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Athena is the daughter of Zeus and Metis. She is one of Zeus’ favourite children and trust me he has millions. She made a pretty spectacular and unusual arrival to Olympus. Once Metis was pregnant with Athena it was prophesised by an oracle that Metis’ first born child would be a girl and then her second born would be a boy who would be so powerful that one day would over throw Zeus. After hearing this Zeus got scared and decided that it would be a good solution to turn his wife into a fly and then eat his wife. Metis still gave birth to Athena inside of Zeus. After a while Metis just became a thought at the back of Zeus’ mind. After Athena had grown up she decided that she didn’t want to be in Zeus’ stomach so she travelled up his spine and into his head. She caused Zeus such a headache that he got his son Hephaestus to cut his head open. Athena then pops out as a grown goddess with armour and a helmet on. Her helmet was made by her mother when she was inside Zeus’ stomach.

Athena was a maiden goddess. Now I know what your thinking but she has had loads of kids. Well your right she has. But they aren’t born in the normal way. For example one time Hephaestus fell in love with Athena. Athena rejected him as she thought his limp was ugly. So she tried to get away from him he leaped onto her leg. She ran away from him. Later in disgust she wiped her leg with a wool cloth. She threw threw the cloth off Mount Olympus. Somehow this turned into a baby who was named Erikchthonius. Athena then took her baby, put him in a box an then put him inside the sanctuary of the Athenian Arcopolis. Here she pleaded her the daughters of king Cercrops not to open or look inside the box until she came back. Of course you can probably guess what she did. Yes, she did open the box. To their horror they found out the baby was curled up with a snake in the box. They were so shocked they all threw themselves of a cliff.  Athena went crazy but she had no one left to be angry at because they were all dead. Erikchtonius didn’t become immortal as his mother wanted but he became a great king in Athens later.

Athena became the patron goddess of Athens after winning a contest against Poseidon. They both presented themselves in front of Cercrops who was half-snake and half-human and the first king of Athens. Cercrops asked for them to offer a gift that would truly be useful and grateful for Athens. Athena offered them olive trees . Poseidon gave them salt water. but the Athenians preferred the olive tree.

Athena is the goddess of many things  she is mainly the goddess of wisdom, crafty and war strategy. But she was also in charge of inspiration, civilization, mathematics, strength, the arts and skill. 

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Geek Girl 2nd book.

I really liked this book. It was interesting as Harriet went to Tokyo. She stays in these model apartments. She shares a room with other models, Rin and Poppy. Poppy pretend to be dating Lion boy to make Harriet jealous. She sabotages her modeling job. With cockroaches and by stopping all her clocks and making her late for her sessions with Yuka Ito. Poppy tries to frame it on Rin who is actually innocent. Harriet thinks it is Rin because she actually took her job. Poppy tells the press a secret about the modelling company which gets Harriet in trouble...                                                                                        `

Interview with Harriet Manners

Geek Girl -Model Misfit

Interview with Harriet Manners:

Gabriella: So Harriet, are you excited about the baby?

Harriet: Yes I am but I am also quite worried because of 2 reasons. Number 1 because my mum died after giving birth to me. I love Annabel and wouldn't want her to die giving birth. Number 2 because I am sure that after the baby is born, dad and Annabel will not pay any attention to me.

Gabriella: How do you think you did on your IGCSE's?

Harriet: Well I am not worrying too much about it. I am sure I did great but I wish i hadn't been thinking about Nick (Lion Boy) so much.

Gabriella: What do you want to name the baby?

Harriet: I am not sure. If it was left up to my dad he would probably name it something crazy like Merlin. No not Merlin from King Arthur, Merlin the cat with the loudest purr of a domestic cat! Annabel is the only one who would give the baby a sensible name!

Gabriella: How does Nat feel about you becoming the model instead of her?

Harriet: Well, she is very supportive of me and is always there for me. I can call her 24/7. She went back to eating cake though! She says she is fine about but I  think that deep down she is a  bit sad.

Gabriella: What do you think of Yuko Ito?

Harriet: She is ok. I can't say to much incase she sees this. But sometimes ( I mean ALWAYS) temperamental.

Gabriella: Ok bye Harriet!

Harriet: Thank you for interviewing me! Bye!

Girl Online

On Tour

Girl Online on Tour.

If Girl Online on Tour had a villain I think it would have to be Dean. Dean is not you stereotypical  villain but he tries to sabotage Penny's relationship with Noah. This is how he tries to sabotage their relationship:

1. First when Penny's phone gets handed in, Dean takes it and doesn't return it to her. ( Theft)
2. He  hacked her phone. He then downloads all the photos and text messages from the phone.
3. After that with text messages he circles the words "Go home Penny or else"
4.  Dean blackmails Penny's best friend Elliot.

After all of this and another little problem, she leaves and goes back home. When she goes to meet Noah at his concert in London, Larry says he found her phone in Dean's room. After Larry returns her phone to her she wonders if every thing was Dean all along. Larry guides her to the van where she then meets up with Noah. They forgive each other. Then Noah has to go because he is going to go on stage soon. But Penny decides to stay in the van for a bit longer. Then she hears Dean's voice as he says " Noah and Penny are now finished, done. Look, all I'm saying is that Ella Parish would be amazing for Noah's career. The pair of them would make a media frenzy!" Then he comes in the van. Penny confronts him. He evilly admitted everything he had done. He was very happy with himself until Noah comes into the room and fires Dean as he heard everything Dean said.

Chris Colfer Biography

Christopher Paul Colfer was born on May 27th 1990 in Clovis, California. He is an actor, singer, author and producer. He is mainly known for when he played the part of Kurt on Glee. He is also a New York Times number one bestselling author of : The Land Of Stories: The Wishing Spell. His only sibling Hannah suffers from epilepsy and often has over 50 seizures an hour.

The first show he was in with the community theater was West Side Story. He also appeared in a production of The Sound of Music as Kurt von Trapp.