I Did It!!! (The Cat Edition)

I am so excited to tell you about my adventure at the Cat Cafe.🐱 I was at the Cat Cafe for my friend's 10th birthday party. Half of the cafe is a normal cafe and half of it is a room full of cats.  The Cat Cafe is a place where you can play with cats and adopt them.

I was afraid of cats because I was scared that they were going to scratch and bite me, but now I know that they are completely harmless. All of the cats are super cute and I loved them so much. I spent a whole 45 minutes with them! I petted 5 cats! But I still get a tiny bit startled if the cats jump down from a high place.

There are a lot of rules that you have to go over before you can play with the cats.

Cat Cafe Rules🐱

1. Always wash your hands before you enter the kitty room.

2. Do not pick up the cats

3. Do not take any pictures or videos of the cats

4.  Please return your visitor tags before you leave.

The Cat Cafe has a lot of rules, but I can only remember 4. I was really impressed with myself for going in there with the cats. After the 45 minutes were over we went for a walk around Kensington. We stopped at a restaurant and had Bubble Tea and fries. I had my Bubble Tea with no pearls. We had a choice of strawberry Bubble Tea or mango Bubble Tea. I chose mango Bubble Tea. It had something that tasted like the  gummies in Aloe juice. In case you don't know what Aloe juice is, it is just like juice and has a citrus taste and it helps prevent tummy problems. I love Aloe so much.💖

Anyway after we had our food we went to the Gummy Boutique 🍬 I got some Blue Raspberry popping candy for my sister and Grape popping candy for myself.👭 After everyone got their candy we walked to the blue sports building where we had met and waited for out parents to come get us.👪

I really hope you like this blog post! Stay tuned for my next blog about Remembrance Day.🎕

       

Read if You Dare!

Hey, this weeks blog is going to be about Halloween!🦇 Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. I will be talking about a few things in this blog post. The things I am going to talk about are the Halloween parade, the Halloween dance, dress up week, pumpkin carving, putting up decorations and Trick or Treating.

The first thing I will be talking about is the Halloween parade. The parade was held at school. The first half of the day was a normal school morning. After lunch we changed into our Halloween costumes. I was dressed up as Katniss Everdeen from the book series The Hunger Games. Most of the students were dressed up. How the parade works is that the "K's" (Kindergarten) would walk through the classrooms and the other classes would follow them. Ex. The "K's" walk through room 1,room 1 would follow the "K's" to room 2 etc. Anyway when we were walking through the learning commons we got 1 packet of rocket candy.

When we got back from the parade we watched a mystery movie that also fit with the Halloween theme. The movie was Scooby-Doo and the Case of the Vampire!!!!!!!! While we were watching the movie, we filled out a Mystery Map Sheet in which you write the characters' names. One other thing, the people that did not get their schoolwork done had to do their work and couldn't watch the movie until they were finished.

Now I am going to tell you about the Halloween dance! It was absolutely spooktacular🤣🤣 The dance was a part of the after-school care. We had a little snack and then started dancing.,There was a DJ and the DJ had a sheet of paper. You wrote your name and the song you would like the DJ to play and then the DJ would play it. We also got candy! But we only got it if we were dancing. I was dancing so I got to pick one candy. When I got tired I played "Guess Who" with my friend. The candy I picked was a candy called SweeTarts. (the two words "share" the "T") The candy was really good. The dance was fun to attend and I look forward to it next year.

The next thing I am going to tell you about is the dress up week at my dance studio. Dress up week is really simple- you just come to dance in a costume and dance in it. The first day I was dressed as a pair of PJ's. This costume is really easy to make. All you do is get a pair of comfortable pajamas and wear them. On the second day I was the Spirit of Teamwork. I found this really easy to find, all I did was buy a sweatshirt and wore it with black leggings. The sweatshirt had this printed on it.

T ogether

E veryone

A chieves 

M  ore 

The coolest part about my Halloween was pumpkin carving!!!! This year was the first year I carved a pumpkin! I did a basic smiley face and my dad did all of the hard complicated faces. I think all of them turned out cute. The hardest part of pumpkin carving is clearing out the inside of the pumpkin🥄 After we had finished carving all of the pumpkins we put them outside, put a candle in them and went back inside to get decorations.

You probably guessed what I am talking about now....the decor. All we did was thread lights through the railings and stuck signs and pumpkin lanterns in the ground. We also hung up a pumpkin ghost on the top part of our porch.

The last thing I did was go Trick Or Treating! I went to a lot of houses and got a whole pillow case of candy!🖵 when I got home I watched some Netflix and went to bed. I hope you guys had an amazing Halloween and if you don't celebrate it then I hope you had an amazing day doing what you were doing.   
         

Gamer Dudes and Dudettes

Hey! Do you like playing video games? If so, read on! In this weeks blog I will be talking about the game I play at my after-school care. At the after-school care we have a lot of games on the X-box but only one on the computers and that game is...Minecraft !!!!!!!!!!!

On the computers we have two worlds for Minecraft. A world for 5-8 year-olds and a world for 9-12 year-olds. In the 9-12 world there are two places you can build a home. One is Cupcakelandia and the other one is Tree Top Village. I am building my house in Tree Top Village. Now I am going to tell you more about the two places.

Cupcakelandia

In Cupcakelandia you get a lot. you can write your name on the lot sign so that people know it is yours and can not touch or go in it without your permission. In the town center there will be a...UNICORN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!🦄 You can get wool by going to the sheep farm and shearing them. You can also dye the white sheep in all of the colours of the rainbow. All of the houses have to be cupcakes!! The rules are that you can not go to the Tree Top Village, you can NOT kill the sheep and you can not break a player's house.

That is Cupcakelandia and now to Tree Top Village.

Tree Top Village

In Tree Top Village it is a little bit different from Cupcakelandia. You get a lot, put your name on it and other players can not go in. If you need supplies like an axe to cut down trees for wood you can go to the big tree in the town center. The same rules as Cupcakelandia except the other way around -you can not go to Cupcakelandia and all the houses need to be trees and and you can not break a players house.

Do you play Minecraft too? Tell me about it in the comments!!!!! BYE 👋!!!!

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Freedom, Freedom, Freedom

On the 16th of October, I had my very first tap solo class! I am doing my solo to a song in which the work "freedom" is repeated, so that became the title of my blog this week.  My solo class was from 11am -12pm. The only problem was that my mom had a meeting at 8:00am. She could not drop me to my dance studio because she could not leave the meeting at all so she came up with a mom-promise 😅(a mom-promise is a compromise made by a mom...ha!) She spoke with my friend's mom and dropped me off at their house...AT 7:30 IN THE MORNING!

When we got there, the whole family except the dad was waiting at the door! When I went into their house I played with all of the kids. My friend is in Grade 5, her brother is in Grade 2, and the other brother is in preschool. When it was time for the little one to go to preschool he cried. 😞 His mom got him to go by making us do "homework" 📖🖉⌦   He finally left because he did not want to do any homework at all!

For a while, my friend and her brother played on their Ipads and I played on my Nintendo 3DS.🎮My friend and I then went to her room but her brother was not allowed to come in. While we were in there we talked about dance and then went downstairs to practice our group competitive dances.💃When her mom got home we got our dance stuff and went to the car. My friend's brother took like 10 minutes to get ready!🕘
When we got to the dance studio we got our tap shoes on and waited until our teacher came.

I learned my tap solo and it is really fast! My next class is in November so I will have A LOT of time to practice.🕒

L-L-O-Y-D...I Named You

Hi!!!!!!! In this blog I will be telling you about some of the things that I liked about the Lego Ninjago Movie and some things that I didn't like. Before I get on with it I want to say that there is a short list of what I did not like about the movie and they are all about little things so that's that.👍  Anyway, these are the things that I liked about the movie.

                                             MAJOR SPOILER ALERT...

Please do NOT read on if you have NOT seen the movie!!!!!!

Things that I liked👍 

1. I liked that it had a very satisfying ending📘

2. I liked that the movie was actually a man telling a story to a kid👨📖

3. I liked that Lloyd builds a relationship with his dad👲👨💖

4. I liked that Lloyd finally learned how to throw and catch...it is a life skill...you have to know how to do it!⛹

Yes, I know I put a lot of emojis but I just have to! Anyway, I did like all of the things that I said and now......the things I did not like⛔

Things that I didn't like👎

1. In a flashback scene, Koko and Garmadon said they met at a bar, BUT THEY DID NOT MEET IN A BAR!!!  They met while they were training.

2. The movie makers made Lloyd's mom's name koko...it is actually, Misako!!!!!

3. Garmadon is still evil...... NOT!!!!  He turned good at the end of season 2 and the movie showed information that happened in later seasons.

4. They made Zane look weird. There can be a lot of things changed for a movie but you cannot make Zane look weird!!!!

This was my short review of the movie.  The next movie that I want to watch is Coco.  I am sure it will be great.   Bye for now!!!!!👋      

Daddy's Home!!!!!!!!!!!

I have really exciting news!!! My dad has come back home and he arrived last week. My dad has been in Toronto for work for all of last year and I have not seen him for ONE WHOLE YEAR!!!!!! I screamed my head off when I found out that he was coming back.😲 He came back just in time for Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving in Canada is celebrated in October but it is celebrated in November in the United States.  I like Thanksgiving for many reasons...I am thankful about things, we get to eat turkey, and once Thanksgiving is over, we can put up Halloween decorations.

This year, I am thankful that there is enough water for everyone in Canada.  There are many countries in the world where people have to walk for so long to get water from wells and rivers.  Then they have to boil the water and get rid of all the germs before they can drink it.  I am also thankful that I live in my own house and that there are people like police officers to keep my city safe.

Now about the food!!!  For Thanksgiving dinner there was turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, roast potatoes and onions, bread rolls, and ground meat.  A whole turkey is too much for us to finish, so instead we got two thighs for my parents and two drumsticks for me and my sister.  The pieces were huge and I couldn't even finish my piece.  I love mashed potatoes and gravy so I had two helpings.  For dessert, I had a banana with chocolate syrup because I don't like cheesecake 🍲😏.

I am so happy that my whole family was together for Thanksgiving!  Happy Canadian Thanksgiving to all of you!!!

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View Dance Convention

Yesterday was so exciting. I went to my very first dance convention. It all started with me having to wake up super early on the weekend.😫I know..so sad, but it was okay because I was going to have classes with some amazing dancers.  One of my best friends came in the car with me and we were both so excited! When we got there we stood in a long line for registration.  My friend and I measured how far away from the table we were...we were 48 steps away. At the table we each got a wrist band that we HAD to keep on all day and a number that we had to pin to our bodysuits.  My number was 579. There were a lot of girls from my dance studio (Absolute Dance), but there were also many other studios there.  We were divided into three groups according to our ages and then the classes began!

🕺MY CLASSES💃

1. Jazz

2. Floor work

3. Ballet

4. Contemporary

5. HIP HOP

6. Tap

The first class was Jazz and we did street funk style. We did a combo to the song "All I Do Is Win"...dancing the combo was a lot of fun. The second class we had was floor work. We did lots of rolls, across the floor movements, and arm and core strengthening exercises. The third class we had was ballet.  I learned how to do some hard poses, stances, positions, and techniques. Then we had our lunch break. After lunch we had a contemporary class. We learnt that having correct technique is very important.  The next class was hip hop. It was soooooo much fun. We learnt an old school hip hop combo. The last class was tap and we all danced much faster than I do at my studio.  In the list above, I put ballet in red because all dance forms come from ballet, and I put tap in purple because this year I have a tap solo for my competitions.

I WAS AT THE CONVENTION FOR THE WHOLE DAY AND I HAD SO MUCH FUN!!!!!  I HOPE THAT I AM INVITED TO ATTEND AGAIN NEXT YEAR!!!!

Here is the link to my studio, if you want to take a look:

www.absolutedanceinc.com