For annotations in this book, I made a list of character traits for Winnie Foster and Jesse Tuck. I also gave evidence for each trait.

For Winnie:

Fiesty- ” ‘I will, though. You’ll see. Maybe even first thing tomorrow, while they’re all sleeping.’ ” Page 13. In this quote, Winnie is talking about running away from her family. Her family is very orderly and strict, but Winnie doesn’t feel that way.

Grateful- Throughout the whole time that Winnie is staying with the Tucks, they are asking her how she is and if her bed is okay and so on. When they ask her, she says that everything is good in an especially grateful way.

Scornful-” ‘It sounds like a music box.’ ” Page 21. Winnie says this after her grandmother thinks there is elf music in the forest. Winnie doesn’t believe her, just thinking that it’s a music box. “Winnie did not believe in fairy tales. She had never longed for a magic wand, did not expect to marry a prince, and was scornful-most of the time-of her grandmother’s elves. ” Page 42. (In a way, she is a lot like me!)

For Jesse:

Secretive-“He looked at her anxiously. ‘Well, me, I’ll drink anything. I mean, I’m used to it. It wouldn’t be good for you, though.’ ” Page 29. He is saying this to Winnie after she asks to drink some of the magic water. (She doesn’t know it’s magic at the time.) He is really anxious and reserved.

Sarcastic- ” ‘Alright, I’m one hundred and four years old,’ he told her solemnly. ” Page 28. This happens when Winnie asks him his age. (We later learn that this is true, but to Winnie, it is VERY sarcastic.)

Caring- ” ‘We could get married, even. That’d be pretty good, wouldn’t it! We could have a grand old time, go all around the world, see everything.’ ” He is looking out for her future and he wants to make sure that she will be okay.

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

Annotations

To All The Boys I’ve Ever Loved Before by Jenny Han

P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han

The Chosen by Chaim Potok

The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

The Nameless City by Faith Erin Hicks

Sunny Side Up by Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm

Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem by Rosalyn Schanzer

Wicked Girls by Stephanie Hemphill

Persepolis & Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

American Born Chinese by Gene Yang

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne

Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin

Second Star to the Right by Deborah Hautzig

Tumbling by Caela Carter

We Are All Made of Molecules by Susin Nielsen

This summer I went to Salem, MA, California and a parkour class. I landed a job at the Park Avenue Armory and many other things that mostly include reading, relaxing or swimming. In this post I will be mostly focusing on how I felt during the performance where I was playing Ann Lee.

We would be in a room, sitting there and just waiting to go on. Sometimes we would wait for an hour, doing nothing. To start off with, it was fun. I played cards, I had extra time for reading. Then I would get to go out and do my performance. I had to be SUPER slow. All my movements, all my words. It was like a whole new world. I got to see thing more slowly, more clearly. I was performing pretty much the same thing each time and I was out for about ten minutes at a time.  It was great. Until that fatal day. It was maybe the seventh or eighth shift I’d had. It finally set in that I was going to be doing the same thing, almost all summer. From then on I was bored. I sat in the dressing room and just sat and sat and sat. I would go out and do the same thing with maybe a slight variation here and there. It was excruciating. I was so bored! Then, just as soon as it started, it stopped. Looking back on it, I probably could have done things to make it more interesting. But I didn’t. And now it’s over.

Today I went to the Brooklyn Zoo! I know, it sounds like a place you keep animals, right? Well, it’s not. It’s actually a gym. Sort of. There are lots of structures you can hop around on and vault over and hang from. It’s for parkour. Parkour comes from the French word that means “by running.” It actually consists of vaulting and jumping and rolling and things like that. I jumped off a landing that was around 8 feet high into a pit of foam. I learned how to do vaults like the speed vault and safety vaults. I had a lot of fun and I can’t wait to do it again.

Part of the gym.

That’s the foam pit!

Speed vault.

Parkour

The Park Avenue Armory has show on called “H {N)Y P N(Y} OSIS” It is all the works of the artist Phillepe Parreno. One of his works is a Manga(Japanese comics.) character, named Ann Lee. Phillepe and his friend, Pierre Huyghe bought the character Manga character and made her an animated character. They made her speak in art videos . Then, Phillepe Parreno decided to have her come to life. In the show, she (actors portraying her) walks around and talks to people. I am on of the Ann Lees. It has been really cool so far. I have met lot’s of people I would never meet and seen all kinds of art I would never see. Yay! So exciting!

Some of the marquees in the show.

Phillepe Parreno and the exhibit being constructed.

The Ann Lee art video.