Twilight: The Graphic Novel Volume #2

I have been waiting for this book to come out and only just found out a couple of weeks ago. Rutakau let me borrow it off her so that I could read it. I never got the time to finish it so this will be a good reason to. This book came out in October in the USA, I'm not sure about when it came out in NZ though.

The Twilight Graphic Novel is written by Stephenie Meyer and the art and adaptation by Young Kim.
The picture of Edward on the cover instantly reminds you that this book is the 2nd volume, to the Twilight Graphics Novel, for the picture is volume one's other half. The two would fit together just like puzzle exactly like Bella and Edward. The picture is of Bella and Edward in the meadow  laying on the grass staring at each other. The meadow where Edward took Bella to show her who he really is.

The book starts out at Bellas house, where Edward reveals that he's been coming to Bella's house every night without her knowing, just to watch her sleep. Edward then makes plans about inviting Bella to his house to meet his family for the first time, where Bella learns about their background. The second half is where all the bad stuff happens, we meet James, Victoria, and Laurent. James is a tracker, his new game and obsession becomes Bella and Edward does everything he can to protect her.

The book is mostly in black and white except for the bits where its explaining about Carlisle's past and history and eventually edward, Esme and Rosalie's rebirths. It goes on explaining about how Emmett, Alice and Jasper come to join them too. The pictures are shown in this bronze-y, red-ish colour. Like once you see them, its like going back in the past, which is what it's meant to do I guess, separating the past and present. The Animation is really cool, the characters look like what they were described as. Another coloured bit is when we get introduced to the James, Victoria and Laurent, where we see a close up of their red eyes, showing us that they are not like the Cullens.

I recommend this book to any Twilight Fans and to people who like comics, especially the ones who haven't read Twilight. Its pretty awesome. It doesn't take you long to read either, its good if you just want a basic but good idea of what happens in Twilight :-)

-Alison

Screencast :-)

My poem :)

Broken alarm clock.

I have a broken clock.

It went tick tock.

It was very loud,

for it gave me shocks at seven o'clock.

My clock has a winnie the pooh inside it.

It is pink and can be lit.

It is dusty

because it quit at going tick.

 

My clock is now a souvenir.

It was given to me by uncle here -->

It meant good-bye,

For we were leaving for New Zealand that night.

Why Winnie the Pooh you say?

well my brother was born in may

then I came along,

and so to say pooh was here to stay.

Most Inspiring teacher

The most inspiring teacher for me would have to be Miss Cottee. She's probably one my best teachers this year because she is a very out going and fun person thats makes learning awesome for us. She challenges us in our learning, doing so in the most enjoyable ways.

Miss Cottee has an awesome personality that is probably the main factor to her being such a good teacher. She never fails to make us smile in class, even when its the end of the day and we just want to go home or we are just having a lame day. I always look forward to going to her class for I know that It'd be an enjoyable lesson where we actually learn heaps and because I know its gonna be fun and funny and cool etc...

She always tries to make learning different and cool for us so that its not boring. She helps us out when its needed, answering our questions, even when its not about the thing we are learning about specifically.

So yeah, that is why I think miss Cottee is the most inspiring teacher :)

-Alison

Olympic Opinion

I think that more extreme/contemporary sports should be added to the Olympics, like surfing, because it is a popular summer sport. It’s a sport that both male and female can compete at and the things they can do are really impressive and entertaining. Personally I would love to see surfing at the Olympics. It looks like an awesome and fun summer sport. It looks like it could be an entertaining sport to watch on T.V.

It'd be fun to watch it since Surfing hasn't been part of the Olympics yet, probably because we would need technology like a high-quality wave pool for the surfers to have an equal and fair chance of winning. I read somewhere that it has been declined for the 2022 Olympics already, but I don't know if thats true. Hopefully in the near future we will see it at the Olympics and that technology has been developed a bit more. I know that I'd definitely be watching.

From what I've seen on the internet, I think that a lot of people would like to see surfing at the Olympics too and the competitive surfers out there would love to surf against other surfers from other countries as well. Its different having surfing at the Olympics along with heaps of other sports and people representing your country. Its a time where you can show the whole world your talent, represent your country and make them proud at the same time. Its a fun event that links the whole world together.

Surfing looks like a cool sport, I'd like to learn it but I'd suck at it... Hopefully it will become an Olympic sport. I know that I'd definitely be watching.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060725113555AAur1Ss
http://www.isasurf.org/OlympicSurfing.php
http://surfing.about.com/cs/surfinstruction/a/010404judge.htm
http://www.surfermag.com/features/in-my-opinion/

-Alison

The greatest moment in the Olympic was when...

The greatest moment in the Olympic history was when...

When I asked my dad, what, in his opinion was the greatest moment in Olympic history he looked up to the ceiling, in his thinking mode and said "the greatest moment in the Olympic was when... Carl Lewis won 6 gold medals." I thought, well that's great but I still didn't understand why it was the greatest moment in history. So I replied saying " really? But how's that the greatest moment?" Then he said "Well no one has done that ever again, have they?"

But he was wrong. Really Carl Lewis has won 10 medals at the Olympics, 9 of which being gold medals, and 4 of those won for the 100m, 200m, 4×1000m relay and long jump at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics Games.
Carl Lewis has set world records in 100 m, 4×100 m and 4×200 m relays.
Some people even reckon that he is the greatest Olympian ever. 

From what I've heard about Carl Lewis and the research that I've done I'd say that the greatest moment in Ancient history was when Carl Lewis won 4 gold medals at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles and 10 medals in total from his time in the Olympic Games.

But the the greatest moment in Olympic history, so far, would be when Michael Phelps won 8 gold medals at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 in swimming. Michael Phelps nicknames as 'MP,The Baltimore Bullet, and/or Flying Fish^' has won 14 gold olympic medals in total. Michael Phelps holds the record for the most gold medals won in a single Olympics. A lot of people would argue that Carl Lewis was indeed the greatest Olympian in history but based on the medals that each of them has won, Michael Phelps is the winner and probably one of the greatest Olympic swimmers yet.

Bibliography:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Lewis#1984_Olympics_and_the_quest_to_equal_Jesse_Owens
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multiple_Olympic_gold_medalists
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Phelps
and dad :)


-Alison

English Video :)

<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/45810977" width="500" height="331" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/45810977%22%3Eenglish video</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user12518209%22%3ENikkisha&amp;alison%3C/a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com%22%3evimeo%3c/a%3E.%3C/p>


this video is private because it is embarrassing so um miss can we tell you the password at school or something?