Cheerleading

Cheerleading is a lot harder than you would think. To be a cheerleader you have to be strong, go fast or slow enough, good memory, and flexible. For doing stunts you have to be able to hold a girl the weight around 70-100 pounds, and a flyer has to be able to hold her own weight up. The reason you have to be fast or slow enough is because for cheers you have different tempos every cheer or when we do the half time dance. You need a good memory for a lot of things like to remember the cheers and dance. Also you have to remember that there is no me in team. And finally you don’t have to be flexible but if you are you will be featured during stunts and cheers.

Perfect by Natasha Friend

The book “Perfect” by Natasha Friend shows the dangers of bulimia. This is a really good thing to know that it’s bad because if you force yourself to throw up ; your teeth will turn an ugly brown, and it will become addicting, it’s addicting because that’s the way a bulimic person copes with their problems.
After Isabelle’s dad died, Isabelle kept seeing herself as fat. So Isabelle chose bulimia as her answer. Not a very smart decision as if you can tell. I like but also dislike this book because I utterly hate throwing up or having someone else talk about them upchucking. I like this story because of the detail, it may be about throwing up but I really like the way Natasha Friend puts it.
Throughout the story sense they talk about bulimia, I think a good age to read this book at is 12 and older. I say this because of the bulimia, and talking about alcoholic drinks. Also it talks about the way Isabelle feels about herself, such as fat legs, and imperfect body. Well imperfect to her, to others no one would even notice.
Before I read this story I didn’t have very much background knowledge about Bulimia, and the dangers of what it does. During this book Isabelle got caught by her sister April. If April didn’t catch her sister, Isabelle wouldn’t be seeing a therapy group twice a week. While seeing the therapist she found out that the most popular girl in the school is bulimic. Isabelle may be mad at her sister for ratting her out, but I think she should be happy that she now is part of the “cool crowd” now rather than hanging out with girls who go to sleep at 8 pm.
“Perfect” by Natasha Friend talks about the dangers of bulimia. It’s excellent to know so people don’t become addicted, or get an ugly teeth color. There are no comparisons to me and this story. This book is swell for anyone who is mature or over the age of 12.