Star Wars

In 1977, a new movie came out called "Star Wars: A New Hope". Many people went to see it, having seen the advertisements and thinking that the film would be good. They were wrong. Way wrong. It wasn't good. IT WAS AMAZING. The computerized characters scenes, battles, and almost everything in the movie were spectacular-no one had seen anything like it before, since computers were just coming out. My mom went to see it when it came out, and she was about 16 years old. She said that "the whole idea of being in space was just unbelievable". Soon after, all kinds of action figures, movie posters, and even bedspreads came out with Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader printed all across them. Young, beautiful Princess Leia became the new crush of every fourth grade boy, and they didn't even care that her real name was Carrie Fisher. Even now, these movies are still popular, and my mom and I have been in the process of watching every one of them in order. I had never seen them before, and I think they're fabulous movies. They have great stories, plots, characters, computer animation, battles, and even romance. And after this movie first came out, new ideas began to form, and the next movies came out. The first half of the saga came out after the second half, which is weird, and sort of confusing. Other ideas sprang up for new types of movies, and I think that without Star Wars, we wouldn't have movies like Narnia, Harry Potter, WALL:E (and any Pixar movie, for that matter), Bridge to Terabithia, and all those others that are just ordinary movies to us today. But way back when, these movies would have been great, but not as great as the saga of Star Wars, which still lives on today, and hopefully forever.

Hurricane Fay

A catergory 1 hurricane is approaching Florida, and the city of Jacksonville. It's been named Fay-sort of a unusual name, but also sort of pretty-sounding. Anyway, the hurricane should effect us, but nothing more than lots of rain, wind, and general harsh storming. Even so, they've delayed the start of St. Johns county public schools until Monday the 25th. School was originally supposed to start the friday before. The open houses for St. Johns school have been postponed also-until Friday.
We went to the grocery store today, even though we already had dinner for the night. Mom said that we should get some for tomorrow, since we wouldn't want to come out in the bad weather. The store was more crowded than usual-I guess people were stocking up as well. We bought sausages to grill in case the power goes out and we wouldn't be able to cook with the oven (we do have a gas stove, though). My dad went to blockbuster (we got The King of California, the Great Debators, and Star Wars 5) and said it was packed. He said that there were about twenty people in line! That's unusual for the store near us. I guess people were stocking up on movies they could watch while they waited out the storm. Anyway, what I'm saying is: Hurricane Fay shouldn't cause any really serious problems, but losing power is a possibility. The nearby school district is also being careful in letting children come to school. It's not anything Florida hasn't experienced before. Trust me.