Looking back at 2011 (Part 1)

I finally finished my first semester of junior year! This was a crazy semester for me filled with new experiences and challenges. One thing that was challenging, a new experience, and took up a majority of my weekends and afternoons was this year’s season of cross country.

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It was the first year I made top 20 for cross country. Not only that, but I even managed to make top 7 (varsity), which seemed like a ridiculous goal at the beginning of summer training back in May. I was opened up to a whole new world of information about running. Each run had a specific purpose and every mile was significant. We would spend our Sunday mornings and Monday and Wednesday afternoons running around aimlessly for hours at a nearby park. I developed several new relationships with my fellow teammates as we would share hilarious stories, recaps of our exciting weekends, and secrets that we would only share among each other. Tuesday and Thursday mornings meant waking up at 5:15 am to meet up with the team at the school and do workouts on the cold and dewy football practice fields.Our Thursday nights were spent at a senior’s house as we chowed down on pasta and Cesar salad. It wasn’t unusual to miss out on the Friday night football games in order to get an adequate amount of sleep, properly rest our legs, and avoid being lectured by our coach for figuring out we spent the night out at a football game when we could have been hydrating. We didn’t mind be cooped up in a white van for countless hours to travel to far away meets. The most exciting part of making top 7 was the honor of racing at the state meet. This picture is me with 6 other teammates praying before the state meet. We went into the meet confident that we would steal the state title, but we ended up taking home the 3rd place trophy. Although we were disappointed, it was an amazing end to an amazing season. I couldn’t have asked for a better team or better season.

Tomb doom

TombDoom.JPGOne day during school Mrs. Taylor assigned us a project she said we have to make a egyptian game so cassandra and me did tomb doom. We built a pyramid and drew boxes around the poster board then we colored some boxes in and numbered some then we wrapped up some dolls. Then we wrote the rules. On game night it wasn’t a success because dad said Kelly couldn’t get in the tomb because there were two dice and you couldn’t role a one that made me feel bad. But mrs. Taylor said I did a good job

Kindergarden nightmare

In May,2001(kindergarden) Mom bought me a new outfit.(skirt and shirt) Well anyways I was doing my morning work. Like usual Emma complements every outfit I wear.

Then when I stood up my skirt was slowly slipping down. But I caught right before it was going to fall down. So I went to Ms. Ball and she pinned it.

Then when we came in we had story time and went to lunch. But before school was out we had nap time oh yes sweet nap time. But that time it wasn’t sweet, when we were going to get our towels Jack started talking to me. And…… My pin popped out and my skirt fell down and my underwear was showing!!!

Jack fell to the ground it looked like he was dead. Everyone gasped. I was so embarrassed. I quickly pulled it up. I thought to myself wake up. But I was awake. Hopefully everyone forgot about it.

Now playing: Slipping Away from “Steel Wheels” by Rolling Stones

New Mexico

New Mexico

By Claire Cashel

Do you know allot about New Mexico? If you don’t I’ll tell you all about it. Some houses are made out of mud, clay, dirt, and sand. That’s because apache Indians live in them. more than 55,855,9 live there.My mom was born in New Mexico, and she says that an alien spaceship crashed during a war. ( but was actually a marine tank that crashed instead)

Do you know the capitol of new Mexico? It is Santa Fe. Santa Fe is the third largest city in New Mexico. The largest city in New Mexico is Albuquerque.(384,736 people live there.) Do you know the date when New Mexico first became the states of America? It became the 47th state in January 6, 1912.. New Mexico is the 10th largest state in the U.S.A. the symbol in the middle of the flag represents the hot sun. The background is gold and the sun is red. Did you ever know New Mexico’s state nickname? New Mexico’s nickname is the Land of Enchantment. three interesting facts I would like to share with you about New Mexico is. in the 1950’s a bear cub was rescued from a awful forest fire. After they finished taking out the fire they named the small cub Smokey. In the 1100’s the Anazi ancestors of peblu Indians had an advance cilvilation for hunting dogs . Cattle and sheep are important in New Mexico about 2 million farm animals are raised and New Mexico has more live stocks than people! Do you know New Mexico’s state bird? It is the road runner. The state flower is the Yucca.The pinion is New Mexico’s state tree.

Did you ever know New Mexico has their own song? Well they do it’s called Asi es Nuevo Mexico. Some states that boarder New Mexico are Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, and Mexico.

Some famous people that lived in New Mexico are Kit Carson, Georgia O’ Keefe, Jean Baptist Lamy, Chave Dennis, Billy the kid, Bobby Unser. The three largest cities are Albuquerque, Las Crucues, and Santa Fe. The economy is chilies ,potash, natural gas, oil, copper, automatic research, uranium. some historic sites are Toas, Alamogordo, Santa Fe trail, Los Alamos,Pueblo Bonito. Fresh water used every day is 2,300 gallons/day/person. Garbage is 1,880,000 per year 9% recycled.

Two rivers in New Mexico are Rio Grande and Peco River. And now I told you as much as I could that I knew about New Mexico.

$1,000 with 8s

Focus Problem: Ten things in the store that only have 8’s in the price tags = $1,000. Here is the answer:

$888.88

$88.88

$8.88

$8.88

88 cents

88 cents

88 cents

88 cents

88 cents

8 cents

Jeb Cashel

Art

Claire Cashel

Mrs. Mattison

Jeb Cashel is one of a great and funny cartoonest. He was born in 1961. He was born in July 12, 1961. Jeb won a lot of awards for best cartoons and funniest. Jeb Cashel is still alive he is 42 years old. He started doing cartoons when he was 18. And stoped when he was 21. And go married to a beautiful girl named Kathy. And he still does cartoons for fun. And Jeb Cashel is my dad.