A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

My name Brandy and I have three little children that I have to take care of. Its not easy working and at the same time taking care of my children. I had three children, Samantha, Brandon, and Samuel. They are good children but when it comes to fighting over something its rough. My mother, Mary, is living with me because she has nowhere to go and because my brothers and sisters didn't want them living with them. My husband, Richard, is tyring to work to feed us and maintain the family up. We were in need of money. We barely had money to buy food and pay for my medication. I had been diagnosed with asthma three years ago. But we had a good life because we were a happy family that cared for each other.

It was early in the morning of April, I woke up and it was a beautiful day outside. The children woke up really excited that they could go play outside. First, I gave them breakfast. After that, I dressed them. So they went of to play outside with the other kids. I was sitting in my rocking chair knitting a sweater for one of my sons. My mother came to me with tears on her face. I was worried that something bad happened.

"What's wrong mother?"
"I received a call from your brother, Paul, he said that if I can go move with his family and him, they need a lot of help because Jane needs a lot of help with the children and the work around the house."
"Mother, I will be okay without you. I will try my best to get everything done around the house. I know I can do it."
"Okay daughter, if you ever need anything just call me because I will be willing to come back but now your brother needs. I am crying because I have to leave you here alone with your kids and husband."
"Mother don't worry I will be okay. Anyways we have to celebrate before you leave because we have to make you feel good that you were here to help me with everything."

Today was a beautiful day, that I could hear the nature's sound. The birds were finally singing again. I heard them a long time ago and I finally heard them sing again. It sounded so beautiful. I was kind of sad because my mother was moving away and maybe i might never see her again which was kind of sad. I was going to miss her and so were my children because they grew up with her and they love her so much.

The next day, i woke up to hear the birds chirping loudly. My husband was here and it was a surpirse but i remebered that it was Sunday. And on Sundays it means that he doesn't work and stays with us. He was sleeping but then he woke up. He went to the washroom and brought a pack of money. I was surprise because he barely brought any money home. I counted it and it was about $350. It was a lot of money because he didn't make the half of this money. But I was glad that we finally had money to buy some food and stuff for the celebration that we were going to have this afternoon.

My mother was making breakfast for the whole family. The kids were already dressed and showered. They were having there breakfast. So I didn't have to worry about nothing. I took a shower and got dressed to go to the market to buy the food for the dinner this afternoon. My mother and me went to the market to buy the materials we needed for the dinner we were going to make.

We bought a big fat turkey, apples, flour, sugar, milk, butter, and all those things to make the food. So we went back home to make the food. When the food was done, we had to get ready to celebrate. The celebration was going to start at 4 o'clock. Everyone was at the table, we prayed, and then we finally ate. The food was yummy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everything turned out to be good. Brandon was eating up a lot, he almost ate about 5 plate in total. I was surprised and proud because we never get this kind of food only once a year. My mother was trying to cut something open because it wa s apresent for the children. My husband was trying to reach for something which was my mother's thank you gift. And I was feeding my horse, Patricia, and Ruff wanted to food to. Ruff was my precious dog. He is so cute. Anyways we had a great time and it was a good time because we were all together as one big family.

Pet Peeves

1. I hate it when people laugh really loud.

2. When people trick me on doing one thing and they actually do another thing.

3. People that whine a lot.

4. When people act all that.

5. Boys that play with girl's feelings.

6. Doing chores every single day.

7. When people ask for things and don't say please.

8. When I don't have nothing to do.

9. When people go through my stuff.

10. People that try to boss me around and think that they can prove me wrong.

11. People try to be the center of attention so someone can notice you.

12. When I can't find the things I need at that moment and find it when I don't need it.

13. Being sick at home.

14. Friends that talk begin my back and acting like they are my friends.

15. When the bathroom doesn't have toilet paper.

16. When people don't eat with their mouths close and chew like cows.

17. Family comes over and don't help clean up when there is a mess that they did.

18. School seems like forever that its never going to end.

19. People that treat me like a little kid.

20. When people call me a liar and then I'm right and they say sorry but they don't mean it.

21. When the waiter is talking to someone else instead of taking your order and end up giving you the order WRONG!

22. Its a really hot day and you go somewhere and there isn't air conditioner.

23. The prices on an item say a price and when they scan it when you are ready to checkout it says another price.

24. Waking up early to go somewhere.

25. When the computer freezes on something I'm doing that its important.

The Secret

It was my best friend's deepest, darkest secret and it would be a hard one to keep. I, Abigail, knew Nicole, 18 years old,since we were little kids, we grew up with each other and now we're teenagers. I just can't believe that she is pregnant and the person she got pregnant with, left her. It's a sad story but I'm disappointed in her because she got pregnant and her boyfriend left her alone with the baby inside her. I was going to help because I didn't want to her end up giving the baby away or make the wrong choice with the baby. It was hard for her because she was so young and her parents didn't know and she didn't plan on telling them. I was really confused but then I noticed that she needed my help more than anything. I never thought that she would end up pregnant because she was a good girl and her grades were really good, she just changed after she got pregnant and started having boyfriends.


It all started on summer vacation last year, Nicole and me went Downtown to hang out and buy some stuff we wanted. We sit on the benches in Millennium Park because we were trying to rest from walking. I looked at her and she started to cry. I asked her what was wrong and she said she had to tell me something really important but I couldn't tell no one else because she would be ruined (get in so much trouble). I promised her and she said that she was pregnant. When she told me that, I was really surprised and happy for her and I told her that but she didn't look so happy I asked what was wrong. Nicole told me that her boyfriend left her because he didn't want no kids and he said that he wasn't responsible for her to get pregnant. I got so mad when she told me that he had said that because he seemed like a good guy that will treat her nice well that's what I saw when I saw then together.


Nicole told me that she went to the doctor because her stomach hurt a lot and she didn't handle the pain. She was worried that something was wrong with her. The doctor told her that she had a week of pregnancy. He said that she should tell her parents so that they would be informed on her health while being pregnant. Nicole wasn't going to tell her parents because she knew that she was going to get in big trouble and her parents wouldn't want the baby. I told her that she should tell them so that her parents would take her to the doctor and the hospital when she was ready to give birth.

Three months after, when stomach gotten getting bigger, she would put something around her stomach so it won't show that she is pregnant. But one day she was at school and was at P.E. class doing some stretching to get ready to play a game for volleyball. So when she bend down to tie her shoes, the thing she put around her stomach to make her stomach not look big, broke and the teacher saw that her stomach was really big. Immediately, she got send to office and her parents were called to the school. They didn't know why they were called because her daughter was a really good student. The principal asked Nicole what going on. Nicole started to cry. She told them that she had 3 months of pregnancy. Her parents where in disbelief because they thought her daughter would never end up pregnant.

Her dad got mad but at the same time happy because he was going to have a grandson. But he didn't like the part when he heard that the guy responsible for the baby left her alone and told her that he wasn't going to take care of the baby and wasn't responsible for anything. So her dad said that he was going to find him and tell him that he is responsible for that baby that her daughter is carrying or else Nicole's parents would talk to his parents and tell him that he needs to be responsible for their kid. Nicole said that she might have an abortion because she didn't want her parents to find out. I didn't want her to get an aborition. I told her to tell her parents before she made the wrong decision. It was good that her parents found before she had an abortion. She got scared that her parents would do something really bad to her like kick her out of the house with the baby. But they didn't, they were good parents to her because they understood her and were not so satisfied that their daughter was pregnant, they just accepted it.

I told her to be strong. She told me that she will and that I was a big help to her. She said that she will never have enough to thank me for keeping her secret and giving her the advice even though I was younger than her. So two more months passed, and they finally found the guy responsible for her being pregnant. He didn't want to at first and Nicole is still in love with him. But after she went to the store with him and he started to like the baby because he saw other babies and the things they sold for the babies. Nicole got so happy when he started to finally love her and the baby.

I'm glad that I gave her good advice and she followed it. She was about to have an abortion that same day her parents found out, afterschool. She told me to go with her but I told her to cancel that appointment and she didn't she was still going to do it. It was like a miracle when her parents found out before she was going to get that baby out of her stomach. I was so relieved when her parents found out. I'm also happy for her because her boyfriend started like the baby that was going to be his and hers.

When she was about to give birth to the baby, the day before she asked me if I would like to be the baby's godmother. At that time I was 17 years old, I thought that I couldn't be a godmother becasue I was too young. So we went to a church and asked if I could baptized the baby. They said that I could. I was so happy because that baby was going to be even closer to me. So we set up the ceremony for next week. When she gave birth, I went to the hospital to see the baby and it was a girl. She was so cute. Her name was Dalilah. She was going to be my goddaughter, I was just so excited that I started to cry. We baptized her and my friend got married at age 21 with her boyfriend that she had her baby with. Everyone was just so happy that everything turned out to be good. At first, I thought that I wasn't going to keep her secret but then I tried not to tell no one because that would ruin our friendship a lot and I still wanted to be friends with her until we died.

Her Mysterious Death

Her death was due to mysterious circumstances and I was assigned to the case. I, Alejandra Montez, am going to investigate the case of Gloria Garcia. She lived in a small town in Colorado. She was 18 years old when she had been murdered while she was going to the store at night. This happened on June 14, 2006. It was passed 9 o’ clock at night when she asked her mother for permission to go to the store at night. Her mother wondered why she would want to go to the store at night so gave her permission to go to the store. Her mother watched her from the window to see if she was going to the store. When she turned the corner, her mother was worried but good thing she didn't forget her cell phone. Her mother said that Gloria told her that she was going to take too long because she needed to buy a lot of things. When I heard the story from when she last saw her, I told her that I was going to get to the bottom of this. I wasn’t going to let her down. I think I had a clue on who had murdered her or had something to do with it.

The next day we went to the store where Gloria said that she was going to go to buy the things she needed. The owner from the store knew who she was. We asked the owner if he had seen Gloria in the store last night. He said that he did see her, she just bought something’s from the store and left home. So from there I was really suspicious that somebody had taken her while she was on her way home. I looked at the man’s expression when he told us if he seen Gloria and something told me that he had something to with it because he looked nervous. I asked him more questions which were: what did she buy?, what way did she go?, was there anyone waiting for her outside?, was she the only one walking on the street?, and did you see her cross the street because he can see what way Gloria went to? He was getting nervous but I didn’t care because I’m going to find out who took her.

So the next morning, I receive a call from Gloria’s mother. She tells me that she found Gloria’s necklace on the floor right next to the store that Gloria had gone to. I rushed over to where she was because I wanted to see if there were any fingerprints on he necklace. I got there as fast as I can and I took the necklace from her and I checked it. There were no finger prints on it. So then I had an idea which was to check the woods because the woods were right next to the house, it was a road and some stores but the rest are the woods. My partner, Sam, the policemen that are helping out, Gloria’s mother, and me, go out looking for Gloria in the woods. We notice that their was clothes all over the grass land. Gloria’s mother picks one of the clothes and notices that it’s Gloria’s clothes. So I get the clue that Gloria has to be here somewhere. I keep walking to see if there are more clues and I see a body in the pond. I run over to the pond and notice that it’s a girl's body. I ask Gloria’s mother if its Gloria and she checks it and says YES!.

I look at Gloria’s mother and there are tears rolling on her cheeks. I told her that I would find out who killed and I will put him in jail for many many years. So I turned around to get out and I notice that there is an envelope on the floor. I open it and it has a pair of directions. I look at who wrote it and for who it was. It was from Patrick Scott and it was for Gloria. The letter that the suspect wrote says:

“Dear Gloria,

1) Go to the store that is right next to your house if your parents ask you why you are going to the store tell them that you are going to buy something’s you need, 2) Act like your going to the store but when you turn the corner go straight down to the park nearby don’t let no one who knows you see you, 3) Wait for a white Cadillac to arrived and get on it.
IF YOU DON’T DO THIS THEN I’M GOING TO KILL YOUR MOTHER SO YOU BETTER MEET ME THERE OR ELSE YOU KNOW WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN TO YOUR MOMMY!!!!!!!!! (I'M GOING TO KILL HER)

Much love from, Patrick Scott”

It wasn't written in ink, it was typed in the computer. AHA!!!!!!!!!!! I found the clues that I was looking for. The clues here where: Patrick Scott and white Cadillac. Now I’m going to head down the police station and look in the computer and look up Patrick Scott. I looked him up and it gave me all his information. PLUS: he has committed more crimes to other teenagers. I write down all his information and went to his house where he lives. All my partners come with me and we went to go look for him. We enter his house without knocking.There was a person sitting in the living room watching T.V. We asked him if he was Patrick Scott and he said yes! He was like whose there and what are you doing in my house? Gloria’s mother started to tell him things like why did you kill my daughter and all those things like that. We arrested him and took him to jail. Now he is going to serve 50 years of jail for committing murder. Gloria’s mother held a funeral for Gloria’s death and she cried a lot. We all honored her for everything she did, she was close to graduating high school and was going to College next year. She was the best student in her whole class and the second place winner for the volleyball games.

In my opinion, I thought that it was good that we found her body because we held a funeral for Gloria with her own body. Now her mother can go visit her often and not be lonely. I thought that the man that murdered her was a total jerk because he shouldn’t have murder her in the first place. But I think that its good that he’s in jail for committing murder. I'm proud that I found the killer responsible for Gloria's death.

How to Make Logandale Better

Make things will make Logandale a better school. First,more after school programs during school. Second, make ideas on making learning more interesting. Last, students should wear out of uniform. Wouldn’t you want more kids to come to Logandale Middle School????????????


My first is the we should have more after school programs like clubs and other programs during school. Students will start wanting to come to Logandale when they hear about what clubs we offer in this school. Kids are mostly interested in sports, instruments, and clubs that will keep them busy but at the same time they are learning, too. Also we should have programs that go during school because students want to have fun while in school, but we don’t have fun because we don’t have cool exploratory, you should include: music, language, or recess, too. So if you want to make learning more interesting then we should have more after school programs and exploratory so students will learn, too.


My second reason, is that to make ideas on making learning more interesting. Let students decide on what ideas do they have for some school days. For example, some students might want to have special days like pajama day, crazy hair day, or things like that. If they decide maybe students will come to Logandale because they might want to have those type of days in school. Also we can learn and do something fun at the same time like use the computers you play some educational games online for math and reading. If you want to make school more interesting, then we should have out of uniform days all the time.


My last reason is that students should wear out of uniform. If other students hear that Logandale doesn’t have to wear uniform then it will make them want to come to Logandale. Also if we don’t wear uniform it will help us advertise that Logandale is a school that doesn’t need to wear uniform. Another things is that kids might want to come here because they might think it’s a good school without uniform like its kind of modern. So if you put the rule that students don’t need to wear uniform it will help Logandale be a better school.


Three things will make Logandale a better school. First of all, more after school programs like clubs and other programs when school is in session. Second of all, make ideas on making learning more interesting. My last reason is that students should wear out of uniform all the time. So if you want Logandale Middle School to be a better school then you should do all those things that I have listed above.

Alexy Munoz's Life Story

My first daughter was born on July 26 and I was really happy. I was so excited because she was my first baby. So when the nurse asked me if I wanted to carry her and I said YES! She looked so cute and she was really small. She brought my baby over and I when I saw her she looked just like me, even the nurse and the doctor told me.

She was about two and a half weeks when something scary happened to her. I left her in the crib sleeping. I put her bottle in the corner of her crib. I went downstairs to do some laundry I still had to do. So I took about half an hour and when I came back upstairs the bottle was right next to her, I remembered that I put in the corner not next to her. I looked at her and it looked like if she had drank some of the milk in the bottle. She had some milk in her bib. But when I left she was sleeping and she was still sleeping when I came back. There was nobody in the house except me and her. I got scared so when she was 40 days old, I baptized her because I got scared that she might be haunted or something.


Everything was better after I baptized her. I had to work because her dad had to work and he didn't make much money. I told one of my friends to babysit her because I needed to work and she did babysit her. I was going to miss my little baby but I was going to see her in the night. So one year passed and my friend Sarah was still babysitting her. In her first birthday, I got the day off. So that day, she started walking. She was sitting down and all of a sudden she started walking. I was so happy and I even took her a picture of when she was walking.


When she was about 5 years old, she went to Mexico with her aunt because I couldn't go because I was pregnant of my second daughter. Her aunt and Alexy were going to go to Mexico so Alexy an meet her grandma for the first time. When they got to Mexico, her aunt called me and said that they got there. I got to talk to Alexy. She told me that she missed me and that she didn't want to stay in Mexico. Her aunt said that she started to cry when she left her in her grandma's house. But the days passed quickly, and when she came back me and her dad bought her a barbie house since she always loved to play barbies, so we deided to buy her a big house for her dolls. When we went to pick her up from the airport she ran to us and we were so happy to finally see her again. When she saw the barbie house, she loved it.

When Alexy was 6 years old, she started kindergarden. Alexy wanted to start shool already. So it was the first day of kindergarden. She had started in Reilly Elementary. We were waiting for someone to tell us what her class was going to be and she was in the same class as this boy we knew. He grew up with her and she was so exited. But when I told her that I had to leave because parents were not allowed to stay in the class with their children, she started to cry because she didn't want me to leave, but I left her crying and I didn't want to but I had to get home.

Alexy was in fifth grade and she was going to go to Logandale next year. She didn't want to go but she had to in order to go to College. So one day she comes home and she looks really sad. I ask her what's wrong and says that she likes this boy but she doesn't know how to tell him. I tell her that she's too young for love but she says she's in love with this guy. I don't even know what to tell her. So I start talking about love with her and telling her that she doesn't need to fall in love at the age of 10. She told me the whole story and I gave her advice beause it was her first crush and I didn't want her to get in lots of trouble.

Now she's an eight grader and I'm proud of her because she hasn't done bad in her grades and because she's almost graduating. The years pass and now she's almost a grown up. I can't believe it. I saw her when she was born and all the way to now it seems like it went fast but I mean fast. She's going to high shool next year and well she's not a kid no more. Well that's the main things that happened through Alexy's life!!!!!!!!