Savannah's Blog

Soccer, it’s my favorite sport. I love just to drive towards the net and shoot and get a goal… well sometimes get a goal. My favorite position is forward. The feeling of running with the ball, deaking around people and doing some fancy footwork to get around that D-fence, and then kicking it as a hard as I can!

Most weekends I go to my school field to practice my soccer skills with my dad. My dad played soccer when he was younger too so he knows a lot, he was very good, and he still is. He teaches me a lot. My dad taught me most of my skills. He says I’m a very good soccer player. I tried out for a select rep team which is like one or two levels down from an intense rep team.

I didn’t make it though it was mostly just because most of the girls that made it had there dad or mom as a judge person so they had to make it. So it was pretty weird…

The team I was on for soccer this year was really good though, we only lost one game, and only by one goal! But last season I was on a team that had three rep players on it, we never lost, not even I tie. That was the best team I’ve ever been on! The rep players didn’t just do all the work though everyone else on the team was good too. We also had a very good coach, he has been my coach for a lot of seasons. Just not this one, this season was a big mix up. But I was still on a good team.Soccer is my favorite sport ever!

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A couple weeks ago our class won a contest. We had to answer questions that were about the Olympics. What ever two classes won the contest would be able to go to Louis park and see the Olympic torch. So today two classes went to Louis park and one of them was us. I saw the Olympic torch run by, I took a lot of pictures.

Before the torch even came by we were waiting for about two hours but we made waiting fun! There were dancers, and a quire. While one of the dances were going on there was music the song was I Got a Feelin by the Black Eyed Peas. A group of my friends and I were all singing to it well, screaming it, we knew all the words.

After that another song we all knew came on It was Human by the Killers we all sang to that too. After all that waiting the torch finally came and a older man was carrying it I forget what his name was, and who he was though. I didn’t know who he was. Seeing the Olympic torch was pretty cool, it’s like a once in a life time thing to actually see the Olympic flaming torch light that stand kinda plate thing, I forget what they call it.

It was a good day after all that. Even after we came back from Louis Park The Olympic flame came close by my school, so every class got to stand on the sidewalk in a line and watch it go by. So it was a very good day, and one of the best experiences ever!

Image By: Tatiana

Gone for years

Standing in the battlefield

In the trenches

Waiting for dark to fall

Missing loved ones

Waiting for the end

Year after year

Seeing the poppies grow

Hearing the gun shot

Tears fall

Seeing soldiers die

Risking lives

In Flanders Field

Brave ones lie

Image: The Normandy Invasion By: The U.S. Army 

Have you ever picked up a book and not been able to it down? Well,  I have. It would have to be pretty great book to not being able to stop reading. A book that I recommend you read is The Hobbit.

I started to read it a long  long time ago and I’m still not done it. But that’s only because I lost it for the longest time and I just started to get back into it probably a month ago and I’m almost done it. If you like adventure, and exciting genres in a book then you should think about reading The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien.

If you read The Hobbit you would have to read  The Lord of the Rings too. It is also by J.R.R. Tolkien, just because the Hobbit is like the very first Lord of the Rings they are all related in a way. That’s why when I’m done reading The Hobbit I’m probably going to read The Lord of the Rings.

But the Hobbit is about mostly one Hobbit named Bilbo setting out on a journey with a bunch of dwarfs to try and get back their gold. But the gold is guarded by the evil dragon named Smaug. The book is pretty long and the writing is small, but once you get into it you’ll just zip through it.

 My guess is after your done The Hobbit you will probably want to read The Lord of the Rings. For Lord of the Rings there are also movies for all three books, I have seen them all. That’s just the problem though… I saw the movies before reading the books. If you like fantasy and adventure books you should read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

I have a cute dog. Her name is Maggie, she is a blond Border Collie cross Collie. I didn’t get her when she was a puppy though, I got her from my grandma. But first my grandamas friend had her since she was a puppy she was her dog, but after a while my grandmas friend that had Maggie passed away and so my grandma had to take Maggie. Maggie was still young and full of of energy and she needed a walk every day, but my grandma had hurt her hip so she could not go out walking every day. That’s why I have her now because my grandma gave her to us. Now we have had her for about four or five years and she’s great.

The three main things that Maggie needs are  her walks every day, she usually likes to have them at night so she can chase the cats around the streets and no one will get mad at her for running around in their yards and chasing all the cats. Maggie loves to come bursting around a corner and scare the heck out of a cat. The other two things Maggie needs are, being patted by anyone, mainly my dad, and she absolutely needs her orange ball in her mouth at all times.

When we first got Maggie she didn’t like the water and she didn’t know how to swim! It was very funny watching my dad pull her into the water and making her swim, and teaching her how. She still isn’t that great of a swimmer but she has gotten way better over the years we have had her. I love my dog Maggie.

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Oh Halloween, the night where all kids and some adults dress up in costume. A few things that make a perfect, classic Halloween night are probably the leafless trees, the wind blowing the leaves on the ground, lit pumpkins, fog, the crisp air, the silence, and looking at the trees and just seeing a little bit on the moon.

I’m so excited for Halloween! Also most of the time I go with one or two friends and my dad. We usually go out till eleven or twelve o’ clock. We get a lot of candy! It’s awesome. For Halloween this year I’m going to be a football player! But if I can’t get all the stuff for it I don’t know what I’ll be. Last year I dressed up as a nerd for Halloween, but it wasn’t one of my best costumes.

I’m excited for Halloween! What are you going to be?

There are so many different Holidays. But my favorite is Christmas. I know it’s weird I’m talking about Christmas when it’s really close to Halloween but this is a post about my favorite holiday and mine is Christmas.

I think I like it because I love snow, also you get lots of presents, and I love decorating the Christmas tree. Every Christmas Eve my family has a Christmas eve open house or in other words a party. We call an open house because anyone can come, well mostly just any of our friends.

We always put out a bunch of food on the table like deviled eggs, sandwiches, ham and other meat, crackers, cheese, a number of different kinds of nuts, eggnog, and a bunch of other stuff. Every Christmas eve my sisters and I always get to open one present, it is always PJ’s but that’s so we can sleep in them. In the morning the tree is always jam packed with presents! We always open our stockings first though. I love Christmas. What is your favorite Holiday? and why?

Thanksgiving. I love it. My mom, dad, sisters,me, and my grandma, all get together on Thanksgiving. Usually my grandma cooks the turkey and stuffs it with stuffing, My mom makes the salad, and Brussels sprouts, and my dad makes the gravy and mashed potatoes. Then my sisters and I set the table. Also there’s always veggies and that cranberry sauce. And for dessert… it’s usually pumpkin pie or Raspberry Delight. Mmmmm… it’s my favourite pie ever! I can’t wait for Thanksgiving!

My sister used to have a pet rat. Her name was Dixie! She was black with a white blotch on her stomach shaped as a hand. She never bit anyone she would only lick you, the only time she ever bit anyone was when they were being mean to her or something, I don’t really know what they did.

After we had Dixie for a while she got really smart, my sister would let her run around in her room with the door closed, and when you walked in the room Dixie would come running to you just like a dog would, and if she didn’t all you would have to do was call her name and she would scurry over to you.

But one time someone left the door open when Dixie was in the room and my cat Shadow got in! she was in there for a while, luckily my mom noticed shadow was in there, so my mom chased her out, and then hunted all around the room for Dixie. She was alright! But one day I picked her up and there was a bump behind her leg. Turns out it had been there for a while she had a tumor. one night she died in her sleep We never got another rat again. Have you ever had a sweet rat like that?

1. I have a dog named Maggie.
2. I play soccer.
3. I like to read.
4. I love animals.
5. The one place I want to go to is Disney Land.
6. My cats name is Shadow.
7. I love Tribune Bay.