This break was extremely busy, from Thanksgiving to early Christmas, and my Daddy’s birthday. Well, let me start from the beginning. On Tuesday at eight a clock in the morning I went to the orthodontist. Two hours later I walked out with some shiny metal braces on my teeth. Long and behold I looked like a dinosaur! My mommy and I drove home to the squeaking of my mouth, “Squeak!” We hurriedly started cleaning the house from were we left off.

Soon the house was COMPLETELY clean. “Hurry up!!” my daddy yelled from downstairs. I rushed down and out to the car and climbed into the front seat. Driving out of the neighbor hood I cranked out my tunes and stuck my head out the window with my tongue hanging out. Soon my head was done being cool and stuck back into the car as I started singing as loud as I could to a wonderful Christmas song. Next thing I was dancing in my seat, well not completely in my seat just kinda, ya know? Finally my dad comes to a stop in the airport parking lot. We climbed out and started walking to terminal one, but we parked at the wrong side so it is a long and intricate walk. I began thinking, “What exactly is a hop, skip, jump?” I never did find out until this very day. Anywho back to the walk, we soon found my brother and his girlfriend, Christien and Jackie.

To be continued…

Veteran’s day was on Wednesday and as you know we had a big ceremony on the concourse to honor our veterans. We were all called out of our classes during first period to go and watch. First we listened to a presentation about our veterans and the origins of veteran’s day from all the way back in World War I. We had an actual veteran and his daughter present this information to us from a podium that was constructed at the top of the concourse stairs. I thought that it was actually very interesting to hear about where a holiday that we celebrate every year came from. I had no idea that it was so old. Then they had a show of hands of kids who had family members who were currently serving in the military. The band played some songs and then the choir sang the national anthem. Some kids were being jerks and talking during all of this which was pretty rude because we were trying to honor the men and women who put their lives on the line to defend our country from invaders. They also did a cool thing where they had the band play all of the theme songs of the different military branches like the army, the navy, and the air force. When the band played their theme the people who where serving or had served in that branch stood up. They ended the ceremony with  Ms. Flagg singing Taps after we had a moment of silence during which a bunch of kids talked followed by a silent dismissal.