Thanksgiving Blog

Lauren's Thanksgiving Blog

Top 5 Things I am Thankful For
Thanksgiving is a wonderful time of year with many family gatherings and a wide variety of delicious foods. When it comes to being thankful I'm thankful for many things including my lovely family. Family gatherings are great because every year my mom and dads side of the family meet at my grandmas house. Our traditional Thanksgiving feast included a delicious turkey, cheesy potato's, strawberry fruit jello, and a salad. Another thing I am thankful for on Thanksgiving is autumn atmosphere with the bright red orange and yellow leaves falling to the ground. The way they flow through the cool crisp breeze is amazing. I am also thankful for my best friends because they are always there for me, there funny and amazing. Skating is another thing that I am thankful for because without it I don't know what I would do. Skating is by far my favorite sport because when I am on the ice there is nothing that could stop me especially when I am doing my camel sit spins and split jumps they are so much fun.

My All Time Favorite Thanksgiving Menu

Turkey is by far the best food on Thanksgiving because it’s an original a “must have food” on Thanksgiving. However one food that I absolutely despise of sweet potatoes they are the worst thing put on our dinner table, even though many of the adults in my family love sweet potatoes I can barely look at them even imaging the texture of the sweet potato sliding down my throat is disgusting. Many people have tried to convince me to try sweet potatoes with corn syrup or marshmallows; and every year when I try them they get more and more disgusting. Year after year day after day sweet potatoes will never be an item on my Thanksgiving menu. On the other hand cheesy potatoes are absolutely amazing. The delicious Cheesy potatoes are delicious because they are potatoes covered with cheesy creamy goodness baked to a perfect light brown color, and on special occasions we even add some corn flakes or potato chips scattered across the top of them. These are some items on my delicious Thanksgiving menu.

The Rabbit Proof Fence

The Rabbit Proof Fence

Just imagining getting taken away from my parents by a complete stranger scares me, and is frightful even to think about. While watching the Rabbit Proof Fence it amazed me how different cultures can survive in the wilderness. During the movie I noticed that in the begging they used the foot prints of the lizard to track it down in which Molly the oldest child spotted the lizard in the tree. Also there culture is not afraid of killing the animal and eating right afterword while our culture is a little hesitant. When the children Molly, Daisy, and Gracie first reached the camp the expression on their faces were frightened and in disbelief the nun helped them to their cots in the room filled with many other half cast children. Half Casts are aborigine children that were born with one aborigine parent and one whit parent. Due to this action more and more half cast children's have been being born in Australia. Nevil the man in charge of eliminating the half cast has a plan and this his plan is to train the half casts to follow the so called "civilized" way of life by praying to one god, making their beds daily, speaking only English, and singing Nevil's favorite song daily.

Unhappy with this lifestyle Molly, Daisy, and Gracie decide to run away and escape from the camp and try to make it back home, they decided to escape when they saw a storm clouds coming in, since they knew the rain would cover up their tracks. Due to their traditional lifestyle they were able to survive in the wild. However a mysterious man lies and tricks Gracie, telling her that her parents are at a train station while really tell her this to capture Gracie at the train station and take her back to the camp, while Molly and Daisy make it safely back home. This movie gave me goose bumps because I have seen animals been breed before but never humans, the thought of trying to breed the half casts out in three generations is inhumane and should never of happened, this is why I refer to Nevil as “Nevil the devil”.
       

Lauren's Halloween Blog.

Halloween Blog

 It was 2008 on Halloween night when I, Lauren McAlinden discovered the best Halloween candy in the world, the Kit Kat. The one and only Kit Kat is by far the best candy there is, Kit Kat bars are crisp vanilla flavored wafers, covered with smooth milk chocolate. Every time I take a bite into one of these I immediately fall in love. The Kit Kat is by far the best candy there is because I mean what other candy can compare to this crisp, sweet, wonderful work of art. At least Kit Kat's are an original, while Milky Ways and Snickers only had to add one different ingredient to the other original candy, the 3 Musketeers. For example Milky Way's only had to add Carmel to the 3 Musketeers Bar and Snickers only had to add peanuts to the Milky Way bar. In conclusion Kit Kat's are the best chocolate candy.

       Even though I love Halloween candy, scary movies flat out scare me. Watching Psycho in the school auditorium last Thursday night was completely terrifying. However after the movie I realized that there was no way that movie could have been a true story. Discussing the movie helped me understand how Psycho was made and how all the special effects were incorporated into the film. Learning that the symbolism that Alfred Hitchcock used was on purpose and not by accident proved that Alfred Hitchcock was a very clever man, his camera angles showed many similarities symbolizing many key factors in the movie; such as when he used the shape of a circle in many different scenes, such as her eye when she is lying dead in the shower and the shower drain. Knowing Halloween was only a few days away also caused much excitement and fear in the air during the movie, like having the feeling when you know someone might sneak up behind you.

            Halloween is not complete without Trick or Treating. This year on Halloween I was a nerd; I wore glasses with duck tape and a button up white shirt with pens in the shirt pocket. I would have to say dressing up for Halloween is a close runner up to the candy that we get to eat. Running from door to door yelling trick or treat anxiously waiting to see what type of candy is being passed out is extremely fun, especially when you get to spend such a great Holiday with your family.