Persuasive Writing

There was a massive difference between black people and white people. White people didn’t socialize much with black people. The mentality white children had then was completely racist towards black people, therefore if I were a black woman I would not let my child attend an all white school. As I said before, children then had an idea in their head that black people were less than them, like they had no rights. I would not take the risk of getting my child in danger of getting beat up, getting yelled at, or anything of that sort. I’d let her have friends that are white but never let go to an all white school. We live in a world, which there is still racism going on. If it were now, I would let my child go to an all white school but then, I wouldn’t even consider letting my child go. I’m sure that my child would not like to attend an all white school either. Black children being allowed to go to an all white school was too rapid. Things were changing and racism looked like it was going to fade away. Nothing would stop me from stopping my child to go to an all white school.

Still I Rise

Still I rise
-- Maya Angelou


You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.


Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise

Voice Recording: http://candyrainbow.podbean.com/mf/web/3xbw8y/StillIRiseChiqui.mp3

Analysis


The Poem Still I rise is a very extraordinary poem. An African American woman named Maya Angelou, born in Marguerite Ann Johnson on April 4th of the year 1928, wrote it.
By reading this unique poem I saw repetition, Still I Rise. When she says “Just like moons and like suns” she shows that she’s a woman and it’s like a cycle. By the way she talks about herself, she shows that she is in fact very confident of her looks and what she can do. She is very tough, she knows that all people want from her is to put her down and break her soul, but nothing puts her down. She points out that no matter what happens no matter what people do to put her down, she will rise. The more you show you are completely confident to your enemy the angrier he will get. She also points out that she is just as valuable as a white people. She is for sure very mature and she is not at all shameful of her skin color. In the way she writes I can also see that she is a feminist. Her being attractive, is an obstacle to white women, jealousy may create a conflict between them and her, white men in general were attracted to her. She represents herself as a black woman quite a few times. She also rhymes in this poem and uses words such as sassiness, haughtiness and sexiness. When she used the term “sexiness” she shows that men do appreciate her being sexy, and her ability to reproduce.

Hit The Road Jack

Rose Canes Street Dickson 27.
Los Angeles 9857
January 12 2005

Dear Sindy
Baby, I'm sorry. But what you've done to me did no good to us either. I lost my desire to eat my protein bars, injecting my arms. Look baby just come back to me please. Since you walked out my door my apartment has been a disaster. I rarely wash the dishes, clean my room, in fact I'm barely home. But honey I promise you, that if you come back to where you belong in my arms, I will change. I'll be a better man, I'll change for you.

Dear Jack
Change? Do you know how many times that word came out of your mouth? Well I'm done with you and all your lies. I wasn't expecting you to say anything different anyway. I do not want anything with you. Lately that I've been single I feel a lot better than when I was with you, it was like I was locked up. You treated me like trash. Do you think I appreciate something like you? As far as I know, I deserve a lot better. It ended Jack, long long ago.

Dear Sindy
I love you! isn't that enough? Look I know that if I apologize a hundred times it won't change anything. But everyone deserves a second chance. Please Sindy believe me. I'm not playing around anymore. If you come back and see how I am and how I've been changing my bad habits cleaning the apartment, I stopped smoking too. Listen if you want to forget everything we had, it's alright. But I want you I need you. You're the one I need

Dear Jack
Jack call me tomorrow at 8. See you soon

Romeo and Juliet Videos

Flip Book Video

I liked this video. It’s very original and interesting. The fact I like the most is that the person that did it, worked on it and took a while to do it, because he had to draw it out and then tape it. On the other hand he could have found a better way to hold the flip book and the video could have been in a better quality.

Romeo and Juliet The Suicidal Video

I truly liked this video. The drawings are impressed me because they weren’t perfect and simple but it looked very good. And the different colors they used were fine. Plus the song they used for the video was just perfect for the situation.

Romeo & Juliet Stop Motion Style

This video was my favorite out of all of them. The whole video was just perfect. No mistakes at all. I liked the characters they chose to represent each character in the real thing. The lightning and the expressions of the characters were fabulous. This video is so good I watched it twice.

Romeo & Juliet (9th Vid)

This video was ok. It didn’t impress me at all. But what I liked about it was that the socks were good. The scene in that video is my favorite scene in the movie; I think that’s what made me like the video. And it was an original idea to do this video with the socks. Wasn’t bad.

Tiffany Charles

Tiffany Charles was born in 1923 on the 3rd of March. Born and raised in New York. Her interests were painting acting and writing. Though the most important thing for her, was to gain her father’s love.
Background
Tiffany loved watching her mother dress up for gala diners, cocktail parties and events. Although she realized that things you do not need in life, look pretty for a while but won’t in fact make you truly happy. Her mother was a woman that loved to love beautiful things. She married Tiffany’s father, Dean Charles and gave birth to Tiffany and her older brother. The Charles family was tremendously wealthy for generations. They were the owners of Cadillac cars, Onassis jewelry, and lots of other companies here and there. They had houses everywhere, all around the world. Tiffany and her brother went to the finest schools in New York. They both finished high school and university.
Early Life
When Tiffany turned 6 in the year 1929, her father gave her a pony as a gift. Tiffany started to love her father more and more every day, not because he gave her a pony, because she thought he’s start showing her love. As days, months and thoughts passed her mind she couldn’t find a way to make him show love to her. In her later years, when she was a teenager, she saw that she wasn’t getting any interest from her father and she stopped trying, though it was always stuck in her head. Tiffany’s mother always filled her head up with so many lies about her father not showing her any affection.
Later Life
In 1944 she fell in love with a man called James Daniels. She married in 1946 and divorced 5 years after her marriage. She didn’t have any children during those years, although she did have an affair with James’s closest friend. She ended up pregnant with him but had an abortion and kept it a top secret. After the abortion, Tiffany starved herself until she became bulimic. No one if truth be told cared about how skeletal she looked, but she also found a way to hid this other one secret, in fact most people thought she was just thin. Men she’s been with said something similar to this: Tiffany was a very odd person sometimes but there was just something about her that made her stand out. After her marriage ended her father didn’t speak to her at all, giving her no excuse what so ever. This broke her heart in pieces.
She was nothing like usual wealthy women. You see Tiffany wasn’t very passionate about materialistic things. But she couldn’t help being around people who loved that sort of thing. She didn’t have much friends or closely related people to her. Most people wanted to become her friend because of how wealthy she was and this fact made Tiffany even more depressed and lost in her confusion.
Tiffany suffered a lot during her later years after she was a teenager. She started using drugs and she didn’t eat much food. She, in no way stopped being bulimic. The drugs she started to use were: Marijuana, Cocaine, and sleeping pills. She didn’t see her father very often, but whenever he’s see her he’s turn the other way. Her mother was too busy in things that didn’t interest Tiffany.
Tiffany was found dead in a hotel room, in the year 1960 on June 11th at approximately 7:45 a.m. She had committed suicide the last night she saw her father. She did leave a note on the table next to her bed she was found dead in. The note she wrote before she died wasn’t allowed for the press to know about. How they found about her life and her secrets, were because she had a diary and wrote everything, her thoughts, her wishes just everything was on there. Once she died, she obviously became famous and something I did not mention before, was that she had written a book when she was 17 years old and kept it under her jewelry box. They say that if she was still alive she’d be one of the most talented people in New York City.
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http://www.whywouldyoukillyourself.com/
http://www.shekillsherdelfinahotelroom.com/
http://www.drugabuseandbulimia.com/
References:
http://www.tiffanycharlesbiography.com/
http://www.tiffanycharlesthelegend.com/
http://www.earlyandteenlifeoftiffcharles.com/
http://www.whytiffanycharleskillsherself.com/
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http://www.loveandpeacefortiffany.com/
http://www.loveaffairofcharles.com/
Hyperlink: School Tiffany and her brother went to was Regis High School and the University they both went to was the New York University, Tiffany also went to Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.

Poverty In Haiti

Haiti is one of the world’s poorest countries, where most of the population lives in poverty. The problems in the Haiti’s world was the effect of massive poverty that has been getting worse over the last decade. Everywhere you go on the island you see poor people roaming in the street, ruining the beautiful views. Haiti’s poverty affects people’s life styles, health, and state of mind because the environment that you live in has such an impact on these parts of life.
Haitians have a life expectancy of about 57 years old. Because of this, Haitian’s would have been married off at a very young age because of how long they can live. Most of Haiti’s population is illiterate, meaning that they are unable to read and write. Only the wealthy and scholars were able to write and read which was only about 5% of the population. Healthy living ways are very hard to keep in such poor conditions, for example only 25% of children get vaccinated and less then one forth of the populating has access to clean water. The trouble is that Haiti not only has people in these conditions, however there are so many people and they keep on reproducing among themselves from young ages.
One reason for Haiti’s tremendously big poverty problem is the government. Over the years there has never been a stable government, and the consequences of that has reflected onto the citizens of Haiti, such as the terrible places people are forced to live in. The government its self is not doing much to improve the situation that the country is in and it will take many, many years for them to come out of this position if it ever does get better.
This country is in what is called a “poverty trap”. The country of Haiti is put into this category because of all the little things that are added up, for example the high population growth, no money, and poor conditions. There is not much hope for Haiti to come out of its “poverty trap” and it will certainly need a lot of hard work put into the countries government and helping the poor people.
What needs to be done?
There are many different things that need to be done in Haiti. Help and assistance is urgent. Institutions are being made in Haiti in the last years though a lot more need to be done. The Government has to concentrate more on critical things. The things that really have to be done first are: maintaining public order, and economic stability, securing property rights, building a regulatory role for some sectors and investment in and maintenance of communications and transportation. There have been many achievements in the Haitian Police and the Central Bank has helped a lot too. But in this country, is a fairly large country, and so many things need to be done there.
A good first step would be making use of the capitalization program like telecommunications, electricity, water, water sector, ports and airports. All of these things will happen in a more rapid way if the economic stabilities in Haiti get improved. Another thing that would make Haiti a better place would be increasing recourses, making more educational schools, and the services to any basic human needs that are needed. Most of all these things need very well done plans for them to be successful, what I’m saying is that these things will need a long period of time to happen and the Haitian government shall keep trying to make these things possible.
When discussing about donations, governments from around the world hesitate to donate supplies for this country. Some are too scared some just don’t care. Well I know that people should help make this country recover from its poverty and all of the sad things that happen all of the time. Children that are born and don’t have any future, are being forced to do certain things they shouldn’t be doing. Wealthy families all around the world should donate large amounts of money to this poor country. I mean there must be much more help. And I know people can do this. Though donations were given to the Haitian government, in 1997 it wasn’t effective at all.
Bibliography: http://poverty2.forumone.com/library/view/8648

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbbM8OM9Dqw

NYC

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      At night there was a Latin event. One of the biggest tin American Legend was performing that night, he was brilliant, it was spectacular I was completely amazed at how much talent this man had.   

      While I was exploring these buildings a bird flew and stopped right in front of me, I thought it was beautiful so I took a picture of the bird. When I took a picture a bunch of people came towards me to take a picture as well.  

      After that, we went to empire state building and saw Manhattan, Brooklyn and New Jersey. Although the day was kind of foggy I still took good pictures. I liked seeing all of those building. The man there which was explaining what these buildings were, he was explaining to us that all the people that come to work in Manhattan come from New Jersey and the Bronx, not all of them, but most of them.

      The next day we went to Times Square. Oh My God, it was insane I loved it! I couldn’t believe how many shows and gigs were going on there. All over Ads and people, there was a man dressed like a cowboy and he earned a living by all the tips he got of the women taking pictures with him all the time. I was full of excitement that day.

 When Natalie and my mum saw my ice cream, they also bought ice cream from that place, I was so busy eating my own I didn’t even try theirs. 

      I bought these glasses for $5 in the street, I thought they were funky so I wore them a few times, anyway, there was a selling ice cream, I got the most delicious ice cream I ever had! Yum it was so good. His ice cream was so heavenly.

So while we were just walking we saw a restaurant that had just opened, the waitress was very kind, so we sat there and I ordered an Iced Tea, but that iced tea was way too bitter I had to put 3 spoons of sugar in that drink. I was excited to see the rest of the city. 

A couple of hours passed and we wanted to see the neighborhood and just walk around, I was looking at how different things are New York than Cyprus. I saw this truck and it looked interesting because trucks here don’t have any drawings on them. So I took a picture. That say was sunny and fresh, there were workers taking out sodas out of the truck. 

On the 16^th of June we flew to America. When we arrived we were tired, hungry and just wanted to sleep. When we got to JFK, my older sister was waiting for us, because she used to live there. A couple of minutes after, we were heading to Manhattan and we dropped my sister to her University.

My Point Of View

Political Issues Are An Issue For Adults

Yes, I can agree because when a government is in a bad crisis, then most people get affected, for example when there isn’t enough petrol, it is more expensive now in Cyprus we people don’t have enough water, so that affects people in Cyprus because the government saw these problems coming.

Problems young people face, are the same everywhere

I don’t agree with this statement, teenagers in some Arabic countries have terrible lives for example, they can’t show some parts of their bodies, they can’t show their hair or face. Living like that is like living in jail in compare to how lifestyle of teens is in the U.S., Europe and more continents. But then on the other side I kind of agree when looking at another point of view like when a new kid goes to a new school in town, most kids aren’t in the best behavior. You can see that in schools are like different societies. Kids have issues and complexes with themselves sometimes. For example when a kid wants to fit in a group of other kids, then they might do foolish things to fit in.

Big Band Sounds from 1935

Episode - Big Band Time
Date - 2008-11-21
Time - 07:25:00
Website - http://music.podcast.com/

Big Band Sounds from 1935 this week. Don't forget that this is your source for memories of the best of the Big Band Era. Join us each week as we explore the world of Big Bands, Jazz, and the Blues.

Why did i pick this podcast?

Jazz music has been one of my favorite types of music. I usually listen to jazz music when I want to relax and chill out. The Era of Jazz was incredible, all that passion for jazz and all the old time artists. Then Jazz music was about real talent. Nowadays artists imitate music from that Era (the early 1900’s). In the year 1935 there was a very big industry on Jazz music and number of different things. My favorite artists from that decade are these: Lee Wiley, Ella Fitzgerald and of course Louis Armstrong. Jazz was also used for the old time cartoons.
When Jazz became big in the industry of music, actors, dancers and singers wanted to be part of it. Jazz was usually sang, danced and acted by African Americans. Jazz music was also played in Europe at the time. Jazz was all over the place. It was played on radio stations day and night. Jazz was all about love and dance. People loved it. It was the most famous type of music. This brought something new to the table. Artists started singing and dancing to Jazz in a very rapid way.
I wish people my age still danced and listened to this type of music. Not how it is now, where you go to a party or something similar and the only music playing is R&B or Pop. Jazz has inspired me to be more open minded about the last Era. Then things were not as fake as now, artists had their own unique look, they didn’t try to look like someone else, like now artists start becoming famous because they started off copying someone else’s work. I wouldn’t mind going back in time to live those years.

I'm the one.

193 years old, mature, and thirsty for young girls at about 90 something years of age. My favorite places to hang out are cold dark slimy corners. I eat fish. The best type for me would look like this: too ugly to be eaten, scrawny, and gloomy. I hate sunlight. I do not want any hairy girls, or any Goblins. I was a very happy hobbit at one point in my life but when I lost the ring I was too disillusioned to even think about getting over it, and eventually became a creature. I developed a lisp, I’m kind of lazy, sometimes I’m hideous and I’m wild. So don't wait for anyone else. Im the one.
my email: slimygross@hotmail.com
my number: 8976322340569000324535
love you.

I Read to Her and She Remembers

The movie I chose is The Notebook. I chose this movie because it impressed me and I know I’m not the only one who loves this movie. This movie is one of my favorite movies. I love it, I crave it. Whenever I watch it I want to watch it again. I enjoyed watching this film not only because it had a meaning to it, because it wasn’t predictable at all. It’s not like the movies that Hollywood or Bollywood make nowadays that have no point and are just funny.
In this film, there is an old man called Noah telling an old woman Allie Hamilton, a beautiful story of two young people a long time ago, that she sure heard before. These two youngsters met at the carnival. They then ended their blissful relationship because her parents especially her mother did not like the boy because he wasn’t wealthy enough, so they moved to elsewhere. Allie was heartbroken by this; she waited for a letter on the mail for quite a while, then passed days, months, and years of no letter on the mail. She had taken a decision to move on and forget all about the boy. Then Allie met a striking beautiful wealthy man and got married to him. The day she was trying her wedding dress on she grabs the newspaper of that day and finds her first love on the first picture, she then goes to his old house. When she got there she got out of her car and said these exact words: I saw your picture on the paper and I just passed by to see if you’re okay. Their feelings never died. They were still there. Allie had to take a hard decision, who to choose, her first love or the handsome wealthy husband.
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Writers: Nicholas Sparks and Jan Sardi.
Stars: Ryan Gosling, Tim Ivey, Rachel Mc Adams, Starletta DuPois, James Garner, Gena Rowlands, Sam Shepard, Joan Allen, Ed Grady.
Date of release: 25 June 2004 (USA)

pigs in style

Stylish pigs have become fashion. Since 2003 pigs have started to make fashion. Designers have been inspired to make clothes and and more for these pigs. They even made it into FASHION TV. PIGS! WE CAN NOT EAT PIGS ANYMORE. These animals have become something out of this world. All this happened because scientists experimented on them. These type of pigs can not survive without an accessory to décor their pink bodies.

Take a chance

A life lived with fear is a life half lived.
I agree, life is something precious something beautiful. Living a life with fear is like living behind bars. Life should be an adventure. It’s such a shame that most people don’t try and make their dreams come true, they don’t chase their dreams, instead they choose security. The majority of people usually don’t take a shot. If you don’t do what you in reality want then what’s the point on living a life like that. Failure is an everyday experience and people learn from it, people learn from it and next time someone who has failed previously and wishes to succeed is not going to repeat the things they did last time. Therefore, failure is nothing but a lesson, without it success is not possible. Success is about achieving goals. When you finally achieve your goals you feel this pleasant feeling of satisfaction with yourself. You suddenly feel like you never want this amazing feeling to go away and you keep wanting it and loving and wanting it to happen again and again until you achieve all the goals in life.

- Ignorance is bliss.
I disagree ignorance is not a bliss. Acknowledgment is bliss. In case of an accident or something terrible happening to a person you should know what to do. You should be able to think like an open-minded person. If you just don’t know something its best to know it just by doing simple things like, reading books, watching TV, asking people about different things taking a walk around your neighborhood just doing anything! You should know what’s right and what’s wrong, knowing why things happen why people have so many ideas and creations.

- It’s better to take chances and lose than to never take a chance.
I agree. Not taking a risk and thinking about hmm maybe I could take the risk and succeed but wait no, I might not succeed! By the time you think of all the negative things that come in your mind your chances are going to be over! If you truly want it take the risk and if you fail oh well! Next time maybe I won’t mess up again. It’s all a circle. You just keep on learning from your mistakes. If you never take a chance then what’s the point on even thinking about it. It’s simple, you want it go get. So what if you don’t succeed there’s always a next time.

Dialogue

This short clip shows when Hakim gets beaten up because he wanted to steal Big Al’s son away from him. They are speaking Tamil. The man in the leather jacket is a village man, the man in the black shirt and the light blue jeans is big Al, he is considered as the strongest man in town. The man in the white pants is a taker, and they call him Budam Kami, the little kid is called Zumbaia, the man in the orange t-shirt is Budam Kami’s friend called Bizma and finally the old man in the end is Budam Kami’s father.
Village man: Ohh boy...look at all this mess! This is what happens when you steal money around here!

Big Al beating Budam Kami

Budam Kami: You stupid little arrogant infant! You?! Making fun of me? IMPOSSIBLE! You’re all mine now!

Zumbaia: No! No! No! Let me go you smelly pig!

Big Al beating Bizma for helping Budam Kami.

Big Al: Why are you such a scary cat? Huh?

Budam Kami: Shut up Al! You think you’re so tough huh? Well what if I let go of your child and he gets hurt? I’m not scared of you!

Big Al throwing a frying pan on Budam Kami’s right leg

Budam Kami: OUUUUCHHH!!!

Zumbaia falling on Big Al’s shoulder

Zumbaia: Daddy!! Ha-ha (smiling charmingly)

Big Al: he he Zumbaia baby I got you.

Big al: get down here Budam loser!

Budam Kami: Make me! Common!

Big Al: oh really? Make you? Okay…

Big Al puts a big barrel in front of Zumbaia, Zumbaia kicks it, it goes up high to where Budam Kami is on the tree and makes him fall down rapidly.

Budam Kami: ILL DO ANYTHING! (Shouting) Anything to make you forgive me! PLEASE BIG AL!

Big Al: shut it!

Big all kicks him on the leg and twists his leg into his. Then Punches him twice. Budam Kami ends up in a hospital.

Budam Kami: look what had happened to me father! Just look at my face I have such a bad headache! Look at my broken hand, look at my broken leg! (Speaking in a sorrowfull way).

Mr. Simms's holiday!

Mr. Sims and his wife always wanted to visit New York and California. So this summer their plans were to visit New York and California. On the 23rd of July they were flying to the states. He and his wife were incredibly excited. When Mr. Sims arrived to JFK he bought a lottery ticket, he thought he might get lucky. Ten days later he and his wife were staying in the Hilton in New York City. He received a phone call by a lottery company informing him that he had won the lottery, winning the amount of 60 thousand dollars. He and his wife were happier than ever. Next morning Mrs. Sims had a small gift beside her she opened it and found a Tiffany & Co ring filled with diamonds, Mr. Sims had bought for her a classic ring, she immediately slipped on her finger. She got up and found a note on the door saying I’ll see you downstairs at the cafeteria at 1 p.m. So she put on her favorite dress and went down to the cafeteria. They had a good meal together and spent the day by the Hotel’s pool. Days passed by and they had booked a flight to California, San Francisco. When they got there it was raining and windy. Mr. Sims and Mrs. Sims got a cab and went to the hotel; they stayed at the San Francis Drake Hotel. They visited museums, different concerts, they went to parks they went to different restaurants and had a lot of fun. They were both very satisfied. On the 1st of August Mrs. Sims said to Mr. Sims GOOD NEWS! I’m pregnant with twins! We’re going to name one Julian and the other William! Mr. Sims agreed and called his parents to tell them the good news.
On the 25th of August Mr. Sims and his wife went back to Cyprus from San Francisco. Next day when he woke up he got dressed and went to the bank to invest the money he had left. With that money he made double and bought a new house in the most elite neighborhood in Nicosia. He then bought a range rover and bought the American International School and made new rules in the school. The summer of 2008 he made so much money and had so much fun, his life then was a party. He became a celebrity and his wife became a fashion designer and designed for Chanel and Dior.

Music is a part of my everyday life. Every day after school when I come home I listen to music. The music I like the most is the music of the 60’s I take pleasure in listening to that type of music. I have 3 favorite bands: The doors: Led Zeppelin and Muse. I also listen to other types of music, when I feel like I want to dance I put dance music, when I feel down I put slow songs and when I’m in an okay mood I usually listen to rock and indie. My favorite band is The Doors, the reason why it is, is because whenever I listen to their music I always feel like I’m dancing with people and with flowers in my hair I feel like I’m in the 1960’s!

what really is unique about me

What makes me unique is that I love spending time with my dad and learning different things. I dislike eating bad food even when I'm very hungry. I eat fruits and Veggies everyday. I love going for long swims in the sea and tanning. I love candy and my favorite color is light blue and white. I love listening to music and hanging out with my friends. I don't like doing the same thing over and over again I like difference.