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

Abby Brickell's First Blog Post of the Summer

So it's 1:15 a.m., and I remembered that I have a summer assignment. I hope everyone is having a great summer, even though it's just started. So far, I've went to Craighead Forest Park almost everyday, read, painted, and have done nothing productive since we've been out of school. I need to get a job, but I can't exactly get the one I want till I become of age. I have to wait till I turn sixteen in two excruciatingly slow months. It probably sounds very childish of me to wait, but if I'm going to get a job I want to enjoy doing it. One thing I've enjoyed lately is painting. For those of you who didn't know, I paint my bedroom walls. I first started doing it sometime last year when I didn't have a canvas in the house, and  noticed that my four blank walls would be perfect for murals. This week, I wanted my "art" to have meaning, so tonight I decided to paint quotes from my favorite novels. Well, only quotes from the novels I have in my room, and one quote from the play: The Tragedy of Julius Caesar.  The quote from the play was, "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves." If you took one look at my room, you'd notice a common theme:stars. I think my recent love for stars has something to do with me finishing reading, "Love, Stargirl." It's the sequel to one of my favorite books, "Stargirl." It has really changed me, but my inspiration changes constantly. I'll probably get tired of the star theme soon, and find a new inspiration to start working on. After all, I have all summer. My murals  are the first thing I see in the morning, and the last thing I see before I go to sleep. Sometimes I wonder, why didn't I leave my walls one plain color? That's what the normal thing is to do. You're supposed to leave your walls blank, and cover them with temporary decor. I wonder why I can't keep one basic theme. Then I realize,there's no fun in that.

-AB