Monday, November 19, 2012

Back Down Memory Lane

As I approach the place where my old house once stood, a flood of memories came rushing back to me like a river. I calmly walked up the driveway and almost  instantly, I was back in my old house.

I woke up to the smell of Window Cleaner and Febreeze. As I got out of the bed, I could faintly hear gospel music, 95.7 was her favorite station, especially on Sundays. The sound of sweeping and humming buzzed around me like a swarm of bees.

“Mom”, I said, “why do you always clean stuff?”

“Because, honey, I don’t like dust bunnies”.

My feeble five year old mind thought that actual bunny rabbits were in my home. I always loved playing cleaning detective, so I put on some gloves and slid my finger across the table she’d just finished cleaning. The cleaning was very legit.

“I’m a little acorn nice and round, I live all way down in the ground”.

My tone def voice was lingering all around the  laundry room. The laundry was going and it smelled of fresh flowers on a spring morning. I was sitting on top of the dryer just singing like my heart depended on it. I never knew why I used to sing in there, but soon would find out.

“ Why are you yelling like a mad man?” My mom always asked me.

“I’m not yelling, I’m singing!”

“Well go sing somewhere else, I am doing laundry.” I could tell my mom was getting annoyed.

“ Is that why they call it a Laundry Room, mommy?”

“For a seven year old girl, you ask a load of questions.”

 

“Hey you guys, you want to see something cool?”

I went and got a cover and turned on the air. My cousin and brother tagged along.I put the cover oer the vent on the floor and the cover puffed up like a homemade popcorn top. We all got under the cover and started playing hand games, Wrestle Mania, and started to create our own club. We were the Popcorn Kids. When we all got together, we ate popcorn in our clubhouse, which was the cover. I never met nine year olds who did this but it was kind of cool.

Remembering and seeing this made my body shiver with happiness and sadness. I had all my childhood memories there and to leave that all behind in one house made a soft spot in my heart. Growing up made me realize that we all have to grow up sometime and have to move on and do bigger and better things. I finally knew that the Childhood chapter was done and it was time for something more mature. As fast as I was in the house, I was out of it in a jiffy, getting back into the car, and driving with a single tear.

Monday, October 29, 2012

Unscribbled Words

When I learned to read, I was very smart about it. It was when I was four and I was in preschool. All we did in preschool was finger paint and sing songs all day. We actually didn't learn anything until we were in Kindergarten. What I did was go to my teacher and ask her can she teach me how to read and to my surprise she said "No". So I went home that day and my mom started to read me a bedtime story. I really wanted to read it myself but the writing and the words looked like scribbles. So I asked her can she teach me how to read and she promised she would but later. I really didn't want to wait because my heart wanted it really bad. So until she taught me, I went around the house doing stupid things, acting really slow. My mom knew why so she took me to my room and started pronouncing words and telling me SH or WH bases.

I knew it would take such a long time for me to be reading with just one person teaching me how to. So what I did was ask my teacher again and she said "No," again. I kept coming back asking her and asking her until she finally said "Okay, stop buggin' me!" I felt like it was actually her job to teach me something useful. So everyday I stayed after school and let her teach me how to read. Everyday my day consisted of reading scribbled words. I always carried a book that I wanted to be able to read and it was my bedtime story.

'Goodnight Moon' was always my favorite book even though I couldn't read it. I tried to read it but the only word I could understand was 'The'. So I just waited until I had time to actually learn some other words. But I remembered all the SH or WH bases and was able to read some of the words and somehow I knew my mom was listening to me read because soon as I started reading my mom walked in and sat down and listened to me. She helped me with words I stumbled on and it felt great that I was starting off not that bad.

Time progressed slowly and day after day, I was slowly learning to read. It finally came time for me to read a whole book to both my mom and my teacher. Of course, I went slowly but I read the words and actually pronounced them correctly! Ever since then, I always, always kept a book with me and never stopped reading. My teacher actually said she never seen anyone read the way I did. She liked me more than all the other kids after that because I had perseverance and I wasn't going to give no matter what.  

It's very rare that you see a teenager read all the time and nobody is forcing you to. I know that reading is always going to be a part of my life because once you learn to read, there is no stopping you. Either you read signs, magazines, posters, pamphlets, or anything, it's important you know what it means.

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Lincoln's Second Inaugural Adress PEE paragragh

Lincoln creates a tone of righteous indignation. He feels that any man shouldn't ask assistance of God to harm another person. He means that don't ask God to kill or hurt another human being because it's wrong. He goes on to say that
"with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right...".
He's saying that he and all people need to be on the right side or believe in the right side. That no one be the bad guy in the situation. Lincoln says that we need to "bind up the nations wounds", meaning that we need to work together to fix the problems we see everyday. To work on doing good work and putting time and effort into really doing something worth while and makes a change or two. He wants people to be calm and try to be good and do great things.  Also, he blames the Union because they were the cause of the war and money and economy in the South. He feels that they are doing things wrong instead of wisely and carefully.So, in conclusion he does create a tone of righteous indignation because he feels he is on the side of right along with God who is always right.

Monday, August 27, 2012

I Am...

I am likeable and awesome

I wonder if Neptune and Poseidon the same person

I hear the bees playing in the wind

I want to be able to freeze time

I am likeable and awesome

 

I petend to be my favorite cartoon character

I feel the wings of a unicorn

I touch the moon every night

I worry I wont succeed in life

I cry when other people cry

I am likeable and awesome 

 

I understand why people argue

I say the words of wisdom

I dream im always eating junkfood

I try to be more funny

I hope people could be more understanding

I am likeable and awesome