1378 Views and Still Going!

Hey there, amigos.

It may seem a little cliched at this point, but I've got some big news.

I've hit 1378 viewers. I don't know where they've come from, most from me probably. I'm very excited.

I do have a movie review for you. It's on How To Train Your Dragon. The movie's a bit old, but still pretty good.

Thanks to
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for this photo!

It was pretty good, considering the funny tidbits thrown in here and there.The epic final battle scene is really intense and quite confusing if you miss any of it. Since I watched this movie twice now, the battle scene seems quite intense. Very good story though.

There is the official trailer. Got it on YouTube. 

See ya!

Pipe Down!

There is a reason I say that, and that reason is "punny".  


I was recently in Virginia City, Nevada, on a family vacation. We wanted to see the sights, and one of those was the Piper's Opera House.

Piper's Opera House
Thanks to nevadaday.com for this picture.

Inside, we went to go look around at the actual opera house. It was very nice, until you got to the actual opera house part, in which the ceiling was falling apart,  but that's to be expected in a 130 year-old building, in which a guy salvaged parts from other burned down buildings and old mines. This tour guide, though, was the star of the show. 


He stopped talking maybe three times. They were to listen to my family correct him, ask for our money, and have my mom's alarm go off. In that order. 


Let me explain. 


We walk in, wanting a tour. My dad asks for a tour. We walk upstairs and he explains the several different lives of the opera house, and this is where we mainly correct him on his historical facts. He stops here, to listen. Then we walk into the actual opera house, which is undergoing restoration. There are high school aged children setting up for their "Nevada-Day-Party". We smile and wave, feeling rather uncomfortable in the presence of the talking tour guide. 


He continues to speak of incorrect facts, and we promptly correct him. He then says, "Now I need to collect your fee. The fee for the tour for the family is $10." We all think, "THANK GOD! IT'S OVER!" We fork over the moolah, and he continues to talk. 


At this point, I'm about to melt. He speaks to us about the stage and the balcony seating. I know the answers to almost all of the questions he asks. 


Shortly after this, he leads us to this wall of actors. He asks us who actually came to this opera house and performed. He gave us a hint that two people didn't come, and that we needed to figure out who they were. He lemented on this for maybe fifteen minutes. 


This is the point where my sister is so bored that she starts picking the plastic tablecloth that was set up by the high school. The tour guide was appalled. He didn't stop talking, though. My mom let her continue to pick the tablecloth. 


The tour guide leads us over to the wall where he tells us of this unknown artist who made a couple million dollars in the 1900's. At this point, my feet have started to hurt and I just don't care. 


Then my mom's alarm goes off. The tour guide stops. My dad quickly jumps in and says, "We have an appointment at the RV park! We've gotta go!" My mom's alarm won't turn off. We have to take out the battery and this not only turns off Mom's phone, but turns of his mouth. 


We thank him and quickly walk out the door. We don't start laughing until we are down the hill. We are all in agreement. That was one of the funniest/boring/interesting thing ever. 


Let me describe the man. 




He had a handlebar mustache with the curled edges, cowboy boots, a cowboy hat, and basically the rest of the cowboy attire. This dude was insane. 






But here is some breaking news. 




We have moved into our new house and we are about to close. 


YAY! :)

What to do in the Event of an Earthquake

So, in science, we are learning all about faults and earthquakes, so this video that my good friend Jibble at thejibbles.com  posted to his blog was hilarious. 

The link is http://richardfenwick.com/earthquake.html if you want to watch it. It's pretty funny.

Words from Seventh Grade

Hola amigos!  I'm posting to the beat of this song called "Perpetuum Mobile"... Really good song...

The thing is, though, that I'm in seventh grade now, and if you look back it's been a whole summer since I first posted. That was sixth grade, and now, it's seventh grade. I'm rather excited to continue the year. My new website background, yearbook, you name it. And, my drawing skills are growing. 

But I have a story for you all.

Sunday afternoon last week, my mother and I pulled into our garage. See, my mother is deathly afraid of birds that roam free, but come close to her. There was a bird that was dumb enough to get trapped in a garage that was wide open. My father and I tried to get it out, and then my mom locked the car door. I started banging the garage door to the ceiling and making weird noises. My mother, in the car, started laughing her head off. I tried opening the door, but alas, it was locked. When the bird finally fled, sadly, there was bird blood all over the roof. Gross.

I'm going to sign off, for my laptop is about to die. 

Just Follow the Gray Concrete!

So, tomorrow is the first day of school, and I'm off to school at 6:20 in the morning. And that's not the worst part. I don't know what my schedule is. I'm going in blind and told to follow the gray concrete. Actually, this is quite a big thing, since I'll be going into seventh grade after a whole summer of following my every move! This year will be chocked full of laughs and just weirdness.. TTYL!


P.S.
Check out the site improvements, I've hit 519 views!

Celebrations and Mourning!

I think we should be sad before the happiness! How does that sound!?

Okay.... One second. I'm gonna tone my happiness down for a few lines...

Summer vacation is almost over.

*tear*

The good news, however, is that this humble blog is at almost 500 pageviews from accross the globe!

Here is a list of all the countries(listed by number of views) that have visited this humble biography of a 7th grader....

1. The United States
2. Malaysia
3. Germany
4. India
5. France
6. The United Kingdom
7. South Korea
8. The Phillipines
9. Russia
10. Ukraine

Thanks, my readers, for bringing me this! This is amazing!

Sincerely, Andrew

      

P.S. I have a little surprise for you all when we hit exactly 500 views!

Ah. Reading.

I have not blogged for quite some time now. I have done quite the contrary. I have read countless (actually, two) books and am reading another. I have mini-golfed, swam, and listened to music. Really, a great way to spend your summer.

So, here is the summaries and plots of The Book Thief and The Secret Life of Dilly McBean.

(Beginning with The Book Thief)

Liesel Meminger is German girl in Nazi Germany. Her brother dies on a train with one fatal cough. Her life then changed. At her brother's grave she steals her first book. Her lie, already torn in two, is then shredded when she is taken to her new foster parents. Soon she is stealing books from book burnings and mayor's wives. Then her life takes a turn of grave hope. The family then hides a Jew in their basement.

I give this........ 5 stars!


(The Secret Life of Dilly McBean)

Dilly has a secret. He is magnetic. His guardian is a bank. He has been shipped between camp to school and back to camp.  He always has wanted to climb mountains, but that didn't happen. Then he is moved to a small town and spied on. Another person knows his secret and  helps him develop it. He then saves the world with his power.

I give this book..... 3 stars.


I also read an article in Popular Science.

It was about a guy who dipped his hand in water then quickly dunked it in liquid nitrogen!

Don't do that.... ever. Anyway, where would you get the liquid nitrogen?


So, I don't have much else to say.


Sayonara, humble persons!