the picnic

I wake up in the morning with my alarm blaring, like a siren telling me to wake up. Today was going to be a good day I thought as I packed all my bags to go to my cousin’s house. I showed up to their house around 2 in the afternoon; I was greeted at the door with two warm hugs from my cousins Haylee and Sid. I walked into their giant three story house,  sat on the couch and waited for them to get ready. Sid was the first one to be ready, half way down the stairs and I could already smell his cologne. It was so strong I started to cough. Finally Haylee came down the stairs. Sid, Haylee and I all piled into my aunt’s blue jeep.

                To drive to the park, my aunt had to take a different route due to a horrible accident on the road needed. But finally I showed up there, Haylee, Sid and I piled out of the car and on to the bright green grass. I could see the kids running around playing on the dark blue swing set. Looking over at the playground, I saw my little sister running to meet me. I gave her a big hug and walked her over to where Jason, my little brother, was sitting. My dad finally joined me a couple minutes later; he had brought soda, chips, and hotdogs for the small cookout. I could hear the sizzle and pop! of the charcoals burning as my dad started up the fire. While he was doing that, I helped Jillian, and Jason build a kite for them to fly.

In the beautiful spring evening, I watched as all my family had a great time.  All of a sudden bang! I look over and the grill had fallen over and the charcoals went everywhere. Jason’s toy car had hit the grill and made it fall over. Calmly, my dad went around and picked up all of the things that had fallen off the grill. Jason looked as if he has seen a ghost; he was so nervous and scared. My dad told him it was okay and gave him a big hug and a kiss, that’s when I knew this was a day to remember. 

Wicked lovely

Wicked lovely is about a girl named Aislinn who has a special gift. She can see faeries, not very many people can see them but she is one of them she grew up knowing she is not allowed to talk, stair, or touch the faeries, because if she does something bad will happen. They cannot know she can see them. When I first got the book I did not know if I would like it that much but once I started reading it I fell in love with reading it I honestly read it in 2 days. I picked wicked lovely because it was recommended to me by many people and I like fiction books and this was a good choice for that. This book is set around modern day time.

There are 3 main characters Aislinn, Seth, and Kennan. Seth is the guy that Aislinn likes he has the gorgeous tattoos and piercings that Aislinn loves to see. Kennan is a faerie but not just an ordinary one he is the summer king and he is searching for his queen without his glamor his skin glows bright and he has bleach blond hair. He is obsessed with getting to know Aislinn. He is sure she is the queen he has been looking for. But she does not want to be the queen she does not want to be a faerie that would mean giving up her mortal life and living forever. So she has to decide everything depends on her. What surprised me in the book is that Aislinn was actually the summer queen I thought she was but I honestly did not know until it was true, and that she didn’t pick Kennan and she picked Seth to be with in the end.

My favorite character is Aislinn because she never gives up and always does what she wants. My least favorite character is Beira because she is the winter queen out to kill Aislinn so she can’t become the summer queen. If I could change the ending I would honestly have Aislinn and Kennan be the ones to end up together not her and Seth because it would be better to have the summer king and queen together then her and a mortal to where he cannot live forever but she can.

The best part of the book was probably when Aislinn found out she was the summer queen and the winter queens curse did not work on her. I would defiantly read other books by Melissa Marr she is a great author and uses her words to describe a scene where you can picture the moment like you were there.  I would recommend this book to anyone who like fantasy and fiction because it is a great book with lots of things that I wish could be true in life but are not. 

from big to small

I was in Mr. Cleary’s physical science class. It was the day we were going to the huge science lab in Chicago. My class of about 20 pilled on the bright yellow school bus and started to go. It was a 3 hour drive to the science lab, but I didn’t mind I was sitting by my two best friends Maggie, and Tayia. We finally were there at 12 o’clock in the afternoon, my class and I  walked into the giant science lab for a tour. We stopped a room where they used mice and rats as test subjects. I walked around looking at the helpless animals until ouch! I screamed. I looked down and one had bitten me. Everyone looked over at me. One of the scientists grabbed my arm and took me into a special room. They asked me a couple questions, “What color did the rat look like?” one man asked “White” I said. Then they started to look worried, All of the sudden I started to feel dizzy, and everything seemed to start to appear bigger then, everything went black.

            I woke up In a room, a huge room everything looked as if it was meant for a giant. I went to get up. The door looked so far away and the floor was so big and cold. I yelled for someone but nothing seemed to help. The giant door opened and a hug guy walked in my heart started to thump really fast and I started to freak out. I tried to run away, but he took me into his hands and would not let me go, until I calmed down.

            When I finally did calm down, they put me on a table and told me what was going on. The mouse that had bit me had a strange chemical in it. When it bit me, some on the chemical got in me and made me small. They gave me this medicine and told me it would be 4 hours until I would be big again, so I would have to just go on the bus and wait it out.

 Everything was so big and I could not walk because someone might step on me so I had to be carried everywhere. When I got to the rest on my class they all had very surprised looks on their faces. I was only about 3 inches tall so imagine how big everything was for me. I could see things I had never been able to see before like all the dust in the air, and the phones were so big. I was just waiting to get big again. I was set on one of the seats on the bus and fell asleep. When I woke people were staring at me, I guess they saw me transform to be big again because everything was back to normal before I knew it. 

The best camp fire

It was a hot humid day on July 8^TH 2012. My grandpa, grandma, mom, and a couple of cousins were sitting around a giant camp fire in my grandpa’s backyard in the small town of Ellsworth Illinois. My grandpa was telling stories, and I was talking to my cousin Taylor, while my little cousins Lydia and Carson were running around playing tag. The camp fire was almost as bright as the sun, with a bright white middle, expanding to a yellow and orange. The embers resembling glowing butterflies covered the sky above the shadow of the fire danced and flickered on the shed wall, creating a ghostly effect.

                 My cousin and I cooked hot dogs and s’mores over the open fire; I could smell the charring hotdogs and the sweetness of the s’mores. It overwhelmed everyone with hunger. The best part was the melty s’mores that were so sticky and sweet. After everyone cleaned up, my family and I all sat around the warm fire in the cold night. The warmth wrapped around everyone like it was a heated blanket.

                Singing camp fire songs, I heard a rustling in the bushes. “What’s that?” I asked. Everyone stopped singing to see what I was talking about. My grandpa decided to throw something at it. Slowly, he walked over and threw a can into the bushes. Two baby raccoons ran out and up the huge tree. Everyone was shocked and silent; all I could hear was the POP! And SIZZLE!  of the burning fire. My little cousin was the one to break the silence. “Oh my gosh!” she cried. “That was so cute!” All of the sudden everyone in my family started to laugh and continued to have a fun night.