Intro

Hi! My name is Alyssa Kaltenbronn. I'll use this blog 4th quarter.

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Kid Nation!

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40 children will have to try and fix a very old pioneer country. They have to spend 40 days in an old pioneer country with no adults, no teachers, and 4 leaders (who are also children). The council (4leaders) will have to start getting to know the children because the have to give one of them a two pound gold star worth $20,000. All of the kids are not having a very fun time being back in the old days and working. They have to live in an old cabin, on the floor, and with a very thin mattress. All of the kids have no idea how to cook and they had to throw out some of their food because it wasn't cooking, and a girl named Sophia really took charge and she's not even in the council. Some of the children have already broken down on the first day because they miss their friends and family. On the second day breakfast was a lot better than dinner on the first day. Also lots of people on the second day didn't get any food for breakfast and others got a lot of extra breakfast. Some of the older kids were picking on the little kids and even the council. Michael is another kid that is again not a part of the council and he stood up to everyone who was fighting and gave a small speech about how everyone at the country needs to work together. The town failed in 1885, so the leaders that read the book had to split the kids into 4 groups. The green, blue, yellow, and red teams. Everyone really does like the groups that they're in. Lorel (I think that's how you spell it) helped a first grader on her team because he broke down because he misses his mom and dad. Later on someone went to a bunkhouse and wrote with chalk on the bunkhouses. The children believe that the two older boys may have done it. There is going to be a showdown to see who will have what job and what their paychecks will be. Everyone is going for the upper class because they have no specific job and are paid  $1 for a certain amount of time. The youngest kids (yellow team) want to prove that they can do anything that older kids can do. The red district was the upper class. The blue district got the merchants. The yellow team got the cooks. The green district got the laborers. All of the districts had to pick a reward since everyone finished the challenge in an hour, One of the choices was 7 outhouses or a TV. That would be a really hard choice for me. But really if they picked the TV nobody will have time to watch it or they would just sit and do nothing. They did end up picking the outhouses so now they have a total of 8 outhouses to use. Everyone really liked the breakfast that the yellow team made. The blue district really liked their job as merchants. Sophia really wanted to get herself a bike so she danced a little on the street for money and she ended up buying the bike for $3. Jimmy is thinking about going home but some 10 year olds are trying to make them stay. At a meeting everyone was starting to fight so the council is going to try really, really hard to make the town work harder at everything. Jimmy decided that he wants to go home because he misses his family a whole lot. Sophia received the gold star from the council and she gets $20,000. Sophia also gets to call her parents and tell them that she won the gold star and $20,000 because of her hard work. I really liked this because you can see that kids can work together and make a working nation. All of the kids worked really hard when they figured out that they could win $20,000.




 

The Dance Workshop

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This weekend I'm going to a Dance Workshop and I am really excited. Basically it is a weekend full of dance classes in every type of dance. Some classes I have are Jazz, Jazz Funk, Hip-Hop, Tap, and I think Ballet too. So you have to start your classes at 7:45 in the morning on Saturday and once your done with your classes, you will get ready to compete your dance that you have from home. Then on Sunday you have your classes again, but after you're done on Sunday you will have a showcase of all of the new things you learned at the classes that you had. Another thing is during the classes, if directors see you improving a lot or doing very well you can get another free workshop which is worth about $200!



 

Something that Bugs Me

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Something that bugs me is my hair. My hair bugs me because every single day I have to put it up in a ponytail or a bun or apply heat to it to curl or straighten it and both of those things are not good for your hair. I wish I could just brush my hair and be on my way to school but it takes me about 20-30 minutes to do my hair because of how frizzy and hard to control it is. When I try to do new things with my hair it never works. And even when I do a ballet bun, I have lots of baby hairs underneath all of my hair so I have to put them up in bobby pins. My hair is starting to get super thick too, so when I put it up in a ponytail, I always have the problem where I can loop the rubber band around my hair three times, but it needs to be looped around four times or it will fall out.



 

Mental Blocks in Cheer

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I am going through a mental block in cheer. A mental block is when you know that you have a certain skill, but your brain tells you that you can't do it. I am not doing my standing tuck and my front punch (a front flip). I know lots of people who have these too so I know that I am not alone. When you get a mental block you just have to remember why you want this skill and how you can approve from it. I want my standing tuck and my front punch so that I can be on a level 4 team next year rather than a level 2 or 3 team. If I got these skills I could start to do fulls, which are level 5 skills, and many others things after. My coaches have told me over and over and over and over and over and over that I have these skills but my mental block makes me think that I am not capable of performing a skill. (That's a standing tuck in the animation.)




 

Being Special



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I believe that the U.S. is correct with what they are saying about everybody being special. But if you really think about it if everybody is special, then nobody is special. But if everyone is special in their own way then we are all special. I don't really like the thought of everybody being the same or normal. But what is normal? When I think of normal I think of this one episode of SpongeBob when Squidward wants SpongeBob to be more ''normal'' but nobody is like how SpongeBob was trying to be so, is there even a way to describe being normal or the same as others? Since everyone is different anyways with their personalities, looks, what they eat for breakfast, or even how fast they learn lyrics to songs we really are all special.