Assignment #20 Christmas Story

As I sit under the tree with my presents on my lap, I remember everything santa had told me. I remembered te story about the reindeer, and the bell, but most of all i remembered what santa had told me.

It was a very cold December 23 night. I kissed my mom and dad good night and walked up the stairs to my room. My room was the door to the left of our small kitchen. Me and my parents had just ate dinner, we had pototoes and tortillas. As I climbed into my bed i lay there thinking about all the kids at school who talk about everything they wanted for christmas. It made me sad to think about how all the kids at school would get all of the new toys and I would only get a piece of candy. I told myself not to be sad because I had everything a kid like me could want. I had both of my parents who love me very much and they work hard to get me good food.

After thinking about the many things I had I finally fell asleep. In the middle of the night I woke up to a loud thud followed with a whistle. I remember walking to my window looking out and finding nothing. I walked to the living room after hearing jingling. I hear a little voice say my name, I answer yes?

"Hello I am Hunter one of santas elfs he has been asking for you." said the man in a green suit.
"For me? Why me?"
"I am going to have to take you with me has a surprise for you." he said.

So we clombed up the chimney to find a sled with 9 horses who had antlers and one had a red nose. This must be Santas sleigh! I climb into the large sleigh with red velvet seats. The next thing I knew we where at he north pole. We tookthe reindeer into their barn and walked inside this big house. we opened a big door and inside there he was drinking a glass of milk and christmas cookies. The elf left us alone. We started talking about cookies, I guess it was true that Santa loves cookies and milk.

Santa said that I had been a wonderful kid all year and desereved a special tour of his workshop. I saw all the little elves making toys, I saw the toys get wraped and I even got to meet Rudolph himslef. Santa told me that there were many kids in the world who get all the toys they want but they are not nearly as lucky as I was.

As my private tour with Santa ended he told me siomething i would never forget. He said "never stop believing" i asked in what? he told me to never stop beliieving in what is rght.

On that christmas morning I woke up to find something I had never seen before. I had presents under the tree, I looked and found that the labels read:

To: Calvin
From: Santa Clause

My parents looked at each other in amazement, for the first time in 5 years I got presents from Santa!

Assignment #19 My Very Short Story

It was a foggy and cloudy day in New York City. This didn’t stop anyone from getting where they needed to go, they never take time to just take a step back and enjoy life. In New York it’s always go, go, go never look, look, look.


I moved to this horrible place in July, its November now. I’m in the 8th grade. I made friends right away but I just can’t stand this lifestyle. I’ve played baseball since I was 5. Baseball is the best thing ever. You can’t get any better than hitting the ball and running from base to base.

As months passed baseball season finally arrived. This made my life a little better. I had practice every day after school until 5:30. One day at practice they had just watered the grass. We still played on it. We did our running and our drills. Then we started playing. I was put on second base.

The batter hit the ball and started running. I saw the ball coming in my direction I ran to catch it. The next thing I know I’m laying on the ground and I can’t move my ankle! As I’m sitting in the car, many things run through my mind. I hope I can play on Saturday in the first game of the season.

I’m sitting in the doctor’s office waiting to know how my x-rays came out. I hear a knock at the door. The doctor introduced himself as “Dr. Mackler”

“Your ankle is broken. I will send you to get your cast on now.”

Broken? I felt like I had just got punched in the gut. I am not going to play in my first game.

As I spent my time at home, I realized how nice New York could be. I spent a lot of time with my baby sister and my mom. I had been so caught up in how miserable I thought my life was that I didn’t see all the good I could pull out of it with my family.

Kisses and Lies: Book Report

Recently I read the book Kisses and Lies by Lauren Henderson. This book was very interesting, it made me want to keep reading. This book pulls you in from the very first page, you will not want to put it down. In the book Scarlett is a teenage girl living in London, her parents died when she was just a little baby (and she doesn't remember much about them) now she lives with her aunt in who is the principal at Wakefield High. This is the school Scarlett goes to.

When Scarlett goes to the biggest party of the year she ends up talking to the guy just about every girl is crushing on in school, Dan. Scarlett has liked Dan since she can remember. As Scarlett pulls back from her first kiss she realizes that The boy of her dreams is laying in her arms... dead. Scarlett gets blamed for Dan's tragic and surprising death she knows it is a mystery that needs to be solved. As Scarlett tries to clear her name the whole situation turns in to the biggest family drama she has ever witnessed.

This book will make you think about your family. the ending of the book will make you rethink the big decisions you make. When you make a big decision you usually only think about your self, which is always good to do, but if your decision is harming other people in a bad way it may not be a good decision.

Assignment #18 My Poem

You are always together 

Everyone has one.

But you might be completely different like the left foot and the right foot,

But opposites attract...

Right?

Sometimes we  have our problems 

But we work through it 

We have our good times and bad times 

And we might hit a few bumps in the road.

Eventually we get over them.

At times we are separated 

One of us might be in the living room and the other under the bed

In the end we always end up together.

You can were friends 'til the end

Or your favorite pair of shoes. (:

-Amanda Otero