The first thing I did this morning was go to the bathroom since I really had to go. Afterwards, my dad asked me to come downstairs and eat breakfast. My mother was still sleeping so it was just the three of us (him, my sister, and me). We ate egg sandwiches (he had a lot of noodles), and then we walked to the train station. My father promised me to buy a metrocard for me whenever we go to the train station but he didn't. Instead, he saved time and used his own card twice so we didn't have to buy another. Ha, I bet I got you there. Though at first I really thought he was gonna tell me to go under because there was a train security man right there. When the train finally arrived and all the people were waiting for the doors to open, I told my dad I'd bet most of the seats would be full by the time we entered. And sure enough, there were only three seats left, 2 to teh right of a woman and 1 to her left. I kindly asked her to move over so that my father could sit and see had no problem. See, everything can work out if you just be polite!

At the World Trade Center, my dad said we could go inside the apple store. However, since it was a Saturday the doors wouln't open until 10:00 A.M. But I could live with that, we instead walked upstairs and passed by the 911 memorial which I thought was still really cool to this day. One of the security people asked my father to tell my sister to not jump on top of the names in fear she might fall into the water. My dad got really mad and insisted that my sister did nothing, but even she had to admit the truth. He apologized and we continued walking, but only about 2 seconds after my father turned around and told the lady to not be rude. You would have thought that something really serious happened, fortunately nothing of the sort occured. The lady said she wasn't being rude but he wasn't going to give her time to speak (wanting the last word). I'm gonna be honest, I do stuff like that all the time, but that's at school. Because no one's gonna start beef with me and get away with.  

Finally, we reached our destination! The Barnes and Noble store! I wanted to get a new manga book and some other (real) books to read for homework. The two of them spent most of their time in tge kid's section which I had no problem with. All the reading and quietness belonged to me. That is, until a group of college kids started walking up the aisle and talking really loudly. Now I know they weren't intentionally talking loud but it was pretty annoying. However, I wasn't going to lose my perfect spot to a couple of older teenagers. So I emptied my mind until their conversation seemed distant. Okay, that's a lie. I just waited until they left to continue reading... At this point, my sister had broken her slippers so went to get some new ones but ended up buying ice cream and walking back to the apple store. We stayed there for a couple of minutes before heading back to New Jersey.

First Day of School

Today was technically my first day of "school" because there were so many delays that they added up to almost two weeks. So when I got notice that there wasn't going to be any changes and that today was the right day I got super happy. During the night I just couldn't sleep, I was awake for almost 2 hours just in sheer anticipation. And believe me, I definitely wanted to go to sleep, but my excitement wouldn't let me. Even then, when I woke up it was 5:00 A.M but I knew I couldn't sleep so I turned off my alarm and walked downstairs. There, I ate breakfast and put on my clothes. Then, I waited until 6:00 A.M to wake up my sister, let's just say she had a much harder time getting out of bed. Soon enough, the two of us were already down with changing our clothes and eating breakfast. Although she didn't brush her teeth or take a shower ( not like me). 

I took her to the bus stop and waited for about 10 minutes before the bus arrived. Unlike mine, it took almost 30 minutes! Now obviously you can expect buses to not be on track for the first day of school but what surprised me was that all the other kids had already started talking to their friends when I arrived. It's like my bus was the only one late! Unfortunately, us students would not be able to go inside the new building until Monday because the school still hasn't completed the elevator check. When I say this, I mean they didn't finish taking all their tests so they know the building is in safe condition for students. At first I thought this building would be much bigger and believe me it isn't small, because it took most of the parking space. 

But I doubt there is going to be a gym. Unless they somehow built underground, but I don't think that's possible (with all the hardened concrete already placed). So it looks like the school lied to us once again... Anyway, because the building wasn't finished they let us stay in the/ cafeteria or to them "The Multi-Purpose Room". It's pretty boring to tell you the least. However, if we got the oppurtunity to talk to our friends I'm not complaining. Throughout the half day they introduced all the teachers that we would be working with and I liked most of them. None of them were old and pushy like last year (Ms. Yuhas). One of the kids even had the audicity to call Ms. Yuhas out and say how much of a bad teacher she was. Thankfully, she wasn't here because I'd be terrified. Well, honestly the old teacher would either take the girl out of the room to speak to her or just laugh it off because she doesn't want to start any beef. That is it for today's post!

Bears of the Ice: The Quest of the Cubs, part 4

Soon enough the cubs had reached the place where "Uluk Uluk" had told them would be the Roaring. However, they immediatley knew he lied to them since their were volcanoes and other pieces of evidence that supported the fact that Jyette and Stellan's father weren't there. Jette was mad at Stellan because he didn't trust the old bear so she ran off, but now she knows that Stellan was right and is mkaing her way towards him. Stellan and Third were frantically searching for Hyette and Third even recommended that they go back to rest because the winds here were just ferocious (they wouldn't last long). But Stellan's unresting love for Jyette made Third sure that he wouldn't leave until he found her. Meanwhile, the Rougers were able to see the full landscape and spot the two cubs. They knew it would be their job to kidnap them. So the 4 male bears rushed off to capture the little polar bears. Finally, Jyette and the two boys miraculously found each other. They rushed off into the distance but were soon getting chased by the male bears. 

Stellan encouraged all three of them to jump the next patch of ice that might hold them, he knew that it wouldn't be able to carry the weight of the 4 male bears and so decided to take the risk. After they all jumped Stellan brace himself but realized nothing was happening. He heard two thumps from either side and saw that Third and Jyette had also made it safely. They slowly walked to the other side of the thin ice knowing the rougers couldn't reach them. Soon enough, they had made it but saw that one of the male bears had attempted to jump over the ice and died. The other male bears ran back to the ice palace where they would tell their queen of the situation. Eventually, the three cubs met a snow leapord that to Jyette seemed graceful and dangerous at the same time. Her name was, "Skagen" and she promised not to eat them. Stellan at first didn't trust her but for some reason just knew the leapord wouldn't try to kill them, because if she had that intent she could've already.

So they followed her inside of a cave that Third immediately recognized from his dreams. Thats when Skagen told them about their destiny to overthrow the Ice Queen and return the world back to the way it once was. Stellan and Jyette felt as though weren't the right people but then they remembered their grandfather was Svree, one of the great Polar Bears that stood up to the Queen. And their father who carried on this practice but was unfortunately defeated. Skagen told them it was their turn to help overthrow the queen and in order to do that the first priority would be to find their father. He was in the den of the forever lost, where their mother would tell them legends about. Skagen let them stay for several days until they were ready and could already tell this was probably the best time she ever had in her life. 

Bears of the Ice, The Quest of the Cubs Part 3

When they escaped the tooth walker and left Jyette and Stella ran into an old bear inside of a huge building. His name was “Uluk Uluk," when the bear saw the two cubs his eyes immediately sparkled. No because he wanted to eat them, but for a totally different reason. Stellan could tell this from the very beginning because he can faintly read minds, and became very cautious. He couldn’t tell his sister because the old bear would hear him, and Jyette was being very obnoxious anyway because she never suspected a thing. Jyette asked the bear if he could help them find their father, this was when Stellan became extremely worried. He saw the bear trying to deceive them, or at least thought he was. Either way, he knew he couldn’t do anything and decided to follow along, knowing that the old bear might attack them if they don’t obey. Uluk Uluk wanted to show them what appeared to be a red band that would show them the way to the roaring. This was the place where all the male bears went to hunt. In reality the red band was a time piece that would lead them to an area where the routers lay. He wanted them to save the cubs who were being used as tick tocks but there was chance they’d fail. And in doing so he’d basically killed two baby polar bears.

Jyette said bye while Stellan hurried her along the path, they ran into a creek that was filled with sleepy fish and ate well. However, to there surprised they saw another cub struggling to walk towards them. It was third! The cub wasn’t part of their family but still looked very pale and familiar. That’s when they realized he was the cub of the bear that their mom gave them to, until she came back. But, that woman was super mean and the two cubs escape while she was sleeping. However, third was the bear’s cub and couldn’t just abandon her like that, until he had a dream. This dream was about him being taken away by two large male polar bears and brought to a clocktower full of ice. The bears said that becoming a “Tick Tock” would be a lot of fun and then it was going to be amazing. That’s why when third woke up he ran away and his mother was too busy feeding his brothers that she couldn’t stop him.

What the three cubs didn’t know was that there were cows following their move. The birds rushed back to Uluk Uluk to inform them that the cubs were still going in the right direction and that they had a third cub with them. The old bear didn’t seem to have a problem with this and gave the crows a string of twine in exchange for their information. He knew that the birds had a gruesome way of eating, by taking the eyeballs out of kits and then, throwing the body away. They promised not to use the syringe of twine in ordered to take out the eyeballs but Uluk knew they were lying. However, eh felt like an even worse liar because he made the cubs go to their certain death, or their hopeful success (not a big chance). The reason he picked those two cubs especially was because of Stellan’s ability to read minds and Jyette’s incredibly building skills (out of ice). 

Bears in teh Ice: The Quest of teh Cubs Part 2

The next day, when Lago woke up the cubs she told them that it was time for her to leave and said goodbye. First and second were both super sad to see her go but knew they needed to leave as well because their mother wasn’t going to wait. Suddenly, they heard noises coming and followed the sound. Until, they reached a giant arena where the doors were locked and their was a guard standing by. They asked him what was happening and he told them about the “Roaring”, where the males would go to roar and hunt while the woman would stand by and watch. This was what her mother was talking about before she left! However, they couldn’t not enter because of the male bear’s distaste for cubs. Anyway, the guard warned them about the “Rougers”, people who ignored the laws and did everything for themselves. They would be hunting for cubs especially, this got first and second a bit worried but they managed to stay safe. That is…until they tried to find a seal hole. 

Both of the cubs got their hands stuck inside and couldn’t take them out. In this book there are creatures that resemble sharks called, “Frag-Sharks” and they have more teeth then their mouth can handle. Thankfully, there was a seal that came out of the water near them and said he’d help them in exchange for the cubs not to eat him. They agreed and the seal went into the water and distracted the “Frag-Sharks” so that they had enough time to pull their hands out, one by one. Once the cubs thanked the seal they realized that he could be one of their friends. The Seal asked them what their names were and Second explained that cubs in their tribe weren’t named for another season. But because the mother left, the seal said it was time for them to name themselves. Second had always wanted to call herself, Jytte, while First named himself, Stellan. They got heir names from the stars since their mother and father were named after a star. 

The seal introduced himself as “Jameson” and was very kind to the two seals. However, he needed to leave because the war was going to melt soon and seals couldn’t get too hot. But before that he told the two cubs about a beluga whale that died yesterday, he showed the direction and said bye. Jytte and Stellan were grateful for all his help and promised not to forget his actions. Suddenly, they caught sight of the beluga carcass, but there was a tooth walker eating ti already. In the stories their mother used to tell toothwalkers were very vicious creatures that killed anything that got in the way. Basically, Jytte and her brother were able to carefully drag the carcass away from the creature since it was stuck in the freezing water. After having enough of their meal they kept on walking away from the site and the toothwalker had the rest to himself.

The Searching

For today’s post I am going to be talking about what I did yesterday and lets just say it didn’t go so well. So basically, I went to Newport Mall with my mom and sister and we all had a blast at first. My mother wanted to watch the “Nun” which is a really creepy movie about an evil nun who has a demon trapped inside of her body and remembers her dark past because of it. My sister and I were personally really scared so we decided to watch another movie. One that was a lot less creepy and mysterious. We picked, “The Searching” because it is about a man who reported his daughter missing because she didn’t come home for the past 5 days. The man starts going crazy and confronts his brother and some of his daughter’s friends of doing stuff to her. Remind you that his daughter is in high school so she’s not just a little girl. But what he doesn’t know is that her daughter is actually very anti-social and has no one to talk to. 

Anyways, my mother went to watch her movie since it was starting early so my sister and I waited at Johnny Rockets. We ate chicken tenders and hot dogs which I can tell you isn’t good for my body, but they didn’t have anything much better. After a couple of minutes my aunt came and we talked to her. We all had a great time eating food and talking about school (I just went on my phone). An hour later, my mother came back from the movie theater and ordered some coffee. She put so much sugar inside of the coffee because she needed to stay up late. I even donated her my sweater because I am such a nice person to the Tibetan society. And she refused to give it to me for the rest of the day. Finally, our movie started but my aunt needed to go cause she was tired. I walked her to the train station or at least the entrance and said goodbye. On the way back to the AMC movie theater I was just so excited to watch the movie.

Something that really fascinated me was how many Asian people were in the theater. I could tell you that about 9/10 of the people their were Asian. There was like one white family, now I can totally understand why more Asian people came. They were probably intrigued by the trailer of the movie, since it was about an asian man trying to find his missing asian daughter. And then he suspected his asian brother of taking his daughter. You just can’t find as many movies where Asian people are the main characters, but of course thats changing because of the new movie “Crazy Rich Asians” which had an all asian cast. Although being Asian really didn’t have anything to do with it, I bet having a white person or a hispanic person take the role would’ve been fine ( I secretly think that picking an Asian was the perfect choice).

Bears of Ice: The Quest of the Cubs

I was having a bit of trouble deciding which book I would read for today but eventually came across, “Bears of the Ice: The Quest of the Cubs”. Now this one of my sister’s summer reading books but I can assure you she most likely did not read this properly, in the sense that she probably doesn’t remember anything. But when I saw the book I thought it was interesting and wanted to read it for myself. Which is how this is the book the I’m going to be talking about today. Just from the first 5 chapters that I read (not the prologue), I can see that this is relating to fiction and nonfiction. When I saw that I mean that you can technically classify myths or legends as “nonfiction” right? Because while this book talks about Polar Bears and some of the stuff that these animals do in real life, it also has some sort of “Native American” vibe to it. And when I saw that I mean the names of the “legends” that are spoken in this book sound like something out of a Native American culture. Besides that, everyone knows that polar bears and other relevant creatures can’t talk. Anyway, let’s begin!

So the story starts off from the point of view of Svenna. Who is the mother of her two cubs, she calls them “First” and “Second” because it’s “custom” that polar bears from her “tribe” cannot be named until their second season on the ice. In other tribes the cubs would have bene named in the first 3 months of their life. The reason behind them not being named until a second season on the ice is because most cubs die early on so it would feel worse if you named them, theoretically speaking. Svenna is worried for her cubs because she thinks they don’t know how to hunt and fend off for themselves. First is her eldest son and second is the younger daughter. They both enjoy themselves ignoring they’re mother’s words. Eventually, Svenna is able to take control and ask them to find a seal breathing hole. That way they can just bite a seal and drag it on the surface. Then, spin around slamming the seal onto the frozen ice, killing it faster and more humane (to them at least). 

However, as soon as the seal was brought up a male Polar Bear twice the size of Svenna name and stole it. Second tried her best to fight the stealer off but it just didn’t work. The man got away with the seal and second was crying. Her brother and Svenna were trying to calm her but she just couldn’t rest. How could that bear steal their steal! Svenna explained that they’re used to be a law system and bears that did stuff like that would be arrested. But that system as long been gone and the Antarctic is now an unlawful place. You can pretty much get away with more things. Then, Svenna explains to them that she is going to have to leave but she doesn’t tell them the real reason. Instead, the bear brings up an old legend and says that she will be be traveling to that site and then come back home. In the meantime they would be staying with one of their cousins. But, when Svenna left the cousin treated them like strangers and gave all the food to her cubs instead. That was when Second and First ran away while she was sleeping and found a nice fox named, “Lago”. Lago’s two kit’s (babies) were taken by snow owls and eaten. She found the two cubs in her den and decided to help them recover.