When I was about 4-5 years old I had a really crazy friend. He was crazy because he tried to fly like Ms. Allen tried. One day he was running on the sidewalk when he suddenly tripped over three rocks. Since I was inside and just happened to come out of my house at that time I saw him crying on the sidewalk with bloody knees and hands. I asked if he was okay and he said,”I have bloody knees and bloody hands”! He asked me if I could get his mom. And I said,”Sure”. So I got his mom and I told her and went running to her child. His mom took him to the doctors’ office and they told them that he should go to the hospital and the people at the hospital told them that he had to spend the night there so his mom left him all alone in the hospital. The next morning he came home and we went to my house to watch Tom and Jerry and we also watched Scooby- Doo. Then we went outside to ride our bikes and my second oldest sister came on her bike as fast as she could and I looked back and screamed, “Pedal Faster”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Unfortunately she caught up with us and she got in front of us and slammed her brakes which meant my friend and I had to slam on our brakes also and we almost flew off our bikes! I told her that I was telling our mom and she said, “ I dare you to”. So I told and she got grounded and we had proof because my oldest sister was reading on the sidewalk. ( She is a bookworm). My friend had freckles like I have and my second oldest sister had red hair but now she has brown hair.

When I wake up in the morning I go outside and see my friends. There names are Austin, James, Damarius, Devon, And Cesar. Then we play crush the carrier. [You tackle the person with the ball.] After that we go into James’s house and play video games for about 10-15 min. Then we go to the park. The park is called Stone creek. Then we go home at about 4:30. That’s how I spend my weekend.

One day me and my family were on a vacation. We were going to a lake in California called lake Shasta. . We were going to stay on a house boat and camp out on the lake! We would have a schedule. We could only tan for two hours and swim for well all day. But I was fishing with my uncle we could do that all day too. All of a sudden my uncle got a bite it was a huge catfish. It was white with long wiggly whiskers. He got it in his hand. But then the catfish stung him with his whiskers on his way to the ice cooler. He was bleeding all over. He almost had to go to the hospital. He is okay now all he has is a scar. But my family was really worried about him, He couldn’t go swimming for a long time.
That night there was a big storm. It was so big that it almost tipped over the houseboat. There was lightning and thunder, I watched it hit the water and make huge ripples. And every time the lightning hit down the water around the bolt turned really light blue. I was really scared because the houseboat was rocking back and forward and I thought it was going to tip over. Well that’s my California dreamin story.

By, Sarah Black

On the first day of school, I rode a new bus and it was bus 6. I didn’t realize that three kids that ride the bus were in my class, until a couple weeks later. When I went to class right on the whiteboard it said” Fill out information on a card.” So I did, It was really fun Ms.Allen put it in a cup and pulled/mixed one out and said it out loud. I had the same thing as about the equivalent of 2-3 people. After that we had recess, so at recess I played with some of the kids in my class and while playing people said.” do you want to be my friend?” I said.” Sure.” Next we started being partners and etc. Those partners were Zach, Cruz, Hyun, Harry, A.J, Mike, Max, Tristan, Justin, J.D, and Austin. Next I played with the kids I new from last year 4-square, such as Austin, Anthony, Brandon, and Elijah. Next after about 4-5 min.I played football and at first I missed the ball but I started to improve. Then I was catching the ball so then they started to throw the really hard so I started to disincarnate from my catching abilities because it was literally snowing outside so my hands were freezing cold. Next we had lunch and it was a BBQ sandwich and it chilled my taste buds. I sat with Zach, Harry, Hyun, and J.D. After that we went to recess and I played football again. Next recess was over and we started a book called” Amber.” It was full of amazing detail! Then at 1:40 we went to P.E. I did great in P.E; I was with a partner I’d never been with before. Next we went to computer lab with our backpacks and went to epals and girls had to write to guys, that’s how I got to know a lot of new friends on my first day of school.

It was the schools ASB elections, it was my turn to go up, I was so nervous it felt like I was going to explode! It took me a second to find my voice I was so nervous, as soon as I finished my speech I still felt like I was going to explode. After I was back in class I didn’t feel like I was going to explode, but I still felt nervous, not because I thought I was boring with my speech, but because I thought it was too short. I said three sentences for peed sake! The other thing was I had tons of competitors that I thought sounded better and more persuasive than I did.

Only tomorrow would tell, and when it came, I think I might have gotten 7 votes! So as you can tell I didn’t win, it was then I remembered every thing I’d forgotten the day before. I started feeling bad for myself, but then I thought, why should I feel bad for myself when I should feel glad for, and congratulate the winner! I did so and felt great. From then on I’d remember that day when I felt bad for myself.

That was my highlight of 2007!

The saddest day was when I had to walk home from Harvard to my house and it was sunny day. It was about 2 miles long. My legs were hurting so that I fell down on the ground dead, but my big brother David, helped me and got to home faster. When we got to the shadows, we stopped and rested with the cold wind. When we started walking again and got home I went to my bed and I went to sleep. And my cat started biting my foot when the blanket was not covering my foot. And then I started bitting him up. Because he wasn’t listening.

I was walking through the doors of the mall when a salesman just walked right in front of me, my dad, and my sister. We told him we were in a hurry, but he just kept talking and talking about this new thing called Snow. We just kept walking. Finally, we got to Zumiez and went straight for the skateboards. We were just looking. When we finished looking we went to Tilt. While we were at Tilt I played a game called Shoot ‘em’ Up. It was the best game there. When we finished playing at Tilt We walked to Target and stopped on the way there because I spied a little toy wood shop. We looked for a little while and then my dad said, “Let’s go before someone tries to sell us something!” Then we left. Thank goodness!

By: Bailey Hatch