Friday, January 6, 2012

A Silver Bracelet that Goes A Long Way

 Author's note: This is my point of view creative story . I wrote about my silver charm bracelet with my birth stone in it  because it is my favorite gift that I received for Christmas.


It’s October 25th and I'm sitting in a large dark and cold room.  My sterling silver links shimmer every time I move. I have two silver hearts hanging off of me clinking together. Yes, I am a charm bracelet. A silver polished charmless charm bracelet. I am being brought to the jewelers tomorrow to have something engraved in me, whatever that means. I have 11 brothers and sisters along with me. All the same silver bracelets. Soon we will be able to be told apart, thanks to the 11 other birthstones.  They transported us in cardboard boxes to something I believe is called a truck. They're unloading each one of us. I think we are at the jewelers. They are placing me down on a cold marble counter. In one of my silver hearts they are placing a precious alexandrite gem stone in me. Whoever my future owner is must have been born in June. After the gem placing I am being shipped to Brookfield, Wisconsin. I'm from New York so its going to be a long car ride. After 13 hours of riding in the truck we finally arrive in that place called Wisconsin. I can't see but I can hear a bunch of people talking and laughing and one of m sisters tell me it's a mall. We are at this place called things remembered. One of the workers is now placing me and all of my brother's and sister's on a soft satin shelf. Its mid afternoon and dozens of people have  tried me on and even contemplated buying me! I  have been here for a month and 2 of my brothers and 1 of my sisters and I are still left. My brother tells me that its going to be triple busy because it is Christmas season. One lady walks in and starts to bring me to the front of the store. She might buy me. I'm being scanned and wrapped . The cashier woman says that it is a buy 1 get 1 free so this lady goes and grabs my sister. My sister and I ride home in fright wondering where we are going and what these people are doing with us. Once we enter a mysterious place we smell a somewhat reassuring  scent of vanilla and cinnamon. We must be at this owners home. Once again I here talking and laughing and dogs barking.  This brunette lady takes me out of my box and starts to wrap me in yet another wrapping paper. This time the wrapper has snowflakes and decorated Christmas trees plastered all over it. Now its December 23 and I am being brought to another loud transportation device. I can't remember the name but it was something like a car.
Yeah it was a car. This time the drive was even longer than going from New York to Wisconsin. Once we arrived at a  not so much mysterious place(I'm assuming it's another house)I think I heard somebody say it's Christmas Eve. I haven't  quite figured out what that means but I'm getting to think it's some holiday that people celebrate that involves lots of red and green. Somebody placed me and a lot of other holiday wrapped rectangular boxes underneath a tree that is shedding green spiky things. It must be Christmas morning because the gifts around me are saying that it is a tradition for people to open present on this day. I am being unwrapped and it seems like my owner loves me. I was linked onto her lavender scented wrist and forever may it stay that way.
   

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Favorite Outdoor Activity

Author's note: I've been skiing for so long. This is favorite outdoor activity because I am used to it and I love doing it.


           Favorite outdoor Activity

      I have two favorite outdoor activities that I’m going to pick. Downhill skiing . When  I lived in New York ,during Christmas break my whole family cousins and all would all go skiing one day. It was so much fun because we would go skiing and then we would have a sleepover. All of my cousins are boys except for one and she is 18. If you could imagine what a sleepover with all boys would be, video games and air-soft wars. Anyways, I have been skiing since I was about 4 ears old. It almost comes naturally to me because I have been doing it for 8 years and because I love it so much. Now that I have moved we don’t go skiing anymore but I still have those memories.

Vacation

          Author's note: This my dream vacation. California is a vacation I'm going on in the future.



  My dream vacation would be able to go to Bora Bora. The water is electric aqua and crystal clear. Bora Bora is always sunny and warm. Who wouldn’t want to go there? Someday I hope I can go there because that is one of the top places I want to go to most all over the world.      
    For spring break my family is going to California. A few days we will be in Los Angeles and a few days we will be in San Francisco. In Los Angeles my sister and I are going para sailing and a few other things but I’m not quite sure yet.                                  

Opinions on Hunting

                                                Opinions on Hunting

              I don’t like hunting. It seems like it would be really boring because all you do is sit in the woods. Also I would imagine you would be really cold. Guns scare me because they are big and loud and I don’t know how use them and if anything were to happen a gun could easily kill somebody.  

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Christmas Break

                                                             Christmas

            Author’s Note: Every kid is excited for Christmas! Playing in the snow, being with family, and opening presents. Down below are all the reasons why I am extremely excited.

      Christmas is always a special time of year. Lights fill the streets and snow covers the ground. There are always presents wrapped in red and green awaiting you under the decorated tree. The best part about it is getting to visit with your family. I only see my relatives 4 times a year so when I get that chance I never take it for granted.

      Anyways, on to my plans. My family lives in Pennsylvania and New York, so one day we would have to spend driving. On Christmas Eve it usually is a relaxed day (which we would spend at my grandparents house). Sometimes my sister and I will build a gingerbread house or just hang out with my cousins. Same goes for Christmas day. Once we finish opening presents we have a big breakfast  to start the next part of our day. Later that evening my Aunt is going to make a big dinner for everyone. The part of Pennsylvania that my grandparents live in is only 2 hours away from NYC.
      Being that length we will go there on the 26th. Some plans we have for there is to go to a Broadway show because our friend knows a producer so we got 9 free tickets! We also plan to go ice skating in Rockefeller plaza. The city is always beautiful when there is decorations and a big snowfall. After a day in the big apple we are heading to a different part of New york to visit my dad’s side of the family.
     On my dad’s side I have 15 cousins and 2 are younger than me. I always have a lot of fun at my cousins house because the day is fresh off of Christmas and everyone is still excited. My family tends to be a little crazy so it’s always hectic but fun. After 2 days there I am going to go to where I used to live in New York and visit some of my friends.
      My friends and I plan to go shopping and to see the new movie New Years Eve. I haven’t seen my really good friend in 7 months and I am so excited to see her because we have been friends since we were 3 years old.

        All these reasons are why I am so excited for Christmas because it’s not the presents that matter it is the people that you are with.

Friday, December 9, 2011

My Ghost Stories

Author’s note: I’m sure everybody has at least one good ghost story. I have 3 and I know for a fact that they weren’t just my imagination. 



 
     I’ve had a  few scary things happen to me. when I was 1 year old my grandma died. My whole family has a cottage in western Pennsylvania. About 10 years ago when my mom, dad,and sister were at my cottage .They were all reading books in the house. My sister was laying on one of the beds upstairs and saw my grandma walk by. At that time my grandma had died 6 months before that. Since then a few weird things have happened to me. Seeing black shadows was kind of a common occurrence until up about 4 years ago. Then it stopped.

    Also when I was at my friends house last year something happened.  I had slept over for a few nights. One morning her mom came and asked us if we were up walking around in the middle of the night and we told her that we weren’t.She asked us because she heard somebody walking up the stairs. So as an experiment one of us layed in the bed and the other walked up the stairs to see if we could hear and we could. he two of us were home alone and the window wasn't open and my friend does not have any animals except for her cat that had died 3 years prior. As we were walking back to her bedroom her door slammed shut and would not open. We tried to jimmy the lock a few times but nothing worked. Finally after about 4 minutes it opened. We were completely freaked out so we just ran downstairs and tried to erase the memory from our mind

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

The Smell at Asa Clark

       The mysterious scent lingering through the hallways at Asa Clark middle is yet unidentified. Some say it is the smell of rotten syrup, spray paint. white out and onions. It is giving everyone a head ache and it proves to be non-toxic. The odor is very strong and can be easily noticed. This scent hits you like a pile of  bricks. It instantly fills your nostrils with the chemical smell.

         As you can tell by the wording of the previous paragraph myself and the rest of the school probably wishes this smell wasn't here so we could proceed with our day. It comes from a special seal to put on the wooden floors in the auditorium. This smell was awful and I hope it never comes back again.