Last night sucked

We won the basketball, but I hardly played because of my sprained finger and the coach wasn't on my good side, which isn't my fault [surprisingly]. All my team played brilliantly, but since I hardly played and because of my sprained finger I didn't play to well. The disco was too loud, I couldn't get into it [that meaning I couldn't get into the groove of dancing, not I couldn't get inside], and the boys in my year made stupid attempts to dance with some of the girls, who would have danced with them but didn't want to make it look like they liked them [which they do]. In fact, my ears were ringing from the time the disco ended, to the time I fell asleep [which was an hour later]. At the disco, some friends of the girl I supposedly like, tried to get that girl to dance with me. They failed, I ignored them, and everyone failed. But today I scored the first ever goal for my soccer team so that made up for it. So, basically, my Friday night sucked, how was yours?

The Disco!! + Basketball!!

Tonight we have a school disco, it's right after our basketball game against a team who has a player who used to go to our school but switched. Pretty exciting night. The game is at 6 and the disco is at 8:30, so it should be fun. Before the disco some of the boys are going to rampage the dairy before the disco so we have tonnes of sweets to keep us going for an hour and a half. And we can't lose our basketball game, no matter what!! I sprained my finger a few days ago so I might not play, which would be disappointing because I'm like the backbone of the team, strong, tall, handsome, skilled, cooperative, fit and a great basketballer. Yeah.

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My Essay

Goodnight Saigon Essay

Billy Joel’s ‘Goodnight Saigon’ was written and sung in 1982. It is about American soldiers going from Parris Island to Vietnam to fight.  The meaning of the song is hidden very deep in the song. I will explain the meaning and the language features of the song to you.

The main idea of this song is that Marine Army corps are going to Vietnam in the 1960’s to fight in the war ‘And we would all go down together’ as it says in the song.

At the beginning of the song it says ‘And we were sharp / as sharp as knives.’ This is like saying they’ve just arrived at Vietnam with all their guns and bombs and they’re feeling on top of things.

 In the next verse it says ‘We came in spastic / Like tameless horses / We left in plastic / As numbered corpses’. So they’ve come with all their training they’re prepared to kill, but it turns out that life in the jungle was hard and they were falling fast.

Then it says ‘We had no home front / We had no soft soap’. This means that there is no safe place, and they had no soap to keep clean.

They were also scared, ‘And we held on to each other’  ‘And it was dark / so dark at night’. These lines show that even though their prepared to do this, no amount of training can stop fear.   

They also had things to pass the time and hide the fear, like when it says ‘They sent us playboy / They gave us Bob Hope’ and ‘We passed the hash pipe / And played our Doors Tapes.’ So they had magazines, cigarettes, even a comedian to keep them occupied.

A strong message the song is getting across is that war is stupid and pointless, this is expresses when it says ‘And who was wrong? / And who was right? / It didn’t matter in the thick of the fight.’ This is saying they were fighting because they were forced to, and they didn’t really want to.

And at the end it says ‘And they were sharp / as sharp as knives’ so now instead of them being in charge, the enemy was now controlling them. ‘They heard the hum of our motors / They counted the rotors / And waited for us to arrive’.

The song also has quite a few very interesting language features, mixed in with a good tune and a powerful meaning.

Probably the most powerful and obvious language feature in the song is rhyme. ‘We met as soul mates / We left as inmates’  ‘We came in spastic / We left in plastic’  ‘We had no soft soap / They gave us Bob Hope’ And my favourite ‘And we held on to each other / Like brother to brother / We promised our mothers we’d write’. These are all examples of rhyme.

The song also had some good similes in it as well. ‘As sharp as knives’  ‘like tameless horses’  ‘Seemed to last as long as six weeks’ are all good examples of similes throughout the song.

Another language feature that was in the song was metaphors. ‘We held the day in the palm of our hand’  ‘We left as inmates from an Asylum’  ‘They left their childhood on every acre’.

Goodnight Saigon is a great song about the Vietnamese war and it has a very powerful message of antiviolence. It tells us how stupid and pointless war is. The language features re-enforces the meaning and shows us what is going through the soldiers’ minds while they are there.

By Daniel

MY B-DAY

AS YOU ALL KNOW MY BIRTHDAY IS TOMORROW AND IM TURNING 28 :D, SO YEAH. IM PRETTY BOSS. IM EXPECTING PREZZIES FROM ALL MY 'FRIENDS' IF THEY GIVE ME GOOD PREZIES. ESPECIALLY JOSEPH WHO I BOUGHT A CHOCOLATE BAR FOR USING THE REST OF MY POCKET MONEY TO GET SO HE HAD BETTER GET ME STUFF!!!!!!!

My best painting

This is probably my best painting I painted this term. 'This is not a blueberry'. Can you see my name in the top right?

On Saturday I filled in for a stream-team. It was really different than regular soccer. Tougher calls, most fast-paced, proper refs [not proper-proper, just proper] and sideline dudes with flags saying who's throw-in it is. At first I sucked in the first half, but once I got my game I did pretty well in the second. So yeah.

Neither of these guys are me. 

So, school

Recently in school we have been learning a lot of stuff [like most schools] and here is a few of them. We have been learning about punctuation like periods and stuff. We have also been doing quite a lot of painting. Like objects and stuff. We have also been writing essays, our most recent one was about Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 [Link in the words].Our yearly science fair is coming up soon and we have been doing little tests and stuff, mostly about light and rainbows and yeah. So that's cool. We are also going to do a reading book club buddy thing where we read books in chapters with our group then we talk about what we read. So yeah, that's basically school for me at the mo and yeah.

Soccer!

This season our team is going boss! We are currently undefeated and our best win is 10-0 against Mirimar. They sucked so hard. My new team is called the Kaukaus and we are boss. You know how when you play sport there are those people on your team who absolutely suck? [Yeah, you know who you are] Well, our team doesn't have any bad players, we all are great footballers.  And again, we are undefeated! One game, we were down 3-0 at halftime, and we won the 4-3, BOSS! Yeah, were pretty cool. So our team is basically made up of players who could've made it into the stream teams but wanted to play with they're friends and couldn't be bothered trying out. So yeah. 

My birthday!!!!

In about a week my birthday is gonna go down. To celebrate, feel free to send me money via the Internet. 10-20 dollars is fine, anything below isn't worth sending, anything above is great, I love you. So, to do that, join my blog, and send me money. Even a millionaire doesn't mind a little extra cash. So, thanks, if you're gonna send me money, I mean. Feel free to leave your name so I know who to thank. If you don't give me money, screw you and don't bother going on my blog. Ever. Again. So yeah, I'm turning 28 [wink wink] not really, the winking I mean. Or if you know me you know what I mean, wink wink. So yeah. Bye.

My painting skills

Well, after weeks of practising, I am [surprisingly] not one of the top 10 painters in the world, but I have improved. I have crawled out of the dark lonely shell of incompetence and stepped into the welcoming light of expertise. I was once a poor lost unworthy artless soul, but now I have been found by the god of fine lines and brush strokes. I was a weak colourless, talentless human being, but now, I am not a completely useless painter!!! [Yeah, I'm pretty boss]. I am better at holding a brush and getting the basic shape of an object right, and painting a clean line. I could still work on nothing, I'm perfect!!!!!! Just kidding, I still suck. I could still work on my blending and painting thinner lines though. [Even though my cursive name on the top right hand corner of my pipe was flawless {Oh yeah, go me!}]. But basically, like I said before, I'm not the best in the world but I have improved [which is what I was saying before]. Well that's it. Bye.

This is DEFINITELY not a pipe...

Today I just finished recreating Magritte's 'This is not a pipe', and my version of it is OK. What I liked was that is wasn't completely useless, all those lessons and tips definitely helped. I liked my blending and that the shape of it was good. I would change the shape a bit more, and I would definitely change the colours. For next week, at the moment I am planning to draw a box of matches. But I might change. I recommend that you search up some of Magritte's stuff. They're really good.