Assignment #6

When you wake up early in the morning, not knowing what day of the week it is, and stepping outside into the fresh morning breeze, that’s the best part of summer. I love when you get up and go down stairs, and find tons of fruit all cut into different shapes, waiting on the table, along with some fresh blueberry pancakes. You walk outside and sit in the sun and enjoy not having to do anything. After breakfast, you finally decided that it would be best if you changed out of your pajamas, and throw on what ever you want, not trying to impress anyone but yourself. Then you have to make another decision, go swimming, or bike riding first. Lunch soon follows, and you make freshly squeezed lemonade, and  collect vegetables from your garden to make a refreshing salad. Once again, you sit outside listening to the birds and the sound of the wind running over the pool. The new trees and plants bare flowers and bright shades of green while reflecting in the rippling water. Later on in the day, cousins and aunts and uncles arrive from all over, to spend and few weeks with you. The rest of the day flies by, but you enjoy it all, playing outside, making dinner, watching a movie, it’s just perfect. Summer time is  all about having fun, relaxing, and enjoying family, and that’s just what I do. 

Assignment #5

     Over the past month, I’ve done a lot. In South Africa, there’s so

much to do. We’ve been to Cape Town, and went up the famous Table Mountain, been to tons of great beaches, eaten in a tree, swam with penguins, saw almost every wild African animal, went to the Fifa World Cup Stadium, rode on Segways, and spent a lot of time with Family. One of my favorite things we did, was going on safaris. We stayed is a little hut, with the wilderness surrounding us, with no fences to be protected by. We saw Lions, zebras, giraffes, monkeys, elephants, impalas, (similar to deer), and so many different kinds of interesting birds. We toured                                   around in open jeeps in the
middle of no where, metres away from animals. It was truly amazing. We use every moment of every day to fit everything in. One day in Natal, my family and my grandparents all went zip       lining. It was really cool. We flew over the trees tops and went down 24 stories. We also “para-zipped”. It was parachuting and zip-lining together. My grandma is now the oldest person in the entire “world” to ever do it! Every trip we take, and every thing we do on them, teaches me so much about the rest of the world. I love traveling, and exploring, which will be a part of me forever.

Assignment #4

     Olivia Ruddiman. My first name, to me, is really simple and quite easy to say. Although Olivia may be easy, Ruddiman is a different story. It originally meant the “man” who was in charge of the “rudder” on a boat. The rudder, is what you steer with, and it makes the boat turn. It’s actually quite a cool name because, we ended up sailing a boat for a year ourselves. Ruddiman has been pronounced Rudderman, Rudemin, Ridman, and a bunch of other weird names. As for Olivia, I’ve really only gotten strange nick names. Courtney has always given me nick names. Liv, Olive, Livi, Libia. One time, when Courtney had a friend over, she called me Olive, like she always did. It didn’t really bother me, until she decided to add onto it. Then, it suddenly became Olive Oil. The next day at school, her and her friend called me this in front of other people. It eventually just caught on. I swear, by the end of the year, half the people at school, knew me as “Olive Oil”. Even though my name is not always pronounced correctly,( or even my name at all), I love every part of it.