Weekend Dad & Daughter Documentary Time: The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl

Movie watch time: 9/5/2011 afternoon

Dad's questions

Q: What are you going to say about Leni?

Vania: She is a great lady with successful career.

Q: Why do you say her career is successful by knowing that she was forced to be out of her career after the second world war?

Vania: She had already made great films. Moreover, she became a great photographer afterward. Even after her 70s, she started shooting pictures under the sea. She had a blossom life.

Q: Was Leni bad because of her relationship to the Nazi party?

Vania: It is hard to say. Few people can resist the pressure from Hitler at the time, don't they?

Q: what is your rating of the movie?

Vania: 10/10

Q: Wow, you think the documentary is perfect! Why is the movie so impressive?

Vania: The director collected much information that tells the entire life of a great lady. The film is well paced in its story. Very impressive.


Daughter's questions

Q: How do you feel about the movie?

Dad: I only give it 7/10 because I felt the director himself did not have a focused theme in the movie. It is a well-written narrative, but without the soul. Leni did have a great life, and it was both wonderful and horrible. Unfortunately, however, the director had not been able to deliver this theme to me, at least.

Weekend Dad & Daughter Documentary Time: Fahrenheit 9/11

Movie watch Time: 9/3/2011 night

Dad's questions:

Q: What is your rating of the film?

Vania: 9/10

Q: What is the most impressive part of the film?

Vania: Learned a lot of facts that I have never heard before

Q: What is the most disappointed part of the film?

Vania: the director wants us to hate President George Bush

Q: What have you learned from the movie?

Vania:

1) War of Iraq is for business and oil
2) I feel George W. Bush might have lied to many of us about the war.
3) Everyone was terrified of terrorism

Q: What do you want to learn but the documentary does not include?

Vania: Who is indeed responsible for 9/11?

Q: If you were the director, how would you have developed a different plot from the director Micheal Moore?

Vania: I want to treat President Bush a little bit fairer. I want to have some positive reviews about Bush in my film.


Daughter's questions:

Q: How do you like this movie?

Dad: I like it. I think the movie tells us many things we did not know originally. The movie certainly has its own bias. But it shows the greatness of United States as a nation---the right of free speech, which is critical to every human being.

I do not like wars and I do not like the war of Iraq in particular. But I do not agree to the director in the movie who declared the total innocence of Iraq with the terrorism. Unquestionably Saddam Hussein is a bad guy and he had many connections to the global terrorists. On the other hand, however, does it give us enough reason to invade the nation and kill so many civilians?

Mama's comment: the spread of fear was exaggerated in the movie. There are no enough evidences in the movie showing that the Bush administration had intentionally made the circumstance of fear in order for their "evil" plan. Michael Moore had created a great plot of storytelling. But it is insufficient to the conclusion of the documentary.

Q: what is your rating?

Dad: 7.5/10. Superior storytelling. But it is significantly biased in its theme.

R,I.P. My "Blue Pen"

Vania's R.I.P. message for her favorite Blue Pen.

Here lies "Blue pen" my favorite pen.
Born ? --- Jan 14, Friday, 2011
May he rest in peace. His ink is gone, but his body remains.

A Letter to Santa

Dear Santa,

For Christmas I would like the super Mario Kart for Nintendo Ds. It has multiplayer and single player races. It also has extras like boosters for the karts. My 3 reasons are because I do all my homework, I have bought gifts for my best friends, and the last one is that I am always loyal to my friends.

I always do my homework and always get it done. I keep doing it no mader what. Maybe i'll stop just to sleep, but nothing else. So I can keep going. I have my mom (and dad sometimes) to keep me up. I am really good at doing my homework so I can get a good grade (and presents now!).

My second reason is that I bought gifts for my best friends. It took me sometime and I am still going to wrap them up! I picked out two books for them. I picked them just to there style so they will like it very much. Now do you see why I shoud have my present!

My thrid reason is that I am always loyal to my friends. I gave the vampireology to Kate to read just like I said. Also the gifts I gave my friends. At the games I play, I always play fair (well, maybe sometimes I have cheats.).

Well, that's all my reasons I was good this year. To me, think I had some good reasons. I think I should get the gift. Remember I was very good this year!

comment by dad: This is one of Vania's homework before Christmas. Very funny. Some typos are kept as they are in the original text.

Vania read: Where the wild things are

Read by Vania, edit by Yihong, the book originally written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak.

Book Reading: 10/28/2007

Five books Vania read recently by herself.

Once When I Was Shipwrecked. Written by Judith Womersley, illustrated by Kevin Burgemeestre, 1992.


The Teeny Tiny Woman. Retold by Jane O'Connor, illustrated by R.W. Alley, 1986.

The LITTLE INDIAN and the ANGEL. Written by Mildred H. Feague, illustrated by De Grazia, 1970.


Aesop's Fables. Selected and illustrated by Lisbeth Zwerger, 2006.


Horace the Horrible. By Jackie French Koller (Author), Jackie Urbanovic (Illustrator), 2003.

Book Reading: 8/20/2007

Two books by Robert Lopshire. Put Me in the Zoo and New Tricks I Can Do! They are read by Vania herself.

New Progress, August 2007

Vania is now a First-Grade student at Pueblo Del Sol Elementary School. Recently, she has taken a STAR Reading(R) computer-adaptive reading test. The test result shows that Vania reads at a level greater than 90% of her same-grade peers nationally.

Book Reading: SAMMY The Seal

Story and Pictures by Syd Hoff.

Vania now has no difficult on reading this level of books all by herself.

We are back

It seems a long time ago we wrote here. I promise my darling we are back again for her reading.