SOL 30/31- Death

The figure stands outside the frost laden window. His hood is draped low over his eyes and face. His bony fingers extend from his hand and run down the window. He looks through the glass at a cold body on the floor. Its soul long gone from its lifeless shell. The figure outside the window disappears into a black fog, and then reappears next to the man's body. He leans down over his face and then looks up at the sealing. The man's soul floats in the amber candlelight, gently touching the ceiling as it bobbles up and down. The figure extends his hand towards the soul and slowly grabs it. With his other hand he produces a bag from his belt. He then drops the misty soul into the brown burlap bag. He disappears into black fog again.

SOL 29/31- Paint balling

I popped my head up slightly so I could see my two teammates hiding behind the wall. One of them peeked out from the side of the wall and spotted one of their teammates hiding in the corner. He fired three shots, which splattered on his chest. I raised his hands in the air and walked out of the arena. It was just two of them and three of us. Both my teammates popped up from behind the wall, in a hope to move to new cover. I turned my head just in time to see their faces and necks splattered with multi colored paint. Now, it was just me versus two. I raised my gun and leaned out so I could see them. One of them noticed me and began firing in my direction. I turned back to my cover as the shots smacked the wall. I got down on my belly and began to crawl towards where my teammates got shot. Paint ball shells rolled in the sand beneath me, and wet patches of paint stuck to my chest plate. I reached the edge of the wall and peeked up so I could see my opponent. He was still waiting for me to pop out again in the same location. I smiled and raised my gun. Pop, pop, pop! Three shots to his neck! He put both his hands up and meandered back to where my teammates were watching. I saw the silhouette of my enemy get up and start running in the other direction. I vaulted over the wall and aimed at his back. I took a deep breath and steadied my gun. Bam!

SOL 28/31- Sword Fighting

I swung my stick towards my brother's torso, but his came to block mine. I hopped backwards and twisted my sword from under his. I pulled the sword backwards and slashed at his arm. He just managed to deflect the attack, but I had the advantage now. I forced him to shuffle back towards the edge of the wall that we were standing on with a series of pokes. I moved forward and jolted my sword towards his stomach. As his sword came to deflect my blow, I pulled it down and to the side, so his sword just swept the air. I advanced on him and cut his defenseless body down bit by bit. I started off with his other arm, so he couldn't attack me when I chopped off his legs, which were next. They came off with ease, and he soon was lying on the ground. I placed my foot on his chest and roared in triumph. I lifted up my arm and sliced off his head. I was victorious!

SOL 27/31- Morning

The sun flows through trees' crisp branches. It drops through into the grass enlightening the start to its day. Suddenly the cold morning air sweeps through my backyard knocking at walls and windows. People are scattered walking to school or to work, with the cold wind whipping at their bodies. Their grumpy faces become cold and grumpy. Finally the sunlight reaches them taking away the cold from their grumpiness. Their faces turn bright, smiling up at the warm sunlight. Some of them stop, just to relish the heat on their bodies. Suddenly, I wake up, and come to the true aroma of morning. Tiredness and grumpiness. :)

SOL 26/31- My Favorite Animals

My favorite animal is the narwhal, the most majestic creature of the north. I love narwhals because they are unique. They are one of the only horned animals in the sea and their only natural predator is the killer whale. My second favorite animal is the timber wolf. Timber wolves hunt in packs and our very social. They are smaller than the grey wolf, but live in the same areas as the grey wolf and hunt the same food as the grey wolf. They pack a punch for how small they are compared to who they're competing with.

 The narwhal is better than these sea creatures.

A timber wolf 

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SOL/BookBlog 25/31- Ender's Game

Last week I read Ender's Game by Orson Scott. Ender's game is about a boy called Ender Wiggin who is growing up in the future. Earth has been invaded by these aliens, called buggers twice before. In preparation for a third invasion the military takes children into training. Ender is selected for training when he is young, and is put through tests. Will he pass the tests? Will earth be destroyed by buggers? Find out in this thrilling, action packed novel!

I really enjoyed Ender's Game, although it was a bit confusing in the beginning. It was a really cool book full of action and intriguing events that you probably won't see in other books. I thought it was a great book, and I highly recommend it to anyone wanting an adventure!

SOL 24/31- Living Room Parkour

The Floor is Lava-

I gripped the armrest of the couch, ready to launch myself off. I leaned back and fired myself over the coffee table and towards the chair. I just made it and pulled myself up on top of the chair. I then leaped across to the other couch. It was a very long jump, and my brain was whizzing around at the prospect of falling in the lava. I just made it to the couch, landing in a heap on armrest. I ran forward and flew myself onto the next chair. I had made it! My mission was complete, I had not fallen into the lava during my journey. Suddenly, the chair started to fall back. I stood up in a last ditch attempt to get to safety. Thump, sizzle the chair had fallen into the lava. I pushed myself forward towards the couch, but missed by an inch. My fingers feebly tried to grab the couch, but I was slipping fast, if only someone was here to save me. Out of the blue, the silhouette of my brother appeared on the other side of the couch. My eyes widened in glee.
"Save me, save me!"I cried.
"I'm coming brother!"He replied. He grabbed my sweaty palm, and began reeling my body up to the couch like a fish. Suddenly, he jolted me backwards, sending me flying into the lava. He cackled as my body slowly burned in the living room carpet.

SOL 23/31- Longboarding

My fingers clutched the rough grip tape that ran across the top of my longboard. The car passed by and so did a small gust of wind. I placed the board down and put my left foot on top of it. The tape scratched at the bottom of my foot. I pushed against the ground, and I was off. My hair rippled in the wind. I felt free as the sun shined onto my face casting warmth through my entire body. I smiled and spread my arms out wide, feeling the touch of the air. I pushed against the ground again, this time a little bit harder. I flew forward relishing the lovely spring weather. The sky was clear and I was free, flying past houses and people.

That's my longboard-

SOL 22/31- Snowballs

I gripped the cold, soft snow in made hand, crunching it into a ball. I looked up at my target, who was veering closer towards me. I threw the snowball as hard as I could at my sisters chest. The snowball splattered across her neck and steadily dripped down her back. I laughed and ran past her a glanced down at my i-pod to check the time, when suddenly I heard footsteps behind me. I turned around and saw my sister and her friend holding a massive chunk of snow over their heads. They slammed the chunk down on my head. I shivered and clutched my freezing jacket. As they turned a grabbed a ball of snow from the ground. I hurled it towards their heads but missed. They turned around, and grabbed as many snowballs as they could. I jumped behind the car, using it as cover. The war had begun.

SOL 21/31- Jenga

I grabbed the block from the bottom of the shivering tower. My fingers slowly wiggled the block out of place and into my hand. I dropped the block on top of the tower, and laughed. I had made the tower a lot more precarious. My friend's hands where back to the wavering mass of blocks, scanning for a nice pick. He pried a middle block from a middle row. The tower once again wiggled under his grip. He just managed to take the block from the row. He smiled and dropped the block onto the top of the tower. Suddenly the tower shattered into blocks all over the table. His smile then dropped, and was replaced with a frown. I cackled with glee.

SOL 20/31- Batteries Poem

Batteries, they're not everywhere
they're hard to find almost anywhere
they run out fast
as they're not made to last
if you run out do take care

Well that's what happened to me
honestly, I do agree
for my batteries are almost gone
I hope I can make it through to dawn
All I can do is plea and plea

My sewing machine cannot sew
my lamp light flickers to and fro
by golly, my gosh, oh no!
My keyboard batteries are getting lo...

:)

SOL 19/31- Football

I whipped the ball forward and flicked it around my opponent. I glanced up spotting out my teammate pushing up through the gap I had made. I played the ball towards him in a clean movement. He took the touch across from me running diagonally towards the sideline. I called for the ball and he played it back to me above the defenders approaching him. I jumped up and it thudded on to my chest and back to my feet. My teammate had continued his run out and was now sprinting forward. I took a touch forward and played the ball to him so he was just behind the last defender. I sprinted forward into the box as two defenders chased me. The ball curled in casting a silence across the field. I took one step and launched my self at the ball. My head caught the ball and sent it into the far top corner of the goal. I smiled and walked back to my team.

SOL 18/31- Legend

I started reading Legend a week ago and I really couldn't get into it. I always found myself making excuses not to read it. It was really slow paced for me, and in the beginning of the book I had no idea what was going on in the book. This made me unable to connect with the book and the characters and plot inside it. The book never explained where the characters were or why they were their. In other words, I found that there was no distinct setting. I always had to stop to put the book down, because it was boring. I had no idea where the plot was going. It didn't strike my interest and I never enjoyed a bit of the book. All in all it was just a very dull book for me and I really didn't enjoy what I read of it. I hope to find a good book that sparks my interest next week. Maybe you'll like the book, so give it a shot if you want to, but I don't recommend it.

SOL 17/31- Leprechaun Traps

I grabbed the box of lucky charms and poured a few onto the rat trap. I bent the snapper back, so it was ready to go. I grabbed the serrated edge from the zig-zag scissors and glued it to the snapper. So if any Leprechauns decide the want a snack… WHAM, their heads roll off. I scoured my army of traps grinning at the soon to be sight of Leprechaun blood trickling everywhere. I glanced over at Drew's trap, which was pretty cool. It had a fly swatter that catapulted the Leprechaun into the frying pan. Another trap he had drowned the Leprechauns. He had a bowl right under the sink tap that had a string tied around the hot water. The other end ran down to where the lucky charms were. He had rocks attached to the noose where the Leprechauns foot would be attached. The water would fill up the bowl as soon as the Leprechaun got caught in the noose. He wouldn't be able to swim up because of the small rocks weighing him down. Soon green blood will be spilt.


MWUHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAA!

SOL 16/31- Spring

My dog lay in a large sun patch, just under a sprouting tree. He stretched and rolled around in his spot as a cool wind drifted into the trees branches. The tree whispered a little and its branches shook a few leaves from its body. Grass waved to the bright sky and said hello. Bright, pretty flowers glanced up at the few clouds in the sky. The sun beamed across the vast blue sky and birds echoed their happiness. Squirrels chattered on their branches and people strolled on the sidewalk. Everyone was outside enjoying the beautiful fresh day. I drifted through a shady spot under the same tree my dog was lying under. I stroked his warm soft fur and smiled. Spring was finally here.

Boomeranging- SOL 15/31

My friend Drew's arm reeled back and fired, launching the boomerang high into the air. The boomerang spun and curled down to the dirt. It bounced and then finally laid to rest a few meters away from where he threw it. It was a lovely time to be out in the park. Families were swinging on the swings, and a brother and his sister were playing lacrosse.
"Alright, my turn," I said.
"Ok, just be careful you don't hit that little girl playing lacrosse," Drew replied.
"I'm not going to hit them."
I hurled the boomerang into the air. It toppled and skipped straight into a gust of wind. The boomerang suddenly flew down, curving straight towards the little girl. She was running and did not notice the boomerang heading straight for her. As she neared the impact zone, she stopped and turned around. Our projectile whizzed through the impact zone, where it would have smacked her straight in the neck.
"That was close," I giggled.

SOL- 14/31- Ouch

My foot drummed against the metal goal post. My chest heaved, shoving air into my lungs. The ball had rolled back to our coach. His mouth opened and the word go was shouted. I ran forward towards the striker who had the ball. As I approached him I slowed down and started to jockey him towards the sideline. He tried to draw me out with a simple flick to his right, but it was a poor touch. I seized the opportunity and rolled the ball back from his feet to mine.I flicked the ball through his legs. I stepped to the side of him and I ran forward. Suddenly his foot stamped down onto my ankle. Blood trickled down my foot, and forms of bruises had already bulged from the bottom of my shin to the bottom of my ankle. I looked down at my foot and slowly dragged myself off the pitch. He walked away without saying anything.

SOL 13/31- The Computer Screen

My fingers drum at the keyboard, spouting gibberish across the page. My eyes glare at the bright screen. The light from it flows through my eyes causing all my ideas to scatter back into the dark corners of my head. I glance at the clock, watching minutes tick by until a hour has gone by. My thumbs twiddle in cluelessness as my brain searches for something, anything. My senses twitch, as they try to find the slightest touch, sound, smell, or sight that could be used in writing. But, out of the shadows comes an idea. Feebly tumbling down my body and into my fingers. My hands begin to type words instead of gibberish, and a slice of life is formed all due to the dull computer screen.

SOL 12/31- My brother

Kind and Caring

Fun and cool 

My brother Frank, has all the tools

To please me

To annoy me

The main main man himself

My brother

sweet brother

He loves all, including himself

Although I say all these things

My brother from the same mother

My homie my friend

Will not be as awesome as me

Even through to the end

SOL 11/31- Book Blog The Maze Runner

The Maze Runner is about a boy named Thomas who wakes up in an elevator knowing nothing except for his name and the English language. At the top of the elevator he meets the gladers, the other children in the place called the Glade. Thomas uncovers secrets about the glade and soon finds out that there is a maze full of Grievers, monsters that can sting you. The Grievers sting puts you through deep pain, what the gladers call a changing. All the changed kids recognize Thomas and begin to form suspicion about him. The next day a girl is sent up, the first girl that has been sent up. Thomas feels a deep connection with her. He continues to talk to her until he releases that he could save all the kids in the glade. Can Thomas pull this off without failing?

Girl scout cookies- SOL 10/31

I glanced back down the hallway, checking to see if someone was following me. Good, the coast was clear, now for my plan. I grabbed a chair from the kitchen and propped it up against the cupboard. My hand streaked over the rough wooden cupboard door. They felt the handle and immediately swung the door open. My eyes beamed towards the beautiful green box of thin mints. I slowly reached out to them and opened the box. No, no, it can't be, the thin mints, they were all gone. I threw the box into the trash and walked out back down the once treacherous hall. As I turned the corner to the living room I spotted my brother cackling as he peered up from behind the coach. He was holding two thin mints in his hand. Suddenly, he had shoved them in his mouth and gobbled them up. I fell to my knees in awe, my eyes screaming out in pain. Noooooooooooo, I cried.

Skyrim- SOL 8/31

I directed my character up the final flights of stairs that lead to High Hrothgar. I was so anxious to finally meet my destiny. My characters struggle continued until his feet had stepped on the final. I could finally see the bulky silhouette of the castle itself, instead of some frost troll. Suddenly, I heard a noise, it came from the cliff side. I looked over and saw a massive frost troll staring at me. I wielded my two swords and ran straight for him. I had immediately swung at me and damaged my health. The troll was on the edge of the cliff. I ran towards it in a final attempt and swung my sword at it with no mercy. It continued to whack me until I was dead. Turns out, I forgot to save.

9/31- SOL- Climbing Trees

My foot wedged itself between two branches, and I heaved up onto the next branch. My arm scraped along the next branch, but I still managed my way up to it. I gripped a notch in the wood and pulled myself up to another branch. Raw bark clawed at my ankles and gripped my shins. My arms clawed the bark back and soon I was up to the top of the tree. I could see my neighbors roofs from up here. The sun beamed onto my face and heated my climbing limbs with light. The blue sky ignited my feeling of gratitude. I felt free. I felt as if I could live up here. My hair waved in the wind, and my blue shirt rippled It was well worth the scratching to get up here. If only getting down was as easy.

7/31 SOL- Capture the Flag

I popped up just behind the wall so I could peer over, and look at the flag. It was placed into the ground, and it rippled in the early morning wind. My hands pressed against the top of the wall, and I pushed up and landed on the soft grass. I spotted my brother guarding the flag. He was facing the other way and was relaxing, so I had a good chance of catching him off guard. I grabbed a stone and hurled past him and onto the other end of the sidewalk, behind a tree. Suspiciously he got up and ran towards the tree. I seized the opportunity and grabbed the flag from its resting place. I took it and ran back to our base. My mission was a big success.

6/31-SOL- Hand Sanitizer

My dry, cracked hands burned from the drumming on my computer keys. My fingers had pulsed back and forth, up and down, across the dirty keyboard. Dirt wriggled its way under my finger nails and heat swept over my rusty knuckles leaving a immense pain on the surface of my skin. Then out of the corner of my eye I spotted a glistening squirter full of… hand sanitizer. I stepped slowly over to the bottle. I cast my right hand over the top of the squirter and I placed my left at the bottom of the squirter. Then I pressed down on the blue top. Clear, clean, sanitizing liquid flowed over my skin, trickling down through my fingers. The deep cleaning washed down into my skin washing the keyboard grime away. I love you hand sanitizer.

SOL- 5/31-What to write?

What to Write?
Thoughts are racing in my head
But my writing mind is pretty much dead
My mind is racing and zipping around
But I feel like my writing fingers are bound
I toss and turn inside my mind
Thoughts are racing all inside
How am I supposed to write like this
This is not a writers bliss
My stomach churns with horrible dread
You know what, I'm going off to bed

The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas- SOL 4/31- Book Blog

 Last week I read The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas by John Boyne. As I turned the pages in this magnificent book, I was touched with different emotions. The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas follows a young boy named Bruno, who lives in the heart of Berlin, just before WWII. Bruno's father's job is unknown to Bruno, all he knows is that it is very important. Suddenly Bruno must leave Berlin with his family because of his father's job. He is moved off to a desolate place, and he is cut off from all his friends in Berlin. Bruno meets a young Polish Jew at his new home, but why is he here? Will he uncover the truth of his father's job? What will he discover in his new surroundings? This book gripped me with excitement and sadness as I slowly uncovered the truth of why Bruno's family was there. I highly recommend this book for anyone.

SOL 3/31 Bean Bag Him

My brother and neighbor had tied me up in the blanket. I yelped and thrashed my struggling body back and forth. I saw my brother get up and grab the beanbag off of the couch. He grinned and lifted it high over his head. I wasn't worried though, I had a little trick up my sleeve. My neighbor Drew was a double agent and he was going to take down my brother with ease. Drew popped up, and in a split second he had tackled my brother to the ground. I cackled and quickly un-tied my arms from the blanket. I lifted my brother's wriggling body up inches above the ground and I wrapped him in the blanket.
"Bean bag him, Drew, bean bag him!" I screamed. The bean bag had rolled back to the couch. My brother struggled under the blanket, so I allowed him to pop out his head. I grinned and looked at Drew, who threw the bean bag on top of my brother he was eliminated.
"Nice job!" I said as I got up from the bean bag.
"Yeah, you too," he said. I leaned over to high five him, but as his hand swooped towards mine I grabbed his wrist and slammed him on the couch. I grabbed the other bean bag and placed on top of him. I laughed and laughed and laughed.

SOLSC 2/31- The Cold

The sun beamed onto my face casting a feeling of warmth and happiness through my body. I love the sun, and I knew today was going to be a great day for soccer. My arms tingled with heat as the sun beat  down on them. I smiled, the warmth felt so good.
I opened the door to my house and new I had to be fast, I grabbed my shorts and shirt and headed out the door.
"You should bring a jacket,"my Dad called after me,"It's going to be cold."
"Ok, whatever," I shouted back. It's not going to be cold, it's fifty degrees now, it's beautiful. The car pulled up and I hopped out. I stepped down onto the ground, then the cold hit me. The hair on my neck pricked up and cold wind fluttered through my shirt. I ran over to my coach, who instructed me to begin warm-up. I jogged out to the field and started stretching. As more cars dropped off my team mates the wind had picked up. Kids with warm coats and gloves spilled out over the field in front of my shivering silhouette. The wind and cold increased through to our final game, until it was all finally over. I saw my car pool ride pull up in the street. I ran towards it and collapsed inside, precious heat flew over my body, and my ears and fingers began to warm up. I laid my head to rest on the window, thinking one thing, I should listen to my father more often.

SOLSC 1/31- Spring Break

Hey my name is Eddie, and this year I studied music in society. I'm in seventh grade and I will be studying the Muppet Show in spring.

My brothers voice echoed towards my dad's room, time to go, he shouted. I laughed and slowly walked down towards the kitchen. My smile arose as i saw that he was just finishing up eating. Excellent. I gripped the door frame and looked at him. He smushed toast into his mouth and looked my way.
"Hey," he said,"Why are you here?"
"Ohhhh, I sure am tired," I groaned, "Look at the time I need to be getting ready for school... But wait I don't have school!!!" I cackled as he looked at me in anger.
"You woke up early only because you wanted to annoy me?"
"That's right."
"You're probably going to do this to Maggie too, aren't you?"
"Psshhshsh, of course not....." He looked at me and blinked twice.
"You're horrible, but I really do have to go to school now, so bye."
I grinned and looked at the clock. Twenty minutes to spare before more fun. I heard my sister groan from the other room.