Guitar

I love to play guitar. I play acoustic guitar, electric guitar and a little bit of bass guitar and I can also play a bit of keyboard. My sisters, Naomi and Elise, also play guitar. My sisters and I have been playing guitar for 4 and a half years. I started playing guitar when I was seven.

At first it was fun and then it got harder. The first song I ever learnt to play was Mary Had A Little Lamb. When I learnt to sing Mary Had A Little Lamb I realized I loved to sing. Elise, Naomi and I now all play at church as a music group.

When we first started playing we each had a nylon string guitar, now we've up-graded to steal string Taylor Baby guitars.

This is a pic of a Taylor Baby.

Now we have a Epiphone SG electric guitar and a Epiphone SGbass guitar along with the amplifiers for them.

This is a pic of a Epiphone SG

When I'm older I would like to be a famous song writer, but that's a lot to ask for.

My favorite single song artist is Brooke Ligertwood, and my favorite band is Hillsong.

Ripstiks

If you've ridden a ripstik you will know how fun they are. I got in to ripstik when my neighbour had a baby sitter looking after him and his sister for the school holidays. She brought around two ripstiks for them to ride. Now with a ripstik you can't just get on it and ride it, it takes a lot of practice to be able to ride it. It took me a long time to learn how to ride a ripstick. 

With ripstiks, you can't ride them like a skateboard. It's really tricky to get the hang of it. You need to put your left foot on the front part of the ripstik and then you need to do one quick push of with your right foot and put it on the back part of the ripstik, and then you swivel. 

I've learn't how to wheelie and turn around at the same time and I can do wheelie's on both wheels. Me and my sister share a red ripstick and my two brother's share a blue one. 

My Drawing

I love drawing. I really like to draw cartoon characters. It's so much fun experimenting, using these eyes with this nose and that mouth with that chin or even this face with these ears. My favorite thing to draw would be the hair or the nose. It's hard for me to draw the eyes because it's really hard to get them the same.

At first I thought that scenery drawing would suit my style of drawing but where I live there is not a lot of nice country.

For a while I didn't do much drawing but when I got back into it I tried drawing objects around the house, I was alright at it but I didn't enjoy it. Then we got a free DVD on how to draw cartoon animals and I found it really fun drawing them. So the next time I went to our local library I borrowed a book called Action Cartooning by Ben Caldwell.

I found it really good and so now a draw cartoon people. I still do a little bit of scenery drawing but not a lot. If I had a choice of doing cartooning for a job or scenery it would be pretty hard for me to pick between the two.

Pride & Prejudice

I've seen three versions of Pride & Prejudice. I've seen the 1980 one, the 1995 one and the 2005 one. Elizabeth Garvie plays Elizabeth Bennet in the 1980 P&P and David Rintoul plays Mr Darcy. I don't really like this version of P&P that much but it's OK. 

 I really like the 1995 P&P. I really like the actors in it. Elizabeth is played by Jennifer Ehle, I think she does a great job at acting Lizzie. Colin Firth plays Mr Darcy and like Jennifer I think he does a splended job at acting him. But my favorite person in this version of P&P would have to be Mr Bingley, he is just so knid and cheerful all the time.

And then there's the 2005 P&P. Keira Knightly plays Lizzie, personally I think she giggles to much but she does a great job. Matthew Macfadyen plays Mr Darcy and he does a good job too.

But I think my favorite version of Pride & Prejudice would be the 1995 version.

Sense and Sensibility

Over the last week I have been reading Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. I didn't think I would get very far with it but I'm about a 10th of the way through it. This is the first Jane Austen novel I have ever read.

It is not the kind of book I would like to read all the time, but it is a nice book. My favorite characters in Sense and Sensibility would have to be Colonel Branden and Elinor Dashwood. I like Colonel Branden because he is so kind to the Dashwoods, especially Marianne Dashwood, but he is kind to everyone. And of course Elinor Dashwood being the main character who couldn't like her, but I like her because she is very sensible.

But I also love Edward Ferrars who is not at like his brother, sister or his mother who are all very rich and proud. They were all expecting Edward to marry a girl with great fortune and they were also expecting great thing from him. But when Edward met Elinor he fell in love with but being engaged to anther lady he could not marry but they do end up getting married in the end which is all that matters.