Count Down To Alaska

9 More Days
Until I leave for a two week vacation. The very first week from the twenty-second of june until the twenty-ninth my family and I will be on our very first Cruise to Alaska. We are leaving from Seattle Washington, travelling up the canadian and Alsakan coastline all the north to the Inside Passage. The Inside Passage has an abundance of  glaciers and scenice views. Our ports that we will be stopping at are Ketchitan, Juneau, Sawyer Glacier, Skagway, and Victoria, BC, Canada. We are Cruising on the Norweigen Jewel, and it is going to be amazing.

After Our outstanding cruise my brother will be returning home to go back to work, while my father, my sister and I go on a ROAD TRIP!!!!! We will be driving from Seattle, through Yellowstone, down to Zion, and the Grand Canyon and then over to Datil, NM. This is where my father's family lives. They also live right next to a beautiful state forest, one I plan on visiting multiple times on their ATVs. After a couple days in Datil, we will drive north to Albuquerque where my aunt and uncle live. We will spend the night there and in the morning we will fly back.

This is going to be an amazing vacation. And there is only nine days until it all begins. :)

The Hunger Games Chapters 1-3

 Katniss crawls under the fence that surrounds the district that is supposed to "protect them", but is really there to keep Panem's citizens complaisant. She enters the woods through the fence, where she forages and hunts. Her father taught her these skills before his death in a mine explosion when she was eleven years old, and she uses a bow he made. Though trespassing in the woods and poaching are illegal, nobody pays attention, and Katniss even sells meat to the Peacekeepers who are supposed to enforce the laws. Katniss explains that, at age twelve, your name is entered into the drawing once; at thirteen, it’s entered twice; and so on up until age eighteen. But you can choose to have your name entered again in exchange for a tessera, a year’s supply of grain and oil for one person. Katniss, who is sixteen, will have her name in 20 times, and Gale, who is eighteen, will have his in 42 times. Katniss’s sister, Prim, is only twelve and has taken no tesserae, Katniss would not let her, so her name is only in once. The name that is called is, of course, Prim's........

Katniss volenteers for her sister, and starts to wonder about who the male competitor is this year. It is Peeta Mellark, a boy who saved her from starving by burning the bakery bread so he could toss it to Katniss. His mother would never have allowed him to give away bread. She expected for Peeta to feed the burnt bread to the pigs and not Katniss.......

Katniss is escorted to the Justice building where she will say her good-byes. First is her family, and where she yells at her mother to promise she wont just become catatonic like she did when her husband died. Katniss also promises Prim, that she will win for HER. Next, is Peeta's father, who promises that her family will be fed by his bread if Katniss dies. Finally, Gale enters, her best friend, and says that she has a chance if she can get a bow, and that killing humans won't be much different from killing animals. (The contestents/competitors become animals because of the games.) Gale also promises that anything he kills in the woods will be split 50/50 for his family and for Katniss's. Katniss and Peeta are then wisked away, to the train station where they board a super-sophisticated/fast train that will take them across the country to the capitol, where all the festivities are to take place before the Games.


These are the first three chapters. :)

All the things I need to either Read or Watch soon.

Sherlock Holmes
-The Hound of the Baskervilles
-The Entire First 2 Seasons of the miniseries
-All of the short stories that correspond to the epidsodes
-A Study in Scarlet

The Hunger Games
-The 1st book
-The Movie
-The 2nd book
-The 3rd book

The Big Bang Theory
-All seasons that are available
Harry Potter
-All Seven Books
-All Eight Movies

All the requirements for AP Literature
-A Prayer for Owen Meany
-How to Read Literature Like a Professor

Sequels to the Maze Runner

I am going to have a packed summer!!!!!!! :)