Livin' out Loud

A Small Change

2010-05-30T14:33:00.003-04:00

I decided that the header for this blog looked pretty boring so I livened it up a bit.

Burnt Out

2010-05-30T11:03:00.005-04:00

This is the Surrealism Photo I had to create for Graphic Design.

I'm quite burnt out, really and figuratively. The past two days I've been doing a lot of things. Friday, our Quittage team won when I caught the snitch, followed by me taking my friends on a hilly 22 mile bike ride. They weren't too happy with me after I did that.

Yesterday, I golfed most of the day with my Dad's family. I'm not very good but I suppose it was fun. Between these two eventful days I managed to get sunburn on my arms so it's a little painful to do somethings. I'm looking forward to doing nothing today and the day off I have tomorrow.

Modern Earth

2010-05-26T15:46:00.003-04:00

This is the picture I had to make for Grafic Design Class. It's sort of depressing but I like how it turned out.

Lately, I've been running around frantically organising a "Quittich" team with my friend Eric for the fun day were having at my high school on friday. It's just like the real thing except with running instead of flying. The difficuly was no team could have no more than 4 of one gender (there are 7 total on a team). I spent the past two days making sure I got three girls on the team and that everyone knew the rules. Well whatever, I'm fairly certain it will be a lot of fun even if our team looses horribly, which will probabally happen since were all freshmen.

7 changes

2010-01-02T18:26:00.012-05:00

Each pair of pictures has 7 changes. Can you find them all?

From left to right: Jared, Me, Kevin, Megan (Meg), Sam W., Sam H,

Discovering Abilities

2009-02-20T19:00:00.001-05:00

Today a weird thing happened....

Dinner friends

2009-01-11T17:44:00.006-05:00

Today our family friends are eating diner over here. My dad and Mr. Pierra went for a run earlier and we figured that they should stay for dinner as well.

This is my sister, Alicia, and her friend Elise. They are currently listening to Audra's music and messing with Alicia's hair.

Swahili fun

2009-01-09T15:22:00.005-05:00

Swahili: Jambon, huyu ni changu rafiki Sam W. Mimi tuta nasuma tu sam lakini nina rafiki mwingine itwa sam basi kwa fanya sawa hazina kwa kila ingine, Mimi pa wewe barua kwa wao mwisno jina.

English: Hello, this is my friend Sam W. I wound say just Sam but I have another friend named Sam so to make sure they are not confused with each other, I give you the first letter of their last name.

Playing my Cards (Another School day)

2009-01-06T15:26:00.008-05:00

Today was like any other day but for fun I'll go through all of my classes from today.

I start in the morning. I get out of bed at 6:10. Some days I get up at 5:45 to take a shower (like every other day). Despite Audra taking an extra long time in the bathroom it was just like any other morning.

Advisory/Homeroom: When I got to school my feet were completely frozen from walking and it took almost all of Advisory to get them warmed up. My advisory teacher is Mrs. Hakewill. She nice I guess. We really don't do much. I mostly just talk with my friend Jared. Today however was reading day so I couldn't talk much.

Social Studies: We are doing a project on a person influenced American history. I'm doing General George S. Patton with my friends Sam W., Jared, and Eric. Today we did a little research for the project and the kid next to me was amazed by the fact that I could copy the whole screen by using the "Print Screen" button.

This is where it is. I actually used Print Screen to make this picture.

Health: This is supposed to be a family friendly blog so I'll skip telling you about this class.

Art: I originally took this class to get some high school credit but now I think that it wasn't worth it. The teacher is really weird and always seems to make our artwork worse by telling us to do things that aren't necessary. We all got excited only to later be disappointed when we thought she was going to be fired when she asked a girl if she was doing drugs. The girl got mad and complained to the principle.

French: I thought last year that this would be a fun class but I was horribly wrong. French is extremely boring. Yesterday and today, the sun was shinning just right through the window so I entertained my self by making shadows with my hand. Yesterday, Sam H. who sits in front of me stuck out a sheet of paper to make it clearer and Melissa, Sam H. and I all started laughing really hard.
A few weeks ago I said to Sam H. wouldn't it be cool if we learned kswahili in french class. He took me seriously and asked the teacher who said no. He always takes me seriously like when I said we could try to get our Art teacher fired again (joking) by saying that she put down a students work. (That is sort of true, it's just a little exaggerated.) He did it and complain to the principle only to get a detention. I really wasn't meaning for him to do it. Anyway, Sam H. has begging the teacher if we could learn Kswahili for weeks in til finally today he taught a the word Mbwa which means dog. I think he did it just to get him to stop begging.

Math: We did what we do everyday pretty much. We did our test review for the test tomorrow.

Earth science: We are doing a lab where we see the effect of erosion on rocks and my partner, David and I, and Sam W.'s partner Christina were competing to see who could get our rock the most eroded. Christina's probably the least involved in this. So far my Partner and I are ahead of them.

Lunch: Lately, the people who sit at our table, Jared, Eric, Sam W., Jacob, Alex, and me have all been combining our lunches and then picking from the pile. It makes our lunches a lot more interesting.

Earth science: Some days we have Earth science twice but it was mostly just a continuation of the last Earth science.

English: We went over our practice New York State ELA test. I usually don't like these tests cause the questions are usually poor.

I then stayed after to work on my Social Studies project with Jared, Eric, and Sam W. in the earth science.

Got a Clue?

2008-12-31T14:47:00.004-05:00

I'm just starting to get sick of this game as we have played 3 games today. I guess I have some sort of talent cause I have won all the games so far today. (Yesterday this was not the case.) It seems as if Mrs. Peacock has done the murder half the time.

Today is so far the first day that no friend has called and asked to hangout. It sort of nice because I had to turn down two yesterday. Before yesterday I had been to friend's houses three days in a row. I really like going places I was just ready for a break and I admit it was nice.

Mom just finished her puzzle after working on it for a couple days but did help her by putting two pieces in. I guess that means I did 1/500th of the puzzle.

New Photos

2008-12-30T20:34:00.007-05:00

Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays since Christmas has past.

Sorry I haven't Posted for like a month. Life is busy and it seems whenever I do get the chance I procrastinate and go on something else like facebook or I check my email since those are quite a bit easier and quicker than blogging. However blogging has a certain feel that you never get on facebook so I try to Post when I can (or feel like it).

I suppose what has really motivated me the most right now is that I got a digital camera for Christmas and well now I don't have to steal my mother's camera every time I need a good picture for my blog.

Last night we had company as Mike and Lydia came over for dinner while we ate some Chicken that my Mom had freshly cook. However, we all gathered at the table a bit too early only to hear that had to cook more which ended be around a half an hour.

Today Aunt Martha, and Cousins Ben and Hannah stopped by to drop off Hannah who was staying the night with my sisters. Ben, Hannah, My sisters, and I played a game of Clue and well the cops had to Arrest Mrs. White for killing Mr. Boddy in the Dinning room with a led pipe. Somehow I find that hard to picture. Anyway Audra won. My sisters and Hannah just finished another game where Mr. Green killed Mr. Boddy the Ballroom with a wrench in which Audra won again. It doesn't help that everyone cheats and steals or looks at other people's cards.

I really hope that now with my swim season done I will be able to post more. Happy Holidays.

The Doctors office- The Pilot

2008-11-25T22:14:00.001-05:00

The other day my best friend, Sam and I got to publish our video that we made during the summer. Unfortunatly the quaility of the picture isn't the greatest and a few parts are a little cheesy and hard to hear.

My best friend Sam is the doctor, I am the Secrtary, My sister Audra is the second patient, Sam's sister, Sarah, is the first patient, and my friend Jacob is the Asistant surgen/health inspector.

Major edit

2008-10-31T22:13:00.002-04:00

I'm sorry I haven't posted in a long time, It's hard to post when you don't have a lot of time and really there isn't much to right about. Most days its, I went to school (not much exciting things happens there), I go to swim practice (we swim), I go home and go my homework, I go to bed. How exciting.

Lately for Computer class we've been typing these really boring reports that the teacher already has written. So, I've decided to rewrite it. Here is the origonal.

-Respect is as old as life itself. But it has been deteriorated enormously in our society during the past twenty years. Sociologists tell us it’s because we’ve become too wrapped up in ourselves. We’re into our own thing; we look out for Number One. We don’t have time to give others the consideration which was once considered normal. That’s now the exception. Yet, respect is still the most important quality a human can have.
MANNERS
Call them anything you want—courtesy, respect, politeness, kindness, consideration, etc.—our manners are who we are. We’ll always be known by the way we treat others. And the way we treat others will always be a key factor in determining how successful we become.

Here is the new much better verison.

Respect is as old as life itself, you know, at least 10 years. But it has been deteriorated enormously in our society during the past twenty years. Yeah that’s right we are crushing the rights of the average citizen. We are to wrapped up in our selves. Don’t hug yourself when you could be huggin’ someone else. We’re into our own thing; we look out for Number One. For example: 13, 21, 111. All of these examples have ones in it. How about the number 6! Or 4! 4s and 6s shouldn’t be segregated man cause I have a dream. A dream that 6s and 4s can live and work together thus making 46s and 64s. We don’t have time to give others the consideration which was once considered normal. If you don’t have time make some. Try skipping homework and stuff. That’s now the exception. Yet, respect is still the most important quality a human, half ape that’s mother’s uncle was a rhino can have.
Manners
Call them anything you want if you dare but you must first sign a waiver and pay $ 96.67 in legal fees once you have experienced the full power of the dark side. Well whatever, the only point I’m trying to make is that manners is who we are. It’s a large blood cell that is located in the lower intestine. We’ll always be know the same way whether or not we have manners so just have manners just for the fun. It’s not like anyone else cares. Bottom line: The only way your opening that locked chest that I just left on your front porch is by getting this key from this guy named factor once you successfully determined his middle name.

That is how I have radically changed the perspective on respect.

Dear Mr. Obama

2008-09-26T20:34:00.001-04:00

I agree a lot with the person in this video. The war we are fighting in Iraq isn't just about us. It's more about helping the citizens of Iraq out who live in a world of terrorism. There was a time in the civil war where a group of politics compained that we should of ended the civil war. Imagine what it would be like today if we were still a seperated nation. It defintly wouldn't be a good thing.

Labled Knee

2008-09-17T21:34:00.003-04:00

I wrote this on my knee during youth group the other night and as a result a ton of people at school have asked me why I labeled my knee. I labeled it so I have enough space in my brain to remember the more important things.

Recently, at lunch, at school, the people of our table have found a new source of entertainment. In exchange for food, we get my best friend, Sam, to go over to another table and do something weird. Today in exchange for some dry Cinnamon cereal, we got him to go over to the table with an apple, Sing "I've been dreaming of a true love's kiss." Take a bite of the apple and pretend to faint. I had a good laugh. Their responds, one of them came over and yelled at me and said to stop sending him over because he was getting annoying.

In English we have to write a memoir for school. So I was thinking. My blog consists of almost 80 memoirs. So what's stopping me from just copying one of my posts, not like I'm planning of doing that or anything.

Hit by Ike

2008-09-15T19:41:00.002-04:00

Last night we had a pretty big storm with pretty high winds. However, it felt like a relief since it had been so hot yesterday. I woke up to find our yard covered with branches and the whole sidewalk from my house to the school was all covered in branches. At school everyone had their own story. Half the kids had lost power and one of my teachers had a tree fall on her husband's new car. It turned out that it was really Ike. As soon as it hit hit Houston it sped up to about 30 mph coming strait in our direction. Luckily it had died down to a tropical storm so the wind speed wasn't so high.

Food Court Musical

2008-09-12T22:07:00.001-04:00

Lately this movie has been a big hit in our house. We are now constantly singing parts from this movie so I just had to put it of the blog.

6 great facts about me

2008-09-10T19:42:00.006-04:00

I will now amaze you all and post six facts about me cause I was tagged by aunt rachel.

I have simplefied the rules down to

1. write 6 facts about yourself

I hope no one minds.

1. I know most of the songs on my playlists so well that I often get side tracked while reading other peoples posts as I start to mouth the words.

2. I live in a broken home. Literally. Everything in our house seems broken. Camera, laptop keyboard, paint pealing off the side of the house, ext...

3. My best friend laughs at everything I say, even things that weren't meant to be funny.

4. I like to run, swim, and bike which gives me a great oppertunity to become a triatholete.

5. I talk to myself a lot. Sometimes even in public. For some reason it helps me think better. I often give myself directions telling how to do something or narrate my actions.

6. I walk/bike a mile no matter what (aside from broken feet and really cold weather) to school, rain or shine.

P.S. I'm really bad at spelling. This post I decided not to fix anything with spell check. Can you guess how many things the spell check said were spelled wrong?

Book Covers

2008-09-09T21:52:00.002-04:00

True students make their own bookcovers for school.

Slugs (or Macoroni)

2008-09-06T19:34:00.002-04:00

This is simply just a piece of macoroni that both my dad and I thought looked like a slug. I certinly like the taste of this slug!

First two school days

2008-09-05T19:24:00.004-04:00

Yesterday and today were my first days of school. Overall they were fun and I have friends in a lot of my classes. However, I am not so happy that I have to wake up 3 hours earlier than usually and I am really looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow.

I have decided to tell you about each of my classes and their teachers.

Advisory/homeroom: Advisory is fun. However this year we have a lot of kids in it. There is about 30 kids and we have trouble seating everyone.
Mrs. Hakewell
Rating out of ten- 7

English: English is okay. I really don't have any friends in this class. It sounds like we are going to do some fun things.
Mrs. Rodzinka
Rating- 6

Social Studies: Again I really don't have any friends in this. However the teacher sounds really fun.
Teacher- Mr. Simpson
Rating- 7

French- It is almost exactly the same as my class last year and last year we had a lot of fun. However we have a different teacher.
Teacher- Mr. Roux
Rating- 8

Technology- I also had this teacher last year. However this year our teacher is pregnant and we have another teacher observing ready to fill in when she leaves. She's really nice but I don't have really any friends in it.
Teacher- (I currently am having a brain block and can't remember her name)
Rating- 7

Math- I think this years teacher is a lot easier to understand then my last years teacher. Last year the teacher went so fast I had no idea what the information was about.
Teacher- Mrs. Robbins
Rating- 7

Science-The teacher is really nice and has a good sense of humor. I also have Sam in this class.
Teacher- Mrs. Fusco
Rating-10

It's pretty good especially since the average rating is 7 so it's not like I hate any of the classes and I pretty much like them all.

Last day of summer

2008-09-03T13:01:00.006-04:00

Today is the last day of summer and I still have a few supplies to get. In order to saver the moments of summer we had left, Sam and I slept out in a tent in Sam's backyard and watched the third Pirates of the Caribbean movie.

Cross country started yesterday, and because of School, homework, cross country and various youth groups it will be harder to post. I will post when I can but I won't be able to post on a lot of Tuesdays, Thursdays and some Fridays.

Labor Day!

2008-09-02T09:18:00.004-04:00

Yesterday, our family took off to go to my Aunt Martha's house for labor day. There Jim was visiting from Minnesota.

Salvador - What Would It Be Like

2008-08-31T19:31:00.001-04:00

This video will defintly get you thinking so I decided to post it. What if we, as christians, decided to step out of our comfort zone to make a differance. Imagine the effect it would have.

State Fair

2008-08-29T13:11:00.012-04:00

Yesterday our family went to the state fair out towards Syracuse. We all got up early, hopped in the car, drove for several hours and successfully beat the crowds. We had a lot of fun.

We started out with the cows. There were so many I wonder how the judges pick from so many. While visiting the calves two boys brought out bottles so we could feed them. Audra discovered her true talent in feeding calves.

Apparently the sheep at this fair wanted to protect their identity so we decided not to pry too much.

Mom and I saw one the goats doing this and thought it was quite funny. I guess he just needed a little boast from his friend.

After visiting the Animals we went over to the ride section. After Alicia and I had both rid a ride, we discovered that Mom had accidentally dropped the tickets. Oh well the ride section was never my favorite part anyway. We ate lunch instead. I certainly had my share of bacon yesterday. I had a bacon burger for lunch and a BLT for dinner. Personally, I liked the BLT better.

Every year a artist makes a sculpture out of butter. It was pretty impressive let alone that it was made out of butter. This is this year's butter sculpture. It was quite amazing.

Just like the Butter sculpture a sculpture out of sand is also made. This too is amazing. The picture is of only part of the entire sculpture. There was also a ship and a rowboat to the right of Poseidon and both had pirates in them.

Overall we had a lot of fun. I took a lot of pictures and would have taken even more if Mom and I hadn't thought we had lost the camera. Luckily dad had it. We finished off the day with some soft ice cream. Yum!

Above

2008-08-27T17:43:00.006-04:00

I was surfing our family camera, wondering what to post when I found this picture. It's pretty cool.

Today, I went to visit the school to get my schedule since school starts in a week and discovered that I am only going to have lunch every other day. This really annoyed me but whatever. I hope to see if I can fix it but I'm not sure if I can. I really don't want to take another advanced course on top of what I already have. Especially if I'm missing lunch.

A Trip to Grandmother's House

2008-08-25T12:04:00.013-04:00

Yesterday we took a trip Grandma's (and Grandpa's) house. As soon as we finished eating lunch we all jumped in the car and scooted off to their house. I took a quick pic of the Erie canal as we drove over it.

We found grandma on her back porch watching the birds when we came. I never got a chance to take a picture of grandpa because he was taking a nap.

Alicia set up this playmobil house with grandma's extensive playmobil set. I turned of quit nice. Unfortunately she had to pick it up when it was time for dinner. We had a scrumptious meal there too and after we finished Aunt Martha, Ben, Hannah, and Uncle James stopped by to drop off the sleeping bag we left a cousin camp. Oh, and you can't leave grandma's house without some skittles and a life saver. It's just the way it works.

Strangers (or neighbors) in you front lawn

2008-08-23T21:08:00.006-04:00

Today, while over at my Sam's house (Sam is my best friend), we were called over by my sister and Sam's Sister (who are best friends also). They pointed out that there was a family picnicking on their front yard. I asked Sam if he knew them and he said he didn't. Audra however told me that we knew them. They turned out to be our neighbors and they had asked what Audra was doing here as she had biked up to the house. We decided to leave them alone and not tell Sam's mom knowing she would make them leave. We decided it was just way to funny to make them leave. Hey, they were brave enough to have a picnic on stranger's front yard that's good enough for me. We almost told them that there was a public swimming pool in the backyard. However, we couldn't leave without a picture.

So what would you do? Would you make them leave?

A Pet Peave

2008-08-22T17:42:00.004-04:00

One of my pet peaves is when my sister runs around with a broom and my other sister testing all of the fire alarms and screeming once they go off. I'm not sure why they find so much Joy in this but it certinatly drives me crazy.

$100 Calculator. Yikes

2008-08-21T19:42:00.005-04:00

Today, Mom picked up my calculator that I needed for Math. It costed just under a hundred dollars because I needed one that was higher tech since I am taking a 9th grade math course or Algebra 1. I'm not so sure yet what made it cost a 100 dollars compared to the regular 15 dollars. I wonder if all the teachers sat together and tried to figure how to make it as difficult as they can for the kids. We never even use half the buttons on the device. Like for instance, I don't know what the tan, the sin, or the cos buttons do. Oh well maybe I'll learn about it this year.

The Five Cobras

2008-08-20T13:02:00.004-04:00

Left to Right: Makela, Tye, Me, Caeden, Alicia

Extreme Makeover- Home Edition

2008-08-19T20:19:00.008-04:00

Extreme makeover came the other day to a neighboring town near us. Today we went to see them as they were demolishing the barn that was near the house. I took all the pictures as Mom talked with a stranger about how their houses need extreme makeovers. I certainly can not disagree with Mom there. The old house is still standing and the extreme makeover team is planning on demolishing it tomorrow. We didn't see anyone really famous but it was still see construction workers (who all had "extreme makeover: home edition" logos written on the back of their shirts) running around. However we did see a guy that was the location manager and he came over to the crowd and was talking to my dad. He explained that Tye Pennington was not at the house today because he was at the other house (supposedly they do two houses at the same time). He was interesting, however he was constantly interrupted with people trying to get a hold of him as he was talking to us. One of the times he got stop by someone who was on the wrong channel and was yelling at someone which he was very amused by.Here is the old house. It was in pretty rough shape and the roof looked like it was falling in. I'm not sure exactly when the show is going to premiere but I do know that it will be sometime in November so watch for it.

This really doesn't have anything to do with the rest of the post but what ever. My family was eating dinner when I asked Mom:

"Do you remember the time when you almost ran over Sherman's tail with the lawn mower and he ran all the way to Phoenix St."

"No." she replied.

" Good because it never happened."

That is a good sign has not gone crazy. At least not yet anyway. It will probably come before I know it. jk

My Bucket List

2008-08-18T21:27:00.002-04:00

I was tagged by Melimouse. I am suppose to list 8 things I want to do before I die. How exquisite!

1. I want to go up to a random stranger and pretend like I know them.

2. I want to visit another continent and I want to visit Florida (because everyone has been there except me).

3. I want to complete a half iron triathlon.

4. I want to start a church. (quite a challenge)

5. I want to dress up in a potato sack (maybe smear some mud on my face), knock on a stranger's door, and beg for money. (of course it's really not the money I want to do it for)

6. I want to build a tree house that consists of more than one tree.

7. I want to get married and raise a family and maybe adopt a few kids. (Christine is quite inspiring)

8. I want to serve my savior!

Some of these things are kind of not that important in life but oh well. Some of them are just for my amusement. I tag who ever thought that this was cool and wants to do it themselves.

Cousin Camp!

2008-08-17T18:57:00.007-04:00

The past few days I've been away at cousin camp and at Aunt Martha's house. It was a lot of fun here are some pictures.

Here's cousin Joe swinging around his giant Zucchini

Here's Aunt Rachel taking Kotty for a walk on here Rollerblades. Personally I thought she was crazy but maybe that's just because my dog pulls a lot.

Here's Ben going down the zip line which is a lot of fun.

Here are my two sisters, Audra and Alicia and cousins Ben and Micheal

Aunt Rachel made pancakes for breakfast. Yum!

After breakfast, Ben, Micheal and I had a scooter race which was a ton of fun.

Here's All of us.

Top: Ben, Hannah, and Steven

Bottom: Alicia, Audra, Me, and Micheal

Spray painting my dresser

2008-08-15T10:06:00.004-04:00

Yesterday my mom and I spray painted my dresser

^This is before^

It was a nice dresser like that, it just looked like it belonged in a little girl's room.

^This is After^

We also had to change the handles so they would match a little better.

I won't be able to post tomarrow because I'm getting together with all my cousins. (rachel's and martha's kids)

Chillin'

2008-08-14T17:35:00.006-04:00

Today was sort of a lazy day since it was the one day that my Mom doesn't have to clean a house (which she does once a week to bring in a little more revenue) or watch other kids.

Here is a picture of my sisters (the ones on the swings) and our next door neighbors, who often play with my sisters, on the swing set which hardly ever gets used anymore. They are also the kids my Mom watches on Wednesday and Friday.

Finnished Product

2008-08-13T09:51:00.003-04:00

We finnally finnished painting my bed and it looks awesome. It looks a lot better then it did when it was white.

Scenery on the way home

2008-08-12T15:52:00.004-04:00

On the way home I toke a few pictures of the scenery. They turned out really nice.

Here's one of the local lake.

Rollin' in

2008-08-11T14:41:00.003-04:00

The Clouds seem to be rolling in again. We've seemed to have a lot of rain this summer. It's kind of delayed our work on the furniture. The local farmers might have a bad crop because there hasn't been a lot of sunlight for growth. However, sometimes I like the rain it gives me a good excuse to stay inside and be lazy.

Spray painting

2008-08-10T14:40:00.011-04:00

Today I am spray painting my bed with sam and my mom. It's quite fun.

The to pieces have a fresh coat of primer. The second one's only half done because we ran out and my mom had to run back to the store.

This is sam complaining because I accidentally cut him. Poor Sam.

Oh, and I ate a plum for lunch.

Dinner

2008-08-09T20:45:00.002-04:00

Tonight we are having produce (aka corn) for dinner.
This is my dog sherman that would probabally love to help us eat the produce. Sorry sherman you've all ready had you dinner.

Connected

2008-08-07T11:59:00.003-04:00

Recently I've been reading the book of Hebrews in the New Testament. It's about a Pastor of an early church in Isreal who is trying to convince the members of the church about the benifits we get from Jesus dying on the cross. Many times he compares Jesus to the high priest. Normally throughout Jewish history the high priest would be the connection between God and the isrealites. So in a way Jesus sacrifed himself, he could do that because he hadn't comminted any sins, so he could take the place of the high priest and be our connection.

Fashion Modeling

2008-08-06T14:48:00.009-04:00

Today Alicia and Caeden, my neighbor decided that they wanted to do a fashion show and made Audra and I be judges. It was interesting. To the left is Alicia's outfit for the wilderness round. She got 28 out of 30 from the judges. Caeden's outfit was a little strange so I decided not to show it.

To the right is Caeden's outfit for the casual round. He got a 30 out of 30 from the judges.

This is Caeden's outfit for the foreign round. He got a 23 out of 30 especially because he didn't even know what country he was modeling for.

This is Alicia's outfit for the foreign country round. She was modeling for Japan. She got a 30 out of 30.

Kickin' cans

2008-08-05T07:54:00.004-04:00

Yesterday, I was having a ton of fun just kicking cans.
oh, and my sister and I just made a new blog called coke momments just incase you haven't noticed that cokecola can there.

Our trip to Walkins Glen

2008-08-04T15:21:00.005-04:00

Last friday my family went to walkins glen with my aunt. Here are some pictures.Here's a picture of rainbow falls.

50th post and saddness

2008-05-18T19:01:00.003-04:00

Hey it's my 50th post. Sorry I haven't been posting. Facebook seems to be way more entertaining.

Despite the happiness that it's my 50th post, I saw something very depressing. It was a video on yahoo. Click the link below.

http://tv.yahoo.com/the-ellen-degeneres-show/show/35584/videos/7848875;_ylt=AgGOhkGNUVUyyTFVur8FTV71sI14

Despite the terrible and sinful news, they give her a standing ovation. Why? Was there not one person in that audience that was willing to stand up for what she/he believed in? Or did every one totally think that that was okay? Where is our world going today? Every other day you here about something like this. It's really depressing.

My (school) Day

2008-04-29T14:47:00.006-04:00

Homeroom: Mr. Steedman- Today was reading day so I read what I have to read for an English project. I don't much like reading days in Homeroom.

Period 1: Science, Mrs. Knapp- Took notes on the endocrine system. Not very exciting. Then we did a worksheet for review. Apparently Mrs. Knapp had forgotten the packets we were suppose to do then. It's funny, how come we as students get in trouble when we forget things, but when a teacher does, not so much. I guess this is an exception because our teacher has a broken foot.

Period 2: Health, Mrs. Ellis- BORING. Health is extremely dull. We do nothing but learn about how we shouldn't do drugs and how we're supposed to keep our body healthy. Today we basically just watched a movie on some guy who made the right decision in choosing not to do cocaine.

Period 3: Math, Mrs. Whitney- We once again sat in the same seats as we have been sitting in all year. All the students really want a seat change. I'm kind of tired of sitting in back of a kid name Justin, who's nice and all, but when it comes time to pass back papers. He always holds the papers out towards me, but as soon as I'm about to grab it he jerks the papers away. This process continues until the rest of my row gets irritated because they haven't received their papers yet.

Period 4: Art, Mr. Steedman- I finally finished my clay sculpture of a gumball machine. Meanwhile the kid next to me was having a lot of difficulty rolling out his clay. Once again Melissa found some way to be mad at me. Today I guess she found to reasons. First, I had put to much dry clay in our table's slip bowl and second, I accidentally spilled dirty water on to the table that she had just clean because another kid named Tyler accidental knocked the bowl out of my hand.

Period 5: Electronic Music, Mr. Crystal- We learned about dimentation(is that spell right) today. I found out that Jared broke his arm. I think he discovered it because he broke my foot in gym class earlier this year. JK LOL. I put on of my songs into a really cool sequence so it sounds almost like a real song.

Period 6: Lunch, the lunch ladies- I had a pretty small lunch today. I'm starting to get annoyed of Sam's little "jokes" he plays on me. Today he brought me over to the vending machine and ask what I wanted. I replied "Thanks man, I guess I'll have some goldfish." He put the money into the machine and ordered something different. Apparently he only wanted to know what I wanted.

Period 7: Social studies, Mrs. Mariano- We took a test to day and got sit where ever we wanted. Melissa sat behind me. I was a little scared that she would shake my chair like she always does but she promised me that she would not shake my chair and she said that it would be bad for her brown, cowboy boots that she was wearing. The test was easy. I finished fairly early into class. As soon as I was finished I pulled out a piece of paper to draw on. I wasn't sure what to draw but remarkably I noticed that my chair was shaking. I took the piece of paper that I was going to draw on and wrote on the paper "You promised." I then set it on her desk. No reply, she just kept shaking. Finally I took the piece of paper back and drew a big fat arrow pointing to the text and set it back on her desk. No reply, she just kept shaking. I took the piece of paper back a wrote on the paper "I thought you didn't want to ruin those boots" and I set it back on her desk. She took the paper and wrote something in yellow highlighter about how she was missing her pink. I was confused at this and drew a question mark next to that text. I then wrote "I feel like I'm sitting on top of a washing machine. I bet even Brittney (who was sitting in front of me) can feel your shaking." She wrote underneath "Poor Brittney, I bet if you took your feet off her basket she wouldn't feel anything." When I read this I tried so hard not to laugh. It was so funny. It probably doesn't seem funny to those who are reading this but it seemed funny then. I bet the whole time I was being shaked, Brittany thought I was the one the one shaking her.

Period 8: English, Mrs. Gerstner- We talked about a community read that we are going to read. I never really ever liked community reads. They are really boring. Then Mrs. Gerstner passed papers to the people in each row who were suppose to hand them back to the person behind them. And the person in back of them would pass them to the person in back of them and so on. I again it that class am assined to sit in back of Justin. He again gave me troubles. I decided to just lunge at the papers and get them. That way I wouldn't have to wait until he got bored of his little game. I did just that except Mrs. Gerstner saw me. She glared at me and told me " I'm sure if you were mature enough to just ask him nicely for the papers he would give them to you." I turned and grinned at him and said "Sure you would Justin."

Period 9: French, Mrs. White- Mrs. White has really mad today because her last class was really bad. Apparently one girl in her last class broke another girls pencil because she was poking her. Mrs. White got mad and sent them to the office. She is always complaining about that class.

The end- For now.

Happy birthday Melimouse

2008-03-25T15:05:00.002-04:00

Yo! It's Melimouse's B-Day today. Make sure to wish her a happy B-Day. She got many presents today and refused to share any of them with me (figures). One of the things she got was a MAD LIB booklet so I figured I could do that on the blog.

At my Birthday I recieved many (pluaral noun). My (relitive) says I have grown (noun) on my (body part). My party would have been (adjective) except my (relative) (adverb) (past tense verb) a (noun) into my birthday (noun). We played many games like duck duck (Animal) and hide and (verb). At the end we all (past tense verb) and (past tense verb) the song Happy Birhtday. I hope my (noun) is (adverb) nest year.

Rebirthing - Skillet

2008-03-24T17:40:00.001-04:00

This is a cool song. I like the lirics a lot.

Anyone up for Pi?

2008-03-14T15:19:00.001-04:00

Since it is 3/14, it's pi day because the numbers make up 3.14!!!!

Birthday

2008-03-09T15:31:00.002-04:00

Sorry I couldn't post in so long. Our internet is down on our main computer and I have to use the laptop. Unforunatly it's keyboard is broken. It types like thhis and it types aa's and othher letters more than oonce. Especially the vowels are brken.

Okay. Yesterday was my birthday. It rocked except for the fact that I had to go to a funeral and sam was sick. I spent it in ovid with my extended family.

It seems like everything in our house is broken. HELP!

Dead Skin

2008-03-03T15:37:00.002-05:00

Today I got my cast off. It feels really good to move my foot. The only thing is that I'm shedding a bunch of dead skin that couldn't fall off with a cast on. All of the white stuff in the picture is dead skin. My foot also felt really stiff from not moving in so long.

The second picture is a picture of my shoes. There is a huge difference in how worn out each shoe is. The right one is dirtier than the left one because I couldn't wear the left one for five weeks because my foot was broken.

4 of the stupidest thing to ask/say/write

2008-02-29T14:39:00.002-05:00

What year was the war of 1812 in?
How do you spell orchiecyomy?
How many times have you sucsessfully commited sucide?
My mother die when she was only a baby.

Try and figure out what's wrong with these sentances.

No Box

2008-02-26T19:00:00.003-05:00

I'm really mad because our youth group was cancel for the third time in a row. A lot of people are hoping that school will be canceled. I really doubt that it will be, however.

This a picture of George Washington. I'm not sure why I put it on my blog. We happen to be learning about him in social studies.

A playmobil motion picture

2008-02-23T14:45:00.003-05:00

This is a little video I made by taking pictures of my sister's playmobil castle.

Crippled Bowling

2008-02-22T14:57:00.005-05:00

Today, my family went bowling with some friends. All of us kids bowled while the Adults sat around and talked. Lately I have only been able to wear one shoe because my cast won't fit in a shoe. It was quite awkward when I got up to the place where they rent out shoes and only asked for one shoe. It's not that easy to bowl when your crippled. We went bowling with Sam, Jacob, Melissa (melimouse), Sarah (Sam's sister), my two sisters (Audra and Alicia), Jackie (Sam's little cousin), and Margret (Sam's other sister). Sam, Jacob, Melissa, and I were in one lane and Sarah, Audra, Alicia, Jackie, and Margret were in another lane.

The first game our lane played we played serious. The second we did wacky techniques like you had to bowl with your eyes closed or something like that. Most of us participated in that.

After that, we ate junk food at McDonald's to top it all off.

The second picture is a picture of the moms. The bottom left one is my mom, The bottom right is Melissa's mom, the top left is Jacob's mom, and the top right is Sam's mom. Melissa and Alicia are also in the background.

Reflections

2008-02-20T18:49:00.005-05:00

This is a picture I took with Alicia's Playmobile castle. I think this one turned out quite nicely.

Today at the dinner table, my family and I were discussing a few memories. We were perticulurly talking about the time that I, being the absent minded professor that I am, attempted to decend the stair case with my hands and feet tied together. I, of course, fell and almost killed myself. Somehow I managed to be laughing by the time I hit the bottom. I guess it was just a lesson learned and a story created that I can someday tell to my grandchildren.

Jericho

2008-02-18T07:33:00.004-05:00

Sam and I have recently discovered a really cool and interesting show. It's very science fictionish. It's about a town trying to survive when the U.S is being distroyed. It's very exciting.

It's also the start of February break. Which means no school. Unfortunatly I have to work on an english project.

Ouch!

2008-02-15T08:08:00.001-05:00

Got a head ache?

Signs

2008-02-11T15:13:00.000-05:00

Today I am showing you pictures of street signs I took while riding home from school.

STOP!!!

I live on Jeferson street. This is one of the pics Took.

This is our street. Our house is about right next to where this picture was taken. It may look nice in this picture but it really isn't in a good part of town.

Scary Drive and other tales

2008-02-10T20:21:00.000-05:00

This morning when we were driving home from church, my family had quite a frightening experence. A brief storm was coming through just when we had decided to go home. The temperature was really cold and the visability was awful. It was so bad, we couldn't even see 50 feet away. It was especially scary when we had to cross 5 & 20. We couldn't tell if there were any cars coming. We had to just go for it and hope for the best. Thankfully, no cars were coming. Who would ever think that it could be so scary just to cross the street?

I also got to see our middle school musical today. It was pretty good except for the few actors that put no emotion into their lines. I don't really care to sing so I don't think I would want to be in a musical. I like to act, just not so much to sing.

A new look

2008-02-09T13:51:00.000-05:00

I gave my blog a better and cooler look. I like it so far. I also gave it a better name that way I don't have to change it when I get out of seventh grade. I kind of like it. It's kind of science fictionish. What do you think about it?

I've been tagged!!!!

2008-02-08T14:46:00.001-05:00

I've been tagged by my Aunt Martha. I must tell 7 facts about myself.

1. My favorite subject is Social Studies.

2. I have crooked middle fingers. So does my mom, my mom's mom, my sister, and my aunt Rachel. (I think)

3. My best friend's name is Sam.

4. I'm a big fan of hippos.

5. I like to Run and swim.

6. I am the director of the Sammy Shows.

7. I'm taking french.

I tag Sam, Mellisa, Anika, and Abby.

oh and Audra.

Super Tuesday

2008-02-05T21:48:00.000-05:00

I have been tagged by my Aunt Martha (thanks*) but i think I'll wait til next time to post about it since it's supper tuesday and I want to post about it instead.

When I first heard of "super tuesday", my first thoughts were of a super hero. Instead of a superhero, a bunch of states (including NY)got to vote in the primarys. I am still anxious to hear the results.

In school we had a little election of our own. Weeks before today, my Social studies teacher showed us an online poll that matched us up to the person who most agrees with you. I took this quiz and got all republicans. I guess that makes me one then. I dicided to vote for Huckabee. For the results, Jon McKain won for the Republicans and Barak Oboma won for the democrats.

The one thing I disagree with when it comes to Presidental elections, is that people don't bother listning to people's ideas and just automatically vote for someone just because there hasn't been a women or African American president before. Yeah, I think it would be fine if a women was president as long as they knew what was best for our country.

P.S. The best thing about Huckabee is that he can play the guitar.

Just a little breeze

2008-01-30T07:22:00.000-05:00

Right now we're having a two hour delay just because we have a little breeze. Okay I think it's more than just a little breeze. There have been a few reports about 50 mph winds. The temperature is plunging just over an hour ago the temperature was in the 50s. Now it's around 30.

Broken

2008-01-29T17:16:00.001-05:00

Today I went to the orthapedist and it turns out that it really is broken. Three of my meditarsul bones are broken. The doctors at the emergency room mistaked my breaks for growth plates. Now Jared can feel even worse about what happened to me.

Today is my is Audra's Birthday. I keep telling her that she should post on her blog about it. However she still won't listen.

I M 2 Ys 4 U

Day overview

2008-01-28T14:48:00.002-05:00

Day of the week: Monday

Ups: Telling people that I got hit by a bus when they asked about my foot.

Downs: It was hard to get people to carry my books for me, hard to open doors, hard to get to class on time, catching up on things I missed, being tired,

Neutral: Started new schedule, watched Ratatouille during lunch.

Overall rating out of ten: 3

Word rating: Bad Day

Extra notes: It was hard to carry books around. Mom said that it would be easy to find people. Jared, Sam, Kayla, seemed to be the only people who volunteered to help. Unfortunately those few people weren't in many of my classes. All other people that helped me I had to ask.

It is very exhausting walking on crutches. By the time afternoon came I was so tired I felt as if I could have taken a nap. When you walk on crutches you go extremely slow. Trying to make it to class on time is definitely an issue.

One period I had no one to carry my folders to socials studies. I basically had to limp to class.

An almost break

2008-01-25T21:07:00.002-05:00

In gym class we were doing sumo. We were trying to push our opponent out of the ring. Jared and I decided to be partners. The first time we did it, it was fine. I was quick to act and easily pushed Jared out of the ring. The second time however, wasn't so great. Jared pushed me almost to the edge. I tried twisting him around and tried forcing him to step out of the ring first. Instead my elbow hit the ground first. While we fell out of the ring, Jared fell on my left foot. It hurt incredibly bad. I was wincing in pain and rolling on the ground. I think I know now how football players feel when they get injured on the football field.

My Gym teacher then called the nurse, while I waited outside. It seemed to take forever for her to come. Eventually my gym teacher just wheeled me down in a roley chair. From the nurse's office I went to dad's work since mom currently was out of town discussing matters about grad school. My foot was swelling up and it hurt to put any pressure on it.

After watching Toy Story 2, (basically the only thing they had) I went to Sam's house. Sam unfortunately was not there because he was at all county orchestra. Sam has currently broken a toe. Please do not think I was trying to copy him. Sam's dad is a surgeon who took a look at my foot. He recommended it be X-rayed.

We then took my sisters home and went off to the emergency room. It didn't take long to wait for a doctor to take the X-ray or for the doctors to wheel me off to a room. It was then the time we had to wait. My mother and I passed the time away by taking pictures of my foot. Kind of weird I guess. The doctor kind of walked in at an awkward time. I don't think we left a very good impression. I mean, who takes pictures of feet?

It turns out that there was no break but a lot of strain on my foot or in other words it was almost broken. They gave me a soft cast and some crutches. Honestly I think I look ridiculous with crutches. Crutches are extremely annoying and this cast is really painful. I really want to move my ankle around but this cast doesn't let me. Moral of the story "Fear the sumo"!!!!

Rolling Pennies

2008-01-24T17:05:00.000-05:00

Today in sci fi club we watched "The twilight zone". It was pretty amazing. We watched a very interesting episode called "A pennie for you thoughts. In the episode a man flip a coin and it landed on it side. When doing this he all of a sudden, got the power to read people's mind.

So now I'm going to flip pennies until I get one that lands on it's side. I bet that's how Xaiver from X-men got his power.

However, at the end he went to the same place he had flipped the coin and accidently knock it over so he lost his power to read minds. It was a neat episode.

Social studies Poll

2008-01-22T15:28:00.000-05:00

In social studies we are learning about our federal government. Since the primaries are coming up, our teacher gave us a poll to have people take. I thought I might as well do it on my blog. It may help to live in New York and be old enough to vote.

Are you registered to vote?
Did you vote in the last Pres. election?
Do you know when NY's primary is?
Do you plan on voting in NY's primary?
Why or why not?

"I have a dream"

2008-01-21T08:29:00.000-05:00

It's easy in our day of age, to forget about Martin. Our generation seems to take racial equality for granted. It doesn't seem like such a big deal now that everything has changed. It's pretty easy to assume that he was popular and everyone liked him and everyone totally agreed with what he said.

Those things however were not true. It's not often you'll find someone who doesn't care about what the world thinks and is willing to take a stand for what they believe in. Martin found it hard to find many people that agreed with him. He was arrested numerous times, people threatened to blow up his house, riots often stormed outside his house, and he was eventually assassinated. He was the opposite of popular. He did all that just to do what was right.

This kind of reminds me of a man named Paul (a.k.a. Saul). God gave him a second chance and he started spreading the gospel. He too stopped caring what other people thought. He was beaten and tortured and thrown in Jail for doing what's right even though everyone else was else was doing wrong.

Right before Martin's death, Martin started working on things like poverty and arguments between countries. He never really got a chance to finish the job. Right now the poverty level is extremely high and even at this moment people all over the world are fighting just because they're from different backgrounds. I guess that's kind of where we need to pick up.

coincidence?

2008-01-14T16:53:00.000-05:00

Today in science we were talking about mitosis. Our teacher was talking about how when we lose cells from our body, our body makes sure to replace them with the right kind of cell. For example, if one of our skin cells dies our body doesn't replace it with a liver or a brain cell instead it replaces it with another skin cell.

This kind of got me thinking. How could you believe in this and believe in evolution. You would have to believe that our body just happens to run perfectly and knows what kind of cell to replace each dead cell with. If you think about it, we could have evolved in to a creature that doesn't replace dead cells with the correct kind cell. We could have evolved in to a creature that replaced dead skin cells with liver cells. We needed a creator (God) to make us perfect.

Many people don't believe in God because they can't see him. It's kind of like believing in the wind. Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it's not there. We know that there's wind because we see all that it effects. We see leaves blowing and when we step outside hair is blown in our face. It's the same with God. We can also see all that God effects. Christianity is the most popular religion. This world is so perfect there must of been a god. God has changed millions of people's lives and has made a ton of prophesies that are coming true as we speak.

Weekend update

2008-01-13T11:35:00.000-05:00

This is my weekend update where I update you about my weekend. Very exciting, I know.

Yesterday, I ran in a 5k race out in irondaquoit down by the lake. It took me about 24 minutes to comeplete the race and I came in 4th in my age group. Manly because the did 19 and under and I didn't statnd much of a chance.

After that my family went to my grandma's and grandpa's house. My cousins (martha's children) were there.

After that, we bought me new sneekers because my old ones were way too small. I went from a size 5 to a size 7. It also turns out that my left foot is bigger than my right.

That evening my dad and I watched the Pats and jaguars game. I want the Patriots to lose so bad but pats still won. 31 to 20.

Today we went to church and nothing abnormal happen there so there is nothing good to blog about it. Today there is another playoff game that I plan to watch.

Superhero/supervillain

2008-01-11T16:19:00.000-05:00

The other day I took a quiz that tells you what supurhero/supervillan you are. These were the results.

Superhero: Robin

Supervillian: The joker

It's kind of odd, because these two characters are normally against each other.

Take the superhero quiz

Take the villian quiz

Barney Fife and the Preamble to the Constitution

2008-01-10T21:45:00.001-05:00

We had to memorize the preamble for social studies class. We had the choice of singing it but I didn't think that would be a good idea. My teacher also offered me and sam extra credit if we did a cheer that one girl made up (spits and all). I decided that too was a bad idea. So Instead I did it the boring way and just recited it.

New blog

2008-01-03T18:35:00.001-05:00

I've got a new blog.

http://gohippos.blogspot.com/

Back in school

2008-01-02T20:41:00.001-05:00

I'm back in school and I'm jealeous of all people (micheal) who had the day off. I was too tired to go to school and who likes school anyway.

Sorry I haven't been able to publish pictures on my blog. My camera is currently broken but hopfully it will be prepared soon.

Dr. Imeedummy is back!!!

2007-12-28T09:10:00.000-05:00

Dr. Imeedummy is back and to celebrate this I'm coming up with a quiz to see how well people know his blog. Try not to cheat. If you do happen to cheat, you will not find out your true rank.

okay anyway, are you ready? good.

Question #1
What is Stupider's moon's name?
A) juniger
B) kiloggholl
C) flogginghogging

Question #2
What is Stupider's ring made out of?
A) Oozed slime
B) Apple Juice
C) Igneous rocks

Question #3
What planet is Stupider most like?
A) Saturn
B) Mars
C) Jupiter

Question #4
Stupider is between what two planets?
A) Saturn and Jupiter
B) Venus and Mercury
C) Mars and Earth

Question #5
How many earth days make one stupider day?
A) 3
B) 2
C) 4

Question #6
How many earth days make up the time that
Stupider's moon make one orbit?
A) 3
B) 5
C) 1

Question #7
What is Dr. Imeedummy's assistant's name?
A) Philippe
B) Pedro
C) Pablo

Question #8
What is the name of the invention that Dr. Imeedummy first sends to take pictures of stupider?
A) naboou
B) flying camera
C) Robo 3000

Question #9
What is the second invention that Dr. Imeedummy sends to stupider?
A) poperozi
B) Robo 3000
C) bunjam

Question #10
When Dr. Imeedummy goes to stupider, he lands near what mountain?
A) Mt. Jortim
B) Mt. Sandy
C) Mt. Goopa

Question #11
What is the name of Dr. I'meedummy invention that changes into several different objects?
A) transformable tool
B) Chargtoger
C) kilophopo

Question #12
What is Dr. Imeedummy's first name?
A) Bill
B) Jim
C) Ying

Question #13
What type of land marks are more likely found in yellow areas?
A) forests and lakes
B) mountains
C) Deserts

Question #14
What percent of stupider is brown area?
A) 59%
B) 47%
C) 30%

Question #15
What type of pet does Dr. Imeedummy own?
A) cat
B) Monkey
C) Dog

So how do you think you did? Ask yourself; was I well prepared?
Did you cheat? I hope not.

Answers

1- C
2- A
3- C
4- B
5- B
6- C
7- C
8- A
9- B
10- C
11- A
12- C
13- C
14- A
15- C

What's your rank
based on # right
15) true fan
14) astronaut
13) scientist
12) genius
11) brainiac
10) good fan
9) star gazer
8) sifi kind of guy
7) blog skimmer
6) a humbug
5) not much of a fan
4) apprentice
3) youngling
2) junior
1) almost failure
0) failure

If you got a bad rank don't sweat it you'll have a chance to redeem yourself on the next test.

Merry Christmas Adam Adam!

2007-12-27T10:22:00.000-05:00

I think I had a pretty cool christmas. We went to my Aunt's house. We didn't do much there but it was fun being with family.

One of the things I got was a remote control helicopter. Its pretty fun except sherman is scared of it and thinks its trying to hurt us (ever since it hit mom). Well at least we know we have a dog that will pertect me.

This is kind of what it looks like except it's red.

6 and a 1/2 hours of christmas shopping

2007-12-24T17:12:00.000-05:00

6 and a 1/2 hours of christmas shopping is not exactly the funnest thing in the world to do but hey at least its over. We spent most of our time at the mall and only ended up getting two presents there. I think Alicia and Sam will especially like their gifts.

Sesame Street - Grover sings to Fat Blue

2007-12-20T21:58:00.001-05:00

it's still sam's favorite job.

sam's favorite show

2007-12-13T16:02:00.001-05:00

wait for it.

poor guy.

Mustang

2007-12-05T18:33:00.000-05:00

This is my story I wrote in ELA workshop.

The alarm never rang. As Hedeki’s tired eyes crept open, they read the lights that beamed out of the box on the top shelf. 7:08… 7:09… 7:10. Those minutes were ticking away. Hedeki ignored the time and sunk deeper into his comforters. They were too warm, too comfortable to leave. They loved him and he loved them, how could anyone leave something they loved so much? His pillow surely loved him too. It calmed him as he slept and blocked the sun’s blinding rays. He definitely couldn’t leave that either.
“Wake up; wake up” said a distant, familiar voice, “you’re already late as it is.” Firm hands shook him and he slowly broke away from his slumber. He drifted away from his precious dream and started coming into the real world.
“Fine,” said the voice again, “I’ll just have to tell dad.” The voice left the room and ventured downstairs
No. Hedeki couldn’t let his dad know, not after last time anyway. He rolled out of his bed and ignored all that his bed was trying to tell him. They would not be able to persuade him anymore. 7:15. He still had a chance to make the bus, not a big one, but still a possibility. His feet stumbled as he attempted to get out of his room. Through the hallway he raced trying to escape his dad’s monster inside of him. When his dad was angry, the whole world seemed to sink in to shame. He tripped over him self as he tried to get down the staircase. The rough wood on the railing scraped his hand and blistered them. Already this was beginning to be a bad day.
His feet slid on kitchen floor causing him to lose his balance and land flat on his face. He tried to wince away the pain but it was still hard. Lucy, who was sitting at the table, saw it all. It would be like her to say something insulting to say at the moment.
“Boy, the kids at school are right, you are a nerd.” She pushed her long, blond locks of hair behind her and left him there alone. No help, no kind words, nothing. He wanted to chase her away but something stopped him. There was no time for that. For now he had to get ready for school. Looking up, he noticed the kitchen clock. 7:17. If there was a world record on quickest time took while getting dressed he was sure to get it. Stuffing an oatmeal bar in his mouth he headed into the bathroom.
He combed his hair in what seemed less then a second. He could still see the bed head but he didn’t care. Back up stairs he went, brushing his teeth as he ran. Slipping on his white tee shirt, he got dressed quicker than a cheetah and before you knew it he was running through the doorway with the door slamming behind him.
As he ran outside he saw the bus pulling away from his driveway. He tried to stop it, but it was too late. It left him there standing there alone on his driveway. Then the idea struck him. Tina! He raced into his garage, and searched for Tina. Her shiny pedals and blue rims were sure to stand out in the garage. She was the fastest and the finest, surely he would be able to find her. After a while it seemed the more time he spent searching the less likely he was to find her. He needed her though. It was then that he remembered. He had lent it out to Sanjaya a little less than a month ago. Worried that he would never make it to school, he set out for school on foot.

When he finally got to school, the warning bell had already rung. He hurried to his locker and pulled out two math binders and his agenda. Closing his locker, which almost slammed his fingers in, he headed for homeroom. Nobody noticed him come in to the room and he was thankful too. He couldn’t afford to be late again. He pulled out the chair and sat down next to his best friend Sanjaya.
“Late again?” asked Sanjaya.
“Yeah,” answered Hedeki, ashamed of his actions.
“That’s the third time this week.”
“I know, I know,” Hedeki muttered “It’s just I couldn’t ride Tina because you barrowed her. I would really like her back.”
“Tina?”
“You know, my bike.”
“Yeah, I know your who it is, it’s just I don’t have her right now. I thought she was with you.”
“Are you sure?” Hedeki questioned. He was sure he loaned his bike to him.
“Of course I’m sure. Maybe you just think you lent it to me.” Sanjaya insisted, “Oh by the way, we won the football game twenty seven to fourteen. I’m really mad that you couldn’t have come” It seemed as if he was quick to change the subject.
“I’m mad too.” Hedeki agreed “Parents are so lame.”
The conversation continued but no matter what they were talking about Hedeki kept thinking about the bike. He was sure he had loaned it to him but he wanted so bad to trust Sanjaya. After all, they had been friends since first grade. This friendship couldn’t be broken up now.
Over the years, both of the friends had noticed that they weren’t exactly alike. Sanjaya loved football when Hedeki couldn’t catch anything coming at him. Sanjaya loved music when Hedeki would rather read a book. Sanjaya had a hard time with his grades when Hedeki found it easy. The list went on and on. The only thing they could think of that similar between the two was the looked almost exactly alike. Both had brown hair and hazel eyes and the height 5 feet, 2 inches. A lot of times they could even trick people who didn’t know them all that well.
Once the bell rang, it was time for their next class. Science! There was no class he abominated more. Mr. Charleson was the meanest teacher ever. Some kids even told rumors that he made his kids eat bugs once and he was actually cursed. Hardly anyone passed his class. You were lucky if you had a seventy average which thankfully was what Hedeki had.
When Hedeki got there, Mr. Charleson was sure to point out that Hedeki was thirty seconds late and that he was wasting everyone’s time. He didn’t say anything and sat down at his desk. Today unfortunately, was the day in which Mr. Charleson passed back tests from the day before. This kind of day was seeming to become more frequent. A big paper landed in front of him. The number seventy was written with an extremely bold font. A repulsive looking unsmiley face was drawn next to it. It mocked him and taunted him in his moment of plunder.
“Perhaps a little more effort next time.” Mr. Charleson rudely commented. Hedeki loathed him so much. He felt like punching him hard and showing him justice but his harness held him back.
It turned out that Hedeki actually had the highest grade in the class. That was typical of Mr. Charleson. The class turned out to be the same as usual. More lectures about how much more effort the class needed to put into its work. Could this day get any worse?

The day never seemed to get better. Everything that could have possibly gone wrong did. Everything from dropping books in the hallway to getting picked on by the bully in the school, Hubert, but no matter what happened, Hedeki couldn’t stop thinking about Tina. He was certain he leant it to him. When the final bell rang, it came as a relief. He could finally be free. Free from all the pain of school.
When he got home his mom, who he forgot to say hello to, was cooking something on the stove. He dropped his backpack on the ground and went into the living room. Flopping himself on the coach he stared at the ceiling looking very depressed. How he wished he could wake up and find out it was all just a horrible nightmare with his mother right beside him comforting him back to sleep.
“I know it’s a little much to ask,” he heard his mom say; something bad was coming, “but can you come with us when we go shopping for Lucy. I figured I buy you some new clothes.” It was then that Hedeki realized that it could get worse. He hated shopping for clothing. It was so dreary. He had to force himself into the car. Why today, of all days. Park Street. They were almost there. His life was about to be over.
“Isn’t that Sanjaya?” Lucy exclaimed.
It was. It was his best friend riding Tina. Sanjaya raced past the family Ferrari on the bike and disappeared behind two bushes. Hedeki’s best friend had lied to him, stole from him and worst of all he had betrayed him. It was at that moment that all Hedeki’s trust for Sanjaya had gone down the drain.
Hedeki groaned and sunk in his seat. Inside he cried. Why? was what he kept asking himself. This day had been the worst day ever. Everything that could have possibly gone wrong had and now his friend had betrayed him.
When they were done with their shopping, he went strait to bed. He wanted to start completely fresh. Before long he had sunk deep into sleep surrounded by his dreams.

He was standing outside when he saw Sanjaya confront him. He was irritated and angry.
“It’s not my fault!” he yelled. His face was completely red and hair was so messed up that it looked like he had just rolled bed. Hedeki tried to tell him that he was sorry for being so hard on him but instead of a forgiving salutation a fist meant Hedeki’s face. He fell to the ground.

He jumped up. 6:38. It was still dark out but why not get ready early. That way he surely wouldn’t be late for school. His parents turned out to be extremely surprised to see him up so early and it turn out he was finally on time for school but no matter how good of a morning it was he couldn’t stop thinking about Tina. He tried to forget and forgive him but it was too hard. He had to confront him but he didn’t want to talk to him quite yet so instead he just stayed out of Sanjaya’s way. When the day was over, it was time. He found Sanjaya outside waiting for his bus to pull in.
“I have to talk to you.” He said trying to be brave.
“Hey if it’s about the football game, just let it go.” Sanjaya replied, not completely understanding about what Hedeki was saying.
“No, it’s not that. It’s just” he paused hesitant about what he was about to say. “I saw you riding Tina last night!”
“What are you talking about?” Sanjaya asked. Hedeki could see that he was sweating. How could he lie to him?
“Don’t lie to me, Sanjaya! I know I saw you riding it!” He had tried to say it softly but it came out harsh.
“I… I… Okay, Okay, I had your bike it’s just…” Sanjaya stuttered as he talked. “I didn’t think it was fair.’
“You didn’t think it was fair?” Hedeki questioned. Where was he going with this?
“I didn’t think it was fair that you had a great bike and I didn’t.” He paused in suspension, “I’ll just get strait to the point. Don’t even ask for me to give it back because I can’t.”
“You can’t?” His face was filled with horror.
“I can’t because it’s broken. You don’t even have to ask. I left it out in the parking lot when I went to the park and a red mustang hit it. It’s completely crushed” Hedeki was shocked.
“Are you serious!!!?” Hedeki screamed. Almost everyone was looking at them now.
“It’s not my fault!!!” Sanjaya yelled, his face as red as a cherry.
It was then that Hedeki realized that he had gone too far. All his friend wanted, was forgiveness. Instead Hedeki was making him feel worse.
“Look I’m sorry for what…” Hedeki started to say but Sanjaya’s cold fist hit him hard in the face, knocking him to the ground. Blood was trickling out from underneath his eye. Sanjaya now was shocked at what he’d just done. Anger had won a battle. It had token control of them. They were it slaves now.
Hedeki rose back to his feet. They were even now. Just then the worst person possible walked by. Hedeki didn’t want to know what was going to happen next. It was Mr. Charleson.
“Glad to see you worked it out boys.” He commented in an almost mocking voice.
“Thanks.” Hedeki muttered softly as Mr. Charleson hopped in his scarlet, dented mustang.
“See you tomorrow boys.” He said.
“Wait!” Sanjaya called.
“Yes.” Mr. Charleson stopped what he was doing.
“How’d you get the dent in your new car?”
“Oh it’s nothing. Just a little incident I had at the park last night.” He said and he was gone leaving the boys there alone. Sanjaya was the first to talk.
“I’ll help you buy a new bike.” Sanjaya said, “We can name her Sophia.’
“Okay.” Hedeki replied “Thanks”
Maybe Mr. Charles wasn’t what everyone made him out to be. Maybe he was really just a kind man. Hedeki was thankful for his healing words. He had a feeling that life would go back to normal again. Everything would be just fine.

Two truths and a lie

2007-10-26T14:49:00.000-04:00

It's time to play a little game!!!! Its called two truths and a lie. How it works is, each round I'll make three statements two are the truth and one is a lie. You have to figure out which one is the lie. got it? okay...

Round #1

A) I wish I lived in the country
B) The farthest I've ever ran is 5 miles
C) Soc. Studies teachers name is Mrs. Marino

Round #2

A) In third grade I was in Mrs. Tyler's class
B) I wish I had a cell phone
C) I played the saxophone in fourth grade

Round #3

A) When I grow up I think it would be cool to be a Soc. Studies teacher
B) I think it would be cool to visit Butan
C) I've never been to Canada

Hope I stumped ya!

Bill Nye the Science Guy - The Family Crust: Cells

2007-10-18T17:11:00.001-04:00

Jeremy Camp - Take You Back

2007-09-28T19:25:00.001-04:00

DIVE - steven curtis chapman

2007-09-19T19:33:00.001-04:00

Arm drawings

2007-09-14T17:32:00.000-04:00

Today two girls randomly started drawing on my arm

It was ariginally in highlighter but I rewrote it in a darker color. (sorry i have nothing else to blog about.

Toby Mac - Gone

2007-09-12T17:28:00.001-04:00

First Day of School

2007-09-06T18:57:00.000-04:00

Today was the first day of school. I didn't want to go today. All the classes seemed the same. In every class they'd explain the homework policy and how they graded you. It was really boring. Then I went to cross country. It was fun except it was like 90 degrees out. So I'm really tired.

The picture is me running away from mom who took like 20 pictures.

5k Race

2007-09-04T18:24:00.000-04:00

On Saturday I ran a 5k Race. I did pretty good I guess. I did it in 25 minites and 42 seconds and got in 128th place (out of 340) . I beat sam. Ha ha for him. At the very end I sprinted as fast as I could and almost beat I guy from our church.
I joined crosscountry too. We don't have to run as far as a 5k bu it's still fun. We had our first practice today. We mostly got paperwork but oh well.

The Elfy Story

2007-08-31T09:03:00.001-04:00

This is my sister Alicia. She's really fun to annoy and sometimes Audra and I team up on her. You may be thinking, oh that poor little girl. If you ever have gotten attacked by her you won't think of her like that any more.

One time Audra and I came up with a really silly story about her and it still drives her crazy. We were looking at pictures and there was a picture of her as a baby and we told her that wasn't really her. We said it was someone named Elfy that was the real baby mom had and that we had bought Alicia from the next store neighbors for two hundred dollars (that's all she was worth.) Then we said that Elfy now lives in Grandma's basement. Key thought: Grandma doesn't have a basement. We also showed Alicia a picture of a snowman we made and said that was what she looked like before she was born to the next store neighbors.

Paul Baloche - All The Earth Will Sing Your Praises

2007-08-30T14:52:00.001-04:00

JOHN RUEBEN - NUISANCE

2007-08-29T20:19:00.001-04:00

Me

2007-08-29T19:17:00.000-04:00

Hi I'm Allen. I like to walk on stilts, play with friends, read, imagine, make movies with my friend Sam, eat pie, listen to John Ruben, Bike, Run, Swim, Sing Random made up songs, annoy my sisters, blog, go to youth group, and Search my teachers' names on Google.

Lately a strange guy keeps calling and asking for someone by the name of Miguel. THERE IS NO MIGUEL HERE!!!!!!