Fun four day weekend.

This weekend, well actually Friday I am going to be going to my grandmas. She is a lot of fun to hang out with . This weekend as many of you probably already know is memorial weekend. This weekend my whole family is going to the graveyard to hang a flag and flowers for my great grandpa and other grandpa who served in the wars. This weekend, as you might have heard in my other post is a rummage sale. It will be really fun. My aunt is also coming up from Lake Geneva to stay over at my grandmas house with us. It will be really fun because we will probably go see a movie or something when she gets there. Even though we have to wake up really early just to get there it will be fun. On Sunday I think we are just going to relax at home. On Monday we are probably doing nothing, just sitting at home. We might go to my aunt's house on Sunday, but i can't really remember what my parents said we are doing. I just can't wait to relax and have fun! Hope you a wonderful memorial weekend.

Plans for summer

Worry free, no homework, teachers are gone. These are some phrases that remind me of summer. Not having to worry about anything but having fun. My summer plans are always fun and carefree. My grandmas birthday is over the summer so we always celebrate that. This year we are having a brunch at the botanical gardens. It will be really fun and exciting. Another thing we are going to do over the summer is go the chicago zoo. My cousins are little, so every summer we do this. I don't mind the zoo but it is not the best way to spend your summer, but i guess it will be o.k. My aunt takes us to a lot of these things. She also takes us camping. Camping may not seem fun, but we always go to a campsite where we just enjoy our time in the weather. We go to this campsite every year and it has a different theme each year. I don't know what this theme will be yet, though I hope it will be fun. At the campsite there are many things to do such as eating icecream as big as your head, diving in the pool and other fun activities. We also go to Six Flags Great America. I love going there because the rides are so fun. When I went there with the Band and Choir students the water rides weren't open and it wasn't as fun because I love the water rides. I also like to go with my cousins because we are carefree the whole time. Other than that the rest of the summer is time for friends and fun in our pool. I also can't wait till summer because then I get a new phone. I know summer will come fast because we don't have much time of school left.

Memorial Weekend

Though memorial weekend isn't for a week from this weekend, I still can not wait for it. I will tell you why i can not wait for memorial weekend. My whole mom's side of the family is having a rummage sale. A rummage sale is where you sell stuff for money. All of you probably knew that. So anyway, my family is going to be selling things we do not need anymore, such as old toys and stuffed animals. After the rummage sale which is from about noon to two in the afternoon, we go out to eat and spend some of the money we make. It is fun to go see my cousins and play with them. My aunt had a premature baby so we like to take turns watching her and playing with her. Sometimes,if it is nice, the rummage sale is done, and we are not hungry right away, we like to go into their pool. They have a big pool, and it drops down to 12 feet. Sometimes my family and I eat at their house, by thier dining set outside. My cousins are fun to play with and we have a lot of fun even though we have to start out with work. I can not wait for Memorial weekend.

Birthday

Sarah was sitting at home, the night before her birthday. This year she was going to turn 15. Fifteen was her big number, even though 16 should really be the biggest birthday of her life. Sarah was not a normal girl. She of course had hair, light brown, eyes green, and a nice family but she thought of herself as different. Not in a bad way though. She thought of herself as a person God only sent down to earth once in lifetime. Sarah sat on the couch, all alone in her Victorian style house. As Sarah sat watching T.V. on her couch she thought to herself out loud “It is my birthday tomorrow and no one is home to wish me an almost, so close to a happy 15 happy birthday. What to do what to do?” What Sarah didn’t know was that someone was coming to give her a present that she would wish she could take back.

The next morning Sarah woke up only to find her parents gone for work and a happy birthday pancake sitting on the table, cold as her parent’s heart. She ate her cold pancake unhappily in the kitchen. Why didn’t her parents love her? , she wondered. But what Sarah didn’t know was that her parents loved her more than she thought.

After school, when Sarah got home she was expecting a big surprise party her parents had thrown for her birthday. All she found though was an empty house with the same old furniture, and the same old remembering of what had happened this morning. Though Sarah thought she was the special girl of the earth, she was not the kind to be patient, she waited. She waited till 5:00 pm, waited until 9:30 pm, and then she got the phone call. Sarah’s parents were loving and kind. Sarah’s parents met on a cruise ship and fell in love at first sight. Her parent’s names were Cathy and Jim. When Sarah got the phone call all she heard was that Cathy and Jim… car crash…. never found. The police women told her in quote “You must come to the station right away; your parents may have been killed in a fatal car crash. They could be dead; we will come and pick you up right away.” Sarah never cried that night, she didn’t cry when the funeral was the next week, she didn’t cry when the officer said none of her relatives would take her and the foster home was the only place to go. But what only her parents could see from heaven was that the old Sarah that only came around once in a life time was fading away into nothing.

THE NEXT YEAR

Sarah woke up to the warm smell of pancakes. It was her 16 birthday. Sarah took out her journal and wrote “Sixteen: happy, sad, crying, laughing, dreaming, pretending, alone, family, friends, sister, brother, new home, missing, hoping, believing in life.” As Sarah then ran down the stairs her new foster family surprised her with cake and a whole plate of pancakes. Her sister and brother ran up to her and gave her pancakes. There names were Julie and Josh. Then her new foster parents came and gave her the birthday cake, filled with chocolate. Her new parents hugged her. Their names were Cathy and Jim and she loved them very much though she never forgot the thing that happened on her 15 birthday. “ I know this year will be better.” ( Sarah raised her new family 10 years later and met her parents in heaven 3 days after her 60th birthday)

WEEKEND

This weekend we ( refering to the choir and band students) are going to Six Flags Great America. I have to be at school @ 7:45 in the morning. On a Saturday, WOW!! Anyway, I think that Great America will be fun. Here is our schedule for the day...
1. 8:30 we have to load the buses.
2. 8:45 depart PHS
3. 10:20 Arrive at the Music Festival
Woodland Middle School, Gurnee Il.
4. 12;10 We perform
5. 12:30 Depart for Six Flags Great America.
6.Enjoy the park
7. 4:00 Award Ceromony
8. 9:00 Depart Six Flags Great America

Even though we probably won't get into the park till 12:30, I still can not wait to go. The people in my group are Kate, Lauren, Kaitlyn, and Aspen. I hope we have a really fun time there. I can't wait to go on all the rides. Enjoying time at a fun theme park with my friends will be really fun. I also can't wait to perform. We are doing very well in band and I think that we are going to perform the best we have ever performed. Some of my favorite rides at Great America are Superman, Batman, Wizzer, Dark Knight, ( really want to go on Iron Wolf), Viper, and many other rides. It will be amazing to be there before summer arrives. Every year my family and I go to Great America. All my cousins on my Mom's side go and of course my aunts and uncles. It is fun to ride the rides all day and stay there till the park closes. We get there at around 11:00, and stay till whenever the park is open. I think it would be really fun for a field trip in eighth grade to go to Great America for a whole day. It would be like hanging out with friends, like a Saturday, but it bieng the day of a week. Even though the trip is about 1 day away, I still can not wait! I hope you can comment and tell me if you have ever been or want to go to Great America. Have a good weekend. ( even though i am writing this on thursday)

Presentations

This whole week we have been doing speeches. To me speeches, well let's just say I hate them. I don't like standing up in front of the class. Though some people like speeches, though some like standing up in front of class and giving speeches on a topic I do not. I am normally so used to talking to people but in a casual way. Like talking to my friends or family. When I even have to do any presentation I get worried. When I get up there though the worry goes away. I stand up and just talk about random stuff that is on my card. Sometimes we have to do projects for social studies or science. Those are the worst because we really have to prepare and be ready. If you do not have your project done, well that stinks because you get downgraded for that. In speeches though you don't really prepare. You take a look at your card and you start talking. Anyway speeches may be bad, but once I get up there it is so easy. That is really all I have to say about presentations.