awesome. The first one is 'The Terrorist', which I told you about in my blog post. This book 'I know what you did last summer' is also one of them, and this book is better than 'The Terrorist'. It is a really good book Mrs. Hodgeson the librarian recommended. I thought this book would be out in the library, but when I looked for it, there was... luckily.

This book is about five teenagers; Julie, Helen, Barry, Ray and Collie. There is another teenager called Bud, but he doesn't appear a lot during this book... except for at the last part. Julie used to go out with Ray and broke up so she is going out with Bud. Barry and Helen are going out together, and Helen likes Bud really much. They are all good friends. On one morning, Julie got a note called 'I know what you did last summer' and Ray got a email which said the same thing. One day, when Barry was driving with Julie, Helen, and Ray, they killed a little young boy called Davy by a car accident. Ray called a police and reported it. They were all scared that they would get caught so they just went to their house and left the killed boy with no supervision. Helen meets a boy called Collie and realized that he was a nice kind boy.

It was just a normal night. Barry was in front of the stadium. There was a bright light in front of him, and after a few seconds, there was a gunshot, and Barry got a bad injury in his spine. He was moved to the hospital and had to stay there for a long time. Helen was absolutely shocked, and she sent flowers to her. Julie also was shocked so she sent a bunch of yellow roses. Julie and Ray tried to find out the connection of Barry's shot, the note, and the little kid's death. They thought that one of Davy's family wanted to seek revenge and shot Barry. They were keep wondering Barry's shooter and tried to discover about all of this. While Barry was in the hospital, Ray visited him and asked about this shooting thing. He said that it was just a robbery because his 50$ was gone after he got shot. Ray was relieved by this news and told everyone else. Everyone was relieved.

One day, when Helen came back to her house after she swam, she realized that Collie was sitting on her purple chair. He said that he was the one who shot Barry, sent those letters and did all those bad things. He said that Davy was his half brother so he wanted to do revenge and kill Barry, Ray, Julie, and Helen. Helen was scared so she wanted to jump out of the window but Collie blocked her. She went to the bathroom and locked the door. She was very scared so she just jumped out of the bathroom window.

After a few hours, Julie had a date with Bud at the evening. When Bud came to her house, Bud made Julie come to the car and he wanted to talk to her. He then said that he was Collie and he disguised himself as Bud as well. He said that he pretended to be two person at the same time. He also said that he was Davy's brother and he also wanted to do revenge. He even knew that Julie sent flowers to Barry. Julie was scared. She knew that Bud would kill her. After a while, Ray came to help Julie. Bud was gone and he said that Bud attacked her for no reason. This book ends while Julie talks to Ray and hugs each other.

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Another Fallen Teeth

Well, there was another one. About one month ago, I posted about my fallen teeth... and it happened last week. My back teeth started shaking since 1 month ago (a looooong time) and I could've took it off, but I was scared to. Like I said, I don't like taking my teeth off because it hurts. This is how my story about the 'fallen teeth'.

Well, I invited Young Woo to my house and started playing this Korean game called 'Crazy Arcade'. Suddenly, my mom came in and gave a spicy Korean food called Tteok Bokk Ki (Weird name). We were eating it and playing games at the same time. I was eating it, and suddenly, I chewed something hard that wasn't like Tteok Bokk Ki. When I took that hard thing off, I realized it was my fallen teeth. My mouth was filled with blood and there were a lot of blood, but fortuitously, it didn't hurt AT ALL! I was relieved and I was happy because when I still had my shaking teeth, it hurt a lot when I was chewing other food. It bothered me, and I wanted to take it off, but i was scared to. I went to the bathroom then and washed my mouth. It was my second back teeth that fell off. I don't have any shaking teeth now, but when that happens, I will let the teeth fall off automatically. Then, I started playing with Young Woo 'Crazy Arcade' again for 1 hour!!!

P.S.: Young Woo and I are both good in Crazy Arcade.. but he's a little better. =)

Monday, December 28, 2009

Avatar

Yesterday afternoon, I had nothing to do except for staying at home, doing nothing. Then, my mom said "Si Won! Do you want to watch the movie Avatar?" I said, "YES MOM!" I headed to the movie theater in PIM with my little sister. It was the 2:45 time and we just got in time. This movie is a science fiction movie which can be in 3D. I thought watching in 3D would be dizzy so I just watched the normal one. Avatar is not the Avatar cartoon that u can watch in Disney Channel... it's a movie. (You can realize this on the pic)

Avatar is about a main character named Jake Sully. He meets a lady called Grace, and became friends. When they go in the container kind of place, you turn into a monster (in the pic left side). This monster is tall and strong. One day, when Jake Sully became a monster by going in the container, he hunted by himself and got chased by a huge monster which is a different kind as him. He got saved by another monster looking similar as him but a different kind. It was a female, and she took him to her family. The family had over 300 people. Jake Sully learned how to become their kind and learned their language, how they act, and got a dragon looking huge bird. One day, the real human came to destroy their world and destroyed their enormous tree with a missile. Jake Sully and the others decided to do revenge so they had a huge war. They had over 500 dragon looking birds and over 500 horses, and also men. The human had a explosive bomb and lots of tanks, airplanes, missiles, rocket launcher... etc. They fought, and after a long fight, Jake Sully's team won. However, the boss of the human was still alive, and fought Jake Sully and his girlfriend. When the boss was about to kill Jake with a knife, his girlfriend shot two arrows on his chest and he died.

This was a great movie with lots of action. I loved watching it but it was a long movie which was 2 hours and 35 minutes. Before I watched it, I was disappointed because I thought it was the cartoon Avatar, but it wasn't. My sister says it was one of the best movies she has ever watched. I love this movie, but it isn't the best movie I ever watched.

Friday, December 25, 2009

It's CHRISTMAS!!!

The day that everyone waited... CHRISTMAS!!! It's finally Christmas today!!! On Decemeber 25! Most people celebrate on Christmas. They go to relatives' house, play with their friends, go Christmas shopping, and do a lot of things. Well, I don't. Even though it's the December holiday, I don't go anywhere... (Even though I might go to Bali), don't go Christmas shopping, and DONT EVEN GET PRESENTS!! I don't know what to get for Christmas. My mom already bought me a Kipling Bag about 2 weeks ago, but I don't count that as a Christmas present. However, if I know what to get and I ask my parents to buy them, they 'might'.

Some people believe in Santa Claus and some people don't. In my case, I believed Santa Claus last year, but I don't anymore. I did a test if Santa gives us presents on Christmas last year. I was in Malaysia with my friends then. When I was sleeping and my friend on the other bed, he woke me up and said 'Lets see if Santa Claus is our parents and lets stay up until they come.' My friend's mom went up for shopping and didn't come back until 3. Suddenly, his mom opened the door so we rushed back to our room. She brought a shopping bag so we thought that it was our presents. When my friend's mom went to her room, we sneaked up to the shopping bag and looked. It was... my friends baby sister's present!!! Next morning, we realized that Santa Claus is not real.


MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!! AND ENJOY YOUR HOLIDAY!!!

Gukgadaepyo

Yesterday night, after I came back home from a Korean restaurant called Chunggiwa, my dad decided to watch a Korean movie called Gukgadaepyo. My dad already watched it but he said it was a great movie so he wanted to watch again. My mom, my sister and I haven't watched it before but I heard that it is a good movie.

It is about a man (the guy that is in the middle in the pic) that lost (but didn't pass away) his mom. He wanted to find his mom so he wanted to be famous by being a Korean Ski player in the National Team. When he went to his first training, he met a coach, and 4 other teammates. In the picture, the one who is in the most left is a Middle Schooler, and he was a bit mental, but in ski, there was no age limit, so he decided to be a ski player, but only if someone gets injured in his team. After over 1 year of training, they still slipped and weren't good enough, but they trained every night and day so they became better. They had to participate in the ski World Cup and be in at least 6th place out of 8 to go in the Olympic in Japan. The day before the World Cup, all the ski players met each other. The Korean national team and the American national team fought by punching and kicking. The referees decided to not let Koreans play in the World Cup so they were disqualified. They just watched the other players ski in the TV. Suddenly, there was a bad fog and lots and lots of snow. The World Cup got cancelled so the referees decided to make all teams qualify and go in the Olympic!!! In the ski Olympic, they had two trials. Korea had to go last and this was the first time Korea participated in the ski World Cup. In the first trial, the first person got 130 m so Korea jumped up to 3rd place, where you could get a bronze medal. The second person slipped so they went back to 11th place out of 13. The third person got 128 m so they went up to 6th place. The last person did a good job so they jumped up to 3rd place again. After a rest, there was the second trial. The first person got 136 m so they stayed at 3rd place. The second and third person also did good but the other countries were even better so they went back down to 5th. The last person got injured in the first trial so the mental Middle Schooler had to replace him. He did a good job! He went soooo far but... he FELL! Other people gasped but still cheered for him. Korea went to 13th (last) place and the tournament ended.

I thought this was one of the best movies I've ever seen and the ski players jumping was really cool. I hope I could do that sometime and I really really loved it. YAY!!!! What a GREAT holiday!

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

The Terrorist

Caroline B. Cooney
*****

I recently finished a book called The Terrorist by Caroline B. Cooney. She is a really good author, and a few days ago, Mrs. Hodgeson came to our class and introduced this new author to us. When we went to the library, there was a green bucket which contained Caroline B. Cooney books and also Lois Duncan books. It was swarming near the green bucket, so I just reached my arm and picked up a book. LUCKILY, I chose The Terrorist. My four choices were The face in the Milk Carton, I know what you did last summer, Stranger with two faces, and The Terrorist, and I actually picked up the one I really wanted to read! And of course, it turned out to be good.

This book is about a girl named Laura and her younger brother, Billy. When Billy and his two friends got out of the train and got to Baker Street, they decided to do a race and see who gets out to the fresh air first. It was five pence for the winner. Passengers were all crowding (swarming) to the train, so his friends were way ahead. When Billy was running, there was a man who stopped him. He smiled, and gave a package to him and said that his friends dropped this. He knew it was a bomb after he got it, and he didn't want to throw it at the crowd, so he just let it explode in his hands. Unfortunately, Billy got killed by the bomb. His sister Laura, soon heard the news of Billy, and was shocked. This incident was in news, and newspapers. Everyone soon knew what happened. Laura went to a school called London International Academy (LIA) and had lots of friend there, like Mohammed, Con, Jimmy, Jehran and lots more. Laura thought she had to find Billy's killer, so he suspected everyone. Her neighbours, teachers at school, and even friends. She searched everywhere for clues, but it was no use. One day, Laura went to a slumber party at Jehran's. Everyone was there. Suddenly, Jehran asked Laura for Billy's passport. Jehran looked like Billy even though she was a girl. Jehran said that she is in danger, and have to flee this country, England. Jehran wanted to flee to America, but when she gets Billy's passport, she would only be 11, so she couldn't go to America alone. She needed a person older than 15 to go with her. Laura was older than 15, so Jehran decided to go with Laura. Laura pretended to go to a place called Edinburgh with Jehran, and lied to her parents. When Jehran and Laura reached the airport. They bought two tickets. One for Laura and one for Jehran. The Passport Control man looked at Jehran's passport (which was actually Billy's) and believed that it was Billy, not Jehran. Suddenly, Laura decided to turn back and go home. She didn't want to go to another country just because Jehran's life was in danger. When she told that to her, Jehran said that she went through weeks of planning just to go out of England. Confusion filled Laura's brain. What Jehran said meant that Jehran killed Billy just to get Billy's passport to flee this country! Laura understood it. All the soldiers in Jehran's house was a terrorist, helping her. Jehran started threatening Laura. She said that she doesn't want to die the way Billy did. Laura knew that Jehran was a terrorist and she called the Airport Security. Then, Jehran started plan B, which was to run away. Mr. Evans came to Laura to help her and calm her down. Laura told all her friends and returned home.

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Go MERAPI!!!

Thursday was MADNESS DAY!!! It was an awesome day... one of the best days of this school year. In Madness day, there were 6 volcanos; Merapi, Bromo, Agung, Krakatau, Salak and Rinjani. I was in Merapi, which wore the green color. Each person had to participate in 2 activities, and I got chosen in volleyball and big ball soccer.

The first session was volleyball, which was a really fun sport. Merapi first played Bromo, which was not a easy match. They had a really tall and good Korean player, who was at least 20 cm taller than me. We were winning really bad until... the Korean guy served. He made 7 serves in a row, and they overtook us, and they won 16: 14, after going in deuce. We lost our first match so I was disappointed. Next match was Salak. They weren't really good, so we won by about 8. We also won by 5 the next match, which were Rinjani. The last match, we faced Krakatau. We lost 15: 11. They were soooo good, and they came in 2nd place. We came in 4th place, Bromo came 1st, and I'm not sure about Salak and Agung.

After the 15 minute break, I had big ball soccer. This was better than the volleyball, because soccer is my favourite sport. We used the BIG BALL for the soccer ball, and it was really difficult to kick!!! Lots of people fell down, and when I faced Bromo, I got hit with the enormous ball two times in a row. It really hurt. We tied all our games 0:0 so I was disappointed. I almost scored at the first match, because when I scored, the finish whistle blowed 2 seconds ago. Krakatau came first, and we came 4th (I think).

After another break, we headed down to the New Gym, to watch the Student v.s. Teacher basketball game. For the 6th grade, the students won. For the 7th and 8th grade, the students won again!!! I thought this would never happen... but it did! I hope I participated in this, but I forgot to sign up. Then, Mr. Boots told us who won the Madness Cup. "Come on Merapi... Come on!!!" I thought. Well, THAT NEVER HAPPENED.

This is the list...
1. Agung
2. Krakatau
3. Bromo
4. Salak
5. Rinjani
6. MeRaPi!!!!!
We came LAST place. I knew this would happen, because we came 5th place at the Madness 1. Agung got the trophy, but we will definitely win the next Madness!!! Go MERAPI!!!!!!!!!

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

VPA Concert

The VPA concert was on December 15th. It was one of the biggest concert in the year, and it was really nervous when I performed, because I had to perform in front of all of my friends and teachers. Strings, movement, drama, choir, art and band performed in the VPA concert, but art is only a slideshow. I participate in the intermediate band, and today, we performed with the advanced band, which are all 8th graders. That made me more nervous, because if I play a note wrong, it's going to be bad. We performed at 1:00 - 2: 30, and we have another performance tonight, at 6:00 - 7:30. I play the clarinet in band, and I enjoy playing it, so I was excited while performing. For boys, we had to wear white top, black bottom, black socks, and black shoes. We also had to wear ties and belts, and also, shirts has to be tucked in and all the outfits has to be very formal. We performed in the Fine Arts Theater (FAT) and it is a really big stage, and it has a lot of audience to sit. See how nervous I was during this performance? Band played 4 songs: Trailblazers of the Spirit, Breckenridge Overture (only Intermediate band), Deck the Halls (only Advanced band), and Eagle's triumph. We might've not finish the Eagle's triumpth because the time might run off, but there was enough time. It is lucky that didn't happen because this was a really nice piece. During the concert, when a slow part changes to a fast part, the lights illuminated and changed the colour. Changing the light colour happened quite a few times during the performance, and I like this, because the performance was more exciting. Personally, I think performing in front of our friends and teachers was more nervous than performing in front of our parents. This was a really important performance, so I was really careful not to mess up notes. I was nervous AND excited during this performance.

Thursday, December 10, 2009

10 Picture Definitions

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2. Embezzle -


3. Traumatic -


4. Adhesive -


5. Embankment -


6. Eclectic -


7. Lagging -


8. Revelation -


9. Malevolent -


10. Dejection -

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Flood Buckets

December 9, 2009

Yesterday morning, we headed down to the Little Theater and heard a lady telling us about the victims of the flood. JIS decided to fill a bucket with items and later give it to the flood victims. As a result, all 6th graders had to make 5 buckets each in one day at lunch time. After Young Woo and I finished lunch, we went to the computer lab and checked our JIS e-mails. Some teachers told us to go to the Bali Stage and fill up the buckets. I THOUGHT it would be boring because it was just filling some items in side the bucket. When we reached the Bali Stage, we started putting items inside the bucket. At first, it was boring for me, and as I started the second bucket, I started to like filling the buckets. As I kept on doing this, I started to get fixated with this job. We had to get to the back of the queue and get items from the box and put it in the bucket. Those items were tiny buckets, kids and adult toothbrush, toothpaste, pink and blue towels, sponge, brush, mosquito repellent and some vitamins. At the end, we had to put the JIS sticker on the side of the big bucket and put it on the Mrs. Marello place. Bali Stage started to swarm more and more. As we finished our 4th bucket, the bell rung and we had to get to SSR. However, we still wanted to do it, so we finished our 5th bucket after the bell! There were still some students and teachers left so I decided to do just one more. I finished my 6th bucket and decided to go back to class. Young Woo wanted to do just ONE more so I agreed with him. As we got the 7th bucket, we thought it was too late, so we gave up and went back to class. One person had to do 5 each, but it was fun for me so I did 6. I think it was a good innovation and I was proud of myself when I finished 6 buckets.

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Bill Gates

Ruth Strother
***

I recently finished reading a book called Bill Gates by Ruth Strother. I seldom read biography and I don't like them much but I wanted to read a variety of books so this time, I chose Bill Gates for my biography book.

Bill Gates was born in Seattle, Washington in 1955. When he entered Lakeside elementry school, he started loving computer, which was a very new thing for him. Bill Gates meets a friend he will have forever and his name was Paul Allen. They make a small company called Traf-O-Data and sells a scheduling system when he was 17, where he earned $4,200. On 1973, he finally enters the Harvard University. The day Bill Gates and his friend Paul Allen started Microsoft was at 1975. On February 3, 1977, the two people sign a partnership agreement to create the Microsoft company officially. However, Bill got 64% of the money they earned and Allen got only 36%. They soon hire some workers, secretaries, and all the people who help the company. They didn't really like this place, so they decided to move the company to Seattle. The Microsoft company started earning a lot of money and started to get very popular. Almost everyone in the house had one of Microsoft's computer. The amount of money they earned started to get bigger and bigger, and Bill Gates finally became the youngest self-made billionaire by 1987. After Windows 1.0 and 2.0, Microsoft creates Windows 3.0 at May 22, 1990, and it became really popular so that almost everyone started using it. In 1992, Bill Gates receives the National Medal of Technology from President George Bush. Bill Gates had two girlfriends, but his Microsoft work was very busy, so the two girl friends broke up with him because they were tired of waiting. However on January, 1, 1994, he marries one of his workers, Melinda French. Unfortunately at the same year, Bill Gate's mother passes away by breast cancer. Also at the same year, Bill Gates became the wealthiest person in America. Microsoft makes Windows 95 at 1995, and Windows 98 at 1998 (of course). After Bill Gates has done a lot of work on his Microsoft work, he decided to care about his family more and care less of his Microsoft work. His first daughter Jennifer is born on 1996, his son Rory is born in 1999, and his second daughter Phoebe is born in 2002. On June 15, 2006, Bill Gates announces that he will not work in Microsoft anymore b July 2008.

My favourite part of this book is when it talked about Bill Gates being a billionaire. Inside the book, it also shows the pictures of the 10 wealthiest person in the world. There were a lot of Chinese and Japanese. Out of lots of Asian people, it was hard for me to believe that Bill Gates became the richest person in the world by just a computer company. As we know, almost everyone in this school uses Microsoft Windows, and it is a really famous company. I think Microsoft is really good, because it also has Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Invitation and more. Bill Gates is still one of the richest person in the world.

I will give this book 3 stars out of 5 because I don't like biography that much.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

5 picture definitions

1. Pavilion



2. Pensive



3. Seminary


4. Jubilation


5. Extortion

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Eragon

Christopher Paolini

*****

Recently, I've finished a book called Eragon by Christopher Paolini. A lot of my friends recommended it including Neil, Brandon, and Young Woo, and this book was in the recommended book list. Christopher Paolini wrote this book at the age of 15, and he became a professional writer in high school. This was his debut book and it was pretty good. This book is over a 700 pages so it took me a long~~~ time to read this.

This book is about a 15 year old boy named Eragon. One day, he found a dragon egg in a place called Spine. When a dragon hatched from it, he named it Saphira and it became bigger and bigger every day. He lived with his uncle Garrow and his brother Roran at the age of 17. The evil guy, Galbatorix kills Garrow and his brother Roran left his hometown to marry a girl. Eragon was left alone. As days pass, he becomes friends with a man called Brom, and they take adventures with Saphira. They went to a lot of places like Daret, Therinsford, Yazuac, and lots more. When Brom dies because of the Ra'zac, he meets a guy called Murtagh, who was similar to Brom. He also takes adventure with him and these adventure happen all the way through the book.

My favourite part of this book was when he fights all the bad guys such as the Urgals and Ra'zacs. Eragon learned magic from Brom and he uses these magic to the monsters but the magic is very dangerous so Eragon almost died a lot of times. He killed some Urgals, but the Ra'zacs were pretty strong. They were the one who killed Brom, who was like Eragon's father. Later on in the story, Eragon, Saphira and Murtagh meets the upgrade of the Urgals, the Kull. They are over 8 feet tall and very fat. They win in the fight, though. I really liked the part when Eragon fought all those monsters. My another favourite part of this story was when Eragon sparres with his masters, Brom and Murtagh. Brom was pretty easy to spar so Eragon kind of won, but Murtagh wasn't easy. For both Eragon and Murtagh, they couldn't have an adventage and they both said that they haven't sparred someone stronger than them.

I would give this book 5/5 stars. I would recommend this book to everyone of my friends.

Fallen Tooth

December 1st, 2009

I really don't like taking my teeth off and I think it hurts when that happens. About 1 month ago, my back teeth started shaking a little bit and this was the first time my back teeth started shaking. I was scared since then, because I didn't want to take my teeth off. There would be blood all over my mouth. One day, I was eating a nut. I chewed the nut with my shaking teeth accidentaly so it started hurting more and more, and it eventually shook a lot. It was almost going to fall off. As time passed, I started to get more scared and scared. It was last night when the teeth fell off. It was 11:00 p.m. I was still reading the book 'Eragon' and I wanted to have a break so my mom gave me a piece of bread. While I was chewing the bread with the unshaking teeth, I felt something hard inside my mouth. When i opened my mouth and took the hard thing off, I realized it was my teeth. Fortuitiously, it didn't hurt a lot. Acutally, I was going to tell my mom to take it off after I ate my bread but luckily, it came off without any pain. I went to the bathroom to wash my mouth and take all the blood out. There was a lot of blood but it didn't hurt so I could manage that. I also washed my fallen teeth for fun. Next morning, I showed it to my dad and he laughed because he thought it was funny that it came off while I was eating just a piece of bread.