Chapter 2: Learning Chinese
The rest of my siku went normal. Math, English, health, and stupid science. My last period was language class. Not language arts, the language class where wewe learn different languages. I signed up to learn Chinese under my dad's request. Hayden signed up too, and when I walked in with Hayden I found my older brother Eli, the 14 mwaka old earth bender.
He sat with a cute girl with blond hair and giant blue eyes like the pacific ocean, dark yet pretty. They were laughing at the fat, wrinkly skinned teacher for language class. I was pretty sure he was flirting with this girl, thats what my stupid brother Eli does.
He ruffled his sandy hair and sat up tall, trying to look buff au hot. I don't know why boys do that, all the girls ever think is that they are being an idiot.
Hayden and I sat at our normal seats and pulled out the assignment. I eyed Eli and the girl.
Suddenly the girl flicked her hand up at the sink in the corner. She moved her hand around, and pulled the water out of the sink without even touching it. She moved the water towards Mrs. Chen (the language teacher) and immediately dropped her hand, making the water fall as well. I gasped. She was a water bender!! No wonder Eli liked her!!
I got up and ran to the girl and Eli ignoring the thought that my teacher had just been soked.
"Eli! who's this? She's a water bender! Thats so cool!!" I alisema almost yelling, but I had to be quiet. I had never known another bender besides Hayden outside our family.
"Sydney go away!" Eli said, giving me the move-over-you-loser-stop-annoying-me-I'm-trying-to-get-this-girl look!!
I just smiled and kept talking. "So whats your name? I'm Sydney, Eli's brother, a moto bender."
The girl answered me with a sweet, crisp voice. "My name is violet Jacobs. So your Eli's sister? wewe look so nice! And your a moto bender? Eli told me he was the ONLY bender in his family!"
"UM.....about that......." Eli said, a little scared. I just laughed.
Suddenly the kengele rang. Class was starting. I ran to my dawati right as Mrs. Chen looked at me.
The rest of the period was pretty boring. Mrs. Chen just talked about china. I wasn't listening, I already knew everything she said. Man, I had been to China!
When I was seven, my family took us to China and Japan to visit some Chinese ruins. Most tourists, when they saw them, thought the sites were just bila mpangilio Emperor temples. The temples we visited were the moto lords castle, Avatar Roku's old island, Avatar Aang and his wife Katara's nyumbani on an air nomad Island, stuff like that. My inayopendelewa was Toph Bei Fong's old home. The tour guide alisema it belonged to a Chinese princess who was extremely violent. I understood how they thought
that because the entire house was full of old knifes, swords, burnt rocks, destroyed make up bottles, and such. wewe walk into the big, messy, green house and wewe know one thing. Toph has definitely been here.
In her house there had been three paintings. One was of a tall man with a scar on his eye. He also wore the moto lord crown on his shaggy black hair. I recognized who it was. My ancestor, moto Lord Zuko and his wife Mai. He had one kid, a small girl that looked like Azula, but with a sweet, kind face.
On another painting was of a 21-year-old looking man with a blue arrow on his head and an air bending necklace. He wore an machungwa, chungwa and yellow robe. kwa the looks of him, he looked really important. I expected him so have a sad face like Zuko did, but instead his eyes popped out and his smile was as wide as his face, like he was trying not to laugh.
inayofuata to him was a girl in a blue robe, with her hair done up like the girl on the cartoon show. Beside the couple was two kids, a boy and a girl. The girl looked just like the woman, and the boy was a tiny version of the arrow head guy. This was Avatar aang and Katara's family.
The last painting showed a man with blue coats and animal fur. His expression gave away that he was Sokka. wewe could tell with his sarcastic face and ugly hairdo. inayofuata to him was Suki in her Kioshi warrior uniform and six kids, each a mixture of Sokka and Suki.
Okay, now back to america.
During class, while being bored to death, Hayden passed notes. I played with a small ball of moto in my hands under my desk, but I was still bored. Finally the kengele rang for the end of the school day. I jumped out of my kiti, kiti cha like all the other kids and followed Hayden to our lockers.
Right after school, was karate class, were wewe learn karate. Us benders, its just your normal lesson on controlling the elements.
The rest of my siku went normal. Math, English, health, and stupid science. My last period was language class. Not language arts, the language class where wewe learn different languages. I signed up to learn Chinese under my dad's request. Hayden signed up too, and when I walked in with Hayden I found my older brother Eli, the 14 mwaka old earth bender.
He sat with a cute girl with blond hair and giant blue eyes like the pacific ocean, dark yet pretty. They were laughing at the fat, wrinkly skinned teacher for language class. I was pretty sure he was flirting with this girl, thats what my stupid brother Eli does.
He ruffled his sandy hair and sat up tall, trying to look buff au hot. I don't know why boys do that, all the girls ever think is that they are being an idiot.
Hayden and I sat at our normal seats and pulled out the assignment. I eyed Eli and the girl.
Suddenly the girl flicked her hand up at the sink in the corner. She moved her hand around, and pulled the water out of the sink without even touching it. She moved the water towards Mrs. Chen (the language teacher) and immediately dropped her hand, making the water fall as well. I gasped. She was a water bender!! No wonder Eli liked her!!
I got up and ran to the girl and Eli ignoring the thought that my teacher had just been soked.
"Eli! who's this? She's a water bender! Thats so cool!!" I alisema almost yelling, but I had to be quiet. I had never known another bender besides Hayden outside our family.
"Sydney go away!" Eli said, giving me the move-over-you-loser-stop-annoying-me-I'm-trying-to-get-this-girl look!!
I just smiled and kept talking. "So whats your name? I'm Sydney, Eli's brother, a moto bender."
The girl answered me with a sweet, crisp voice. "My name is violet Jacobs. So your Eli's sister? wewe look so nice! And your a moto bender? Eli told me he was the ONLY bender in his family!"
"UM.....about that......." Eli said, a little scared. I just laughed.
Suddenly the kengele rang. Class was starting. I ran to my dawati right as Mrs. Chen looked at me.
The rest of the period was pretty boring. Mrs. Chen just talked about china. I wasn't listening, I already knew everything she said. Man, I had been to China!
When I was seven, my family took us to China and Japan to visit some Chinese ruins. Most tourists, when they saw them, thought the sites were just bila mpangilio Emperor temples. The temples we visited were the moto lords castle, Avatar Roku's old island, Avatar Aang and his wife Katara's nyumbani on an air nomad Island, stuff like that. My inayopendelewa was Toph Bei Fong's old home. The tour guide alisema it belonged to a Chinese princess who was extremely violent. I understood how they thought
that because the entire house was full of old knifes, swords, burnt rocks, destroyed make up bottles, and such. wewe walk into the big, messy, green house and wewe know one thing. Toph has definitely been here.
In her house there had been three paintings. One was of a tall man with a scar on his eye. He also wore the moto lord crown on his shaggy black hair. I recognized who it was. My ancestor, moto Lord Zuko and his wife Mai. He had one kid, a small girl that looked like Azula, but with a sweet, kind face.
On another painting was of a 21-year-old looking man with a blue arrow on his head and an air bending necklace. He wore an machungwa, chungwa and yellow robe. kwa the looks of him, he looked really important. I expected him so have a sad face like Zuko did, but instead his eyes popped out and his smile was as wide as his face, like he was trying not to laugh.
inayofuata to him was a girl in a blue robe, with her hair done up like the girl on the cartoon show. Beside the couple was two kids, a boy and a girl. The girl looked just like the woman, and the boy was a tiny version of the arrow head guy. This was Avatar aang and Katara's family.
The last painting showed a man with blue coats and animal fur. His expression gave away that he was Sokka. wewe could tell with his sarcastic face and ugly hairdo. inayofuata to him was Suki in her Kioshi warrior uniform and six kids, each a mixture of Sokka and Suki.
Okay, now back to america.
During class, while being bored to death, Hayden passed notes. I played with a small ball of moto in my hands under my desk, but I was still bored. Finally the kengele rang for the end of the school day. I jumped out of my kiti, kiti cha like all the other kids and followed Hayden to our lockers.
Right after school, was karate class, were wewe learn karate. Us benders, its just your normal lesson on controlling the elements.
One of the things I noticed about Avatar is the significance of the spirit disguises. Each disguise speaks volumes about the character using it and reflects their personality sort of like their bending styles.
I’ll start with the Painted Lady and Katara;
The real Painted Lady was a lot of things for the people of Jang Hui. She was a protector. A healer. A beacon of hope. She was a water spirit with assumably a gentle heart.
This is not unlike Katara herself. One of Katara’s key character traits was her hopefulness and the hope she instilled in other people. And in assuming the persona...
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I’ll start with the Painted Lady and Katara;
The real Painted Lady was a lot of things for the people of Jang Hui. She was a protector. A healer. A beacon of hope. She was a water spirit with assumably a gentle heart.
This is not unlike Katara herself. One of Katara’s key character traits was her hopefulness and the hope she instilled in other people. And in assuming the persona...
