Monterey Part 1

Hey guys! What's up? I went to Monterey during summer vacation with some of my relatives on my mom's side and a relative's friend. I took lots of pictures on my Kodak Camera, and a couple of videos too, and so I'm going to share all of the pictures I took!!!

When we reached Monterey and finally parked in a parking lot space, there were stairs that led down to the aquarium on the left side, and buildings of food and stuff like that on the right side. There was a statue without a body aside, and so I decided to take a picture. My Tita Beth took this (my aunt Beth, but in truth she's really "Lola Beth"). Aren't I adorable?

When I reached the Monterey Bay Aquarium, I stopped a moment to take a picture with the sign, just like I did the last time I went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

        When I got inside, one of my relatives showed an employee our tickets, and we headed immediately to a big diving tank full of kelp and algae. It seemed like I just got there in time, because there were scuba divers cleaning the tank. One scuba diver even waved at me!

After a short minute waving at the scuba divers, I hurried by the Deep Reef, which their sign is below.

In the Deep Reef, I took a picture of a tank full of... sea anemones? I'm not sure, because I forgot. There's no animals lurking around in this tank, just sea anemones (possibly). You can see a black line at the left, which shows a cut off sea anemone, but that's not your eyes playing tricks. The tank is like a box, each side has a square. So, it's just the beginning of a new square.

We went outside of the Deep Reef to go to the Touch Pool Area, which is my favorite part of the aquarium. There was a place to touch bat rays, and in truth they don't electrocute/sting you unless you treat them badly. I touched the Bat Ray when it came, and you can see my Ate Jessie's hand touching the Bat Ray too. My hand is the one with the watch.

Next to the Bat Ray Touch Area, there was also a place where you could touch starfish and kinds of plants. I didn't take a picture there because I only got a chance to touch the Bat Rays. Instead, we went inside a little place where a kind of waterfall would splash down. Don't worry, the water's not dripping over me. But doesn't it look like the water's dripping? Maybe not, but still!

There was a turtle tank near the building, and so I went to check it out and take a picture. I ended up pressing the video button, and I can't necessarily access the video on this blog, so I'm sorry :( .

Someone suggested going outside after we checked out the turtles, and so we went outside to look at the view. This is just a downward view of what I was seeing at the water from above.

Rocks, yay! With some birds to perch on it. Very fascinating...

Okay, enough of that outside nonsense, and into the cool world of jellyfish! Yay! Woo-hoo! These are two jellyfish swimming around a tank, ready to electrocute. (cue the cliffhanger music- dahn dahn dahn...)

I thought this was a fascinating thing to take, even though there's no image whatsoever, just words. Isn't it cool that jellyfish are "Japanese Sea Nettles?" And that they "keep a beat and go with the flow?" Does that mean jellyfish come from Japan? Hmmm. That goes for a thoroughly search through Google!

Are those mini jellyfish?
I'm not even sure... Huh.

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Awwww, look at the cute little seahorse!
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Okay, since I took a lot of pictures, this is going to be Part 1. Part 2 will be coming out whenever I have time.
Thanks for reading my blog!
And remember, I'll be seeing you in Atlanta!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Hi!

Hi! It's Gianelli. Sorry, I did not write a lot of posts during the whole summer. Anyways, it's a Friday right now, and thank goodness it is because I'm sick of having homework and quizzes and school. I've transferred over from an elementary school to a middle school, and it's much more complicated now. And don't take that as a compliment!
                Lots of school work now. Less time for blogs. Less time for anything. Even golf! Thankfully, I am still going to Georgia to celebrate Ate Elaine's wedding. Woo-hoo Nov. 3! I get to spend my birthday there YAY! And go on a plane again! It's been two years since I've been on one, and yes, two years is a lot for me. Hopefully I didn't get a fear of flight during the time (dahn dahn dahn).

              Speaking of planes, did you know that it was 9/11 a couple days ago? 9/11 is the day in 2001 when a group of bad people took over three planes and crashed the Pentagon (i don't even know if that's right but whatever), the Twin Towers, and also attempted to crash the White House. Imagine if the White House was crashed! Then it would probably be rebuilt, but still. The White House is ancient, and it will be replacing the ancientness no matter what! But I'm pretty sure that the White House has been replaced. Whatever. I'm really bad at listening to what the story was. My teacher for the last three periods talked about 9/11, and what she was doing when it happened. It was so scary, she had told us.
           I like to make videos, and so I made a video I made using the application iMovie. It's awesome, and it's basically my morning routine. So yes it's awesome and I wish you could've checked it out!!!!!
          Omigosh I'm sick right now! I have a runny nose, and my voice sounds a little weird. It also feels like I haven't brushed my teeth for a year. Ever get that feeling? Oh, whatever. Hopefully I feel better. I also have another video and it's me undercover, but that was deleted.
         Whoops. I gotta go! BYE!

Summer!!!!!

Hi guys! If you haven't watched the video of me doing a music video to a singer Shealeigh's "What Can I Say," then click the video! I hope you enjoy/enjoyed it, because I had a lot of fun working on it.      

Now that it's summer, I might be doing more posts so I can keep track of the things happening like my golf tournament which is going to be happening in July. It's in San Diego, isn't that cool? It's Junior World, by the way, for the name of the tournament.

I'm on summer vacation now, but I still have to do some schoolwork so I can practice my cursive and math sometimes. Summer is really fun, but it can also be not fun at some times. For example, Tatay and I went out to grab a doughnut dozen at Lucky's, and while Tatay was grabbing coffee at the Seattle's Best Coffee machine, I had to pay it myself. So I went to the cashier and got out my wallet. "Four ninety-nine," the employee had told me, and he held out his hand for the money. I gave him five dollars, and he handed me the receipt saying, "Cash due, nothing." I stood there for a moment, wondering if the employee forgot to give me the penny. But NOOOOOOO! I did not get my penny. I was too embarrassed to say that the employee forgot to give me the change. So I just walked out with the dozen of doughnuts with Tatay trailing behind saying, "Ang inet!" which means "It's so hot!" in Tagalog. Now I'm wondering, what if the world was about to be destroyed and I was the only one who could save it and I needed a penny but I didn't have a penny because the employee didn't give me it???
At least the doughnuts are good.

   I blame Mommy for eating all the doughnuts...........................................


     Do you know what karma is? Well, if you don't, karma is: When you do something bad, something bad comes to you. It basically means, treat others the way you want to be treated, and if you don't, things are going to get ugly. Unfortunately, I did not realize this until I went out in the backyard to check on the foot spa I made. Wondering the materials? Okay, I'll clue you in. You need: 1 BUCKET THAT YOU CAN STORE FOR GOLF BALLS AND SODA, 1 HOSE, AND 1 CHAIR. Anyways.... I had made the foot spa the day before and left the bucket full of water over the night. When I came back to check on the water, there was a bug in the water!!! "No one messes with my foot spa," I said matter-of-factly to the bug, and decided to train the bug to be tougher and not mess with me. So I took multiple times of pouring water over the bug, having him walk on the "golf club bridge" to get to the grass (but then I would pour water on the bug so it would just fall into the bucket again), and whirl pooling the bug so it would get dizzy. An hour later, the bug was practically about to die, and I did not want to be the cause of a bug dying. So I grabbed my golf club and set the bug on the face of the golf club. I decided to pour a little water on it for fun, but then, erm.. I kind of poured too much and the bug fell on the grass, probably dead, unconscious, or all of the above. After that I left to wash my feet from the foot spa and to leave the guilty party. I realized that I left my pogo stick in the backyard so I opened the backyard door to get it, and then opened the screen door. Suddenly, craaeeck! The screen door fell. I quickly widened my eyes, ran to grab the pogo stick, and tried fixing the screen door while balancing the pogo stick at the same time. Unfortunately, the pogo stick lost its balance and fell on my foot, causing me to get a little scrape. "Oh, karma," I immediately thought. I mean, breaking the screen door? Pogo stick fall? I was going to have a little trouble when I was going to face "The Bug" in heaven. Now I'm a teeny aware that something else bad might happen to me!

See? I have the picture to prove it.



Hopefully it doesn't involve my golf. Now I'm starting to figure out "Third Time's A Charm" has a bad view to it.

Happy summer SENSATION (yes I am still on to that) I hoped you like my post!!!! :)

Outdoor Ed

Hi guys, I know it's been like a long time since I posted something, because it's already 2012! But the very first thing I seriously want to share with the blog is the best thing fifth graders looked forward too: OUTDOOR ED! If you don't know what "Outdoor Ed" means, it basically is camping, except with your schoolmates, since this is a school program at my school. Anyways, when I got on the bus (there were three buses, but there's four fifth-grade classes so my teacher had to drive her own car to Camp Loma Mar, and so my class was split up) I could see my parents out the window, waving. I gulped, hoping that I wouldn't be homesick, and waved back. They smiled, and we kept waving at each other for which seemed like forever. My cabin buddy Jasmine had already gotten on and had sat next to me. Since I was in her teacher's bus, the teacher started out role for her class, and then my class. When she was done calling out the last person, the teacher whispered something to the bus driver, and the bus driver nodded and pulled out of the school slowly as possible. No one screamed to get off the bus for their parents, thankfully, for I was scared that I might.
When the bus screeched to a stop next to the other buses, we got introduced to the camp and settled into our cabins. My other cabin buddy, Destiny, spotted Jasmine and me. " Hey, guys, over here!" she said, patting a spot for the introduction to Girls' Village. A woman explained the rules firmly to all the girls, and we all nodded vigorously. She finally put us into our cabin groups, and I got into a cabin called the Western Bumblebees. Our counselor introduced herself to us. " Hi, I'm Amanda," she said excitedly. " Guess what? I have decorations for the cabin." " Cool!" our cabin chorused. " I also have stuff for you guys to wear to the Barnyard Boogie." Amanda grinned. The Barnyard Boogie is this night where you can dress all crazy and... well, boogie! It happens on the next night. More Cools traveled around the cabin. A girl I know who was in my cabin yelled, " We have the best counselor in the whole village!"
After we set up our stuff, we went to meet our naturalist for an Opening Ceremony. We saw the principal, Kodiak Bear (I think that's how it's spelled), and he introduced all the naturalists, and a couple of songs. Also a "Baby Erin," who everybody suspiciously suspected was really a 40-year-old. I met my cabin's naturalist, and she gave us an "Intro Hike," which really meant just a walking tour and some walking around the trees. She didn't tell us her real name, just that her nature name was Dandelion. Who knows, her real name may be Dandelion! After that we had Rec Time (Recess Time), where a lot of games were introduced. My whole cabin went up to the Western Bumblebees Cabin, since you could also hang out in the cabin. Amanda was there, and she suggested we do our skit for Skit Night. Skit Night is an evening activity, just like the Barnyard Boogie. We didn't have time for that, though, since we were too busy unpacking and decorating. We pressed on about the Barnyard Boogie decorations, but Amanda kept her lips zipped about it. After that, we had Cabin Time, which was pretty useless since we already spent an hour in the cabin. We thought of our skit though, which was this:
Main Girl: Oh my gosh, there's a piece of trash on the floor! What should we do?
Main Devil: Why'd you wake me up?
Main Angel: Oh, hello, I was just getting my beauty sleep (British accent).
Main Devil: You mean ugly sleep?
Main Angel: No. Anyways, what do you need?
Main Girl: So what should I do with this trash?
Main Angel: You should recycle it.
Main Devil: No, you should litter!
Main Angel: Nuh-uh!
Main Devil: Yeah-huh! See? She agrees with me.
Minor Devil: (jumps in) Yeah, of course.
Minor Angel: (jumps in too) I agree with the angel!
Main Girl, Main Angel, Main Devil, Minor Angel, and Minor Devil argue at once.
Yoga Girl: (walks in) Excuse me, excuuuuse me!
Stops arguing.
Main Devil: What do you want?
Yoga Girl: Stop arguing, people, and inzen with Mother Nature.
Does yoga pose. Two backup yoga people join in with other yoga poses.
Main Angel: Oh, you mean, like ploga?
Yoga Girl and Backup Yoga People: YEAH! We'll teach you how.
Yoga Girl: Only if the devils agree.
Minor Devil and Main Devil: No.
Main Girl: ACT. Attitude, cooperation, and take a chance. Please do it for once!
Minor Devil and Main Devil: Well, alright.
Yoga Girl and Backup Yoga People: teach others to do ploga, which leads into a plant song we learned from Outdoor Ed.
Yoga Girl and Backup Yoga People: disappear
Minor Devil and Minor Angel: disappear
Main Angel: So, what was I saying? Oh, yeah. You should recycle.
Main Devil: Well... yeah, you should! I think I'm going to go get myself a halo.
Main Angel: Yup, the best ones are at Target.
Main Girl: I'll recycle! drops trash into recycling bin
THE END!!! I hope you liked the skit. So, anyways, that was Skit Night, so I'm not going to talk about that. The Barnyard Boogie was fun. So the last thing is the Night Hike. It was very quiet and dark and so nice! We couldn't use our flashlights, which was the best part about it. The time when we started hiking around the trees, I was kind of scared and wanted to hear some voices so badly. Unfortunately, we couldn't talk, because Dandelion had specifically told us not to since she wanted us to hear some owls. I couldn't hear anything, and I couldn't see anything. It was like I was blind, since everything was so black. We all sat down in a circle, and Dandelion told us a story of how she survived in the dark and so we would too. Then, to prove it, she told us that she would walk down the path, and then the people would follow her without any help. Amanda and our other group, a boys' group's, counselor Sheldon, started picking one person. Amanda got to choose first, and she chose ME. Isn't that scary, being the first one to follow Dandelion the naturalist? I gulped and stepped carefully onto the path, blinking. My night vision wasn't even clearing, but I made it to Dandelion safely, with the help of her instrument's music. We went back to our cabins to sleep, and I could sleep better. Well. That's all I'm going to tell you, future Outdoor Ed people! And relatives, read this now for pleasure! Outdoor Ed rocks!