Tyler Bio

Guten Tag! Ich heisse Tyler! That is Hello, my name is Tyler in German. I am taking a language class for one of my 6th grade electives this year. So that we can see what we might like, we learn several different languages. Just the basics like hello and goodbye. Then in 8th grade we take one of three languages, or wait until high school. I have always wanted to learn a new language. Chello has taught me a lot of Spanish. I thought German would be fun because a lot of my cultural background is German. Well, I actually thought I was Dutch…which is Netherlands. A lot of our traditions at home my mom says are Pennsylvania Dutch. We have that Pennsylvania Dutch tradition, sauerkraut, pork, and knepp dinner every new years day…for good luck. (you can see how the knepp is made in our recipe section, so you can have good luck next year!)) You know the one that helped solve the Green School Caper? Anyway, so here I was thinking my great great grandma was running around in wooden shoes, when indeed she wasn't. Pennsylvania Dutch is actually Pennsylvania Deutsch! And guess what, Deutsch is the word for German in the German language. Ok, my mom says you learn something everyday and so I did. I am mostly German! From German immigrants that came to Pennsylvania a long time ago. Even my Dad's ancestors are half from Germany. Of course he had Irish in him, and tells me that is where he and I got our red hair. Another great great grandmother from Ireland, had red hair.

Anyway, I am liking middle school. I was worried about being the low kid on the totem pole in 6th grade. But it is not too bad. 8th graders are pretty nice to us. I think Mr. Galindo insists on that. He is our principal here, and it's Chello's Dad! Though it doesn't help us any that the principal is one of the Amigo's dads. Chello says he treats her like any other student.. Anyway, I'm also one of the youngest in my school, my birthday is in March. I am the youngest Amigo. My brother was teasing me (what else does he have to do with his time..) about being the last to drive when we are all 16... At first I was upset about that, but then with the price of gas going so high, I figured I can catch rides from the other Amigos. Chip in for gas of course, and it will give me even more time to figure out how I can bottle flatulence to turn into gas. It is gas anyway, so why shouldn't we bottle it? I was thinking I will start with my dog Lucy, cause she has lots of it! I could feed her more bagels, but that would be mean. Anyway, it is a dream of mine to find alternative fuels.

Allison's Nana and Pop Pop have a hybrid car. So we got to ride in it this summer. Allison's mom got one too. I'm trying to talk my parents into one. They want to wait until some of the newer ones come out, which should be soon. Lots of cool ways to fuel cars are coming out. I like the all electric ones… but still, flatulence…. Hmmmm

Well, guess that is enough. I don't even like to write much and I think I wrote the most. I do like to talk and our teacher last year told me that if I just write like a talk I could write a lot! Haha.. But you know it is true! Hey, write me a comment and I will write back.. Auf Wiederschen, Tyler
(that is good-bye in German if you didn't guess!)

p.s. I thought you might like to see my dog Lucy, the bagel eater and her brother Amos at their first birthday party!