Favourite Author Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl was born in Llandaf, Wales on September 13th, 1916. His parents were Norwegian. In the book 'WITCHES', he based his mother as the grandmother because he got the most tremendous feeling of security from his mom.

When Roald Dahl was young, he really loved stories. His mom told him stories with his sisters and brothers. When Roald Dahl became a little older, he became liking adventure stories. He loved authors like Dickens and Ambrose Bierce.

He first started writing adult books for the first 15 years of writing. Then he moved to writing children books, which made him become well-known and famous.

His first book was 'JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH' and after that book, he wrote a book called 'CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACOTORY'. These books became very famous and were also made into a movie.

He worked and wrote books in England in a house called 'Gipsy house'. It was a hut at the bottom of the garden. In the Gipsy house, he wrote most of his unforgettable stories of young and old. Roald Dahl couldn't type and he always used a pencil to write. For most of the time, he started writing at 9: 30 in the morning and at 10:30 am, he took a cup of coffee and rested a bit. Then he wrote again until noon. After the afternoon read, he returned at his hut and continued writing stories. He wrote a lot of drafts at the first because he usually couldn't write something right at the first time.

Since I love Roald Dahl's writing, I have read a lot of his books. Those include 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory', 'Mathilda', 'Fantastic Mr. Fox', 'George's Marvellous Medicine', 'The Twits', 'The Witches', 'Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator', and 'The BFG'.

If you want to visit his website, you can go to http://www.roalddahl.com/.

Small Steps

Small Steps: By: Louis Sachar

The book 'Small Steps' is a continuing book of the book 'Holes' by Louis Sachar. It's about a boy named Armpit earning money by selling concert tickets. The concert was a singing concert. In the concert, Armpit meets the famous singer called Kaira and they likes each other. Kaira had to leave to San Francisco so they had to be apart. Kaira invites the boy to San Francisco. Kaira broke up with Armpit and the he returned back to his home. The story ends by Armpit hearing the Kaira's song in the radio.

My favourite part of the story is when Armpit and Kaira meets in the singing theater luckily. I also liked the part when they were walking, holding hands, along the garden and have ice cream together. Unluckily, this story ended up sad and they didn't get to meet each other again. As I was reading the book, I thought they would get to meet each other but it didn't end up like my expectations. I was a bit sad at the end... ^.^ I think this book is great and fascinating and it made a little more sense for me because I have already read the book 'Holes' (Which was actually better than this book). I would give this book 4 and a half out of 5.

Typhoon Morokat

When it rains a lot on the mountain, water will be soaked inside the mud and it will cause the seperation under the mountain. Luckily, Indonesia won't get any Typhoons because this country is near the equator. Also, mudslides would rarely happen in Indonesia because the land is flat.

For 3 days, heavy rain struck the land of Taiwan continously. With those continuous rain, it caused a dangerous typhoon called Typhoon Morokat. This Typhoon killed about 500 people and damaged lots of builidings and houses/villages. Mudslides from the mountain killed a lot of people and also the flooding or tsnami made the damage worse. Taiwan was absolutely destructed by those natural disasters.

About Middle School... and Me!!!

Hi! My name is Si Won and I'm 12. I'm from 6th Grade in Ms. Marrello's home room. I'm from South Korea and this is my 3rd year in JIS. I really love to play sports like soccer, basketball, and baseball and lots more! For the muscial instrument, I used to play the piano but I changed to playing the clarinet. I only learned it for 2 months. In Middle School, for lunch, I usually eat the kebab or sometimes, Pizza! The Middle School food is really awesome!!! There are lots of activities to do in the Middle School. There are languages like Spanish, French, Indonesian, and Mandarin. There are also band and strings. For PE, we do a LOT of activities like soccer, basketball, fitness, gymnastics, handball and lots more... There are 3 breaks in one day. A break after the 1st Block and Lunch after the 2nd Block and another break after 3rd block!!! Well, that was about myself and everything (not really) about Middle School. Thanks!!!