Chapter 9 Part 2: I Found Coeur d'Alene

        A week later, we learned how to make a crisis plan. It depends on trying to release the stress and not rely on it by losing temper. It was good to read, write, draw, walk, nap, do yoga and watch videos. Although I wished I could light a candle, my house is full of unburnt candles which made me sad to let time pass by just so to let the power off by storm and light it up right away. You don't have to wait until the power was permanently off, just light it when you're in a calm mood or you want your room to smell good. It doesn't need to be time managed. For the rest of the school day, it's work time. I work really hard with assignments and everything. I read some more to finish it up before the big trip in order to make room for a pre-walkthrough of Banned Books (it'll happen about Friday to Monday and will do so to last for 4 weeks until the real thing happens). I had read 34 pages of the Blind Side - 98 more to go, I guess. The sunny evening happened when we go to Spud's with only my mom. It's 6:45. 15 minutes of individual warm-ups later, we played for 45 minutes for support. I know several people had signs outside the Spud's area and plenty of cars passing by throughout the entire time. After that, we go inside Spud's and ordered a 2-piece fish and chips. My mom turned in the money and the ticket was printed off at the last minute to closing the fundraiser. We had dinner, prayed in hopes that everything is about to come true upon request in the last two years since I became sick and went home.
        The next day, I wrote the advice saying that I need a marching partner and I see that the IEP staff will take care of it later because it takes time to deal with all of the requirements for graduation taken care of. I researched for the interpreter career during 2nd period. It was worth some money that children could receive and just save it all for four entire years of college. Later, I worked on missing assignments, did tweaks for the tour program, had lunch, improved practical real-world skills by watching the presentation, and worked on job interviewing along with the silent reading. I know it's little time like 12 minutes and 15 seconds to get the pages reduced to 94 pages due to revision of the eight paragraphs. I wish I could have very extended time for reading. After school, I went to the foyer for ideas about leaving the Drama club for choices to decide after graduation. For my choice after high school, I don't have any paths but to go to work. It's the old-fashioned way of employing myself at home for making stuff to sell. Plus we came up with the "We're All in This Together" song to expurgate all of the cheesiness for funsies of the last goodbye and advertisement for possible reunions which is a good thing.
        The next few hours deal with chilling out, packing up and making goals for the weekend, but I went to bed. Early on the Friday morning, I woke up to have chocolate milk, get in the shower, get dressed and go finish up getting ready for the day. I packed up my stuff and go to school on time to turn in my goal sheet. Then I read until it's time to go to the auditorium at 8:45. After waiting for a short time of 15 minutes, we went to the bus and went on the road. We went to Ellensburg to have lunch there. We head back to the bus and went to EWU (Eastern Washington University) for rehearsals at the auditorium. As the rehearsals ended, we head outside to chill and play Frisbee. As we are called to head back to the buses, we went on our way to Idaho. I can see the sign that suprised me by reading "Welcome to Idaho". We entered the state of Idaho and ten miles later, we head to Hayden for Triple Play, which is connected to Holiday Inn via the walk-in bridge. I found Coeur d'Alene finally after two years of waiting. We head to our rooms to put the stuff away and come to Triple Play for the pizza dinner. As I was about to drink water, the taste feels funny thus looking like that tastes like Sprite. I didn't notice the bubbles! I ate two pieces of cheese pizza and finished my Sprite. We spent the rest of the day in the waterpark while other people that participate the Spring Tour went to have fun at the main building playing arcade, go bowling, and playing mini-golf. At the waterpark, I got drenched, went to all four slides, swam at the wave pool, did the vortex slide again - this time with my mom, and relaxed in the spa. When 9:30 hits, we went out and head back to the rooms for sleep. We slept for eight hours and thirty minutes - I slept okay.
        The next morning, we get up at 6:30 to have our breakfast. I didn't notice the pancake processor they have at the hotel in which we could use it at home in the future. I pressed OK for once. That makes one pancake and it ended up being so small it's just a serving. We had breakfast together and we pack things up to go to Coeur d'Alene High School for the competition called Music in the Parks. The orchestra go first at 8:50 in the morning, then came the choir at 10:20. Finally, we had the 11:25 performance. After 10 minutes of performing, we went outside to put the instruments away and come to the bus. The boys depart to go to Bus 1 while we stayed to change clothes. Then when they come back from Bus 1, we go to Silverwood for seven miles. When we stop at the Silverwood parking lot, everyone went off the bus while me and my mom put on sunscreen. We went to Silverwood and it looks like we're going back in time to the Victorian era via underground tunnel (even though we go from the parking lot to Main Street). We went to the gift shop and my mom had coffee and had maps for souvenirs. We had lunch at the High Moon Saloon; as we wait for the food, we listened to live music. Then we went to the train for a 30-minute ride with a 15-minute break, the map says 60 minutes or an hour. I had my own critique thoughts about the ride, at least it was interactive for all ages. At first I hear the name Jessie, but in the knowing the name of the train part it was actually called Bessie. I was so close. When we reach the robbery stop, we put our hands in the air so it's a reminder to hand the robbers money to the charity. Then came a water bomb that drenched us for a bit; if we were to have multiple water bombs, that could be a drench from last Friday night. Finally, we enjoyed the predictable ending of the Old West - robbers being shot by fake guns and we get to enjoy the rest of the ride. We took a quick tour about the main Silverwood theme park and we head off to the main Silverwood theme park for Tilt-a-Whirl (my mom said too many G's), antique cars (I know I drove a blue Model T which the color symbolizes my disability (autism) awareness despite the long line, it's just part of growing up) and the Super Round-Up (one generation after my mom and I gave it a try - it's fun and terrifying at the same time). We went to Pavilion 5 for the awards ceremony and won a few trophies. After the fun at Silverwood, we decided to take a picture outsid the park and it was fun. In the end, we take a picture of us: it's the Band seniors. Next, we went back to the bus and go to Spokane Valley Mall for dinner. I had food at Taco Time, so does my mom. We went back to the bus and went on the road. I finished "The Blind Side" just ten miles prior to the restroom break. When the break is done, we went home on the bus. My mom and I go home to sleep in. That was fun!
        We're not quite done yet. My mom woke me up at 11:20 to have corn bread and chocolate milk. I chilled out for hours until it's time to go to the Kirkland Performance Center for Scenes listening assignment. One hour of listening later, we went to Cold Stone to have ice cream. I had a Love It Coffee with M&M's, roasted almonds and strawberries which is interesting for me eat it. Later, my family and I went to Tokyo Steakhouse for dinner. The dinner is okay, but we're just celebrating the end of the school year. At the end of the weekend, looks like I got work to do for this week.

Song: Sweet Victory (The Winner Takes All) by Dave Glen Eisley

Surprise Blind Date Review: The Blind Side

This is based on the true story. It's about how Michael Oher went to the other side of Memphis, Tennessee and his football career with a dream to make it a reality.

I think that's really a good book, even though it takes much time for me to get it over with and it took me in like two months to have the whole thing taken care of. It's checked out as part of Blind Dates on the day I turned in Max #3 and renewed Where She Went. I was such a busy reader, although I've read, seen and heard problems and issues in real life. It varies from banning books (I know censorship is 100% wrong) to drug legalization (meh...) to country crisis (you know what's coming from earlier). After I'm done with Where She Went (which is a month worth of taking time and reading), I got into this book. It reminds me of football, Briarcrest, Ole Miss and whatnot; especially with the Seahawks as world champions of Super Bowl. As I read more and more, I think that's much of an interesting, new perspective of reading and writing to explore; especially when it comes to poor kids of 40.7% in the USA, although I begin to understand the reading and writing mentioning references early in sophomore year, I remember the right to read, the right to bear arms, and other amendments in junior year. I recalled mentally on what I learned to improve reading skills while at Sylvan. The level went from 7th grade reading level to 9th grade reading level. I was filled with vocab words like assailed, besiege and ingenious. I learned more vocab words in the later days of high school, thus knowing the words like interspecies, mediocre and pragmatic. I'm an eager reader ever since Facing the Lions. I was so enjoyable I had to write about the untitled YA series of love, imagination, dealing with problems and controversial content, family, friends, adventure, fun, excitement and epicness. Until yesterday night, when I look at the stars on the way home, I came with the working title called "Endless Stars". It's about the coming-of-age story taking place in Salem, Oregon. As I come near the end, it reminds me of The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton except it was somewhat completely different, but it was a great story with an inspiring touch in the end.

How was it? Better than expected

First impressions? Love at first sight

How likely am I to try sports again? Probably (I've read nonfiction on the web - the main thing is news articles)

Would you recommend Michael Lewis? Perhaps

Hearts: 5/5

Result... Keep Moving Forward (and make your dreams come true)

Chapter 9 Part 1: Amber Alert, Hearing Microphones and Retro Funsies You Can't Resist But to Enjoy Yourselves

        Monday, through the early afternoon, I hear the amber alert and it perhaps come from a smartphone. What is amber alert? Amber alert stands for the emergency signal that the child is missing. It was very brief in Auburn that the reports were retained that the child was found later in the day. We've seen amber alerts on TV from child kidnapping to child gone missing somewhere to come back dead or alive.
        Tuesday is a long day for me to have the National Anthem audition taken care of. As a result, the femine vocal jazz quartet had a slot for graduation and for Movin' Up - it's the trombone trio. I was somewhat disappointed that it's alright if I didn't get in. We watched Act I of Arsenic and Old Laces on video and we come up during the last minutes for the dream sequence letter. I wrote it all down to Cameron about something important happening - the initial ceremony on May 19, 2014 @ 3:30 pm sharp.
        Wednesday, it's been a fun day but really... it'll be alright with myself that everything's about to get updated on Facebook for a bit after next week. It happened when retro things are going to be digitally mastered for television, though it already happened after a while back. I guess my generation peers at our school were friendly, but some generation peers surrounding me throughout most of my secondary school life from 8th grade are annoying because of the talking and such things I can't resist but to explore some "note-to-selves" about advice for next time like watching your calories, surf new things on the web, and discover what you're missing when reading a banned book. I know everyone had read "The Alchemist" because it's the story of a person who does alchemistry the old-fashioned way this whole time. I already saw alchemistry in Llandros' walkthroughs like "Immortal Dynasty" and "Midnight Sun". It's really interesting and yet a bit entertaining for me to watch due to all of the magic happening - it's just a story, just because it's an NA book when I go to a 4-year college for a transfer degree (e.g. let's say Associate in Arts and Bachelor in Arts). Also everyone read "The Kite Runner". It's about boys in Afganistan and yet it was supposed to be based on the true story in my opinion.

To Be Continued...

Wordless Wedesday #4

Wordless Wednesday #3

Happy Mother's Day! (sorry about a day's delay...)

All But Max

Hey! I am saving the last ten episodes of Sonic Underground for future use that leads to Protectors pentalogy from Maximum Ride. Although I am waiting for the right time while trying to finish the school year, I can count on how many miles in 2014. (That's minutes and pages combined!) So far I got 1,700 miles this year, meaning it's more adventure and fun in both worlds - real and imaginary. Also, I can count the population growth by chart check of time. The population went from 479 to 495. What a steady growth. Hopefully, it should boom at 853 people by New Year's Eve. In case of Calista's POV, let's go try for The Hunger Games as part of the Banned Books walkthrough for a glance at what lies ahead of the main arc walkthrough. It should be reread when it comes to Goodreads at the climax of the main arc of what's fulfilling through Banned Books. Calista has to do the main part afterward, for she had to go ahead and be with Lala, Dawn and Destiny to do their quartet part as Chorus for the main arc.

Like I said that before, it's like switching perspectives between me and others from the very start. My life is like freewriting. Nonetheless, it may belong upon the resume.

Song: Young Turks by Rod Stewart

Wordless Wednesday #2

Here is another pic:
In honor of my awareness for inspiration in life. "I-LOVE-YOU"! Support Autism Awareness next month! xD

Top Ten Tuesday: Books If You Like Sonic Underground

This week's list is dedicated to the Broke and the Bookish! Enjoy!

1. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
2. Divergent Series by Veronica Roth
3. Maximum Ride by James Patterson
4. Superman by J. J. Abrams
5. Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riodran
6. If I Stay 2-Parter by Gayle Forman
7. Matched Trilogy by Allie Condie
8. The Maze Runner by James Dashner
9. Incaraceron by Catherine Fisher
10. Rainforest Rudy by Anonymous

That's all folks!

Chapter 8: Multicultural Week(end) - My Stagefright and All

Preface Observation: This is before the Multicultural Weekend. I'm at 1579.5 miles on my pure imagination journey in 2014.

Hypothesis Prediction: If I were to get going with The Blind Side whether or not, then it can increase the saving of the last thirteen episodes for future use of reach to Max #4 because more miles could save us 15% or more along the way to lifetime wish fulfillment.

Learning Target: Enjoy your weekend!

Story: At the beginning of the weekend, we had the organization class with quick reminders about what to do for the job later in the future. Afterward, we go home from school. We chilled out for hours until my mom calls us to get ready to go to our Multicultural show. We did go there. When my act came, I got stagefrighted by end of third verse from "Be Thou My Vision", but I never got to do the last two verses. I misunderstood it. I blew it. It all came down to just the beginning of everything fulfilled in the future. I am going to miss the stage in 32 more get-ups because I'll be gone from Drama with my peers. First time I've ever experienced because I just picked up the fortune left behind saying "Greed leads to poverty." My stagefright blew me away by forgetting the words. Everyone clapped at me and it was all I could've handled the microphone any longer. I swear this is not over. I should've done that, but my parents told me I handled maturity behavior. I'm still autistic and crying that I ended too early. I could've done one more night, but that didn't happen for I got one night only and things revolved.
        Imagine my fate being fallen between my imaginary friend and me - never wanting to know where art thou Black Blazer. I'm like a Juliet of Forks and he's like the Romeo of Forks. That's kind of a better love story than Twilight. A pair of star-crossed lovers, fallen upon the deadly fate being warned by the Oracle. My mom, Simone and I missed the other half of the show (Act II) and my life slipped away into a never-ending story about changing the world and other extreme issues to be solved like medical miracles to cure every single sickness and disease. Later, my family, excluding Simone went to DQ. I had a mini Confetti Cake blizzard. Quick flashback: When I was little, me and Lauren ran around the manger in circles for hours until 8 o'clock at night. I threw the halo down saying, "I'm done!" and left. The people laughed at the kids for being fun and entertaining. The next Christmas, I touched the baby and it cried. Animals followed and beat it up. I used to spin in mirrors when I was little for I had come a long way from a two-year old typical autistic kid with a classic twist of being mild-moderate to a 18-year old who had her first stagefright and still having my issues with autism to just go away. You know, being a kid is cool but puberty happens in the end when you go to some secondary school - jr. high or middle school. I got a similarity - when Dad was 33, he got stagefrighted for the first time in public speaking.
        Here I am about 13 years later... "It's not over yet! I'm sorry!" In 32 more get-ups, my ASB life will "get no more security patches to fix" - meaning... graduation. Next year, the Multicultural show will come back and people said it's okay for you to audition again. And before you know it, I'm going to be the next American Idol or either the next X factor. It's Senior Year 2 - the school year of resolutions to make myself free from boredom. Who cares about my singing? Everybody cares for me. They were so friendly all around me. Very emotional enough to never forget the day I got stagefrighted for the first time after all of my previous experiences on stage.
        The next morning, I feel much better after 10 hours of sleep. I let my worries go away and made me want to have another opportunity to fix one little mistake about the stagefright. The accompaniment for the choir may be a good thing to deal with, but I had afterthoughts about stagefright. The rest of the weekend turned out to seemed to be recovering, especially on Monday for Poetry Alive!

Song: We Didn't Start The Fire by Billy Joel

Coffee Aroma (Chocolate Chai Tea Latte Paradise)

Chocolate chai tea latte

Taste like chocolate

Melting into tea

And into water

Came nothing

Delicious

Tea

Among the Waiting for Real World (Emma was With Me)

        My mind starts to tick some time off of the calendar and the clock. I was waiting to let my resolutions for 2014-15 happen in real-life. I got enough information taken care of for a long time since I wanted to find out information about banned books that I know I'm going to expose my mind to freedom from censorship like authors do, but I can't; I urge to do so - for my mom let me have good, satisfactory stuff happening in life. I miss my imaginary friends who have gone away from me beside Emma. Emma has been exposed to my music and she wished music doesn't exist like the poor, strict orphanage she was raised in.
        Emma, an eight-year old girl whose favorite food was lasagna, her favorite drink is Pepsi, her favorite color was pink, traits were good, genius, is a dog person and her dreams were to be a teacher at school. My favorite food was grilled cheese, my favorite drink is water, my favorite color is purple. My traits were good, artistic, good sense of humor, party animal and a bookworm. I'm a dog person and my dream is to go to college and make it a reality by becoming an author in YA - a creative writer that is.
        Recently, on Easter day, I showed her my religion which is Christian. This made Emma's life to feel changed forever through the passion. In real-life, the Transformed interactive presentation made me want to hear that I had been on busy schedule since I was nine or ten. That is what my dad had said it as part of the presentation. It was inspired for Autism Awareness month which is April. I supported and inspired it, even though the National Library Week was set on Holy Week for this year. When we go home, I showed her about my imaginary friends from photo albums.
        "Look Emma, this is..."
        "What?! I don't know that on a picture. It reminds me of guinea pigs by the way."
        "Silly, Em."
        Just 34 school days left until my pure imagination walkthrough splits in two. One continues with the main story and the other can have the freedom to read after the Senior celebrations. Note to self: read The Hunger Games trilogy in both walkthroughs. It's delovely enough to get your key to success going on the blog! Remember that Emma will get more and more involved on my future ahead in one walkthrough by telling me what to do with my imaginary child(ren) and the other is just the fulfillment through Emma after the turn of rising action. Do this Nat, you're going to make it. That's 1,577 miles worth of walking through the grad year so far. 251 more days left until finalizations are published!

Wordless Wednesday #1

Deloved Enough to Have Friendship

     When my friends criticized me when I was a kid, I was biased about talking back. The bullies even changed my middle name to “Mommy” which is so stupid enough to know. It made me feel unaware then and now, I’m feeling embarrassed and sad. I want to handle my real middle name of “Marie” and I did throughout my whole life. Also, my friends force me to kiss as a kid. It was definitely not my time. I wished I would send my peers to the principal’s office for this. That’s how peer pressure happens when I was a kid. In the end, I was left alone to go to the school library and do endless possibilities from the encyclopedia. As a kid, I was very limited and I could expand my knowledge a bit more.

     When I go to Salem, I left everything in grade school behind and imagination was taken away. The middle school was so strict in imagination that it’s nothing left to creativity to happen, so I dive into the Harry Potter series. In the end of the Sorcerer’s Stone, my mom reminded me to read the Chronicles of Narnia, but it never happened, for I got easily bored over The Magician’s Nephew and place it on hold for a long time until I feel like it in the beginning of 2013. My mom switched almost everything in the schedule and I was kicked into Resource. I wasn’t ready for history. It made me distracted for the whole entire school year. I could’ve learned that if I expand my knowledge from the encyclopedia. When I switched schools, imagination starts to come back bit by bit over a few years until high school came along. I enjoyed friendship in the Transition programming, but it’s too easy for me to handle with all of those easy problems. When junior year came, I was back into Resource and now everything changed. I was lonely, struggling and sad about my friendship. I was proud of the way I improve Social Skills in Chirichigno’s class. If I do it differently if something happens like this in the future, I would’ve been useless in communication. No, no changes occur. Everything has changed forever, especially when it comes to morals I've heard for the past seven years and I had become such a loving person whose pride has to be taken away to know friends a bit better everyday.

     When I was eighteen, I still got the opportunity to have friendship to its fullest before it goes away forever. Now, I hear my gen peers talk to each other in what we call as millenials. As millenials, I should show my peers something that will spend their time enjoying life outside technology. My life is completely unplugged with knowledge full of reading sources, texts and what-not, especially when it comes to digital mode. My blog is 100% digital as it is as a reading source. It can be told through fictional blogs I read from Candence to Leah, through fanfiction, through internet sensation, and through other stuff happening in the world. My blog is not just a diary, but it was told through pure imagination and it could be entertaining enough to have all the hints taken care of and reveal what is it. One step at a time Nat, one step at a time. Natalie, you've made it there. You did 495 people out there in your world you figured it out when you're nine to ten. You did it excellent, a good gal; a wonderful student.

        Thanks for all the fun I did so far... so good.

Earth Day Pic

Here is Planet Earth! Enjoy:

HAPPY EARTH DAY FOLKS!!! XD

My Inference of Banned Book Awareness Resolution of Reading for Knowledge 2014-2015

        Since Living On Your Own unit begins with what's unexpected on the job communication, it's time for me to have my mind exposed to issues we face in America: censorship with the most controversial topics of everything wrong with books, but the faith on what people most believe in never really is a sin. I'm a Christian. I read the Bible. I write down notes on sermons. I am a Republican. I carefully listened to my parents. I'm literate and I am a visual person. I learn American Sign Language as a special language for disabled people, Deaf people and interpreters. My sisters have foreign oral second language - Lauren's on Spanish and Simone's on Japanese. Here's my inference on what I have read prior to seeing the banned books list on ALA and Wikipedia:

1. Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? (reason: one mistake made in Texas)
2. In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak (reason: nudity and innuendo - these reasons ruined my childhood literally)
3. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White (reason: offending Muslims, talking animals)
4. Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne (reason: see above)
5. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (reason: bit of blasphemy, occult/Satanism, violence for a tiny bit near the end)
6. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeliene L'Engle (reason: religious viewpoint)
7. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (reason: references to sex and language)
8. A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines (reason: sexual content at one scene, language, violence including a tragic ending on what I should've extended on from the end point in the movie adaptation)
9. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton (reason: gangs and gang fights, drug and alcohol abuse, smoking, drinking, profanity, 60s slang, expose on family dysfunction, unchristian values, lack of adult role models, excessive violence, obscenities)

Things My Parents Told Me Not To Do So in Media:

1. His Dark Materials (reason: anti-Christian)
2. Harry Potter (reason: full of dark stuff occurring in the series)
3. Wizards of Waverly Place: The Series (reason: witchcraft)
4. Halloweentown Tetralogy (reason: ...still witchcraft)
5. Twilight Saga (reason: paranormal stuff, violence, religious viewpoint, sexual content, language)
6. Mortal Instruments (reason: Mary-Sue of Harry Potter and Twilight)
7. Gossip Girl (reason: "pretty little liars", adult content)
8. Pretty Little Liars (reason: useless missions going on in the series, language)

That's it for now!

Top Ten Gateway Books and Other Reading Sources On My Reading Journey

This is the list of gateway reading sources I read except fanfiction. Enjoy!

1. YA (finally after a long 4-year wait from the Sorcerer's Stone from the beginning of 6th grade, it comes down to the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series suggested by my sister Simone.)
2. Fantasy (Eragon by Christopher Paolini. Yes, that's exactly what I wanted and then... I was blown away for the entire 500 pages and still am waiting for the sequel to be read, but before I did the task, I think I did The Wizard in the Tree and The Black Cauldron by Alexander Lloyd.)
3. Classics (Oh yes, a favorite of mine for too long since back late in grade school (about Secret Rats of NIMH and the Whipping Boy I am so unaware of the storyline and forgot lots). Can't wait to read banned books in America.)
4. Sci-Fi (Contact by Carl Sagan. I was bored about the book, but was interested about the movie. Actually, I had read 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur Clarke, but I never saw the film before.)
5. Realistic fiction (If I Stay by Gayle Forman. Wow, that was one beloved contemporary story that I liked it at first, but had LOVED it. I will never forget Mia Hall and Adam Wilde as star-crossed lovers in music. Beforehand, let's say Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson. It's so sad that I would say "WHY?! Why did you let Leslie die?!". Time for a reread as part of Banned Books Awareness Resolution of Reading for Knowledge Walkthrough in 2014-2015.)
6. Urban fantasy (Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson. I love Max and the Flock so much that I wished I could crossover with the Sonic Underground band and make it known as the Council of the Flock coming soon to fanfiction.net as written by ME in YA novelization form! xD)
7. Historical fiction (Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patrica McLaughin. A simple read already as of now. Can I learn more history? PLEASE???)
8. Dystopian fantasy (A Wrinkle in Time by Madeliene L'Engle. Disney already adapted a film from this book. I read it two times in a row - one as a requirement for 6th grade and the other for funsies in 8th grade. And now a third time to be read for a part of the Banned Books Awareness Resolution of Reading for Knowledge Walkthrough in 2014-2015.)
9. Movie screenplays (Superman by J.J. Abrams. A 134-paged screenplay to be read for reluctant readers of this format. Before that, it's Monster by Walter Dean Myers. Another screenplay for reluctant readers. Hopefully this 280-paged impact script can make it to the MTV films.)
10. Fanfiction (I will read the SU Remake by Julayla. It was much a mature version of my show I'm 13/20 of the way there and it ticks off time when the progress takes a break. I waited for too long to check out the progress that I'm not going to do it until it's all 100% complete. I recently started writing the first Council of the Flock fanfic from Prologue onward.)

Thanks for supporting my blog and happy reading! Reading is knowledge, especially with banned books coming up in my blog.

Chapter 7: The CP Final Presentation

        It was a rainy Thursday when the Senior meeting was held at the Fieldhouse on April 17, 2014. My mom took home my dark red cap and gown, and a white stole with blue writing to be put in my room. I did a good job on my CP FINAL Presentation, that I finally get to meet the requirements held for the entire class of 2014. It's "Teen Volunteering Opportunities 101" aka "Behind the Scenes @ JHS"! Sorry, this video to be posted was cancelled due to privacy. On the overview of the 66-minute video, millenials should volunteer more often than just relying on technology. They should get it over with overtime. I had over 15 minutes of talking that literally made my autism go away for a bit. I should've shown other classes a bit better, while my Senior English teacher will borrow my Lexar jade green flashdrive from me. After school, I had 2 hours and 30 minutes worth of striking and stocking to make room for the Multicultural show coming up. Then, I go home, do my homework, chill out and had a usual Friday with minor changes. A few hours later, my family had a Good Friday service. It was much of the commemoration, reflection and rememberance of the past year and the first quarter of this year; not just that but it can be a sunny day to be beloved. Without Easter, life was useless without bunnies. With Easter, there's no such thing as Easter bunnies, it's only in your imaginative minds.

        Thanks Mom for the Little Bits Therapeutic Riding Center opportunity for next year, along with my own resolutions coming up.

Naturally Seen

Among the seas of the salty lake

Now who am I?

I can see the skyline of the city

Naturally seen

I feel the cold sand touching me

Just think on the inside

I'm feeling like the ground's dusty

Do you want to build a sandcastle

At the original sunset

Imagine Malibu

The early season of the smores for spring

Feel the warmth of the bonfire

I'd seen the red bus

Trailing by the restaurant

I wish I were there at more time

Sunsetting down

Into the starry night of the cool breeze

My God...

Where She Went Book Review

This is the review of a sequel to the New York Times bestseller If I Stay by Gayle Forman. Enjoy!

        Three and a half years after the events of If I Stay, Adam Wilde was going on the world tour with Shooting Star for 67 days, but eventually the Collateral Damage album was recently released to the public. Adam needs to restore his love he had before he fell in love with Bryn and Vannessa from Hollywood - in which turns out to be Mia Hall, who was going to have one swan song at the Julliard on August 13, 2010 in New York City. It's about the music that's going on in the two-parter, about celebrities, about the rock music and his struggles of life. It may be recommended for those who have read If I Stay before.
        I guess it was a very good sequel, but much of a duology ender. The last time I read the series ender overall was The Last Olympian from Percy Jackson and the Olympians in the summer of 2012. I got two whole series taken care of, but at least the Percy Jackson movies suck - they don't follow the books at all except they get better bit by bit (e.g. Annabeth's hair was blonde in the second movie, but it was brown in the first movie). I am so looking forward to see the movie adaptation of If I Stay and hopefully its sequel. It had to follow the books, even though the movie adaptation was in progress to see how it goes good or bad. I think that was really awesome that I could enjoy Shooting Star in the movies. By the way, the soundtrack had over ten songs in select chapters including the first and most important one in the last chapter in which I'm not going to spoil it until you have read everything in this two-parter series. How cool is it to learn about the real world and the realities of real-life I have learned in order to write down stuff? You should be recommended to enjoy the two books of how Mia and Adam go separated and went back together again as a couple for the music between classic and rock with all of the realism of the world. I just want you to try it. Please, trust me... 2 THUMBS UP!

Where He Went

        When the Flock left with Emma, I come back home just in time to go to Red Robin in Bellevue Square. All I saw is Black Blazer again. He just came back from Miami, no wonder why he already had three girlfriends (Alice, Bianca and Carly) beside his true one for later use. He and I ordered meals; while we wait, we social network - he's on Twitter and I'm on Facebook. After dinner, we went to Tech City Bowl Arena in Kirkland, we had a blast there. Next, we went to Seattle and looked at Bertha digging over a thousand miles down and a lot more to go. We then went up to the top of the Space Needle, it seems like we're starting to fall in love with all over again.
        As dawn breaks in, there's a deadly helicopter crash - two people were dead and one got injured. We backed away from the fuel and went off to Dash Point. It feels like we go on the safe vacation, camping as if it feels like a honeymoon to me. We read books all day until it's sunset - he read Gattaca - a movie novelization and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, and me with Where She Went by Gayle Forman (it speaks about how Adam reunite together with Mia three years after the events of If I Stay, though it stays true to the essay I'm writing) and The Blind Side by Michael Lewis. When the sunset happens, we went down from the hill and grabbed some food for the night from the red Ford Mustang. We had M&Ms, chili dogs, smores, popcorn and Twizzlers.
        We made up the tent and go inside; although we never got to make love, he kissed me on my forehead and the relationship pushed back to romantic interests. He and I share something embarrassing - he told me that he was so scared of being naked in public when everyone was laughing at him; he wished nobody would have their eyes on him, and I told him that I was a biggest blowout in my family for diapers. That was quite shocking indeed for both of us that both of us laughed at each other for swapping perspectives. Then came the scary part: I was being terrified of spiders and something big that could approach me sometimes and he told me when he was twelve years old, his first ever girlfriend who was tried-and-true was shot by the SWAT soldier which is very scary, intense and sad to see her go. He already kept his promise and I am looking forward to the future of what lies ahead of now. We get to know each other a bit more by far of what happened during the first separation until we go to sleep. Thank goodness the day's through... let's hope we can look forward to more fun until April 7 - the day when he and his cousins will leave for the 67-day world tour, they'll be back for the night of my graduation ceremony and senior celebration party. That's the deadline!
        The next morning, we head down south to Portland where we abruptly split up. I come back home and went to downtown Kirkland for a hike on a sunny day. I remember the sunshine and the feeling of spring like it's a new life there. The spot with two tables and beautiful scenery should have been a perfect romantic spot, but for now, I interview about Green Kirkland Partnership with a couple trusted adults for Behind the Scenes @ JHS. To be perfectly honest with you, I promised to never break up again; but no - too late. Just 84 days left to go...
        Two days later, I come to the Kelsey Creek Farm in the bright afternoon after a weekend visit at a fancy home made from a bygone era. I see the blazer again, we stroll down to Top Pot and enjoyed food there at the Juanita Bay. We purpose going steady, but we're not done yet with pushing forward until the time is right. Meh, do I feel like the values and morals affect myself from ever falling in love with again? Is it wrong to just be sacrilegious and disrespectful about purposing marriage at the right time to someone with amnesia and have both human and supernatural abilities or is it something that might make things worse? Do my dreams ever come true or can I decide to have the children in the near future which is not too distant off ahead of when will I actually be married in real life? Is it interspecies romance? It's either sappy or serious in which way. I'll go with serious, because the sappy feeling messes me up and gives me the chills. If I stay, he'll stay. Wherever he goes, I shall go steady on a stroll. If he talks, I'll talk in which communication comes very vocally, might potentially offend somebody for ANY reason as being blasphemous and unnatural about the real marriage (you know man and woman), and love could last longer, but it can't last forever - for the secret has been hidden within us about religion. I'm a Christian and I don't need to tell about his secrets until the time is right (no more hints of revealance, just one step at a time as time progresses bit by bit).
        First things first, I tell him I grew up in developing fantasies. It's been such a long, long time - for almost sixteen years in a row, talking animals and magic were all of me over and over again besides the realism of being human in this crazy world of sin. Nobody is ever that perfect, nobody could be more holier like God than most people - nobody cares. I'm not in this world, I'm falling in love with all over again. It could last forever and ever in peace and happiness without ever knowing when will it end. It usually ends when we both die, one or the other dies in each other's arms, but we'll never got separated until the end of imaginary time (it's when the world ends a dark and separated ending of support). When we go out of the bay and into the downtown area in Kirkland, I am taking a ride with one of Black Blazer's new friends from Miami - his name is Dexter Clayton. Dexter and I go for a ride on a motorcycle to Redmond for shopping and outing. Then things get wound up as we all go home - the two will sleep in the room across from mine and yep, thank goodness spring weekend is over.
        Early the next morning, I wake up to see if they're all awake. Yes, they were all awake - Dexter has ebony black hair, dark brown eyes, and sand skin. He wears a forest green T-Shirt, black jeans, and white and green striped sneakers with laces. Black Blazer had been already gone somewhere because we got two weeks left until the world tour begins. Dexter thanked me for a ride from yesterday and he offered me a gift - it's a blank card. I'll save it for later use in the future - I promise.
        On my way to school, I see tons of people running around screamin: "Welcome Home!" It's like a hero's welcome return, that I start to feel obnoxious and so ridiculous that it's like a rumor. My time has not come yet, but I found my home. There's going to be long ways ahead.
        I come to the other side of home thus telling no one about when I leave. I visited the old home where Stephanie still lives and I found the album, journal and memoir full of memories, lying on her coffee table. I look at those precious memories of my nerdy imaginary friend and beforehand - a senior prom portrait of his parents, a drawn picture of his mom with only a locket just after conception, a newspaper front cover of him as a few-day old, a photo of him taking first independent, sturdy steps as an eight-month old without any help from Stephanie, a photo of him starting school at five - in the usual boy's clothes back in the day, a picture of him as a eleven-and-a-half year old with his newly-received gloves from Santa as the ultimate gift for life, a senior pic of himself, and a CP videotape. I look at his memoir and read it. I believe it was somewhat boring and dull to deal with. I texted to Stephanie at work that I found her adopted son's old memories. I chill while I look for more information - I need to know who were the parents and where do they come from, but no; I recommend this is no spoiler business until the time has come, I should've known better.
        Meanwhile, the Black Blazer comes back from Starbucks and goes to my own room and takes a look at my school annuals to see if I'm here. There I am - I appeared several times. He missed me when I'm gone to the real world, he didn't care about my success of the School; instead, rather than waiting for too long to just be friends, I kissed him a week after I come of age. I know what happened: this is going to be one last shot before he goes on a world tour with his three cousins for 67 days until they return to Kirkland for my graduation.
        While he's "on spring break", I had to come up with ideas to live on my own - a house built by me to live upon a legacy, a sky blue Nissan Leaf, some university schooling, my job as an author for being part of the growing genre of YA being as self-employed, real food $, gym the old-fashioned way of exercise, Xfinity cable, my iOS smartphone, and a Windows 8.1 Update 1 Surface. Living on your own means you don't need to just instantly move out at 18 for college (after senior celebration, you fly to someplace else to spend a period of summer vacation far from home, then fly to college for orientation and onward just like a honeymoon - that's what happens to some people) - it's a mockery full of interviews for jobs and a mockery place to live on your own. I got at least 3-4 years left to move out, one day you'll find a true place Nat. Trust me... that's for Senior English (full of technical stuff of requirements for graduation and never have to owe some independent reading to do unless you support my blog).  Who cares about the busy final quarter (final trimester) of the year for pure imagination before moving on to extended support? But first, let's say two weeks of 3rd quarter (winter academic trimester) left until spring break.
        The next day, he comes back to his childhood home with more photos of me and I had a significant senior prom photo of him with his old girlfriend Lola of six years. I didn't know this, but he called his cousins that he's back home with me, just for a visit. I still can't believe I'm missing him way earlier than it should; we had a sleepover at his old room with the bathroom - I look at his annuals and he with more of my annuals and childhood photos including the popular photo of me as a nine-year old. It looks like we're starting to share some of our childhood memories, but first he played on his bass guitar just so to practice for the world tour in twenty cities: Edinburgh, Dublin, London, Paris, Rome, Sochi, Beijing, Tokyo, Sydney, Mexico City, Toronto, NYC, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Atlanta, Nashville, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Coeur d'Alene. At the same time, I played on the Bb clarinet to practice for Northlake Band Festival II and Spring Tour; even though the world tour occured on the third weekend of May just in time for me to see from the bird's view of the reunited band while I'm on the ride. We both played for a half-hour until we ran out of breath. We chill for five minutes to come back for the sharing of the childhood memory to carry on each other (a quick dinner will do).
         While Stephanie gets into pajamas, drinks milk while watching the news, brushes her teeth, reads a book "The Afternoon" and goes to bed, we listened to my favorite songs as a kid ranging from "Allstar" to "Hey There, Delilah" on his smartphone and we listened to his favorite songs as a kid from "Macarena" to "Live and Learn" on my laptop. We watched one episode of our favorite shows we used to watch as a kid - we start from the beginning; him with "Beginnings" and mine with "The Great White Thing" which is a toilet. That's really simple for toddlers to say "the great white thing" until they learn about the word "toilet" or "potty". I'm still halfway through his show as a kid for now, but I still need to catch up before the XPocalypse happens and my imaginary friend leaving with his peer cousins, in which we now realized is the main three from the show that was used to air every Saturday morning on MTV from 1998-2001 and it ended when the original Council of Four overthrow dictatorship and complete dystopia due to the highest popularity of kids aged 5-12, especially fans including Black Blazer. It had all 98 episodes ever made in order from "Beginnings" to "End of Saga: The Final Sonic Underground Adventure". In real-life, it's syndicated from 1999-2000 and it's already cancelled since "Virtual Danger" due to low popularity, leaving fans wondering whether the epilogue would be either good or bad. It actually contains 40 episodes with 20 being cancelled. That's 60! How many episodes in mine? 172 in all plus two side-stories, a pilot we already watched and three huge big films.
        Next, we watched James Cameron's Titanic (not the Disney version called Anything Goes from Broadway, the real 1997 film as in one of the most popular things in history). It's so sad to watch so many people die in the endless icy cold waters that the Black Blazer thought that the Rose drawing reminds himself of his own mother. We started to fall asleep at the very last minute of the film before the end credits. When it's over, we instantly had already been fell fast asleep until full daybreak.
        When Stephanie wake us up in her bathrobe and slippers, we both got up. I had a very unusual dream - it was about the Titanic ship with over 2000 people singing "Bon Voyage" to the people of Brooklyn. We sail across the Atlantic until the icecap appeared and then there's no way to escape but to drown (although less than half of the people on board escape by lifeboats). When we were all plunged underwater, I go deeper and deeper until there's darkness everywhere - me being untouched by the water, not a single damp of the hair strand could it be touched instantly. I was standing all alone in the dark and have nothing to say. It's just silence that I feel it.
        I see the fraction of the atom coming down and it appears to be the Oracle. He showed me a vision: the dreams I will die in childbirth, the reviving transformation into the everlasting full blood of the Black Blazer's 2000-year ancient group, the Hunger Games, and the affecting choices to make between the good and the bad by surprise vote for pure imagination on the blog. I told Stephanie about these visions that surprise me in shock if I marry the Black Blazer. We won't let this nightmare vision become real until the time has come. I'm not going to lose myself from my religious belief - just stay true and alive Nat, God's watching over you. We will stay as boyfriend and girlfriend, but she calls us to come downstairs for breakfast. We had orange juice, pancakes, yogurt, strawberries and omelet. Black Blazer comes back upstairs for his shower, whereas I got some chill time on my laptop social networking and watching YouTube videos. After that, I come back upstairs for my shower while Black Blazer gets out of his bathroom in his clothes on - the usual gloves and shoes. He finishes getting ready for the day and comes back downstairs with his smartphone playing some Pandora music of OneRepublic. Stephanie (now in her usual business suit) drives him to her workplace, although it's not Take the Child to Work Day yet.
        When I come out of the bathroom with my hair wet and clothes on - the usual shirt, jeans and sneakers, I had a thought someone left a note - he's with his adopted mom to work?! What the heck?! What is going on and what happened? I chased after him to work (I was running on foot a distance away until I come to the taxi, although I don't have a car yet until Living On Your Own Unit Begins). The taxi drops me off at the main entrance, I walk inside the building and got my visitor's pass. Next, I come upstairs to the conference room and I showed up to a dozen grown-ups about the end of the world coming soon. I said, "If you already read the whole entire Maximum Ride series, I understand that you were supposed to be all gone on me just before the apocalypse happens and the dystopia spreading upon our world. I had nightmare visions from last night big time! A competition will begin, masses shalt revolt, the phenomenon of dictatorship is spreading from the big thing mysterious from someplace elsewhere in the universe. You'll understand, know and remember about Maximum Ride and the Flock coming to save the world - does the world need Maximum Ride, the Flock and the Sonic Underground? Does anyone need Superman like I read the 134-paged movie script by J. J. Abrams?"
        "No, this is not the end yet." said the boss. The co-workers disagree and they all kicked me out of the conference room. I had a bad feeling that they put me down from ever hearing me talk about what's going to happen next. It's no biggie, it's alright for me to deal with. Heck, yeah. I went to Stephanie's office and offered her a reminder about the world tour for her adopted son and his cousins upon reunion. She agreed to let him go and have him to come back during summer break. I was more than just contagious to give a little grin. She handed me back a note saying "I know he's got his chosen 'new' girlfriend as most trusted and adventurous which is simply the best of you. He'll be back for your high school graduation. Love, Steph ;)" I was proud I got a note and told Black Blazer I had one. I turned in my visitor pass, got a drive home from the taxi, packed things up and get going. When we head outside at noon, we kissed (sorta make love), but no WooHoo yet. We took a nap for fifteen minutes and we got up just in time to have lunch.
        Come to think about the School as in the normal kind, for freshman year (2010-2011). I know what were my thoughts pop up to discuss. It's about the last year of being a feline mascot. We were not in middle school anymore - he's not even in high school anymore, soon it will be me. "Did you have amnesia your whole life?" I ask.
        "No. I was born within it and was raised without ever knowing who were my parents until the end of senior year in high school. In college, I discovered that I had three cousins from a peer classmate who had used to watch Sonic Underground on MTV as a kid. She looked up on Wikipedia to find the band to discover it was me who was the only cousin by the mother's family line."
        "How come you could overcome?"
        "The spell was supposed to be broken, not just spread out to this world where the dreams come true from last night."
        "Oh, I see that you overcame your disease in the end of my favorite video game by defeating your ancient group of aliens. You should've known better in real-life - believe me."
        "No, no, I didn't do it. I did NOT destroy my own father like I had in a video game. Unless I want him to be redeemed and get his original form back to where it belongs before I was conceived."
        "That makes sense but to overcome amnesia, but it's not over with the spell yet. Geez, the time is not come, thank goodness. What happened to your cousins, Emma, Max and the Flock?"
        "They're fine."
        "Is your father still alive?"
        "Yes. He's been in his beast form my whole life."
        "Are you sure?"
        "Hmmm... he died in the end at 2,000 fictiously, perhaps in a game."
        "Sorry to hear that, how old is he actually?"
        "41 years old."
        "That is so young. When was he born?"
        "November 15, 1972."
        "My dad was born April 8, 1955."
        "Whoa, Nat. Is he old?"
        "No. He's starting to get older in his golden age next year. He's turning 59 by the time Windows XP officialy ends support for Microsoft. Is your adopted mom still on XP?"
        "Her enterprise is entirely on XP - they're XP die-hards! What do you expect?"
        "I have read so many articles about the XP end of life that you owe me for a PCMover cable from Laplink. Hey, I get it. How about to tell the business to move them out from XP to Windows 7. The 7 is similar and more updated to XP. It's a recommendation on the web. Want to check it out?"
        "Sure."

Here is the pic for steps on how to move from XP to Windows 7 or 8 using Laplink:

 

        We buy the DiskImage and steps from the official Laplink website on my laptop. I emailed to Stephanie's business that we're getting Laplink PCMover to move files and stuff to Windows 7 and 8 from XP. It'll take two weeks to get it all taken care of. We prepare the business for the XPocalypse - the business is opening 24 hours a day in effect for moving from XP to 7 and 8 for the next couple weeks. It took a few hours to get it all prepared for workers and the boss to grab so many DiskImages, although it's all thanks to both of us. We raised up to $12,784 for my college tuition, but we're not quite done yet with all of the fundraisers we have to plan for over spring. We came up with the idea to make bookmarks. We get paper and writing utensils from Stephanie's home office. I got my colored pencils to color it in. We look up DragoArt for drawings - it was supposed to be made for the public. The bookmark making machine draw simple shapes out of the web from hearts to stars, and it really did go very fast in order to make some money like 195,459 of bookmarks per hour.
        Stephanie wake us up the next morning and we had cereal bars. We enjoyed a good breakfast that we got ready for the next day and prepare for selling bookmarks all day - as a result we made up to $1,065,907. That's $5.45 per bookmark. It looks like we already saved enough money for the world tour. We donated the used stuffed animals, board games, action figures, children's books, toys he got used to play with in the first five years of his life and VHS tapes not made orignally from the childhood as in the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection, Warner Bros. Family Collection, and more of the kiddie stuff up to 2001 as a garage sale. Before you know it, we're saving $734 to go to Edinburgh as first city and also extra $100 for free passports. That makes up to $1,067,041 for the sum of the 67-day tour. It took plenty of money for the world tour to handle the whole entire time, but wait - there's more... the band will play the ten best songs from the show, one cent per second. It should be able to take place at the University Hangout at 4 in the afternoon next Friday.
        Later, the evening came as we prepare dinner for Lola and her family: her mom, her 13-yr old sister Anika and her 10-yr old brother Anton. Stephanie comes home from work as we finished setting things up for the night. Lola, her mom, Anika and Anton come to the house and we all sit down at the dining room. We served French bread with a bit of butter, spinach, cod, Coca-Cola for millenials, water for two different moms, and milk for Lola's younger siblings. Anton disgusts spinach, but it's okay if he matures overtime just so to try spinach. If you hate spinach, that's fine to try it. It's good for you. After dinner, Anton and Anika went upstairs to the chill out/recreation/study combo room where they can watch "I Didn't Do It" following by "The Amazing World of Gumball" on demand for Xfinity. Lola, Black Blazer, their moms and I had a talk - we discussed of how many adventures I'd been through for over the last two in a half years in a row since September. I got something undiscovered - I told nobody about my visions which is much of a big secret that Stephanie already knows what would happen to me in the future. I don't get it, for I mentioned that me and Black Blazer went on together going steady at my hometown. We only got over a week left to go in different directions, we said goodbye to Lola and her family. Afterward, we go to bed, cleaning the dishes and putting everything aside.
        The next three days went very well with all of donating, selling bookmarks and saving for the world road ahead just before the Flock and Emma come back. At the same time, Stephanie's company transfer, back-up and recover data from XP to Windows 7 and 8 from the Laplink PC Mover cable nonstop. The week has full of festivities with live music for the nation - an annual Spring Festival for the latest hits from One Direction to Taylor Swift. When the Saturday evening slot came, it was our turn to sing along, although Black Blazer gets united again with his three cousins into the band. I showed up as guest artist: I performed "Disco Medley" followed by "Are You Ready?" and "TV Land". Then, the band showed up to perform all 98 songs ever made in order from "Someday" to "This is Our World (Let's Do This Tonight)". Finally, after 3 hours 31 minutes and 25 seconds of nonstoppable singing to the crowd, Black Blazer played solo on his bass guitar and I play solo on my Bb clarinet and we both burst into the song of "Best Song Ever", thus ending with the heed of the moment kiss following by "Counting Stars" as the encore with the band. Afterward, we give the people a round of applause and I said goodbye to the four individuals as they head on for the world tour. I am so going to miss them so much for the next two months that they'll come back for my commencement day. In conclusion, let's say the relationship grew so fast for over eight years straight.