Today my assignment was to write about a favorite hobby or write an essay on the kind of work I would like to do when I become an adult. So I’ve decided to write an essay on the kind of work I would like to do when I become an adult.

I would like to become a Veterinarian, I’ll start by working for a Vet then maybe, just maybe, start my own business. I’ll definitely need a good college education, I’m not exactly sure what college I’ll go to. But I do know I’ll need to find one with a great Veterinarian school. I’m hoping to work with a Large and Small animal Vet. I try to help my dad doctor on any cattle, or our horses, dogs or cats that need doctoring. And I watch this show The Incredible Dr. Pol. When I started watching I had to look away at a lot of stuff. But now I force myself to look, I also think that it’s funny that when they show the next patient and its symptoms, I pause the show and try to guess what’s wrong with the animal and what treatment they need to use. And most of the time I’m right, only a couple of times I’m wrong. I plan to stick to being in this job. Unless the books I’m writing with a friend turn out to become really popular. And I hope they turn out to be pretty popular, but I also really hope that I can still work as a Vet. I’ve learned from watching this other TV show called Songland that sometimes the song writers need to have another job just so they can pay the bills and I know that when they first start some of them get off to a rocky start and then things start to get better. But also sometimes you need life expenses to be able to write a song or a book. I’ve talked about this a couple of times with my mom and she agrees.   

My assignment for today was to write an essay on one of the following two options, write a set of instructions for something that I like to do. Use sequential order. Or write about my daily routine. Use chronological order. I have decided to do my daily routine, 

• Wake up to a song mom or dad played on the party speaker, 
• Go in the kitchen and see what’s for breakfast. 
• Go into the bathroom and brush the mess/monster of hair. (My hair is really wild in the morning, sometimes I look like Cousin It from the Addams family)
•  Grab breakfast, 
• Go into living room and watch a movie or a Tv show, (right now I’m on a Marvel kick, it’s kind of the only thing I watch right now)
• Get dressed and go on a walk, 
• Come back do school
• In the middle of  one of my breaks tie up the show steer and brush him,
• Finish the rest of school, and turn steer lose, lead him back to his pen and let him go.
• Read my book
• Write more on a book, that I’m writing with a friend
• Eat dinner
• Do it all over again

My assignment today was to compare and contrast the stories of Dr. Boekman’s son Laurens, and the prodigal son in Luke 15. Think about similarities or differences in the characters: Why do they leave home?  What do they do while they are gone? Are they happy being gone? Why do they return home? How are they treated when they return?

   Dr. Boekman’s son Laurens, ran away because he thought that his father was mad because when they were trying the help a patient, Laurens thought that he’d given his father the medicine the he needed in order to cure this man but instead he gave him something else and the man had died later that day. When Laurens found out, he thought he’d murdered the man and his father was mad at him. So he ran away, years later when Laurens was much older (I’m not exactly sure how old he is) he returned home. 

His father was very happy to see him. Larurens, his father, and the Brinker family celebrated his return.  In the prodigal son in Luke 15, the son left his father because he wanted to party and have fun. He wasted all of his money, he was hungry, so he got work but they didn’t give him anything to eat. Then he decided to return home and work for his father. When he returned his father was very happy to see him. They ate the calf that they had been fattening up to eat and had a big celebration. The brother of the son who ran away had gotten jealous because he’d worked hard for his father but they had never done anything like that for him. 

In both stories the boys ran away, but for different reasons. One was scared that he had murdered a man, but he really didn’t mean to. The other wanted to party. In the end their fathers were both happy to see them.    

My assessment for today was to choose another country and write about the interesting facts of that country. Think of the ways that Hans Brinker shows the culture of Holland. Describe the food, popular sports or entertainment, and interesting landmarks or buildings of the country that I choose. So I chose Italy.

Italy

Agriculture

Italy is the world’s largest wine producer and one of the leading in olive oil, fruits and vegetables. Quality goods in which Italy specialises particularly the already mentioned wines and regional cheeses. 

Holiday

Public holidays celebrated in Italy included religious national and regional observances. Italy’s National Day the the Festa Della Repubblica (Republic Day) is celebrated on June second each year. Saint Lucy’s Day, which takes place on the thirteenth of December, is very popular among children in some Italy regions where she plays a role similar to Santa Claus.

Sport

The most popular sport in Italy is football. Italy’s national football team is one of the world’s most successful teams with four FIFA world cup victories. Other popular team sports in Italy include, basketball, volleyball, and rugby. 

Music

From folk music to classical music has always played an important role in Italian culture. Instruments associated with classical music with classical music including the piano and violin were invented in Italy and many of the prevailing classical music forms, such as the symphony concerto and sonata. 

Suspension Bridges

Irish immigrant, James Finley was born in 1756. He became involved in numerous roof building projects. He reviewed bridge design proposals. He used the knowledge of ancient bridges to design efficient models after years of experimenting built suspension bridges in 1801. His bridge spanned 70 feet. Suspension bridge: good strength to-weight ratio. Two main forces: compression and tension. Three loads: dead, live, dynamic. Finley published his patented design in a magazine, many others began using his design. His design spread to Britain through publications, the first suspension bridge in 1820. They spread to continental Europe. 

Fire Hydrant 

Frederick Graff invented the modern fire hydrant. He became friends with its design. He designed an iron “fire plug”. Fire hydrants provide convenient access to fire water. It supplies more water than old mathoods. The water starves a fire. It also cools the fuel. Hydrants can be color coded. Other towns installed hydrant neworks. The wet barrel designs froze in the winter. New designs were devised to overcome this limitation. The dry barrel design arrived by 1812. In 1812,  towns began installing dedicated fire water neworks.

Locomotive

Richrd Trevithick, was born in 1771 in England. Newcomen invented steam engines (1712) and Watt improved. He spent time observing steam engines in mines. In 1801, he built the first high pressure steam locomotive. The locomotive powers the train. Rail transport is energy efficient. The locomotives used fine-tube boilers. They vaporize water which drives the pistons that turn wheels. The steam also provided passenger heat and braking power. Trevihick’s puff devil broke. But on public demonstrations to publicize his locomotives. George Stephenson built a highly refined locomotive in 1814. He participated in locomotive trials for a new railroad company  in 1829.   

My Favorite time of the year

My assignment today was to tell a story about my favorite time of year. I’m not sure, I don’t really have a favorite time of the year, around in summer it’s super hot and I don’t feel like doing much, just staying inside where it’s cool. Now don’t get me wrong I love going outside but it’s so hot. I hate swimming, true be told I can’t swim. But I’m weird in a way that I think there’s something in the water or I’m just scared of drowning. I’m only scared of drowning when it comes to a pool when it comes to the beach. I’m scared of jellyfish and sharks. 

I don’t care if there have been no attacks at the beach, I’m not going in! I remember one time when my mom made me stand close to the water and rolled over my feet. I was fine until a piece of seaweed had touched my foot. I screamed and ran away from the water thinking it was something else. I was only in kindergarten then, but still I’ve never really liked the beach after that. Well I’m not sure if I don’t like the beach I’ve never been back. I’m more of a land girl, not a water and an island girl. I do like the summer though, because the days are longer that way I can do multiple things as in, playing outside, then when it’s getting too hot I can go inside and read, once I’m cooled off I start to get restless, so then I go back outside.

I like October when it’s just starting to get cold but it’s still pretty hot during the day. I really like it because then we have our big family reunion, I have so much fun with all of my cousins. We usually get together on the second weekend of October. Which is right after my birthday. October 17th. I’m not much of a runner which is all my little cousins like to do. They’re not super little as in toddler little, but they’re little to me. They love to run but I don’t like to run because I don’t know why I don’t like to run. I just don’t unless the weather is cool and crisp then I can run for a while. I’m more of a walker. I can walk so fast that my cousins  sometimes have to jog to keep up. So what I’m trying to say here is that I don’t really have a favorite time of the year, I like the summer, I Like fall, I like Winter, I like them all because each one I’m doing something different. 

For example, in the Fall (in the first week of October) we have our county fair. In the summer, (I’m not doing this in order but the way) I put the sprinkler under the trampoline. In autumn we are getting ready for the fair, gathering our cattle and getting ready to sell them. In Winter only it snows at least once (That’s the sad thing about New Mexico it doesn’t snow that much), so when it does, I make sure that I take pictures and gather some snow to make snow cream. Only this year it snowed in the third week of October.