Unique Essay

     I'm different from everybody else because I don't do things to follow what everybody else does. I like to be my own person. I like to dress and act the way I want, I don't like people telling me what to do in my life. Another thing is I don't care what people think about me and I'm not going to worry about what they say about me when I'm not there. I learned that you shouldn't trust nobody except yourself. That's something that's hard to do though because I trust people and they end up stabbing me in the back. It's okay though because that's just life, you can't change anything about it and I believe everything happens for a reason.

     I would like to be remembered  as a nice person that you can come to when you need help or advice with something. I like to be there when my friends need help with something. I think that I'm a loyal, caring and loving person. I might have some problems with a few people, but I think that happens to everybody on this planet. It's just a part of life that everybody goes through sometime in their life.

     I'm not really sure what's the nicest thing I've done for somebody, but I'm usually a nice person. I think that I could work on that a lot more and help many more people with different things.

My Final Essay

     I think I learned a few different things this summer. I learned what some words mean and I learned how to be a better writer. I also learned that I have a voice in this world and if I use it I can help change the world. Which I did use my voice, I signed some petitions. Thanks to Mr. Leh I learned things this summer and he also showed me the website change.org. This has been a good summer with my friends and having Mr. Leh as our teacher.

     I never thought I would ever write this much in such a short time, but I guess I was wrong. I learned that if I'm focused I could write a long story in under an hour. All I have to do is use my imagination and dig deep inside myself. I made myself a better writer this year thanks to Mr. Leh. My favorite blog this summer was the alphabet story. It was kind of challenging on some letters, but I thought it was fun to write. I never tried writing stories in that format and I liked it. I also thought some blogs were hard and I thought I wouldn't finish them, but I made myself think and I finished them.

     I also learned that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover. Anybody could write a good story if they just put their mind to it. They can do anything if they just try. I learned a lot of root words this year and this summer. I might not remember every single word, but I still have the paper and I think it will help me a lot in the future when I can't figure out a word.

     This summer I learned more about what's happening in the world. Mr. Leh is all about nature and the world. If he wasn't my teacher I probably wouldn't have really cared what's happening in the world, but when Mr. Leh showed us all the videos about the oil spill it really got to me. He made me change about how I think of the earth. Earth is a beautiful place that we got to be a part of and I learned that we are just destroying it. I thought this planet would last longer, but I might be wrong because that oil is killing all the life in the ocean and pretty soon it might get to us here in New Mexico. I learned to respect our earth and I want to help change things and make it better.

     Hopefully I have Mr. Leh as my teacher next year. He taught me a lot of things I never knew about. With the teacher I had before him, I didn't learn anything that whole semester. I'm going to use my voice a lot more and help the world. Summer school was kind of cool, but if I did  better the first semester I wouldn't be here. I think summer school was a good experience, I learned to be a better writer, then I was.

    

  

Persuasive Essay: School Uniforms

     In my opinion I don't think we should have school uniforms. I don't like wearing uniforms to school and a lot of other people don't like them either. I had to wear school uniforms in elementary and middle school. It wasn't really fun, nobody could dress in their own clothes and look the way they wanted. Everybody looked the same and families had to go out and pay more money just to buy uniforms for their kids. Why should we have to wear uniforms, schools should let you wear what you want as long as it's appropriate and doesn't relate to gangs or anything bad.

     I also think we shouldn't have school uniforms because everybody has a different personality and they like to express that by the clothes they wear. You can't exactly do that when everybody wears the same colors and looks the same. When a school has uniforms, they only have a few colors you can wear. If you don't follow the dress code you end up getting into trouble. I think that's something you shouldn't get into trouble for, they are just clothes. It's not like you have drugs or a weapon on you. I also think that when you wear your normal clothes the administration sometimes assumes you're a bad kid or you have something that you shouldn't have. Sometimes they are right, but sometimes they are wrong. I also think that school uniforms are boring since they are like solid colors. They are never bright or have cool designs on them, they are so plain.

     Some families don't have enough money to be buying their children new clothes just for school. They probably have to buy new uniforms every year because their kids grow out of the clothes from the year before. After school is over the family has no use for the uniforms so they probably get thrown away. All schools are doing is making families waste money on new clothes that they will use for a few years. The children already have clothes and I don't see why schools want them to wear a uniform. 

     I know the administration has to wear uniforms, but it's part of their job. As students school is not really a job, we are coming here to learn not to be told what to wear everyday. Others may think differently, but that's just my opinion. I think the only people that should tell us what to wear is our parents. They are the ones that are the boss of us. The school shouldn't try to be our parents and tell us how to dress everyday for school.

     Nobody likes to wear uniforms and I bet if you ask every school that has uniforms, mostly everybody would want to wear what they want. There may be some people that like wearing uniforms and that's okay because that is their opinion on this. Everybody has their own opinion on everything and they view it differently. If teachers had a choice, they would probably wear jeans and a T-shirt everyday. The principal would most likely do the same thing. I think schools should give students a choice. If they want to wear uniforms they can, but if they don't they should be able to wear whatever they want. I think there should be some rules though, nothing gang related or bad and you shouldn't show too much skin.

     Some rules shouldn't be there because they aren't bad things, for example wearing flip flops. They are just shoes, they're not going to hurt anybody. Besides even if that rule is there most people don't pay attention to it they just do what they want. That's not good, but it's true and that's why the students get into trouble. So I think they should let the students wear whatever because they will do it anyways and they don't really care if they get in trouble. Even if they get in trouble for what they wear, they will most likely do it again and again.

      That's all my reasons why we shouldn't have uniforms at our school. We all have our personality and we want to express it and be unique. We want to be our own person and not be the same as everybody else. If you let us wear our normal clothes I think everybody will follow the rules because they don't want to end up wearing ugly, boring uniforms.

My Earth Letter to the President of the United States

Dear President Barack Obama,

My name is Patricia Gonzales. I am 16 years old and I live in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I'm sending you these wisdom quotations because I am concerned about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. It is destroying our planet more and more each day. People are trying to clean it up, but it's not working that good because more oil just keeps coming out. I'm worried about all the animals that are getting killed and covered in the oil. I'm also concerned about the people that live in the area and even where I live because who knows if the oil is going to reach us. These wisdom quotations are from different authors, but they have something in common they are all about the earth and the environment.

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all. ~Robert Orben

In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops. ~Paul Brooks, The Pursuit of Wilderness, 1971

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. ~Ralph Nader, quoted in Linda Botts, ed., Loose Talk, 1980

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future. ~Marya Mannes, More in Anger, 1958

I am the earth. You are the earth. The Earth is dying. You and I are murderers. ~Ymber Delecto

For 200 years we've been conquering Nature. Now we're beating it to death. ~Tom McMillan, quoted in Francesca Lyman, The Greenhouse Trap, 1990  

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence, so that never again will Americans be free in their own country from the noise, the exhausts, the stinks of human and automotive waste. ~Wallace Stegner, letter to David E. Pesonen of the Wildland Research Center, 3 December 1960 (Thanks, Bekah)

 

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. ~Ansel Adams

Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Cree Indian Proverb

Some day the earth will weep, she will beg for her life, she will cry with tears of blood. You will make a choice, if you will help her or let her die, and when she dies, you will die too.John Hollow, Horn Oglala Lakota (1932)

     I want the earth to live forever so please help her stay alive. Like I said I'm concerned about this planet, the people and the animals so I would appreciate it if you could do everything in your power to clean up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and try to prevent it from happening again.

Sincerely, Patricia Gonzales

Murder Mystery

     One afternoon this girl named Tiffany was going to have a huge party that night. All of her friends were invited. Her brother Jake was there also and he invited all of his friends so you know this is going to be a big party. Tiffany and Jake loved to pull pranks on their friends, they were always funny pranks. Tonight they had something planned for a girl named Bianca. Tiffany didn't really like Bianca so they planned to put drugs in her drink and when she was really messed up they were going to shave her head. All they wanted to do was a harmless prank, but it turned out bad. When Bianca went up stairs she got really dizzy and fell off the balcony. Everybody screamed and when Tiffany came into the room she started crying because Bianca was dead. "It wasn't supposed to happen like this nobody was supposed to get hurt" said Tiffany.

     About two years later Tiffany meet up with her brother Jake and their four closest friends Adriana, Selena, Jacob and Steve. They were all there the night of the party and they all got a letter saying to meet at a restaurant. Nobody knew why they got the letter, but they were really freaked out because it was from Bianca. When they all met up with each other somebody delivered a package to them. Nobody wanted to open it so Jake decided to do it and he found a little DVD player and a note. He read the note out loud and it said "Hi everybody I'm glad you all could make it. I know what you were trying to do to me that night of the party and I'm very disappointed in all of you. It's pay back now I know who did this, but if you don't tell the truth about who did this to me you will all die one by one. If you go to the cops you will die right away. Sincerely, Bianca. After they read the note, they watched the video on the DVD player and it was a video of the night Bianca died.

     "What the hell is this some kind of joke?" said Tiffany. "Everybody calm down this can't be real okay Bianca is dead." said Jake. Even though everybody was freaked out they all went on with their lives like if none of this ever happened. Later that day Selena died in a car accident, when Tiffany got the call she didn't know what to do. She thought this isn't related to Bianca's death. Tiffany called everybody else and they were starting to get scared, but not scared enough to tell the truth. About three days later Jacob drowned in his swimming pool. Nobody believed that happened, but when they went to his house they found his dead body floating in the pool. Ariana yelled at Tiffany saying "now do you think this is a joke". Tiffany stayed quiet and they all left.

     In the car Jake told Tiffany "why don't you just tell the truth already" and she said: "because this isn't real it's all a coincident". Another week went by and nothing happened so Tiffany thought it was all over, but the next day she went over to Adriana's house. Adriana was getting ready and she was curling her hair. She asked Tiffany to get some hairspray for her, but when she came back Adriana was on the floor dead. Tiffany noticed there was water on the floor all over the plug so she guessed that Adriana got electrocuted. Tiffany called her brother, but nobody answered. She decided to go to Steve and tell him what happened. Right when she walked into his house  he said: "I can't live with this anymore" and he cuts his throat.

     Later that night she got a text message saying "all you had to do was tell the truth and none of this would have happened love Bianca". Tiffany finally got a hold of Jake and told him everything, he came over to her house that night. Before he got there, Tiffany thought she saw somebody and it looked like Bianca. She was terrified so she went to the kitchen and got a big knife. She heard a voice saying "Tiffany where are you, come out it's your turn to die" Tiffany started running, but she ended running into the person who was looking for her. Tiffany started crying hysterically and said: "I'm sorry it was all my fault that night, but I didn't mean to hurt anybody I'm sorry". Right after she said that Jake came out holding a video camera, turns out he recorded everything she said. A few minutes later Adriana took off the wig and Selena, Jacob and Steve came out saying "how do you like being pranked for once". Tiffany was shocked, "I thought you all were dead". Jake said: "that was all part of the plan. We just wanted to show you how it felt to be pranked". Tiffany said: "okay I'll never do a prank ever again you really had me scared". After that all happened, Tiffany stayed true to her word and never pranked people again.

My New Identity

     Hello my name is Brittany Lopez. I live in Miami, Florida in a beautiful house by the beach. I was born on July 12th,1990 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. My Family moved to Florida when I was 17 years old. I have brownish hair, green eyes, my skin is a nice tan color and I'm five feet two inches tall. I am Hispanic and I'm a very outgoing person, I like making new friends and I love to party with my friends. I don't have a boyfriend, I'm single and loving it. I work as a lifeguard on the beach, it's a very exciting job. I love my life, it's really great. My parents also live in Miami so they are not far away from me.

     I went to La Salle high school, I didn't have the best grades, but they were still pretty good. I also wasn't the best child either I always gave my parents' problems, but now that I'm older I respect them a lot more than I did before. Right now I'm in college, I want to be a lawyer, which is going to be a long time before I graduate from college. For now being a life guard is pretty great. I love being out there on the beach and it makes me happy when I save somebody's life.

     I'm a very talkative person, I can start a conversation with pretty much anybody I meet. I'm also loud, I have a big mouth and I speak my mind. I have an attitude and I know how to use it, but I'm also a nice, caring person. If you don't like the way I act or you just don't like me that's your problem, I don't care if you hate me. I'm not going to try to change everybody else so don't try to change the way I am because it's not going to work. I don't change my life or the way I am for anybody.

     I believe in God, I am catholic. My hobbies are I like to dance, I was on the dance team in elementary school, I like to play sports. My favorite sport to play is basketball, I also like to ride dirt bikes, paint and do magic tricks. My favorite hobby would have to be dirt biking, it's so exciting and I ride my bike with my friends every chance I get. As you can probably tell I'm very active and athletic. I like to keep myself in shape. You might think that I'm a tomboy, but I'm actually very girlie. I love to wear make up, do my hair, my nails and I love to go shopping to buy shoes. That's my favorite thing to buy when I go to the mall, I have so many pairs of shoes in many different colors. My favorite color is pink and purple, I love to stand out from everybody else and wear crazy things. People look at me weird, but it's okay because I don't care what other people think I like the way I am. 

     I live by myself, my house is kinda big and I have a swimming pool in the backyard. Inside my house I have three bedrooms in-case my family comes over. My room is the biggest room, it's really colorful and I have a lot of things all around my room. My favorite part about my room is the closet. It's really big and it's my favorite because all my clothes and shoes are in there. I love to listen to music so when I'm home I always have the radio on. If I'm not home I take my Ipod with me everywhere except when I work.

     Well that's my life. I love it and I can't wait to live the rest of it, I'm going to live my life to the fullest. I'm not wasting my life on anything. When I get the chance to do something I'm going to do it and I'm not going to give up on anything. It's great living in Florida, but maybe sometime I'll go back to where I was born. I love my life and everybody that's in it, life is great.

    

    

   

My Alphabet Story

     A long time ago there was this little girl named Angel who loved fairy tales and dreamed one day she would be in one. Because she was an only child she really prayed and hoped her dreams would come true some day in her life. Cindy her mom always encouraged her daughter to keep believing in her dreams and maybe she will live in a fairytale. Days and years went by, Angel got older and she stopped believing in her dreams because they never came true. Eventually Angel started having crushes on guys and would hang out with her friends all the time.

     For once in her life she decided to go for a walk one day to a special place by a beautiful beach. Gazing at the beautiful beach she seen something watching her from the water, she wondered what it could be. Hoping to figure out what it was she yelled out "who are you? Why are you staring at me?". "I can see you" she said and the creature she was seeing was the most beautiful mermaid ever. "Just wanted to know if you want to be a mermaid with me" said the mermaid, Angel was surprised. "Krystal is my name what's yours?" said the mermaid "My name is Angel". "Let me go home and change into my swimsuit"said Angel "there is no need to do that, my magical powers will transform you into a mermaid like me" said Krystal. "Magical powers how did you get powers?" said Angel "from my father, he gives all the mermaids powers".

     "Never in my life have I seen a mermaid, you are so beautiful" said Angel. "Oh well thank you, just come in the water and your transformation will happen" said the mermaid. "Please come with me down to my kingdom and meet everybody, they will be happy to see you" said the mermaid. "Queen Jasmine will want to see you when we get there, she has something to tell you" said the mermaid. "Really wonderful to see you Angel, we have been waiting for you, we want you to live with all of us in this wonderful kingdom" said the queen. "She was very excited that one of her fairytale dreams came true, Angel said of course I'll live with you, but what about my mom and dad? said Angel. "They can also come live with us, I will send my best mermaids to go get them" said the queen.

     "Unbelievable, this is really amazing I can't believe this is really happening to me. This place is so beautiful I can't wait to begin my life here. Thank you so much this is wonderful and incredible!!" said Angel. "Very nice to have you and your parents living with us, we are delighted to have you" said the queen. "When your parents get here I will show you your new home, you will love it" said the queen.  "Xylophones are such amazing instruments, do they always play them down here?" said Angel. "Yes of course they do, it relaxes all of us and the rest of the ocean" said the queen. "Zany people live here, it's pretty awesome. I think I'm going to love it here" said Angel.

    

My "How-to" Manual

     I'm going to tell you how to  drive a jet-ski. This could be very fun to do, but it can also be dangerous so I'm going to tell you everything you should do and how you could be safe. There are different types of jet-skis, but you should learn this for all of them except the older versions were you have to stand up. You need to do certain things when riding one of these if you want to be safe and to keep others safe. You also need to be very careful when you're the water with all the other boats; you really have to pay attention.

     Well after you put your jet-ski into the water you need to check a few things. For example, you need to see if there is oil and gas in the tanks. If there's not any, you should put some in there, but don't fill it up to the top. Filling the tanks to the top could cause some problems with your jet-ski. I know that from experience with mine. When you're done with make sure you try starting the jet-ski so you know it works and won't die out when you're on the water.

     The next thing you should do is check if you have all of your safety gear with you in case of an emergency. You need to make sure to have a life jacket or a properly fitted, U.S. Coast Guard approved personal flotation device (PFD) for every person on the jet-ski. Next, securely attach the engine stop Lanyard to your wrist or PFD. Keep it attached at all times; if you should happen to fall of the PWC the engine will shut-off when the Lanyard releases the kill switch. Also be sure to have stored a fire extinguisher on-board, a whistle, a paddle and a small first-aid kit. You should also NEVER drink alcohol if you are going to ride a jet-ski.

     While you're operating a jet-ski you need to pay attention to watch where you're going and to watch out for other boats, jet-skis and people. Before you can drive it, you need to be at least 16 years old and the new law is all motorboat operators born on or after January 1st, 1989, must have completed a boating safety course approved by NASBLA* and New Mexico State Parks. After you push the start button, you should know that you have to use the throttle for you to turn it, if you don't push the throttle you're not going to go anywhere except strait. Also, when you're in a no wake zone you can't go faster than 10 mph. After that you can go as fast as you want, but just watch out for other people and boats in the water. You should also avoid shallow waters and places that you shouldn't go to because you could end up in a dangerous situation. Another thing you should pay attention to is the weather, it could change very quickly and it could be dangerous.

     When your done using your jet-ski take it back to the boating ramp or wherever you were when you put it in the water. Have somebody back up the vehicle so the trailer is in the water and slowly drive the jet-ski onto the trailer. After you get it on, strap everything back on so the jet-ski doesn't fall off or something when you're driving the vehicle. Also, make sure the lights work on the trailer and you're good to go. So be careful and have fun!!

    

My Bucket List

25 things I want to do in my life are:

1. Go to college

2. Travel around the world

3. Swim in the ocean

4. Bungee jump

5. Sky diving

6. Go on the biggest roller coaster in the world

7. Learn different languages

8. Scuba diving

9. Go to space

10. Get married

11. Have kids

12. Go on vacation to a beautiful island

13. Get a tattoo

14. Get into shape

15. Go on a cruise ship

16. Go in a hot air balloon

17. Go rock climbing

18. Swim with a shark

19. Learn to drive

20. Party at a club

21. Become a vet

22. Stay in a haunted house for a night...... not by myself

23. Talk in a British accent

24. Kiss "the one" in pouring rain

25. Meet god

     I chose these things because I like to try crazy things. I like taking risks in life. Some of these things aren't crazy things, but they are just things every girl wants to do in her life or just fun new things to try. I am a person who likes adventure and I want to travel to many places around the world. I'm a very picky eater, but I want to try at least some new foods from around the world.

     These things are important to me because I don't want to spend my whole life doing nothing. I want to live life to the fullest. When I'm way older I don't want to think I should have done that when I had the chance. I want to do things now before I'm very old and can't go out into the world to do these things. There are probably many people in the world that didn't get to do everything that they wanted to do in life. I think they might regret not doing the things they wanted to do when they were younger and I don't want that to happen to me.

     To accomplish them I plan to get a good job and save money so I can do the things I want. I will probably have to travel to do some of these things, which is a good thing because I want to travel anyway. Some of these things will probably be scary, but I'll have to push myself to do them. Maybe I could get a few friends to try these things with me. If not, then I'll just have to go by myself or maybe even meet some new people who enjoy the same interests as me. Either way I really want to try this stuff, it sounds so exciting.

     Well those are all the 25 things I want to do in my life. I really hope I could accomplish every single one of them. Maybe as I get older I will think of more fun, exciting things to add to my bucket list. The things on this list I want to accomplish the most are getting married to the person I want to be with forever and have kids, the other to things I want to accomplish are go to college and finish it so I can become a vet.

Avatar/change.org blog

   The story I read on change.org was about the offshore oil drilling. I think it related to the movie we watched because the oil is killing our ocean and the animals that live in it. Just like in Avatar the humans try to take over the blue peoples world by tearing down their trees, especially the huge tree that they live in and the they prayed to. They didn't even care what they were doing to their planet and it seems like it's the same here on earth. The oil keeps coming out more and more each day and it doesn't seem like they are really trying to stop it.

     Just like in the movie "the people" are trying to stop the "sky people" from destroying their planet. We need more people like that on earth to come together and stop the oil spill in the ocean. I signed the petition for the story I read for Obama to stop drilling oil into the oceans completely and permanently. Hopefully more people in this world will do the same and stop killing our mother earth. The blue people in Avatar care about their planet and its strange animals, they are so connected to their planet.

     If we were more connected to our mother earth then we probably wouldn't be killing her with all these disasters. All we are doing is killing our planet and ourselves. All the hard work that mother earth did to put all this life and us humans are just destroying it one day at a time. We shouldn't destroy our planet we should be helping it, making it a better place to live for the future generations. If we keep doing everything that were doing now, everything and everyone will be dead on this planet in a few years.

     In Avatar "the people" thank their planet when they take the life of a animal, we don't even do that. We kill so many animals for food and other things like fur everyday. We also kill them by ruining their habitat, we tear down their homes and nobody even cares except a few people on this earth. Maybe if we lived like the blue people we would all be happier and have better lives and we would also be more connected to our beautiful planet. Some people on this earth don't even care about anything but their business and all the money they are making off the earth resources.

     One day all the resources are going to be gone and those certain businesses are going to be bankrupted. They shouldn't even be using the resources anymore. We are advanced enough to power the earth with natural resources like wind, sun and water. Well only if those people stop polluting the water with all the oil. Everybody should be thankful for this planet and be thankful they are living on it, but instead all we are doing is destroying everything. Hopefully in the future the humans will be more careful and take better care of this planet.

My Scary Story

     Well when I was a little girl I used to have this friend named Emily, she was like my best friend. We did everything together. She was with me all the time and she even lived with me sometimes. Everybody always thought she was my imaginary friend because they could never see her. I could see her perfectly, she was real I knew she was a real person. Anyways I didn't care because Emily was always there for me when everybody else wasn't. When I started getting older I didn't really want to play with her anymore and she started getting mad at me. She went away for awhile but when she came back she was really evil, well not to me but to everybody else.

     Whenever she was with me I always got into trouble. Nobody ever believed me it was her, they would tell me stop making up stories Emily is not real she was just your imaginary friend. So I would get mad at Emily for that, but she never cared. As I got older I always wondered why I could still see her but nobody else could. I went to the library and looked up people that were already dead, I typed her name in and to my surprise there was her picture. I started reading about her life, she was born in 1925 and she died at the house I live in now. There was a fire and Emily couldn't get out so she burned alive. All of this information was freaking me out I didn't know what to do.

     When I was walking home from the library Emily showed up walking next to me. I didn't know where she came from but I was so scared. Emily said "I know what you did" and I said "about what??", she said "you read about my life and you NEVER should of did that". I didn't know what to say so I just stayed quiet, Emily yelled "why did you do that?", I said "I-I-I don't know". I was crying hysterically and the last thing she told me was "if you ever say or show anybody anything I will come back and kill you". I was terrified so I ran home and as soon as I walked in my mom was there asking "whats wrong" but I just shook my head and said "nothing I just tripped on a rock and fell but don't worry mom I'm alright".

     Later that night I was just laying on my bed thinking about what happened earlier that day. When I looked up I saw Emily standing at the end of my bed just staring at me with this evil looking face that just terrified me. I told her "stop looking at me like that your creeping me out. Why are you here anyways?" she said "don't worry about it okay.....did you tell anybody?", I said "no okay I'm not going to tell anybody just leave me alone". She finally left and I never saw Emily again.

Why Am I Here?

     I'm not really sure why I'm here on this earth, it can be for many different reasons. Now that I think about it I'm really starting to wonder why I'm here. Why did god decide to make me? Am I here for a certain reason? Am I supposed to do something special in this world or am I here for no reason? I have so many questions, but will they ever be answered. I'll just have to go on with my life and find out.

     I have a voice in the world and I should use it to save this world. One person can make a big change, maybe god made me that person. I wish that god would tell me why I'm here it would probably make life so much easier. I could be here on this earth to change the world and make it better for all the next generations. Maybe I'm here to stop the oil spill that's happening now in the gulf of Mexico. To stop that oil spill I signed a few petitions, hopefully that will help a lot. All the people on this planet that care are probably here for a reason. God could have put them here to help the earth with all the disasters that are happening right now.

     Honestly I'm not really sure what my gifts are, I never really thought about it. I guess right now is a good time to think about my gifts. Well I'm a really nice person, I care about this planet, and animals. I'm a caring person, I'm a very shy person, but God made me that way so I can't complain about it. I can draw well, only if I have a picture to look at. I'm not sure what other gifts I have. I will probably figure that out as I get older and wiser. God made me on this earth for some reason, I can't just be here for nothing.

     I think what makes me special and unique is that I'm not like everybody else. I like to do my own thing and I don't let other people pressure into doing something I don't want to do. I have a great personality and if others don't like it or like me then that's their problem. I'm also smart and beautiful in my own way, everybody is like that. That's how god made us, he wanted everybody to be different not the same. If everybody on this earth looked the same and had the same kind of personality then, you couldn't tell anybody apart and everything would be boring.

     To make this earth a better place I want to change the way I do things. I want to start recycling and using natural resources. Not those fossil fuels, all they do is destroy our planet and its species. I also want to sign more petitions to help this planet because those could actually change the way people do things and they can save this planet before it's too late.

I Am Poem

I am a shy person who loves animals.

I wonder why I'm here on this earth.

I hear my friend laughing.

I see her big smile.

I want something to eat.

I am a shy person who loves animals.

I pretend to be a dolphin in the oil spill.

I feel sorry for all the fish.

I touch the oil full of sorrow.

I worry species will die with the oil.

I cry for my life.

I am a shy person who loves animals.

I understand you don't live forever.

I say live life to the fullest.

I dream of having a great life.

I try my best on everything.

I hope I get the life I want.

I am a shy person who loves animals.

Haiku

Love is a great thing,

But it can hurt you so much,

It can be worth it.

The Oil Spill In The Gulf of Mexico

     Well I'm a dolphin living in the ocean, of course and this oil spill is really driving us crazy. Every animal in this ocean are loosing food and could possibly be dying. Who knows I could be next if these freaken humans don't clean it up. Gosh I don't know why it's taking them so long to clean it up, don't they know what they are doing to us. This oil spill is just spreading further and further killing more animals along the way. Pretty soon it's going to go to far and the humans won't be able to clean it. They are going to end up killing this whole planet for the stupid things they do in this world. Ugh I already feel like I'm getting sick I need to get away from here. I feel bad for this the fishes and mammals that died already. I wish I could speak in the humans language so I can tell them how we feel, give them humans a piece of my mind. They are disturbing our own little world. Why do those humans do this to us, we don't go up there and mess up their land.... well actually we kind of can't, we can't breath up there. Anyways they need to hurry and clean that oil, well I'll talk to you later I'm going to go somewhere else in this ocean.