Third Blog of the Summer - Tatum Tornkvist

It’s good to see that everyone’s having a great summer! I honestly kept forgetting that I had to post on here. Though this week has been tiring, and busy in honesty. On Tuesday I finally got my license! Boy let me tell you though it was really, really easy. Though I had to wait literally for four hours for the driving instructor to come out and test us. I was really nervous though the whole time. But they decided to do the whole row next to me, after waiting for literally THREE HOURS. So I had to wait ANOTHER hour in the heat for the instructor to test me. Until the other instructor came out and decided to test my driving. I was so relieved to know that I finally would get to test! Though I was nervous since it was my time to start testing. So I drove and him and I talked. Turned out he was really nice, so it calmed me down a bit. He told me that I passed it and I had to stop being nervous. But I passed it!! and now I have my drivers license so now I can drive to school! I already have a spot picked for parking in all. So I will be at school extra early to get that spot! The next day I took the Compass writing test again. I was already tired as it was since during the previous day I had to drive everywhere. I drove through Jonesboro, Lake City, and Caraway. So I was nervous and tired while I took the test. In the end though, I passed it with an 84 so my luck was up and around the entire week! So this week has been a blast. I went to work again and had a lot of fun with that too. I may consider going on an outing with the clients. Basically an outing is just when they take the clients out somewhere fun, like the zoo for example. I hope everyone’s having a great summer though! I can’t wait to see what else has been going on with everyone. So far things have been interesting! Wow, I almost forgot what else to type about this week but then I remembered everything else today haha!

- Tatum Tornkvist

Third Blog of the Summer-- Klorissa Hamilton

Well guys, I'm back. I hope all of you have thought about doing your summer assignment at the bare minimum. As thought the blogs are very important to the summer assignment, don't forget about the book, and bullet points. I had forgotten until three days ago. Oops. Anyway, I've come to realize that these blogs aren't all that complicated once you get the hang of writing them. Well of course, that's only if you have an idea of what to write about. If you're like me, coming up with something to write about is difficult and sometimes frustrating. By now I'm sure you've gathered that I don't know what to make this blog about, therefore I'm just going to ramble on until I reach three hundred and fifty words. Schools been out and we all call it summer, but tomorrow is the first day of summer technically. Sounds crazy to say that I've spent the past month of spring out of school, doing summer assignments. Hmmm, just something to think about. I haven't done just a whole lot this summer, but I have picked up an addiction. A strange addiction that has to do with sun flower seeds. That's right, I'm addicted to sunflower seeds. Can you guess what kind? Ranch? No. Regular? No. Sweet and salty? No. Barbecue? No. Black pepper? No. Dill pickle? Of course. When I get hungry for a snack, my hand reaches into a bad of dill pickle sunflower seeds. They are sooooo amazing. I like them so much that I got a huge bag of them yesterday. Of course that made my day. Anyway, that's enough talk over sunflower seeds; let's move onto some of the struggles summer has brought me. Close to right after school ended, I was at home pack for Florida, when all of the sudden a black spider appeared on a pair of my shorts, causing me to have a mini heart attack. ( not literally) I caught in a sonic cup and took it outside where it's death would take place. As I was sitting on the swing, trying to end the spiders life, one of the many chickens at my house comes along a pecks me on the toe. I mean pecks the heck out of my toe. So I think maybe that they might be hungry to I got to get food out of the well house and get stung on the ear by a wasp. My day was going to great if you couldn't tell. However, just as I was putting the bucket back after feeding the chickens, somehow, I got covered in chicken crap from head to toe. All these things happened to me wishing the same day, within a twenty minutes time period. I honk I've said enough here. You can wonder your little minds from here. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Abby Brickell's Second Post

Hi, everyone.This is only my second blog post of the summer. Last time I blogged, I had just finished the book called "Love,Stargirl." (I would italicize that if I could.) Recently, I just returned home from Fayetteville where my sister goes to college at the University of Arkansas. While I was there, I finally went to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Earlier this month, I attended an ACT Camp at Lyon College, and it was very interesting. Ironically, It was intended to be an "Outdoor" ACT Camp, but it rained two out of the three days I was there. So, instead of running around sweating in the hot sun like we were supposed to, we sat inside watching Moana and Beauty and the Beast while the rain poured. I did not complain. I was going to write while I was there, but I was scatterbrained most of the time and when I sat down I slept. The depressing weather and three hour lectures morning and night did not help this. In fact, I was late to all my lectures because my roommate and I valued sleep. I have finished two books, "Cage of Stars," and "The Beautiful and Damned." (I would also italicizes that if I could.) Hopefully, you people won't judge me for my horrendous grammar and english, so just know all book titles I say are meant to be italicizes. I still have no job because I'm still not 16, but I am going to attend a Nurse Camp at NEA Baptist Hospital next week. I'm super excited, but I'm not even for sure if being a nurse is right for me. I've been told to check out the career of an Art Therapist because it would combine my love of helping people and art. However, being a nurse would mean that I would help people too, so we'll see how this camp goes. Back to the present, I don't plan on staying home all day till Nurse Camp starts, so I'm planning to volunteer somewhere.  The next book I plan to read is "The Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin. Also, if any of you have any book suggestions please comment below. I hope you all are humoring yourself with my boring blogs about my summer.

-Abby Brickell

Fourth Blog Post Of The Summer -Dezarea Jones

Hey guys I’m back! So here’s an update since I last posted. Right now I am still debating on what to do. Earlier while at Cole’s sports practice I called my papa (grandpa) and talked about staying or leaving. While on the phone with my grandpa he sounded perfectly fine and was all for picking me up one Saturday. About 5 - 6 hours after talking with my papa, my mom calls me. She explains that she is taking my grandpa to the hospital. Most of you really don’t know me that well, but growing up I didn’t really have a dad. My papa is more of like a dad to me than my sperm donor.  So of course, I’m going to want to come home more than ever. I don’t wanna be so far away and something serious happen to my papa. I’m sure all of you understand what it’s like. Anyway, my plans of going home are ruined so now I have to figure everything out all over again. Trevis’s dad, Steve, said he would come get me. I want to go home, but I don’t want to bother him. Do any of you ever get the feeling that you’re asking too much of everyone? Well, that is how I feel right now. On top of feeling like that Krissy says it is okay for me to leave Friday, but she doesn’t have anyone to watch Cole till the 28th.  I don’t want her to feel like I’m just screwing her over. I hate that the most. When I tell someone I’ll do something than something come up that I feel like I need to be home for. It makes a pit of guilt in my stomach. I honestly don’t know what to do at this point. I want to go home more than anything, but I don’t want Krissy to be upset with me. I’m sure all of this sound pretty pathetic to everyone. Most of you know me as the one who doesn’t show her emotions, the one who try to put a smile on her face everyday. If I can be straight forward with all of you, I’m tired of everything. I’m to the point where I just don’t want to talk to anyone. Here’s one thing you all didn’t know about me.. I have depression. I’ve been through quite a lot in my childhood. I know it seems like all of my blogs are about how I feel or just annoying things about my life. I’ve figured out that blogging about my day or how I feel actually seems to help me. Thank you to everyone who reads this for taking your time to read this. Thank you for letting me vent. I’m sure I’ll be back within a few days. Thank you for your time!

-Dezi

Second Blog of the Summer-- Klorissa Hamilton

--Story Time--

Alright.. so, this is only my second blog of the Summer and I don't have any idea of what to blog about, so I'm just gonna tell y'all a story. It's going to be a made up story that none of y'all have heard of because I don't even know what it's going to be about. I'm going to make it up starting right now... 

Once upon a time there were there was a high school girl who thought she could make something of herself. She attended Roomsdale High School, and they offered her free college classes. Well, not until summer of her sophomore year did she know she had to have a certain score on the Act or some other test. The ACT was out of the picture because she took it one time and made an eighteen and realized she was a bit dumb. So, during her summer she signed up for the accuplacer test, or whatever. She took it the first time with one of her fiends and neither of them passed. They both spent the next week laughing at their scores. The following week they took it again. Well we're suppose to. The teenage girl drove two hours to take this test because she cares about her education. Two long hours spent driving for this test. When she arrived at the testing place she waited in the car for her friends that were suppose to be taking the test as well. The test started at 8:30, so when 8:15 rolled around and there was still no sign of her friends she lost all hope within them. She had previously called them three time and it went straight to voicemale. Well, voicemale as in a person screaming. But oh well. Anyway, the girl went in to test by herself with a positive state of mind. She knew for sure this was going to be the time she passed, and she was going to rub it in her friends faces. While she was taking the test she thought to herself, "wow, this is a lot easier than the first time I took this." Lol!!! Literally. After taking the test, the girl got her scores back. Only one section of the test was passed. Her reading score had went down. So for the rest of her summer, well until she can find a way to pass this test, she's going to be spending her time taking test for school. The end!!! 

Oh, and for just a side note, this is based on a true story and I didn't know I was going to be telling this story until it hit me while typing. I don't know who these people are in the story, or do I. Anyway, I hope this story brought you joy and the people who this story is about realizes it's about them and they have sympathy for the girl who drove 2 hours to test and they didn't even show up. Thanks for reading. :-) 

Third Blog Post of the Summer - Dezarea Jones

 Well guys I've been in Wisconsin since June 11th and it's now the 14th. That means I have only been here for couple of days. I have a feeling that I need to go home, but I'm forcing myself to stay. I don't know if any of you have ever felt that when you go on a long trip with people you have only seen twice in your life. I honestly thought I would have an amazing time up here. I honestly just feel like I need to go home. Maybe I wasn't as ready as I thought I would be to leave home for a long amount of time without my family. I've talked to a few friends and they think I should come home, but I asked Trevis. Trevis thinks I should stay up here and experience new things. What is experiencing new things if you can't enjoy it because you have a feeling that you need to go back home? Maybe someone will read this before I make a decision on what to do because any advice is helpful. Anyway, for the time that I’ve been here we have done nothing but sit in the apartment and watch tv. Today though, we went to Cole’s (my 2 year old cousin) sports practice. My aunt did the activities with Cole while I sat and played with Lucas, my aunt's friend’s kid. Lucas wanted my aunt after 20 minutes so I took him to her. We swapped kids and I took Cole to do the last activity. Cole was definitely not happy when I took him so he threw a fit. Finally, my aunt comes out there to do the last activity with Cole. Lucas and I go sit in the car with the air on because it is really hot up here. After Cole’s sports practice we go to McDonald’s and of course I get chicken nuggets. Now we are back at the apartment. Cole and Lucas are taking a nap and my aunt just went to take a nap. So, that means I am the only one up so I guess either make another blog post, read the book and do bullet points, watch heartland or think about what I should do. You will probably know my choice in my next blog post! Please give advice if you can!

-Dezi

Second Blog Of The Summer - Dezarea Jones

If you have read my first blog post then you know that I am currently in Burlington, Wisconsin. I am in Wisconsin staying with my aunt Krissy and making some money. I posted on facebook asking what I should blog about on here and my mom commented on my status. She told me I should write about how I abandoned my momma. So today I’m going to writing about how much leaving Arkansas for a long amount of time is affecting people close to me. When I asked my mom if I could go stay in Wisconsin with my aunt she said that I could. When I finally found out how long I would be gone that’s when she began to be hesitant about me leaving. Growing up I’ve never really went somewhere far away from my mom for so long. So I understand why she would be hesitant at first. From the day I told my mom about me leaving she joked about me coming home sooner than July 22nd. When I told Trevis, my boyfriend, he was really hesitant. He told me he didn’t want me to leave, but he let me go because he knew I wanted to come up here. Mendy, my boyfriend’s mom, was excited for me to go and told me to be safe. Dakota, my boyfriend’s 5 year old uncle (long story), was crushed when I told him I was leaving for Wisconsin for so long. When Dakota found that out he stuck by my side everywhere I went. Bri, basically my sister, was sad that I was leaving. Bri and I did everything together, so it will be very different for both of us. I wasn’t as worried about everyone else as much as I was worried about my dog, Wade. Wade has been my baby ever since my step dad brought him home on Christmas Eve in 2010. When I go on trips Wade tends not to eat. Basically, my dog becomes depressed! I’m going to be gone for 6 weeks so it is very important that everyone tries to get my dog to eat. Anyway on June 11th when I finally left there were tears shedded. I couldn’t look my Trevis, my mom, or Bri in the eyes because I knew if I did I would cry. When I go somewhere I don’t say “Bye”, I say “See you later”. As I gave Bri a hug and said see you later we both started crying. When I hugged my mom I felt her start crying and I had to tell her everything is going to be okay. Finally, when I hugged Trevis, it broke my heart. I finally realized how much I would miss him. Honestly I think I miss him the most. Once I got in the car and we drove away I knew there was no going back home until July 22nd. My mom and my grandpa told me if I wanted to come home than they would come get me, but I know I should stay the whole time. Staying until July 22nd will be good for me and I know it. Anyway, this is me trying to find something to blog about!

-Dezi

First Blog Of The Summer -- Dezarea Jones

Hey everyone! I knew I had a summer assignment, but I couldn't think of what to put on the blog. So, today I read a few post and realized people talked about their summer. I could jump right in and tell everyone what I am doing today, but I'm going to start from the beginning. When summer first started I was all for applying for jobs. I filled out a few applications for places in Lake City, but I only turned one of the three applications in. You're probably wondering why I only turned one application in. I only turned one application in because there was a chance I was going to spend most of my summer in Burlington, Wisconsin. There was a 50% chance of me spending my summer in Wisconsin, so I needed a backup plan in case I didn't go. I just turned 16 on May 16th so I knew I needed an ID to get a job. My mom's drivers license expired the day of her birthday so she went to get them renewed. I tagged along with my mom to the courthouse in Lake City hoping to get my ID made. I had high hopes of getting my ID, but sadly they were crushed. To get an ID you need your original birth certificate, but I only had a copy of mine. Overall, I have to wait until I get my original copy of my birth certificate from Illinois. That put my plans of getting my ID and my permit on hold! Within a couple days of not being able to get my ID my aunt Krissy contacted me. She told me that she would pick me up June 10th and I would be staying with her until July 22nd. At first I was excited, but after it hit me that I would be leaving a bunch of people behind in Arkansas my mood changed. I went from excited to scared within one minute. I didn't have my journal with me so I typed how I felt on my phone. After typing how I felt I talked myself into going. Even though I had many reasons to stay home in Arkansas, I told myself that I needed to go that it would be a good experience. So I cried some tears when it was time to say goodbye for 6 weeks (42 days). Today I spent my day laying around my aunt's apartment in Wisconsin. Oh, I almost forgot while staying down here I will be making $600 - $800 before I go back home to Arkansas! Anyway, I hope everyone has had a great summer so far!

-Dezi

Second Blog of The Summer. - Tatum Tornkvist

I should really find another way to title these blogs. It’s been bothering me ever since the first blog I made but, that’s something I won’t dwell too much on. So far, I’m still driving. A lot more often actually. Dad says Wednesday is when I’ll have to take my drivers test. So far I have been doing well with parking; but, I still need to work on my right and left turns. I keep making wide turns rather than sharp turns. At least I know where to park when I get to school though. So it hasn’t been much of a problem lately. I met some new kids who will be going to Riverside this year, not really just a group of kids. They’re twins actually and they just moved from Manila to Caraway. I met them last Friday, since they wanted to meet me, and learn more about the school’s GSA some friends and I had made towards the end of the school year. They were excited. At first, I was nervous to meet them but, it turns out we’re not so different after all. Actually, they turned out to be pretty awesome. According to Misty, I’m their first friend. I’m hoping that they have a good school year. Hopefully they won’t be mistreated. But knowing Riverside, the students are good when you get to know them. So I don’t worry too much about that. Marley so far had to get his cast removed and put back on his leg a couple of times the past few months. Marley is one of my dogs and he got hit weeks ago on the last day of my finals. The impact broke his leg so he had to get a cast around it. After all that he tried chewing on his cast to get it off, and he managed to get it off a few times! Eventually, on the third time we had to get him in the cone to keep him from messing with it but even now he manages to get the cast off! He’s been so depressed looking since we put him in the cone. It’s saddening to see. It’ll probably be another four weeks until he gets his cast off. Hopefully he won’t take it off again. Anyways, that’s about all that has happened so far. I hope everyone’s having a good summer so far.

 - Tatum Tornkvist

First Blog of the Summer-- Klorissa Hamilton

It's nearly the middle of June, and for some odd reason I'm just not remembering I have a summer assignment. Oops. Form reviewing the blogs posted this summer, I see that most of the class forgot about their summer assignment as well. I don't have room to talk because well, I had forgot myself. However, I have an excuse. From the day school let out, until now, I have been super busy. From May 24th until May 26, I spent my time packing for Florida. The following day I left for Florida. After fourteen long hours, we arrived at Florida and unload our crap into a house we had rented for the week. Within our week at Florida, we attend Busch gardens, the Florida Aquarium, Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo, Clearwater Marine Aquarium, and the Muesum of Science and Industry and roasted myself at the beach. Busch Gardens consisted of multiple roller coasters, and tons of funnel cakes. I also over came my roller coaster fear. The Florida Aquarium and the Zoo consisted of viewing animals in which I don't see in Arkansas. At Clearwater Aquarium I was able to see Winter, the dolphin who played on Dolphin Tale, and watch people do surgery on two sea turtles. The Clearwater Aquarium is where I learned that I wanted to become a marine biologist. At the science museum, I saw lost of cool things, and completed a ropes course. Each and every day spend at the beach was a day that I got roasted and turned into a lobster. After coming back on June 3rd I baby sat and spent countless hours with my bff. On June 9th, I attend a Luke Bryan concert, which was one of the best nights of my life. So far summer has been good to me, and I can only hope the rest will be just as good. :-)

--KloHam

First Post of the Summer - Tatum Tornkvist

This is my first post of the day yay, I’m not very good at blogging but I guess this is a start. So, summer has been going great so far, for the past few weeks I have been relaxing and drawing. Currently I have started to practice driving again with dad the other day. I recently had to drive around the parking lot to learn how to park and back out of a parking space. It went well and I managed to park in some spots in the middle without trouble. I’m already starting to enjoy myself with driving in honesty. I am pretty nervous though since I will have to get my drivers license soon and eventually I’ll have to drive where I need to go from then on. That’s pretty scary. In honesty everything’s been getting a little scary. I’m already going to the 11^th grade and I’m getting close to being a senior and having to go out in the world. Wow. How time flies so fast it amazes me. I’ve been working on gathering the rest of my cosplay for a comic con in San Antonio, Texas so I’ll be able to meet a friend there and cosplay with her. I also just got my book the other day for my English class which is going to be pretty nice considering I’ll have to make a use of it for the time being. I started volunteering two times a week at Family’s Counseling center. I basically volunteer with the PSR group and I get to interact with the clients. So far it’s pretty neat and I think I’m gonna like volunteering there. I was pretty nervous at first but the people I’m working with are pretty fun to be around. So work is pretty neat even though I’m not getting paid yet! I also recently started working on a character for a dungeon and dragons campaign one of my friends is making. I finished the character design and over all back story. I’m excited to know that I and other players wont be knowing exactly what the story is going to be about so we’re going in practically blind. I hope everyone’s summer is going okay! And that this isn’t really too hard to follow.

- Tatum Tornkvist 

Random typing

Summer has started and the sun is shining and the sky is blue. When night time falls the stars stare down at me. Last Sunday my dog coco died , she would've been 6 years old July 3rd. I know this is random for me to start off beautiful then talk about my deceased dog , but I figured I'd make it more interesting that way. I finally had tried the hot wings my job makes they're pretty good but not as good as "Buffalo Wild Wings". Yeah I work at Chuck E. Cheese , it's a really nice job I enjoy working there. They made me get in the chuck E suit today, it was hot in there but the kids enjoy it so I don't mind the heat. So while I was in the chuck E suit I was giving the kids high fives and then they wanted hugs so I gave them hugs and this one little boy bumped his head on the chuck E nose and I yelled "oops"! I don't know if he heard me but if he did at least he knows chuck E is a girl to. Yesterday I watched the movie " To kill a mockingbird", even though I've seen it like 6 times and read the book it still such a great story/movie. For the rest of this summer I plan to read some books and watch movies based off of the books. I'm in the process of potty training my daughter , her name is haizel and she's 1 years old. I also read to her a couple times threw the week , the other day I saw her trying to read a book by herself. Haizel is so funny , so today she had the house phone and she was walking around talking on it acting like she was really talking to someone. But the funny part was how she was talking on the phone , she was acting like she was yelling at someone through the phone it was so cute. Who watched the game tonight? The Cavs against the golden state warriors, it was a good game Lebron knows he can play better than he did tonight. The Warriors won by 22 points with the ending score being 91-113. I wasn't going for neither one of the teams , OKC is my favorite Nba team one of these days they are going to go to the championship again it's been years since they've went but their come up will have people's jaw dropping. 

                            -AW