This week went smoothly even though I was very busy. I finally got to visit two restaurants in one week, I went to Seven Grams and Phoholic. The reason I had a busy week was that I was out for the weekends along with Friday to attend a training camp for a position I wanted in a program I do. I ended up getting the position, however I missed out on opportunities to visit dine in restaurant in Orange County. This week overall went pretty good, I wish I’d visited a random restaurant instead of one I have visited before. Seven Grams, the first restaurant I visited was probably the highest rated restaurant I visited so far, and although Phoholic was good the restaurant itself was hard to find as it was underground in a mall. By next week I want to have visited 5 restaurant and I want to visit a restaurant that is very underrated and not recognized. My main goal by the end will be to visit at least 8 restaurants in Orange County and rate them. Thank you and come back next week for Week 4.

My favorite room in my house is the living room. One reason for this is it has a big window, which I love looking out of on a rainy day. Another reason is my very comfortable couch which I love to sleep in with a soft blanket. Whether it is reading, sleeping, or just sitting down I love to do it in my living room. I have many great memories in my living room such as playing board games with my family, watching countless movies, and snuggling with my cats. My living room is a very large open space near the front door of my house, on the wall there is a T.V. with a console below it. On the console there are a couple family photos, decoration, and my gaming devices such as my Nintendo and my Oculus. The other side of the room has a very comfy and large leather couch that is on top of my carpet, in the middle of that carpet there is a large glass coffee table. Parallel to the front door is the very large window, which I love to observe my garden in. Finally my last reason for the living room is the tv, I love watching series on Netflix while it is raining outside. It makes me feel calm and at ease, these are all the reasons why I believe that the living room is the best part of my house.

I had a stressful week with do many struggles. To start off I went to brunch on Sunday and rated Panini Kabob Grill, however that was the only restaurant I went to all week. This week was filled with stress as all of my family members were busy and could not drive me to a restaurant, therefore I couldn’t visit any restaurants. I want visit at least two restaurants again as goal, to make up for all the restaurants I missed. Because things went horribly this week I want to make a schedule for what restaurants I want to visit so we can all make time and go to dinner together. Next week will be really stressful because I have to go to a training camp and I will be out for three days. I would like to rate one restaurant before I go and another one after I come back from camp. By next week I really hope I am not as stressed as I was this week. Thank you for reading see you next week!

Last night, while I was finishing up my essay, something peculiar happened to me. I saw a flying platypus sitting across the street when I went to take a closer look, it just disappeared. My visions began to blur as everything turned black. When I woke up I took a look outside and the window seemed odd that’s when I realized I had gone back in time. The window was casement and my room was made of stone. I began to wonder what time period I was in, maybe the Middle Ages or the Renaissance. I went outside to take a walk, the town was empty like ghost town not a single soul could be seen. I saw a weird figure in the distance so I made my way towards it, I soon as I got close I could tell it was a scarecrow. The city was full of color and very artistic which caused me to believe that this way during the time of Renaissance. I could tell it was reformed from the Middle Ages, I wanted to see if anyone was in this town so I went inside a building however nothing seemed present. I must be hallucinating I thought, my vision became hazy as I woke up. It was dream however my essay wasn’t finished.

If I were to ever have dinner with anybody, the top three people I would bring are both my mom, dad, and Dr. Ronald Miller. To explain Dr. Ronald Miller is the best anesthesiologist in the world and I would love to talk to him about his job and what universities he went to, because when I get older I would either want to be in business, or be in anesthesiology. A reason I would bring my parents is all the hard things they do to keep me happy and how much struggles they go through just for me. I would want to go to a fancy steakhouse restaurant and I would want it to be on the highest story of a tall building in a big city to get great views while enjoying the dinner. I would also want the restaurant to be dimly lighted as I don’t often enjoy restaurants too much when they are very bright. That is what I would do if I ever got the chance to invite three people to any restaurant I want.

Hello my name is Isaac, and for my 20% project I will be rating restaurants in Orange County. I decided to pick this topic because I wanted to get to know restaurants around Orange County and I wanted to get people to try new and different food. This week my goal was to visit at least one restaurant, I achieved that goal however by next week I want to visit two restaurants. The first restaurant I visited was I Got My Sound Chicken, I Got My Sound Chicken is a Korean fried Chicken restaurant in Fullerton about 25 minutes from Tustin. I Got My Sound Chicken got a 4.8/5 rating due to their friendly staff, clean interior, flavorful food, and creativity of the food and restaurant. This week was an ok week, because I would have liked to visit more restaurants however I only had time for one. I had a struggle picking restaurants to go to because I am very indecisive, I want to pick certain restaurants a week before I actually go to them. My next goal for week 2 is I want to rate more restaurants that are closer to my home so I don’t have to bother my parents into driving me a long way just for a school project.

This month I reread a book called By the Great Horn Spoon by Sid Fleischman. The book is about a boy named Jack and his butler, Praiseworthy, and their adventures in California during the Gold Rush time period. Jack is trying to save his aunt’s home, in which where he lives, due too their inheritance being almost gone. This caused Jack with the decision to go to California in search of gold, as Jack and Praiseworthy try to buy a ticket for a ship going to California they are robbed and are left penniless. This is the reason why Praiseworthy and Jack had to go as stowaways. When they reach California they have no money which causes Praiseworthy to come up with an idea to give miners free haircuts, then they wash out the hairs in search of a little bit of gold. With gold they got from the haircuts they travel to Sacramento where they would start panning for gold. Later into the book they struck it rich and find a huge gold nugget before returning however they run into their last conflict. Praiseworthy is scheduled to fight with the Mountain Ox as he challenges him due to an earlier incident where Praiseworthy had taken out a gang of robbers. Praiseworthy wins the fight and him and Jack are on their way to the seaside village where they landed the boat sinks less than a mile away causing both Jack and Praiseworthy to loose all their gold. However as a last attempt to get rich they sell cats that are found aboard the ship they came from and quickly get rich as rats where a major problem for shop owners. As the Story ends they try to find a ship when Aunt Arabella and Jack’s sisters get off a ship, they decided to sell the house and come to California too. Praiseworthy asks Aunt Arabella to be his wife and she accepts and they decide to make California a place for both women and children. I loved this book due to the amount of action that is presented and I love how the author makes the reader feel like you are with them in the book. I also loved how the author described many characters even though they aren’t too important to the plot. Overall By the Great Horn Spoon is a quick read that doesn’t have hard vocabulary and is pretty straight forward, this book does a great job describing the Gold Rush even though it was made more than a century later. My favorite character from the book was Praiseworthy because of his bravery, a quote that explains this is, “His chest looked as big around as a flour barrel…’I wish we’d never come back here,’ Jack muttered. ‘It’s not a fair match, no sir.’ ‘You want me to back out?’…’You gave your word. You have to stick by it.’ ‘That right. And anyway, I intend to lick him.'” This quote shoes that Praiseworthy isn’t backing out even though his opponent is much larger and stronger than him, it shows he stand up to nearly impossible odds and shows the risk he is taking. This makes me think that Praiseworthy is honorable and brave. My favorite quote from the book is, “The gold revealed itself like bits of sunlight trapped in the loosened earth. The two partners flung their hats in the air. In sheer exuberance they clasped arms and swung around and around in the oblong pit.” This is my favorite line due to the duo finally getting the gold they need to help make money for Aunt Arabella’s house. I also loved how they used the personification and simile together to create an amazing sentence. I think By the Great Horn Spoon is an amazing novel that everyone should read, it is a perfect way to learn more about the Gold Rush and a really fun read.

If I were to ever have my dream job I would love to be a marine biologist. Although the salary might be low I think it is more important to pursue passion over money. The reasons for this job is that I’ve always loved going to the beach and to the tide pool where many exotic creatures hide. I remember when I first came to the United States on a vacation and went to a beach called Corona Del Mar where I observed a small crab hiding in between the rocks. The whole tide pool was filled with these fascinating creatures and that’s when I realized that marine biology is what I was into. Another reason I would love to be a marine biologist is that I love going to the aquarium and it makes me feel that nothing matters and as a marine biologist I could see all these animals in their natural habitat. My final reason for wanting to be a marine biologist is that I want to travel all around the world studying fascinating creatures while in return I get payed to do what I love. Although I will probably not follow through this career due to the low salary I would love to be a marine biologist.

This month I’ve read the book Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Ready Player One is a dystopian novel that takes place in the year 2045, during that year the planet is on the brink of chaos and collapse and people come to Oasis(a virtual reality world) to seek salvation. James Halliday created the Oasis, and when he died, he promised his immense fortune to whoever could solve and find all his keys. Wade Watts sets himself up to the challenge and joins the contest to get the keys. After years of researching Halliday’s life, Wade is the first to get the copper key. Wade becomes the first one on the leaderboard and gains a lot of fame and unwanted attention, the company IOI wanting the immense fortune does everything to take Wade down and get him to share his ways of getting the key. Wade travels through all of Oasis collecting clues and getting keys. This novel hooks its readers into this fascinating book, I loved this book as it felt futuristic. It never lets you put the book down as it is so intriguing and suspenseful. It is filled with actions and very tense moments that make the novel outshine many others. My favorite character from the novel was Halliday and he was my favorite character because he was the start of the whole book. My favorite character trait about him was that he was very intelligent, “He was the videogame designer responsible for creating the Oasis… Halliday was one of the wealthiest people in the world.” This shows how smart Halliday was as he was the founder of Oasis which made him very rich. My favorite quote from the book is, “Everyone my age remembers where they were and what they were doing when they first heard about the contest.” This is a very meaningful piece to the novel as it was the very first sentence written, therefore paving a path for the novel to unfold. Overall Ready Player One is a really interesting book that you could never put down, it is a perfect summer read and is overall light. If you ever get a chance to read this amazing book I would recommend it.

I am invisible! I wake up to a horrific visual, I can’t see my arms or my legs. I hurriedly ran to the mirror I was no where to be seen. I started remembering what had happened yesterday, and had forgotten that I wished to be invisible after seeing a shooting star. The first thing I did was I ran to my parents room and they were awakened with the opening of their door. They were horrified after discovering no one opened it, then I had explained that I had became invisible. It was a bit hard being invisible for the first 2 hours as I was sat on and ran into by my family members. It was Saturday so I was excused from school, this allowed me to be free for the whole day. The first thing I did was go to GameStop to smuggle and steal a PS5 and a Xbox. When I got back home I started playing Minecraft on my new Xbox. The very next thing I did was I went to a Nike store and stole a pair of Nike SB Dunk’s. I was very satisfied however there was one more thing I need, I got on a flight to Georgia and trespassed into the largest aquarium in the United States. I jumped into the main exhibit and swam with all the species of many organisms. As the day neared to an end I got snuck back onto the airplane and flew back to California. It was exhausting yet rewarding being invisible however I would never like to be invisible again. I woke up the next morning back in my bed, I was visible again.