I just got 1,467 hops in a row! Right now on March 31 2006 at 4:50! WOW I never thought I could get to 1,000!

Tonight dad came out to see how many pogo hops I could do on a pogo stick. 990 is my record. I did 990 when I came home from school today because nobody could play. Well, tonight I got 827 dad counted. I think that is a family record for us. I was going for the world record but I would have to beat 177,737 hops. maybe someday I’ll break it someday. You think?

She sat there staring me in the eye

She repeatedly asked me ” Why Claire, Why”

Her thoughts her ideas is what she would share

suddenly, she made me feel like I was repaired

I sat there smiling wondering how

Then I suddenly realized “Oh! Wow!”

She put her hand right on my heart

The I made a mistake that tore us apart

“Don’t worry Claire I’ll always be with you”

I looked at the sky wondering who?

I realized it was an angel I was talking to

I gazed at the sky and the heavens above

What flew down from the clouds was a small, white dove

There was an angel on my front porch

-Claire

” You’re being arrested for throwing away money!” yelled the mean voice.

” What are you taking about? I didn’t throw away ANY money.” I panicked

” Than check out the trash can yourself!”

“Ummmm, okay.” I dried off and put on my slippers and robe. I poked my head out the door. One of the obese officers grabbed the collar and yanked me out.

” See, this nickel was in your trash.”

” How do I know you didn’t just put it in there?”

“Uhhhh, we’re not that stupid. Actually…… I thought

“Now come along you’re going to court. “They shouted yanking my hands behind my back handcuffing them. My brother stood at the door sliding one finger across another representing shame.

“*Sniff* How could you throw away that nickel!” My mother wailed. My dad covered his arms around her.

“Uhhhhhhh, you know I could easily slip my hands out of these handcuffs and escape.” I pointed out.

” Stop being all smartellicky. You money thrower away………er!” commanded a policeman. I wiped off the spit he spat on me.

” Mr. and Mrs. Doze you need to get in some fancy clothes and come to court to be our witnesses.” commanded another policeman. He marched himself back to the car squeezing himself into the front as I sat alone in the back. Well, it was roomy- anyway,

” Uh, do guys have any doughnuts or somethin’?” I asked

” No, if we did we wouldn’t give you any.” yelled one of the policemen, ” besides you should get used to be starving once you end up in jail when we get to court.” I swallowed hard with fear.

Look at me

What do you see?

Nothing but someone who’s ugly, awful

Inside and outside

When I look at myself I see a broken mirror is all of me

Getting into peer pressure

Trying to be cool

Bags are stained under my eyes

Stomach sores hurt

Redness around my wrists from handcuffs

My old friend and my family don’t trust me.

Covered in bruises from head to toe

Throwing up in my private room, the bathroom

Sneaking out to go to parties

Gulping down bottles of pills to calm my thoughts

Being a hateful person

Nearly killing myself as I drink and drive

Skipping school to fight other gangs

My life is bad

Get some GOOD advice from me

Have a life that’s good

Like how mine use to be.

-CC

” You are proven guilty!” shouted the judge with the curly white wig slamming down his hammer on his GIANT desk.

“What I’m only ten! It was only a nickel! Noooooooooo!” I cried as I was being dragged back by 2 strong guards. maybe I should start from the beginning.

It finally came that day when I decided to clean up my MESS of a room after my mom asked me to clean it up for the past 3 months. Well, I decided to start to organize my closet. Boy, I never knew it was this messy. i thought.

“Here is my purple shirt I was looking for in the third grade.” I said surprised.

Hours later I finished. the I moved on to my floor which made me think all the junk was lava and my bed was the volcano. I mostly found paper work I was suppose to turn in months or even years ago.

At 7:30 I finally finished. I threw away all of the trash. Then, I took a relaxing bubble bath.

“BANG! BANG!”

“Open up this is the police that check peoples trash!” shouted a mean voice.

” Rob you dufus! Go away!” I shouted as I threw my shoe at the door.

“What did you say?! You know we have guns! OPEN UP!” They shouted again.

” Uh, first, in case you haven’t noticed but I’m in the bath tub. And second, why are you even here?”

Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743 in Virigina. He was born in a house that was called “Shadwell.” Thomas went to school near a pond. Thomas met another guy named Tom. They both became good friends. On the winter day they would skate on the pond, on summer days they would swim in it. The next day the Randolph children’s mom had died. (The Randolph people were the Jeffersons families best friends.)

So Thomas’s family had to go live with the Randolph children for seven years until they were old enough to live on their own. The Jefferson family said good-bye and headed home. When Thomas was 10 years old he made a bet with Tom that on February 30 they would have a horse race. Tom knew he would win it. February 28 came. The next day was March 1. Tom got tricked so Thomas won the bet.

At the age of 14, THomas had red hair and freckles and he was tall. When Thomas got home from school one day his father had died. After the funeral Thomas went off to college. When he finished college he became a lawyer. In 1776 Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. It took him 18 days.

In 1772 on New Years day Thomas married Martha. They had 2 children. September 6, 1782 the worst thing in Jeffersons life happened. Martha and his daughter died. He didn’t eat or drink. But Patsy took care of him. (Their maid.) Then Jefferson had to leave for France. On February 1790 Thomas got married to Patsy. In 1801 Thomas became president. THen they had a baby girl named Polly. The next week Polly got very sick and died. Thomas had another war for the North and South. In 1826 Jefferson died at the age of 83. They found a diary on a desk next to his bed with a picture of a grave on it that he wanted on his tombstone. “Here was buried Thomas Jefferson author of the Declaration of American Independence of Statute of Virginia, for religious freedom and father of the University of Virginia. By these, I wish most to be remembered.”

Thomas Jefferson was a very kind man. He became President because one day a reporter came in and saw him sitting on the floor playing with his grandchildren. Thomas was a very easy-going man, they liked easy-going people. Thomas ran against Clark. Thomas won the election. Thomas didn’t have any brothers or sisters.

What was your report about?

Parakeets.

I thought you said budgies. What are budgies?

A type of parakeet that lives in Australia.

What did you do for your project?

I cut out a poster into the shape of Australia. I put a picture of Harley and me. I drew a picture of my own budgie. I did play-dough, and I made a snake.

Why did you make a snake?

Because the project needed to know what its enemy was and what lived around it. So I made a snake out of play-dough. The eagle lives around the parakeet. When it flies it might see the budgie and eat it.

Would it eat it in mid-air?

Yep.

What else was on the poster?

I glued real seed on there, and millet. I glued a picture of a eucalyptus tree, a eucalyptus trunk, eucalyptus flowers and leaves. I did a key. I did two different colors, green and orange-ish yellow-ish, so they would know what the orange-yellowish was and the green was. The yellow-ish and orange-ish things were the desert… I mean the Outback. The green was the forrest.

Did you get a grade?

Yes, I got a 100.