Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Daily Journal-The Clock Winked

The clocked winked, skipped time and then stoped. Anticipation grew stronger and stronger. It was the last day of school and summer was in the air. Day dreaming of sleepovers, late nights, bonfires, cabin trips, and soaking up the sun. I love summer because there is so much to do! Although my days are busy from waking up at 5:15 in the morning to go to swim practice till 8, coming home and doing chores. Hanging out with friends, soaking up the sun on my deck, working, or simply enjoying the weather outside. There are endless ways to spend a summer day. At night I have softball practice and finish the day off with friends till late in the night watching a movie or sitting around a bonfire. One thing I will miss the most this summer is my best friend Megane Trabon. She stayed with us last summer for a month as an exchange student from France. We never had a dull moment in that month of summer. This summer I plan on having my own garden and growing lots of fresh vegetables. I also plan on being outside, being with family, and being with friends enjoying the bitter sweet times of summer.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Daily Journal-Spring Break

Over spring break I went to Orlando, Florida with the softball team. It was so much fun! 85 degree weather everyday and not a cloud in the sky. We arrived late Saturday night and just explored the resort we were staying at. Sunday the team spent half the day at the beach and the other half at the Disney parks. We went to Hollywood Studios, Animal Kingdom, and finished the day at Magic Kingdom for their castle show. Because we were staying at a resort on Disney property, we were allowed at Magic Kingdom until 2 am. Utilizing our minimal time in Florida, we decided to stay untill we were forced out of the parks. The next day we spent with a 6 hour softball practice and relaxing on the beach. Tuesday, we had our first games. We played a double header and won both. On top of two games, we had a 2 hour practice before that. When we got back to the resort, we all crashed on the beach soaking up the sun. Wednesday we had a 2 hour practice and 1 game and had the rest of the day to sit at the beach or go to the parks. Thursday we had our last game in the morning so we had a majority or the hot sunshine for parks and the beach. Friday was our last day at the resort. We had a practice and then an intersquad scrimmage. That night the team played ditch and mafia on the beach to close an amazing week. Saturday was our check out day but we didnt have to leave for the airport till about 5:30, so we spent the day at Universal's, Islands of Adventure. Harry Potter land was so amazing, like you were actually in Hogwartz. Overall the trip was extremly worth it. The weather was beautiful, we had our share of softball, as well as free time and there was so much to do at the resort. It was a trip I will never forget.

Monday, March 28, 2011

Daily Journal-Spoon in a Dishwasher

I have just been used to eat yogurt and now that I am covered in sweet vanilla yogurt its time for my washing in the dishwasher. I am placed in the silverware rack with all the other dirty utinsels awaiting to be cleaned. The dish soap is poured and the start button is pressed. Warm steam fills the air and water begins to mix with the soap. The water is all wishy washy and begins to clean away the yogurt on me. The warm water and misty steam is oh so relaxing. When the wash is done I am taken out, and put away for the next time that I am needed.

Friday, March 18, 2011

Daily Journal-Helping Mankind

I would invent a glue that could fix any problem. Broken car part? It would fix it. Broken heart? It would fix it. Ripped homework? It would fix it. Life would be so much better if glue was invented to fix anything broken or ruined.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Daily Journal-I Onced Dreamed About...

I once dreamed that I was in Colorado with a bunch of random people that I didn't know. Some faces were familiar but others were new. We were on a raft in a turbulent river. Everyone was screaming because we had just hit a rough patch in the current. The tour guide of the raft kept yelling, "brace yourselves" for what was coming ahead. I look our in front of the ship and see that the river has a dip in it. The river further down is much lower then the part we are travelling on right now. All I could think about was not flying off of the raft into the strong current with sharp rocks in it. We made way to the small waterfall in the river when I swear the raft folded in half. The tour guide was yelling commands on how to row and others were clinging to the raft for dear life. When we finally made it out of the water tornado, our trip was done with. Getting off the raft everyone was in shock and so happy to be on land again. Then I woke up and got ready for school. The end.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Daily Journal-I Wish Someone Had Told Me...

I wish someone had told me that geese hiss and snap when they feel they are intruded. I was riding my bike last summer on the sidewalk of a busy road. There was a huge flock of geese on the side of the road and spilling onto the sidewalk. There was no way around it. So I slowly ride my bike up to the pack of geese. I start to make my way through when they start hissing at me. Their beaks open wide and they start to snap. One tries to get my shoe while another goes for my wheel. My mom had told me before that if I ever got attacked by a crazy animal, to kick it in its mouth. I was to afraid out of my mind to do that. So I spead up and plow right through all the geese and their nasty feeces everywhere and make it out of the situation alive. Now when I see a flock of geese on the side walk I cross the street no matter where I am to avoid the situation at all cost.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Brain Storm Ideas

how I became frozen:
-I saw something I shouldn't have and they captured me and froze me
-The Ice Age had taken over while I was in Greenland
-I am investigating a case on aliens and the government comes after me and locks me up frozen for 100 years

what the world is like:
-an alien ship from the planet Venus has come to new york city and wants to "be friends"
-there are advances in technology such as jet packs, extreme cell phones, teleporters, medicine treatments etc...
-no one has seen an alien before but there had been rumors that they are there.
-people have become immune to most diseases due to the advances in medicine
-everyone thinks that the aliens and martians are going to be nice but they are really there to take over the world.
-govt officials have become traders against their country and turned to the dark side of the aliens
-shops and restaurants and entertainment is basically the same
-the aliens try to come and conquer the world.
-when the aliens come they put on disguises to look like normal human beings
-no one know who is an alien and who is not, except for in the broad daylight they get slight red spots on the undersides of their palms.

Daily Journal-Guy in a Car

So this very old wrinkley man comes up to me and says
"Hey sunny, you want to see something cool?"
I look at him with this strange look on my face and think, can I trust this guy? So I say,
"What the heck, lets see what you got!"
The old man takes me around the corner of the building, down an alley and into an old squeaky door. Inside this biulding was the most insane things that I had ever seen. Things you could never even imagine being made into things that you wouldnt even believe. The most spactacular of them all was a giant shoe remade into a car. It was the most incredible thing I had ever seen. He asked me if I wanted to drive it around the block and that is where this wonderful picture came from.

Monday, March 14, 2011

Daily Journal-My Journey on a Pirate Ship

This year my family decided that we would take a cruise around the world for the summer. The beaches in Mexico and Hawaii were beautiful. The food in Italy was amazing, and the culture in Australia was flawless. The trip was great til we came to the coast of South Africa. It was at this point in time that I feared my life and my family's life. They signaled to the captain to surrender his ship. After he refused they threatened to bomb the boat, so the captain gave in. The pirates boarded the ship and started to ran sack the deck. Finally all came to a silent wash of the ocean waves. The pirates were no where to be found. Everyone came out from hiding when all of a sudden a loud crank and screech came from the lower deck of the ship. They were tearing down huge pipes built into the ships. The pirates tore threw the ship and soon it was sinking. All the passengers scurried to get on the life boats. Everyone sailed away accounted for leaving all their belongings behind.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Daily Journal-Huge Rabbit

This is a picture of my pet rabbit Lue. My dad, the man in the picture, caught it while he was out hunting last weekend. He gave it to me for getting an A on my math test. Lue likes to play fetch with the old car tires that we have out back. He also likes to sit in the wagon while I pull him, we call that our "wagon walks". Because Lue is extremley large for his species type there are not any rabbit cages to fit him, so he sleeps in a dog kennel. Lue gets cold in the winter so we have to buy him a coat out of childrens section at KMart. By the end of the winter it usually has a hole in it right near his left shoulder blade from scratching there. Lue eats anything we feed him. His favorites are mac and cheese, butternut cream pie, and left over meatloaf. Lue loves to watch t.v. His favorite channel is the food network and bravo. In his free time, Lue likes to read books, eat, sleep, watch television, sleep, eat, sleep, sleep, and eat. Lue is my favorite rabbit out of the 13 that my dad has brought back for me.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Daily Journal-Fictional Character

When the whole world found out that Miley Stewert was actually Hannah Montana her whole life was flipped upside down. It was at a benefit concert in her home town of Crowley Corners. She had been there for about 2 weeks now and finally, things seemed normal. So when she went up on stage and took her wig off to show people who she really  was many photos were snapped and leaked on the Internet. She was devastated. Her precious secret had been exposed more then she thought it would have. So, she went on Jay Leno as Hannah Montana at the beginning of the show and walked off as Miley Stewert revealing herself to the world on late night television. Having done this her dad and best friends were now exposed too. In the next few weeks of her life Miley would be mobbed by reporters and spied on by the paparazzi. Embarrassing pictures would be taken and leaked all over the Internet. Many of her friends would be in shock and want to be her friend even more because of who she is. Miley was really sad so she flew to Australia and lived there for the rest of her life in a shack on the beach of a lone island off the coast. Every week her dad would drop food and hygene supplies from a helicopter and that was how she survived for the next 7 years of her life. After 7 years of living on this island she decided that it was time to go back home and start life over, pick up where she left off; minus all the drama. And thats exactly what she did. the end.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

A Pictures Worth a Thousand Words

A Pictures Worth a Thousand Words by Sophie Runing

Daily Journal-Stack of Paper

                        "Oh my gosh I've waited my whole life to be shredded!"
The time had finally come for me to be put through the paper shredder. I was excited to the point where I couldn't even breathe anymore. Ha yeah, as if paper can actually breathe. So many new worlds can be explored after being sent through the paper shredder. This was the moment I have been waiting for. When it came to my turn in the stack of papers I screamed with joy and enthusiasm. Most people think that being sent through the paper shredder is a bad thing. Well, that's from your point of view. In a piece of papers eyes it is like going to heaven. Being shredded gives you the opportunity to travel all over the world being used for different tasks like stuffing in a package that could be sent to China, or even fake fluffy snow in a store around Christmas time. The opportunities are endless! The man grabs a stack of paper and I'm next in line at the very top of the stack. When the paper ahead of me is finished being shredded the man walks away. So I think well maybe he had to use the restroom of finish another tasks first. But, no. The man walked away and never came back and I sat there on the top of the paper stack waiting to be shredded.

Monday, March 7, 2011

Daily Journal-Marian Bartsch and Joey Catsalgi

Marian grew up on a little farm in Pennsylvania. She lived with her mom, Merium, her dad, Dale, her grandmother, Luanne, her grandfather, Bill, and all her aunts and uncles. Marian grew up with many people and many animals including pigs, cows, horses, and of course chickens. Marian didn't have very many friends and was a bit socially awkward, so when she went to New York she was a bit flabbergasted. She decided to go eat lunch at a chic cafe where she showed up in her overalls and straw hat. This is where she met Joey. Joey was very nice and started up a conversation with Marian. They talked for awhile and eventually Joey took Marian out sit seeing. They became the best of friends.

Final Poem

I wish someone had told me that it was okay to be free
To fly like the wind and just let it be

Not a care in the world
Out on my own

Adventure awaits around every corner
Where silence sits, I bring laughter

Mismatching clothes is okay in my mind
When I step out side I like to scream
"HERE I AM THIS IS ME AND MY LIFE"

Daily Journal-The Perfect Day

It would be hard to pack everything I want to do in my life into one day. First, I would start the morning off with having breakfast with Beyonce. Next I would jet set over to Paris and meet my friend Megane there and we would spend a few hours shopping. We would then have lunch together and take the train down to the coast. Megane and I would spend some time at the beach before I had to leave to go to Austrailia to go sky diving with my dad. I would then end the day in New York City with Taylor Swift partying. There are many more things that I would like to do in my life but if tomorrow was my last day thats how I would spend it.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Villanelle Poem

The soft wind on a falls afternoon makes my cheeks blush
Leaves are rustling and everyone's raking
Pumpkins are being carved and set out in the hush
Life is sprawling all around in the town
Everyone is preparing for the winter ahead by baking
Family hunkers down and loved ones kiss and blush
The temperature goes down
Everyone is around thanking                                                             
What soft and elegant brush of the leaves making
Me chilled with excitement that its almost Halloween taking
Me by surprise I await with great anticipation of what is baking
Life is good and plush
Leaves are bright and lush
I am calm cool and easy about awaiting
Hush hush for all is calm and breaking
What not I do is not worth taking
With love and might I risk love breaking
Its a first date, walk in the green and red forest which is lush
Sometimes I await with patients and time taking

10 Most Important Moments

1.    Hosting a foreign exchange student, Megane, from France.
2.    Family vacation to Costa Rica
3.    Being on a swim team
4.    Owning a dog
5.    Meeting Breanna Schelgel
6.    Meeting Kelsey Deinhammer
7.    Playing softball
8.    Christmas with the whole family
9.    January 28th, 2011
10.  Spending time with my grandparents

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Etheree Poem

sweat
dripping
down my head
i take deep breathes
my knees become weak
my hands begin shaking
the room becomes dead silent
my mouth becomes very dry
the room temperature sky rockets
i open my mouth to say my first word

Daily Journal-How Ridiculous

How ridiculous I was as a synchronized swimmer. I could hold my breath for over a minute with my head under water twisting and turning my feet above water. When I jumped gracefully into the water there was not a single water droplet to drench my audience. My rountines would be serious or silly and goofy, to entertain my audience. With my feet flocking above the water my arms moved rapidly to keep myself up. You would think I had arms like an octopus in order to keep myself up. But I didnt, I just had two. The way I swam up and down the pool, doing flips and cartwheels in the water, mesmorized my audience. I was the queen of all queens when it came to synchronized swimming. I was the name in the head lines and the talk on the street. If you came to my show you would be utterly impressed with the way that I could twirl, twist, groove and fly in the water. My other team mates didnt stand a chance standing out against me. I was number one.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Acrostic Poem

Sophie Runing is above average
Optimistic and outgoing
Peter loves me 
Happy to be around friends and family
Inspiring to others
Excited to travel

Running sucks but I do it anyway
Umbrellas: no need, when dancing in the rain
Not even close to average
Intellectual beyond reason
No need to be negative
Girls just want to have fun

Daily Journal-Change the World

If I could change the world in any way I wouldn't start with my own government I would start with the world as a whole. First off, I would eliminate all nuclear weapons. They cause mass distruction on communities and countries. Nuclear weapons can wipe out a huge group of people or even a whole race that could truly be beneficial to the world in the future. Next I would eliminate the hatred between religions and races of people. Everyone fights over who is better then the other when really we are all equal. Sure some countries may be more advanced then others but that doesnt mean that that country is better then the other. Everyone has something to contribute. Next I would establish world peace where everyone got along. Hatred would be abolished and respect would be established. I am not saying that you would have to be friends with everyone, what I am saying is, love your neighbor as you loved yourself.

Concrete Poem


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