The Legend of Korra

Dear people's faces I shall call my diary,


I watch a lot of series on television and there is this one that has just been eating my insides because its just over. Absolutely over.

Call me childish, but I got addicted to The Legend of Korra on Nick. Don't know what that is? The series is about the next avatar after Aang, struggling to bring peace among the people. Don't know who Aang is? Aang had a very long series called Avatar : The Last Airbender.

Aang was a twelve year old who was an Airbender and found out about being the avatar from the leaders of his temple. Once he found out that his teacher, who taught him how to airbend, was going to another temple, Aang ran away and was frozen along with his sky bison. A hundred years later, a girl named Katarra and her brother find him in the ice and later learn he is the avatar and the last airbender because the firebenders destroyed his people. Aang and his friends then must unite the nations and stop the fire nation from destroying the earth and water nation.

Now that you understand that, Korra is now the avatar (but not completely) and must master all the elements. She has mastered Fire, Water, and Earth but Air isn't coming as easily because it is her opposite (she's a firebender at heart). She can't connect to the spiritual world and can't even produce a light wind. And what's frustrating, is while she is becoming the avatar, the people without bending powers start to form an alliance against the benders. A man named Amon forms the Equalist to "protect" the normal people. But what's even more amazing than his little group, is he has the ability to take other people's bending away permanently. And this power has only belonged to the avatar and now one else. So Korra must fight against Amon and make peace.

(You can watch full episodes on nick.com/korra. You can even watch Aang and all his adventures.)

Now, what's been bugging me is the ending. It was so inspirational, how Korra falls in love and gets back her powers and becomes the avatar. But it's just...I want to know how a person's soul or mind or body is chosen to be the avatar. One of my many theories is that the past avatars pick someone because they can possibly see their future in the after life.

This brings up a theory that I like to think actually exist and probably doesn't. Now its really hard to explain so just follow along as best as you can. I like to think the world was born when I was born. That every experience is a brand new one to the world and that every new thing that some says to me is brand new. Your probably think, "Yeah, it is. For you." But what's I'm trying to say is that everything happening is like a brand new thing to the world. I have my own world, and you do too. Or maybe we share one or there are millions of different worlds. Or maybe we all just don't exist. Maybe we're all just apart of a dream. And when that person wakes up, the cycle starts over and that person makes a new world without even knowing it.

See what I'm saying?

Jay

Nerds

Dear people's faces I shall call my diary,


Last night I was listening to "Us Against The World" by Coldplay. And I realized just how much I love the band. H loves them too, if you haven't noticed.

Anyway, I have, in fact, been working on designs. If you don't know what designs I'm talking about, I'm talking about t-shirts. I know I've been saying I've been working on it but...I really got working on them. Like, I'm really devoted and I'm going to be done with my very first design. The sad thing is I need to talk to H about these. I am actually thinking of calling her for a meeting.

Meetings sounds really fun. Mainly when there is a lot of money involved, charts, and official talk. And just planning for it is a thrill. Because all you can think about is the plans and ideas that will go around. And you'll be able to learn different thinks and have a better idea for the stuff you have made. That's the point of a meeting but when kids have meetings, it seems way more fun then grown up meetings. We laugh and get side tracked, (which doesn't make me doesn't make me happy after a minute or two) and we have fun. Now, I really want a meeting. Like now.

But let's talk about now and not the future I haven't even planned for. Today, I watched the "National Geographic Bee." I thought it world be about culture around the world, and animals, and languages, and stuff like that. But it was really about geography. I guess I should have seen that coming because it's in the name. But I read the magazine all the time. And its about the world, and it's basically capturing it's beauty and telling the world about the things we can do to keep it beautiful. But I guess I really was stupid because it's in the name: National Geography. It was really just cool to watch them compete.

Some people might be asking why I was watching. Some of you might just be thinking I just want to tell you why I was watching it. You are absolutely right. I do want to just tell you. But anyway, my dad had turned it on and I came out of my room for a glass of water. As I walked to the kitchen, he said," Look at all these kids that are smarter than you." Of course he was joking. So I just smiled and thought typical dad. I just replied, "Say that again. I didn't hear ya." And that's when he said it again. So I rushed over to the couch, forgetting all about my water, and whispered, "I'm watching these geeks."

I loved watching it, listening to my dad try and guess the answers. My mom came in and just shook her head. "My little nerds." And she walked away because she must have thought this was boring. At first it was, but I really got into it, as I previously said.

At the end, when my dad realized I didn't even try answering the questions, he go frustrated. He started saying that he was getting me a soccer ball with the world on it. And every time I kicked it, he wanted me studying it.  He's probably going to forget. And I already put world geography on my list of things to study this summer, so I don't know what else anyone can do.

Jay