Spring Break

I hope everyone is having a great spring break! Comment on this and tell the class what you did.

~A.D~

Haven't posted in a while...

Today is Thursday, and tomorrow is the last day of school until spring break. I can tell that it's spring because the flowers are coming out, it's getting sunnier, and my allergies have started bugging me.

All of my friends and I have great plans for our time off of school. I'm personally going to the beach on a mission trip with my youth group. A few people are just going to hang out with friends and sleep in! Whatever the case, we're all going to have a blast. I'm so ready for the break that I can almost taste it. The taste is so delicious that it makes my mouth water and crave more! Do you ever get that feeling when you are about to embark on new adventures outside of school?

As long as you have a wonderful, amazing, staying-up-all-night-and-sleeping-all-day break, you should be good to go. :) So, kick back, relax, throw a bucket of water on your sibling when they're not looking, and just have fun in the spring air!

~RLJ

Which dessert is better?

Ok if you were stranded on an Island and someone gave you a choice between only being supplied with cookie cake or a regular ice cream cake which would you choose? I know this is a random question. I would personally choose cookie cake because it's delicious!!! So if anyone has an answer feel free to comment.



-S.H.

Busy,Busy,Busy

I think it is safe to say we are all extremely busy I mean we all have after school activities going on. Well, mine is ballet;talk about stress we have a show coming up so we have been practicing for eight hours every Saturday. On top of that i normally have homework when i get back from ballet and I'm already majorly tired,so my homework isn't very thorough. So i guess what I'm trying to say is we all have after school activities that keep us busy,but we have to decide what more important school or extra-curricular activities,and although we hate to admit it school should always come first. I'm sure you will all agree with this when I say we can never get to busy for school work

I Love Snow Days!

Being home schooled my whole life, I never got to have snow days. I could go outside and play in the snow, but then I would have to come in and do school work. Last Sunday, my Sunday school leader asked us if we thought it was going to snow. I didn't think it would. But to my surprise Sunday night, there was actually snow covering the ground a little bit at a time.
I enjoyed having Monday and Tuesday off and then a two-hour delay Wednesday. I injured my arm sledding on a hill, but I enjoyed the snow Monday morning. The second day of snow is never as good as the first. So it was basically mud on the hill I played on the previous day. But it was nice to have a sudden two day break!


~KGO~

WOW! SO Busy!

I don't even know where to begin. I'm so busy all the time. It's either I have tons of homework or I'm at cheerleading for hours at a time. When do I have time to breathe?? Exactly, I don't. We have so many things due this month in school and i feel like I'm never going to get it all done in time. If you have any advice on how to solve this problem, please let a sister know! Haha. Well, once again I'm going to cheerleading. See you later!

Life on Thursday and Friday!!

On Thursday and Friday I was sick. My head was hurting, and anything you could possibly

imagine that was wrong with me. I laid in bed all day, I ate soup, and didn't wake up until 

10:00 AM every morning. My life stunk! By Friday evening i felt better; my family was in town 

for the week, so my Aunt Melissa decided she would take me to the mall! 

While we at the mall she asked me, "So do you want to get your ears pierced?" See I have

been wanting to get my ears pierced for a very long time, but my mom hasn't had time to take me.

I said, "Sure why not!" My aunt kind threw a curve ball on me, but she said she didn't want me to 

get all worried about it. We went to icing to get my ears pierced, and when they shot my ears

with those guns it didn't hurt a bit; it felt like a sting. 

My aunt and I also went shopping that day. We went to Aerie, J Crew, Banana Republic, the 

Gap, American Eagle, and Belk. My aunt found her a really cute kahki skirt from Banana 

Republic; she also found a really cute shirt and skirt at J Crew. I also found amazing clothing at 

Gap and Aerie. That day was pretty awesome! 

On Friday night we met up with the rest of the family to eat at Sticky Fingers. We were 

celebrating my Aunt Melissa's 43rd birthday and my Grandma's 68th birthday. Their birthdays

are on March 15th and 17th, but we won't get to see them on there birthdays because they

live in Illinois; we decided to celebrate it now while we get to see them! My dinner was really

tasty. I could feel the flavor going down my mouth! 

I will have to say my friday was pretty good!! I had a lot of fun spending time with my aunt

at the mall! I really enjoyed eating with the whole family at Sticky Fingers. We hardly get to 

do that. i really do miss my family when they leave, but we are going to make time this summer to 

go to Illinois!

By: LET

YAY!!! she's having a baby!

Our wonderful and sweet teacher is having a baby! We are extremely excited about this grand news. So to our fabulous, excellent, extraordinary, marvelous, and great teacher- Congratulations! We are all so happy for you and your husband. We all know you will be an amazing mother :)

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One thing I have learned in Middle School is.......

One thing that I have learned during Middle School is that my life is great compared to others. My family is a foster family, and I have had three foster brothers and sisters. Currently, I have a baby foster brother that is the prettiest baby I have ever seen. We have had him for a long time, and he is soon going to be adopted by someone. I think my heart is going to break into tiny pieces as soon as he leaves and goes to another family. The thing I have to remember though is that the family that gets him is going to be luckiest family in the world.

I am going to be honest- we ALL have a great life compared to some people. Being a big sister to those who have no family at all really has given me a glimpse at the orphan world. Once a month I go watch and play with a lot of foster kids. Seeing the little grins on their faces really humbles me because they are so happy. These kids have been through everything, such as leaving your family and suddenly being placed with another and then another. I think I would break under the continual change. I am so grateful that our family is able to help foster kids so that we can try to be the best family they will ever have. So when you think you have it bad, just realize that others have a more complicated life than we ever have. When you think your mom hates you because she grounded you, loath your sister because she took your shirt, or get mad when your brother is annoying you, just know that some people don't have any family at all. Whenever I'm mad or irate at my family, I realize that I should not be because a lot of people don't even have a mom. I think the whole process of being a foster family will really help with great leadership characteristics I will need to have later on in life. Sometimes it's not that easy though being a sister because we have to let go of the children when they leave.

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How do you have time to breathe!?

Sometimes in life we forget where we are going, sometimes we forget why we even try in the first place, and sometimes we just lose our zest for living. That's me, RLJ; those are three ways to describe me. It's never fun wondering which road you should take, wondering how long it will take you to find yet another choice in front of you. Life is so crazy at times that you just want to forget everything, crawl in a hole, and cry/yell/be by yourself/try to breathe.
Being an 8th grader, or just being in school at all, gets very crucial a lot of the time. You get frustrated, tired, or just sick of having to do the same routine everday. The routine is getting up, brushing teeth, getting dressed, eating breakfast, going through 7 hours of school, and going home to do another 3-6 hours of homework. You also have soccer practice, flute lessons, choir practice, a brother needs help with a project, etc. You wonder when you're going to get a chance to breathe. The thing is, is that although we want to pull our hair and because we are so tired of the way we are living, we can always know that tomorrow is going to be a brand new day. Tomorrow doesn't have any mistakes in it yet. You have the opportunity to try again. Yes, you may have three assignments due on the same day, which believe me, I'm stressing over that right now; tomorrow you have a chance to "zoom in" to look at the tiny pieces (take one step at a time). Don't "zoom out" and look at the big picture (do everything at once).
It's sort of funny that I am sitting here telling you to do this, because I struggle with taking my own advice all the time. I just hope that even though I don't always take my own advice, that it will help you or someone else in need of a break in their life. Someone who is in need of a little zest for living or someone who wonders why they try, try again will finally be able to say "I have time to breathe!"


RLJ

Life being grounded...Not that fun...

Hey It's MT. I'm grounded and it is definatly NOT fun. I have never really been grounded for a long period of time before, so this is kind of new to me. New, and very, very hard. I am about ready to pull my hair out. I never see any of my friends anymore! They all ask the same questions, "Do you want to come over?" and when I say that I can't and that I'm grounded, they all give me the same reply, "Ohh, what'd you do?" "None of your buisness!" A would spit back at them. People get nosier and nosier these days. Its crazy!

Well, I'm grounded because I was being stupid and not using my brain. Rebelious MT finally broke out of her shell! I need to put her back if I ever want to see the light of day again! So far, my phone and computer are taken away. Also all the priviledges of being able to see all of my friends. If I don't get my act together soon, I'll never EVER have a life again. I'm trying my best to straighten up, but it is a very slow process. Yikes!

Today was also my sister's birthday. She turned 6, as you can see from the holes in the cake. :D It was a very good cake. I bet you wish you could have some! But you can't! Haha! It was delisious! She got a lot of gifts and she and everyone else laughed at the card I got her. It said, "Happy Birthday to my sister, the cute one in our family. From the stunningly gorgeous one." Haha, right? I bought it like, a year ago and its been in my dresser ever since.

We finally had snow! Woo! Enough to keep me out of school for 2 days and have a delay on Wednesday. My best friend and I had a HUGE snowball fight! It was off the hook! We were stuffing snow in each other's faces, throwing snowballs at each others heads, and tackling each other! The snow was very cold. We also sprinkled snow on our slide and pretended that we were skiing down a mountain. It was so funny to watch! My family and I also went to our neighborhood park and slide down this humongous hill. The girl I babysit and I went down on our sled, and we almost got beat up by a tree! We were going so fast that we couldnt stop. It was very fun. :)

Well, thats all that I have time to write right now, but I'll write more about being grounded and life in an 8th grade girls shoes; let me tell you...It's not that easy... :)

Peace out. ~MBT

Seriously....

Being in eighth grade has changed my life forever.

"Are you serious? Is this serious?" My third period teacher said to me after looking over one of the papers I had turned in. "Yes, that's it" I replied thinking that I had done a good job.

"I don't think so!" She said as she laid the paper back on my desk. "Seriously...This has to be the funniest joke I have heard from a student yet!" I was so surprised that she had dared to say that. People say that high school is the place that makes you or breaks you. I would have to disagree, I believe that middle school has a lot of making and breaking going on also. My middle school is a place where being excellent is not only requested, its expected. Our teachers push us so that we can have all the skills that are needed to be great high school student. I believe that middle school is where you are either made, or broken. Our teachers want and help us to succeed, but in the end, it's us, the eighth grade class to choose weather we are made or broken.

It's your choice:) Choose wisely

CAB

Welcome!

This is a blog for a wonderful class of 8th grade girls. In it, you will find all the wonderful thoughts and musings from their final days as middle school students. It's not as easy as you'd think.