Author: Maya

IRJE #6 once in a full moon by Ellen Schreiber

The story Once in a Full Moon starts with a girl Celeste Parker who lives in a small town by Legends Run. Her life turned around when a dare from Nash (Celeste’s boyfriend). To go to Legends Run and get her fortune told, a spine-chilling fortune was read and under the moon, something terrible would happen. Celeste pumps into Brandon while just barely escaping a pack of wolfs

“Are you… okay?” It was the first thing he asked.
“Am I okay? I wasn’t the one fighting a pack of wolves.”
Brandon tossed the branch into the woods. It was then a few dark red drops fell into the lily white snow.
“You’re bleeding!” I said, pointing to the red stains.
“What?” He didn’t even look at his hand. “What are you doing… here?” he asked. He was still running on adrenaline.
“You’ve been hurt,” I said. “We should get you to a doctor.”
He raised his hand. Drops continued to fall into the snow.
“You need to have that looked at,” I said. “You might need stitches.”
“It’s nothing,” he said.
“You could have rabies,” I warned.
“I’m fine.”
“Can I see?” I asked.
“Uh… sure.”

CH7 PG 45

I chose this book to read because this book caught my attention last year and this refreshes my mind about what happened in the book

personal writing #5

For Christmas, I’m going to go up to Alberta to see my family. Last year we brought up a tube (for a lake) It is practically garbage because there are no seats since Aron ripped them off, but I’m going to get my cousins to go on it to make sure it’s safe before I go on I also want to see them struggle ( Trevor 28, Isaac24). I can’t wait to see my aunt’s dog, (Jack)  I don’t know what breed he is but he is very cuddly. my aunt got a kitten named Murk he is a tuxedo kitty. I can’t wait to leave.

Pw #4

This week all I did was clean I also had a soccer game where we won 2-0 I’m also writing this during a power outage. On Friday I went to the movie theater with a friend and watched Venom, it was pretty fun and we sat in the back of the theater, he got us popcorn and got us the ticket we played air hockey and he walked me to my car and I gave him a pat on the back saying he’s an excellent friend, I went back home and had 3 new messages from him saying that he had an entertaining evening and that we should do it again sometime and I agreed, before we went to the theater we bought matching pj’s and sushi, we also bought boba and had it on the way there. that was my week and we might hang out this Saturday. 

IRJE # 3 Black Boy by Richard Wright

Black Boy by Richard Wright was a very creative book, full of twists and turns, the 416 pages are about the hard life of a boy living down south (where many racists are). His parents support him while everyone without color brings him down with his hopes of being a writer not everyone believed in him but he still managed to get through it. He was a very curious kid who wanted to learn more about the world.

I would make his life more intelligible to others than to himself. I would reclaim and cast his disordered days into a form that people would grasp, see, understand, and accept. *beginning of CH 19 (p. 329)

This describes Richards’s motivation for his life story about Ross (The black communist. Richard thinks of life as painful and horrible).

 

What i think about Our Town

When we begun to read our town i thought it was fairly interesting, a small town with people about two different families. As the book went on i found it kind of lifeless there were only a few main events and it felt like reading fifty shades of gray or like watching paint dry, personally i like romance/action books so that was just from my own opinion. there were a few parts where it was kind of interesting like when they were on the latter looking at the moon, it was just cool and it would have been funny if the moon came and hit them. i still don’t understand what she meant by

“they don’t understand do they?

i didn’t understand that (probably because their dead). that is why i would give this book a 3.5/10 there just felt like there was no action and fair to little emotion.

INDRJE Black Boy [IRJE #2]

Black Boy by Richard Wright is a book about a boy who struggles with day-to-day problems, he goes through challenges and many accidents including burning down homes at age 4

 

“At the age of twelve before I had one full year of formal schooling I had. . . a convention that the meaning of living came only when one was struggling to wring a meaning out of meaningless suffering. At the age of twelve, I had an attitude towards life that was to… make me skeptical of everything, tolerant of all, and yet crucial…that can only keep alive in me that enthralling sense of wonder and awe in the face of drama of human feeling which is hidden off the external drama of life”. End of chapter 3. p. 100-101

The principle of this quote brings me to believe that life becomes meaningful when we go through that struggle to make it.

pw #2

My mother and I went to Ontario this summer to visit family, the day we got there at 3 am, and that same day my cousins and I went to an aquarium honestly it was pretty cool the day after we went on a wine tour, late that afternoon we (my cousins and i) went ziplining over Niagra falls I gave my mom my sunglasses to hold on to, we came back to the top where we were all SUPPOST to meet but my mother had left to go to a 3-day meeting WITH my sunglasses. That night we went for pizza and went into a haunted house it was really fun I enjoyed it a lot! it was a long drive back and when I got there I went straight into the house, walked up both flights of stairs, got ready for bed, and slept in my jeans.

 

IRJE #1 Pretty Pretty Boys by Gregory Ashe

This is a very fascinating novel, it starts with Somers and Hazard two detectives in a small town called Waerdurah Hazard and Somers had such a past in high school but that seems to have been resolved. Now they are partners watching over one another. (I was reading this book over the summer, it was exciting, a murder mystery/romance novel. I picked up where I left off not quite done with the book)

                Jesus god no! Somers took a breath “I mean, no, let                              me handle this ok?”

Hazard managed to nod.

“You call and check in?”

“I don’t need you coming up busywork.”

“come on man somebody’s got to  call”

“Fine.” Hazard snapped. (Pages 103-104)

Context: hazard wanted to go into Lady Mable’s chambers, they needed information from her on a murder, (Lady Mabel did not wish to speak a word) then Detective Hazard called down to the office to tell them the difficult time they were having trying to get the information out of Lady Mable.

M&M

I thought I thought Master and Man was an okay novel but I tought it was pointless when two full-grown men got stuck in a snow storm, Vasili was acting childish and not wanting to go with someone because he didn’t need it and I think you should always go with someone and I thought it was not smart to go out in a snowstorm.

Pw #1

In this personal writing, I’m going to be 100% honest, I’ve gone over 20 different websites about what I should write about, and honestly, I have no clue because they all said something along the lines of “ write about your dream job, something you like, something that interests you, something that makes you happy” and personally none of that interests me one bit…. So now I’m here writing about how I had nothing to write about and if I did write about something it would be something foolish so I’m here writing just about that. So I want to thank Grammarly for helping me write this and also changing all of my horrible grammar to something correct just the other day I was thinking about Rudolph the red nose reindeer and why his nose was red like his mom’s nose is black and his dad’s nose is black but it also might just be genetics but I was wondering. “What if there was a mailman in the mix”. Or ”if his real dad went for the milk and the other guy is the mailman!!!!” woah that was a lot, okay now I’m at 195 words so I just need to say 5 more words, I made it to 210 words, honestly I just kept telling the first thought that came to me ?  and now I’m here, thanks or reading this random stuff ?

Get to know me???????

My name is Maya van Kempen, I was born November 22, 2010, and I’ve lived in Victoria all my life, I love traveling and going on vacations, I play soccer (my fav sport) I’ve been at Brookes for one year, I have 3 cats Hanky, Mochi, and Milo, I love sleeping and watching movies, my dream is to go to Miami, I love rainy days, my dream car is either a dodge charger or a dodge challenger, I love sitting outside and looking up at the stars,  I like camping and going to the golf islands in my dad’s boat, we usually do a 7-day trip and cruise around, I visit my family often, and i just learned how to surf.