Month: February 2023

Once upon a time, there was a famous zoo keeper of Arizona named Fred Calizon. This is the story if how Fred Calizon, the zoo keeper of Arizona, became famous. Fred always loved to take care of all the animals at the zoo, especially the monkeys. The monkeys and Fred had a special connection at the zoo and all of his co employees knew it, so they let him take care of the monkeys everyday. One day, Fred was walking through the zoo, whistling a new tune he learned last night, on the way to see the monkeys. What Fred didn’t know was that someone has broken into the monkey habitat and fed them a potato of craziness. Basically a potato they made all the monkeys go crazy. Fred skipped his way over to the monkeys, stopping in his tracks when he saw them. They had for sure gone crazy. They were running all over the place and climbing on all the walls, tearing the trees down. Fred was amazed. He adored the monkeys and thought this was adorable, but he knew he had to save the monkeys! He marched in the habitat and used the ripe bananas he magically had in his pocket to lure all of them over to him. Surprisingly it worked and the monkeys all came over to him. He ripped it up into five parts and fed it to the five monkeys! They were better all because of the banana! Everyone outside of the habitat watching and filming were amazed. Fred Calizon saved the monkeys! Over the next few months, everyone was talking about Fred Calizon and the monkeys he saved! That us the story of how Fred became the famous zoo keeper!

Life on my abandoned island is interesting. Not in a bad way. I arrived at the abandoned island after the plane I was on crashed, interestingly enough, I was the only one who ended up here in this island. My everyday life here is overall pretty great. I’ll wake up and to start off the day I take a swim in the ocean, then I’ll go around the forest to find fruit for a nice breakfast. After eating my breakfast I’ll end up sitting in the sand under a nice palm tree and reading a book that I found deserted on the island. After my reading it’ll be around lunch time and Ill start a fire to cook my saved food I have hunted over time. I’ll enjoy that food while walking around, exploring the island that I have seen over a hundred times. After my exploring I’ll go back in the ocean and spend most of my evening in there. Once dinner time has come, I’ll make my food and it will be the best meal of the day while I watch the sun go down over the water. Life is pretty great here, but It gets lonely without any other human life here, but I don’t mind. That’s what my life on an a abandoned island is like.

The Dumbledore quote that resonates with me is, “We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.” I interpret this quote as a way of saying that everyone must decide between doing the best thing or doing the easy thing. It’s almost like choosing two paths in a fork in the road. You can go down the path with the best possible outcome even if its risky, or you can go down the path that will get you a decent outcome you know for sure. That is how I interpret this quote. How it relates to me is because I imagine it how I play volleyball. In tournaments, especially important tournaments, I can choose to do the thing that will give the best outcome in the moment and we could get the point but its risky and may mot work. It’s a 50/50 chance. Or I could do what is the easiest way that is possible to get the point, just less scary than doing the other choice. Thats how this Dumbledore quote resonates with me.

This month I read Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon. This book is about a young girl, Rowan Roth, on her last year if High school, specifically the last day, and all she’s hoping to do is, ignore her rival, win valedictorian, and get through the day. Although that becomes harder to do when her mortal rival, Neil McNair, Wins valedictorian and Rowan doesn’t. Now all Rowan Really wants is to beat Neil one final time during their senior city wide scavenger hunt, Howl. Barely with any clues already, Rowan and Neil team up to conquer all of their other fellow seniors, and then when its just them left, whoever makes it back to the gym first wins. Although, along the way, Rowan and Neil venture through many moments of each other lives that they knew about. Rowan starts to think she might not hate Neil as much as she thought she did while Neil on the other hand is giddy with having a major crush on Rowan since Freshman year. Overtime they work out their past and what will happen to them at the end of Howl?

What I loved most about this book is that it was a very cute easy book to get through that had me hooked from the beginning. It was a very cute and fun story to read about through Rowans perspective, especially with a special chapter from Neil point of view at the end. My favorite character in this book was Rowan Roth. She was my favorite character because she has a very similar mind to my own and I could see myself in her while reading the whole book. One character trait that represents Rowan is sentimentality. A quote that shows this is, “While I love romance, I’ve never believed in the concept of soul mates, which has always seemed a little like men’s rights activism: not a real thing. Love isn’t immediate or automatic; it takes effort and time and patience.
The truth of it was that I’d probably never have the kind of luck with love like the women who live in fictional seaside towns do. But sometimes I get this strange feeling, an ache not for something I miss, but for something I’ve never known.”

My favorite line in this book would have to be, “’Crush’ is too weak a word to describe how I feel. It doesn’t do you justice, but maybe it works for me. I am the one who is crushed. I’m crushed that we have only ever regarded each other as enemies. I’m crushed when the day ends and I haven’t said anything to you that isn’t cloaked in five layers of sarcasm.” This certain quote is my favorite because it’s the one specific part of the book that had me with a smile on my face the whole time and was easily one of my favorite parts of the book. I love how it’s not just a soft easy confession but a deep heartfelt way of expressing his feelings for Rowan after four whole years.