Maximum Ride Monthly Review

What part of the book surprised you? Why?
8.Pick a character that interested you and write about them in depth. You can also analyze a relationship between two different characters.

The book I am read Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports by James Patterson. Max had escape from the Itex from the scientist who are trying to kill her. In the beginning they went to see a sports game and later on they were being noticed by the humans and they saw them in the newspaper. So they had to get out of the place before the erasers try to get them. Sothe Erasers were some of the first to be destroyed and have been replaced by the new better Flyboys (robotic Erasers that can fly). There were issues when Max invites Ari to join the group, leaving Fang and half of the flock to split off in protest, with Max the leader of one group, and Fang the leader of the second. And in the midst of all this, Max eventually finds out who her real parents are. But she is stuck at a castle, fighting. Max beats off Omega (a young boy that is seemingly perfect). As they are fighting they notice how helpful Fang's blog could be.

There were two parts that surprised me while I read my book. One of them was when Max returned back to Ella's house because in the first book Max found Ella in trouble so max came to save her. She had to leave because Max had to go rescue Angel. When she had left Ella's house Ella's mom, Dr. Martinez said she could come back if she needed any thing. But she did not want to cause any trouble to return. Max came back to Ella's along with Fang to get any information on the chip that was planted in Max's arm. It was a good idea to return back because Max showed Dr. Martinez her wounded arm and scan an x-ray and found a chip in her arm. Dr. Martinez found a way to take it out with out damaging her nerves.
The second part was when Ari saved the flocks and Max wanted Ari to join the group. But Fang thought she was crazy because Ari tried to kill them like hundred times in the back in the past and she wants Ari to tag along. Fand did not want Ari to be with them so Fang and Iggy decide not to join them. They were separated for about a week or two and Ari is with Max, Nudge, Gazzy, and Angel. Max and Fang feels like they do not need each other and Fang does not need Max in his life but Max feels left out flying without Fang being her wing man. Max's group head over to Germany because the head master of the Itex was located there. Later Fang received a message that Max needed him. He says,"So. Max wanted him back, eh? She didn't say weather she still had Frankenbirdy with her. If she did, Fang did not want any part of this."
Fang had checked his blog and max wrote him a message that their wasa lot of really bad stuff are going on in Germany. They were at the castle of the head of the Itex. Fang left the part of the flocks because Ari was with them and Fang did not trust him from after all the times he tried to kill the flocks. Fang should have trusted Max that Ari had changed and this part would not have happened. Fang has to get to Germany which is really far from where he is at and Max and her other flocks took a plane over to Germany. How is Fang going to end up way over there. He seemed to be lost when he read Max's Message. How was he going to get there, fly across the world to Germany? Fang better get there before Max is in big trouble with out his help. He wanted to know how bad the issue had occurred. He continues his blog that he still has a chance to save the world.


In the third series of Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports, Ari became an interesting character in my book. Ari is a 7 year old kid who is mean and thinks he is tough. Jeb is the father of Ari who raised him just like the flocks but not exactly the same. Jeb also mutated his son with the flocks except he didn't have wings. Ari is the leader of the erasers. He was trained to hunt down the flocks and "tries" to kill them. He is ordered to attack the flocks and take one of the flocks if he is told to do so. Ari also has a "thing" for Max that he is in love with her. There was part where Ari attacked the flocks at the beach. Max and Ari were fighting one on one chasing each other in the sky fighting. Ari fly's back down and Max attacks him sending him to the ground. Ari hits the ground ending up breaking his neck. But Ari came back alive in the third book which is weird when i found that out. In this quote he mentions about how he came back: "Uh-to make up for almost killing you back in New York?" Ari didn't look at me. "You did kill me," he said. "They brought me back. Fused some of the bones in my neck."
When I read in the book where Ari starts to come back it surprised me because Max killed him. I wondered how Ari came back but I knew that Jeb had revived him. It is kind of obvious that Jeb is most likely the only person who could bring him back to life. I did not know that Ari would come back but he did. Now I know how Ari got his neck fixed when Max killed him by the neck. How long did it take Jeb to fused some of Ari's bones back in his neck. It looks like Ari had changed since he saved the flocks and he starts to be more open. He tells Max more information she needs to know. What if Ari try to trick the flocks and bring them to a trap and all of this is a set up? Because the flocks were captured by the flyboys who are like erasers they do they erasers job and they are robots with guns attached to their hands, and Ari came by to rescue them. Ari helped the flocks escape from their cage. As the flocks flew in the sky Max sees the guards with guns running towards Ari and she knew they were going to kill him. The flocks wanted him dead because he tried to kill them like a hundred times. Even tho Max had already killed Ari once and if he died again he might be resurrected again. But Max has a feeling that Ari is started to change because he helped the flocks get out. The flocks don't trusted him but Max and Angel do. It seems like this could be a rap leading for the flocks.

Summer Plans

This is the last free topic blog post of the school year with only 21 days until summer! I am going to blog about my summer plans. Well I do not really know what I am going to do this summer yet. I would go hang out my friends of course. I would like to go swimming but i don't know who has their own pool and i don't like going to the schools pool because it is crowed. I would probably go biking with my friends.

My sister, her friend, and i are trying to do new activities over the break. My sister wants to try out boxing with her friend and she asked me if i wanted to go and I was interested. This sounds like fun and it would help me with speed with my punches. I could practice with my sisters friend on sparing. In July I am having my Vietnamese Martial Arts tournament and boxing could help me a little with my sparing match. I am probably going to be nervous again. I am going to have two performances with a Vietnamese form and a sparing match. Last year i missed my form performances because I didn't know I was supposed to go the day before the tournament started. This time I have to do two performances. I need to practice my form and get a gold on both of them. I hope that i won't mess up, i have about two months to master these form and practice sparing.

My parents are planning to go to Hawaii for our summer vacation. They are not sure yet. My sister and I need to renew our passports at Costco which we need to do as soon as possible. I always wanted to visit Hawaii and the water looks so clean and clear. I might even learn how to surf or not. I would like to visit Vietnam again but my mom says we are going next summer. Every summer she says that and we don't and she said in two years we will go. I am really looking forward to this trip because my last visit was back in 2001 as a first grader. Really long ago, 9 years. In 2005, I saw the Vietnamese news channel and it changed a lot. I saw some English writing on the stores and they have coins or that's just me I probably don't remember 9 years ago.

In the mean while when summer starts I will sleep in and stay up a little late than usual. Sign up for gamefly again and rent some games i want to play. I would be playing a lot of video games and finish them in a few days. I'll probably try to attempt something crazy if I'm bored like last summer I attempt my first front flip in my house with pillows everywhere. It turned out okay but i have not mastered it yet, I need to work out on my landing which became a hard landing and i can't land softly. After school ends I wonder if anyone is going to keep blogging. At some point ill check my blog to see if anyone did.

Maximum Ride last letter

"Uh-to make up for almost killing you back in New York?" Ari didn't look at me. "You did kill me," he said. "They brought me back. Fused some of the bones in my neck."

When I read in the book where Ari starts to come back it surprised me because Max killed him. I wondered how Ari came back but I knew that Jeb had revived him. It is kind of obvious that Jeb is most likely the only person who could bring him back to life. I did not know that Ari would come back but he did. Now I know how Ari got his neck fixed when Max killed him by the neck. How long did it take Jeb to fused some of Ari's bones back in his neck. It looks like Ari had changed since he saved the flocks and he starts to be more open. He tells Max more information she needs to know. What if Ari trys to trick the flocks and bring them to a trap and all of this is a set up?

"So. Max wanted him back, eh? She didn't say weather she still had Frankenbirdy with her. If she did, Fang did not want any part of this."

Fang had checked his blog and max wrote him a message that she needed him back because a lot of really bad stuff are going on in Germany. They were at the castle of the head of the Itex. Fang left the part of the flocks because Ari was with them and Fand did not trust him from after all the times he tried to kill the flocks. Fang should have trusted Max that Ari had changed and thiss part would not have happened. Fang has to get to Germany which is really far from where he is at and Max and her other flocks took a plane over to Germany. How is Fand going to end up way over there. He seemed to be lost when he read Maxs Message. How was he going to get there, fly across the world to Germany? Fang better get there before Max is in big trouble with out his help. He wanted to know how bad the issue had occured. He continues his blog that he still has a chance to save the world.

The Rules of Love?

The rules that dictate the behavior of young men and women in relationships today could be their shyness. People now are probably scared or nervous to ask the person they like to be their boyfriend or girlfriend. If a guy is interested in a girl at school, he would most likely want to know her better. They would probably ask him/her to have lunch or hang out with them to get a sense how their personality is like. If a guy thinks the girl is cool to be with they would get to know their best friend so he could get more information on his lover. Some things I have heard from other people is that most of the time guys ask the girls out. How come the a lot of girls do not ask the guys out? Is it because the guys are suppose to be gentleman's all the time?
Some rules come from your parents or from TV shows. I have seen in TV shows that when a couple are on a date the guy pays for the first date. That is nice for the guys to do that which they should for their first date. When my family and I go out to eat at a restaurant my dad pays the bill but my mom always want to pay for the bill because he pays all the time. Some times girls should pay for dinner if they keep seeing the same guy.
If the rules are broken in a relationship like cheating it would be bad. It shows that the guy is probably tried of the girl and wants to know other girls then his lover. When there is young relationships in high school it might lead into sex. Girls could get pregnant if they have unprotected sex.

Maximum Ride 2

"The picture was of baby Gasman, with his telltale cowlick, being held by a women who looked kind of tired and washed out. The camera was focused on a wooden table, then a slip of paper lying on the table. It was a check. The name it was made out to was obliterated. The check was from Itex, for $10,000. His mother had sold him for $10,000 to the whitecoats at the school."(pg 147-148)

Reading the other books Max keeps finding pictures of themselves when they were younger. Where does she keep finding these pictures but not fang and herself. In the first book when they went to the institute, they found files on the flocks. Iggy tried to find his mom from the address but Ari was there. When she found more pictures in this book she must have kept the files with her maybe? Gasman must been happy to see his baby picture with his mom but she was under stress. When I read about the check for $10,000 I was surprised that Gazzy's mother sold him to the scientist at the school. That is messed up selling your own child to people you do not even know. But for $10,000 is a lot and she was stressed out so she probably had to take the offer and take a break from working. This makes me think if the flocks parents also had this kind of offer to them because they figured out that their parents gave them up to the whitecoats. If that happened to me I probably wound not take that offer and keep my child.

"Thanks, Max," Ari said when he was within earshot."You won't regret this, I promise. I'm going to keep you safe." (pg 162)

Before Ari thank Max. Ari helped the flocks escape from their cage. As the flocks flew in the sky Max sees the guards with guns running towards Ari and she knew they were going to kill him. The flocks wanted him dead because he tried to kill them like a hundred times. Even tho Max had already killed Ari once and if he died again he might be resurrected again. But Max has a feeling that Ari is started to change because he helped the flocks get out. The flocks don't trusted him but Max and Angel do. It seems like this could be a leading trap for the flocks.

Judo Tournament

I had my judo tournament on April 18. The tournament was taken place at Alameda High School in the new gym. This was my first judo tournament I have been to and I could of went to the earlier tournaments but I did not want to. Instead I waited near the end of the school year for my judo tournament and we were required to go to at least one tournament. Usually I am nervous on my martial arts tournament. On my other Vietnamese tournament I got owned from sparing and this one I try to stay com and confident.

A few days before on a Friday after school both classes helped set up the tournament for Sunday and we got community service for. It became really tiring became we had to bring judo mats from the dojo to the table area where the back entrance to kofemen was. Each mat was probably about 15 pounds. In the dojo we took some of the mats out and it was so dusty underneath the mats. I had a lot of dust attracted to me while I was loading the truck. This process took about two hours including 5th and 6th period to transport the mats to the new gym. It took awhile to unload the mats off the truck. Then we set up the gym with four running mats while took awhile. After we were setting up the new gym the worse part was bringing out the 4 wheel dollys and back to the dojo. It took four people to bring out the 600 pound dolly out the door and down the stairs to the dojo.

The day of the tournament came. We had to come early at 7:30am to help. We paid for our entry and weight-in. Some people helped label the medals saying "PROF. JAY ALOHA INVITATIONAL JUDO TOURNAMENT". Our matches was going to take awhile and the tournament starts at 10:30am. We had to help the judges keep track of scores and pooling which is pairing up people in the same weight division in groups of 5. The beginning of the tournament was the little kids, teens, and the black belt division. I helped keep score for a few hours and chill with my sister.

Finally our tournament started to come at around 1pm. I waited with my friend Amir and we found out we were in the same pool. Which means i get to go against my friend. We were lucky to be in a pool with four people because it is faster and a better chance of wining a medal. I went against everyone in my pool and my first match was against Amir. I tried my best and stay com. The match started and I waited for him to grab me and as soon as he grabbed me I went for a throw but he tried to counter me. he almost got me and i fell on my butt but it didn't count. The opponet has to get the play on their back to win. The reff stopped us and start back in the middle. I grabbed him and tried to do a left sided throw to get him off guard but I did half of it and still got him on the ground. As he was on the ground I tried to choke him but the reff stopped us again. The third time I tried my throw again and I got him on his back and I won. My second match was against a yellow belt that i just found out after our match. I lost fast to this guy because he had more experience than me. So I did the first move with a foward throw but he countered me. My third match was really quick and it took about 10 seconds to win this one. I was against a talls person and before my matches I was examing his moves when he went up. I notice his legs were weak and off balance most of the time. When I went against this guy I tested out a small sweep and I got him off balance already so I went for a back sweep and got him down. I won 2/3 matches and got 2nd place. When the tournament ended we repeat what we did on Friday but backwards taking the mats back to the dojo.

Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

The book I am read Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports by James Patterson. Max had escape from the Itex from the scientist who are trying yo kill her. In the beginning they went to see a sports game and later on they are being noticed by the humans and they saw them in the newspaper. So they had to get out of the place befor the erasers try to get them.
"Football game", said Fang. What? Iggy asked, his face brightening. "Football game tonight, Texas Stadium". Fang snapped the laptop shut and stood. "I think we should go".(pg20)
When I read to this part of the book I was thinking what if they get caught when the erasers sees them on TV? Max thought he was nuts because they need to get out of site of people especial at a foot ball game. It would be a night mare if they went down there surrounded by thousands of people and cameras. It would be risky to go down there but they went anyways. The stadium was an open sky and it was the Cowboys vs the Chicago Bears. As I was reading I thought they were going to watch the game at the top of the stadium to be safe. Later on They were sitting with other people and some people started to notice they were those bird kids. They spotted erasers coming towards them and they had to get out.

It wasn't as through they had saved my life or anything Ella and Dr. Martinez. It was worse: They had shown me what a life could be like in Normal Land. It haunted me ever since I'd left them.(pg68)

I was a bit surprised when Max and Fang arrived back to Ella's house because in the first book she had to leave her for Angel. She didn't want to return and now she came back again along with Fang. It would been a good idea to return because Max showed Dr. Martinez her wounded arm and scan an x-ray and found a chip in her arm. Dr. Martinez found a way to take it out with out damaging her nerves.

Birthday Party at D&B

On Wednesday May 5th was my birthday and also cinco de mayo. What happened on my birthday I planed to go to Dave and Busters to celebrate with my family and friends. Who were Adam, Nathan, Keelan, Micheal, and John. We left after school to Dave and Busters at San Jose in Great Mall. When we got there we entered Dave and Busters. They had a eat and play combo game deal for $15.99 along with a 10 dollar game card. Most of use were hungry yet so we went to the mall to waste some time.

We went in the mall and my mom bought something then my sister wanted to buy something. We walked in a full circle back to Dave and Busters until we were hungry. As we were browsing threw the mall a couple of girls came by who were about 12 or 13 years old. Five minutes later we saw them again and they said hi and some of us said hi back. We were about half way to Dave And Busters and they started to follow us. They would walk ahead of us and wait until we got there. We went back into Dave and Busters which became our safe area from those girls.

we went to go eat first and also receive our 10 dollar game card. Our waiter named Derick told our orders and I got the double cheese burger which was delicious. John yelled out thank you Derick using his name. I started saying that also, then John said thanks Derick your the best. I started laughing. Derick was a cool guy. When Derick gave us our order my friends and I said thank you Derick. As we were eating there was a special birthday announcement on our left. I was like were is my birthday song as they announced it. About ten minutes later on our right side there was another birthday announcement happening again. We were done eating *cough except for Adam* and I had to go to the restroom. I didn't know where it was so Adam came along with me. After we came back the whole table was smiling and I know something was going on. As I sat down I see Derick holding a big cup of ice cream. I started to notice it would probably be mine and Derick came up to me and gave me my ice cream. He announced another birthday and sang a song. I wanted to take a picture with Derick for fun and as he came by my sister said if we could get a picture. He started to laugh and whispered " This is fucking weird man". As we left to play games Adam left a message saying Hey Derick, if you are reading this what the fuck, from those guys.

We went back out to the walk way to see if Derick would see our little message but another person was cleaning up the table. We went to go play in the arcade room with our game card. There was a virtual jump rope game and as it went in a circle it went faster but I was ne away from the jack pot of 300 tickets. I went to go play some shooting games with my sister. We went to go find the others and Adam and Keelan were addicted to this one game where you insert a coin and make other coins fall for tickets. My sister Nathan and I went to go back to the jump rope and I got addicted to that for a few games. Nathan was playing deal or no deal which he sucked at guessing and he end up with 12 and 4 tickets. I tried it and did good on the couple of picking out the case buy at the end I got 12 tickets. We went to play a few games of Need for Speed. We were about to go so all of us headed to the prize room. We had fun and went home.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVID!!!!!!!!

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