The room in my home that is my favorite is my bedroom. It has my soccer posters all along the walls, as well as shelves full of trophies. It also has places to hang all my medals and my team photos and my playing soccer. Even though you can barely see my walls, they’re a pale turquoise kind of color. I have a big white desk for me to do my homework, and I also have huge calendar whiteboard above my desk. And to the side of it I have pin boards with photos of me and my friends. I also have a tv in my room and behind it are these paper flowers that my mom made for my 6th birthday. Behind the back of my door is a rectangular vanity cabinet with little quotes on it. My bed is a white metal bed frame with turquoise sheets and a turquoise comforter. I have a lot of stuffed animals that have been given to me when I was younger, but only a couple of them are on my bed. The rest are stored underneath my bed. Next to the bed are these white wooden nightstands that hold my jewelry and my google home. For me to play rain sounds for me to sleep. My bedroom is where I spend most of my time and where I relax. I love my room because I was able to decorate it how I wanted and I wake up every day to see all my trophies and medals on the wall as well as quotes that famous people have said or say. That is why my bedroom is my favorite room in the house.

For week two of my 20% project my goal was to watch videos and learn how to start making a stuffed animal. Also I wanted to complete more rows on my baby blanket. This week I did amazing but I had a couple struggles. I accomplished completing fifteen rows on my blanket. I struggled with starting the rows to make the stuffed animal. I found videos and websites to explain what the different abbreviations mean, so I get a little bit about how to use the hooks and what the different abbreviations mean in crochet. But it’s still a little confusing. Because starting the rows on the stuffed animal went badly, I had to make changes and started designing my trifold instead. Next week I will be working on completing more rows on my blanket and continue to try how to make a stuffed animal. Thanks for reading see you next week.

Hi my name is Aaliyah, for my 20% project I am learning how to crochet. This week my goal was to watch videos and start crocheting a baby blanket, this week went amazing. There were some errors, but I powered through. I was able accomplish to make little squares, and I was able to do twenty rows on the baby blanket. When I started crocheting, I wasn’t able to get the pattern tight enough. So my mentor, My mom. Helped me get it tight enough to start crocheting. After that I just kept going, while I did that I watched movies, but the time went fast. What I noticed was that sometimes the loop would get lost in the pattern and I would restart it again. Next week, I plan on continuing crocheting and adding twenty more rows to the baby blanket. I also plan to start watching videos and learning how to crochet a stuffed animal. I am so glad I get to learn how to crochet. Thanks for reading see you next week.

There are so many people I would want to invite to dinner, but these are my top three: Mohamed Salah, Alex Morgan and Helen Keller. Mohamed Salah is a professional soccer player who plays right winger for Liverpool and captains the Egypt national team. I would enjoy have dinner with Mohamed Salah, so I could ask him all the question about what did he do to be successful and who was the biggest supporter in his career. Alex Morgan is also a professional soccer player who plays striker, and is captain for the San Diego Wave FC. She is on the United States national team, and was twice named U.S. Soccer’s Female Athlete of the Year in 2012 and 2018. I also would ask her questions about what did she do to be successful and if you could tell your younger self something what would you say. Helen Keller was an American author and who advocated for disability rights. Helen was both blind and deaf, even though people thought it was impossible to overcome her disability. Helen did the impossible, she wrote books, graduated from college, felt objects and associate them with words, spelled them out using finger signals on her palm, to read sentences using braille. Again I would ask Helen questions also like how did it feel to inspirer the generation after and after you and how were you able to overcome your disability. That is who I would like to have dinner with and why.

In March, I read the book We’ll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han. We’ll Always Have Summer is a young adult romance novel that concludes the trilogy of the series. It is about a girl named Belly who has always been in love with Conrad Fisher, and Jeremiah has always been her best friend and cared for her like a brother. And their mother Susannah has always been like another mother to Belly. After two years of being together, Jeremiah gets down on one knee and proposes to Belly. With not having the support to get married, the continued planning and head back to Cousins beach to have the wedding. Conrad comes back after two years from being at Stanford University, he tells Belly a couple nights before the wedding that he made huge mistake when he broke her heart. Conrad has always been Belly’s first love, but in a couple days she would be marrying Jeremiah. She knows that she can’t have both of them, so she has to confront them both and tell them her feelings. With that choice she will have to break one of their hearts.

I really enjoyed the story line and the way that Jenny Han expressed the emotions of the characters, it felt like I was really there. Instead of just telling what’s happening or how someone’s feeling, she wrote the description of the how the character was feeling and how they were dressed or where they were at.

My favorite character was Belly, and say that because everything she’s been through with Jeremiah, Conrad, and her Mother. She has been upbeat and cheerful about everything. One of Belly’s characters traits is determined and I prove that with this quote that is one of Belly’s thoughts. “All there was to do now was to steamroll ahead and set this wedding in motion. With or without my mother by my side, this is happening.” (Pg. 117)

My favorite quote from the book was on page 161, It was a conversation Conrad had have between him and one of his classmates, Agnes. When she asked him if he’s ever been in love, And he said once knowing it was Belly. She kept asking more questions about what was it like, what’s her name, and how did you meet. But Conrad and Belly never really met, they’ve always known each other. That’s when Conrad told Agnes this quote. “ ‘There hadn’t been one specific moment. It was like gradually waking up. You go from being asleep to the space between dreaming and awake and then into consciousness. It’s a slow process, but when you’re awake, there’s no mistaking it. There was no mistaking it had been love.’ ” Conrad has always been Belly’s first love, and Conrad has only been in love once. And that was with Belly. What defines love? Love is when you love someone so much that you would do anything for them, no matter what has happened through your journey. You will always love them and be there for them. Love is when you know that you have found the one who will always be your partner in crime and your best friend. Who everyday you want to wake up next to, who you want to spend your life with. That is what love defines for me, that is what Conrad means when Belly is the only girl he’s ever loved. Even though this is only a book, this helps me understand that there is something called love.