Saquan smith
Matt Thomas
Language Arts 10 1st period

This is for My Riders

The Mountain, it’s rough, steep, soft, and flat. Our snowy white beast of a canyon has ranges of activity for the daily person. In the summer you can disk Golf at a resort.

Your an adventures person. You can hike up and down as many times as you feel. You’ll probably get tired after the first time. When winter comes flying around you can sled, snow mobile, ski, or snowboard.

I snowboard, I ride at solitude ski resort. I try to get up to the mountain as much as I can. Like every Saturday. It’s so expensive like 50$ for one all day pass. I have a seasons pass the pays for the bus ride up there, so no worries. I always try to be decked out in fresh snow gear, rockin my bandanna and all.

If you ride I’m sure you try to get in as many sessions as possible. Riding the terrain on like almost every run. I hit the park a lot. I love just costing down to a jump. Once you hit it you go soring through the air. I got my indies on lock. I warm up on those. Then when I’m warm I hammer down a few melon grabs. Then flow through the trails and back 80 off the little man made jumps. So sick because you just flow through the air and land with steez.

Besides going through the air, my other favorite element to snow board is the box. After soaring through the air I speed check a little the ride up to the box and do a board slide to switch or front board. My favorite trick I like to see is b.s.t.s.270.o also know as back side tail slide 270 out. The trick is so fresh to see because it looks like your just spinning around on the box. I want to learn it like the pros because that would make me look the way more steezer. Trick like 360 inde and front side 360 melon are so dope.

I just love to ride if there where no tricks in snowboarding. It would still be fun because you could just coast through the forest woods hitting fluff pow pow. It feels like landing in clouds. Powder can be a b*#%ch at times too. When you riding on it and you don’t butter through that ish, then your going down and it’s a mother lover to get out. I usually bunny jump out of it. I’ve seen people crawl, roll, and even unstrap and trek through the untracked snow. Once there up though they get back ready and have a blast like nothing.

I love boarding, snow and skate. Its an experience for every one. One of many amazing things to do in life. I wrote this to share my experience with people who don’t know what it is and for those people who can relate to what I’m writing about but it mostly for My Riders

Saquan smith
Matt Thomas
Language Arts 10 1st period

She is my Hero

She doesn’t have super powers, only super strength. A thirty-five year young lady who looks like she could be twenty-nine. On business every time you talk to he, she’s like a mix between lion and a koala. She does any thing to help the kids and people, but she’s Just a normal person no cape and mask.

My mom has everything that a hero needs to be a hero. Hero’s are driven. My mom has a drive that never stops. She will keep moving until she can’t move anymore. If you’re in trouble and my mom is your friend, she will try to help you out . A hero also has to be alert all the time. If they’re not then the city could be under terrible mass destruction by the enemy and no one is there to end it. Hero’s help people when in need. Batman even saved a criminal from falling to his death! A hero has to have at least a bit of a temper, with out one how would they get enough confidence to fight back at the enemy big or small.

Shes kinda like Odyssey from the Odyssey. She’s the leader, what ever she says

goes even if you like it or not. She can get really mean at times too. When me and my sister don’t clean up when she says shell come in and flip out and yell really loud. She scares me when she gets angry you don’t like it then she’ll probably want to cut or hurt you until you do. Not really but mom will ground me or kick me out. When shes mad it just seems like shes going to cut me.

She wants to be a rapper in life she’s been trying for about her whole life. If she fails at something she wont feel like it completely over for that particular hobbie. She just takes that and learns from it and makes better of herself. She will cry and get mad if she doesn’t succeed, but only for a minute. Afters some sleep she’ll be rejuvenated and ready to get up and go get it. She’s something like an entrepreneur, can turn sand into gold. She is working on being a real estate agent so she can sell houses. She,s almost done and she just has to get her license. When she does, hopefully we can get an awsome house.

My mom is strong, confident, in-charge woman. She can be as sweet as a flower as helpful as a robot, and as mean as the devil. And this is why my mom is my hero.

Saquan smith

Matt Thomas

                                                      What is a Ghost?
I think a ghost is a spirit that haunts people, a soul that needs to get in contact with a living person. I don’t think ghosts are like Casper and go around bothering people for no reason. This is my opinion of a ghost. I don’t truly know what a ghost is, and that’s why I’m going to look it up and tell you.
 Wikipedia says that a ghost is a dead person back in a similar form to when that person was alive. There could be a ghost if you get a cold wind come through. If your alone in your house and you here footsteps and weird voices. Well I can relate to that because I’ve been alone in  my house on the computer doing something or another. All of a sudden ill catch something move really fast past the door. Like light speed! Then I’d look at the door twice and nothing would be there.  Some people say it’s an energy lifeform stuck between this plane of existence and the next time. This could be true. But how do they just get stuck here? There has to be a reason.

 I think there is such a thing as spirits. Not so much real live floating around ghost. The only time I’ve seen a ghost like that is in a cartoon or fictional movies. If ghosts are real, I would really want to meet one-it would be awesome.  I would make him my friend.
If ghosts are real do they really go around freaking people out and killing them? Why would someone or something do that? If I were a ghost, I would probably be a ghost because heaven didn’t want me and hell is too hot. No, just joking. I would probably be a ghost because I did something really bad in the past or I didn’t get to say goodbye to somebody that I truly loved. But I wouldn’t haunt people. I would tell all the bad ghosts to do the right thing.  Are ghosts real? I can’t really answer that question with a yes or no answer. There are people out there who say they have seen ghost and have been haunted by ghosts. There are TV shows and pictures that have “real” ghosts in them.  Personally’ I don’t know. I don’t really believe that ghosts are real.  I think people want ghosts to be real. I really don’t know thought-maybe. There could be mysterious souls lost in our time.

To Be or not to Be: The Turtle is Asking the Question.

Living is so hard for me right now. I have so much friends and family, they would be so sad and upset if I chose not to “be”. It’s like I can’t decipher whether to go on getting picked up  and rubbed on my little scaley shell for a belly or to just end it  all and go to that fish tank in the sky with all of those reptiles who chosen not to be.

            I look up and I see kids walking around and people chit-chatting. Then there is me, alone, crawling around endlessly, waiting for Ms. Ottley to get me water and the same old cabbage. It’s not bad, I just know there is more to do and better things to see than just four brown wooden walls.

            I know there’s a bigger world out there. Not just all these brown desks and different shades of blue on the floor. I have the slightest memory of a different place. I think  it was a dream but it seemed really real. I was swimming in a fish tank. Right across from some goldfish and some snakes. And Ms. Ottley comes over to my tank with some guy. All of a sudden a big net comes in. I thought it was going to kill me. I swam to the bottom and around so I could get away from it. I was almost gone and then the net trapped me. (I was only like four at the time so this net looked really big) It dragged me up to the top. He put me in this plastic see-through cage with some hay and handed me to Ms. Ottley.

            I remember  Ms. Ottley holding me and walking out of the place with me. Her words are burned in my brain, when she looked over and said, “You’re a pretty little turtle aren’t you?” We got into this huge monster with four wheels and started driving away I remember seeing the Mark’s Ark sign fade away. And I woke up and I was in this place.

            I wish I could escape. I want to so bad. I’ve tried everything. When kids pick me up, I try to bite their little human fingers so they can accidently drop me and I can run out of here. I stopped doing that after it worked. I hit the ground so hard that my shell cracked. Ms. Ottley fixed that. I’ve tried to build stairs out of the hay thats in my cage. I fell through when I got to the third step. Ms. Ottley dug me out. I’ve tried to dig a hole through the ground. The wood is too hard to get through.  Ms. Ottley picked me up and brushed the dirt, hay, and wood chips off me.

            I know that lady loves me a lot, I love her too.  I’ll never be satisfied with the pet life style. I know there’s bigger things out there and I am going to find them. And if I start to notice that day never come. Then I will choose not to be. I wonder if I chose not to be. What would happen to me? Would I finally get to see all the other turtles in heaven?  I just don’t know. And I will have to find out.

Matt Thomas

Language Arts 10 1^st period

3 December, 2007

Andy Goldsworthy a man of art

Andy Goldsworthy is a pretty weird guy. He’s the type of guy to strive and get something done. I watched and observed him. He’s a man who puts himself in awkward positions and places to do his work. Andy has been all over, Sometimes you can catch him just walking down the street picking daisy. He thinks about his work wherever he goes, even in a field of sheep while awaiting a mother sheep give birth to baby sheep. He’s the type of man who loses himself with out his art.

Some of Andy’s pieces are these really big boulder-like stones made out of smaller rocks.

He’s has built all these really big stones all around the world. He has one in the center of this business type building. He has one on the beach. I mean everywhere. Well not everywhere. You probably haven’t seen them because he lives in Europe some where. But man he goes a lot of places. He doesn’t just build boulders. He’s like obsessed with this like squiggle river shaped piece. He does it all the time. I think the one on that I am most impressed by is the ice sculpture. Now I know that sounds like he used a hammer and chisel. No, Andy found himself some frozen icicles in like the mountains some where. Then he melted his river-like sculpture to a rock. Andy made it look like there was an icy river going through the rock.

It was amazing because he had such a hard struggle. The pieces of icicle would melt and fall off he couldn’t use gloves because the gloves were not sensitive enough. So he used his bare hands. And when all of it was over the piece got melted away or knocked down. Its amazing what kind of hard work this man will put into an art piece of his. one part of the movie he trys to build this rock like wall thing. I never really understood what it was. But anyway. He gets going on this rock thingy, witch

by the look. of it it, looks really hard to build. I mean he and his crew get so far into this thing, with one wrong movement or mistake or mis placement it all collapses. And scene this happens repeatedly like four times. to put in a effort like that to something you love really gets my respect.

I think after watching this movie Andy has become one of my favorite artists. It’s not really his art, it’s just because of the person he is. He really inspires me to put that 150 % into my work and art. Because I strive to draw. And it’s really hard. It takes some time. Watching Andy takes his time and effort that he does teaches me to do the same

Andy, is just one of those people who kind of changed my life in a sense.