Follow Lian, a fun loving seventh grader, as he talks to members of his community and explores the boundaries of his world. Help Lian Interview President Obama
I had the best time tonight. It was another fundraiser for the Corona Public Library Friends of the Library, Book-a-Palooza. There were so many fun things to do. There were games and telescopes and crafts and all kinds of free gifts, My favorite thing was the Corona Police Department. I got to try on police gear.
There were so many terrific people who were willing to talk with me for my blog.
Inline Rinks
Riverside Astronomical Society
City of Corona Parks and Recreation
Corona Fire Department
CAT Corona
All Smiles Dental
Corona YMCA
Corona Police Department
Food Runners
I can't wait to do posts on them over the next week. One of my new friends, Ms. Lucy Silva, even introduced me to the Mayor of Corona, Jason Scott, and took my picture with him. He was very busy and didn't have time to answer questions, but I thought he was very nice.
Me with Corona Mayor, Jason Scott The original of this photo can be found here
She posted some really terrific pictures of the event on her organization's Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/FoodRunners1 Here is my whole night in 4 minutes! This was a great way to spend my second blogaversary!!!
Lian's second year of
blogging is coming to a close this month and I thought that this would
be a good time to tell the world how proud I am of Lian and all he has
managed to accomplish in the last twelve months.
As
most of you know, family circumstance caused Lian to have to move to a
new city and even switch schools. Neither of us are too happy
about that. He misses his friends and I lament the opportunities
lost. Still, Lian is a great kid and he has made the best of it and found opportunities galore in his new situation.
On
his blog he has made great strides. He has had some fantastic projects
over the last year and has lots on tap for the coming summer. He is building on his second place win at his last school's music composition contest and has written several new pieces for use in his vlog segments and his upcoming animation show. He is also interested in producing music videos for his dad's original music.
He has begun
writing and story-boarding his regular videos, taking a more directorial approach to them. He has learned many new video editing techniques
(and thankfully shared them with Mom). He has begun interviewing guests for his blog on a
small scale but he has big plans to expand that idea as he found great
fun in learning about other people. Film-making has become a big hobby
of his and he can't wait until summer to find the time to edit his animation show
together and share it with the world. He has added new pages to his blog
and has some great plans for renewing old favorites when he has time
over the coming months to spend on them. It is good to see him excited.
At
school, he has really enjoyed getting to know his new team of
teachers and he has jumped at the chance to try all sorts of new things
in the past few months. Over Spring Break he spearheaded the team that earned 250 new books for his school from WeGiveBooks.org. They were delivered in April.
He really enjoyed going to his first school
dance recently and although his school field trips aren't on such a
grand scale as he is used to, he got to go to his favorite place in the
whole world (the city library) and was super excited to learn things
about it he didn't know.
This past week was another
first for him. He was in his first school production. The fourth grade
classes put on a historical musical skit for their fellow classmates,
teaching them about the California Gold Rush. He had a super blast
learning the songs and he says that he picked up quite a bit of
history along the way. I didn't have the heart to tell him that was probably the point of the exercise. While I have to admit the whole production reminds me of a certain scene in "The Music Man", it was obvious that the kids worked hard and had a terrific time. I am proud of them all.
Academically and socially he has a hard road ahead, but I cannot begin to tell you how happy I am that he is finding ways to showcase his strengths. No matter what problems he may face, my boy is fairly spectacular! I am so looking forward to another year of Lian's Summer of Fun
The international country with the most views on my blog is Russia. It has eight times as many views as the next country which is Germany, which still still has a lot.
Besides my city, the city that clicked into my blog
the most was Baltimore Maryland.
The top non-Google websites that made traffic for my blog are Facebook, Pinterest and Cafemom.com.
The top key words that people found my site using are Ireland, First in Math and Balloon Blast Off.
These are just photos used on my blog during the past twelve months. I have had a lot of fun with my blog. I am so looking forward to everything I am going to blog about in the next twelve months.
One of my most favorite memories from last summer is climbing Mount Rubidoux. It was on my summer wish
list last year. The view from the top is amazing. I can see my favorite park from up there. They let off Independence Day fireworks from there each year. Last year the hillside lit up with small fires. We could still see the damage when we went walking up.
Climbing up is like an adventure. There is even a fairy bridge at the top, with a
tower.
It is not really a fairy bridge, but I like to believe the tower is a magic gateway and that is why they keep it locked. I climbed to the top twice last summer and tried to climb all the way a few more times until our car died and we couldn't drive there anymore. My dad walks miles there every week. I wish I could walk that far already.
I made two posts about Mount Rubidoux but I would have made a hundred if I could.
I changed the title of my blog when school started so it would be about school. I hate school. I would rather do anything but school work but I do like Connections Academy better than my old school. Here I can learn art and Chinese and robotics. My teachers are pretty and smart and they help me a lot. They aren't mean when I don't get it.
It was hard to blog during school because it was a lot of work but I still did some fun school posts. My mom even wrote a post and it was really popular. My school posts got lots of views. More than almost all the others. My favorites are the PE video and the Virtual field trips. I really liked talking to the NASA engineer. I don't have a picture of my teacher from this year though. :(
I still have three or four more school posts planned before summer really gets going.
We have this great park where I live. It over 100 years old. Some famous park landscapers made it way back then. My mom and her family used to go there when she was young. It has big trees, lakes and lots of ducks.
It is our favorite place to go all year long and it is always full of
people. In the summer they have concerts there and there are street
sellers selling ice cream and toys.
There is a boat house where you can rent paddle boats, bicycles and buy iced water.
There is a little waterfall too. It even has a rose garden where people like to take pictures. I have seen lots of weddings there.
They added a water pad to the new
play area and we spent a lot of time there last summer. That is the best part.
I have blogged about Fairmount Park a few times over the last year.
