Ben's Blog

This week I have been focusing on hitting with more power. I did activities that helped such as going to my dad’s batting cages and focusing on hitting the ball hard consistently. I had a couple of accomplishments this week and it is has been gaining more strength in my legs and swinging with my legs more for the max amount of power. And also I have noticed that I am hitting farther. Some struggles I had this week was that I needed more baseballs to keep on hitting it would help if there was people out I while hit and they could shag the balls shag means to pick up balls. What I will do next week to be more successful will to bring more baseballs because it will be very helpful for me. What I will be working on next week is being as consistent as I can be to be more successful.

My favorite room in my house is my room. The first reason my favorite room is my room is that I have a comfy white couch that is at least 6 feet long. It is very comfortable, it is nice to have the couch when my friends spend the night because they can sleep on it while I am sleeping on my bed. Next, I like my room because I have a gaming set up with a xbox series x and a monitor. It is very big and on the left side is tall where you can place stuff like decorations. I like it because it is a very nice desk and I can do my homework on it. Finally, I like my room because of my comfy bed. My bed is about 8 feet long and 4-5 feet wide, I have to many blankets to count with around 4-5 pillows that are very soft. It is a single twin bed that can only fit one person but it does the job and is the bed I have had for my entire life other than from when I was a baby.

Hi my name is Ben, and for the 20% project I am doing hitting farther in baseball. This week I was practicing my mechanics for hitting, after that I started putting the mechanics into my swing. I noticed a difference when it came to hitting line drives, I was more accurate and could hit the ball wherever I wanted to. Some struggles I had for this week was I did not have a tee to place the ball on, and I did not have a bucket of balls so each time I would have to run to get my ball on top of having no tee. What I will do to be more successful will be to bring more balls and a tee to the baseball field the day before and put it somewhere where nobody can steal it. That way I will be able to hit more and be more successful while hitting.

It was a sunny day and no clouds were in the sky, me and my team warmed up for our game today, it was the best team in our league that we were playing against. As the team showed up we started to hit in the batting cages warming up. Today was one of the days the I was hitting my best, “ I am gonna hit a home run today!” I said to myself. Out of no where my coach told us to go to the field and the game was starting. We were the away team so we were batting first, I was put 4th in the lineup. We saw the pitcher warm up and I knew this was the pitcher I was gonna hit one off of, first batter walked, second batter walked, third batter walked, and now I was up I went to the batters box with confidence. As the pitcher nods his head for a pitch I load and get ready, I see the perfect strike come flying down the middle of the plate, the height of the pitch was perfect, It was right by my belt. CRASH, was the sound the bat made, I look to the sky and see my ball soaring across the blue sky. I sprint to first hoping I hit the ball out of the field. I hear a roaring cheer coming from my teams side of the dugout. I look at the umpire and he starts waving his finger around which means a home run. “Yes! I hit a grandslam!” As I jog around the bases I see my mom and dad cheering and my mom recording. Its a great feeling.

This month I read Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins. It’s about 2 people, Katniss Everdeen and Peta Malark. They are the 2 victors from the most recent hunger games and are enjoying their freedom, but the game makers don’t like all the attention they are getting and decide to make an anniversary Hunger game that has all the previous victors play against each other. So all the best players play against each other. Katniss gets picked to play and Haymitch also gets picked, but Peta volunteers as tribute for Haymitch. They go on into a new arena and try to survive.

I really liked this book because every page I read was filled with excellent details and so many interesting things were happening on each page. I really think that if you liked the first Hunger Games you would like this book.

My favorite character was Katniss because of her skills and bravery and how she prioritized herself for others. One of her character traits was bravery. A quote to prove this is on page 37 “I let the arrow fly, see it hit its mark and vanish, pulling the thread of gold behind it. My hair stands on end and the lightning strikes a flash of white runs up the wire, and for just a moment, the dome bursts into a dazzling blue light.” Katniss is trying to stop the games by hitting the dome when the lighting strikes for a new hour. She uses her bow and it strikes her back, she knew this could have killed her but she did it for Peta and the others so they could survive.

My favorite quote from the book was on page 391 it says “Katniss, there is no district Twelve.” I liked this quote because it must have been so scary for Katniss in that moment as she realized what the capital had done. When I read that part my jaw dropped in surprise, I’m sure if my hometown was destroyed I would be extremely sad as well.

There are so many people I would want to invite to dinner, but here are my top three. First, It would be my Dad because I really appreciate all that he does for my family. He has been feeding and providing our family for my entire life, inviting him for dinner is the least I can do. Next, I would invite my Mom. I would invite her because she is always trying her best to keep me and my siblings safe and she helps us in our lows. She deserves it after all the work she has put in for me and the rest of my family. Finally, I would invite my grandma because she loves me so much and helps me when I am struggling. She takes me on trips with her to see my cousins and takes me to church whenever I want to go. I’m very glad I have a grandma like her and I would really want her to come to dinner with me.

My dream job would to be a five star private chef. First, I would love to be a private chef because every day us humans have to eat food, being a private chef would mean making delicious food for yourself and for others. I would love being able to make delicious food with ease whenever I’m hungry. Next,  I could make really good money being a 5 star chef, I could make delicious food for people, and make good food at party’s where I can get payed a lot of money. Finally, I could make really good food for homeless people on the streets or people who can’t afford food. This would be a great thing for me to do because it can maybe save lives by giving them food that transfer’s into energy so that they might be able to get money and get a job. These are the reasons why I would love being a 5 star private chef.

A magician has turned me invisible for 24 hours! Here is what I would do. First, I would show everyone that I am invisible and go to popular news channels such as Fox, or Abc and try to find the magician that turned me invisible! Next I would visit my family and show them the cool things that I would be able to do. Such as pick up objects and then to them it looks like something is floating, or be able to put powder in the air so that they can see my outline. Finally, I would join a show where they show me and the tricks that I could do and make a ton of money from it because I would be the only person in thew world who has ever been invisible, so that would guarantee me a lot of money

This month I read Scythe by Neal Shusterman. This book is about a world where there is no disease, no war, no misery. The humans have even conquered death. In this world there are scythes that glean people to control the population, glean means killing people. Scythes are very important because they are the only group of people who can glean and are treated with high respect for what they do. Scythe Faraday, a wise scythe decided to pick two people to become a scythe, Rowan, and Citra. Scythes will learn plenty of important skills such as Bokator, a powerful Cambodian martial art to master. And they will get taught history of the scythedom and different poisons, and different weapons to use to glean.

What I loved about Scythe was how it was so interesting, such as the plot twists about Rowan and Scythe Faraday. I think that everyone should read this book, and in my opinion it’s one of the best books I have ever read filled with interesting parts in every chapter and page. Another thing that I loved about this book was how well the writer Neal Shusterman wrote the book, he made it super easy to understand what was going on and I loved it.

My favorite character was Scythe Faraday because of his fairness because I think that everyone should be fair and treat everyone equally. A quote to prove his fairness was in chapter 5 on page 62 it says “She opened her mouth as she was told, and Scythe Faraday placed the pill on her tongue. She closed her mouth, but didn’t bite it right away. She looked at each of them in turn. Rowan, then Citra, then finally settled her gaze on Scythe Faraday. Then the slightest crunch. And she went limp. Simple as that. But not so simple at all.” This shows that he is fair because if someone is nice and fair to him he will reward them and make their death not painful.

My favorite quote was when Rowan on page 392 “I am what you made me,” he told Goddard. “And you’re right: I enjoyed that. I enjoyed that more than anything I’ve ever done in my life.” Then with his free hand, Rowan reached down and yanked the ring off Goddard’s finger. “You don’t deserve to wear this. You never did.” I love this quote because Rowan is telling Scythe Goddard that he is not what he tried to make Rowan, since scythe Goddard wanted Rowan to enjoy gleaning and do it for fun.

Life on an abandoned is lonely. I live on an abandoned island how did I get here you may ask, well the truth is I don’t really know. Me and my friends on a sunny day were getting ready to go fishing on our motor boat. As we left the harbor we set sail for a deep place to fish. As we got close to the location which was in the middle of nowhere, we saw this 50 foot wave. It looked like a giant looking onto ants. BOOM, our boat collapsed and I woke up on the sand coughing up water. Thats how I got on the island from what I remember. I live in the cave area of the island, there is a big pool of water that I bathe in every so often. If you look to the right there is a wooden bed with leather coated on top for comfort. If you look above you will see string all across the cave, I did this so If I get wet I can hang up my clothes to dry, thats about it. My daily routine is this, I wake up in the morning and make sure the tide is low, if it is I go out and find fish to eat for breakfast. I come back to the cave and cook it with a fire I prepared to last the whole day. Once I finish eating I stare into the ocean and the sky waiting for and planes or boats to come up. If they do, I have a flare gun I can use to signal that I am here. After that, I take a long nap to rest. Once I wake up I go out using my fishing gear that washed up on the shore with me when the boat crashed to find more food. I get enough so I can have food for lunch, and dinner. I cook up my lunch and walk around the island to get my exercise in for the day. After that, I dip in the pool of water in the cave to cool off. I soon dry off and relax until dinner. I use my leftovers and cook it up in the fire. And then I go to bed. Thats my routine for the day.