This Weekend

                                               

This weekend was an okay weekend. This weekend, my family and I went to Burlington where we watched soccer games. My sister and our foreign exchange student had a tournament. Kirby, who is my sister, lost all four of her games this weekend. She played two on Saturday and Sunday. In their fourth game, they scored their first goal all weekend. I think that her games were less exciting than Jaycob’s games.

Our foreign exchange student, Jaycob, has a good team and he is a good soccer player, so naturally they won some of their games. On Saturday, they beat a really easy team, and lost to a tricky team. The next day, they beat a blue team and lost to a team that was awesome.  I’m not saying that we were bad, but the other team was really good.

That was all that happened soccer wise. After we got done at one o’clock on Saturday, we went to something to eat and then went to our hotel to go swimming. Jaycob and I played man ball with Jaycob’s soccer coach and some of Jaycob’s friends. Man ball is where we had goals (the space in between chairs) and you try to get a floatie toy into the goal. We lost by one point. The coolest room we have ever had was the one that we stayed in. In our hotel room the bathroom heated up and you could dry off after you got done taking a shower. Some more fun things were a microwave, a fridge, and two beds and a popup bed. It was nice because we have six in the family and that is how many it was made for. The only bummer was the drive to and fro. It was two hours long. It was a bummer because it is a long time for me to sit in a car.
           

Tao Day Eight

Today I chose this saying      
     This saying has to do with one of the first saying that I chose. The saying said to keep your mouth shut. I still have not yet done that so today this is a reminder.
  Shut your mouth.
Be still. Relax.
Let go of your worries.
Stay out of the spotlight.

Tao Day Seven

The saying that I choose today was:

Don't call attention to yourself.

Don't make a scene.

       When we are meeting a friend, my brother makes a big scene because he wants to be all big and buff. ( but he really isn't). It is very annoying when he does that because they I have to tell him to shut up in front of my friend. So today this is a lesson for my little brother, Elliot.

Alfred the Great

On Friday I was asked to write a history comp. Today I revised it. This is what it looks like.

                                                     Alfred The Great

Imagine yourself with your ten friends in a corner of the playground that only you are allowed on because you guys are a popular gang that nobody likes to hang around, but then some of bigger kids start fighting with your friends. Now you are the leader of the gang and you have to take action. Your friends join you when you start throwing punches. After a little while, you beat them up that they run. Then you shout to them to never come back. This is how Alfred the Great held his land from the Vikings. The Vikings arrived and started fighting with some towns. Then Alfred the Great took action and pushed them out of his land. Then he made them made them sign a treaty to never return. This is like how you shouted to never return.

            Alfred the Great was born in 849 in the town of Wanating or the modern day name, Wantage. He was the ruler of Wessex(see picture). . Alfred the Great ruler the Anglo-Saxons in England from 871 to 899A.D.

 He defeated the Vikings in 878 and made them sign the Treaty of Wedmore which was a treaty where the Vikings became Christians and Guthrum, the Vikings’ leader was to be Alfred’s adoptive son. One important date is in 871 when he was crowned king of Wessex. Another important date is that in 878, Alfred the Great defeated the Vikings. He started fighting the Vikings in 877 and in the course of a year, he defeated the Vikings. In 899, he died in Winchester, England.

            Alfred the Great was a lawmaker, scholar, and a king. He encouraged education because he hadn’t had a proper education. In fact, he didn’t even learn to read and write until after he was king!

            Alfred the Great was indeed great because he saved the kingdom from enemy invaders. He had quite a lifetime. He also was a very good king and helped education grow. He was a good fighter and leader, but he was a good educator. Alfred’s influence still works today, because several schools and libraries where named after him.

Quennell, Marjorie, and C. H. B. Quennell. "Alfred the Great." Everyday Life in Roman and Anglo-Saxon times. New York: Dorset, 1987. 180-86. Print