For Hs' Leonardo Dicaprio Obsession

My Weird School

So all of us have been to elementary school or I think some might call it primary school not that sure. But all have been unless your like home schooled.....awkward. Any way back to the story so just recently I kinda think my elementary school was kinda crazy and weird. We would do such weird things like we had to stand in a circle and hold crystals and stand perfectly still for a minute and keep your eyes on a focal point and then it got weirder, you had to squeeze them even though they were sharp for a minute and close your eyes because it helps us "focus". I am no longer am in that school because I'm a teenager. So its crazy all the weird stuff that I did in this school but my time there was awesome and I won a lot of art contests. You guys must think I went to a crazy school but no I went to just a normal public school that tried to be artistic.

 

sh

Crystal

My Astronaut Trip

So today at school we had a optional field trip which is basically a field trip you have to write a paper to go but today only fifteen people could go and I was one. It was space convention and we got to meet an astronaut .So me,my teacher, and fourteen other students, and a group of students from another school crammed into one bus. As we were driving to the the hotel where the convention was being held the people in the bus were so loud that the bus driver yelled at us to be quiet...five times and I sat next to my friends talking about funny stories (and where we think we were going because we forgot what hotel it was at). But once we got there about ten other groups of students from different schools were already there and I saw some of my old friends that left to other schools. We had to wait for about five minutes for other schools to show up and we had to take group photos. Finally we got to enter the ball room that it was being held in and there were different booths with different space subjects. Are group had to move from booth to booth and we got free stuff like pins, pencils, pens, bags, and these glasses that turn light reflections into rainbows. So it turned into basically a amazing swag bag. We also got to do these cool experiments like project a image with light and use a iphone app to track satellites but the one I wanted to do the most we couldnt do because we ran out of time but it was with lasers and mirrors. By the time we got to hear the astronaut talk I and everyone else was starving so when the he was finished talking he said it was almost time for lunch everyone cheered and he said that we are more excited for lunch than meeting a astronaut and we have are priorities wrong. But what he said was very interesting and he showed us a video of what life was like for him in space. After that a person who works with satellites was talking and it was boring...until he brought up aliens and as a whovian I was excited but my friend who sat next to me kept talking then I kept talking and we some how came up with the idea that there is no martians just space mermaids (random I know). At the end of every thing we ate a picnic style lunch on the grass and the staff gave us table clothes to sit on. Finally we went back on the bus but as we were driving, the group from are school challenged the other school to a sing off it was really fun and I had a great time at this field trip.                   

                                                                                                                                                    

 -sh

9-11

               Today is the 12-year anniversary of September 11, 2001. I watched a video in my Social Studies class today and it was so heartbreaking. Thousands of innocent people died. And till this day, people are still grieving over the tragedy.

9-11: it was just a normal day in New York. Everyone went to work, just another ordinary day. Residents never expected such as thing to happen. Then suddenly, one plane, AA #11 Boeing crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center, one of  the two tallest buildings in New York, at about 8:45 am. People screamed while smoke flew into the air, everywhere. Firefighters, police, and ambulance rushed into the scene and immediately searched around to find out what was happening and trying to rescue people.

Then BAM! Another plane crashed into the south tower approximately 20 minutes later. People were falling from the building(s), fleeing away to the safest place, and so many others were sobbing for the many that passed away. Slowly, the two buildings collapsed, floor to floor. As the buildings got closer to the ground, they collapsed faster. When the collapsing ended, smoke invaded the air and New Yorkers ran as far as they could.

Two other planes crashed into Virgina and Pennsylvania.

The mastermind behind this was Osama Bin Laden. He was found a few years back and was killed as a punishment.

This event shaked millions of people all around the world and it still continues to tell people what happened on that day, today.

So, take a moment and think about this event in history. Do some research if you would like to find out more! I recently went on YouTube and there are tons of videos regarding 9-11.

- hs