R.I.P. fishies

  Yesterday my mom took me to Walmart to get some goldfish. She said that if I could keep these alive then she would consider getting me a dog. I was so excited that I picked out a cute fish bowl and put cute accessories in it. It was perfect. And then when I got home today I went to check on them and they were dead. Both of them. I was so depressed. I couldn't believe it, I can't even keep a fish alive for 24 hours. Yeah so now I don't think that I will get a dog. I am a failure. ha ha:(

 

courage

      Courage can mean different things to different people. It could be standing up to a bully or building up the courage to do something you normaly wouldn't do. Many people claim they have a lot of courage but how do you know if someone actually does. How can you test someone to see what they would do. Actually you can't really test someone unless you want to pull a John Kramer. Scary!!
      I think courage is a very good thing to have. Without courage no one would be able to stand up for what they believe in. I like when people rebel and say whats on their mind without sensoring their thoughts because it shows who they really are. I think that alone takes a lot of courage to do and without that where would we be today                     

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driving around

My best friend got her license on Thursday and on Friday we got 6 inches of snow. Friday was her second day of having her licence and even though the roads were super icy we still were driving around. It was so fun we would be driving and all of a sudden we would fishtail. I admit that I got scared a few times but we were laughing so hard our stomachs hurt. Friday night we drove out past Manchester where our friend lives and we had to drive 30mph on the highway.5 hour energy drinks, music blaring, teenagers laughing, phones lit up. By far one of the craziest nights in a long time. Many many moments that will be remembered forever.

be a leader, not a follower!

leadership is being yourself
leadership is doing what you believe
leadership is never backing down
leadership is showing others the way
leadership can start an uprising, can influence peoples decisions
leadership is needed to run a country
leadership is all around us
in schools, politics, religion and clubs
we need more leaders in the world to help us see the way.
all you need to be a leader is motivation and something worth following.

Giving during the holidays

Now that it is the holidays we all think about giving more than any other time of the year. Where ever you go there are the bell ringers for the salvation army. It is Christmas time and don't we all deserve to open a present on Christmas morning.Yes we do! and so we should all do our part to give to those who have less than us so that we can make the world a better place.And plus it also makes us feel good to give to others so there is really no excuse why you shouldn't give. SO NOW GO DO IT!!!

I whip my hair back and forth, Gypsy, and Hp7

     There is this new song out by Willow Smith called " Whip My Hair". Willow Smith is Will Smiths daughter and she is 9 years old. The song is really catchy and once you see the music video you will laugh really hard. At first when my friends and I heard it we thought it was a joke but now every time we hear it we freak out and whip our hair. My friends Sydney, Katie and Gretta and me always say it at random times and whenever it is silent it seems like one of us starts doing the dance.

      One inside joke between my friends and I is Gypsy. There is this song about being a gypsy by Shakira and it is so random that it make us laugh. The song gets stuck in your head for days and that is what made it a joke between us. We listened to the song together and then at school we would randomly sing it and everyone was like what is that so now it has become a inside joke between us.

     This past Friday my Me, Gretta, Sydney and Katie went to Harry Potter 7 part 1 and we had a really fun time. We laughed at how many people jumped at the scary parts and just stupid stuff like that. It was really immature but we had a blast. We laughed so much are stomachs were hurting. During one scary part in the movie that made us all jump is when a gigantic snake lunged towards us and at that part Gretta had her feet up on the seat in front of her and she didn't notice that someone was sitting in that seat but when the snake lunged towards us Gretta jumped so hard and jerked her legs at the same that she full on kicked the seat in front of her with the lady sitting in it. Of course it was a accident but she kicked it so hard that it almost propelled the poor lady out of her seat. All of us burst out laughing and Gretta had scared the lady so hard that she made her spill all of her popcorn on the floor. The lady didn't know what hit her and probably peed her pants. I was laughing so hard that I felt bad but I couldn't stop. Now we all give Gretta crap about that and it makes it even more funny. That is what we did at the Harry Potter movie on Friday.

Hope

       Hope is a very good thing to have. Hope is a feeling that everything will turn out for the best. I think when people lose hope they lose their desire to live. When you lose hope you just go through life like a zombie. You have no drive to you. You have no visions for your future and nothing to look forward to. Imagine feeling worthless everyday for the rest of your life. People who feel like that have probably lost hope and us as humans need something to look forward to. We need something to believe in. That is why we need hope in our lives.

       I use the word hope many times a day. I will say "I hope we don't get any homework tonight." or "I hope I get an A on my math test." But one thing that I have never said is "Man I hope I get to eat tonight." or " God I hope I live until tomorrow" We just got done reading a book about a man who survived the holocaust and he wrote about how he witnessed people losing hope and giving up on life. He witnessed people giving up on thoughts of a better future, of becoming free one day. And it made me think about how good we have it now. I admit I take many things for granted. I never stop to think about if I will get to have something to eat for supper or if I will have a bed to sleep in at night. But many people around the world have to worry about those exact things. Yes, some of them may lose hope and some of them wont. But the ones that don't lose hope get stronger from that. They know that things can be better if you make them better.

     Hope is a very wonderful thing to have. It can be very powerful. It can change your life depending on whether or not you have it and it can help you survive the worst of times. Hope is something that you should never give up on. That is what hope means to me.