Summer!!

Happy summer everyone, it has arrived at last! Though summer is fun and I do enjoy nice tans and sleeping in, I’m going to miss everyone so much!!! School was so fun this year, I really enjoyed myself, and now that it’s over, I can’t wait for school to start back up again in the fall!!!!

On the other hand…I do enjoy not waking up at the crack of dark every morning and I do not enjoy stressing over tests and homework! Hooray to no more of that! And summer means goodbye pale and hello tan!

I had a wonderful school year! I met a lot of new people and made a lot of new friends and I loved the experience of middle school!! This year went bye SUPER quick and like sand slipping out of tiny hands, my 7th grade year was gone. Congrats on a wonderful year, everyone.

Activities To Do When Your Bored

This is my all-time best boredm beater list ever!! So if you are bored, I suggest you give these suggestions a try!!

Go to YouTube and watch people falling into walls

Text everyone on your contacts “what’s up?”

Write a poem expressing your boredem

Play Solitare until you start crying

:} Go out side and sing to the top of your lungs

(: Try to learn to juggle

7) Blindly choose new words in the dictionary and read there definitions

8) Go searching under your bed to try to bring back old memories

9) Pick out 10 random books, close your eyes, and toss out all but 1 book and read the remaining book cover to cover

10) Make up your own theme song

11) Pack up for a trip and then unpack

12) Make a ton of Mii characters on your Wii

13) Pick out a newspaper article and sing it until you realize your still bored.

Does this help?

Are We Done Yet?!?

Today is the very first day of the 3rd nine weeks and I’ll have you know, I am SICK of learning. Waking up at 5:45 a.m. every morning and getting on the bus in the dark really takes a lot out of you!!! And to top it all off, I have basketball every night and sometimes even on Saturdays!!

I can’t wait for summer!! Sleeping in, staying up, no learning of any kind, what more could I possibly ask for!?!?!?!?!?! Are we done yet??

7th Grade!!!

Hey!! You have not heard from me in a while, I know, it’s very sad! I am in middle school now!!! McDowell is the most fun experience in the world! I don’t have very much time to talk, so I’ll say what I can.

Making new friends is both exciting and nerve wrecking. Hannah( whom I love), isn’t on my team, meaning we don’t see each other too much . I’ve made so many brand new friends, and really learned about old ones who I haven’t really gotten to know. Katie, an old friend, has become one of my best friends because of the classes, bus ride, and lunch we share. I have also met a lot of new friends that went to different elementary schools. I have 3 friends names Makayla.

1~Makayla: From Laurelville, you all know who I’m talking about.

2~Michaela: A girl who transferred to Logan Elm. She is very shy, but very nice and pretty.

3~ Makayla: A girl who went to Saltcreek; she is the one of the three who is most like me!

It is so cool to meet so many friends that have a lot in common with you!!!!

I  love switching classes with different people!!!!! If you don’t like very many people in one of your classes, you don’t have to worry. You’ll have all the rest of the classes to be with friends. Like in Family/Consumer Science, the class puts me to sleep, but the people in it with me make it exciting and lively. I love all my old friends, don’t get me wrong, but my new friends are right up there!!

P.S~But Mrs.Lourighe( my Language Arts teacher) cannot compare to you, Mr.McGuire!!!! )

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Puppy!!

He's Watching You

The other day, me and mom went to a german shepard place and gotus a 10 week old puppy. His name is Vincent and he is the cutest thing ever!!!!! Observe:

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Happy????

Alright, here I am!!!! Now, for all of you who wondered where I am, well, I am off having fun outside, with friends, and vacationing!!! I’m sorry I just have too much of a life to blog ten times a day!!! I have people to go, places to meet…or something. You ask “Why Hadley?? Oh why do you leave us???” Why don’t we ask Mr.McGuire? I am drifting down Salt Creek to wherever it takes me! If I am missed that much then call me, text me, whatever but please Mr.McGurie, don’t hack into my blog again, thank you. Enjoy your summer outside and not all on the computer! :l

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Happy Birthday To Me!!!

If don’t know yet, today is my birthday!! And let me tell you, it is a happy one!! Yesterday, we played Kingston in the Tournement, and handed them their butts on a silver platter by beating  them 26 to 10!!! It was a mercy rule on their side. Then we drove to Rock House for the annual Haunted Hike. Going down to Rock House at night was cool, but hunting for ghosts was even better!!!

There where a TON of tools to use, but I got a crystal on a string. If “energy” is near, the crystal will spin around in circles. Another person had a thermometer. If there was a sudden drop in temperature, ghosts were near. Destiny Simmons had coat hangers. If the hangers crossed by themselfs, a ghost was there. Over by where the old hotel was, thermometer dude said the temp. went from 80 to 52 to 42, to 34 in 2 seconds. Destiny put her hangers by the area, and they made a HUGE X.  I put my crystal by the area, and it spun like crazy. When mom tried it, it still spun! We are official ghost encounters!!!!

I have almost 300 dollars for a touch-screen camera and I got a couple of gifts from family.

Today, I have 2 softball games, one semi-final round and 1 championship, so cross your fingers for the Beast(A.K.A.~Our team)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A Gift from the “Heavens”

In our school( or ex-school for me), we do these things called book talks. You all have probably seen mine( Dairy Queen, Prom Crashers, and The Schwa Was Here).  I thought they were all good, but one really stood out…to the person you would never expect.

Erin Dowing, the author of Prom Crashers, maybe you’ve read her books, or seen her on the news, but one day, she just ‘happened’ to be surfing around the Internet when she came across my book talk!!!!!! ! She and Mr.McGuire e-mailed back and forth for a while, and during one of those e-mails, she said she was sending a

SIGNED COPY OF HER BOOK TO ME!!!!

 

 

These are pictures of it!!! Doing book talks have changed my life

 

FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Camp: I am survivor!

As you all know, we came back from camp!!!! It was a crazy fun time! The first day we got there, we did stream and fat man squeeze. I fit through, but it was a struggle. Kasi got stuck and instead of freaking out (which I would’ve done ), she laughed her head off. It’s too bad that Hannah’s group didn’t get to go through. It was really fun. Mr.McGuire claimed to have come through the fat man squeeze, but I don’t believe him. He tells me ‘been there, done that’. YEAH RIGHT!!!!!

I loved being able to be with my friends and to party all the time. The last night we were there, Mrs. Griffey told us if we go to sleep tonight we’d get camp shirt. Then Kennedy goes “Guess I’m not getting a camp shirt”. Everyone got one in the end, though .

I really loved camp, and my favorite part of all was campfire. Because of the rain, our camp fire was inside, but it was just as fun. Swimming was another one of my favorite parts. I was SO scared to do a flip off the diving board, but after everyone gave me an encouragement speech, I finally got it. I scored a 10 of 10 from the judges (a.k.a~Josh, Eric, and Ian).

If I could go back to camp again, you know I would. So this is for the future 6th graders~ Be good all year and be good on the field trips because camp is a once in a lifetime thing!!!!! HAPPY SUMMER EVERYONE!!!!!  Love you guys!!

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P.S~Hannah, are you happy now?!?! I did this just for you!

Stardom!

 Hollywood.   The stars, the fame, the ‘scandals’.  I wish I was a star. It would be amazing  to get all the best clothes and live in HUGE mansions. Wake up in the morning and see your picture on the morning news! I would love to meet all the famous singers and my co-star  for the next hottest movie would be Jennifer Aniston!!!!!!! I could be best friends with Kesha and Taylor Lautner would be on speed dial!! That would rock my world!

It would be amazing to be a star, but it probably has it’s downsides, too. Like rumors. People magazine says you did steal money and Okay would say you didn’t. Paparazzi would also be a hard part. Everywhere you go, every time you step outside, paparazzi would be headlining your ‘breath of fresh air’.  Microphones would be shoved in your face for interviews, and people can say hating things on YouTube, blogs, and other things, too.

While being a star would be awesome, I’d rather stick with being normal old me.

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McDowell

Yesterday, all the Logan Elm school visited McDowell Middle School. It was a crazy place.

Kids, everywhere new faces, new sights, new everything!! The building was only 1 FLOOR! I am used to lugging myself up and down 4 flights of stairs just to use the bathroom!! There were also glass walls!! You could see right through into the class room! There were NO DOORS! It was like everything was so…open.

The strangest part of this CRAZY day was eating lunch with all the kids from Washington. The we had intramurals, which was like a huge party!!!! I was overwhelmed by ‘the class of ’16.’

Middle school will be crazy next year!

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D.A.R.E. Essay

In DARE, I have learned how important it is to stay drug free, how drugs like tobacco, marijuana, and alcohol can ruin your body and destroy your career. It is important to stay drug free because of the big dreams I have. A goal of mine is to become an archaeologist, which means a good education and a nice background. If I choose to do drugs, that might ruin the chance to reach my goals.

In DARE, I learned what all cigarettes do. They cause breathing problems, more colds, a LEADING cause of mouth, throat, bladder, and kidney cancer! And smokeless tobacco can cause mouth cancer and tooth loss. I’m not sure what type of people are cool with smoking something with over 200 KNOWN POISONS IN IT?!?!??!!?  Also, who would want dry and wrinkly skin, yellow teeth,  and stinky breath! Yuck!!!

During this program, I learned how to make smart choices with the DARE decision making model.

D-Define. Describe the problem, challenge, or opportunity.

A-Asses. What are my choices?

R-Respond. Make a choice. I use facts and information I’ve gathered.

E-Evaluate. I revise my decision. Did I make a good choice?

We used the DARE decision making model for friendship, tobacco situations, alcohol positions, and peer pressure. The DARE decision making model is good to remember because if I’m ever in a sticky situation, I can think about the DARE decision making model to help me out with my choice!

In DARE, I also learned about marijuana.  Smoking marijuana causes breathing issues, colds, and it affects your brain and body like short-term memory loss, loss of concentration, slows coordination and reflexes, and affects your ability to judge distant, speed and reaction time! That would not be good!

I also learned about all the 9 ways to say ”NO” when offered drugs. Those 9 ways are avoiding the situation, strength in numbers, just walking away, the cold shoulder, just saying ”NO”, giving a reason or a fact, changing the subject, the broken record, or using humor. I liked in DARE when we acted out one of the 9 ways to say “NO” with a friend. It was a blast!!!

The Beer Goggles were one of the most fun part of the DARE program. Walking the line and catching a tennis ball seems easy, but when you’re “drunk” even the simplest things can be a challenge. From that, I learned never to drink and drive because I can injure some one or myself, and I would end up in jail which would be a huge bump in the road for reaching my goal.

I, Hadley, pledge to stay drug free, to avoid violence, to not fall into peer pressure, and to say “NO” when somebody offers me drugs.