Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead. Penguin Group, 2007 Genre: Fiction
Vampire Academy is about a princess vampire and her guardian. They had ran away from their special academy then two years later the people trying to get them back finds them and brings them back. As their high school life resembles ours with hating and heartbreaking. He princess Lissa and her best friend Rose is her guardian. Rose is human and vampire which makes her Dhampire. And Strigoi are trying to turn Lissa into one of them, and Rose must protect her. Their life is different coming back after being away for so long, Rose is basically on lockdown so she doesn’t try to run away again and have many rules not to break or she will be kicked out and then Lissa would be alone. Lissa also seems to want to help Rose for once, but she ends up getting carried away, and it is not good. She seems to be turning like what had happened before they ran away. Will it repeat the past? If you want to know what happened next then you are going to have to get the book.
“A dark and compelling world! Rose is sassy, dangerous -my kind of girl.” -Gena Showalter
This book is one of a couple other books she had written. This is also the first of a series. She writes in Roses’ perspective and it stays that way. The only time it is in Lissas’ perspective and Roses’ is when Rose goes into Lissa mind. Then have sush a strong connection and you and just feel it. That they have a very special and unique bond. I haven’t read any other books by her but plan to later on.
“The guy’s dark eyes lingered on the now covered bite a moment longer and then met mine. I returned his look defiantly and quickly jerked out of his hold. He let me go, though I knew he could have restrained me all night if he’d wanted.” (11)
This book was great! I don’t like reading, but I enjoyed reading Vampire Academy. It made me want to keep reading. There was a lot of turns and suspense. She put a lot of great effort on this book and it paid off. There is so much detail and description that it is almost as if I was there tagging along with them the whole time.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Biking toward laughter with friends
Money for a lot of people is the most important thing these days, but how does the people with very little money live on. Is there something they use to replace money? Or do they just hate life and everything? Does money really buy happiness? Or is being with the people you love, more than money can ever give you?
The sound of wind through my hair, and bike tires on gravel. Faster then the speed of lightning! As I make my way down this hill I feel so alive. Little bumps are no match for a diamondback! I stay remained on the seat till I catch some air. Jolting forward as I hit the brakes till I slow down enough to turn the corner. Then I have to work my way up hill again.
I value something’s that is worth money, but not for that reason. It was Christmas morning. As I stepped downstairs skipping the second to last stair so I miss the creaky one. It was quite and peaceful, but cold so I grabbed a sweatshirt. I couldn’t wait for everyone to get up. I waited eagerly hoping it wouldn’t be much longer. When they did get up we went to our living room and opened up presents. We were almost done and my mom said when you are done Cindy to go to the basement. I said OK and finished up.
We all went to the basement it was very cold so I wanted to hurry up. Then she told me to go to the side room. As I went in I saw the awesome purple bike. It was a diamondback bike. That meant it was a dirt bike so would be easy to go through woods and on normal pavement and it gets yearly tune ups and all that kind of stuff. I gave her a hug and then got stuck bringing it up stairs. It is not that heavy so easy to move around. I love it and it gets me places faster than walking and when I can’t get a ride. Also it is environment friendly too.
“OMG! What is that?!” I shouted at Jess, and JJ added “It is her face!” Then a huge burst of laughter came about all of us. “You got to take a picture, everyone get in, on the count of three get ready….1…..2…..3!” and after the snapshot sound went off we moved.
I value something that no one could ever put a price on. A beautiful day to go outside and JJ suggested we do. JJ just found an application on my computer that uses my webcam. He said there were are all these features that we could play with and one of his favorites he said is the reflection. Where you can see only to one side and it reflects back. There are two of all of use and the person in the middle is really funny looking with their face messed up if it’s not exactly in the middle. We got into weird poses and took pictures to remember this. After most of them I ended up on the ground and laughing till we couldn’t breath.
JJ started to do full body videos so we backed up. And Chris came up with a joke of making people disappear. He had me standing next to him then pushed me to his left and then “POOF!” I would vanish because on the screen you can only see from the middle to the right and the other side is reflected. It looked so cool and amazing; it was the best feeling and amazing memory.
What I value the most is precious memories with friends. I still love some of the valuable things in life like getting a new bike or something special from a friend. To me money doesn’t bring true happiness only my friends do. When I look at a bike and my friends you can clearly see the differences. Unlike the bike my friends are alive and can have fun with me the bike on the other hand is a bunch of metal and plastic which doesn’t show if its’ happy or sad. Having friends is so much more than a bike. Having a bike thro is what gets me to my friends’ house on certain days. A lot of the time no one can drive and walking is just too long of a wait to see them. That’s when I grab my bike on nice days and glide my way there. If I didn’t have a bike I would still go but it would waste more time without being with my friends, and to me that matters the most. In any day is a good day to hangout and it’s the best days when we have a goofy day and make each other laugh.
The sound of wind through my hair, and bike tires on gravel. Faster then the speed of lightning! As I make my way down this hill I feel so alive. Little bumps are no match for a diamondback! I stay remained on the seat till I catch some air. Jolting forward as I hit the brakes till I slow down enough to turn the corner. Then I have to work my way up hill again.
I value something’s that is worth money, but not for that reason. It was Christmas morning. As I stepped downstairs skipping the second to last stair so I miss the creaky one. It was quite and peaceful, but cold so I grabbed a sweatshirt. I couldn’t wait for everyone to get up. I waited eagerly hoping it wouldn’t be much longer. When they did get up we went to our living room and opened up presents. We were almost done and my mom said when you are done Cindy to go to the basement. I said OK and finished up.
We all went to the basement it was very cold so I wanted to hurry up. Then she told me to go to the side room. As I went in I saw the awesome purple bike. It was a diamondback bike. That meant it was a dirt bike so would be easy to go through woods and on normal pavement and it gets yearly tune ups and all that kind of stuff. I gave her a hug and then got stuck bringing it up stairs. It is not that heavy so easy to move around. I love it and it gets me places faster than walking and when I can’t get a ride. Also it is environment friendly too.
“OMG! What is that?!” I shouted at Jess, and JJ added “It is her face!” Then a huge burst of laughter came about all of us. “You got to take a picture, everyone get in, on the count of three get ready….1…..2…..3!” and after the snapshot sound went off we moved.
I value something that no one could ever put a price on. A beautiful day to go outside and JJ suggested we do. JJ just found an application on my computer that uses my webcam. He said there were are all these features that we could play with and one of his favorites he said is the reflection. Where you can see only to one side and it reflects back. There are two of all of use and the person in the middle is really funny looking with their face messed up if it’s not exactly in the middle. We got into weird poses and took pictures to remember this. After most of them I ended up on the ground and laughing till we couldn’t breath.
JJ started to do full body videos so we backed up. And Chris came up with a joke of making people disappear. He had me standing next to him then pushed me to his left and then “POOF!” I would vanish because on the screen you can only see from the middle to the right and the other side is reflected. It looked so cool and amazing; it was the best feeling and amazing memory.
What I value the most is precious memories with friends. I still love some of the valuable things in life like getting a new bike or something special from a friend. To me money doesn’t bring true happiness only my friends do. When I look at a bike and my friends you can clearly see the differences. Unlike the bike my friends are alive and can have fun with me the bike on the other hand is a bunch of metal and plastic which doesn’t show if its’ happy or sad. Having friends is so much more than a bike. Having a bike thro is what gets me to my friends’ house on certain days. A lot of the time no one can drive and walking is just too long of a wait to see them. That’s when I grab my bike on nice days and glide my way there. If I didn’t have a bike I would still go but it would waste more time without being with my friends, and to me that matters the most. In any day is a good day to hangout and it’s the best days when we have a goofy day and make each other laugh.
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