Summer Plans

 
     Summer is my favorite time of the year. It's always really fun because we either take a trip or go on vacation. Sometimes it's just us that go and other times it's the whole family that goes. This year it's the whole family that's going away for a week. We are going to visit my cousins and one of them is graduating.
     My dad, my brother, and I are going to leave a day or two before everyone else so we don't have to rush to get out there on time. Once we there we are going to visit many different places that we haven't seen before. Once everyone is there we're going to have a cook out with many different kinds of foods that my family makes. 
     Once that graduation is over and we have to leave, we aren't going to go straight home. We are going to stop at all the monuments that we stopped on the way there. We are going to see the Bad Lands, Crazy Horse, and we're going to climb Mt. Rushmore! And because it's our vacation we are going to be staying at different hotels on the way home.
     One of the best things about summer is that you get to have friends over on whatever day you like and stay up as late as you want getting all messy from for all the marshmallows you made from your campfire! You can the campfire as late as you want because you don't have school.  Then the next day you get to go to the pool and eat ice cream! Summer is the best because you don't have to have set plans to have fun, you just go!
   

How I Want to be Remembered

    How do I want to be remembered as I finish my sixth grade year and beyond? I want to be remembered as a good student and a fantastic friend. Like a lot of other students, I am going to try really hard to try to reach that goal. Witch is only going to make it harder to stand out, in a good way, and that's a really good thing because it will be a challenge to try even harder.                                                                                           I think being remembered as a student will be a little difficult, only because there are so many kids and a lot of things going on. It will also be difficult because teachers teach for so many years and they don't remember everyone forever. I want to be a person that all my teachers, including the ones that I already had, remember for a long time.                  Friends are really important to me that's why I want them to think of me as athletic and really involved in my academics as well. I really love all my friends that I have because they are supportive about anything anyone of us want to do, which always makes things a lot easier and a lot more fun. When you have fun with people you like it's not easy to be forgotten, so there for it's easier to be remembered.                                                            I really like school and everybody around me and that's how I want to be remembered from sixth grade year and beyond.

 

 

Hops the Easter Bunny

    One normal Easter morning Abby woke up with favorite stuffed animal in the whole world, it was Hops her bunny. Hops was her Easter present the year before. He went everywhere with Abby, everywhere. 
    The two of them ran down the stairs, past the kitchen, and right into the living room where she found her parents and that big Easter basket that held all of her candy from the Easter Bunny that she got every year. She ran up to her parents and gave them the best hug a six year old girl can give.
    "Good morning Mommy and Daddy! Happy Easter!” Abby sang.
    "Well good morning to you to Abby-Monster.” Abby’s dad said while he gave her a big hug.
    “Can I go hunt for my Easter eggs now?” asked Abby.
    “Of course you can.” answered her mom.
    Abby ran all over the whole house checking every nook and cranny for every Easter egg in the house dragging Hops behind her. Abby found all the Easter eggs but one.
    “What do you think? Where do you think the last egg is going to be hidden?” Abby asked Hops. She often talked to her stuffed animals, but only her favorites and since Hops was her favorite, he got talked to the most. Of course he never responded but Abby always imagined he did. Actually that’s all she ever wish for, Hops would talk back to her. 
    “You’re right I best it is beside the refrigerator!” Abby said as though Hops had told her to look beside the refrigerator. That was the only place she hadn’t looked yet and there it was a bright neon green Easter egg that held one whole dollar that was all hers.
    The rest of the day Abby, her mom, her dad, and Hops had a humongous breakfast then went to Abby’s favorite place in the whole world, the park. While Abby swung on the on the swings and rode on the Merry-Go-Round her parents read books. 
    When Abby was at the top of the slide she saw something magical. She saw Hops walking around at the bottom of the slide waiting for her to come down! Abby quickly rushed to the bottom, but she almost tripped when was rushing towards him. Luckily, Hops caught her before she could fall to the ground and get hurt.
    "Hops you saved me!" shouted Abby when she was back on her feet again. "I can't believe it you're standing and walking, you caught me! Thank you!"
    "Well, I'm happy I was here, you could have really gotten hurt Abby," Hops said with a little thanks in his voice.
    "You can talk to!" exclaimed Abby.
    "Yes, I can, but only for the day. This is you Easter present from the Easter Bunny. You can't tell anyone that I am alive, it's our little secret. "If you keep it a secret then I can come back next Easter and play with you then too," explained Hops.
    For the rest of the day Abby and Hops played all day long running and hiding, chasing and galloping. They played until Easter was officially over and nobody knew what happened that day except for them two and for that Hops returned the next Easter and the next and had just as much fun as the first.

Concussions

    I believe that when people get a concussion it would be a difficult thing to recover from. I think it could also do some permanent brain damage and to me that wouldn't be worth it. To make sure it wouldn't effect your for life forever the coaches and the people on your team should make sure that you won't go back on the field for the rest of the season, depending on which part of the season you got the concussion. For instance if you get it at the end of then season you shouldn't be able to play the beginning of the next season either.
   Some things to prove that concussions would really effect your life. For example, studies have shown that football players who have suffered three or more concussions have a tripled risk of depression. So every time you receive a concussion you will just become more and more depressed. Also 31% of athletes with concussions are rushed back onto the field after the injury. That just means that they are back on that field to soon to even recover. Unfortunate things that can come with injury are several professional football players have committed suicide. Autopsy results revealed brain damage also.
    “You are supposed to be tough. You are supposed to play through pain. You are not supposed to cry. We are taught that early on in the game as kids. Tough sport. Brutal sport. It’s like the gladiator. People want to see the big hits. They wind up on Sports Center. And as a player, you don’t want to admit you are injured.” -Hall of Fame running back Eric Dickerson. 

If I Were in Charge of...

    If I were in charge of a water park the first thing I would do is make sure no one is bored.I would do this by having little stands or groups everywhere that were all different, like making ice cream or having different contests, such as long jump and who can throw the farthest! 
    Something I would do to fix the water slides is have the lines not be so long by having two of the same slides but make them look different so it's more interesting. Another thing that would help is by having twice as many water slides/ rides. I would do this because whenever you go to a water park you always have to wait in lines for like twenty minutes and you get really hot waiting to get wet again, which is only for a little while. That's why my rides would be three times as long as any normal one with big surprises during them that you couldn't see from the outside.  I would also make the steps out of something that wouldn't get hot so easily so it wouldn't burn your bare feet! The lifeguards would also be able to have fun and not just stad there and be party poppers! 
    In the end of fixing all the things wrong with the water park I would invite all of my friends, which would be the ones who helped me with all the park, and we would nuts! We would stay up all night going on all the rides we would want to without anybody telling us we couldn't!

Over The Holidays....

    One of my favorite things I did over Christmas Break was watch two little boys on New Year's Eve with my best friend Faith. When we got there and when everybody left we played a lot of different board games with the boys, like Life and Uno. I lost at both. When we were bored with  losing at the board games, we played the Wii. We played the games Mario Cart, which I also lost at, and New Super Mario Bros while eating popcorn, which I couldn't lose at New Super Mario Bros, because we were all on a team. We even played a game where we put ice cubs on our bellybuttons and see who could keep it there the longest! It was really hard because our bellybuttons went numb. It was a big tie because we kept it on there until it was all melted and water was everywhere! 
    After a while we realized we didn't want to be inside anymore, so we went into the garage and did really dumb dance moves while listening to music! We incorporated these moves into a game of Freeze Tag. Until we realized we were all pretty fast, we had to stop with the dance moves and just had to run our hardest. One of the little boys didn't know how to play the game, Freeze Tag, so we had to keep on stopping and keep on explaining the game to him. It was still a lot of fun though, and we kept on playing until we were all sweaty and it was almost time that the New Years ball dropped. When we went inside, we turned on the T.V and drank vast glasses of water until it felt like we were going to throw-up! So we just went into the living room and got the boys' beds made up for the night while waiting for the ball to drop. When it was twenty seconds 'till New Years, we started counting down the numbers yelling, then we used noise makers to celebrate the New Year.  After it was over, the boys went to lay down while Faith and I watched T.V. 
    After a while, their parents got back and they took the both of us back to Faith's house, where we had to sneak downstairs into her room, because all of her family was asleep. After we got our pajamas on and got ready for bed, we played four games of Memory, I lost all of them also. 
    In the morning Faith's mom made the best breakfast, monkey bread. When we were full we played four more games of Memory and went outside on the tube behind the snowmobile. Faith's dad was driving and there was only on thing the both of us had to hold on too! We went over bumps, that almost threw us both off, and we would all of a sudden go flying around the snowmobile, being jerked every which way! When we were almost going to go off the big bump again, it died, the snowmobile died! 

An Elf's Mission

    One day like any other, Joey, the elf,  got up, got dressed in his work uniform, had oatmeal for breakfast and left apartment 217 to go work at the Toy Factory for Santa Claus. When he got there, he checked in and went to go work in the doll department for eight hours with only a fifteen minute break for the whole day. Joey doesn't live a very exciting life. He is a short, plump elf who has lived alone like he has been for the past twenty years. The only friend he has is a little, fat mouse he calls Whiskers, and the only mail he gets is from work saying that he is going to have to work overtime because it is so close to Christmas.
    Again Joey got up, got dressed, had breakfast, and left for work. When he was working three hours in the doll department there was an unexpected announcement.
    "Attention all elves, you are dismissed from your duties for the rest of the day and all days until Christmas. Please do not ask any questions and go home!"
    This was different, the only announcements that ever occurred were the ones at the end of the day saying work was over.  He had such a lonely, dull life, he wanted to find out why they all had to leave work so close to Christmas.
    While all the elves cleared out of the room Joey went to go hide in the supply closet and planned to sneak around and listen to what was going on around here.
    "Yo, Larry it's clear, and why did you want me to make that announcement anyway?" questioned Bob, who was the same elf who made the announcement.
    "Because Christmas has been around way too long!" exclaimed Larry.
    After Larry and Bob left the room Joey came out, snuck upstairs to where Santa was always glued to his office chair and checking the naughty and nice list, one too many times. When Joey got up to Santa's office, he stopped at the door and hid behind the corner because he heard someone trying to tell Mr. Claus that everything was going to be okay. When that someone was coming out of the office Joey held his breath to make sure no one heard him.  It was Larry with a big ol' smile on his face!
    "Looks like Larry is playing both sides of the fence," Joey whispered to himself when it was all clear.
    After Larry was long gone out of the hallway, Joey knocked on the office door and poked his head in and said, "Excuse me, Santa?"
    "Yes? Who are you and why are you all the way up on the second floor and not working?"
    "Well sir, I came up to see why we all had to leave. I mean, I wouldn't mind a day off but why are we all leaving right before Christmas?"
    Santa just sat there for a minute scratching his long, white, ice- like beard, wondering,"Why did you all go home?" he asked finally.
    "Well, you see Mr. Santa Sir, someone over the intercom said we all need to go home and do not come back until after Christmas"
    "Do you know who this is,  Mr........"
    "Just call me Joey, Sir," said Joey.
    "Well, then Joey do you know who said that over the intercom?"
    "Yes, I do, but you probably won't believe me. Larry had Bob say that announcement but Bob didn't know why, he just did it because Larry is your assistant and all. The only reason I know all of this is because I hid in the closet to come and ask you when I heard them talking, so I actually overheard all of this," explained Joey.
    After Santa and Joey talked a little more they decided that they didn't want to confront Bob and Larry right away. They wanted a little revenge for trying to take over Christmas.
    So for the next couple days, while all the other elves were going on with their lives without work, Joey was sneaking around the factory watching and listening to Larry and Bob to inform Santa on everything he heard. Just so they knew exactly what they were planning to do.
    "Everything is going my way and in two weeks when Christmas is here and everyone around the world isn't getting their presents, Santa is going to be shut down," Joey overheard Larry telling Bob. 
    "Hey, since I'm now helping you, you know, taking over Christmas and all, what is my fair share in all of this?" asked Bob.
    "You get to be co-president of all of this nonsense. Besides when we hide all of the reindeer the night before Mr.Claus has to deliver all the things kids want, he won't be able to anyway because all the reindeer will mysteriously be missing," replied Larry with an evil laugh. 
    Joey went right away to tell Santa what he heard and what they were planning to do. When he got done explaining everything, they started discussing all the possible ways to catch Bob and Larry in their little scheme. They thought of a simple, easy, but devious way to catch Larry while he was releasing the reindeer. They were going to put up cameras and put make-up on the reindeer so it made them look sick so no one wanted to touch them.
   It is now exactly one week from Christmas and there is still a ton of kids toys that need to be made. Still Joey and Santa got all bundled up in their snow gear to go to the deer barn to put up the cameras and put the make-up on the reindeer. They had to do it themselves because all the other workers that would normally do it for them were still at home enjoying their break that Bob announced to everyone a couple days ago. When they got to the barn they hung the cameras, put on the make-up, and made sure not to step in the big surprises the reindeer left behind for them!
    While all this has been going on little Whiskers refused to be forgotten. He has been secretly following Joey and Santa while they were planning revenge on Larry. Somehow Whiskers understood exactly what was going on, he knew what the plan was and he wanted to be part of it. 
    It is now Christmas Eve and any minute now Larry would be releasing the reindeer so Santa wouldn't be able to deliver the presents to the children. When Larry got to the reindeer barn he saw the sick reindeer, but that wouldn't stop him from taking over Christmas. He went to go unhook the gate when a searing pain shot through his leg. Whiskers bit his ankle.
    "Ohhhhhhh! Mommy's cookies, that hurts!" shouted Larry.
    With all the noise that Larry was making Santa and Joey sprang through the door to see what was the matter! They examined the barn and saw Whiskers now clinging to the leg of Larry hanging on with dear life. Joey ran to Larry to pry Whiskers off of him with pure confusion of what he was doing here. When Joey got his little mouse off of him they took Larry down to the factory to question him about why he was unhooking the reindeer gate.
    "I told you I was going to feed them," lied Larry. 
    "Ohhh, admit it Larry, you were there to release the reindeer so Santa wouldn't be able to deliver the presents tonight. Santa would have been shut down, then someone else would have to take over and you wanted to be that someone," interrogated Joey.
    "So what if I did? Anyway you don't have any proof!" exclaimed Larry.
    "In fact we do, it's a new thing in the doll department, you see it's a brand new voice recording doll! Is that nifty or what? And when you were explaining to Bob what you were doing after he made that announcement you told him to do I had one of those dolls with me, so I used it. You see, and that's all the proof we need. So there you have it. We knew what you were doing this whole time," Joey explained to Larry.
    "Ya, ya, ya, I did do all of that but you still can't deliver the presents. There are still two continents that need their presents to be made and you have to leave in five minutes," said Larry with a big smile in his face.
    "But what you didn't know is that all this time we knew what you were doing, and we knew of all the work that needed to be done so we had all the elves working this whole time in Joey's apartment building!" replied Santa.
    After that, Larry got sent to Elf Jail for trying to take over Christmas. Bob got to do two years of Elf Pick-Up for trying to help take over Christmas. Joey got promoted to Santa's assistant for catching someone trying to take over Christmas. Santa got to deliver all the presents to all the boys and girls all over the world. And well, Whiskers, he gets to eat all the cheese he wants now!