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Hi my name is Amy and I am 12 years old.I am going to audition for Sylvia Young`s Theatre School in the late months of 2009 when I will be 13. I was just wondering if anyone has any tips about the audition or anything in general that might help me. I already attend a singing, dancing and drama class as I know that could help.

Thanks for any advice

January 2009

Trip to Puerto Rico

I am going to Puerto Rico for a vacation. We will go to the beach to surf. The kinds of food I am going to eat are rice, beans, pork and I am going to drink mango juice. I am going to visit the cemetery because my dad passed away nine years ago and is buried there.

Then, I would like to visit my grandma that I have not seen in two years. After that I am going to the park to play baseball with my brothers, sisters, mom and my dad. Last, I am going to say bye to everybody and I am going home sweet home. I will write down what I did and saw and I will share it in school.
(October 2008)

Arachnophobia

Whenever I hear anything about spiders I shiver all over. I don't know why I feel this way. Something about furry, black, eight-legged spiders tells me that they're not that friendly. When I really think about it, I think myself stupid but mostly I don't like talking about it.

Even now, I am 12 years old and I can't sleep if there is a 'Daddy-Long-Leg' in my room. I'd always have to get my mum or dad to get a broom and kill the spider. I know I sound mean but they just creep me out. The funniest thing about this fear is that I am never able to kill the spider myself.

I live in a pretty big house that is very hard to clean. You can never say, 'I have cleaned the house' because there is always a dozen places that could have done with cleaning, that's where all the spiders hang out. As my house is big we all have to put in our bit to help clean it and so today I thought I would clean my living room.

One glance at my living room and I thought it would take me several years to clean this room! After looking around a couple of times I felt more and more reluctant to clean up but I thought better of that choice. So I put my head down and my bum up and began to clean.

A full hour had gone passed and the place didn't even look touched. There were newspapers and magazines from months ago just lying everywhere. I felt like a slave in my own house but still I couldn't complain because after all I did find my English book that I have been looking for- for over a month.

I was exhausted after I had 'finished cleaning' my living room. I was kind of proud of myself for tidying up my living room all by myself. I was grinning to myself while glancing around at my work and then instantly my smile faded away into a look of fear. There was a huge black, furry, eight-legged spider almost opposite of me.

I had already gone red in the face and sweaty in the palms. I was the only one in the house with a black spider right in front of me. I had butterflies in my stomach and caterpillars in my head, I thought I was going to faint. I had whimped out completely and the spider hadn't even moved. I saw some newspaper stacked next to me and I took about four. I walked as slowly as I could near the spider, I had to kill it or else I would have gotten scared if it were to come in my room.

I was more nervous than ever. Closer and closer I was going to the spider. I swung my newspaper, making sure I wasn't going to touch the spider I edged my fingers back; I was trembling on my footsteps but got steady again. With a huge SLAP I whacked the spider then I froze. I dropped the newspaper without looking at it and ran up to my bedroom.

I felt a lot of guilt for killing the spider, I know that it never deserved death but at the same time my heart was racing. I did something I never thought possible even though it was gruesome. I had a mixed feeling of guilt and pride. I was also happy because at that moment my mum arrived and so I was safe.
(September 2008)

My Field Trip To The Planetarium

The bus ride wasn't too long, it was about half an hour. On the way there I played games,listened to music and read a book. Finally when we got there we all had to be in seperate groups.

Unfortunately,the teachers got to pick. First we learned about rocks. I learned that salt is a rock. So everybody eats rocks. Then we learned about the ice age. Next we learned about earthquakes.

After that we leaned about cavemen. After we were done with all of that we went to this room where they showed a movie on the ceiling. It was all about the solar system. At the end of it there was a part about the black hole. After that our field trip was done we got back on the bus and drove back to Waupun. When we got back to school, all of our parents were there to pick us up. It was the best field trip ever!
(September 2008)

Memoir of Community Service

'Yay Joe,' exclaimed the slender gray haired woman.

Joe patted his tiny thigh signaling for the woman to spin him around in the bright canary yellow revolving chair.

'We try to have them communicate with us as much as possible,' the woman said, turning towards me.

Joe is three years old and lives with autism, so 'Go' is a challenge for him. He was one of eight kids in the room who also have autism and who are learning to grow with this challenge.

I was one of two eighth graders being of service to the community on the last community service field trio of the school year.

'You try to give him a go,' said the lady as she passed me the chair holding the small boy.

Joe let his right hand make a soft thud on his shorts and I let the chair swirl. When I halted the chair to stop, he beamed with joy and tapped his side several times. His eyes were shining with hope and as I looked into them my eyes began to reflect the joy in his.

After a couple of more spins, Justin decided to move on to another game. So I began to explore the rest of the room. It was small and brightened by sunlight streaming in from the windows and bouncing off the clean, white walls.

Then a tiny girl skipped by me and stopped at a short brown table. When she moved her head the small amber plaits in her hair flew and tapped her head. A poster board with her name and photo told me her name was Nyah.

'Hi,' I whispered, crouching down to sit in a petite chair designed for three year olds.

'Hi!,' she responded brightly.

To my surprise she could talk a little. The younger woman helping Nyah was working on teaching her to share, which told me that autism affected her social skills more than her verbal communication. The woman spread brightly colored toy pieces on the table. Automatically, Nyah reached for all of the toys her small hands could hold and I scooped up the leftover ones. Then, I asked her for a toy, but in response she clutched the tiny objects and silently shook her head no, shaking her braids. Out of the three pieces in my hand, I put one in hers. Then she put one toy in my hand. With a sunny smile, her eyes twinkled when she realized how good it felt to share.

All of the autistic children I saw that day were so beautiful and full of life. Their eyes sparkled with the hope of a better tomorrow when autism will be cured and everyone will just see these children as humans.

Moments like this one makes service so very rewarding.
(September 2008)

My Brother and I

One day I took my brother Oliver to the park. He was having a lot of fun and so was I. Oliver was watching me do the monkey bars. Oliver was a little bit too close to me. I accidentally hit him. I had to run as fast as I could! He was crying but he was okay. So the next time I play on the monkey bars, I will make sure he is far away doing something else!
(September 2008)

Fishing for Memories

My father and I walk down the slope,
Carrying the fishing rods.
We check out the dark green mossy water,
We see fish jumping out long for us to get a glance,
The large sun, bright in our faces.
We capture blue scaled shiny fish,
And interesting catfish and crabs.
Our intention's not to kill
So we throw the fish back.
It was enough just being with my dad,
To look back and see our big smiles,
Him making fun of me when I
Capture a small fish,
Me making fun of him back.
(May 2008)

The war

It was the winter of 2002
It was snowing non-stop for three days
My friends, my cousins and I were starting something
A snow war
Building snow forts and borders
Making piles of snowballs
The snow blowing hard on us
Then my cousin Julio grunts
They threw a snowball at him
My friends and my cousin are attacking
They throw and keep throwing
Right in our faces
Then they stop
We notice they are very still
They have run out of snowballs
It's quiet, really quiet
They don't know we're right behind them
We built a secret tunnel
My cousin has a shovel full of snow
And my friend and I have two buckets
Full of snowballs
We tap them on the shoulders
They turn around and thump!
That's all you hear, thumps and howls
They fall to the ground
Helplessly
We look at them
Then at each other
With the shovel, we bury them
With all the snow from their forts and walls
They scream and yell but all you hear is
Soft muffled sounds
Then we unbury them
We won the war we yell out
So we all go home
When I get there
I drink hot chocolate
(May 2008)

Broken Family!

I feel alone, isolated, not wanted, and forgotten about. There was a time when we were a proper family, but now everything has just fallen apart.

Why did this have to happen? It was fine the way it was. Nothing was wrong until now, it's happened to me now, for the first time, and there's nothing I can do about it.

I wish I could turn the clocks back, but now it's too late, no one listens to me, no one's there, without a doubt I'm losing them.

What has happened to me? It came at the wrong time, when I need them most.

Does it make me feel unwanted? Why did things just have to fall apart? My family's moving further apart, my life is changing and I don't know how I will be able to cope!

It was so hard to look again, now I've lost my family for the first time, I hope it doesn't happen again. I've heard someone say a family without love, isn't a family at all. Could it be true?
(April 2008)

Lunch for the Ants

I had lunch outside with my friends, this was a day to remember!
Lunch outside was like attack of the killer bees, but they were ANTS! These ants love the food we were eating it was like they knew when we were going to touch it, because right when I was going to touch a piece of bread it attacked it! It started crawling all over my piece of bread which was starting to become the ants. :( (November 2007)

I soo wanna go!

Hi. I've wanted to go to Sylvia Young for ages! My mom says I might be able to go next year and I'm ecstatic about that!!!! I wish though I could go to full time school but it's too expensive. Does anybody know any cheaper full time schools?

July 2007

My dad is in the Army

Do you enjoy your birthday? Im sure many of you do. I used to love my birthday until this birthday came when I turned ten. That year was one of the worst years of my life, I had to move away from my family which was very hard for me. My dad decided to join the military. It wasn't that much of a big deal to me at first because I thought he wasn't serious. I was wrong. So we had to move. I have never been away from my family, we did everything together.
I had to meet new friends and many new people. I had to start a whole new life. I had to move to Fort Bragg, North Carolina. I thought I would hate living out here, but I really seem to enjoy it. I think I can survive out here. Fort Bragg really isn't all that bad.
When I finally realy started to enjoy myself I found out my dad had to go to Iraq I was extremely mad. I have to go a whole year without my dad. My dad and I do so many things together. We go watch dragracing together and go look and motorcycles but my mom think those things are weird.
My dad is now in Iraq, so I want to become a young writer before he come back to surprise him. I would also like to get Chip Foose to fix up his hideous car. When my dad get back, he will have a lot of catching up to do. (Jan 07)

First year of grade 4

Hi my name is Nicole. I am in gr.4 and my teacher's name is Ms.S. Grade 4 is very easy but, so far but we have a lot of quizzes. I like my teacher she is young and pretty. Well from last year I had a best friend named Milica and she is in my class this year I am so happy but we don't sit together because the teacher saw that we always talk! Well we did not learn about medieval times yet I can't wait till we do. I also can't wait till we go on trips. In my class we sit in groups and if any group is good they get a point and if they are not good they lose a point and at the end of a week, the table with most points wins a prize! I don't know what will happen if two or more tables both win, maybe I will see. From Nicole (Jan 07)

My Summer Vacation

During my summer vacation... I did a lot of things!

First when I heard my best buddy Niko was moving I was so disappointed. He has the cutest baby brother twins.(23 months old) So we did a lot of fun stuff together, like swimming at the Riding Club. We had a great time, even his baby brothers came, Pano and Stavro. Niko's parents were so fantastic, they took us sledding in the winter time and skiing/tubing too!!! We had a great time, they moved to London, but we keep in touch a lot and they come in the summer time to swim!

Second we went to the Riding Club a lot, one day I caught a fish with a very tiny net, a few weeks later I caught a baby salmon. I was amazing and interesting at the same time!!! We went to the Riding Club almost every week of the summer break!!! It was exellent!!!

Third of all my mom and dad had their 25th anniversary! It was fun, it was an Arabic party because my mom and my dad are from Egypt/Cairo. So we listened to music and a belly dancer came later on. It was a blast, my cousins were there too. I danced with my cousin Liza and people watched me dance and said that I would make a great belly dancer when I'm older! Also Liza's brother Alexi was there!!!

I had to write this for an essay at school so I'm writing off of my mind, It's hard to remember. But any ways ...

I hope you enjoyed reading this, I had a fantastic summer break hope I'll have one next year:)

Sincerly: Jasmine

The Zoo

One day we went to the zoo. I went with my mom and my sister. We saw a blue bird and then we saw a red one. Then we saw a panda bear. And then we saw a bear. Then I saw my friend Sara. The End. (January 2007)

My Awesome Spring Break

Many people have a Spring Break. You get out of school knowing that you have a whole week to forget about school and have some fun! I hope you're on Spring Break right now because if you are, it back, relax, and enjoy this story.
For my Spring Break,I went to San Antonio.I had a blast. My mom, dad, sister, Penny, Donald, Chase, and I left for San Antonio on a sunny, Wednesday morning. Everybody filled up their cars with stinky, black gas and said "Goodbye home".
We arrived at our Howard Johnson Hotel rooms around Eight o'clock. We unpacked all of our clothes and other needs. By that time everyone was hungry. We drove over to the Denny's restaurant across the street. I ate a pancake, egg, and sausage breakfast meal. After eating the sensational food, we went back to the hotel for a good night's sleep.
The next day, everyone woke up excitedly and got ready to go to the San Antonio Zoo. It was gigantic! It was also a good thing I brought my digital camera along. A few of the awesome animals we saw were the fat hippo, a indiffernt zebra, colorful parrots, and an annoyed ostrich. My favorite parts of the zoo were the baby monkeys and the dark aquarium. My favorite fish were the one foot long goldfish. There was one beautiful goldfish that was white with small blotches of gold. At the zoo, I had a funny but cute caricature drawn of myself, as well as Chase. I was an orange monkey and he was a famous football player. After we were done looking at the animals, we rode a little train that led you from the zoo to the Witte Museum. I loved the museum. It had real,live dinosaur bones on display. Everybody loved it! We even got flattened pennies with a Witte Museum imprint on them for souvenirs. After a long, busy but exciting day, we ate supper at a restaurant called Joe's Crab Shack. After the meal, Penny, Chase, and Donald left but we stayed.
On Friday, we packed our trunk with our suitcases and other stuff and we headed in our car to the Alamo. When we arrived,I thought I was in a dream. I couldn't believe that I was standing in a place that I had done research on. It was Alamotastic! After studying ancient history, we walked over to the Guiness World Record Museum. It was better than I had expected. After the museum, we all went to the Ripley's Haunted Adventure House. I thought that it was kind of funny, but my sister Brittany didn't. Once we were finished being scared half to death, it was time for the Davy Crockett Activity Center. Davy Crockett fought in the Alamo. First my mom and Brittany rode on a small cart, then my dad and I. Once the ride was over, there were activities. The activities were great! Once the Davy Crockett Center was over with, we all got snow cones and walked over to the Rivercenter or the so-called mall. I hoped that we could have gone on the Riverwalk, but we couldn't. When we were done looking at objects and such, we walked to our silver car and started the long four hour trip home.
As you have read, I did a lot of things. Many people have Spring Break as well as me. Like I once said, sit back, relax, and I hope you enjoy your Spring Break.
(Editor's note: submitted October 2006, but I'm guessing this was written in the spring!)

The amazing jump off!

I was ready to jump! My hair in a long, thick ponytail swinging side to side. My feet moving a mile a minute. My feet still on the ground but ready for the sand pit.....I was going to jump! Shoom! It gave me a rush that I felt as if I was going down a roller coaster. I just won the jumping contest! (October 2006)

The tiger

Tigers have striped fur, usually orange stripes on black with a white underbelly. The size of a adult tiger is range from 4.5 feet to 9 feet long males are larger then females the largest tiger is the Siberian tigers . They weigh about 500 pounds, and the smallest is the Sumatran tigers weighting about 250 pounds.
Like most cats they have good night time vision. Tigers have largest canine teeth of any land based carnivores. Tigers are mostly solitary animals but around mating and the female cares for the young cubs . Sometimes tigers gather for a large kill but are activate in the day during in winter. Tigers are meat eaters carnivores.
Their prey include small to medium sized mammals from 60 to 200 pounds. Tigers live in Asia in forests where there is all grass. Tigers live 10 to 15 years in wild and about 20 years in captivity
Tigers are nice and cute they live in zoos and I got to see one in the zoo I loved it so much it they are very big. Hope you love my story.
The end (October 2006)

Mum and Dad's family memories

In the days when my parents were young, my dad was in the army and my mum with 1 to 8 kids. Since my dad was in the army we were moving place to place. Some of us were born in Scotland my mum and second oldest brother was born in England; my dad was born were moving place to place. Some of us were born in Scotland my mum and second oldest brother was born in England, my dad was born in America, even my oldest brother was born in Hong Kong, oldest sister was born in Germany and my littler brother and I was born in Ireland. The first one born was Raymond, Martin, Nicola, me, Alexander, Shania, Brandon and the youngest one of all is called Destiny Joy!

My parents met at a bus stop and since then they had a great time together. One night my dad asked my mum if she would marry him but in a great shock she said no, she thought she was too young. Dad was upset so he got on his motorbike and drove off. Suddenly he started to go a bit faster and he crashed his motorbike on a stone came flying off loosing his shoe on the way then landing under a tree. When he got home he was so upset that he thought that he should spend all the money that he had saved up for the wedding since she said no! On mums next birthday she agreed to marry him but he did not have a lot of money left so they had to get married in a registry office.

In the army dad was a sergeant mager and he got a glass trophy and some medals, he was kind off the captain. He wore a navy green suit with a red strip and a navy green hat with a golden shield shaped medal. He had time off to go and see mum and all off us, he saw everyone off us being born except martin. My dad was even kind of a doctor to the other men; he still has the stethoscope today. He loved the army but he had gotten hurt so he had to quit and we moved to Scotland and we have not moved since.

We have tons of fun together, I hope you are having fun with your family.
(July 2006)

My Scary Experience

I was sitting on the couch Saturday night. I was home alone because my parents had gone out to eat together. Suddenly, I hear a noise coming from the porch outside. I walk to the back door and open it. Nothing was there. I sit on the couch again and 5 minutes later, I hear the noise again. I check outside again, and this time, I see a gun on the ground. I gasp, slam the door shut, and lock it. I sit back on the couch. About 20 minutes later, the alarm goes off. I run to my room, grab the phone, and hide in the closet. I dialed 911 and the police came to the house right away. They said that someone came into the house and is hiding. I was so scared I was shaking. The police started searching the house and found a man hiding in one of the closets. He was holding a bag full of weapons. The man got arrested. (July 2006)

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