February? Say what!

I've only posted two things in January! Ok, this time I PROMISE that I will post more stuff.
The weather is messed up this year. It only snowed once this winter and the snow melted right away. It feels like spring and it's not cold at all. I am not complaining though. I love the type of winter we're having this year. ^_^

Diary of a 12-year-old

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the diary I had when I was 10 years old. This week I am going to write about a blog I had when I was in 6th Grade. (It was on a Russian social website for children.) It was the best year of my life. The following things are translated from Russian to English and my translating skills are not so good :/

This was my first post:

So here we are… One more week until school starts. Homework, lessons and other things I don’t like. In 5^th grade they scared us so much by telling us about middle school so that some people even wanted to stay in primary for another year. But actually, I don’t care. Homework – I will do it, lessons – I will survive. No… Middle school is something… The twins from my school bus told us everything about it. They love it there. There are a lot of teachers, you have a lot more friends than you did in primary, first love. It sounds pretty cool. The thing that interests me the most is lockers. It’s like when you go inside a shop and you have to leave certain things in a locker. We’re also going to have those! I am going to have my own keys! I don’t know what middle school is about yet, but all 6^th graders are really cool! Maybe I will also be cool?

Awwww.... I was so excited to go to Middle School. That was such a long time ago. This post is about my first day in 6th Grade:

Mica is very pretty today!

Diary of a 9-year-old

As I might have already mentioned earlier, I had a diary when I was nine years old. I have had this diary up till when I was eleven. I started writing in it on the 31st of August 2008, the last day of the summer holidays. Surprisingly it was very formal. How do I explain this? Nowadays, I also keep different notebooks (kind of like diaries), but they are full of doodles and little notes I can't read because my handwriting is messy. My diary from 2008, on the other hand, is very neat and is written more like a formal letter. Another thing is that when I started writing the diary I had no idea of what diaries are like so there was nothing like "Dear Diary," at the beginning of each page. The way I started writing was also very... Hmmm... Strangely formal. I literally just wrote
Good evening! My name is Sonya and I am nine years old. Tomorrow is the first of September and I am going to Grade 4. 
It became less formal after a year or so, but, compared to my doodles now, the drawings in my old diary are very neat. Many things I wrote do not make sense due to poor grammar and punctuation skills. I did my best and tried to translate everything I wrote word to word. Sorry if something does not make sense to you because it does not make any sense to me either.
Let's take a look at it, shall we?

So this is how it looks like from the outside

This is something I wrote on the 1st of September 2008. It was my first day in 4th Grade. Before the lessons started we celebrated the start of a new school year with a dancing show and I was one of the performers. Another thing to keep in mind that I was going to leave to Switzerland in August and not come back to my old school, but, unfortunately, our visa was not ready yet so I had to go back. 

The celebrations were over. Everyone went to class. Those who danced stayed in the auditorium. And I went to see my classmates. I came up to class 4A where in the previous years I was the best student. Everyone lined up to go to music class. I looked at my class with happy eyes. They responded with bitter looks. Dasha S was the first one to speak, “Really, really wanted to leave, but didn’t?”

She said to me with her disgusting voice. And after the other Miss Intelligence decided to speak, “You’re staying! Oh no!!!”

In love with Berlin

On the way back we found out that our flight was delayed -_- and later on the airport closed down. We had to wait three hours at the airport to fly to Lyon. We then took a bus from Lyon to the city I live in which took two hours. We arrived home at about four in the morning. 

It was the best school trip I have ever had! I fell in love with that city and I want to come back!

The Last Sunday

This is a project we did for English class! Please check it out! ^w^ We got a 16/20 or a B n_n
Chapter 1 part 1 written by me
Chapter 1 part 2 written by me
Chapter 2 part 1 written by Dasha
Chapter 2 part 2 written by Dasha
Chapter 3 part 1 written by Edna
Chapter 3 part 2 written by Edna
Chapter 3 part 3 written by Edna

Sometimes I go to town, listen to music and pretend I'm in an anime

Sorry I haven't written an anime review this month so here are some photos to make up for it:

Ready for the Escalade race!

All ready for Christmas! 

A random guy saw me with a camera and started posing in front of me so I took a picture of him

I wish I could click my fingers and the world would turn into a Broadway musical, a Bollywood movie, a Vocaloid music video.... Life needs more music and dance! 

Passage based essay on Shakespeare's "The Tempest"

This is the first time in my life I got a solid A for my English essay! I think it would be quite useful for those who are looking for inspiration online (like I usually do). It is based on Act 3 Scene 2 starting when Caliban says "Why, as I told thee, 'tis a custom with him,/I' th' afternoon to sleep: there thou mayst brain him...". Here it is:

 In Act 3 Scene 2, Caliban, Triculo and Stephano are plotting to overthrow Prospero. In 

this rather comical scene the reader is exposed to a never-seen-before side of Caliban. 

Throughout the play Caliban was portrayed as a savage native who uses rude language and 

insults. In this passage, however, it can be seen that Caliban is not as uneducated as he might 

seem at first.
Caliban makes a speech that could also be seen as a monologue, telling the others how he would 

like the plan to be carried out. It introduces a different side of Caliban. In this sense he can no 

longer be seen as an educated fool, but is rather looked at as a scheming man who is thirsty for 

revenge. The aspect that stands out the most is Caliban's language. Instead of cussing and using 

insults Caliban suddenly uses more sophisticated language. He calls Miranda a "non-parail" 

which is a very unusual thing for him to say because has never complimented anyone in the play 

before.
Caliban's use of language is not the only concept that stands out in the passage. Caliban's ideas 

are also superior to those of his companions. He has thought ahead and can now be seen as 

someone who is very scheming and revengeful. He explains Stephano and Trinculo that books 

are Prospero's source of power. "Burn but his books; he has brave utensils" Being the least 

educated character of all, he was the only one who has thought of the idea of getting rid of the 

source of Prospero's power before getting rid of Prospero himself.
Caliban's plot to overthrow Prospero echoes an event that took place earlier in in the play. In 

Scene 2 of Act 1 Prospero was telling his daughter Miranda the story of how he got to the island. 

He said that his brother Antonio took his power and sent him there. Luckily, Gonzalo put books 

in the boat Prospero was travelling on. Thanks to them, Prospero managed to gain his power 

over the island. Despite Antonio's education, he could not think that his brother's books were so 

important. Caliban, on the other hand said that it was the first thing to do in order to rid Prospero 

of his power. “Remember first to possess his books; without them he’s but a sot, as I am” 

Caliban's ideas and the language he uses show that he is much more intelligent than his 

companions. Just by looking at the text the reader can see that Caliban's lines are written in 

poetry form, while the others' are written in prose. This represents Caliban's knowledge 

compared to the simplicity of Stephano and Trinculo's thoughts. Caliban thinks ahead of things 

while Stephano's thinking is much more simple. He says to Caliban, "Monster, I will kill this 

man. His daughter and I will be king and queen".
By expressing himself the way he does in the passage, Caliban wants to be seen as an intelligent 

gentleman. It is a side he wants to develop and be respected for. The thing Caliban wants the 

most is sharing and equality. He wants to be loved and respected. It can be seen that Caliban will 

never fulfil his needs for he is constantly being looked at as a slave. Everyone judges him on his 

appearance and not what he wants to be.
In conclusion, Caliban has a more sophisticated and scheming side to his personality. It can be 

seen that in most ways he is more intelligent than Stephano and Trinculo, but he will never be 

respected for this side of him since everyone sees him as a slave.