Thoughts about me

what I wrote for El Sayulero

2010-07-02T11:30:00.001-05:00

School is out and we kids have been doing the summer vacation types of things in Sayulita. There has been a lot of swimming, both in the ocean and in people's pools...and eating candy.

Two days ago my friends, Sarah, Amarely and Jeshua and I decided to test a bunch of different candies. We tried a few different types of candies. There is a candy store on nearly every street in Sayulita. We went to the one called Tienda Wendy which is three houses down on my street. We bought some things I don't usually buy to be adventurous.

Pelonetes are chewy, fruity balls a lot like skittles. There is also some chile in the candy and other different flavors. There is orange which is orange, red which is chile, yellow which is lemon and green which is apple. All the Pelonetes have lots of chile in them and they are very sour.

Lucas Gusano is a liquid candy; it tastes like chile and the fruit chamoy. It comes in a little squeeze bottle and you squirt it onto your hand or straight into your mouth. It is very sour, but good!

I really like Nutresa, which is a chocolate wrapped in foil to look like a soccer ball. It is very chocolatey and you can play with it. We rolled it around and played with it before we ate it. It is small but very good; my friends rated it an eight, I rated it a ten!

Action Hero candy was not a candy any of us liked. It was dry and chalky and tasted like vitamins. It looked like vitamins. If it was vitamins, maybe it would have been good. We all only ate one piece.

Pelón Pelo Rico Tamarindo is a sweet jelly that you have to push down to get the jelly to pop out. When you push it down it looks like the candy bottle is growing hair! It tastes like chile and is sour; it is fun to eat.

Sinaloense Peputoria De Cacahuate is crunchy with lots of peanuts and some carmel. It is just like peanut brittle. I think that there should be more caramel. It is shaped like a rectangle and is crisp.

Marzipan is a sugary peanut butter-tasting candy that is soft, shaped like a circl, and is easily to crumple up. I think this is the greatest candy ever. My friends and I gave it a ten, except Jeshua who gave it an 8 - he really likes chocolate more. He said it would be good with chocolate milk!

Lucas Muecas are like strawberry ring pops but have sour powdered chile and chamoy to dip them in. It is quite spicy and you put it with the powder and you make a funny face. Sarah really likes this; she gave it a perfect score.

Carlos V is a chocolate candy bar. My friends all rate the Carlos V a 10 because it has a good kind of texture and the chocolate is very good. It is easy to share because it is indented, which makes it easier to break in individual pieces.

In Sayulita we do the usual kid things everyone does on summer vacation. Hanging out with friends, swimming and eating candy. Our candy is just a little bit spicier than most!

What I wrote for El Sayulero

2010-06-30T14:11:00.000-05:00

Cool Treats to Beat the Heat

http://www.elsayulero.com/story/cool-treats-beat-heat

Kids

ASTRID VANYA

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

Today seemed really hot and I wanted a cool sweet treat. Here in Sayulita there are lots of delicious snacks, like Helado, Paletas, Agua Frescas and Respados. Helado is ice cream, Paletas are yummy popsicles and Respados are shaved ice. I decided I wanted to go to my favourite ice cream place, Wakika. Wakika sells ice cream, popsicles and aguafrescas (sweet fruit drinks.) It's owned by my friend Duilio's family. While I was at his ice cream store I asked him some questions. I asked why he changed the name from Michoacan to Wakika. He said it was because of his brother. My favourite popsicle is mixed fruit or frutas because it has many different types of fruit in it. It has kiwi, banana and strawberry in a strawberry horchata base. I asked how do you make popsicles. He said you blend up the fruit with sugar, pour them in moulds put a stick in each mould then freeze them in the freezer.

I wondered about all the organic waste that is left over. There must be a lot of leftovers like banana peels, coconut hulls, pineapple leaves and orange peels. He brings all of this to our school in Sayulita, Costa Verde International School. Duilio brings it to our school because we are learning about composting. We use the compost for our classroom's flowerbeds. We are growing Jamaica and Basil.

I then asked him if you get a discount if you bring in your own container to drink in. He said if you bring a pitcher you can fill it up for the price of a big agua fresca. Wakika is very environmently aware because they promote reusing your own pitchers instead of using a new plastic cup, they compost their organic waste and they're local in Sayulita. Also their treats are really delicious!!!!!

what I wrote for El Sayulero

2010-06-30T14:08:00.000-05:00

A Trip to a Volcano

Kids

http://www.elsayulero.com/story/trip-volcano

Last month, my school here in Sayulita - Costa Verde International School - decided to take the 4th, 5th and 6th graders on a field trip to the Volcano named Ceboruco. The drive to the volcano from Sayulita takes about three hours. We drove north through lava fields, saw many types of cactus and agave fields, and drove into the mountains.

When we arrived at Ceboruco, we listened to the rules about the campsite from our science teacher, Mr. Steve. Some of the rules were not to leave your trash on the ground and don't put your tents close to rocks. After we talked about more low impact camping rules Mr. Steve showed us the bathrooms. The bathrooms were a trench, dug by teachers and parents who drove up from Sayulita the night before.The reason why we used a trench was because we are learning the importance of having a low impact on the environment; it was the best decision since we had 31 people.

When we were finished unpacking and choosing our tent mates we went on a little hike. We went to a couple of fumeroles on the side of the crater where we set up our tents. Fumeroles are heated water coming from the earth's crust. The students touched the steam and it was REALLY hot. After we hiked to the fumeroles we went back to the campsite to make dinner. We grouped into teams and made lots of soups. Even though we had the same ingredients, each soup tasted different. They were all delicious! When we finished eating dinner we gathered wood and made a campfire. We roasted marshmallows and we showed the parents and other kids our skits about volcanoes. It was really windy, and after an hour we brushed our teeth and got ready to go to bed.

When we woke up it felt really early. We got dressed and ate cereal and croissants for breakfast. We took down our tents and left to go for the three-hour hike. We saw lots of huge rocks and black sand on the way to the volcano. We walked through the other two newer craters of the volcano. It was really dry and the plants weren't as lush as in Sayulita. We arrived at the volcano core and sat down to eat the lunch we'd packed ourselves. The core was a cone and had lots of steaming fumeroles. When we finished eating we hiked back to the cars where we had another snack. We were tired and slept as we drove back home. We arrived back at Sayulita at 6:00. It was the best field trip ever!

easter

2009-04-24T18:01:00.005-05:00

On the day before Easter i asked my dad if he could wake me up at 8:00. So he did, the next morning when woke up i saw my dad. The first thing i said was" did the Easter bunny come?" my dad said " I think so". I went down stairs and i saw so many candies it was like i was in a candy shop!!!!!!! For breakfast we had toast and put it in the toaster. After thinking we finished finding the chocolate eggs we went with a Tamara, Theo, Talula, Andrea, Gabbi and Maxxi to brunch!!! we had Easter hats we used them. After 5 or 7 days my mom looked in the toaster and found chocolate m&ms. We tried some they tasted like plastic we had to put them in the trash.

My Birthday

2009-03-23T10:41:00.003-06:00

12 days ago was my birthday.
i got some archie comics from my mom,
Flower hair clip and bracelet from gigi,
two oragami kits from gigi,
Hippie swimsuit from grandma and grandpa,
donation for bee house and duck to Hifer intl. from my uncle Bruce and my aunt Ashley,
Two dresses and a purse from Lina,
New Harry Potter book from grandma,
CD from Jazz,
Black Hair dye and a hot pink boa from Sheryl,
archie comics from the 1960's from my mom,
a new rashie, a purse and a notebook from Talula,
three tee shirts from aunt sandy and uncle charlie,
shopping at a grown up store here ( I got two hair bands and a belt)
a baby cat, named 10, from mom y dad,
a boooggie board from dad and mom
and a new BIKE.

Thank you so much everybody. I had a great birthday.....

2009-01-24T09:09:00.002-06:00

There once was a girl named Jenny who lived at Casa Blanca. People said that Casa Blanca was haunted by evil sprits but Jenny never believes them. But one nightJenny was going down stairs to get some food suddenly she heard a noise calling "Jenny we want you to,we want you to." she wondered who said he noise and what the thing or human wanted Jenny to do? Jenny felt to scared to eat any food so she ran up stairs and then she saw something in her room looking at her jewels and diamonds. She said 'anyone here" something said "NO i mean yes man" that made Jenny really scared. Then suddenly someone grabbed her and said " We are spirts stealing your stuff you should of believe your friends." Jenny had a pocket knife in her jeans, she took out the pocket knife and cut the spirts and the rope. The next day Jenny went to a new home.

The End

Boogie Boarding

2009-01-14T15:57:00.000-06:00

Me and Miller, Jazzy, Ronin and Paul at Lo de Marcos

My Holiday

2009-01-08T10:47:00.001-06:00

When I went to Texas I got to hang out with my family. I saw my Grandma, we went to Sonic. We got Slushies, and Sonic blasts—which are ice cream shakes. My Aunt Jenny and I went on a walk with my cousin. We talked about how beautiful the Christmas lights were. Then I hung out with my cousin for the rest of the trip pretty much. We played with his Thomas the train and we colored for my Grandma. Then it was Christmas day. We got a lot of presents. My cousin’s favorite present were anything to do with Thomas the train. If he didn’t get Thomas he’d cry and throw it. Except for my present. My favorite present was the book about growing up from my Grandma.
After Christmas day, we went to IKEA and ate a lot of their food. My cousin got a soccer ball and I bet now that he wouldn’t really want it because he only likes Thomas. I got a swing. The next day we went to Red Robins. I got a milkshake, same with my cousin, Dennin. It was chocolaty. We had veggie burgers. The next day we went to get my hair cut and Dennin got his hair cut too which made his hair even curlier. We also ate sushi. Later that day we watched a movie and had popcorn and candy. It was good.
We flew home everybody was sad, we all cried. When I got home we went to the New Year’s party at Miller’s and ate marshmallows.

Hanukah

2008-12-15T10:21:00.001-06:00

The Story of Hanukah by Astrid Dea-Sherman

A long time ago, there was a Greek ruler named Alexander the Great. One of his laws was to believe in your own gods, and to be peaceful to each other. Alexander died; there was a new Greek ruler. His name was Antiochus. He forced everybody to believe in his gods, the Jews said “no.” Antiochus sent the Greek soldiers to the Jews to kill them. There was one man whose name was Matthias. He gathered farmers and fought the Greeks. The farmers were called the Maccabees, which means hammer. The Greeks and Jews fought for three years. After all the three years of fighting the Maccabees won! The Jews started to rebuild everything that was broken. The worst thing that was broken was the Temple. Inside the Temple was the Menorah. The Menorah was blown out. It was usually lit for God everyday and all night. They only had a couple of drops of oil left. They lit the Menorah with the couple of drops of oil and a miracle happened. The menorah stayed lit for eight days. That’s why we have the menorah for Hanukah with eight candles. We light a new candle each night to remember a great miracle happened there.

2008-12-01T10:23:00.000-06:00

Cake is back!!!!

Cake has gone missing!!!!!!!!!!!

2008-11-30T09:28:00.002-06:00

Two night ago Cake was not in our house. She dug her self out of the fence! She has not been back since. Last night we put up signs that said LOST DOG and also in spanish. She still is not back. It rained, maybe her sceint from our house was lost because of the rain. Almost everyone in the town knows what she looks like and where she lives. My mom, dad and I our very scared and worried about Cake We hope we find her or someone else finds her.

candy is a boy!!!!!!

2008-11-28T07:20:00.001-06:00

Swimming in a Rio

2008-11-14T10:29:00.006-06:00

new cats and a scorpion

2008-10-24T22:35:00.003-05:00

I got two new cats they are so cute. Their names are Candy and Sugar skull. They are getting along with the puppies. Some times they nurse on the dogs, it is funny. So about the scorpion......it was in the corner of my bathtub. My mom said ''Honey get up slowly and get out of the tub.'' So I got out of the tub and said ''what is wrong?'' she said ''there is a scorpion.'' and I got all of the puppies and kitties went into my bedroom with them. my mom screamed, ''Nick come up stairs quick please.'' and then he killed it and everything was better!!!!!

my haikus

2008-10-05T09:58:00.004-05:00

This is my haiku i made up

Songs are beautiful,
Reminds me of the ocean,
Makes me think of blue.

Four legs big wings,
It stares at me while I sleep,
Creepy fuzzy fly.

dress up Matzah!

2008-09-26T18:19:00.001-05:00

Costa Verde International School

2008-09-26T14:08:00.004-05:00

Lunchroom

Manik and I

School's Fan palm and soccer field

My friend Maria Jose in the back and moi

playground

matzah the dog (well thats what you think)

2008-09-16T09:26:00.003-05:00

My dog matzah is just an ordinary dog ...you think --well, she is not!!!
Believe it or not, she is an actual queen--- ya a real queen. I did not believe it either, but it is true.

Let me tell you how it begins......I was walking my dog Matzah until a bug bit her. It was not an ordinary bug, it was one that turns you into a queen. cool huh? I said to myself, ''if only i was in front and the bug bit me i could be a queen." Then I heard a weird noise, i thought it was Matzah. Had Matzah just started talking to me?-- she did!---i started to scream "talking dog-- talking dog!!!!!!!!! "
Then she said,"i am still Matzah, dude''
''ya your right, are you still going to live us or in a castle?'' I said.
''i do want to live in a castle but i like playing with you and my sister, cake.'' said Matzah "So I'm gonna live with you guys still."
THE END

ps. dogs can't talk but i do think that Matzah is a queen

Mexico

2008-09-15T17:45:00.003-05:00

I am in Mexico now. i love it here soooo much, Except that it is so hot. My sister was here just three days ago the sadness of kari leaving made my fam and i sick. Tomorrow is the Mexican independence holiday! The party starts at 11:00pm. Sorta late Huh? I don't think that we are going to go because it is to late and the next day is a school day. School is fun mostly everything is in Spanish but I still like it. I might not get to write at all for a coppple of weeks.

(Ed. note, actually the parties start 11pm tonight and she has tomorrow off.)

Story for Tess

2008-08-12T14:49:00.002-05:00

While I was in Rohobeth beach I went swimming.
We went to the beach. When I was at the beach and i was swimming a big crab washed up to the shore and I did not now what kind it was. It was as big as my face. After i figured out what it was-- it was it was a horse shoe crab-- I was not scared any more and it was pretty cool looking.
After that i went back out into the ocean to go swimming-- i saw Tess. i swam as fast as i could to see her but i just couldn't catch up to her so i gave up. so i started to swim back and then Tess saw me so she was stared to scream "Astrid wait up" so i stopped. then we played and played that was the best day ever

THE END

ANOTHER HAPPY BLOSSOM IN SPRING this is made my friend Tess

2008-08-12T14:32:00.002-05:00

Once on a spring day I looked outside and I saw a little duckling, I knew that it was spring, but that assured me that it truly was spring. So I put my favorite shoes on and took a walk. "I love taking walks" I thought to myself. All the flowers, birds, cats, dogs, and even the squirrels. As I got about three blocks away from home I saw a tree frog, up in a tree of course. It was way prettier than the one in my science book. I knew nature was beautiful but not this beautiful. I learned nature is never what you think it really is. That's why I say " it's art but it's the artist". I never though of it like that, my friend Astrid said at school the next day. After school she and I walked home from school together. I saw a flower in a crack on the sidewalk. I thought longer about it than anything like it and I decided to just be.......Happy
ANOTHER HAPPY BLOSSOM IN SPRING.

my new name

2008-08-07T11:26:00.003-05:00

I just got a new name Astrid Vanya Natinya Galitzine Dea Sherman long name don't you think????
my mom and dad made it up i love it!!! my mom made it up when my dad and mom and i where getting all my school supplies ready witch was fun! and i got to choose the order of it!!!!!!

golf cart riding

2008-07-05T10:20:00.004-05:00

Right now I am in Missouri. Once my grandma and I went on a golf cart ride. We saw some people that were form Kansas and Nebraska and Missouri they were horrible at driving it looked like maybe they were drunk. I was driving so it was a little bit more scary. But it was still really fun!!!!!!!!

fishing

2008-07-04T10:45:00.002-05:00

My grandma and I went fishing and we heard thunder but that did not stop us from fishing.
because it wasn't that loud and was ok. so we waited and waited and waited but then i saw some fish coming to my line so i told my grandma, "i see some fish" and she said "cool" so finally i caught a fish when am nine years old!!!!!!! so after i caught the fish we moved to a different place. there was a really smart fish and he kept on eating my bait. but i got him!!!!!! it was really fun, but after i caught the fish i heard the thunder even louder-- so we we left and went home!!!

The End!!!!!!

warm season cold month bad life --the game

2008-06-11T23:07:00.002-05:00

it was a warm season in the summer. people went swimming, they were splashing and playing games. Diving into the water. In the winter there was a lot of snow, people were playing in it and making forts. It wasn't a bad life.

the best vacation ever

2008-05-22T14:22:00.002-05:00

Once Upon a Time there lived two girls. Their names were Jenny and Betty. Jenny was 16 and Betty was 14. One day Jenny and Betty's family decided to go on a trip to Mexico!!!!!!!!!!! Betty was super excited to go to Mexico because she never been to Mexico. Jenny already been to Mexico but she is even more excited then the last time she was there!!!!!!!! When the family arrived at the hotel they got separate rooms so the mom and dad shared a room and Jenny and Betty had to share a room. So they ordered room service and they got the most wondrous food's ever!!!!!!!!! So when they were done eating they knocked on their parent's door and asked "mom, can we go swimming?" the mom said " no, not by yourselves alone-- I'll ask dad if he can go with you guys, OK?" Jenny and Betty said "yes mom" So the mom asked the dad. He said, "yes" so the girls went and got their sunscreen and bathing suits on. Then they went swimming. A couple days later there were ready to go home and the girls said " This was the best vacation ever!!!"

THE END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How to make a Headband!!!!

2008-05-16T22:55:00.020-05:00

Home-Ec Class.
1. Cut up a pair of PJs or other old clothes:
2. Cut out a piece of cardboard. Make it as long as from one of your ears to the other over your head. Use this as your pattern. Use a piece of hard paper from your recycling bin, like an ad for pizza.

3. Lay paper pattern on a piece of material. We used an old pair of PJs and some fabric from the crafts box.

4. Cut 2 pieces of fabric. We made our the shape of a flat foot ball, wider in the middle. It reaches over your head, ear to ear.
Don't let a baby take it away.

5. Sew the two pieces of fabric together the sides you want to show facing each other. Sew the long edges.
6. Turn it inside out, so the nice side is on the outside now.

7. Iron it smooth
8. Tuck in the ends so the raveled edges are inside and iron
9. cut 10 inches of elastic and sew into the two ends.
10. Put on head and wear!

PS. Babies can wear it too- "sweet, dude!"

Bad dream

2008-05-16T09:44:00.004-05:00

I had a terrible dream last night. It was about my dog, Matzah.
Once a upon a time Matzah and I and my mom and dad and Cake went into the car for a ROAD TRIP. All the windows were down and Matzah was hanging out the side She fell and started flying through the wind, the sky. Then my family drove as fast as we could but we couldn't catch her so my mom and dad and Cake and I started crying. And we couldn't get her so we gave up. My mom and Dad and I kept on imagining Matzah but it was just our imagination, it wasn't Matzah. So every time they just started crying. We had to buy a dog-- it was mean and ugly it was not a thing like Matzah not nice like Matzah. not pretty like Matzah. One day Matzah actually came back-- but the family didn't believe it was Matzah. They touched her and it was Matzah! They gave back the ugly dog to the other owners.

In my dream Matzah didn't really come back, but I wanted this to be a happy story.
Matzah is fantabulous in real life. She is in my bed sleeping.

the two dogs

2008-05-07T21:25:00.000-05:00

Once upon a time there lived two dogs. There names were Lilly and Matzah. They really loved going on walks. That was their favorite thing to do. One night they went on a walk in the forest by themselves. It was really, really, really, dark and rainy. Lilly and Matzah were very scared. They saw a shadow-- then they got even more scared. The shadow was their owners, Kate and Bob. Kate said, "There you are Lilly and Matzah, we were sooooooo scared that we lost you guys." Lilly said to Matzah, "I'm glad that Kate and Bob came." Matzah said, "me to."

THE END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Walk through the fire as rain

2008-05-03T22:47:00.000-05:00

Astrid's friend Tess showed up to save her. The capturers captured Tess so both of the girls were royalty. The kidnappers were very nice to them, until one night the nappers thought of a really mean trick. It was to put fire on their hair. So they did that trick then it rained and rained and all the fire went out. The rain formed into a face. Then the face began to talk to the napsters. The Face said, " stop doing tricks to them." The bad guys replied,

"There are fleas in Texas the size of diamonds!"

good little trick gray squirrel

2008-05-02T12:54:00.000-05:00

I'm playing a game with my friend Tess, we are writing stories about a sentence. This week's is " Good little trick Gray Squirrel"

Once upon a time: There was a cute little squirrel. Her name was Sunflower. She was a swimmer. She did really cool tricks, one day she got her own pool. She got to film stuff with her camera. There are flying ants in the pool with her and she got really scared. They got to do fun things in the water. When they were done swimming they got to dry off with a towel and had some water and some grapes and crackers.

Field Trip

2008-04-29T22:07:00.000-05:00

I went into Houston yesterday for my school. We went to this museum. There was a science experiment thing. The scientist used a bottle with baking soda and vinegar, then he put a balloon on on top of the bottle. The baking soda was in the balloon which was not blown up. When the baking soda was in the vinegar it made the balloon expand. We also heard about polymers. They are linked together molecules. Like plastic.

I saw dinosaur fossils, and mummies from Egypt.

Mer Mer and I!!!!!!!

2008-04-27T22:47:00.001-05:00

This is my friend Mer Mer. I knew Mer since kindergarten and am in 3th Grade. I miss mer soooooooo much and I miss all my other the friends.

SOAP

2008-04-27T14:16:00.001-05:00

Today I made soap with my Aunt Jenny -- it was a lot of fun. I got to chop tiny pieces of soap that was already made. Then I got to melt tiny pieces I chopped up.Then we pored it in to molds then put it in the freezer.Then we had to wait for 15 mins.And then we were done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

all about me

2008-03-31T20:43:00.000-06:00

My name is Astrid.

Today my dad and I did an experiment. We used bleach and hot sauce, and put it in a cup. We did not know there was vinegar in the hot sauce. Because if you use bleach and lemon juice and vinegar in just a couple breaths you could DIE. That's why my dad and I had to run inside, but we did not die. When we did the other experiment we had a leaf . We put the leaf in the bleach and we had to wait for a long time. When we were done waiting for the leaf, there was stripes on it. I got a piece of paper and colored it blue and put it in bleach. And the blue paper turned green. I had a fun time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!