Author: Valentina O

IRJE #3 Twilight: New Moon

Twilight: New Moon is the second book in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga. The story starts with Bella Swan being sad because her vampire boyfriend, Edward Cullen left. Edward leaves Bella because he wanted to protect her from the dangers of his world, leaving her so sad. Bella struggles to keep up with her life after Edward leaving, so she finds support with Jacob Black who is his friend since she was little. As Bella is with Jacob, she discovers that he is a werewolf (the werewolf’s are the rivals of the vampires). Bella and Jacob develop a strong bond, but Bella is still in love with Edward.

“You know that I love you. I’ve loved you for a long time. But I can’t keep pretending that I don’t. I can’t keep pretending that I don’t want you.”

The quotation is about Jacob telling Bella how he fells about her but Bella begins to take bad risks, hoping that by doing them, Edward might return to save her, and when she is in danger she fells a connection with him. Then Bella is faced with a really bad situation, and this makes Edward believe that she has died. This makes Edward travel to Italy to talk to Volturi (a powerful vampire coven), into killing him. Bella, with Jacob’s help, went to save him, and this end up with a big fight. In the end, Edward and Bella are reunited, but the book ends by Bella still confused between her love for Edward and the friendship with Jacob, this makes us think that in the next book there will be fight between Edward and Jacob.

PW#4 Places I have been to

I actually have not been to a lot of places but I wish I could go to more places because I would love to travel to a lot of places. Some places I have already been to are places on México because I live there so like Cancun, CDMX, Guadalajara, Chapala, Vallarta, Tapalpa, and more. I also have gone to places in Canada like, Vancouver, Victoria and Whistler but I would love to see more places in Canada. The places I have gone in USA are like, Orlando, Florida, Hollywood, Seattle and more places but I would love to go to more places like New York, Paris, Italy, Madrid, Brazil, etc. Also I would like to do travel all Europe with my family, I actually wanted to do that for my 15 birthday but I didn’t do it instead I am going to go on a cruce ship with all my family, its a surprise so I don’t know the places I am going to but I wish they are places that I have not gone to. There are so more places I would like to go because I want to travel around the world, I want to visit places that are new to me and I want to see all the different culture people have. If I have the opportunity I will do those trips because is something that not many people do so having does experiences are really amazing.

“Our Town” Personal respose

This play was really different from others plays, this play had a really weird start and they acted without things so they act with nothing, it also had a really big plot twist, the narrator was really diferente form others because he could talk with the actors and interact with them, he also some times he was part of the play doing a kind of role what is really weird for a narrator to do because they always just tells us what is happening in the play but this narrator was in doing both so he was talking about the play and the setting but he also was a kind of character in the play. I think this play is boring at the beginning because it just tells the story of 2 families and how the daughter of one family and the son of another family gets marriage what it a little boring because there is nothing interesting that happens, then the plot twist make us fell sad because Emily dies and in some kind of way we saw the whole story of Emily and George love and then Emily died suddenly what is a really sad thing. We see in the play how Emily is remembering the whole life she had and all the good memories she had, she regret everything because she did not enjoy enough the life she had so this play teaches us that we had to enjoy every single thing that is happening right now.

PW#3 Halloween

I love halloween, my favorites holidays are christmas and halloween but I think that my favorite holiday is halloween because I love to put costumes on and to go to scary houses and parties, i also love the scary movies because I like to fell like to be scared. I love to decorate my house of halloween and something that I do with my family is we try to be the first one who have the house decorate, I love to decorate my door of my room and my mom love to buy inflatable halloween decorations and she puts  some lights on the house  so when its night my house looks so pretty. I like to go out and ask for treat or trick with my friends and my brothers, I also love to give candy to the kids because I like to see what costumes they have on. On some years my mom does halloween parties so all my cousin and friends come to my house and we have so much fun seeing movies and eating candy. Something else that I love halloween it is that my birthday is in that month so I like that month or that holiday because for that reason. I like christmas a lot because I also like the presents, song and the decorations but I prefere halloween so much more.

PW#2 My family’s birthday traditions

Since I was little my family has a tradition about all the mornings in my families birthdays. What the tradition is about is that the day of my families birthdays the whole family wakes up the one who is turning years with a cake of donuts which was just donuts of krispy kreme and singing the happy birthday song, and then for breakfast we would have does donuts. That tradition started with me saying to my family when I was little that I wanted donuts for my birthday and since that day every birthday I had have and my brothers had have had been with my parents waking us up and surprising us with some donuts for breakfast. All thought we know what is going to happened when we wake up on our birthdays we never change that tradition and we like doing that, so its now a tradition of my family. Now every year I know that my family will be waking me up singing happy birthday and bringing me donuts to eat for breakfast, this year I am not with my family so my birthday will be without my parents and without having my parents and brothers singing me the happy birthday and bringing me donuts so that makes me a little sad because I never had a birthday without my family and that makes me scared but I will be with my friends and I know I will have so much fun with them this year.

IRJE #1 – Wonder

“Wonder” by R.J. Palacio tells the story of a kid named Auggie Pullman, with a facial difference because of a medical problem The story follows him as he moves to a regular school for the first time in the fifth grade. But because of his medical problem the bullying, trust, and friendships makes some problems that Auggie suffers, but he also finds good acts of kindness and support. Some people see how Auggie’s presence impacts his friends’ and family’s life because the story is told from many of perspectives.

“When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind.”

This quote is about the central message that the book is trying to send to everyone. This message is that you have to be kind and respectful to people around you and it doesn’t matter what do they look like

PW #1 Boarding school

I always wanted to go on a boarding school because I have always love the idea of making new friends from other places but I am really close to my family so the idea of being separated from my parents, friends and brothers was not so exiting. I was on my school in Mexico when my school was telling us about boarding school, they where telling us all the schools that where in Canada so I told my parents about the boarding school and they loved the idea of me having the chance o go on a boarding school and I was really exited because I never imagine they letting me do boarding school so we start looking of all the schools the had told us about. I wanted to go to Vancouver but there wasn’t any school that we loved to we started looking in Victoria and we found “Brooke Westshore” we loved the school so my parents let me come to this school. First I thought that I was going to hate the school so I told my mom that I wanted to stay just 4 months, I thought that I will not meet anybody and that I could stay here with any friends and that was one of the bad things that I thought would happened. Right know I regret saying that because I wish I could stay more time but my mom and dad don’t want me to stay more because I have a trip plan already and also because my family already miss me so I’m just staying 4 months.

My introduction

Hi my name is Valentina Orozco I am 14 years old. I was born in October/28/ 2009, I have 3 brothers named Nico, Max, and Cris, I am the oldest. I have 2 cats there names are nieve and kitty . I like play padel and horse riding but I stop doing horse riding because I didn’t like it as much as padel. Right now I do cross cross contry and volleyball . My favorite foods is pasta , some of my hobbies are painting and hanging out with my friends .  My favorite color is blue and i like to visit new places . I came to canada because i wanted to imporve my english and make new friend, also i think it was a great opportunity to be here.