My Diary 18:

                      Dear Diary, I finally finished the anime me and my sister started almost a month ago. Why is that an accomplishment? Because the anime is only 16 episodes, each episode is 20 minutes including the opening and closing song! The anime is called "Baccano!", it is not about a specific character, but a bunch of people connected by three incidents: An Alchemists assembly in a boat on year 1817, a fight between two mafia familys on year 1930, and a terrorist attack on a train on the year 1931. The characters are divided in groups: There are the terrorists, the assassins  the robbers, the mafias, the gangs, the newspaper informants, and last but not least, those who work alone. The anime is very violent, but absolutely AWESOME! In the first episode a man had his three fingers cut off, someone got his teeth knocked out, two friends got shot full of holes by machine guns, one guy was torturing another with a pair of scissors, a kid got his head shot off his shoulders, a guy was found thrown out of the train with barely enough flesh on his arm, and those are just the main characters getting tortured and slaughtered for no good reason! That was just the introduction!! There was a part where me and my sister screamed our heads off!! The "Monster" on the train was pressing a person (later we found out it was a kid) against the trains track WHILE IN MOTION and then asked a girl who was sneaking on board and saw the whole thing something that made her scream and run away. I'm so sad it ended, I love all the characters except for an old guy and an idiot brother of a rich lady. The Three psychos and the pair of robbers are may favorite. Not to mention a charismatic mafioso.

 most of the characters, but not all

 the three psychos: Vino (the red head), Ladd (the blond with the cigar), and Graham (the blond at the back)

 the pair of cosplaying robbers; Isaac & Miria

 Firo, the charismatic mafioso (blond)

 the monster on board the train "Rail Tracer"

First episode occurence

                                        Our Basement

Our stair way

     Ever since we moved to our house when we I was six, the basement has been our "the kids" territory. It was where we spent hours and hours playing and imagining things that were never there. We weren't allowed to to sit with the grown ups when they were talking, so we were always dismissed to the basement. It has been and always be my favorite part of our house.

     It didn't always look the way it does now. When you walk down the narrow stairs, white walls and our house's signature green staircase greet you. A storeroom at the left is where we store food, pots and other things comes after the stairs. After the storeroom there is a space where we keep our toys, toy house, TV & VCR and our tent. The left side i the most spacious part of the entire house. It is where we play tag and football with our relatives. There is a skylight at the end of the basement, where it has a window to the backyard above.

     When our parents tried to turn it into a library, we started to avoid it. The spacious part was divided with a wall. My dad's old documents  were stored in the new room and our toys were boxed and transported our room instead. The TV & VCR were moved as well as everything that belonged to us. We became detached from our once beloved basement. It just didn't feel the same.

     We decided its time to renovate the basement to our liking and make it row like we did. The first step was to take down the pesty wall that limited our space. We painted the walls red and beige  Not to mention our own drawings in the middle of the biggest wall, the symbol of our territory. On the opposite wall, we put up ceiling to floor mirrors with the plan of getting a matching sound system to complete our soon to be dance studio. Last but not least, we put a couch and TV where we used to keep our toys and toy house. Not to exclude our art corner.

     Our basement had always been a part of my childhood, and now its becoming a part of my everyday life.

Me and my sisters go down almost daily to sketch and draw in our corner. It is where we talk about school  and such. We also have our family movie night almost every weekend. We would have turns choosing a movie and bond as a family. We use the basement as a hangout when we invite friends over as well. Its almost the same as we were kids, when my mom would have to force us out of the basement. It feels nostalgic yet different in a way.

 Our Besement

 the right side

 our soon to be dance studio

 our drawing

 our art table

our art corner

"Our Basement" Outline: Subjective essay.

Introduction:

Thesis: It has been and always be my favorite part of our house.

Paragraph 1:

TS:  It didn't always look the way it is now.

SP: It used to have white walls.

SP: storeroom.

SP: toys and TV.

SP: the spacious side.

Paragraph 2:

TS: When our parents tried to make it into a library, we started to avoid it.

SP: a wall was built.

SP: our toys were stored and removed.

SP: our TV was moved.

SP:it didn't feel the same

Paragraph 3:

TS: We decided its time to renovate the basement and make it grow like we did.

SP: we took down the wall.

SP: we painted the walls red and beige.

SP: had a wall of mirrors.

SP: we had a TV and couch.

Conclusion:

TS: The basement has always been a part of my childhood, and now its becoming a part of my daily life.

SP: me and my sisters draw and sketch.

SP: we have our family movie night almost every week.

SP: we have our friends over.

SP: just like we were kids. 

our art corner