Dear Mrs.Henderson,

This year has been a good one and I have learned a lot. I’m very glad that I took this class because I met two of my best-friends. I don’t really see creative writing or blogging or whatever as a job, more of a hobby.  I had a lot of fun sharing my writing and experiences with the class. Thank you for such a great, fun filled year. I might take creative writing class next year, but  I think I should focus more on what I want to do with my life. Hobbies can come later. I can probably learn more about creative writing whenever I find the time to. Thank you once again for such an amazing year.

Sincerely,

Alexis Gonzalez

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Storms have always been a thing to scare us as a child from thunderstorms and lighting to pouring ran and hail. Storms affect many around the world, hurricanes, tsunamis,  sandstorms you name it. If you have ever been through a storm you know how scary it can be. You just need to wait it out and find someplace relatively safe. The story that I am fixing to tell you is made up. There was a major storm that happened a few years back that everyone called Chaos, it was a combination of different storms: Hail, Sand, Water, and Fire. Basically all of the elements combined into one major tornado.

Mabel  was the first one to spot it on the rise. She was maybe five years old, her mom was outside cleaning up a mess of cigarette butts and empty bottles, her dad was passed out on the couch, cigarette in hand.  Mabel, playing outside, feels something fall on her forehead and roll down her cheek, again something hits her arm and is gone before she can process it, it suddenly starts pouring upon her and she looks around and notices a little swirl up in the sky. She was fascinated at first until the little droplets turned to fat globs of water and then to small balls of ice as the swirl got bigger and closer. As hail hit her small body, her mom scooped her up and swiftly ran inside the house. The tennis balls of hail shortly turned to bowling balls, then watermelons and crashed through the house. The swirl had touched the ground by this time and she could hear what seemed like screaming coming from outside. She looked through one of her broken windows to see wind, with dirt and stones zipping past. That’s what the screaming noise was, the wind. After a few hours of this it died down. She thought it was safe to go outside so she went out the front door to see the damage and instead was hit by pounds and pounds of sand. Flying into her, it stung and ripped her skin and clothes. Her mother once again pulled her inside, but to no avail. Another gust of sandy wind and Mabel was gone. Only to be found later covered in sand with wounds on her body from jagged glass, sand, and old cigarette burns.

• “Some people don’t like change but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster” – Elon Musk
• My life has been changing a lot recently and it will continue to do so, i just need to embrace it so I can change with it.
• “Love is a serious mental disease” – Plato
• Love is one of the things in my life that make me myself, without it apart of me just in’t there.
• “Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have , life itself – Walter Anderson”
• I have gone through a lot this year, but I am getting better at accepting it and continuing towards my goals.
• “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination” – Albert Einstein
• Imagination is something that everybody needs, if you don’t have an imagination life will be dull.
• “What is life without a little risk” – J.K Rowling
• Life is full of unexpected opportunities, sometimes you don’t know if you should take them or not, if you don’t do it you might wish you had.
• “Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others” – Ellen Degeneres
• My mom always told me that I was beautiful and smart and I never really believed her because she was my mom, but now my friends say that, I know that they wouldn’t say that just to make me feel better about myself and once I saw how they saw me, I believed it too.
• “I am going to show you how great I am” – Muhammad Ali
• This basically tells you everything itself, but I just want to make my family and friends proud.
• “Cats choose us, we don’t own them” – Kristen Cast
• This is very accurate, for my cat at least, I got my kitten(Pumpkin) last year in the beginning of school and as soon as I saw her she clung to me like a vine. Whenever I don’t bring her food at exactly eight o’ clock at night she will start meowing hysterically and claw and bite me while I am walking around the house or just sitting. Whenever she is bored she’ll come up to me, start meowing, and if I don’t automatically come to play with her, she’ll swat at me.
• “I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful” -Drew Barrymore
• Happiness isn’t just what makes you pretty, it could a part of it, but it isn’t everything because people look pretty when they are sad too. You need to have a little bit of happiness during the school year.
• “There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments” -Janet Kilburn Phillips
• The same thing happens with school assignments or projects or grades. You may think it was a mistake but it will only make you better with more practice or ‘experiments”.

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If you don’t know I have three furbabies; Moose who is almost a year old(pit bull), Tilley who is about six or so years old(Boston terrier/ Pit bull), and Pumpkin who is the same age as Moose(fluffy calico). We got Moose and Pumpkin at about the same time last year in August. We got Tilley about five or six years ago whenever I lived in South Carolina. She was maybe a year old and at the time we had a Bull Mastiff mixed with a Great Dane dog named Hootch, very slobbery,  he was maybe nine at the time and a year after we got Tilley we moved to where I am now(not in South Carolina).  My family knew that Hootch was getting old so we tried to spend more time with him, that idea somewhat failed. I always spent time with him, he was my baby. A couple of years after we moved Hootch started throwing up..he could barely walk now..and he didn’t ever want to play anymore. After about two months of this happening I had a dream about Hootch. We were in a cabin in the woods that was see-through that had pictures hanging from the ceiling of my previous dogs and my family. I saw a dirt road that led up to a gate ad Hootch was standing at the edge, there was a giant shadow behind him, I don’t know why but I felt anxious to get to him. I tried to go but it felt like I was moving through water. The next thing I know the shadow behind him is gone and I’m at the gate, but he is fighting with another dog.  I don’t know what breed. The other dog won and Hootch ran away. The other dog then came after me and I woke up. I immediately went to go check on Hootch and he was safe and sound, still breathing. That night he was walking around the house at round twelve and the scratched at my door, thinking he wanted to go outside I let him out. he wouldn’t come inside after a while so I woke my dad up to go watch him and I went to bed because I had school in the morning. I wish I stayed out there with him. My dad got him back inside at about four in the morning is what he said. My mom woke me up that morning, her eyes red and puffy, she had a snotty nose, I already knew. I rushed into my parents bedroom but he wasn’t there, I searched the whole house frantically, then went outside. My dad had wrapped him in a white blanket and was carrying him to the bed of the truck. I streamed over there, my dad trying to stop me, and lifted the cloth. His eyes were closed, he looked peaceful. I cried for so long. That whole week and month all I did was cry. We took him to a cremation place for pets and said goodbye. I don’t cry about it anymore but I still get a little sad. That dream that I had the night before didn’t mean anything, I think.

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I have a childhood fear of needles. Still. I don’t know why but I have always had it. I went to the doctor today and  had to get my blood drawn, I was so terrified. My mom said to me and the nurse “She’s had this done when she was a baby” and I replied as tears streamed down my face “Well I’m an even bigger baby now” and the nurse and my mom just started laughing, it was pretty funny. Anyways, I’m going to talk about a scary story about the doctors office, it is not a real story, its made up.

A few years ago there was a little girl named Amy who loved fruit. All types of fruit, there wasn’t any that she didn’t love, but her favorites are grapes, she would always ask her mom  for grapes whenever they went to the store. Whenever anyone would ask her what she wanted for her birthday it was always fruit. Whenever her grandparents came to town one weekend to visit, her grandmother asked her if she would like a few grapes. Amy was hesitant but only for a second because her grandma had always seemed to despise her: when she was three her grandma “accidentally” tripped her and she flew down the stairs, breaking her collarbone, when she was five her grandma went with her down a water slide and the tube they were using trapped Amy under water, and when she was eight her grandma almost starved her because she “forgot” that Amy was in the basement. After her grandma gave her the grapes Amy popped one into her mouth, chewed, swallowed, and choked. It was stuck in her throat, her grandma rushed to alarm Amy’s parents and they rushed her to the hospital. The doctors rushed Amy into the ER and were alarmed to find a little sewing needles inside Amy’s throat. Amy made it out successfully but was in critical care because the needle ripped the inside of her throat. Amy’s mother questioned Amy’s grandma, “What happened, did you see what happened?” Amy’s grandma replied, ” I went into the kitchen and I saw her choking on one of the grapes that I brought, one of my sewing needles must have slipped into it.” Amy’s mom just nodded and went to go check on her. A week or so later Amy was stable enough to go home and a little while after they got back home Amy’s mom was cleaning and saw the grapes so she went over to them and picked one up and examined it.  Her conversation with Amy’s grandma came back to her and she carefully opened the grape and pulled out a tiny sewing needle.

Global Warming, a gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth’s atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, and other pollutants. Overfilled landfills, undrinkable water, shortages of water, cow farts, etc. There has been debate about if human are causing it and yes we have, we play a very big part of it. Global Warming is very real and very dangerous. Humans are negatively impacting the environment, but we could generate a positive impact by changing some of our behavior; start taking reusable bags when we are shopping, stop using plastic straws, and cut down on our milk and beef consumption for a start.  Even though these are small things they start making a big change in our world. For me Global Warming means extinct species and trash everywhere, a dead or dying world. Global Warming is something we caused ourselves and we can stop it if we weren’t so lazy.  Rubén Pérez Planillo via Compfight Hindrik Sijens via Compfight Neil Moralee via Compfight

This is a song from my childhood, my mom used to sing it to me whenever i was little because i couldn’t shut up log enough to fall asleep.

This one is pretty self explanatory. I love all animals but I really love dogs.

This is a very short playlist but this pretty much sums up my life as a whole.  Just that I love animals and that I had an okay childhood. Its pretty simple.

 

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Brandon Todd was a great adventurer and he loved making new experiences especially with his friends, the last adventure that he went on was to The Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland. He took three of his friends with him and went on a weeks journey. They got there at 7 in the afternoon after a 2 hour flight  and then an hour boat ride . The place is gorgeous; in the mornings whenever its dewy and the sun is barely shining there is a light fog which makes the place mysterious, at noon everything is bright and you can see clearly into the crystal blue water, and in the afternoons-night the stars light up above you in a shining parade. There are giant columns made of basalt there that scientists say they’re from a volcanic fission eruption that happened many years ago. Some say that giants created them from lava of the volcano making them stepping stones because the grass tickles their feet.  Brandon Tod found out that this was partially true. The day he and his friends got there they heard a giant roar that shook the birds from the trees, it echoed throughout the vast bleakness of the mountains of columns all they way to Brandon and his friends.  They were going up to the cabin that they rented for the week (the cabins are very beautiful and somewhat  luxurious). The world shook as thunderous footsteps fell around them. All the friends saw before their imminent death was a giant hand reaching from the trees.  Nobody ever found the friends bodies but they found Brandons, mangled body against the basalt columns on the shore.

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That’s the closest picture that I could find of a sub sandwich. I LOVE sub sandwiches they’re one of my favorite foods, every time my mom said, “What do you want to eat?” the answer would almost always be an enthusiastic ” SUBWAY!!!!!” My favorite sub to get was an Italian B.M.T. on Italian herb and cheese bread.  I always get lots and lots of veggies on my subs: lettuce, banana peppers, pickles, olives, etc. They’re the best.  My favorite meats and cheese were turkey, pepperoni, salami, provolone cheese, and Parmesan. I always melted it/ heated it up. The sauces and spices that I always got were salt, pepper, sweet onion sauce, red wine vinegar, and oil. Yummy.   http://subway

The Selection Series by Kiera Cass

The book genre is Romance/ Sci-Fi/ Dystopia

Thirty- Five women compete to become a princess/ queen. One was America Singer, who wasn’t supposed to be here. While the competition is happening a rebellion is stirring within Illea( Their home, former America).

I personally love this book series, my favorite to be honest. I’ve read them over and over during car trips or during school or just when i’m bored. I’ve never gotten tired of them. I’ve never been one to like stories about princesses or love triangles, but this book is beautiful.

I recommend that you try and see if you like the book.