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Saturday Morning Wake-up Call

As I’m slowly waking up the two dominant sounds that reach my ears are the voices of my brothers. Daniel at seven years old, his voice right now is quite disturbing singing a song as loud as he can. Right now the latest song is “Your A Grand Old Flag,” which he was learning at school in preparation for Veterans Day.

“Ba!” Hearing little Ryan’s voice immediately has me wanting to rush downstairs and play with him. Of course my still tired body objects. It’s way to early for me to even think about getting up.
As I drift back to sleep I can imagine the exact sene downstairs from what I hear. I can see Daniel sitting at the kitchen table doing math practice, Ryan pushing his little red car into the cabinets. I can tell my mom is sitting by Daniel helping him while constantly having to tell him to concentrate. I could almost taste the banana my grandma is probably mashing for Ryan. I eventually go into a short lived slumber.

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Homework Hate

As I trudge home from the bus stop, backpack heavy with homework, I think about everything I wish I could do once I reach home if it weren’t for homework. Instead of of doing something fun like practicing volleyball, hanging out with a friend or just playing with my baby brother I will have to be stuck doing homework until ten o’clock.

After I procrastinate as much as I can eating a snack I start on my math homework, then to science, afterwards Spanish, on to Texas History, then finally to English. Adults don’t understand why it takes us so long. Why it drives us crazy. Why we hate it! When I finally finish and get to jump in bed its only the end of one day in the everlasting cycle of a school year.

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Halloween Front Porch

Halloween is in a week, and decorations have gone up. This is a picture, or gif more accurately, I’ve created in words.

The first thing I notice is the silence. A house this decorative should have more people more people I thought aloud trying to diminish the eerie quiet. I shudder when I make eye contact with the life size dolls propped up against the house that look like they were a knife target. “Yasmine!” A distant call from my friend snaps my attention back to what I’m here for, the candy.

I spot a huge bowl with a skeleton perched on the edge and peek inside . Unlike all the other bowls left outside unattended the bowl was still filled with candy. Untouched by the kids who hastily pour all the contents into their bag.

Ready to go I reach my hand in and grab a handful of candy. Before I can get my hand out the eyes of the skeleton light up red and its bony fingers latch onto my hand. “AHHHHHHHHH!” I scream before I even process what’s going on. A few moments later the skeleton lets go, lowers its head, and its eyes empty. Although its all toys and decorations (I think)I turn on my heel and sprint away from the house I know I will NEVER come near again.

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Is It Ok To Obscure Your Identity Online?

There are very few scenarios in which I would say its ok for someone to obscure their identity online. First I would like to tell you why it should not be allowed. People have ruined other peoples life’s by pretending they are that person on a social networking site. It isn’t hard and anything they post every one will think its the victim saying that. Another bad way people obscure their identity is pretending they’re a different age or someone they’re not. That way they can fool someone on the Internet and potentially harm them if they trick them into giving to much personal information.

Syria is the perfect example on why it would be better to obscure an online identity. In a country with a controlling government that gives citizens little rights you could be killed if you post about the unfairness. Even if you don’t live in Syria and you post something against the government they could hold it against your family that lives there. The problem is that the Internet doesn’t know your situation. In general it depends on your situation and motives as to what the right thing to do is.

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Prepositional Poem

Before the serve is silence.
After come the cheers.
Over the net the ball soars.
To be bumped, set, then hit back.
Among the players the ball is passed.
Until the buzzer goes off.
Across the other, the winning team is revealed.

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What I’m Learning

We learned in Spanish the Spanish speaking countries and their capitals. We also learned their locations, which in this video are all in Central America. This catchy song is what helped me learn that.

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Writers “I”

This is my writers “I.”  I bet your wondering what that is, I’m going to tell you. We did an activity in English class where we created this “I” of things we have things we are very familiar with. These words will either tell about something I love or experienced. This “I” is all about me.

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