By: Isabella Brisa Arrow Phillis Carmencita Toll Hill
What I learned last year
Last year was a very fun time for me because I had Rose as my teacher. Rose was a great teacher because she would always make sure everyone understood the things that were talked about, like if someone didn’t understand how to make the Mayan calendar, she would ask, ‘what don’t you understand?’
Last year we also studied animation, which was the most fun out of everything that we did last year. I learned how difficult it was to make a flipbook, each page just moving slightly! I did my animation on 3 main parts in my life: How I could swim at 7 months old, when I learned to walk, and moving from an apartment to the house I live in today. I think I could have done better on my animation project by going into more detail on ‘when I learned to walk’.
The next topic is something I feel slightly uncomfortable talking about:
What happened on graduation night
I would like to thank the 8th graders for such a lovely speech from all of them but I am concerned about remembering what happened right after the speeches. One minute I was fine and then the next I was screaming for help. I hate to name names, but I was screaming at Megan Cosgrove, but she did not notice that I needed help so it was Jackson Eddy who told Natalie Winnie. With the help of Arlo Marynczak, Natalie carried me to the nurse’s office and laid me down on the cushion. I almost passed out but I didn’t. Veda Sripada’s mother, Padma, was luckily a doctor on the scene and she tried twice to pull it out, and couldn’t so they called an ambulance and I went away in it. I waited for a long time at Albany Medical Center and then they took me in a weird room for an X-ray and luckily I did not fracture anything so I just waited for a long time in a hospital room watching Disney channel until one of the main doctors came in and looked at it and then he went out and came back in again with a needle for anesthetic. Most people probably don’t know, but I have had some bad experiences with needles and those experiences make me deathly afraid of them so you can imagine what it felt like when I saw it. After my foot went numb, I closed my eyes and he pulled it out. Then I asked ‘is it over?’ and everyone said yes at the same time. After that I went home and slept until 10:00 in the morning. That day I found out who had dropped it in the grass from Megan Cosgrove over the phone. I am sorry to say that the person who dropped it was Sophie Pratt. She is not to blame for this unfortunate incident. I am for being stupid and taking my shoes off. Sophie is very sorry. Some people must have thought that it was metal, (I don’t know how that rumor was started) but it was in fact a wooden chicken skewer that was stuck in my foot, and it was in fact very sharp. I still have the skewer to this day.
Meeting the Beach Boys
No one who is reading this probably knows who the Beach Boys are, but to my father they are very, very important. I felt happy, excited, a little disappointed because we didn’t get to actually meet them, we just said hi to them but they were great. We were in the 3rd row and they were close enough that they could have touched me. One of the singers actually pointed to me! One of my favorite Beach Boys songs is called Fun, Fun, Fun. Also one of the percussionists my parents went to collage with, Nelson Bragg.
Finding Love
Naturally, people would think I fell in love by the title, but they would be wrong. Love is actually my parakeet who we found by the tennis courts that my dad and me go to (Scotia Glenville middle school courts) up the road from our house. What happened exactly you may ask? Well:
So first we rode our bikes up to the courts and played back and forth tennis, and then we saw a robin and a… green bird? So we stopped to look at the green bird who was on the edge of the fence surrounding the courts and by that time the tennis ball had stopped and the bird flew down to it. We think she/he thought it was she/he’s mate, because she/he curled up to it and rolled on her/his side next to it. Then she/he flew into a tree and would not come down so my dad and me played more tennis until my mom came to pick us up. She wasn’t expecting to get out of the car so it distressed her when we told her she had to get out of the car to look at a bird. We bounced the ball to try and get her/him down and it worked! My mom caught her/him and put her/him in my sun hat and then we rushed to Walmart to buy a cage and birdseed, and we still have her/him today.