Trick-or-treat

Going trick-or-treating is one of the best things about Halloween. Around my old neighborhood everyone  started trick-or-treating at 5:00. My friends and i would start at 6:00 and end at 10:00. We started all the  the complexes and finish at the end. My the time our pillow cases are full, we are exhausted. Every year we had a lot of fun but this year i don't know where I'm going to trick-or-treat because i just moved into a new house. I'm planing to go to my old complex because they give out LOTS of candy and all my friends live near by but in my new complex i don't know a lot of people.I'm looking forward of having fun trick-or-treating this year.Although I don't know what I'm going to be for Halloween this year.One thing that makes Halloween fun is ding dong ditching peoples house even if it isn't mischief night. I still remember, when i was in first grade my friends, Sneh,Hemani,Parthi and I would go to this house that we thought nobody lived in and we would ring the doorbell and the old lady would open to door after a little while and by the time she got to the door with the candy we would be gone. We did this every year until she finally opened the door.

Does patriotism still matter?

     Does patriotism still matter? Of course it does! Without patriotism our world wouldn’t be the same. There would be on freedom; freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press and many more. Although, many people have forgotten the true meaning of patriotism. It’s the love for ones country. We should thank all the veterans, armies and militarise that sacrificed their lives for our countries freedom.

      There is freedom on our earth and everyone should be thankful for it. Day by day night by night the world around us changes. Thanks to the veterans, armies and militarise our world is a safe place for us to live. Even though soldiers all over the world are fighting for their countries freedom, and we don’t agree with them, we should still think that they are trying to make the world a better place for them. Just like in the Revolutionary war, we didn’t think that it was fair that the British were ruling us so we fought for our rights and the world is a better place than it was a long time ago. Well, let’s think about who fought for us. The armies and soldiers did right? We should be extremely thankful for that or else our world would be a lot different right now.

     When I hear of the word patriotism, I think of the flag, soldiers, the colors red white and blue, a better world and many more things. Why do I think of these words? I think of them because it reminds me of our united nation, how patriotism made us a united nation and how it made our world free. All the people in the world deserve patriotism and people should keep it in their mind so the next time they are being miss treated they think about all the others who fight for us. Patriotism mattered years ago and it will still matter today and tomorrow.  

Ralph Fletcher

    Ralph Fletcher is an amazing author. In this book, When I was a Kid, he writes about his childhood and some stories he remembers when he was a kid.  Some parts were very emotional and others made you smile.
    In his vignette, Bobby, he writes, "He was a real good baby and a terrific brother. Not a day goes by that I don't miss him".(Fletcher,2005,Page 60). That part just makes you want to break into tears. It is very emotional .He express his feelings and shares something very emotional.
   In another one of his vignettes, First Pen, he writes,"What words were unhidden-unborn, unwritten-in all that  used ink?'.(Fletcher,2005, Page.44).I liked this sentence because it was unusual. Many authors or people don't use this kind of language in their writing 
  I think that Ralph Fletcher is an amazing writer and I hope to read more of his books.=)

My teddy bear

    As a 1 year old how much knowledge do you think I had? A ton. Well I just moved into my new house and my cousin from New Hampshire came to see it. At that time I was only 1 and my cousin was 5. He was a trouble maker. He wanted to watch t.v and his parents wouldn't let him so he started to cry and he held a tantrum. So then finally his parents took him upstairs and turned on the t.v for him. He started to watch Dora. I loved Dora so since I heard the theam song I realized that he was watching it. My parents were eating so I slowly crawled to the stairs and started to climb because I wanted to watch. I took my teddy bear with me because I loved it. When I finally reached the last stair and I crawled to the room he was in. I tried to sit on the bed but I was to short to reach it. I kept on trying and trying and pretty soon I gave up so I sat on the ground and tried to watch. After 30 minutes of the fantastic show my cousin turned off the T.V and he ran down stairs. I was still exhausted from all the climbing so i waited for about 10 minutes and then I headed down stairs. I was good at going up the stairs but not coming down. I sat on one stair and then went to the another. I had 7 more steps to go when I missed a step and went flying across the stairs. I threw my teddy bear because I lost balance. Luckily my head landed on it. My parents heard a thump so they came running . They found out that I fell down because the whole time I was coming down the stairs my cousin was watching me and he didn't eve bother to help me. He told my parents and then from that day on until I was 4 they put a gate so I wouldn't go up the stairs ever again by myself.With out my teddy bear who knows what would have happened to me?

Horrifing Hobo

Last year in the summer of  2009 I went to Africa. One day my dads friends brothers daugter and I were walking home from the supermarket.It was only 5 minutes away from her house. On our way back we were talking and talking until we heard a person screming on the top of their lungs" I'll get you" I turned around and it seemed like it was a hobo running bare feet. He had a sharp stick in his hand. I got so scared. My heart started pumping blood so fast. Me and Urusha( my dads friends daugter) started running and the hobo guy ran after us..=[