Ham's blog

I would want to go to Californa and learn art with my Grandma, and then I'd go 3 miles out and go to a farming area that smells like COWS!... and ride my horse when I get there. He smells like Cherry Blossoms, and every day I ride him, I would wrap a cherry blossom in wire and put it on his saddle, but now Casey is in Kentucky, and now when I want to go visit him I need to go to Kentucky where my sister lives.

And so I just want to go to Californa because I want to paint with my grandma and spend time with her.

When you are learning about tattoos you need to have patience,
texture and skills. NOT That You Don't, just maybe you aren't there yet, so when you are learning you need to stay calm and start small, then work your way to bigger stuff. When you work with tattoos, you must know the way of the ancient art, like you need to know texture, and color, and you must - in every tattoo business - you must connect with your customers and have an imagination.

And when you get over 21, you can get the job, but remember you need to come up with your own tats.

"Oh, sorry. You won't know what tats mean until you become a tattoo artist, but I will tell you what it means. It is slang for tattoos, but you know young people nowadays.

I took my interest in tattoos about last summer, and it was going great until my grandpa found out, and he went nuts and you know what he said? Well, I am going to tell you. He said, "You ain't going to do that 'cause it isn't right, ans you are probably going to get them all over your body. So, no!!"

And, of course, my mom said when my grandpa left, "Don't worry; you can do anything you want, OK."

And I said, OK. So I went back into my room, and still, to this day, every time I mention about tattoos, my grandpa goes nuts and I just walk away saying, "Sorry I ever brought it up."

We went to the museum yesterday and when we got there it was so big and cool, and we got to look around for like a half a second, and then we were split in to different groups and shown around there was four groups and you got like thirty minutes in each group and we saw all kinds of cool artifacts.

I like all of the pictures and all the art because I love to draw, so I was thinking some day that my art would go up in the museum some day. And the coolest thing I saw in that place was a bird made out of nails. Oh no, that wasn't; the coolest thing ever was a room filed with lights and sound, and when we went out a lady talked and said to move and listen and when we did she also said to look at it close - you can see stuff, and hear bells and people singing. It was so cool.

My weekend was a good weekend cause I went to my dad's house and we rented a movie called Jennifer's Body and it was a good movie but it was a horror so I am not going to talk about it, but if you are into horror movies I would recommend it to everyone who loves those movie to rent that. Anyway my week was a cool weekend because I got to choose where I want my party was at my house waiting that horror movie and eating pizza and some of the girls will spend the night and others will go home.

Now we are in school and we are learning how weather is, and we just watched Bill Nye the Science Guy, and it was so cool and we have a sub so we kicked on the math and we got all our homework done but my friend Odyssey missed three days so she has lots of homework and I feel really bad for her. All that homework! I am surprised that she hasn't turned in to Albert Einstein yet! But to day we finished all of the math and activities we were going to do.

So we are reading a book called the Weird Watsons go to Birmingham. It is a funny story, and it reminds me of my family because we are kind of weird too, so and along on their trip they run into some trouble like this - one time they were in their car and Byron and Joey and Kenneth and their grandma said that in the lake there live Wool Pooh, but the real name was whirl pool. And Joey was scared but he still went near the lake and he saw some fish and so he went in to the water and then he saw a turtle and then he jumped in the water and he missed the turtle and out of some fantasy he named the the whirl pooh a.k.a. the whirl pool.

"Once upon a time there, "said Bob.

"Hey did you see Joe's new haircut?" said Dave rudely interrupting Bob.

"I know it's so cool I love it!" said Trevor.

"Excuse me but I was telling a story!" said Bob.

"So we were talking about a cool new haircut," said Dave.

"And what were you going to tell, a boring old fairy tale!" said Trevor.

"N.. Not really. OK, yes!"

Just get on with it!"Said Bob.

And so Bob left and Trevor, Dave went on talking about Joe's new haircut, Dave said that the haircut looked so smooth it was as smooth as a baby's butt, maybe even softer.

"I want that haircut," said Trevor!"

"NO I want that haircut!"

and in the history of haircuts the biggest fight broke out!

"HEY!!! Maybe you both can have the same haircut"

And Dave looked at Trevor and Trevor looked at Dave and then they both made up and the were called the twins because they had the same haircuts forever. Until Joe got a new haircut.

Hi this is Ham Halerin back from another cold weekend, and I can't believe this, but my mom just bought a cool four wheeler and since my dad is going to Anchorage for two weeks, now I get to ride the four wheeler. And I can go hang out with my friends and when I come back to school I need to make sure I bring my hat and gloves to drive safe and stay warm. This is Ham and I am logging out. See you tomorrow.

I started watching cartoons when I was about 4 years old and I have ever since. And I think cartoons are funny. Me and my mom like this one show named Road Runner, and it takes place in Nevada, and it is about a coyote who loves eating road runners but he can never get his hands on any. In this show there is only one, and he tries and tries, but he keeps failing and I mean because the only reason he can't catch him is because he is way too fast and too clever, and every time he tries to, he always gets hurt. So that is my favorite show.

Today we studied about static and we got to do an experiment on it, and what we did is that we got all kinds of different material and we also got cool balloons. Mine was very cool to me. It is in my backpack right now, but on the experiment we were looking for things that stuck to the balloon and what surprised me is that salt stuck to the balloon and so did the balloons. Why? Because they went away from each other instead of coming together, and then my hair stood up for the rest of the day.

When I went home my mom asked me, "Why is your hair standing up."

And I told her, "Science, Mom," and it was fun.

And she just nodded and said, "Ok sweety, whatever you say."

And then I went to my room and cleaned it, and my mom was so happy she hugged me so much I could have almost popped like a balloon in a dart contest if she squeezed me any harder.
And then I just went in my room and started to draw and when it was bed time my mom came up to me and said, "Guess what we are having for diner tomorrow!"

And I said, "What?"

And she said,"We are having corn beef hash."

I am going to tell about a girl that became my friend and I am sure you are going to want to know how we met. It was about a year ago and we met in the 5th grade and when she came she sat right next to me and during lunch she had no one to sit with, but I came and sat with her, and she said her name was Bridget, and I said my name, and we started to talk and then at recess I introduced her to a kid named Lawrence and then all of us became friends, and we are in 6th grade now, and still friends. I hope we can stay friends forever. And that is how I met my friend.

Mr. Adams and Mr. Andrew both work on studying avalanches from a little shack that probably smelled like old cheese and feet that had been soaked in month-old soup, and it probably smelled like coffee too!! So they monitor avalanches from that teeny little hut. The question is how. How do they make the avalanche go?

Or do they just sit there and wait for it, or does someone go up there and yell at the top of their lungs and then run down the hill or ski down or snowboard down. Maybe they drive down. I don't have a clue, but one thing I know is that this is a dangerous job and I want to be like them when I get older. OH, wait, that was two things, oh well.

I read an article about panda bears and about half of the pandas are dieing every day. Most pandas are kept safe in captivity and when some of the babies are all grown up they are released into the wild. Pandas are a white and black bear that's pretty amazing, and maybe people should stop cutting down bamboo trees because that's their food, and we're stealing it. Not many pandas are going to survive.

You can read the story for yourself.

I am reading a book called Bedeviled. It is about a girl named Angel who is in middle school and her favorite band comes to Goodville. And the reason her mom picked that place is because the name is GOODville with a capital GOOD. Her mom likes small towns that no one notices.

And when Angel finds out she can't go to the concert she is shocked. And she was so mad she stormed out the door and went to her room, and a few hours later she asked again and again, and her mom got tired of it so she said you can go to the concert.

And when Angel kept saying YES! Now I can take Gabi. And when she was singing she did a crazy dance and that's where she heard her mom say in such a soft voice, You can go with me.

And all of a sudden she stopped dancing and turned to her mom and said WHAT!

"Yes, you can go with me.

NO. NO. NO! I cant go with you. Everyone else isn't going with someone.

"Well that's their parents decision, not their's. So do you want to go or not?"

NO.

Ok.

One day I was sitting in library and I knew we were going to color something but I just didn't know what. Then the librarian handed them out and I closed my eyes and waited for a sound a voice, but nothing. Until a voice came out of the blue; it is a super hero... Then more and more voices came. I opened my eyes and a super hero paper was in front of me. I was supposed to color it. On one side, there was a boy, and on the other, a girl. I colored them both, and turned it in, and called her Green Lantern Girl, just like the Green Lantern. And the boy on the back, I made him up. I called him Teeny Man because he can shrink. And that is my two super heroes I made in library. Now they are hanging in the library.

It was my cousin's birthday and she lived in Valdez. So we wanted to go there. We arrived at night so we had to set up camp at night. Then we went to sleep. The next morning I was ready to go fishing. So we went to the docks, then the rocks, and we fished at the rocks.

The whole day was going good until I reached in the water with the net to grab a fish, and then just like that I slipped on the rocks and hit my head on a rock. I was unconscious in the water.

And then when the waves came in I went out until one big wave covered me and about a yard away I washed up on the rocks and about an hour later I woke up in my mom's car with dry cloths on and the whole time I didn't let go of the net.

And that's all I remember.

It all started at school. One day I kept seeing things
like right out of the corner of my eye. Like I saw dancing monkeys, but when I looked, nothing. I thought I was going crazy until I got home.

Everything was going great until... My 8 year old brother jumped out from the curtains wearing pants with his underwear over them and yelled out dutdutdudu Undy Man! And he scared me so much I screamed so loud the neighbor next door banged on our wall and said, "You kids! keep it down out there. And my brother yelled out "Sorry!" And I sent him outside to play.

And after finishing my homework my mom came home and said, "Why is Robert outside in his underwear yelling, Go Undy Man, go, go Undy Man, go, and doing a freaky dance in front of the neighbor's?"

"You realize he is just playing."

"I know."

And that was the weirdest day of life.
And an hour later my little brother came in and said, "I am tired."

Then my mom shouted out, It is diner time! And we had juicie hamburgers and nice and fat hot dogs. Then we watched a movie, and brushed our teeth, then went to bed.

And I went to school the next day and that day was very normal.

I am going to tell you about Fly on the Wall. It is a cool thing Mr. Noon made up. You go around the school and you get put in a place where you write down everything you see or hear. My class did it 3 times.

The first time I was near the stairs at the back of the building and when someone came in, the wind came in too. The place was a real quiet place and when the wind flows up the stairs you can see your breath in front of your face and you could hear whispers from everywhere.

The second time I was in a warmer place. I was upstairs by Ms. Hill's room. Everything was going off like a siren. I heard and saw a teacher walk by with heavy footsteps and squeeky shoes. And I saw Mr. Noon and Ms. Streeter walking towards me, closer and closer, I felt helpless sitting down on the floor.

This story begins 4 years ago when I was 8. I have been going to hockey on every Friday and I had two favorite players on that team. The first one was Scotty; the second one was Vany. They were my favorite until they had to leave to go to the NHL but before they did, for my 10th birthday, I got to be the mascot for them. I get to go out on the ice and I dance. It really is fun.

It all started one weekend when I was at my dad's house, but before I went to my dad's house, I just come back from hunting and we spent many many hours out there going down old Murphy Dome Road, and we saw nothing the whole way there.

So when I got back, I went over to my dad's house. And when we got there I saw a moose head on Brian's car...oh gosh, I am so sorry, Brian is the owner of my dad's house. So I went to the back of the moose, and you know me, I am so curious; I looked and I could see through the eyes of the moose. And I never forgot that day.

The spotted hyena is one of the most dangerous hyenas. It can take down a whole water buffalo, but the only way to take it down is in a pack. They also run after animals until the animals get tired of running.

The spotted hyena has been spotted eating pots and pans because it is so hungry, and it can run up to 30 miles an hour, and it can eat bones, fur, meat, and did you know they eat beetles and berries.

The most part that scares me is how fast it can run and it can eat bones, so when I read that part I imagined that it caught me and ate me whole and when they laugh, it's like they are laughing at you. And if you see a wild animal please stay away.

It all started when it was my sister's birthday; she was turning 19, and her husband got her a dog - half pitbull/Alaskan Husky. She named it Boskow. So he grew up and became a guard dog and sometimes we would take him camping, he would get down in the water and grab a fish, and I would catch it in a bucket, and then one day, because he is just mean, he bit me. So we had to put him down. And that's the last I ever saw him.

It all started back when I didn't know 12*12. My sister was living with us, and she had no pets except our dog Myook; she was a sweetheart.

So my sister ran out and bought a black cat named Cola. That's how we got her, and she is such a sweet cat. We can put her out for the night and she will come back in the morning and try and go to school with me, and I tell her she can't go. We have had Cola for 2 years.

She is a weird cat because she has possible thumbs and
she has two claws on her right pinky. It's kind of a weird cat, but we love her.

I am going to tell you about my dog, Nenna. Well, for starters, her real name is Jenna. I love to play around with her. I will lay a sheet down on the ground, and she will lay with me. I wish she could live with me... Oh, are you still there? Sorry, I just got caught up in the moment. Maybe I shouldn't bore you with my story, but OK.

She was half wolf-husky, untrainable, and we couldn't let her out because we didn't have a fence, so one day I was going to school and I opened the door and she ran out the door and the pound picked her up.

Then the next time she got out, she started to play with one of those ankle biters, and then the owner came out and started to freak out. She called the pound, and that was the second time.

So now if she gets picked up by the pound again I won't ever see her again. So that's why she lives with my grandma. But, I mean, she has fun out there. She loves to chase squirrels and talk with Buddy...

Oh, I am sorry; you don't know who Buddy is, do you? Well, Buddy is my brother's dog. He is brown husky/malumute. He loves to play around with Jenna. And that's my story.