Last Post! Ms. LY! HA! in your face!! haha joke, just kidding!! :P

 huhuuhu, wha- wha- what to saay?? I'll just end my post here! No, really I don't know what to say now, I just want to say Thank you Ms. Ly for letting us do a project like this I recalled all our lessons since first quarter until now, this is a really great strategy for us not to forget the lessons we learned from you. By the end of this year I'll try my best not to forget what you've told and taught us Ms Ly! you're a great teacher! I'll miss you and your lessons! hahaha..:P

Thankyou for all who read my blog!!  I know its boring but at least i did my best and finished it. Its now 7:39PM!! yes!! done with one of my projects but still so much work to do..I can do this..:> byeee..:)

14th post! I'm running out of lessons..:)) what to say? hmmm.. ;)

 WHAT WE DID THIS THURSDAY!

Hhhmmm, seriously i ran out of lessons and I don't know what to say.. I don't know if I may include the things we did last week? or this week? hmmm, well, as far as i remember we had a game this thursday? and it was about the sound of e, 3(E in cursive), I, i, 2e(like ae) and i forgot the other..:)) we divide our classmates into four groups, group 1 was Anca, Edward,Luigi and Dave(Korean), 2nd group was erica, tania, karleen and nina, group three was Mc, Andre, Briggitte and Megan, and the last group were us, ME(Raymond), Pauline, Carlos, Ruel and Kevin Ozaki. Of course obviously before we start we already knew that the group of Anca will win and we're right they really won..:)) our group was "laugh trip"  cause we didn't expect that we will win the second price because group three was the first one who passed the bond paper that we're using in the game but luckily one of their answers were wrong and we had a chance  then we won..:> haha Our group will have Plus 3 in one quiz and if we dont need plus on the first quiz, we can use it on another quiz again..:> ahaha

HAHA, I'm actually done with my 14th post but I don't know if I can Include this, haha! Last one and I'm done already, and its already 7:19pm..:)  I'm so sorry if you cant understand my grammar..:| I'm so sorry, i tried my best...hehe

THANKYOU FOR READING!!

13th post, I'm gooood!! :D Skill builder 26.. =) yeah\m/

Roots are also called combining forms because a root may combine with another root, with one or two prefixes and/or one or more suffixes form a new word. this is why the root is also called stem- other words grow from it. 

Yeah! Lets do this! =))

ROOTS                       MEANING

acrophobia                                 afraid of height

algophobia                                  afraid of pain

astraphobia                                 afraid of lightning

claustrophobia                           afraid of being shut in

hemophobia                              afraid of blood

hydrophobia                                 afraid of water

mono phobia                              afraid of being alone

nyctophobia                                 afraid of night

xenophobia                                 afraid of strangers

zoo phobia                                    afraid of animals

yeah yeah, hey, who ever read this it's cool. my knowledge increased when i read this..:)) It's really nice knowing stuffs like this because it will help you in daily life..:D I wish i could memorize din as fast as i can so at least i can use some of this words when i go to college.

It's 6:40PM!! 2 more post and this project is done! Hey Ms. Ly! Almost done.. ;) hahaha

THANKYOUFORREADING

12 post! Go ME!! 3 more to go!! :D Skill builder 21!!

IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS 

give away- part with

give back- return, restore

give in- hand in, yield

give in to- submit, agree to, yield

give off- emit, exhale of vapor or order

give out- announce, send out, be exhausted

give over- transfer, hand over

give up- surrender, relinquish, abandon

get at- reach, attain

get above- go higher than
get about- move from place to place

get ahead- prosper, outstrip others

get away- escape

get along- live comfortably

get away with- be free from a deserved punishment

get behind- lag, move slowly

get out- set one self free

get over- overcome, recover

get up- costume, style of dress

Idiomatic expressions are commonly found in daily speech of people rather than in formal composition. an idiom is an expression peculiar to a language. It usually has one or more associated meanings that are not gained from the meaning of its separate parts.

These idioms I typed will help you in  your daily life, try to memorize it, if you can't try just familiarizing those words and you'll enjoy when you find out the meaning of those words when you saw them in some other books. 

It's Saturday night? or noon? 6:07pm,can't able to finish this earlier because my sister was using but now, I'll try to finish this because I don't want to think of so much work starting now. Yay! almost done!

*THANKS FOR READING*

My eleventh post! I'm getting lazy doing this already..:(

*This came from SKILL BUILDER 8*

 a capella- without instrumental accompaniment

ad infinitum- into eternity, endlessly

alma mater- fostering mother school from which a person graduates

amour propre- self respect

au revoir- till we meet again

avant garde- modern

carte blanche- a blank menu; freedom to choose
bona fide- in good faith

et alii(et al.)- and others

et cetera(etc.)- and so forth

exempli gratia(e.g.)-for example

hors d'oevres- appetizer
nom de plume- pen name; a written name other than the real name

status quo- the situation as it is

viva voce- by word of mouth; orraly

I've seen these words many times in some books especially (e.g.) and I don't know the meaning of it till our teacher Ms. Ly taught us. This words will help you understand what your reading when you see those words..:D so try to memorize it..:)

THANKYOU FOR READING:)

My Tenth Post! *GRANDFATHER'S BIRTHDAY PRESENT!*

"Grandfather's Birthday Present by Herman Heijermans, Jr."

Main characters: Grandfather, Jet, Dirk, Mary, Piet and Frans, Henk.

It's the birthday of Jet's Grandfather. Jet, Dirk, Mary, Piet, Frans, and Henk is thought of a gift that they should give to their Grandfather. Jet's suggestion is he want's to give a BIBLE, Dirk's idea is to give a arm chair, Mary want them to give grandfather a winter coat, a muffler, a pair of gloves or some good stout, Piet and Frans wants them to just decorate the living room. They all don't want each others suggestion but Henk thought of the best birthday present and its a picture of a whole family but their problem is they dont have any money to purchase the frame and when the grandfather knew what they will give to him, he decided that he will just pay the frame.

 THE END!!

 Lesson is any suggestion to give on a birthday present for your love one will do as long as it came from your heart, no matter how ugly your present is, it's not in the beauty that counts, what counts is the thought of what you give. :D 

Yooow!! Its 12:58pm!! I'm done doing my project! But I Think I can do more!! Should I still continue doing posts?  Maybe I should..:D 

THANK YOU FOR READING!

I've already done 8 posts now here's my 9th post! *THE NECKLACE!*

 *The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant* 

Main Characters: Mme Forestier, Mathilde and his wife, Mme Loisel.

In this story Mathilde was invited to Mme Loisel's company at the palace of the ministry. Mathilde needs to wear a wonderful dress. In that dress she thought of having a necklace because she will look more wonderful if she have one but her husband cant afford to buy one so they went to Mme. Forestier to borrow one. She had borrow Mme. Forestier's Necklace but in the place od Mme. Loisel while dancing and walking the necklace suddenly fell and they cant find it anywhere so Mathilde and his wife need to replace the necklace. Mathilde went to an Necklace shop and brought the same necklace that they lost but it cost forty thousand francs but they could have it for thirty six but Mathilde begged the seller to just but it for thirty four francs and the necklace was sold. After they return the necklace they knew that the one they lost only cost five hundred  francs! 

So Mathilde spent thirty four thousand francs just to replace a fake necklace that only cost five hundred Francs. 

<THE END>

Lesson: If you have done something wrong to someone admit it first so you'll now what to do and to know how you can replace something you lost.

YiePIeee!! I'm almost done doing this project!! yeah yeah, I didn't expect it was nice doing this stuff!! noice me!! GOODAFTERNOON EVERY ONE! It's 12:28pm already! 

THANK YOU FOR READING! =D

hihihi. I'm on my Eight Post which is ADIOS CORDERA! :D

*Adios Cordera by Leopoldo Alas*

The main characters in this story are Rosa, Pinin, Anton De Chinta and La Cordera.

Rosa and Pinin are Bothers and sisters they like to hang out with La Cordera(cow), they like to travel anywhere, they spend their time playing in the meadow and they almost treat La Cordera as their mother. Rosa is a shy girl and pinin likes adventures. One day Anton De Chinta(their father) took away La Cordera from them and want to sell it because they don't have any money already and if they don't sell La Cordera they wont be able to eat because they they only have 0 balance. Anton De Chinta did that even though he know that La Cordera is Special to Rosa and Pinin because he don't want them to die in a starvation. In the end La Cordera was sold on the Butcher and Rosa and Pinin can able to live well but sad because they dont have any choice but to set La Cordera Free.

The End.

What a sad story. bye bye La Cordera, huhu. :( lesson is you can treat your pets like a real family and we all know that if we loved our pets and one day gone it's difficult for us to forget them. So if you have a pet and if you really love them set them free(joke), take a really good care of them and don't let anyone hurt them.  

 AJEJEJE!! done with my EIGHT POST!! HAHA! In your face!(just kidding). It's already 11:50am! I'm so tired making posts, but its fun! :D HOPE YOU LIKE IT!! =)

^Thank you for Reading!^

My seventh post!! *THE LOTTERY TICKET*

 

*The Lottery Ticket by Anton Chekhov*

I'll make it short in this one..

Let me start by Introducing the main characters which are Ivan Dimitrich and his wife Masha. they started of by trying to win in the lottery because if they won it means a fortune representing power over people and circumstances. Ivan Dimitrich, a middle-class who lived with his family on an income of twelve hundred years and was very well satisfied with his lot, sat down on the sofa began reading the news paper. the series they tried is 9,499 and number 26, they thought that they already won because the winning ticket has a series of 9,499 but they didn't look at the winning no. which is 446 so they expect, enjoy and celebrate because they thought they won but in the end sadness and loneliness appear. 

Lesson- We should never expect first until we really now what the situation is and always expect the unexpected things in life. You cant have everything you want to happen in your life, you need to work hard for it to achieve what you need. 

DONE WITH MY SEVENTH POST!! SEVEN DOWN EIGHT MORE TO GO!

It's 11:25am! I can do more this day! :D

My Sixth post.. OUR LADY'S JUGGLER =)

Our Lady's Juggler by Anatole France

Let me start by introducing to you this Juggler. Her name is Barnabas, she can joggle 6 knives and 12 Iron balls and yet she's not contented with her life because she wants to serve something better with Jesus. She became a monk and also live her life as a monk, but the only thing that's wrong is she can't do anything else but to juggle so one monk talked to her and said that what you have is so gifted and he told Barnabas that One monk could not recite anything but ave maria. He was scorned for his ignorance, but after he died there sprang from his mouth five roses, in honor of the five letters in the name MARIA, thus his holiness made manifest. After that Barnabas thought of something to offer to lord Jesus and it's Juggling, she lied down the floor in front of the altar and juggle 6 balls using her feet.

 Im done with my sixth post and its now January 23, 10:22am. In this story for me the lesson of this one is you can offer Jesus even if it's a simple thing, you can even offer him by doing good things in life like being honest, kind, friendly, helpful and many more.  

*THANK YOU FOR READING*

Fifth POsT! Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.. =)

 DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA!

Let me tell you the story of Don Quixote but first his full name is Don Quixote De La Mancha. He lives at a certain village in La Mancha.(I don't know but for me I think he named his name after that village.) He almost spend every time of his day reading and imagining things about a knight until he really wants to be a knight and go to an adventure like what suppose a knight should do, like he made a helmet the first one in not that strong so it easily broke up but the second that he did is nice but when he wore it, it cant take off on his head already.  Another one is he named his Horse Rocinante, maybe for Don Quixote that name is good to hear but he didn't know that it's a vulgar breed of horses in the world. The last one was, He named his Love once as Dulcinea Del Toboso, like what he named on the horse Don Quixote thought that that name is like a royalty of a princess for a knight but the real name of her love is Aldonza Lorenzo. 

In this story, yes, maybe He is crazy because he doesn't know the difference between imaginations and reality but i think you cant blame the person on that because even other person if they're really fund of reading books they can still imagine that they are those people who really liked in the book.

If I have a friend like Don Quixote I would of course be sad for him but still his my friend ever if his weird as long as were friends, nothing can change that..:D 

Oh my, I made 5 post and a Introduction in just one day!! This is fun and it's 12:05am already, This should be enough for now, I better go to sleep already!

<Thankyouforreading>

Fourth Post! THE STORY OF GRISELDA by Giovanni Boccaccio!! ;)

Griselda, a beautiful girl and single until he met Gualtieri. Let me start by the time when Gualtieri is finding  someone to love her for the rest of his life because the worthy man told him that he needs to have a wife already, and then Gualtieri found Griselda. Gualtieri ask the permission of Griselda's dad to be his wife and i think the dad agree. When they got married they had a 2 child, one girl and one boy and after that Gualtieri is making sure that Griselda loves him by testing her patience. The first test is that Gualtieri said to Griselda that he already killed his son because he don'l like it but Griselda forgives Gualtieri even if he did that. The second test was, Gualtieri said again to Griselda that he killed their daughter because he dont like it also. The third one is Gualtieri ask Griselda to go back to his father or else Gualtieri will leave Griselda and Grieselda did go back to his father. After a few days Griselda went back to Gualtieri because she really loves him and thats the main plot of the story..

For me, If i were Gualtieri I wont even think about doing that stuffs because if you really love your wife why would you think of something stupid just to prove that your wife really loves you? and I will be contented for what we have as long as we trust and love each other..:)

Oh myy!! goosh!! I did it again so I might let the beat droop..(joke).. Atlast!! I'm finish with another post!! oh yeah! I think I can do this..:>  I didn't expect that it was fun doing this blog..:> 

Thankyou for reading..:)

Two Down Many to go..:D My Third Post. *THE DEATH OF SIEGFRIED*

The main part of this story is the part when Siegfried slayed a dragon and after he killed it, the dragon's blood spread along the body of Siegfried and that makes him invulnerable except for one part of his body and that's his shoulder. After that, Siegfried, Gunther and Hagen  wanted to go to the forest to find something to track on and eat. but before they go Siegfried and his wife Kriemhild talked about not going to the forest because she dream about something unexpected will happen or something bad will going to happen but still Siegfried want to go. In They're adventure Siegfried killed a bear and after that he went to his camp but the king want something to drink so Siegfried went outside and Hagen was there asking Siegfried to race with him to the stream to see who's the best sportsman  is. Siegfried won and Hagen left behind. Siegfried is tired he drink some water from the stream and while drinking Hagen stabbed Siegfried on the shoulder, like in the story troy even Achilles is the greatest warrior, still everyone have a weak point and Siegfried's weak point is on his shoulder where it's not invulnerable.

Lesson: Don't just easily trust anyone specially if you don't even know him well, and don't tell private secrets to your best friends because like they said *your best friend is your best enemy.* You must know whom to trust. Another one is everyone has their weak point or weakness like me one of my weaknesses is scary masks..:D  

  Yiepieee!! Done with the third one! many post to go!! It's 10:16 already..whew, Go me!! I can Do this..:) 

My Second Post! I'm starting to like what I'm doing..:)) "POEMS!!"

A GIRL IN LOVE

Oh, my sweet mother, 'tis in vain

I cannot weave as once I wove, 

so wildered  is my heart and brain

With thinking of that youth I love.

For me, the mood of this poem is gloomy and, desperate. I just forgot the meaning of this poem but i know that the girl in this poem is already old and want to come back with his memories when she was still young..:) 

ONE GIRL 
I
Like the sweet apple which reddens
upon the toppmost bough,
Atop on the topmost twig-which the
pluckers forgot, somehow-
forgot it not, nay! but got it not for none could get it till now.

II
like the wild hyacinth flower which on
the hills is found
which the passing feet of the shepherds
forever tear and wound,
until the purple blossom is trodden into the ground.

This poem like the first one, if I'm not mistaken the age of the girl that talks here is also old already. The girl in this poem is sad misses the times when she was young. She will not forget the times when she spend her life worth it when she's still young. 


 WHEW!! end of my SECOND POST, I really don't know if I'm doing well in this one and it's 9:53PM. Well, good luck on me..:P 

  

Troy baby!

 Paris

Let me introduce to you this young warrior. His name is Paris his Brother is Hector and his the son of King Priam.

Hector
This guy is the older brother of Paris also son of King Priam. Fought will Achilles and died because he lose at his fight. he's a strong and brave warrior to, he loves his family and his wife Andromache.
 

 Achilles

The Greatest warrior, killed Ajax in one move, killed Hector. He never lose in any fight except in the end he die because Paris hit him on his  weak point which is his ankle.

I bet you know the story of Troy right? What's your reaction in this one? well, for me? This movie is so cool. After I watched it, I feel like I want to go over and over with the story. The movie was amazing you can really tell the meaning and every mood in this story, you also can feel the emotions of every actors in this one. One part that I really like in this story is the part where Achilles and Hector fought. That scene is very interesting because they both are good in fighting and you can really see the impact of those two but in the end Hector was killed by Achilles.Another interesting part in the movie is when the time that the Trojans successfully destroyed the wall of troy and kill the ruler of the troy which is king Priam, father of Hector and Paris and in the end Paris killed Achilles(the greatest warrior) which gave him a peace in a lifetime of war. :D 

Thank you.The End 

<FIRST POST>

Why, Hello there!! :D

Hi, let me start by introducing my self. I'm Raymond S. Tay, 15 years old, 4th year high school in  Ann Arbor Montessori my section is FARADAY! and i love it.. :> OWKEEY!! now, hmm, I don't really know how to survive making this blog because this is the first time I make one. Sooo, I'm doing this because my Teacher in English Ms. Ly Agoncillo told us to create our own blog about what we've learned from first quarter to fourth quarter in English. We need to do a maximum of 15blogs and minimum of 10blogs but i think I can only do 10blogs(I think). okaay, maybe i should start doing more of this.:))

Enjoy Reading! Hope you like my Introduction..:)) OH My Gad! I cant believe i did this correctly? or not?:)) 
By the way, Hi Ms. Ly.. :P