Blog 15: Readin' and Writin' 271 Words

   When I was younger my mom and grandparents used to read to me all the time. I remember having the little five page books. They were little stories about courageous heroes or something about animals. They were the books with a lot of pictures and not much writing. I used to try to read along with my parents. I learned from them reading to me and they would point out the words that were hard and teach me how to say it. Whenever I was young they would read me bedtime stories and those made me fall asleep really fast. When I was little I liked reading with my parents because I thought it was fun when I was little. It was really easy for me to figure out how to read and when I read some of the words in the book they were proud of me. I used to sit in my bed and wait for someone to bring a book for us to read. I would sit on their lap or lay in bed as they read the story. They used to read the same stories over and over again so I remember some of the stories they read. After I started reading it was really easy learning how to write. I usually never missed a word on my spelling tests. Writing I learned at school. I didn’t write much at home. I used to write my letters right, but it took me a little longer how to write cursive because I had to remember how to write out the words. All in all I learned pretty fast.

Blog 14: Shape Shifting? 256 Words

  If I could shape shift into an animal I would shape shift into an American bald eagle. I would want to be an eagle because I would like to soar around and dive bomb things. Also catching fish from lakes would be cool. Being an eagle would help because I could get to places faster by flying over traffic and over obstacles. Being an eagle would also help by me being able to get away from problems and be free. I could soar over places and explore the world. I like to explore. One time I was stuck in traffic and we were going to St. Louis and we were an hour away. I was tired of waiting so I jumped out of the car and took off into a wooded area and transformed into an American bald eagle. From there I ran and jumped and soared over all of the traffic and met my destination in less than half the time. That helped me out but I still had to wait over an hour for the rest of my family to show up. I wish they had this super power too. Another time being able to transform into an eagle helped was when I had an argument with my mom. She was just annoying the crap out of me. So instead of going to my room, I ran outside and took off. I soared for a while and calmed down. Then I flew back home and we were fine. Being an eagle would be awesome!

Blog 13: Hit the Jackpot 259 Words

   I just won the lottery jackpot and it was $10 million. Since I am a nice guy I decided to donate $5 million to a charity of my choice. The charity I chose to donate to was the animal abuse charity, where they work together to stop animal abuse in the United States. I decided to use the rest of the money, except for $1 million I put in a safe to save it for later. I decided to buy some land in the country. It is 200 acres and has a creek that runs through a corner of the land. It also has a huge lake that has fish. I wanted fishing locations on my land. After spending money on that I built my awesome house with a huge garage, an indoor gym, which has a dodge ball arena, a game room and a lot of other rooms. My room is two levels. It has a living room in the bottom level with a mini-kitchen. The top level is my bedroom level. It has my bed, a big flat screen TV on the wall and the bathroom is on the second level too. I also bought my dream car, which is a camaro and I customized it to be red with a black strip on the top. The interior is red and black and has a rockin’ stereo system. I bought a huge pool with a tall slide and a diving board and a hot tub; all with a jungle theme. I wish I would win the lottery.

Blog 12: What event has made you happy? 251 Words

   One time I went to Six Flags. I went with my cousins, aunt and uncle. We left early in the morning and drove all the way to St. Louis. When we got near Six Flags I could see the roller coasters and water slides. It looked really fun. Once we arrived at Six Flags we found out we didn’t have enough coupons but this lady came up and gave us one. We still didn’t have enough money, but the same lady came back and gave us another coupon because she had extras. She was a very generous lady. Once we were in the park I could hear the roller coaster roaring as they flew by on their tracks. I was scared of roller coasters and never rode one before. My cousin really loved roller coasters, so she was riding them. There was this one roller coaster that was a Tony Hawk Skateboarding Roller Coaster. I thought it looked fun and decided I wanted to ride it. So I did and it was the most fun I ever had. After that I decided to ride others. I rode the Batman and it was really fast ride. I wanted a more fun one. Then we found the Evel Knievel one. Evel Knievel was the best roller coaster there in my opinion. It was fast but really long so I enjoyed it. After that we ate Papa John's and relaxed. That day made me very happy because I learned how fun roller coasters are.

Blog 11: Topic #73 From the Creative Writing Prompts Website 276 Words

   Buddy woke up suddenly one night in Florida. He awoke from loud banging noises coming from outside. He leaned over and peered into his clock. It read: 12:09am. His mom rushed it his room and said,”Buddy wake up! There is a hurricane coming! We have to board up the windows!” As Buddy stood up the power went out. Luckily, he had a flashlight on his bed side table. He picked up the flash light got dressed and followed his mom to the garage. There was a stack of plywood lying in the corner. Buddy and his mom picked up some boards and went and boarded up the windows. Buddy looked outside through the peephole in their front door. “Mom I left the lawn mower outside!”Buddy yelled. “Buddy! We have to get it!” his mom responded. Buddy ran out to their garage and pushed the button to open the garage door. It raised and he ran outside. The wind blew him back and the rain stung his face. The trees looked like they were about to snap and trash flew through the air like missiles. Suddenly the tree in their front yard snapped. The tree was falling directly in Buddy’s path. At the last second Buddy dove out of the way of the falling tree, but the lawn mower didn’t make it. It was smashed to a million pieces. “Get back here, Buddy! It’s too dangerous!” Buddy’s mom yelled form the garage. Buddy booked it back to the house and him and his mom got in a room with no windows and waited out the storm. “Next time don’t leave the lawn mower outside,” Buddy’s mom joked.

Blog 10: Memory Erasing Drugs 252 Words

   John Hopkins University School of Medicine is making a memory erasing pill. That is kind of weird, I think. When I read this I thought to myself, how? It’s kind of weird how people can make anything they want to. I think this pill should not be one on the shelf. It should be an over the counter prescription, if they decide to sell it to the public. This pill could erase other memories too, you would think. How did they get it to target just bad memories? This pill could be stolen and someone could try to take advantage of this pill and erase people’s memories with it. So these pills are kind of unneeded for life. Hypnosis and therapy would probably be more help than this memory erasing pill. The pill should be used for only very severe cases of traumatized people. The pros would be that the person taking it wouldn’t have to remember things that made them go crazy or remember some very horrific scenes. You would think it would erase other bad memories that taught you a lesson or allowed you to tell a story to inform other people. I don’t think this drug is necessary for people, because I think it would cause more harm than good. Some other questions I have been thinking of are: How did they test it or how did they find the chemical to do this? There are a lot of medical mysteries out there. Some things just make you wonder.

Blog 9: A Spring Break to Remember 287 Words

   Today is the first day back from spring break. Everyone is tired and doesn’t want to be at school. I wish spring break could be two weeks so we have more time to relax. My spring break was pretty good. I enjoyed not having to get up early and go to school. I didn’t do much during spring break though. I was hoping I could be outside but when spring break came so did the cold weather; it even snowed one day. So I was cooped up in the house for most of the ten days of spring break. On Wednesday my grandma took me to get more clothes for summer since I outgrew my clothes from last year. I got some shorts and a shirt. For most of the days I was playing black ops on my ps3 but when I wasn’t playing ps3 I was watching movies, Nightmare on Elm Street and Taken, or playing on the computer. Since I didn’t have to get up early I stayed up later than usually playing ps3 with friends until I got too tired and had to go to sleep. On the last day of spring break I went to a shed in town and helped my grandma and grandpa move siding for our house and other stuff out to make room for seeds for the upcoming planting season in the shed. After that we took the stuff home and cleaned out our old garage and made room for the new stuff. Later that night I went to help my grandpa on the farm. We fed cows and sheep and checked on the newborn calves. I thought my spring break was pretty boring but it could’ve been worse.