Vacation Strategy by Joseph Aldo Espinoza Coral

August 1st

joespinoza5 — 2025-08-04 15:47:12 UTC

Interstellar is a movie about NASA's search for a new planet like Earth, as the Earth is on the verge of extinction. They send four people —Cooper, Brand, Romilly, and Doyle — down a wormhole next to Saturn, which transports them to another galaxy, making it easier for them to explore new planets. Many Years pass by on Earth, while many hours pass in space. Cooper (the protagonist) goes down Gargantua (a black hole) and enters a fourth-dimensional timespace. There, he communicates with his daughter in Morse code.

He then gets sucked out of the black hole (I don't know how) and enters our Solar System, where he floats for a long time. We fast-forward to him in a hospital, but not on Earth, but in Cooper Station, a space station built next to Saturn. Why? Because the Earth is gone, it makes finding new planets easier, and it is in orbit with a planet that most likely won't suck us in like Jupiter. We can't ignore the fact that it is next to the wormhole. The movie ends with Brand stranded on a planet with a habitable atmosphere since she takes off her helmet and is perfectly fine. While on the other planets, some of the astronauts slowly die by taking off their helmets.

August 2nd

joespinoza5 — 2025-08-04 17:22:21 UTC

I read 2 chapters of Robin Hood on day two (coincidence, right?). I didn't have to ensure anything because the book is in English. In the two chapters, Robin Hood was invited to an archery contest hosted by the king and queen. Robin Hood won the contest, and the king was furious. Then in the second chapter, Robin meets Sir Guy of Gisbourne, and they fight until Sir Guy is killed. Little John is going to be hanged along with three other people by the sheriff when Robin Hood asks for Little John. Robin frees John and the three people, and they all escape. Then Robin Hood, the outlaw, turned into Sir Robin of Locksley because, although he WAS an outlaw, he and his men loved England and the King.

August 3rd

joespinoza5 — 2025-08-06 16:39:49 UTC

Jess Aarons has practiced all summer to be the fastest kid in 5th grade. Until a new girl shows up by the name of Leslie Burke outpacing Jesse. The two become quick friends and start hanging out in the wood behind Leslie's house and claim it to be an enchanted land by the name of Terabithia. One morning Leslie go to Terabithia alone and a tradegy occurs. It will take the love of his family and the strength that Leslie has given him for Jess to be able to deal with his grief. Chapters 1 and 2 introduce lots of characters such as: Jess, Joyce Ann, Brenda, Ellie, Jess' mom and dad, May Belle, Leslie Burke and Miss Edmunds.

Jess Aarons is a boy who practiced running all summer just to be the fastes kid in 5th grade. Jess is an artist aswell but his father doesn't support him much. May Belle (his sister) tells him that a new neighbor moved in the Perkins' place. That is where we meet Leslie Burke, a girl that will soon beat everyone in the school races, including Jess Aarons.

August 4th

joespinoza5 — 2025-08-07 01:59:49 UTC

In chapters 3 and 4 a seventh grade girl that goes by the name of Janice, bullys everyone. May Belle learns it the hard way. How? Well one day Jess' dad comes back with twinkies just for May Belle. On the bus to school she tells one of the first graders that she has twinkies. But she screamed so loud that you could hear it from the back seat even if you were deaf from both ears. Janice already targets her and sure enough she steals May Belle's twinkies. Jess and Leslie try to find a way to get revenge on her. Their revenge? Make a fake love card that was "made" by Willard Huges the most popular boy of all seventh grade. It was the perfect plan since every girl has a crush on him. Including Janice! In the end Janice realizes it was all fake and get totally depressed leaving Jess, May Belle and Leslie satisfied.

August 5th

joespinoza5 — 2025-08-07 02:11:36 UTC

In chapters 5 and 6, Christmas Time was arriving, and Jess wanted to give Leslie a gift. For a whole week, he had anxiety and was desperate to give her a perfect present. He felt as if he didn't give her a good present, she would be disappointed in him. Time goes by, and it its already 1 day before Christmas, and let me tell him he his ANXIOUS! On the bus, he sits by the window, and something gives him an idea. He asks the Bus Driver to drop him off at the requested destination. After getting off the bus, he walks toward the little hut. Why, you may ask? Because Jess was getting Leslie a puppy. After getting Leslie a puppy, Leslie tells Jess to stay in Terabithia while she gets his present. After 5 minutes, she returns with a watercolor set with 125 colors and 15 different brushes (5 canvases included). She says that she is sorry that her present isn't as good as a puppy, but Jess was so happy that he forgot how to say thank you!

August 6th

joespinoza5 — 2025-08-07 16:45:30 UTC

In chapters 7 and 8 Jess and Leslie help Leslie's father repair the Perkins' place aka Leslie's new house. But Jess realizes that Leslie spends more time with Bill (Leslie's dad) more than him. This upstets him and later confronts her by speaking to her about his feelings. Leslie feels bad and offers him if he wants to help them. Jess with no other choice decides to help. Jess at first felt uncomfortable around Leslie's parents but after time she help him get used to them. After reparing and painting they needed to paint one room. Jess and Leslie went for blue but Bill wanted to paint the room with gold. Once they did the room was marvelous. In the morning the room was a light yellow sparkly color but in the sunset the true colors came. The gold was enchanted, the texture of the walls were like gold coins, the sprakly effect was so beatiful that it made Jess feel a bubbling feeling inside of him. In Chapter 8, Jess and his family attend church. Leslie is aware of this and builds up the courage to ask Jess if she could attend the church as well. Jess, of course, asks his mother for permission. She quietly says she doesn't want anyone lifting a nose of her family. Jess then assures her that no one will do such a thing. She finally agrees, but only if she wears decent clothes and looks decent. Leslie indeed looked decent but still appropriate for the church. Once they arrive, Brenda and Ellie (Jess' two older sisters) start showing off, making sure every single eye in the church sees them with awe and jealousy. Leslie then says that she liked Jesus' story, like when almost everyone blames him for things he didn't do, Jess tells her to maybe speak about that in Terabithia since May Belle was listening, but it was already too late. May Belle had heard and started a very long lecture on why that story is heartbreaking and not exciting.

August 7th

joespinoza5 — 2025-08-07 17:36:40 UTC

In chapters 9 and 10 Jess and Leslie go to Terabithia while it it raining. The rain is so heavy that the two friends go into a shed and stay there until the rain gets lighter. Once it does they head back to their homes and Leslie says to meet her in Terabithia at midnight. Jess agrees and sleeps until midnight. He realizes that the rain is sill going and it is still heavy. He decides not to go and instead go on with his ordinary day. He gets a phone call from Miss Edmunds and she asks him if he can go to an art gallery. He asks his mother and she says yes. Then Miss Edmunds picks him up and they both leave to go the art gallery. Once they return from the art gallery, everyone is crying. Jess asks what happened, and Brenda simply tells him, "Your girlfriend is dead, and momma thought you was dead too".

August 8th

joespinoza5 — 2025-08-08 16:14:02 UTC

Now that Leslie is dead Jess doesn't know what to do. Words are flickering through his head as he tries to process what the heck is going on. He keeps trying to understand if it's true or not, constantly banging his head around like an autistic kid. The same words girl~dead~Leslie~girl friend~god~drowned. The words cycle around, and Jess seems to be anxious about it.

August 9th

joespinoza5 — 2025-08-12 01:39:45 UTC

In the final chapter (Chapter 13), the Burkes get ready to move out since Leslie isn't there with them anymore. Jess feels this uncomfortable feeling grow inside him. At school, the ambience is silent, but people respect Jesse because of Leslie's death. Mrs Myers had pulled him out of class to talk with him. She knew about her death and wanted to talk to Jess about her husband when he died. They were both heartbroken but yet Jesse didn't cry. He thought that if he cried, he wouldn't be the brave king he is. After school, the Burkes had to leave. They all said goodbye. Bill told them that if they needed anything, they were free to go in their back yard or front yard. Jesse only required some lumber, a hammer, and nails. With the lumber, Jess created a small bridge through the gap between the outside and Terabithia. May Belle spotted him and quickly ran over to ask him what he was doing. He explained to her about the bridge. Once he finished the bridge, he put a flower on May Belle and walked her on the bridge. He said all the Terabithians were tiptoeing excitedly to see their new queen.

August 10th

joespinoza5 — 2025-08-13 15:53:05 UTC

Now that I finished reading Bridge to Terabithia, I started watching National Geographic. I watched Secrets of The Sun and it's pretty interesting. Did you know that the sun doesn't explode due to the gravity holding it together? Think of it like a magnet. When you try to combine the same sides, let's say negative with negative, when you try to push them together, the force of the two sides is the representation of the gravity holding the sun together. In contrast, the repeller is the explosion that occurs within the core. Not too long ago, NASA discovered a tornado on the sun's surface. Scientists and researchers are studying this amazing event happening on the sun in hopes of a mind-blowing result.

August 11

joespinoza5 — 2025-08-14 17:21:53 UTC

On this day I watched a video about how big the universe is by BE AMAZED, and honestly the universe is very, very big. If we shrunk our solar system into the size of vegetables or fruits our earth would be a Cherry Tomatoe and the sun would be a sky scraper! Impressive right? Another thing is that Voyager 1 left our solar system in 2012 (Left Earth in 1977 and left the solar system in 2012), and it took some awesome pictures. There is a place in space, far away, where a neuron-shaped chain contains us and our galaxy cluster with lots of stars.

August 12

joespinoza5 — 2025-08-14 20:53:37 UTC

On August 12th, I watched a video by BRIGHT SIDE that showed what would happen if we jumped on every planet, and the result is mindblowing! Phobos is one of Mars' moons. Gravity there is so light that jumping would just leave you floating in space. NASA confirmed this with "experience". Mars, on the other hand, is 0.2 ft lighter, being 1.7ft if you jump (in comparison, if you jumped on the Earth, you would approximately reach 1.5 ft. Venus and Mercury are a little heavier (Venus being lighter, though). Now, on Jupiter, you would only reach 0.6 ft if you jumped. Now, technically, Jupiter doesn't have any solid terrain, but if you were to take a hover platform, then you could jump. Saturn, on the other has another plan. It's lighter than Jupiter, that's for sure, but not as light as Earth, being 0.3 times heavier than Earth's gravity. Neptune and Uranus only have theories and not real facts since it is too cold (- -377 Fahrenheit) for it to be possible to jump.

August 13

joespinoza5 — 2025-08-14 21:12:36 UTC

On August 13, I read 1 chapter of the Hiroshima book. It's very interesting as it contains different stories from survivors of the bomb. According to the book, John Hersey goes around asking many survivors about their stories before the bomb dropped on Hiroshima Many survivors from the book include: a man who acts and dresses like an American, a priest, a mother taking care of her three children, a medic (male), a medic (female), and an employee who worked at an international business company.

August 14

joespinoza5 — 2025-08-18 17:31:22 UTC

After reading the first chapter, I went on to read the second chapter, which explained a lot of stuff! The two medics help the injured nurses and patients, the priest helps a kindergarten teacher along with her students (sadly, only 11 out of 23 made it out alive), the mother helps her injured children to recover, the employee runs out of the burning building, and the American-style man frees stuck neighbors. All six of the survivors made it out very, very injured, but luckily not dead. According to the book, none of them knows what they did or how they did to survive. Like I said, they are just grateful they aren't dead.

August 15

joespinoza5 — 2025-08-20 16:44:26 UTC

On August 15, I read chapter 3, which, to my surprise, is very heartwarming yet very brutal. Doctor Fujii, the male medic, receives tons and tons of wounded, some even half dead! He knows he can't rest, so he gets prepared and starts working. Father Wilhelm Kelinsorge (the priest) goes around helping people get out of burning buildings, fallen houses, and schools. Mr Tanimoto, on the other hand, helps the drowning people get out of the river. Miss Toshiko Sasaki helps her wounded children get to Doctor Fujii so they can fully recover. Think of the mother's help like a free trial and the doctor's help like the full thing. Mr Tanimoto promises the wounded people he will get them to shore at sunrise. He lays them down in a straw mat and places one by one in each straw mat. By sunrise, he wakes up just to see that the tides went way more up than usual, and sadly, all the people he promised to save had drowned in their sleep. He felt guilty since they died feeling cheated.

August 16

joespinoza5 — 2025-08-23 17:51:08 UTC

I read chapter 4 of Hiroshima. Let me tell you what it's about. After the B-29's fall, Hiroshima was left filled with radiation. What is radiation, you may be asking? Well, radiation is energy transmitted through space as waves or particles. It exists everywhere in our environment and is categorized into ionizing and non-ionizing types, based on their ability to ionize atoms. Depending on the radiation, the result of the skin's interaction will be more and more severe. This situation happened to the six survivors. Out of six survivors, only two were left bald due to the harmful radiation. The two who were bald actually felt like committing suicide just because they were bullied for being bald. The medics did their best to save the patient's hair, but it was too late. Alongside the hair was the patient's health. Unfortunately, their health was in a horrible condition, meaning that they had to rest all day. At first, it seemed to work, but later they realised that the medical bills were high. They were then forced to sell their most valuable items that mattered more to them.

August 17

joespinoza5 — 2025-09-01 18:04:18 UTC

Four decades pass, and the survivors are only getting worse. The mother has a sickness that gives her lots of stomach aches and diarrhea. Thankfully, a medic lived right next door (not literally, I just meant he lived close) and came to the rescue. Turns out, she had a round worm (no, it's not a worm that's round), and the medic explained that whatever she ate, the round worm would feast on it as well. If no food was digested and deposited into the stomach, the roundworm would start biting down on the stomach's protective layer. This protective layer helps so that the stomach acid doesn't acidify the other organs, including the stomach. Dr Fujii was teaching one of his students about how to treat a severely injured patient until a nurse notified him, saying that a patient needed treatment. Dr Fujii saw this as an opportunity to teach his student and guide him through the process. The very next day, Dr Fujii was dead.

August 18

joespinoza5 — 2025-09-02 16:49:03 UTC

On this day, I woke up very early to get to the airport. This was because I was going to Santa Marta in Magdalena. It took two flights to get there—one trip to Bogota, and the other to, well, you know. Once we arrive at our destination, we take a quick bathroom break and pay for a taxi. We arrive at the hotel and leave our stuff in a safe room. My mom, cousins, aunt, and uncle all head out to Olimpica to do the groceries. But before we do that, there was a second floor specifically for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner! Well, maybe not dinner, BUT STILL!!! After eating and grocery shopping, we received a call from our uncle, who had left before us to get to the hotel, to announce that the room was now unoccupied. We pay for a taxi and arrive at the hotel. Once we do, we change into our swimming trunks and head on out to the pool. We swim for around 2 hours before heading back in and getting into bed (after showering, of course!) to get ready for the next day.

August 19

joespinoza5 — 2025-09-02 21:43:35 UTC

On August 19, I had one of the best experiences of my life. My mom woke me up, saying that we needed to eat fast since we were going to swim and take pictures with dolphins. On the way my mom made the biggest mistake. It was buying a snorkeling kit. She thought I was going to be happy with some cheap plastic that was 99% 3D printed. Now, at this point, I was very, very worried because not long before the show started, I watched a video that showed the Orca incident in Atlanta aquarium (pretty cool place btw), and you might say "oH dOlPhInS aReNt WhAlEs" and you're not wrong, but you do know that Orcas aren't whales either, right? Now you might start investigating, so I investigated for you :> Orcas are, yes, whales, but more similar to dolphins. As a matter of fact, Orcas are the biggest of any dolphin species! See why I got worried? But worries only got worse when I, for some dumb reason, submerged my head underwater! Wait, are those jellyfish? There were jellyfish, fish, and moray eels (probably some crabs, but those were pretty uncommon in there due to there being lots of swimming kids). We got to pet the dolphins, and they even gave us rides. After the very astonishing meeting with the dolphins, we went on to the beach, where we sat and ate lunch while seeing how the dolphins made a mini performance for the people who didn't pay for the aquarium. We were all eating when suddenly my cousin, Emmanuel, was taken somewhere. When he came back, he informed us that a jellyfish had stung him while we were with the dolphins. I was only bitten by the fish, but not stung. I finish eating and start heading to the water. It wasn't really clear, but hey, at least I'm at the beach. The same as usual, really, head home, shower, watch TV, and go to sleep.

August 20

joespinoza5 — 2025-10-10 20:21:01 UTC

On this day, I was going to another beach with coral reefs. We went on a bus instead of a jet ski because the journey was one hour long and my mom is afraid of the deep, deep sea. (yet she wants to go diving) We arrive at the beach and notice. This water is crystal clear. That is because it is called Playa Cristal—enough about the beach. The tourist guide was hilarious. During the journey, we stopped at a stop where we learned that the beach we were going to was originally called Playa de los Muertos because the tribes would sacrifice people? That doesn't sound right. But anyway, after the stop we headed to the shop where I noticed that the toilets were recycled (no, the toilets were fine. I'm about the flushing and washing hands place). The toilets didn't flush, which I found disgusting, but then I saw a man using a bowl with the water people use to wash their hands with. My mom liked the idea since they weren't wasting water.

During the ride, I fell asleep. I was woken up since, for some reason, my body can sense when the bus isn't moving. Even though I'm sound asleep. Turns out we didn't stop because we arrived at the beach. We stopped because we were at the perfect place to take a picture, and the perfect place to feel adrenaline. So basically it was this mountain with a REALLY, REALLY good view of a closed beach called "Siete Olas". It was closed due to many people drowning. Similar to a beach in Florida called Destin. The waves are super strong, and many waves come at once, which is very dangerous. Why adrenaline? Because if you step on the edge, you'll find yourself next to a fall that would last a whole hour just by jumping. (Not really, but it's around 2 minutes to say the least) Then I promise this is it, we arrive at a beach, I don't know what their name is. So then we take a boat and ride all the way to the beach, Playa Cristal. It had amazing food AND had fishies. YAY!!! Here, my cousins and I used scuba diving goggles that they bought at the stop we encountered earlier. Soon, I noticed these big rocks underneath us, and I don't know why I got scared of them, 'cause I knew they were just rocks, but the spiral effect on their surface just wasn't pleasing to me.

After that, I went to the hotel to do the usual, SWIM IN THE POOL!!!!!!

August 21

joespinoza5 — 2025-10-10 22:12:02 UTC

Today wasn't too special because I had to leave Santa Marta. I did mark my memories, and I will definitely return. In the airplane, my ears weren't aching since I had a lollipop with gum in the middle. My cousins weren't suffering either. They were with their dad, so I didn't worry too much about them. On the way, I fell asleep for about 30 minutes and then stared at the window the time!

August 22

joespinoza5 — 2025-10-13 17:28:21 UTC

Today, I watched videos about Rubik's Cubes, and I was astonished when I saw a particular video. It was the world record for speedcubing, 3.057 seconds. Xuanyi Geng, a 7-year-old boy, managed to solve the cube in that amount of time. Like WHAT!!1!!1! I am older, yet I can't solve it that fast! Then I started to solve the cube as fast as I could, and my best record was only 45 seconds. But I know that to solve that fast, I need to learn CFOP or Fridrich, which are way harder than the method I use. But luckily, that is my mission. I am trying to learn CFOP more because I am more used to watching videos about it, and I think I might be able to solve the cube faster if I focus more and try harder in order to solve the cube like how Xuanyi Geng solves it.

August 23

joespinoza5 — 2025-10-13 17:40:58 UTC

On this day, I coded in scratch since I am a pro 😎 (I'm not) and I later made a video on how to make a simple game in scratch which went very well. So what is scratch? Well, Scratch is a safe and friendly coding progrm that you can easily access through your web browser. In order to publish your game/project/story or whatever, I don't what you're gonna make, anyways you must need an account. Scratch relies on lego shaped blocks in order to start coding so people from all ages can start coding in scratch. Remember to use scratch wisley and DO NOT publish innapropiate things as that will result in a temporarilay or permanant ban to your account according to the type of content you are sharing. Overall scratch was made so users can share and express ideas through projects. With scratch, the only limit to your imagination is literally a single BAN! Nah I'm joking. But your ideas are limitless with scratch's main purpose of being simple, easy, fast, and most importantly, fun.