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Why is that our mind makes up memories? Does our brain want to make us seem that everything was so flawless and fun back then that it could be the same now if you just believe? Or is it to distract us from what really happened back then?

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My Nana, Barbra Butler, lived upstairs for most of my life ever since I could remember she was just a few flights away,yet I was never really close to her, not truly something I will regret for the rest of my life. It was a late Saturday night and the sky was black lighted up by the building lights.

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“KIAAA!!!” The fiery sounds of bellowing children shake you. You didn't expect your first karate class to be like this.

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This was something I could never forget. I remember It was a  summer night and I was bored and hungry. My grandmother yelled so I could come down and eat dinner. We made turkey mashed potatoes, mac and cheese and green beans. I enjoyed it. My grandmother spent hours making this delicious meal as I was walking down the stairs. I smelled the seasonings in the air .

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When I got out of the car, I was in complete awe. It was so much taller than I imagined. This is it, Conor. The hike you’ve been preparing for, I told myself. The peak was completely shrouded in fog. Its sheer gargantuan size was almost incomprehensible to us trifling humans. It almost seemed alive, the sharp ridges were its horns and the waterfall its veins. I was a mere insect standing in front of a kaiju.

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The sun had barely risen, the roads were quiet, and the only noise is the sound of the car engine. I answer various questions from my parents and sister about whether I'm nervous or excited for my first year at sleepaway camp. A little bit of both was always my response. I fidgeted with the strap of my seatbelt as I tried to block out my parents' conversation and focus on the music playing in my headphones, wondering how I would survive the next four weeks without it.

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For as long as I remember, I have always been jealous of the white kids.

When I saw them in the park, when I saw them at the store, or at school. There was always a part of me that was jealous.

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"The Thrill of Danger" By Kianoosh Marshall

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There is a lighthouse far out into the lake that I have seen all my life and always wondered what it was. Then a few years ago, my dad, aunt, and uncle told us that when they were young, they would jump off the base of it into the water. The drop is like 20 ft and that year we started to go.

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"The Thrill of Danger"- Kianoosh Marshall

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"Damn it, I'm late" by Lailah Aliyah Powell

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"Damn it, I'm late" by Lailah Aliyah Powell

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I would have never thought that I would be someone who does fencing. It all started when I was in elementary school and I went to see my first fencing match with my sister. I thought they fought so elegantly and they were so light on their feet. It was a magical movement. So later on when I was in about 4th grade I joined PWF, one of the best black fencing leagues in America and in NYC.

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We were at Melody Lanes in sunset park. I was with my dad and my uncle. My uncle was a pro shop worker in the bowling alley when I was younger and he would drill all my bowling balls and give me all the bowling things I needed.  My dad and uncle were way better than me at the time, they both had a chance to be a pro bowler but then they both got injured. When I was bowling my games were not good because I had just started and I got maybe like a 50 as my score. I started getting better when I was around the age of 10.

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"Out All Over Again" by Celine De Aquino

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I’ll be honest about something that I've struggled with for years. I have anxiety, and more specifically, social anxiety. I started having video calls with a therapist not too long ago, I told her about my anxiety and she taught me a certain way of dealing with it. She told me to think of the worst and best cases of the same scenario, then to think of the possibility of it happening or what will happen. Basically intertwining my irrational and rational thoughts, making them coexist without my head exploding. Unfortunately, I learned this after my most embarrassing moment in class, let's set the scene, shall we?

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I walked out of the airport and into the city where my post-flight brain was overwhelmed, the sky was dark, people were shouting and there were lights everywhere along with a sea of orange taxis zooming past me and my dad.I heard cars beeping and people talking everywhere.It felt hot and was a stark contrast to the cool empty nights in Portsmouth I was used to.I had flown from England to New York with my dad and the rest of my family would come in a few days.

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The lights are giving off a faint blue glow as the cabin of the plane lays silent. The plane begins to descend.

“Ladies and Gentlemen, we will begin lowering from our cruising altitude of 32,000 feet.”

Everyone sits in an accompanied solitude. You can’t feel the plane falling at rapid speeds but it is.

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Why couldn’t the fun times in your life last forever? That’s what I always asked myself throughout my time at PS29. All of elementary school was like a dream for me, I met all my best friends and had some of the best teachers I will ever have. But I knew I couldn’t stay there forever, it just didn’t process till the day came. Fifth-grade graduation

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10 people piled up on the couch. 9 people standing by the TV. 8 minutes left in the game. 7 people with their eyes shut, scared to see what they'll open their eyes too. 6 people with their eyes glued to the TV. 5 people standing in the kitchen glancing over at the TV. 4 huge cars lined up outside of the house. 3 huge, tall beers lined up on the coffee table in the living room. 2 days of waiting for this game. 1 final game.

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The first time I can remember knowing something was wrong was the arguing. I can’t remember what it was about, all I can remember is that both my parents were angry at each other in a way they hadn’t been before. They would both yell at each other and argue and argue and then a couple of hours later, or the next day, apologize to my sister and me for arguing and explain that they were trying to have better “discussions” and that we should not “disagree” like that.

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"Don't Do What I Did" by Nailah Hawkins 

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When you're young you get curious, when you're young you get bored. If you didn’t have anything to watch because you watched everything on TV. At that time that was me at six years old, curious and bored, wanting to do something with my life.

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Is there a place that you’ve visited that feels like home to you, even though it’s not where you live? I do. Every summer, I go to Mystic, Connecticut to see family. My grandparents live on a little place called Mason’s Island. It’s not that big or fancy, but I love it, and it’s probably one of my favorite places to visit.

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It was when I was in 4th grade that chance played me an evil trick.

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When I was younger. I often watched TV shows. My favorite one was called smurfs. Although I watched a lot of shows I was able to find an equilibrium between watching TV and being social. I had many friends and would often go to the park with my friends.

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Was it all worth it? Still to this day my first time skating is vivid to me. I packed my little blue penny board into the basket of my dad's bike. I hopped on the back and we headed to the skatepark. The second I stepped into the skatepark I was in a better mood.

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To be honest, I sucked at many sports. I could never shoot a hoop, kick a ball for soccer, throw or hit a baseball and I never even learned how to play football.  Whenever I would play soccer in elementary school, I would always be forced to play goalie (that's the only thing I can play). But I am very good at one sport in particular: archery.

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I have a lot of memories from when I was younger, to more memorable ones I simply can't remember. But there is one that I can't get out of my mind. Me and my sister were always in my parents bedroom. Whether it's jumping up and down on the bed, watching Power Rangers or Dragon Ball on the small gray TV with a large antenna. 5 year old Ciara and my 8 year old sister, Alexius we’re always doing something in my parents bedroom.

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When I was younger I remember my great grandma giving me soup.

This soup was full of different shaped dumplings, sometimes chicken, and sometimes noodles.

And until quite recently I haven't had anything like it. I'm not saying she made it for me recently, it's just that I had soup that was really good but it just doesn't have the same nostalgia I guess. Anyways back to my great grandma, she wasn't someone i remember all that well even though i remember spending lots of weekends at her house. I do remember she was always smiling though but that's as far as I remember her. And i'm happy those were my last memories of her with us together.

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“Our next game was set for 2AM”

It was a hot summer day and my dad and I were driving up to Cooperstown. It is the baseball tournament our team has been training for all winter and spring. for a baseball tournament. It is a week-long tournament with 60 teams.

Before we arrive we go to a chick-fil-a and get spicy chicken sandwiches.

When we arrive, my dad and I go to our bunk and get our stuff situated. Then my teammates and I decided to go check out the fields. They were so nice, they were either turf or perfect dirt and well-cut grass.

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"Ever since I was very little I have always been involved in cooking. As a young child I remember sitting at the long wooden table at my grandparents house enjoying the smell of whatever they were making for dinner. Staring into their big kitchen with long marble countertops, two ovens and a fridge double the size of a regular one watching my grandfather cook in awe."

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I first started playing basketball when I was 6 years old. Something just clicked in my mind. I have continued to play until now when I'm 13 and I fell in love with this sport because I thought it was really fun. After all, you can play with friends you can play by yourself which means you can play almost anywhere you want.

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I don't quite remember when I stopped reading books and going to the park, at the time I didn't know why; but something was changing, something for the worse. My interests were slowly being enveloped by gaming and most importantly: YouTube.

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"a size too small" by Zaviahn "slayer" Scott.

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"a size too small" by Zaviahn "slayer" Scott.

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This story really means a lot to me and in some way helps me work through a lot of things that I would typically keep to myself.This is the first time that I've been openly vulnerable ,so I ask that you be respectful and understanding.

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Baseball is my favorite sport, whether it be sitting on the couch, at the stadium, working in my backyard with my net and tee, or playing in my baseball games. I love the sport so much. My favorite MLB team is the New York Yankees in which I watch most of the games and follow all the players. I started following the team when I was young but until around 3rd grade I was just a fan of watching MLB games.

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It started as any ordinary day. I woke up, fought with my brother and we played with our cars and raced them. At around ten my dad woke up and got his usual coffee and sat down in “dad's chair”. It happened a couple of hours later my dad was watching football in his chair

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"Diving in the Deep End"                                                                                  by James Bissell     

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"Diving in the Deep End"                                                                                  by James Bissell     

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You spent your whole life in the same school, let's call it school 1, and now you are leaving for this “heavenly middle school” called WTMS. Almost everyone else in the school has known each other since elementary school, so you are going to need to be on your top game in order to make new friends. On top of that you don’t get into the school at first, this year it is going to be a lottery, so the first week or two you are going to the worst  school ever let's call it school 2.

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As I sift through my nice shirts, I remember the first time that I really got interested in politics.

It was Family Friday at school. My class had Technology first period so we were showing our parents out Scratch, a computer program, projects.

I pick up my only pair of nice pants and begin to put them on.

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When I was much younger my family and I took a trip to Tulum, Mexico. I was so excited like exploding popcorn when you make it. I couldn't wait to go and swim in the warm weather with the palm trees.

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It's a humid And rainy summer night. You're lying in bed listening to the crickets and the delicate pitter patter of the raindrops hitting your roof. Lately your brain just won't shut up. A million thoughts are racing through your head at all times. Your hand drifts over to your phone and you debate looking at the time. Slowly you lift up your phone and the soft light illuminates your room. The clock reads 3:49AM.

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"My Great Day in the City" by Bruno Spampinato

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"My Great Day in the City" by Bruno Spampinato

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I remember when I was little, my dad used to take my little brother and I to his work.  My dad would usually ask something along the lines of, “Does anyone want to come to my work with me today?”

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“Favorite Moment in Elementary School” by Adam Zandani

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“Favorite Moment in Elementary School” by Adam Zandani

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My favorite moment in elementary school was my end of year senior school trip because I just love trips, and that trip specifically we were away from school and home for 2 days. That's the longest trip I have ever gone on. We went on this trip in 2019. Another reason is because I literally got to do whatever I wanted to do and the teacher did not say anything to me, and I also got to be with like 7 of my fiends Tyler, Ziahre, Kartier, Sherod and more  the entire time on the bus and off, and we played tag, football, basketball, and we also played fight until the teachers came towards us and told us if we don't stop we won't go out for the rest of the day, so we stopped.

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"Whats The Worst That Could Happen" By Jovany Herrera

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Ever since I was very little I have always been really dumb and make dumb decisions expecting a different outcome each time. This is one of the first memories of me being myself and it really reminds me of the reason I made the choices today.

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“KAIA!!! DON'T LET HIM KICK THE DAMN BALL IN, STOP DAYDREAMING” followed by a large sigh, these were the words 6 year old me heard as I lunged for the soccer ball in Prospect Park’s muddy soccer fields, my shin guards rubbed against my ankles as they were far too big.

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In this story it's about me and my friend and the mistake we made when she cut my hair as it kind of turned into a disaster. I've learned an important lesson that you shouldn't do some things without knowing the consequences. Remember that kiddos. Even if the consequences weren't too bad, we still should've realized that our parents weren't happy with us and that we could've just asked if it was ok.

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It was Christmas season, 2015. I was given my first bicycle. I was in 1st grade at the time and I was thrilled! (We have to keep in mind I was no professional.) I actually first took training wheels off years later when I was in around 3rd or 4th grade. I was in a perpetuated cycle of learning in the summer and getting the hang of it in the fall, then neglecting to use it again for a long period of time, until next summer / fall, and having to learn it all over again....

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I was in 4th grade when I started playing baseball, I started on a team with a bunch of my friends. We were already on a flag football team playing during the fall, and the league that ran also had baseball so we started playing during the spring. I remember walking out to the fields in Prospect Park early in the morning on weekends, the fresh scent of the wet grass, squinting against the hot sun, and greeting my friends early in the morning.

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"You just had to be there" by Luke Sherman 

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The school day went by very fast after that, every period that was fifty minutes now felt like it was half of an hour. The last class bell rang out and as we rushed out of the building I was swept up into the ocean of kids going out of the building. We got out and the sun was shining and the rain was drying, it was as if the joke had stopped the stormy and gloomy weather from ruining our dismissal.

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When I Started Middle School  by Ryan McCann

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When I Started Middle School  by Ryan McCann

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It all started when I started middle school. On the first day I had stepped into the cafeteria and there were a lot of kids, but by the time I got there kids were flooding into the hallways and the classrooms.

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Why are people still staring at me? Everyone staring at me is really pale, they all look like they've seen a ghost. I don't think anything of it, until my brother, Reiss says "Eli, why are you bleeding?" This starts to make me scared. I look down at the floor, and realize that it wasnt water dripping down my face, but blood

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"The True Meaning of Religion" by Jacob Wolfson 

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I was sitting under the fluorescent lights when I finally realized the doom that would inevitably take me. I had managed to escape each time before, yet the painful reality resisted. Maybe they would get me this time, there was no way out. I started coming up with excuses. The last thing I wanted was to be here any longer.

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“You down with SPP?” That was what my dad was rapping the entire summer after we were informed that I was going to Sunset Park Prep for middle school. You could tell that this school was pretentious because they gave you summer homework before you even started. Also, they had “prep” in their name.

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Rolling through the Weeds to the Gravel --- By. Malka E. Ulman

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Rolling through the Weeds to the Gravel --- By. Malka E. Ulman

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I remember the first day of the rest of my life. The 4 story stone building covered in green letters was drastically different from my elementary school, which was on the 8th floor of a girls catholic high school in downtown Brooklyn. The change scared me. I was never much for change. When I switched schools in 2nd grade I was heartsick. I cried myself to sleep wishing for the familiarity of my previous institution. To put it simply, I wasn’t all that excited for middle school.

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In 2008, I was born on April 26th. It wasn’t a very interesting story except that it was the middle of the night and my parents couldn't find a babysitter for my brother who was 4 years old at the time.

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For the past 13 years my family had a tradition where all the family went to Cape Cod for 2 weeks in the summer. It was always the highlight of our summer, but this year was different.

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“Welcome back to CNN 10! As scientists continue to research the COVID-19 virus…”

I stared up at my screen and watched as Carl Azuz described the recent findings about this new “coronavirus”. I had been hearing about it for weeks, but wasn’t sure what to think of it. I just sat there and sighed as the girl sitting in front of me pulled out a mini hand sanitizer dispenser, causing a mob of kids to gather around her, like pigeons in the park when you drop a piece of bread.

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Back in 2018 I had the best vacation in my life with my big family of 30. why was it so fun and hectic? I guess you will have to find out. First I went to the JFK airport with my big family. There were around 30 of us then we took a long flight to the Dominican Republic. When we got there we checked into the resort which took like 2 hours because there were around 30 of us and it was hectic because some people was late, some was overweight and had to put some stuff in other people's suitcases.

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For as long as I remember, I have been surrounded by kids that are younger than me. This is because, after my dad's car accident, he needed to find a job that he was able to do. It took a while but after many options, my family was introduced to my cousin Omar. he was the newborn of one of the teachers at my school who had needed someone to take care of her baby. My dad now had a perfect opportunity to have a job where he is able to stay at home and support his family.

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It's finally September 8th. Take a deep breath, because it is MY BIRTHDAY! My favorite time of the year was full of being smothered with hugs and kisses and being shown more attention than anybody in my family. I looked forward to the excitement of opening the presents I would collect by the end of the day. It felt amazing being able to see what my friends and family got me.

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Every day at 2:40 I would hear the same thing: “When are you going to join the Crescents?” It became a routine. My friend's dad asked me the inevitable question and I just smiled, laughed and bumped the fist that stared at me everyday nagging me with the same question.

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"The Board Man Gets Paid" By Jasper Smid

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"The Board Man Gets Paid" By Jasper Smid

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We all have wants and needs in life but in this case I wanted something so bad that I would go to a great extent to get it, but not too far where I was in over my head.

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"In this story, I learned the experience of cooking. After I tried something that I thought was absolutely horrible, is it as hard or as easy as it seems?"

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It’s the Christmas season snow is falling from the sky and mom is in the kitchen making sugar cookies in the shape of Christmas trees, stars and angels with frosting on the top of the cookies with mixed colors between green, red and blue.

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Stories from when I was a kid BY Adonis aly

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Stories from when I was a kid BY Adonis aly

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When I was a kid my dad would take me to the park and play basketball so I would take a shower get something to eat and then put on my clothes. when we go outside I would look at the freshly new paint on the court it still looks the same after these long years steal looks freshly new when we get on the court. we would shoot around some to warm up and then we would start to play a 1v1. I can beat  all my brother but the oldest one. because sense he’s taller than me he can dunk and la up on me thats literally the only way he be able to win against me. I also can’t beat my dad well because he went to basketball camp and got taut by a really good couch he told me.  sometimes my brothers would come so we would do a 3v3 or my dad’s friends would come and play sometimes. As I was being guarded by my dad's friend  I remember I was practicing the spin move by myself sometimes and then I was able to do it on my dad's friend and I made the shot through the net. Clean like water. After we got home I would go to the kitchen to get something to eat and grab myself something to drink as well.  I would always drink my pineapple juice because it tastes good with everything but sometimes I would have to drink it fast because my brothers would always try and drink it all before me.  After that I would sometimes go into my dad's office and see all the new videos he made.They were song videos and they were really good. I would sometimes watch them by myself or my dad and my brothers  would watch them together with me. After we finish watching like 5 or 8 videos we would all start to watch anime together. We would watch like 10 to 15 episodes every time we watched anime one time we even watched a whole series in one night and it had 100 episodes. After we finished watching anime my dad would go out and go grocery shopping or he would go to visit his parents house while he did that I would go and play some games. I would either play Fortnite GTA or Warframe. I mostly play warframe because it is really good and I have been trying to beat it for a long time. It has so many different missions to do. When I'm done I would give the game to my brothers so that they can play. Before they made a fit that I was not passing the game up. and I would go and help my mom with dinner or I would cook. Sometimes I dont cook a lot but when I do my food would be so good sometimes it would be better than my mom's food. but I can never get better than my dad or grandmother because they are both good cooks. My grandmother used to be a chef and she taught my dad how to cook so that is how. They are both good but soon I would be better than both of them. I hope it might take me a while after dinner is done we would all eat and then go to bed but before. I go to bed and I also watch some anime. I don't know why but it is a habit for me to watch something before I go to sleep. After I watch a little of one Piece, I would go to sleep and sometimes dream about being one of the characters in the anime. my favitor is Zoro but I would mostly be luffy. I don't know why though but after each dream I would feel great after I slept like I'm a new person. I would look outside my window and say I'm ready for today with a smile on my face and then I start the day again but not the same way I did yesterday. It's a whole new day, a whole new adventure that is also something my dad used to tell me. Ready for another story. Ok here we go. When I was a child I loved going to different places like carnivales. When I was 11 my parents took me and my brothers to coney island. It had so many different rides and games to try. The first game I played was the water gun game. when you had to aim the water gun and shoot the water into the hole and the hole with the most water in it wins. I almost won but my dad beat me before I could get it to the top. After he won, he got me a stuffed pikachu, a big one because I wanted one after he finished playing the game. I went on my first ride which was a spooky town ride. I had to go with an adult so my dad came with me to be honest I was scared because the monsters would just come out of nowhere and scare me.  After the ride finished I was so scared I didn’t want to get off the ride but after I got off my parents took us to the bumper cars. I was too young so I couldn’t drive it so my older brother had to drive the car while I had to stay in the passenger seat. I was kinda mad that I couldn’t drive the bumper car but it was still fun. My older brother kept on ramming my other brothers which was fun after we played some games and got on a few rides. We had to leave because it was getting late but I will still remember this day because it was really fun and I made sure I never forgot about it.

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swam swim swum swunk swampk swuupmed atrumeps ehtubue by charlie p

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My elementary school was a 4 story building, when you walked in there was a staircase that wrapped up to the 2d floor, the cafeteria was on the 1st floor on either side the left side held my councilors office, the art room, dance room/cafeteria and the “haunted” bathrooms. The haunted bathrooms were all the way at the back of the hallway that led to the park outside and when you walked to it you could always hear the pipes in the bathroom banging against other pipes which made loud noises, you could sometimes hear noises in the last stall all the way in the back which had no light, the noises you would hear were so little yet you felt as if they were whispered right into your ear, it was like that in almost all bathrooms.

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Me and my friends and some 6th and 7th graders on the varsity soccer team are wandering in boro hall plaza wondering where we are going because we can’t see the train station. Me, Isaac, and Mikhail are taking turns riding on Emmetts scooter and eavesdropping on the 6th graders' sus conversations. . . . . . . As we get closer to the train station, you can see the ner and wondering to ourselves, will we lose? Keep on reading and we’ll find out. . . . watch your step. . . . .

We make our way down into the train station. Then the reign of terror started. . . first one, then two, then three. One by one Steve started pantsing a bunch of people on the soccer team in the middle of the train station (there were adult strangers who saw and witnessed). Steve got me too almost, I grabbed my soccer shorts before Steve pulled them all the way down. The only ones who were not pantsed were me(sorta) Misha(Steve got him later), and Emmett. As we were getting onto the horrifyingly crowded train some of the 6th graders got lost in the other side of the car, they weren’t paying attention, what idiots. Me and Emmett sat next to each other while Misha and Jonah were playing their  online soccer drafting game. “You think we’re going to win?” I said to Emmett, “Hell no! Ok maybe, only because we’re way better than we were in 6th grade.” He told me. Misha and Jonah were starting to get loud on the train while playing that boring, wack game. “You and Jonah still playing that stupid game?” I said. Misha stared at me like my brain was leaking out of my ears and a second head was growing. “It's better than you.” he said back, “I’m better than you at soccer and FIFA and FIFA is way better than that boring game.” I shot back. “Yeah it is, but I don’t feel like playing it.” Misha mumbled. “Whatever.” I said then sat back down. Jonah was standing right in front of me as me and Emmett were sitting in the seats and his pants or soccer shorts or…. Whatever they were…. practically flew off. Steve had claimed another serial victim of his pantsing scheme. It was getting annoying now since it happened in the middle of the train ride, how inappropriate. Isaac, James, and Misha all started getting mad at Steve. Once we got to our stop, we made our way to the front exit and went downstairs to street level, holding our shorts in fear of steve pantsing us again but then he was holding his shorts as well, we wanted to get him back so bad and he knew we had it out for him, we had the motive and eventually the opportunity.

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The fear summered in you.

The feeling of the floor descending;

“Next stop 36st” I arrive at 36st still seated on the discomfiting blue seats nothing was really of excluding the long wait on that station.

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That's when I saw the Crossing Gate lowering with the Flashing Red lights. I was then blinded by the C3’s headlights coming closer to me every second. The bell of the train ringing going (ding-ding-ding) getting louder by the second. The operator honking the horn hoping so desperately that my frozen and stiff body would move out of the way before the train had reached where I was.

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"They sat on the floor in your bathroom curled up. Why are they there? It's due to their failures. they wrote the note out in the open and left it so obviously. Why is it a surprise? This is a story about an irresponsible, idiotic, and hypocritical person. This person chose to hurt others because they were hurt, and it took them years to acknowledge that."

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Roller coasters, human slingshots, giant swings, what any other kid like me craves is coming near. Last year, my school organized a trip to Six Flags. Unlike any other amusement park, Six Flags is home to the fastest and biggest rides in the world. Notably the Kingda Ka ride — a 456 feet roller coaster with a maximum speed of 128 miles per hour. As I said, any child my age would crave rides like Kingda Ka, except for me...

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My family is very competitive we don't do like to do lose to anyone  not even our cousins but i was shocked to see that my aunt  congratulate on win the dance battle there a big rival  between friends and family.

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"Project Puppy" by Charlotte Cherrington

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"Project Puppy" by Charlotte Cherrington

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Good morning! Can you guess what day it is?…It’s puppy day! I've been waiting to pick him up for 8 weeks now, and it's finally December 31st. Yup, that's right, he's a New Years Eve pup! Today I’m more excited than anything to leave the comfort of my fluffy blanket and bed warm from my body heat being trapped under the covers all night. Usually I’m not a big fan of waking up. My feet touch the cold laminate floor, as I slowly lift myself off my bed and walk to the door.  I twist the silver doorknob as the door creaks open, then turn right to look up the dark stairwell.

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"Project Puppy" by Charlotte Cherrington

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In this story I talk about something new I did that changed and it's Train Surfing.

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For a long time I've been frightened by bugs when I see them in person. I was absolutely horrified by bugs when I was younger mainly because they could be in plain sight because they were so small. But another fear that I’ve had that is pretty common to humans is the fear of things that are purely unnatural. And what I saw that day wasn’t natural.

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"The Not-So Perpetual Fear of Roller Coasters" by Anna Sorrentino

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Imagine me, the most avid roller-coaster avoider, willingingly getting on multiple. Roller coasters?

Duh, obviously never going to happen. I’m not a fan of roller coasters so amusement parks, coaster central, are never fun for me. Plus there’s never anything to do. When our school announced the senior trip would be to Six Flags I was a little disappointed, but also, Six Flags is hugely popular, it was my senior trip, and everyone else was eager; so I inevitably caught the excitement bug

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"The Not-So Perpetual Fear of Roller Coasters" by Anna Sorrentino

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In this story I speak about my most favorite and funniest birthday I have ever experienced
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In this story I talk about a man that inspired me to play soccer

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It was 3:00 AM when I had to get up and get ready for the flight. I felt like I was dreaming because of how tired I was. We had our suitcases packed the day before so all we had to do was get ready. Once we all had our stuff we got in the car and went straight to the airport. No one really said anything on the way there because of how tired everyone was.it was about an hour before we got to the airport. Even at around 3-4 in the morning the airport had tons and tons of people. Once we made sure we had everything we said goodbye and went into the airport. We had to wait about 2-3 hours before our flight even got there, but once it did we got on and it was about a 2 hour flight to florida. I was kinda excited since it was my first time on a plane and far from NY. on the plane it was kinda weird to think that I was a couple 10,000 ft in the air.

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I have a recurring dream in a world that is what I want my life to be when I am older. It's how I want to live out my life. In this dream I live in a warm country all year round somewhere in Europe like France or Italy. The dream always starts around 5:30, I know this because the yellow sunlight penetrates through the green leaves in the garden on the west side of the house. It always starts with me looking down into the garden with the green grass and the swaying leaves in the wind. I walk down the stairs and greet my adopted daughter arriving home from after school activities, and we go through the entrance where you can see the main living area from a balcony, the living areas ceilings are about 17- 20 feet tall and the opposite wall is all glass that opens to the garden. After a little while of relaxation and cooling down from the day we have dinner outside which is salmon with a sweet and savary Japanese sauce with salads and other sides like sautéed spinach and rice. The dream continues into the next day where I wake up still in the dream and go to the studio to work on the pieces to be in my next collection for the fashion company.  After working for a little the head designer arrives with many of the other designers and assistants. The head designer reminds me of Edna Mode from incredibles. She doesn’t look like Edna, but she has a leather coat, a short gray haircut and is smoking a cigarette. At the end of the day we sit down for dinner again, now with the designer, and discuss the topic of my older son who is not really my son but my god son. I am like a father figure since his birth mother is not able to take care of him. Right now he is living in New York for school reasons, but he will be coming to the main house for spring break that starts in a few days. I don't get to see him very often so it is nice that he is going to be visiting.

As soon as Spring break starts, I leave for a tour of the new factory in Japan for my family’s car company. We focus mostly on sports cars similar to Aston Martin, but now we work to produce a luxury family sized SUV which is to be the main product of this factory. After making it to the airport with a few company executives that will be flying with us we get on a 12 hour flight to Tokyo.

The factory is beautiful. Its architects modeled it after a modern version of the Japanese aircraft factories before World War II. The factory’s layout is very open and provides a lot of natural sunlight. Surrounding the factory are meadows and the ocean. That's most of that part of the dream. Every time it is a different story that takes place in the same world but something different is going on. This scenario was one of the recent ones I have had.  This dream is very important to me because it helps me to keep trying my best and not just give up – to take risks and keep trying. I know that sounds selfish, especially considering what my friends and family have helped me through, but to me this dream is about personal achievement and accomplishment. Sometimes it feels like I just want to give up and this dream helps me to remember to keep going.

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As I wait for the bus, I think of how chilly the season has gotten and I listen to the sound of the birds chirping early in the morning.

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“THE CAR IS HERE COME ON LINCOLN!” my dad screams from the living room. We get in the elevator going down. We got down stairs and into the car.

“You ready Buddy!” my dad asks me.

“Yeah but I’m a little nervous,” I reply.

After we had a season with a record of 11 wins and 1 loss, I’m feeling good. Last week we beat a team that beat us in the play-offs a previous season. I’m nervous in the car on the way there with my dad. We’re facing our rivals, the Trotters, in the championship game, it couldn’t be any better. We beat them in the first game of the season. Our rival's coach said something to my Dad, “your team needs some more practice”. We barely even lost that game. We haven’t lost to them since then, but this would be the perfect time for them to back up their talk. Warming up I'm nervous because I know I'm pitching later in the game. I warm up my arm with my teammate and best friend on the team, Derrick. He’s also my catcher. After a few minutes we sit down and wait for the game to start. We’re the home team so we run out to the field and wait to start as our pitcher throws a few pitches. “BALLS IN COMING DOWN!” Derrick yells. The game starts. First inning goes by quickly with no score. The Trotters 3rd Base coach was drinking some sort of alcohol and the ump tells him to put it away when he sees it. He replies in a frustrated way but the Trotters head coach tells him to stop arguing so he doesn't get thrown out. He was standing behind the plate telling the players on his team when to swing and when not to swing. The Assistant coach of our team, Coach Patrick, talks to the Umpire to try and get him to stop.  When the ump looks back to tell him to stop he sees him drinking again and gets annoyed.

“Come one man I just told you to stop!” the ump frustratedly says.

“It’s not beer, it's coffee, see!” he retaliates, breathing in the umps face to prove it’s coffee.

“THAT’S IT!” The ump points to him and throws his finger in the other direction, signaling he is getting thrown out the game.

“WHAT, ARE YOU KIDDING ME!” The coach screams back at the Umpire.

“YOU’RE REALLY GONNA THROW ME OUT, IT’S COFFEE.” He continues.

The Umpires dad was at the game to watch his son coach the championship game. With more confidence now the Umpire retaliates by telling the head coach for the Trotters to remove him from the bench and area behind the plates. There was nothing the 3rd base coach could do. It didn’t matter how much he screamed at the Umpire, he was thrown out of the game. He couldn’t coach 3rd base for the Trotters, which was a big problem for them. As the inning goes on not much happens until we get 2 people on base and our best hitter Antonio gets up. *smack!*. He Crushes one for a home run and we all go crazy on the bench as the Trotters lose any smile they had previously. They score some as well,  but we answer right back. As I’m warming up to pitch my first inning with Derek, we see a woman randomly start screaming in our dugout. We stop throwing for a second to watch what is happening. We see the ump go over to her and throw her out too! Derek’s mom comes over and tells us that it was their 3rd base coach’s wife arguing about her husband being thrown out. We keep throwing until we have to go back out on the field.

My first two innings go by with me only giving up 1 run. Then I finally got out there for the last inning. I’m feeling good mentally but my arm isn’t. I’ve been throwing my arm out trying to pitch the best I could, and I’m feeling it in my elbow. First batter steps up to bat. The nerves start to kick in. I realize it’s the last inning of our whole season, they were the home team so they hit last. If they score 4 runs,  they win the game and the season. I need to stop them. It’s all up to me. If we lose, it’s on, me. “BALL 4 TAKE YOUR BASE!” the umpire yells. I clench up a bit. I’m getting more nervous and I’m not thinking straight and the next thing I hear is, “BALL 4 TAKE YOUR BASE!”. The ump says again. “Come on Lincoln, throw a strike” I thought to myself, getting more and more nervous. “BALL 4 TAKE YOUR BASE!” the umpire says for a third time. I almost started crying. I go to get back on the mound when I hear, “Time please”. I turn my head to see Derek holding his hands up to the Umpire signaling he’s calling a time out. He gets up and runs out to me on the mound.

“What’s going on?” Derek asked, confused about my random pitching slump.

“ I don’t know what is happening, I just can’t throw a strike”. I reply in an annoyed voice.

“You’re in your head. Stop thinking so much, just do what you are good at, throwing strikes.” He replies.

There was a moment of silence until I nodded my head. “ You got this, just throw some strikes to get us out of here.” he says before he goes back to the plate and gets in his catching stance.  I take a breath and I don’t pitch for a few seconds. Bases are loaded,”Strike!” the ump yells, I feel a little better. Derek sets up for the outside corner. “Strike 2!” the ump yells. I feel calm, I take a breath. “Strike 3 you’re out!”. The 2 people sitting on our team and the fielder behind him all loosen up a bit. The next batter comes up, it’s their best hitter. I pitch the ball, *CRACK* He hits the ball straight up. “I GOT IT” I scream waving my hands telling my team to back off. I catch the ball. 2 outs. My team cheers again but louder this time. 2 outs, championship game, bases loaded. It doesn’t get much better and nerve racking than this. ,”Strike!” the ump yells. The whole team has a slight smile now. “Strike!” the ump yells again. My heart is pounding, Derek tells me to take a breath, my dad does too from the bench. I close my eyes for a second, but it feels like more. We’ve wanted this for so long, so many tough losses where we should have won. I’ve always been the captain of the team, sadly I never got the stereotypical coaches son treatment. My dad made me lead the team. If I messed around he would always give me the message, “You need to be good, because if you mess around that lets everyone think they can as well”. The team always asked me things like what to do, where to go, for tips, because they relied on me. Now, they relied on me to win the game, and I can’t let them down. I take a deep breath. I throw the ball,  “Strike 3 you’re out!”. “YEAAAAHHHH” I scream in excitement.

Derek and I meet in the middle of the mound and home plate and have a big hug. I look back to see my team throwing their hats and gloves in the air. All running over to me and Derek. We’re all hugging and jumping up and down. My dad runs out of the dugout. We meet at home plate and have a long hug. After we calm down a bit, we get into a semi-circle surrounding my dad. He gives a speech for every player then gives them their champion hat. He gives my speech last as he has every year of us playing. I couldn’t feel any happier at this moment, I felt like I just won the World Series. We get ice cream on the way home. I go to sleep excited to show off my hat at school tomorrow.

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You can see the blinding lights across the stage, lighting up the little 7 year olds.  You divert your attention from the stage only to see the panicked looks on Coco and Camila’s faces, expressions only highlighted by the paleness in Camilia’s face, pale enough to match the white leotard she is about to dance in.  Highlighted by Coco’s fidgeting with her bun as she waits to lead the group on stage.

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When I was a kid I had a baseball cap.

“Woah so exciting”, you say, but this was no ordinary baseball cap. I wore this baseball cap for about three years. The majority of my elementary school experience, I had this baseball cap by my side. Well, on my head, but you get the idea.

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A moment in my life I will never forget is when I went to South Africa this spring break. We went on a tour of the main city, Johannesburg.  Our driver was a nice talkative man named kevin. We had driven around the city and seen historic landmarks and the abysmal  downtown area. but the part that really stuck with me was the shanty town tour.

I didn't know what to expect, I had only heard from my mom that it was an extremely impoverished part of the city.

After a long while of driving we turned into a short dirt road. At first it looked like any other road, standard houses with their thick concrete walls with electric wire and uniform terracotta roofs. But as I looked to my side I saw a different world outside the adjacent window.

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Many memories emerge when I think of a timeline of my life, but I can try to name some key points on this imaginary timeline from first to last. I don't remember too much from when I was really young, but I have some memories that were a while ago.

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I was sunken in my L shaped couch, eating chips and watching tv with my remote in my hand on a friday afternoon. I had been doing this since I learned that I had the power to grab a bag of chips and a remote, which was quite recent, but today was the last time I was going to do that. Because not 10 minutes after i had sat down my parents had come into the room i was in and told me some news. They had signed me up for Wednesday and Thursday soccer classes.

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“What was a life-changing moment?”

I stared at the question for not even a millisecond to know my answer.  My brain automatically went to that night. For most people when they hear why that night was so important to me, it might seem so random and not as life-changing as people would think

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What I want to be when I grow up is an architect, or more of an engineer. I don't remember the first day that I realized that it would be so cool to be an architect/engineer. I think it was 7 or 8 years ago when my mother sent me to a camp.

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I woke up suddenly to some of the brightest sunlight I had ever seen. It was coming through the slanted window in the ceiling and pointed straight at me. As I rolled over to get out of bed I saw my sister still sleeping  in her bed. Lucky I thought. As I got up, my legs felt like they were still asleep.

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You wake up in a house that's not yours. The color of the ceiling is not the same. There’s a window on the wrong wall. Your bed doesn’t feel as it typically does.

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I was on my way to my cousins house because it was sort of a party and my cousin’s mom’s parents came from a different country to visit and they invited us over to so we went it was a saturday afternoon and i was excited to go because my cousin Alex was one of my favorite cousins and also because it was a pretty long car ride and i love going on the highway and listening to music and looking at the sky.We got their and we started to put all the carne onto the grill and started to relax while we were waiting for the carne to be done we went to the park to play soccer and it didn’t go really well Alex (my cousin) played soccer without any socks or shoes and he slide tackled and he scraped most of leg and it looked so gross and ugly.We went home after and relaxed,then we went to shoprite and bought some things came back and the food was ready, we ate and played some video games watched tv for a while.It was night time about 11:00pm and me and my cousin were in the balcony talking about some stuff the breeze was nice looking up in the sky looking at the moon enjoying the night but getting to go to sleep wasn't the best thing u see it was a sunday and we had school the next day and my grandparents had to work when it was time to sleep it was like 12:30,went to sleep woke up at 2:00AM and this is where almost the worst night of my life happened.My grandparents woke me up telling me it's time to go i felt super tired and pretty confused onto what was going while i was waking up my grandpa was trying to find the car keys and that took way too long it was really a struggle we didn't know where the car keys were we definitely took a hour looking for them and my mind final worked i remembered earlier in the day my grandpa told me to get his sweater from the car and i remember i went to go get it and i think i turned the car on and then i got the sweater and went back,so that's when i thought that the car keys were possibly in the car and well… they were and i also left the car on and with the doors unlocked so the car battery died so we had to go get my cousins dad’s car so my grandpa could put the battery??? I didn't really understand what they needed the other car for or how another car can give battery to another car but whatever,we finally were ready to start heading home we kinda forgot the way but figured it out.We got home at 5 AM and i got a really short time to sleep i literally got home and went to bed and went to sleep even with my backpack on.The saddest part of this story is that i still went to school..

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I remember being in 6th grade,It was a normal day like it always was It was march 2020 a friday I think, We had started hearing a bit about what was going on with covid and how a lot of people were getting this new virus and how some people were even dying. I was kind of scared About it because a lot of ‎‎‎‎‎‎‎people were starting to talk about it. I was sitting in my classroom , it was the last period of the day when suddenly  A teacher came into my classroom and I heard her whisper something into my teachers ear A few minutes later My teacher told us That we school would be closed for the next 2 weeks due to rising cases of covid. I was Kinda happy because we wouldn't have to be going to school for 2 weeks and we could stay at home and just do the schoolwork and home. When I was in the hallways walking to the doors to leave school I heard a lot of people talking about it, “no school for 2 weeks we could just stay home”. When I walked out the door I didnt know that we wouldn't be returning to school for more then 2 weeks. I remember the first time I had to do online classes, it was different then being in the classroom. When the 2 weeks had passed I thought that we would be returning but then I got a email saying that we wouldn't be returning to school for another 2 weeks. After those 2 weeks had passed It was another 2 weeks then another 2 weeks then another 2 weeks. Online school started to get hard because I would get distracted a lot and it wasn't the same as being in the school. I had started wanting to go back to school and I always got really disappointed when i though we would be returning to school but then they said we had to stay home for another couple  months. I had to go through the rest of 6th grade and beginning of 7th grade online. Online school was also kind of fun because i could just wake up and just go on my computer and i didnt have to turn on my camera,  When we finally did go back to school in 7th grade halfway through the year it was really different then how it was in 6th grade, It was a whole new building since we were put in a temporary space since our new middle school was being built. The classrooms were really different. We had to wear our mask and we didnt more classes we would stay in the same class the whole day and our teachers would come into our class to teach us. A lot of people that i hadn't seen since 6th grade had changed a lot, A lot of people had gotten taller or there voice changed in only a year. We would have to eat lunch in our classroom and we weren't allowed to go outside for recess after a month. The school year went by pretty fast and was fun because it had been months since i had been in person at school. When 8th grade started it was like everything went back to normal, everyone had come back to school they only thing that was still the same was we had to wear mask and eat lunch separately. 8th grade was really fun because everyone was back in school and we got to be in person. The 8th grade school year when by really quickly and now we have to go to highschool.