"Percy Jackson the Lightning Thief" and "The Oddyssey"

Recently I have seen a movie called "Percy Jackson the Lightning Thief" which I very clearly could relate it to the book "The Odyssey". Though they are not the same story line Percy the main character in the movie is a demigod and the gods think he has stolen Zeus's lightning bolt. So he has to let the gods know that he didn’t steal the bolt but first he has to finds some pearls which work to teleport out of the underworld because Hades has taken his mother. To get three pearls because he is with 2 other companions and the pearls work as a safe and fast transport or teleport to the place the character is thinking of. Through the challenges that they go through to get the pearls are somehow similar to the ones that Odysseus goes in the book "The Odyssey". The first pearl is protected by Medusa; this part is not connected to the Odyssey but can be seen as the sirens in the Odyssey (probably). But the second pearl is protected by the mythological monster which i do not know how it is called that every time they cut one of its head it grows 2 more, this part can be definitely connected to when Odysseus has to pass next to Scylla's cave which is also a 6 headed monster that... kills people. The 3rd pearl is in a very rare place which is in a casino which is called "Lotus Casino" in Las Vegas; this can very easy be connected to the lotus eaters in "The Odyssey". 

Percy and his two other friends get trapped for 5 days in the Casino because they get offered to eat the lotus flower, so they forget about their past, time and most importantly their mission. The curious part is that in "The Odyssey" three of Odysseus’s men eat the lotus flower and in "Percy Jackson" they were also three that ate the flower.

I will not tell more about the movie because after this is when it gets interesting and i do not want to ruin it to the ones that have not seen the movie.

Carnival

For this carnival I'm going to be missing 2 days of school, tomorrow and Friday because I'm going to a wedding Puerto Rico. My father's youngest brother is getting married on Sunday and they decided to do their wedding in Puerto Rico so I will be spending the whole Carnival from Thursday until Tuesday and I come back that day since I have school on Wednesday. I really do not have any idea of how the plans are but apparently my dad submitted me into a golf tournament and I’m a little worried about it since I have not played golf for a long time, I haven’t even touched a golf ball this year because I have been injured every second of this year. First the fingers doing snowboard and then my foot skateboarding which I had to spend a whole week with crutches, now I hope I do not break anything during the trip.

I really did not have any desire of going to a wedding for Carnival, I do not know why but I don’t want to go and at the same time I also think we are going to have a lot of fun depending on what we do. The positive thing is that the whole family is going to be together (long time it doesn’t happen) and we are going to have the chance of meeting my new aunt’s family. The negative part is that I will be missing school for two days and those days I’m having test so I will have to study during Carnival.

I hope that on this trip we go a lot to the beach because I like going to the beach a lot, it is also kind of obvious because we are going to be on an island. For the wedding I will have to be dressed in a smoking so I hope that the party room and the church have air conditioned because if not, I will be in pain because of the heat.