| Once when I was in the
5th grade, this 6th grade girl named Milena was in my class because I was
in a 5th and 6th grade mixed class. Once Milena asked me to give her money
to buy her mom a gift for her mom's birthday. I said, "No", and she looked
at me and then slapped me. Then at lunch time I went up to her and slapped
her and she said, "What did you do that for?" I said, "Because you slapped
me because I didn't give you money!" Then from that day on Milena never
touched me again. I learned to not let people hurt me for not giving them
money.
-Judith Gallo,
Sullivan School, Grade 6 |
| The most important thing that happened
in my life was when my sister died a day before my birthday. That was a
Monday and Tuesday was my birthday. The day she got sick was a Sunday at
10:00 in the night. She started throwing up and the next day was Monday
the 26th of September. She got worse, so my mom took her to the hospital,
but they would not accept her because she had no AHCCS. The hospital worker
made a mistake, but it was too late because she died the next day. My mom
came crying and told us that she had died and I went to school crying.
When I got in class I was still crying so they sent me home and it was
so bad I cried for six days.
-Guadalupe Tijerina
Hamilton School, Grade 7 |
| The most important thing that had happened
to me was when my baby sister died because the hospital didn't have AHCCS.
My mom came back from the hospital. my little sister was like yellow and
my mom gave her some water and my baby sister was throwing up. That day
we were going to go to church and she was getting more sicker and one of
my Mom's friends asked her if she wanted to take my baby sister. My Mom
said yes. In the night was when she died, it was my other sister's birthday.
When she asked my Mom for the baby sister she told us that she died and
we all started crying a lot.
-Francisca Tijerina
Hamilton School, 6th Grade |
| Sacrifice
One day I was at my old school and one my friends wanted
me to let him shortcut me in line, but I told him, "No." He pushed me into
a tether ball pole and I got hurt on a part of my body and couldn't walk
for three weeks. So he got in trouble for pushing me and I told him I didn't
ever want to be his friend never, ever again.
-Joe McKee
Hamilton School, 7th Grade |
| Bravery
Once I was bothered by a princess. The princess had a
very high position in society and I had a middle position in society. I
felt like I could not say anything to the Princess because she was higher
than I was. One time she got on my nerves and I got made at her. I went
to her and told her to stop bothering me, but she threw water at me. I
went to the King and Queen, the parents of the Princess, and told them
what had happened. The Princess did not know that I went ot her parents.
After I told them what had happened they made the Princess say she was
sorry for what she had done. The Princess and I had become friends and
were happy. When I first went to the Princess I felt a little scared, but
I had to stop what was bothering me.
-Patrician Rocha
Hamilton School, 6th Grade |
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| Castles-N-
Coasters
It was a while back when my cousins Gene and Eve invited
me to go to Castles-N-Coasters with them. I remember my grandma gave me
permission to go, so my cousins and I left that upcoming Sunday. It took
a while to get to Castles-N-Coasters because we took the bus, and on Saturdays
the buses run every hour.
We went to pick up my cousin Gene's girlfriend. After
that we traveled on a bus all the way to Castle-N-Coasters. When we finally
got there we ate at McDonald's before we got on any of the rides.
When it was time for us to get on the largest roller
coaster I freaked. I didn't want to get on it because I was afraid that
I would fall out or get hurt. My cousin Eve told me that the roller coaster
is safe to get on. I told her I was afraid of heights. Eve told me she
was too, but the roller coasters are fun. I said, "Okay, I'll get on."
Once I got on the ride started and a second later it was over. I liked
the ride so much I kept getting on and getting on the roller coaster. I
had also conquered my fear of heights and roller coasters.
My cousin and I got on almost every ride there. All the
rides were cool. My favorite rides were the race and bumper cars. My cousins
and Gene's girlfriend had a great time, I did too. I told them let's come
back some other time.
- Susan Flores,
Sullivan School, Grade 6 |
| Once in my life I had
a day when I thought that I didn't want to live, that I had nobody. That
was when my real dad divorced from my Mom. I thought that I didn't have
anybody to love anymore. That nobody loved me. And now that I have grown
up I think to myself, "I was little and I didn't know what love was." But
now I know that love means that someone really cares about you. So now
I have a step dad and I don't love him. I love my Mom and real Dad. But
I don't have any anger for my dad, because he never hit me or nothing.
All I know is that I love my parents.
-Damariz Rios
Hamilton School, 6th grade |
| Commitment
My commitment was to defend my sister. Erica was going
to beat up my sister and Anita and I defended her. Anita and I kicked Erica,
pulled her hair, and almost made her cry. My sister was cheering us on
as we defended her. My commitment is to my family. I won't let anyone beat
up my sister.
-Francisca Tijerina
Hamilton School, 7th Grade |
| Respect
There was once a man who behaved bad and I wanted to be
his friend. I asked him if we could go to the fair, to pizza, and the movies.
He began talking with me and I asked him why he was mad all the time. He
said it was because a lot of people make him mad. I then asked him if I
mad him mad. He said I get on his nerves but my friends, sisters, brothers,
and family make him madder than I do. I told him that I don't want to do
anything to him to make him mad. I then told him if he was more respectful
to others he would have lots of his friends and family like him. If he
was more respectful people would help him with his work and take him to
fun places. He thought about what I had said and then he told me he would
like to be one of those people that was very respectful and respected.
He asked me if I could help him and I said yes, only if he promised not
to go back to his old ways. So I helped him and helped him until he became
very good.
- Flor "Angelica" Lopez
Hamilton School, 6th Grade |
| Love
This is my story about love. There was a boy a long time
ago. This boy was about fifteen years old and he liked a girl that was
in a different village. He like her a lot, but he did not show her because
he was embarrassed to tell her. One day they were both at the river. The
girl was drowning in the river. The boy did not go into the river because
it was deep and he did not know who to swim. Though he did not know how
to swim he saw other people swim and did just what they did. He went in
the river and pulled her out. The boy started doing CPR like he saw others
doing. He had saved the girl. When the families of the girl and the boy
saw what he had done, they agreed to let the two of them date.
-Fernando Leon
Hamilton School, 7th Grade |
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