9-11 by Betzy

Have you ever heard about 9-11? Well now you can read my post and learn about it.

When I was 3 years old my dad and I were walking by the Twin Towers on 9-11 all of sudden some planes came by.

I remember that I told my dad, "Look the planes!" and then, like a second later, the planes crash into the Twin Towers. Then there's another plane that comes through the other side. All I saw was that people were running like crazies and then my dad was crying.

I said to him, "What's wrong?" He told me that one of the greatest towers fell down and later on, when I was five years old, they started talking about Twin Towers in schoool. I told my teacher that I was there when it happened. Later on in life, my teachers told me it is like a scar that will stay there forever.

But when I started looking at images about the Twin Towers, I could still see the towers, but now inside my heart, I only see dust.

Fallen. in silence we pounder. Momentarly, years fail to wash away memories will still stain. Heart will be broken etes with tears will remain. Indelible is the pain. Yet greater is the courage of those who gave the incaculable bequest. In perpetunity remain forever. But the 9-11 will always remain. ( by: unknown poem)

Abused Dogs by A

Skateboards and Skating by Joseph

I just started to skate and I love it, I think you should try it too.

I love to skate I have a shortys skateboard and I always use it when I go to school, when I go to the library, the store, and even when I go visit my dad.

Skateboards are CURADAS! and there are a lot of decks like shortys, Plan B, Baker, Exepition Real, and Element those are just a bit of all of them.

There are different types of boards like Longboards, Shortboards, and Skateboards.One of the things I like about skating is that I can go where ever I want with it.

So I reccomend you to skate if you haven't tried it. Try something new, it's very fun and you do exercise when you push yourself.

Transformers (Revenge of the Fallen)

Have you ever seen Transformers Part 2 (Revenge of the Fallen) its a good movie.

Well it continues from the first movie. Sam, the main character, is still in it but he goes to college.

Before he goes to college he gets the cube spark and it turns everything in his house to robots. They try to attack him but he calls bee and he saves him. Since Sam touched the spark (the Fallen) woke up and is planning to get revenge and blow up the sun. But Optomus Prime kills him and the deceptocons run away.

I recomend most teenagers watch this movie if you like sci fic.

The Hunger Games: by Josh

Being scared of someone killing you or you killing them,is a horrific thought. Imagine waiting for someone to kill you. That's how Katniss (the main character) feels about The Hunger Games.

The Hunger Games is about the future, but it's not what you think . There's no flying cars or anything. It's about 12 districts that have to send two kids from each district to kill each other in the hunger games. There is only one person that can survive the hunger games.

The Hunger Games is one of the best books made. It was really exiting and fantastic. The book is so good that they're making a movie. That's what The Hunger Games is about.

Soccer is Awesome by: Alejandro

Have you ever played soccer or like to play it?

Well soccer is a super cool sport. If you play soccer you are one of almost everyone who has played. Soccer is the world's most played game. So if you didn't knew that great you just learned something new. When you play soccer you get a good exercise. So if you play soccer it's good for you because it's fun and you exercise.

If you have an XBOX 360, a PS3, or a PS2 you can get cool soccer games such as Fifa 05-12 and Fifa street. I've played them all with my friends and are really cool. So if you have a soccer ball get along with your friends and play soccer. You can play over the weekends or afterschool.

The Things I gone Through By Edith

When I was three years old, I came to California. I was with my mom and my sister. My sister was five and a half years old. I cross through the line and my sister did, too, but my mom had to go through the hillside. When I got home, my grandparents took care of us. For the next day my mom got home she was ok, but she was frightened. Then in the next month my mom gave birth. It was a boy so I had a little brother. I was three years older than him. Then when my brother was two years old my mom met a guy. My mom,my sister, my brother and me went to live with him.

A year passed and problems began to come. My stepfather always got home drunk and wouldn't worry if we were there. He didn't care about how we felt. One night, my mom came home from work. She got home at 5:30 in the evening. She was tired so she went to sleep. Then my stepfather came home and he was hungry. He told my mom to make him some food, but my mom was tired and she didn't want to get up. So my stepfather got mad and started to throw everything in the room to the ground. My big sister got scared and my little brother and me we all started to crying because we heard our mom crying and screaming of sadness. My mom was really scared. Then my mom fainted so my big sister called the cops because my mom was bleeding. So then an ambulance came and they took her to the hospital. The police took us and left us with some social workers.

I remember what I sawed when the police took my stepfather. We got foster parents and the social workers said that we were going to be ok and safe their with two persons that we did not know, but I felt like we were not. The lady that was our foster mom was so mean with my big sister and me.Then in the next day our foster mom said if the social workers told us if we like living with them we had to say yes. So then a couple of hours later the social workers came and told us if we were ok and if we had been good and healthy.

We had to say yes because if we didn't our foster mom would hit us. We asked the social workers if we could see our real mom and they said yes. The next day the social workers let us see our mom and we told her every thing and she didn't believe us so we showed the marks that we had and she believed in us. We also told her that our foster parent made us take a shower with cold water then made us go to sleep without eating and put a big fan in the room.

When the social workers let us see our mom, we told her every thing that we couldn't tell the social workers any thing or our foster parents would hit my sister and me. We were stuck and we didn't know what to do. Then when my mom came to visit us every third Saturday we told her the things she did to us and my mom got mad and upset and she told us "I wish I done better when I had you two" My mom told the social worker what we told he but the social worker did not believe her because we always said that we were ok and that everything was ok.

One morning on Wednesday in the afternoon my foster mom told me and my sister to take a nap but I wasn't sleepy. I didn't want to sleep so my foster mom told me to go outside and take off my shoes and stand out side on the cement when it was really hot. When I came in a hour my feet were burnt in the bottom. Then I had to take a shower that was really cold and I had to go to sleep without a blanket.

My foster mom turned on the fan and put it straight at me and i was shivering cold. That's all I remember and I just felt stuck because I didn't know who to talk to. Now I have lots of help. I have therapy. I am proud of myself being with my real mom now not with mean people. I even have a great teacher that has taught me so much and is good-hearted.

My Favorite Animal! by:Ricki R.

Guess what my favorite animal is! Can't guess ok I'll tell you. my favorite animal is an orangutan!

I love orangutans there so cute,orange, and fuzzy,even funny. I want an orangutans as pet. One time while I was at the San Diego Zoo one of the orangutans was making art in the dirt. She was an artist at the Zoo.

And another time when i was at the Zoo a little boy threw his chewed gum over the glass, and it landed on the other side of the glass. Then a boy orangutan came over and put it in his mouth it was nasty. Orangutans are my favorite animal because there so cute in movies and I like when their in movies they hang on people's back.

Here are some facts about Orangutans. The word orangutan means " person of the forest." They are only found in Sumatra and Borneo, and are highly intelligent.

An orangutans arm span is very long , male orangutans arm span can stretch to 7 feet long. They sleep in nest made of leafs that they make. They use huge leafs as umbrellas and shelters. They look for food all day, they eat fruit and leafs, even tree bark and insects.But they rarely eat meat. Male orangutans are loners, they howl to tell other apes to stay out of their way.

Mother and thier young stay together. A female only gives birth every eight years. Orangutans might go into extinction.

So now you know what my favorite animal in the whole wide world is ORANGUTANS!!!

Art by: Veronica

Drawing makes me really happy, It's one of the reason why I like it.

I draw almost everyday. I go to quiet places to do my art. Sometimes I'll do it at home, in the park, at the beach or at the library.

I do art because it's fun and I do it sometimes to express my feelings. I would draw mostly anything. When I draw, I either paint, color or just leave the drawing without color.

I've never ever taken an art class before. Sometimes I dream that one day I will build a gigantic sculpture in a giant water fountain in a park. I'll paint it and everything. I don't know what it'll be, but it will be awesome!.

In most of my pictures i always use torquoise because that's my favorite color. (I like any color for art I even do random things.) I put all my art in a special red folder.

Art means everything to me!.

What I Think Love Means by Alyssa

What love means to me

Love is a feeling that really can’t be described. It’s something you can only feel. Love is a small word with a lot of meanings. Love is a connection between two hearts. Love is when someone is willing to be truthful to someone special in their life. Love is an emotional feeling that you have for someone.

Love also means something more than words can describe, when you feel something special between two people, two people who care about each other, it’s a special thing two people have, it’s hard to describe but love is something you can’t live without, you can’t describe love to someone you have to show them love, love is a beautiful feeling. It’s something you care about and you’re willing to do anything for the person you love.

People say love is an awesome feeling but it’s not so awesome when one person says I don’t love you anymore---<\3 it really hurts. Love is a good and bad thing. Love can break your heart but also make your heart great.

That’s what love means to me.

Tijuana, B.C., Mexico by Joseph

Tijuana is the best city that I have been to in my life.

I was raised in Tijuana since I was 2 years old. Tijuana is a good city to visit because of the art pieces that they sell.

It's a big city. One of the parts of Tijuana is "El CECUT"-- it's a big circular theatre--like the one at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center here--where there's a movie theater and art stores, you will see it in one of the pictures.

Another part of Tijuana that many tourists visit is "La Revolucion, El Centro"(Downtown).There you will find a lot of art pieces that people create with their own hands without using machines and they are cheap.

There's also a huge Mexican flag that you can see from San Diego, CA, and there's thousands of things more you will see in the pictures above. Almost at every street signal you will see people doing funny things, throwing flame from their mouth and they clean the dust from your car. All of those things so they can earn money.

So if you go to TJ(Tijuana) be sure you visit La Revolucion. One of my favorites parts there is El Arco you will se it in one of the pictures and do not forget "El CECUT".

Mood Rings By: Veronica

I love mood rings, they are very cool.

Mood rings are rings that tell you what your mood is by color. I have a lot of mood rings in this torquoise box that I had since I was 11. I have maybe more than 80 mood rings. sometimes when I wear the mood ring it turns up to be a Brownish-Blackish that I can't discribe and i've never seen before.

My mom doesn't belive that mood rings can tell your mood, but I do. If the ring turns blue it means you're calm or sad. If it turns red, orange or black it means you're it means your upset or angry. my favorite mood color is yellow, yellow means happy. There are more colors but I don't know what they mean.

You should get a mood ring, they're cool.

Juan Delgadillo.Talent Show

My class at Monarch is going to participate in a talent show. We don't know where yet, but I'm really excited about it.

I am going to do it with some freinds and with some classmates. My friends and I are going to be in the show and so is the rest of the classroom.

When I heard the news I was astonished that everybody in classroom is going to particpate. I thought most people would be too shy to participate.

I already want to do it .We are about to get to practice.

I can't wait till we do it. I am going to rap with some freinds and have lots of fun.

We are doing the talent show becuase of the holiday party and we are going lots of fun.

I really don't know were is going to be at.

I think they said it is going to be a surprise.Before the talent show the middle schoolers and high schoolers are going to dance on the floor.

OH,YEAH I can't wait till the talent show.