Encyclopedia Entries #3

Tia Collins

Video Games

When I was younger me and my brother would always play Zelda and Mario games on our GameCube and Wii. I also remember having a GameBoy, I would carry it around with me on road trips. I don’t play video games that often anymore, but every now and then I’ll play Mario kart.

June

June happens to me my birth month and the same month summer starts. I would consider June my favorite month, or December, which is a bit funny because they are nearly opposites. June is warm and December is cold.

How to Fool a King Response

9-19-13

Tia Collins

            I think that it was very brave of Frier Monteisinos to stick to his words and refused to take back what he said, even after people started to wish death upon him and say hateful things to him. I think that Frier Moteisinos did the right thing, he stood up for what he believed in, and what he thought God believed, he even told the people of the church that they would go to hell if they didn’t treat the Indians with love and respect. He didn’t regret saying the Indians were equal.

Morning Girl Free Response

            

        

          Morning Girl was a short, easy to read book. It was a good story, it’s a bit interesting to read from their perspective, I know a bit about Columbus’s story about coming to the island, and I’m now learning more in class, but I never really knew about the Indians point of view. Knowing that people did live like that on islands for hundreds of years ago, and maybe still do, other than the part where Columbus comes, is quite interesting…

            My favorite part of the book is when Morning Girl was curious about what she looked like so she looked into her fathers eyes to see. It was interesting when she felt her mom’s face, but I understand why she did, I just can’t imagine never getting to see your own face for years. It makes me think about how many people, including me, spend time putting on makeup to make themselves look “better” when some people don’t even get to see what they look like.

Nature Name Response

I think my nature name would be something like "mouse girl" only because I'm sort of quite and I'm shy... I can be a bit annoying at certain times though, it matters how I'm feeling or who I'm around at that moment.

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Preschool

When I was four years old I went to Salmon berry Slugs Preschool here in Trinidad. I remember every Friday I would make sure to bring one of my favorite toys for show and tell. Me and Symi used to always sit next to each other on the colorful rug.

Kites

When I was seven I had a "monster cyclopes" kite. Whenever my family and I went to the beach I would take it with me. It worked very well, my brother had the same one, except mine was purple and his was either blue or green. I don't remember how or when we got rid of them, maybe I broke mine?

Personal Space

9-4-13

Tia Collins

A Day in the Bay

            It was a windy summer day in July, my mom brother and I stepped out of the car immediately breathing in the salty sea air. We made our way through the busy parking lot and walked out on the brand new concrete pier. Part of me misses the old creaky wooden pier, but this new modern pier sure attracts a lot of tourists. We take the steep ramp off to the right, the sharp shiny aluminum grate under my feet leads us down to the floating dock. The pungent smell of fish in the air burns my nose. Large swarms of kelp flies surround us as they scour the floating dock for bits of fish. I hear seagulls calling as they fly over head. Nearby a harbor seal and her pup circle the boat hoping to catch a snack from the filet station.

            Today my dad volunteered to run the taxi boat as the harbor crew didn't have anyone to run it. My dad thought it would be fun and knew it would help out the bay. He called us and invited us to take a boy tour in the taxi. My mom and brother wait with me on the bench and I feel the floating dock beneath us moving with the rhythm of the ocean. Off in the distance I see a small taxi boat approaching, this boat seems so tiny compared to the fishing boat my dad usually runs. 

            The taxi pulls up to the float with my dad at the wheel. We carefully step in to join them for a ride. He revs the motor, I hold on tight to the rail and we head out in to the bay. We weave through the large boats parked on their moorings, and cruise out along Trinidad head. My dad pointed out all the sea life, such as; harbor seals, otters, birds and sea stars. It was really interesting to see Indian beach from this perspective. This short little ride was a lot of fun, I hope to do it again some day.