Birthday Dinner

My best friend, Sarah, from camp came in from Lake Charles, LA for my birthday weekend. Saturday, August 24, 2013 we went to my birthday dinner.

It's about 6:45 P.M. at Ruth's Chris, Sarah and I are super hungry and ready for a really good steak. We got seated and didn't even have to look at the menu because we already knew what we wanted. So our waiter comes by and gets our drink order and my mom tells him that it's my birthday, he told my "Happy Birthday" and walked away to get our drinks. He comes back with the drinks and bread. Mine and Sarah's stomachs are growling so loud, we were the first to dig into the bread. We finally order, Sarah and I order a petite filet and we are splitting a baked potato. About 15 minutes later the food comes out. I devoured my steak and potato and so did Sarah. It was so good! The waiter, Sean, picked up our plates and once the table is clean he brings out a cheese cake with a candle, so my mom starts to sing to me. Once we finished the cake and paid the bill we went home and ate my actual birthday cake, It was delicious! Sarah and I finally went to sleep at about 12:30. It was so much fun!

Reading Response

The next book will read Perfect By: Natasha Friend. My question to myself is "Which kinds of books do I want to read and or learn about?" Emma Scott read this book and when she presented it to the class I felt a connection with the book. I want to read books that deal with actual problems and I think that the problems in the book are easy to compare with high school.

I feel like I could relate to some of the problems in the book. One being some personal problems like she has and I've never really been bullied before, but I can understand bullying situations. I, also cant relate that her dad died, but I can feel like that is my grandfather's and grandmother. So I want to learn about people dealing with situations like those and I think if I wanted to learn about them that through a book like this I could understand better.


Reading Log- Business Report; Date: 8/22 Time: 120 minutes

Outside reading

book: The Last Little Blue Envelope Author: Maureen Johnson Time: 60 minutes Pages: 1-79
also the choice book stuff preparation Time: 60 minutes

Reading Response to The Knife of Never Letting Go

What I liked most about The Knife of Never Letting Go, was really the whole overview of the book, but mainly when Todd was being chased in the woods are runs into what he thought to be a Spackle, but it was just a girl trying to find her way and follow him. I also liked the relationships. Viola coming in being one of the only girls in the town is scary even though she doesn't have her parents anymore. Viola changed Todd from being the little boy that he was into that man he wanted to become. 

Todd's thoughts changed from him always thinking of himself to thinking about Viola and the rest of the world or town that he was running away from. As I was reading, I was thinking about how the guys in my grade have changed over time and how they sometimes think more about what they are doing and saying rather than saying and doing whatever they want. So I can relate to that. I also really liked The Knife of Never Letting Go.