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In are last week of school is really hard because we are thinking that its time to go out for vacations and have fun, but we still have are last test, project, and homework’s we have to still turn them in because them he can affect are final grade severely. The last week is also fun because when you are done with all of the things you needed to do on the subject you can just watch movies or talk. In our school CDS in middle school has a very fun trip to go to the park de diversiones, which is a nice park where you go and get to play on different things. Just like Disneyland but worst. This has been a tradition for the middle school for very long, which is a very fun way to end the school year. When you are in eight grade moving up to high school you need to enjoy a lot your last moments with your teachers with the recess field and with the amounts of breaks because high is going to be a lot more difficult next year and different. The last week of school is when your mom checks how well you did on your subjects or how bad you do. If you fail you will have to got o school for a whole entire year of school which is not a lot of fun to do because you have less vacations than everyone else. In are school the last day of school you get do sign your yearbooks and wish them luck in their vacations or tell them whatever you want which is really. It is a lot of fun to see how you changed throught the year and see the whole school pictures. I think the last week of school is going to be a lot of fun and sad at the same time if you are moving up to high school.

On Saturday May 24, 2008 the CDS Concert Band went to perform to the Fortuna. On Saturday we had to be there at six forty five in the morning so we could leave at seven and the traffic would of not make are trip longer. We had to load up all the instruments so all the things could of fit because the choir group was also going to perform in the same place so the bus was completely full and all the place we went the choir went so it made the trip a lot more boring. The trip was about three and a half hours long but for me it was longer because we were watching the worst movie ever Hairspray which I had to see it because I couldn’t sleep. We stop in a small shop to buy snacks and go to the bathroom. We then arrive to a restaurant to have lunch and then go and play the concert. The concert was in the main park of the town called La Fortuna. The park had a small church a garden and a small place were you play concerts. The concert started at  one o’ clock. First the band played five songs and then the choir sang five songs and then we finished the concert with two songs. The choir concert wasn’t as successful as the band because since it was out doors people couldn’t hear what they were sing so the concert wasn’t very good for them. When the concert was over we had to load up all the instruments again. Then we went to the hotel were we had a lot of time to go the pools. The pools were the best part of the trip with there slides were awesome. There were two big normal pools with there slides and like six and one big hot pools (hot springs). We couldn’t stay longer at the pools because there was a big thunderstorm so we couldn’t stay at the pools. At the night we just went to the same restaurant we went for lunch to eat dinner. The next day we had breakfast and then went very fast to the waterfall. The waterfall was great we got in the waterfall which was great because it was cold and the day was very hot so it was just perfect. When we left the water fall we went to the hotel to take showers and go back to San Jose. This trip was great.

The Mexican national has had many serious problems in getting a very known and experiment soccer coach. The last coach the Mexican team had was Hugo Sanchez. Hugo Sanchez was one of the greatest players that Mexico would ever have. He played in the Real Madrid  we he won many cups. He then decided to retire and come to live to Mexico and do something with soccer so he decided to go and coach the Pumas ( a Mexican soccer club). He went to coach them without even studying what coaches need to do and create a new career for him selve. He stayed there for three year and made the Pumas twice champions in a consecutive way. Then the third he was fired from the club. A few years later the Mexican soccer federation fires the National Mexican coach which was Ricardo La Volpe. This was a error because this coach did an awesome job, but he got fired because he lost the World Cup against Argentina a great soccer team this was an error for me. The next year they brought a new coach Hugo Sanchez. He did a very poor job with the soccer team because he didn’t have any experience coaching soccer teams. I mean before you coach a club in Mexico you have to find better clubs but not just coach the national team. I think Hugo needed more experience and more time coaching to go to the national team. He was fired because of bad results. There’s a big problem because the playoffs to qualify to the 2010 World Cup starts in June so Mexico doesn’t have a soccer coach because the Federation thought that Hugo Sanchez would of done a good job and qualify to the World Cup, but that didn’t happen. Right Now there trying to hire a coach. They tried Aguirre a Mexican coach, but he said no because he has qualified to the best club tournament on Earth a its his only chance to experience the championship for first time as a Mexican coach. The other options are Sven-Goran Erickson which is the most experience and most probable option. Another options are Jose Pekerman, Marcelo Lippi, and Filippo Scolari which all of them have great curriculum’s and are the only chance to direct the Mexican National soccer team.

The Copa Libertadores is a championship played by all the south American teams and they invited three teams from Mexico to play for the championship. This week they are playing the quarter finals and two Mexicans teams continue in the fight which is very awesome because they never get to far. In Wednesday May 14, 2008 Atlas from Guadalajara, Mexico will play against Boca Juniors from Argentina. Boca is the favorite team to win the championship so its going to be a very interesting game because this year they both played against each others twice. The first time was in their groups they played in Argentina and Boca defeated Atlas three to zero,  but later tBoca went to Mexico and Atlas beat Boca three to one. This indicates that there’s going too be a very interesting game. Another fact is that Boca Juniors against Mexican teams has one five games, one draw, and six defeats. This tells us that Boca has a hard time playing against Mexican teams. A good thing is that Boca is not playing in their famous stadium which their they are undefeated, but now they have to play in another Argentinian stadium that both teams don’t know the stadium very well. The stadium called Bombonera is closed by the Conmebol because people where throwing a lot of garbage to the visitants which the team got penalized with there stadium. The Conmebol is the federation of soccer in South America. In the other hand America from Mexico City is going to play against Santos from Brazil. America is favorite in this game because they beat a Brazilian team Flamengo in a incredible and miracle game. This was because in Mexico Flamengo defeated America four to two, but in Flamengo stadium they lost three to zero. This was a miracle because to beat a Brazilian team in the stadium Maracana three to zero is very difficult. This way America past to the quarter finals playing against Santos. I hope good luck in there soccer games to the Atlas and America.

The 8th field trip was in Manuel Antonio. The field trip was three days and two nights. The trip started on Wendesnday May 7, 2008 when we left the capital city of Costa Rica. It took about one hour and half but it took longer because the bus didn’t work so we stayed there for about 30 minutes waiting till they fix it. When we arrived to a park called Turubari we ate breakfast and then we got divided into three groups of activities people that what to do canopy, superman zip-line, and horseback riding. I chose the superman because I had never done before. When we got to a tour that was approximitely 100 meters tall everybody felt scared because you went face the bottom which was scary at the beginning. Many people went before I went so I waited a lot. When it was my turn I got a little scared but after they pushed and went down the rope I didn’t felt nothing I was enjoying the perfect view. After that we took a long hike and then went to have lunch. When we left the park we went to Manuel Antonio we arrived there till seven thirty. When we arrived there we had dinner and went to our rooms to relaxe and take showers and to sleep. The next day we left in the morning to have dinner in a restaurant when we finished we went to a river to go water rafting the river was very long and was a lot of fun. I think this was the best part of the trip.  We stop some where in the rivers and went to a beautiful water fall we stayed there for thirty minutes and swimed. After rafting we ate lunch and went back to the hotel that was about two hours away from the river. When we arrived we went to the beach and had fun. Some people were taking pictures, others playing soccer and american football. When we left the beach we got prepared for the nights fashion show of are t-shirts of Lord of the Flies.When the fashion show was over we went to our rooms and went to sleep. The last day we when to the national park of Manuel Antonio to do community service and then have time to go to the beach. Then we went to have lunch and prepared to go back to San Jose. We arrived to the school at six pm. I think this trip was the best trip of the whole Middle school.

In literature class of 8th grade we are making shirts form a book called the Lord of the Flies. The shirts are a very important project because they count as a test so you have to put a lot of effort into them so you can get the best grade you can. In the shirts you have to put a minimum of  eight quotes from  the book that represent symbolism of the book. In the shirt you have to draw the symbolism and be as creative as you can be so your grade can be better. The qoutes where the most difficult part of the project because we had to do many process with them. Like flip the text so when we iron the people could see what the quotes said. This tooked about an hour because some quotes didn’t fit so we had to them box by box and that made it more difficult. Another challenge was that we had to fill the shirt for a 90-95 percent so that made us think more and how to be more creative in how to fill the shirt so it look nice and not messy.  A big challenge was we  had to read the whole book in two weeks so we could find quotes for the shirt.  At the end of the project I really enjoyed trying another project because we always get to do the same project every time so I get bored. This project was a fun and challenging project because we got to make different things with a shirt  and make it as nicest as we can. I hope in the future we can make another fun project like this one because this was one of my favorites project of the whole middle school. The cool thing of this project is that in our 8th field trip to Manuel Antonio we are going to make a fashion show to see who has the nicest shirt. I think there is going to be awards for the first, second, and third places. In conclusion I think this was the best project of the whole 8th grade year.

The queen’s birthday party was last Saturday. This party was in memory of the Queen of England which they celebrated her birthday on the last Saturday. The party began at the morning but since the CDS band was going to play on the party the teacher told us we could be there at 1 o’clock pm. We were not the only ones play in the party there were other bands and typical dances also on the stage. Are presentation started at 1:35. We played about eight to ten songs. I think that in overall we didn’t play very well because there were some mistakes in some songs we have to fix, but I think the good thing is that the audience didn’t recognizes them so we were satisfied with are results we ended up having. After the presentation we had to work in cleaning up the stage for other peoples presentations. We had to also put are instruments and the whole percussion set up that we brought from the school away in a bus that are teacher rented. After that were walking all over the place to see what we could so we stop and got some hamburgers and hot dogs that were really good. Other people also ate some Indian food which they seemed to liked eat. After we ate that their was a stand for TBCY which there we ate some very good flavors of ice cream. At the end almost everything was over so we walk until all are parents were in the British ambassadors house to pick us up. While we were walking we saw some delicious drinks so we didn’t have enough money so they told us we could have it for free so then all the band members came and took the last parts of the drinks. I think going to a different was a nice experience and I am looking forward to next years Queen’s Birthday Party.

The band trip was on April 11, 2008 which was on a Friday. We left in the afternoon which means that we had to go to school that day. At the afternoon we had to be ready to leave by four o clock. We left in a very nice bus. It was a five star bus with bathroom, curtains, and the seat were reclinable which made the trip relaxing. When went  to Perez Zeledon, Costa Rica we had to pass into many curves and including a mountain called “cerro de la muerte”. In the trip I got a headick because there were curves for about 1 hour and a half. We arrived there at night just for dinner. We ate dinner and then we went to are rooms to sleep and relaxe for the next day. On Saturday we had breakfast early in the morning and then we waited for ten minutes to leave to meet another band in Perez Zeledon. We had a rehearsal with them for three hours it was very exhausting. Later we went back to the hotel to have lunch and get ready for the night concert which we had to play we and the Perez Zeledon band together. We all dressed black and white. The concert was completely fulled and the two bands together sound very good and maybe like professional bands. When the concert was over we went back to the hotel and had dinner and then we went back to sleep for the next day. On Sunday we woke up early to go to a big house with pools and soccer fields. On the way we picked up the other band so we could know better them and be friends. First we met to a big pool and we played a lot of games. We had lunch which was the best lunch in the whole trip. At the end we played a soccer game. CDS band against Perez Zeledon we tied. When we return to the hotel we got ready for are last concert in the hotel it was a nice concert. At the end of the concert we had dinner and it was are last  night at Perez Zeledon. At the morning we packed up and then we had breakfast. Later we played a little bit of pool and then we had lunch. After lunch we check out and went back to San Jose, Costa Rica. I think this band trip was really good and I enjoyed it a lot.

Baseball season started in March 30, 2008 the first game was played in Washington Dc. The first game was actually in Japan between the Boston Red Sox and the Oakland Athletics in a two game series. I think that the season started not very well because not all there players have reached there best. I think this is because they didn’t play in about 4 months so there actually trying to reach there best. I also think that some very good teams that experts have predict that they would reach the divisional playoffs have started really poor. They are not playing well and haven’t scored too many runs and this couldn’t be happening because to the teams that they are having problems are the ones that have the best offense in the league. For example the Detroit Tigers have lost every game of this season and they have one of the best offenses and defenses of the whole major leagues. Many players have got injured just for one week since the season started which means that all the teams will struggle throughout the league. Another fact is that the worst teams have started better than than the best teams of the leagues. Another example is the New York Yankees have a outstanding team for this years season and they haven’t score 5 or more runs on all their games. I think that this season won’t be the best of all but still some interesting things could happen. 

In April 1 I did a baseball tryout for the major leagues. It all started in Saturday March 29, 2008 when a scout of the MLB came to the Sabana park and saw my team play. He stayed the whole practice watching us however I didn’t see him and I never knew he was a scout. At the end of the practice he got near and he said hi to our coach and he started talking with him. Later the coach said that we could leave except for three players me and other two kids in the team. He started telling us about are talent and that we could reach the best league in the world the MLB. At the end he told us we had to go to the national park of baseball of  Costa Rica at Tuesday April 1 at 7 pm. At Tuesday my dad took me and we arrived there. I was very nervous because many new things could have happen to me in this baseball test or tryout. When I went inside he started talking with the parents of the four players. The four players where two of my team and another kid from a different team and me. The first thing we did was to warm up because it was very cold. The first test was arm strength which is to throw the ball as far as we could. I beat all of them by 5 centimeters. The second test was long distances running it was very exhausting, however I won the test by milliseconds. The last test was swing velocity and power swing. I also made the highest percentage, which my swing was at 72 miles beating one of my team by two miles. At the end he told us that all of us are really good and that we had to keep on practicing more to be better players. When my dad and I left the stadium I felt really satisfied that I did a better than the other kids which means I have more possibilities to reach the leagues.