Month: April 2024

Despite the fact that my work time was bisected by thirty minutes, I was still able to advance greatly. I learned the steps for the fish and also showed what I learned via the four prototypes I created, one with the instructions and the other three without, in order to make sure I had the process memorised. Because this week was super successful, I had no struggles! Based on my place in my modified plan, I have concluded that it won’t be necessary to make adjustments to my plan. Next week, I plan to make more fishies! 🙂

During April, I’ve finished several novels, five in total, but if I had to choose a favourite, I’d pick We’ll Always Have Summer, the final book in The Summer I Turned Pretty series. Written by Jenny Han, this book is, in my opinion, the perfect concluding novel of any series I’ve read so far. You may be asking yourself: “Why such a bold statement, Linnea?” Good news for you, I have some quotes (and some reasoning :)) to prove my “bold statement”, but first, let me provide you with some background information for those of you who may not have read or even heard about this immaculate romance (if you would like a little overview of the first two novels in this series, click here to read a mini-overview written by yours truly!) The main character, Isabel “Belly” Conklin, her mum has a friend named Susannah who has two sons, Conrad and Jeremiah. Belly is madly in love with both of them (kind of a love triangle situation, don’t you think?), but she doesn’t know who likes her more: Jeremiah or Conrad. This novel tells about how she tackles this dilemma head-on she might end up solving this problem with the help of her friend Taylor. If you asked me to pick a character I would like to be besties with, I would choose Belly because of how helpful she is. Her helpfulness is most notable on pages one and two when she’s helping Taylor study for their college finals. Taylor asks Belly to quiz her, and she answers, “‘Define anima versus animus.’” Taylor doesn’t know, so she asks for a hint. Belly replies, “‘Umm … think Latin,’” which stresses Taylor out for a second, because she didn’t take any Latin courses, therefore causing her to believe that there may be questions about Latin words and roots on her finals. Belly responds, “‘No, I was just trying to give you a hint. Because in Latin boys’ names end in –us and girls’ names end in –a, and anima is feminine archetype and animus is is masculine archetype. Get it?’” Despite Belly’s helpfulness, Taylor still doesn’t understand, probably because she’s obsessed with texting. Helpfulness is a quality I look for in a good friend because I, like other people, can get confused sometimes, and it’s nice to always have a friend to help you out should you get confused. My favourite line is located on page two hundred eighty-six, “Your life could go in one of two directions. Do or die.” This line teaches a valuable lesson, which invites you to think about how your decisions make an impact not just on the people around you, but also on the world as well.

This week, I made another hat to test my memory (I only had the first three steps memorised :(; I have some work to do!) As a result, I may need to work on the hat a wee bit more next week. I also started learning how to make the fox; I have made my first prototype! Next week, I plan to make more fox prototypes in order to make sure I have it down!

This week, I have memorised how to make the fox faster than I’d anticipated! Because of this, I have made four fox prototypes so far, which I feel is enough for now. As a result, I’ve made the decision to choose another origami project, a fish, which I will start on next Friday. This week was fandabidozie; I had no setbacks! 🙂

My favourite room is my bedroom. I like my bedroom because I can customise it to fit my personality. For example, my parents showed me and my sister two wallpapers and asked us to choose which one we liked best. To their surprise, we weren’t fighting over one wallpaper; we both had an opinion. I chose the option that had different types of flowers, and each was a different shade of pink. My bed is another feature that sets my bedroom apart, but my blankets are what makes it unique. My favourite blanket is named Bunny Blanket, and it’s pink with a bunny eating a carrot on it, and the background composes of the sun and a couple of clouds. I also cherish my blankets because they’re SO soft and they keep me super warm at night. Another distinguishable feature located in my bedroom is my double dressers, one in my closet and one out near my bed. I like this because I have too many clothes :P, and having two dressers provides me with enough space to store them.

Pictures!

Currently, I’m reading The Summer I Turned Pretty trilogy by Jenny Han. I like it so much that I cruised through the first novel, The Summer I Turned Pretty, in just two days! As of right now, I’m about one-hundred pages through the second novel, It’s Not Summer Without You. In The Summer I Turned Pretty, Isabel “Belly” Conklin visits her mother’s friend Susannah’s beach house in Cousins Beach, Massachusetts, where she falls in and out of love with several boys, including Susannah’s two sons, Conrad and Jeremiah, and another boy named Cam. Towards the end of the novel, Belly learns that Susannah has breast cancer and she was growing weaker and weaker every day. This brings us to the beginning of the second novel in the series, It’s Not Summer Without You. In the ninety-eight pages I’ve read so far in It’s Not Summer Without You, Belly attends Susannah’s funeral, and Conrad has gone missing.

This past week, I chose my two origami crafts to learn, memorise, and perfect: a hat and a fox. This week, I was able to accomplish the memorisation of the hat, and I used this website to help me get started. This week was excellent; I had no struggles! I memorised how to create the hat faster than I thought, so therefore, I concluded that there was no need for me to continue practising the hat on Saturday, which gave me a homework-free weekend (yay!). If I continue my work at this rate, I may need to pick a third origami craft, so I’m not just sitting there staring off into space for the last one or two weeks. Next week, I will be starting on the fox.

There are so many people in this world I could choose to have dinner with, so I have narrowed it down to these chosen few: Beyoncé, Billie Eilish, and Matt Damon. I invited Beyoncé because I wanted how to ask her how she became “The Queen of Pop&B”, and I also want to ask her about her three children: Blue Ivy and fraternal twins Rumi (girl) and Sir (boy). I invited Billie Eilish because I want to know how she felt and reacted when Ryan Gosling’s song “I’m Just Ken” overtook her “What Was I Made For?” at the 2024 Grammys (I’m totally with you on this one, Billie!). I invited Matt Damon because I want to learn about his experience playing the roll of Mark Watney in the sci-fi movie, The Martian*.

*The Martain was also made into a novel by Andy Weir, also titled The Martian, which I read and wrote a book review on.