Reading update!

So in my book, All the Lovely Bad Ones, the two main characters, kids, have gone to their grandmother's hotel and stay the whole summer. While there the two kids wake up the fox hill ghosts and they don't know how to put them back to sleep. They visited the library to dig up history on the town.  While in the library a pamphlet just fell off of the book shelf.  After that three ghost come and walk them through all the horrible stuff that had happened to them in their town.

The book is rather creepy - but keeps me engaged!


                       See what happens next.

Dr Who - some nerdie goodness

Today - I had my Dr Who and the timey whimey wibbley wobbley writing camp.

So in my Dr. Who camp we made our own doctor in a group. My group has a really good drawer. We wanted the new doctor to be a girl with a top hat (the way we drew it was really cute) and shes really fashionable. She has nice orange hair and tall black cute boots.  Who wouldn't want to be her companion?


                  That's as far as we got on her. Hope to tell you more about her next week!

My Summer Purchase

My summer purchase - from 826CHI.

At the boring store I got a comic book that is called Giants Beware. I also got a a key robot cover for when I get keys.

 

I was really excited because.......

It was SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR!!!!!!!!!

I hope to finish my current book and start this one.  My sister, who read it before me, said it is a quick read.  I hope to tell you about the book soon.

Antique Taco

In my new writing camp we went to a restaurant, the Antique Taco in Wicker Park.  We were food critics.

We tasted their guac and chips, chicken taco, pork taco, and for desert we had a hochata milk shake and a chocolate tart thingy.
 
The guac and chips were really good but the guac is a little spicy for all you spicy food lovers.

 The chicken taco was good but not my fav because the pickles were spicy. 

 

The pork taco was really good! It was my fav.  It had bacon on it and the bacon didn't taste like normal bacon it tasted like bacon they made not store bought.

 

The hochata milk was really good too because there was banana ice cream and cinamin in it.

The chocolate tart thing was delice! It was like pie crust that was cooked crispy and melted chocolate in the inside.

The restaurant itself was very homey looking place. There are a lot of antique looking things inside and they have antique plates that they collected.

Tuesday - I have my "Snail Mail" camp at 826CHI so I am planning on taking my dad to lunch at Antique Taco.  I know he will love the pork tacos! 

                                              Talk to you later!

I'm going to go eat - I'm hungry now.

Church Camp

On Monday I went to the first day of camp. It was called A Royal Adventure. Its based on the movie Narnia. Everyday there's a Narnia character we learned about.

On Monday we learned about Lucy and being valient.

Tuesday we learned about Peter and being magnificent

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Wednesday we learned about Susan and being gentle.

On Thursday we learned about Edmund and justice.

AND FRIDAY -  We had a Royal Banquet! We didn't really have fancy food but everything was very golden. I really mean it things were really gold (not real gold). Then we went upstairs to party and dance.

In summary -  I learned that you need to be gentle, magnificent, justice, and valient. I also learned that there are so many ways to speak to the lord.


I was on the worship team and I got to work behind the scenes at camp as well as partake in group activiies.




                             See ya later!!!!!!

826CHI - Sporker!

Today I went to a writing camp that was called sporker. We tasted sweet things - oreos, spicy things - wasabi beans, really sour things - dill pickle lays, and bitter - 90% dark chocolate. What we did was write reviews on them for the real thing next week. We are going to go to a restaurant, The Antique Taco and be food critics. We made our own disquises for us to wear to the restaurant.  Because the place is expecting us and we don't won't special treatment, we want the treatment a customer would get. We are not going to stand out at all.  But that's next week


The fun started before the class actually. My mom and I were 30 minutes early so we went to a cafe.  It was called Filter - and it was cool.  There was really neat art work on the wall and tons of comfy couches to sit on.  Mom hung out there while I was in my class. 

       Hope to talk to you more about the camp after my next class.  I also have three other classes I am signed up for - Dr. Who, Snail Mail and Choose your own adventure.  BYE!!!

Tasty Tastes

Yesterday my family and I went to the Taste of Chicago. We first went to a cheese cake booth, Eli's, and I got the taste a serving of cheese cake. It was so good.

Then we got some cat fish and potato chips from BJ's, one of our favorites, those were also tasty! It got really dark out and we had to seek cover for a thunderstorm that came.  A lot of people started to leave but they were going to come back after the rain stopped, like us. We went into a corner bakery and got some drinks while we watched the rain drizzle then pour down really hard. When the rain stopped we went back and ate some more.

We got rainbow ice cream with nuts in it.  My mom went to the beer tent while we got to taste two types of sodas and a tea.  I also tried fried green beans for the first time while mom got us some pot stickers from Star of Siam.  YUM!  Did I mention that this was Cillian's first taste? 

 

To escape the heat - we stood under the mister.   We ended the taste w a potato pancake (latke),  mac and cheese balls and churos. We also got fried green beans from Harold's Chicken Shack and I loved it!!!

Before we took a cta train ride home we stopped for a game of chess - Could Chicago get any more fun?

             I hope you eat well! See you soon

Trip to downtown

Today I went downtown and it was really fun. I've gone downtown many times but this was different because it wasn't too hot and it wasn't to cold it was perfect!! I went to the farmers market by the new children's hospital! I tasted a slice of cucumber and I had a crepe that was called Beelicious. It was a plain crape with honey and whipped cream. It was so good and tasty!!!!: )

We also went to the Museaum of contempary art. I got to make my own sky line. I also got to see so many different pieces of art. There were three walls covered in 9/11 head lines and it was so cool.


   I had so much fun downtown! See ya soon!

We're having a heat wave......

Last week there was a huge heat wave! My brother has a pool and he actually sat down in it because the water was warm from the weather. Our house was so cool from the air conditioner. I remember seeing on the news, people without air conditioners and heat warnings and all the interventions from the OEMC that has to do with heat. But then a huge storm came and I'm pretty sure all the plants were happy and all the animals. I just can't wait till winter because my birthday is in the winter - and it's cooler!!

 See you in the winter!!!!: )

My Summer Job

So last week I walked a dog for 4 days named Rio. She was very nice to me the first day but on the second day she bit me and she wouldn't let me walk her.  Then - I had the weekend off.  On Monday she still wouldn't let me walk her so she didn't get walked. On Tuesday, today, I didn't have to walk her because her husband was home. We all think she didn't let me walk her because she was confused, she missed her owner, and we think it had to do with her past because she was found by animal control and paws got her.

The coolest thing - I still got paid.  I do feel bad for getting paid when I couldn't fulfill my mission.  But I did go over and check on her and make sure she was okay.  

That was my summer job!