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I know, boo hoo. Here is my last post. Doing this blog has meant a lot to me. (for one thing I learned what a blog was like) I learned countless things such as links, comments, and I learned that if a say the wrong thing right now all the people that read this will know. (Oopsies, too late!) I loved the thrill of knowing that people were reading this at all! I didn’t really have anything I didn’t like about writing blogs. I would soooo totally LOVE to have another blog next year. YES!!! So I am going to miss writing in this blog!!! Gonna miss you guys!!!! Bye!!! Maybe next year I’ll do this again! Bye!!! Tootles!!!!!!!!!! (next year look for c17rc)

Is The Wizard of Oz a better book than Alice in Wonderland? Let’s find out. I think they are both very good books, but one has to be better than the other. I have read both books and they do come up very close. I still think the Wizard of Oz is indeed better to me because of these few things.

1. In Alice in Wonderland, Alice doesn’t do anything about her problems. She just walks around saying “Oh my, what shall I do? Such a terrible thing. Boo hoo!” But Dorothy does something about her problems. She even traveled miles on a road paved with yellow bricks to get home!

2. In Alice in Wonderland Alice keeps trying to recite her poems that she learned and she keeps trying to be all proper but Dorothy just wants to do what she must do and be done with it.

3. I just think that The Wizard of Oz is just a great and magical story and Alice in Wonderland is also very great and magical, but no moral, it’s mushy, and it in parts scares me! I think they are both great, but still, I have to say, I like Wizard of Oz better.

So no offense to Alice lovers, and yeah, they do come up very close, but this is just my opinion. Wizard of Oz won. (by the way, if anyone disagrees with my answer please leave a comment and I will respond with my opinion.)

Look! Here it is! My buddy interviewed me! Yes!

 

 interview: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Finally! The last one! Me and TF have successfully finished our comic. Like I said, we were chapter one so I will put a link to the comic so you can see how it goes. (Just before you click this read the rest of the post and do the other links.) Alice in Wonderland Comic. Here is a link to the First Alice Post I wrote. Here is The Second One I wrote.Here is The Third One. Last but not least, here is The Fourth. Now you can go to the comic. (The first link I wrote). And if you want to see the entire class comic, go to
All Chapters. So C’mon! I worked so hard and the least you can do is read this! Soon I won’t be able to even write in this blog! Please!  (P.S. Here is a link to the poorly behaved  yet very weird and easy to work with, c16tf’s blog. I couldn’t have done it without him!)

So I know, this is a boring title, and worst of all, it sounds… educational! Really, it’s cool. So my little buddy in house 43 in little Dalton® is coming with her class and she is going to interview me!! (I am ready for my closeup! Really!) So here is a story about my journey here. Though it was only two blocks away, though I would come back every Thursday for a piano lesson, this was scary. A new school, new teachers and classes, more homework, and being on the same staircase as high-schoolers! Aahhh! This was the turn of the century! (yeah, I don’t get out much.) So soon my buddy will interview me. (I make long stories for little things. Have you noticed?)

So last week I read a book that blew me away. I have always been a fan of the Emily Windsnap series, I have read he first, (The tail of Emily Windsnap) and the second, (Emily Windsnap and the Monsters of the deep). But, when I found out that there was a third, I flipped. Once I picked it up, I couldn’t put it down. It was love at first site! Emily Windsnap is the story of a girl who one day finds out she is a mermaid. People make fun of her at school, but she doesn’t tell them. She lives on a ship with her mother who can’t swim, and she doesn’t know where her father is. Later in the first book, she finds him but she has to break him out of jail, but he is not a crook, he is a merman! He was in jail because Neptune, a myth that the greeks believed in, ruler of the sea, said that he wasn’t allowed to marry a woman who wasn’t a mermaid. Emily has a friend named Milly, (her babysitter who believes in asking playing cards the answer to a problem and can change you mentally) and a friend who is another mermaid named Shona who is a perfect mermaid. The idea that amazes me is that Emily is a half time mermaid. I mean when she is outside, just walking, she has normal legs and body. But, when her skin touches water, they transform into a tail and they mold together so she becomes a mermaid. When she gets out again, they turn back to their normal form. In this book, she is living on an island where her and both her parents can live in a half sunken ship, where the bottom is filled with water and the top floor is fine for her mother. The reason they must be apart from other creatures is because Neptune doesn’t want to have other mermaids and humans to be together. While Emily is in the lower deck of her home, she finds a dimond ring. It turns out, it belonged to Neptune and the reason he doesn’t want mer people and humans to be together was because he once was with a human lady and she broke his heart. She either has to pick one parent to live with, (human life and Mom or mermaid life and Dad) or find the pearl ring that belonged to the lady that broke Neptunes heart. I can’t give away the end for you guys but I have to say that while I read it, my heart was pumping so fast that I felt as though I was really there. I recomend this book to anyone who is interested in mythical creatures such as mermaids and you really have to read the beginning of the series first. You can find it at Barnes and Noble. 

If you read Ms. Edinger’s post, you will see that I really am bringing Dina with Alice. Anyway, lets get to the point. I (as you know) am working with c16tf, and he doesn’t like to draw as much people (and cats) as I do so he is drawing the back round and I am doing Alice, Dina and the Rabbit. We decided to skip the waiting on the bank while her sister’s reading and we replaced it with just Alice and Dina sitting on the bank bored and Alice sees the rabbit and she takes Dina to chase it. I hope you like it and please please keep checking this blog to see it soon!

So now we started our Alice comics for real. Me and c16tf are getting there–really slowly. We finished our cover, and we are starting our first real page, the one where she sits under the tree and first sees the rabbit. I think that we will make the cover with two triangles, one red and one blue. We will write the title in the blue one, witch will be on top, and by c16rc and c16tf in the red one, on the bottom. I am so excited to get this comic going, and by the way, did you see the link to “Betty in Blunderland” I put in my last Alice in Wonderland post?

My. This will be a loooong post. As you may know, my class went to Plymouth Plantation as a class trip because we are studying the Pilgrims. This was a sleepover trip, as we left on Thursday and came back on Friday. The very first thing we did was we went to this grave yard. I hated the graveyard because we were inches away from dead people covered in grass and dirt and doesn’t that just creep you out? When we finished that, we saw (this was my favorite part) the Mayflower. Actually, the Mayflower II, a remake. I got to see the beds, (they look so uncomfortable, wood, straw, a blanket.)The dusty and smelly deck, (eww) and this is the first time I saw a Pilgrim actor. There were actors everywhere dresses in Petticoats and aprons and telling us about their “journey” and how they kept “casting.” We brought along T, our turtle friend from the books T Turtle Travels. He got in a lot of pictures with Pilgrims. Once, when we asked a Pilgrim to hold him for a picture, he gave T one look and then he said in disgust like T was more garbage then a turtle, “We eat turtle soup, here.” I whisked T away after the picture like he was sitting on fire. Meani Pilgrim. Also, we got to go to the Pilgrim village and see all the Pilgrim homes. This is where we met the turtle soup guy. There were dirt floors in most of the houses and there were Pilgrims with pocket knives walking all around. We met a nice Pilgrim boy; he looked around 17, named Love Bruston who was sawing a whole load of wood for firewood. He let us each try. We met so many friendly Pilgrims that time flew by so fast. We got to plaster a house with mud; we got to meet a feathery bunch of roosters, and a herd of bulls. Along with all this, we got to learn all about the Pilgrim games, (such as hoop and stick, ball and cup, bubbles, ect.) how to write with a quill pen, and how to dress like Pilgrims. (Wow, they wore so many layers, even in the summer!) We also got this Pilgrim dinner. Uh, whoopie. They had said they would give us turkey pottage. (I had been calling it turkey slop-in-a-pot before we came) but they switched it on us! They gave us this turkey with onion sauce and these johnnycakes things. I have to admit that even though the turkey slop-in-a-pot was not my favorite, the johnnycakes were really good. If you look at them, you could easily mistaken them for sugar cookies, but they taste like nothing I have ever tasted. They were great. And, once we got on the bus home I thought about what I had just accomplished. Now all I can say is that I am grateful for the light switches and lamps in my house! :-) 

Okey-dokey. Now we ventured into the comics. I am working with c16tf, as you might know, and since I am a cat lover, I made Alice take Dina, her cat she talks about in Alice in Wonderland. I never thought she would be orange! Anyway, in my comic (down the rabbit hole), Dina follows Alice down the rabbit hole and she’s always in a conversation with Alice. Let’s just say I like comedy. Here, read our script. If you like this, chances are, you should go see c16tf’s! Really! (A: stand for Alice, D: is for Dina and R: is for rabbit)

A:“Ahhh. Dina, I am sooo bored.”
D“Meow”
R”Oh! I am late late for an important date!”
A: “Dina did you see that!?”
D: “Meow”

Alice runs with Dina after the rabbit.

A: “Heh, heh, heh, Whoa, this guy’s fast!”
D: “Meow!”
A: “Ooh! A rabitt hole!”
D: “Meow!”

They jump in after the rabbit and start to fall.

A“AHHHHHHHHHHHH! DINA THIS IS SOOO CRAZY WEIRD!!!!!!!!!!!”
D: “MEOOOW! HISSSSSSSSSS!”

They land

A: “Ouch! Dina are you OKAYE?”
D: “Uh, meow?”
A: “Dina, did you just TALK!?”
D: “Well…I’ve always had a very large vocabulary, yet under the circumstances I had to keep it secret. Now I’m explaining that I really am very well educated.”
Fog……………………………………………………………………..
A: “Ugh, my head! When I fell I must have gotten knocked out. You can’t really talk, can you Dina?”
Silence…
D: “Mew.”
A: “Good. Now let’s go.”
They both walk down a loooooong hallway.
A: “Ooh! A door! It’s too small for me to fit through. L ”
D: “Mew.”
Dina rubbs against a small green bottle.
A: “What did you find there, Dina?”
D: “Meow.”
It says drink me.
A: “It says drink me! Okay!”
She drinks it.
A: “WHAT THE…Ook! What a queer feeling!

Alice starts growing and growing… AND GROWING!!

And that’s all we have so far. Now once that is finished, we will draw our illustrations. Now go to c16tf’s blog!