I think that if you give Koly a little time and patience then she will adapt well to new places and surroundings in a positive way. Koly dose adapt because so far she has had to move to three new homes and still manages to make friends and find homes. In one of the homes she put her dowry on the ceiling to brighten the room up. Also in another home she sewed and told stories and learned how to read. And in the street she laid out with an old lady and fell asleep. She also spent a well amount of time in all of her homes and she is about to go back to the country with Raji and she has thought of her new home a lot so it’s like she already lives there. Plus her first home was in the country and she grew up in the country so I think that she will do just fine in her new home on the country side.

I think some themes in this book are” stay true to your religion” because no matter how much she wanted to run back home she didn’t because she knew that she would shame her family if she did. Another theme is “never think of the past” because every time something bad happened Koly always thought of her future and what might happen instead of dwelling on the past. Another theme is “when one door closes another door opens”(like in Bud Not Buddy) because if those bad things didn’t happen then none of the good things would have happened and she wouldn’t be where she is now in life and she wouldn’t have met Raji, Tanu, Maa kamala, Mala, Mr. Das or Mrs. Devi if sass didn’t leave her there.

Gloria Whelar’s  literary devises in this book were comparing Koly to a caged bird and comparing Chandra’s wedding to Koly’s wedding. Some more literary devises were her comparing sass to Maa Kamala. Another comparison is when she compared columns to a tree trunk and when she compared the bats to small furry pennants. I think that this book is similar to Bud Not Buddy because both of the stories are about a sad kid trying to find their way in life and they both had at least one person close to them leave or dies. Also in both books the main characters live on the street for a good bit of time also both of them lived with a very mean first family, Bud had the Amasses and Koly had the Mehtas also both of them went to a place that they probably shouldn’t have gone to Koly went to Mala’s party and Bud went to the bread line alone.

I think it was really nice how the dad bought Koly how to read, and it was funny when Koly played those pranks. I think it’s sad how every one is still dweling over  Hari’s death. I’m anxious to see what will happen to Koly when Chandra gets married and leaves. It’s also sad how Koly wants to run away so bad. The mother has gotten meaner seance Hari died. Can’t wait for the next chapter!

This chapter, to me was very sad. It was sad because Chandra couldn’t go on the journey, they passed by Koly’s old village and she knew that she probably would never see her parents or brothers again,when they went passed the other very sick people,and when Hari died. The only happy part was when Hari played in the great water.

so far this book to me is pretty good. I think that Hari’s mother is very demanding and controling and i think that they shouldn’t take Hari to the Varanasi because he is ill and weak. I don’t think its fair that they took her for the money . I liked when koly told him about her village before with the quilt. I can’t wait for the next chapter!

For my gift of time I went to a shelter called Painting with the homeless. I went on the first saturday of the break with my neighbors and another girl I went beacause one of the neighbors have to go and I decided to go with them. It was so much fun and we painted a lot I can’t wait to do something like that again!

Wouldn’t it be great to have a house under water! I mean think about it your house under water. It would be all sealed up, so no water would get in side, like the whole city would inside a huge bubble. To breath you would have a have giant but light air tank to carry around all day and night. But in a year or two you would have to swim to the top and get more air in your tank. It would be just like on land but under water!

Alyssa A. helped me with this BIG idea

Who: Amanda Knox and the Italy trial

When: She was arrested in 2007 and she got out on September 23, 2011

What: A girl that was locked up for killing her roommate even though she didn’t

Where: Perugia Italy, Europe, in court

Why is this important: She was locked up for four years for a murder she didn’t commit

There she goes again! After another one! My dog, Roxie loves to chase, and demolish the ghost crabs around five o’clock on the beach at Sea Island GA. My brother and I take her out on the beach and Daniel, my brother spots a crab, grabs Roxie and shows her the crab. Then the fight begins between Roxie and a crab. First, the crab snaps! At Roxie, she jumps back. Now she’s mad and bites off the big claw. Then it snaps with its little claw, and she rips off that claw, so it has no defense. After that the crab starts running away and she scoops it up with her mouth and crunches it up and shakes her head around. Then she drops the remainders of the crab and it’s over and Roxie wins again. My dog Roxie is a carrion terrier. She loves the beach.

She also loves to eat, dead washed up jellyfish and she also loves to chase the waves even if she is a Carrion terrier and the waves are twice her size. She doesn’t like to get hit by them she just runs out there gets as far up as possible to the wave barks a little bit then runs back before the wave gets her. Then she rolls around in the sand. Then I go over to pet her and tell her, “good girl Roxie “then she shakes and salt water and sand get all over me. I Chase after her then she stops and runs the other way just to trick me. Then I tell her to “go get ‘em” and she sprints after the waves again.

My mom can’t get on the beach, with her wheelchair so she has a golf cart that she can ride on the sand with. My dog loves to go on it especially at night around nine o’clock. We get on the golf cart, turn on the headlights on, and drive down to the beach. There are maybe fifty or a hundred ghost crabs on the beach late at night just running around. Roxie loves to rip them from limb, to limb or claw to claw and it’s disgusting, but entertaining to watch. Then afterwards she’s wet, tired, and smelly. We all settle down to watch a movie and she wants to snuggle but every one pushes her away. I let her jump up on the sofa with me because I’m already sandy and wet. I was already going to take a shower after anyway.

The next day we take her to the groomers because she still stinks from the night before. At the groomers they put a cute green little puffball in her hair that they make them self. After the groomers Roxie looks and smells 1,000,000 times better. I love my dog Roxie because she’s cute, funny, snugly, and playful. Plus I’ve had her for about

Four years now and we have some good memories together

By:Mary Alston W.

So here I am just typing away. Minding my own business when I hear something at the door. So of course I turn around to see what it is and it’s …… kitty. Oh but this is not just any old cat this is a Kitty that is deceiving, brave, cute, and most of all stubern. But back to the story. So kitty looks me straight in the eyes and gives a cute but stern MEEOW! And I turn back around and keep typing.  Oh but kitty won’t take no for answer so she walk’s over to my moms nice chair and starts clawing it up like there’s no tomorrow so I turn back around and tell her to stop it! And that just made her furious so she decides to jump up on the keyboard and mess up all of hard work. I just pushed her to the side and fixed it all up but kitty well that just “blew her head off” so she gets right in front of the screen where I can’t see any thing and looks at me. Finally I said “what do you want kitty”. She jumps on the floor goe’s to the door, looks back at me and meow’s. I’ve had the kitty for about 2 years now so I know what that means. It means come on I need something. So I follow her to the kitchen and she leaps on top of the glass top table, sits down by her food bowl and meows. That means feed me. So I gave her some food. After that I go work on some more home work in the den. About 20 minuets later I hear a meow! I look over and there she is. So I walk into the kitchen again and she sits by the door and meows and I know that that means let me outside so I let her out. About an hour later I get thirsty so I go to the kitchen to get a drink when I see kitty siting on the windowsill. I see her lips moving but no sound coming out so I walk away because I don’t I know what she wanted.

Mesopotamian music and dances were interesting to me because I wanted to know if they danced  for Royal actions.Also because I wanted to know what instruments they had.And I wanted to know what dances went with what special event.Lastly I wanted to know if the music went with the dances that they did.

Here are some of my facts. Circle dances were mostly preformed by women.Acrobatic dances were mostly preformed in cultic activities. They were both famous dances. I think Acrobatic dances are still around today. Circle dances usually have women with wind-blown hair.splayed fingers,and long arms. They used clappers to make rhythm. Drums and wind instruments were used for music. That seemed to go along with the dances.

What went well was how they gave us plenty of time and how people stayed quiet and on task. I learned that when researching it’s best to put quotations around the words. What didn’t go well was how my topic was hard to research

1.http://gatewaystobabylon.com/myths/texts/recreation.htm

2.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/musicof mesopotamia

3. title:my world history authors:  frank karpiel & kathleen krull copy right: 2011 person education pages:244 & 508.