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I Am
I am the one who… …learns Chinese every Sunday morning with my friend, absorbing words, phrases, sentences, and grammar into our heads because Chinese will be the “language of the future”, and the...
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Halloween Front Porch
As you walk up the lane leading to the small, squat house, you see the soft, pulsing, welcoming glow of candles set out on the porch and also placed inside grinning jack-o-lanterns. When you turn to...
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Characterization- New Student
The girl walks into the dreary kindergarten classroom silently, head down, shuffling her feet as if she wished to be anywhere else but here. When the teacher asks her name, the girl peeks shyly from...
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Rainy Day
Cars speed past us in the fog, gliding along the slick and shining road. Sighing, I stare gloomily out into the window into the dense valley below, picking out shadowy outlines in the drizzle. Soon we...
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Why Chocolate is Delicious
Chocolate is savored around the world. Really- who couldn’t resist a sweet, silky, dark confection that melts dreamily in your mouth? Chocolate is just simply scrumptious! People are drawn to...
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The Phantom’s Prison
Christine screamed. Bits of carnage –a hand here, some blood there– floated in the gray, putrid lake. Coldness creeped through the thick black walls of the cavern. She shuddered and hugged her knees...
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The iPad
Challenge 4 for the Student Blogging Challenge: Using images in posts. This year our school is rolling out iPads to the students. But is that necessarily a good thing? The iPads could cause major...
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Sick of Poems?
In class we spent some time on how to appreciate poems and to understand them as well. I would like to share a poem written by a poet that many already know; Shel Silverstein. I enjoy his writing...
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Swim
Summer is here! Well, maybe. Recently I began swim team with the BCW Barracudas. Even a suggestion of swimming and pools hint at sunny summer days, but alas, the weather has been volatile lately. One...
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The First Daughters
Have you ever wondered what life would be like as the son or daughter of a well-known and famous person? It seems as if it would be suffocating under the constant scrutiny of the media and the world,...
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