Basketball..

This year I had go into a sport, this is not a very normal thing in me. I never do sports, but this year in 7th grade I had tried my best in basketball. I am going to the practices wich are very cool. I am trying my best and I had a great time on the practices, they are very cool and specially because I am learning how to play better basketball and I had learned many things. And I enjoy very much the practices because I am with many of my friends some they are even better. I enjoy a lot playing basktetball with my friends, I had a great time.

In basketball classes first we get someone in the team that makes us make like ten minutes of exercise. When we finished making exercide we start making some activities with the basketball and running and doing very cool activities that helps us and they are very imoprtant to make them before playing the game. When we had finish making this activities with 6th grade and 8th grade we start playing the games. First 6th grade plays with 7th grade, then 7th grade plays with 8th grade and at last 6th grade plays with 8th grade.

This year I had enjoy very much this basketball clases. And each day I learn something new. I had also enjoy them because I play with people of other grades in the school like 6th and 8th grades, and it is very cool because you learn things from them and also yoy have the opportunity to play with different people and not always with people in 7th grade. I had really learned many thing and I am very glad I am trying and learning something new. I really did not believe that I was going to get into a sport in this time, and I did get in basketball to see how were them and I liked them very much, and know I am trying my best to get each time better. I had really had a good time in baskteball practices.

Jennifer and her trip to Miami!

Ohh no! It is already 9:00 A.M and I had to go for my tickets at 9:30 A.M. I have to take a bath very fast and take brakfast, and my brother is shouting and he is stressing me! My name is Jennifer, I am a 14 year old girl. It is very hot, I am dying with this wether. This morning I wanted to go to the beach but I cant because I have to go for the tickets. I like living here very much but I don't like the wether, is too hot! I love my parents, and all they I fight with my brother but I still love him too because he is my brother. My mother is getting out from her work to come for me and taking me for the tickets, ohh and there she is. "Hey Jenny, come on we are late, they told us that you have to go for your tickets at 9:30 and it is 9:34."

"Yes, I know, I am ready know, let's go".

Finally! I already have my tickets! I like very much my life here in Cartgagena but I want to try something new. I want to go to live to Miami 6 months. I think that is a great city were I could make many friends like I do here in Cartagena. But I have a problem, I am going without my family. This is very to hard to me because 6 months is too much time to be without my family, and I love my brother although all day I fight with him! I know I will miss him a lot, and I don't know if I will survive without my parents. But I know I am going to have a great time in Miami, with new people and a new school with different friends. And I am going to stay in a house with very nice people. Well, I think so!

Hey! guess what? This is the day! Today I am going to live to Miami, I am very happy. I want to be there right know, I can't wait anymore! Right know it is 5:00 A.M, I have to be at the airport at 8:00 A.M. But know I have to finish packing my bags because yesterday it was 1:30 A.M and I was very sleepy so I couldn't finish packing my bags, I also have to take breakfast and take a bath and put my cloth and finally I am going to the airport, I can't wait any more!

It's the time, It is 7:20 A.M, I have to go to talk to my parents, I enter my parents room and they were still sleeping, "Mom and Dad, Hey wake up it's late, today I am leaving to Miami!" I told them.

They woke up, "Hey Jenny, oww! yes, we have to take you to the airport at 8:00 A.M". Finally they woke up, know I had to wait that they take a bath and take breakfast. They last like halph an our to make this, thay were very fast! Know it really was the moment, I was very nervous, I thought I was going to miss a lot mi family, including my brother, I guess!

I was getting the bags, we were getting through the door! I was thinking if I really wanted to make this, I was so nervous that I din´t know what to think or what to do! But I already had the tickets and I had to go to Miami, this is a great opportunity to meet new friends and new people. I wanted to talk with my mother because I really was confuse! I had a bad feeling, I din´t know what to make but know I was really close to this moment that I can´t regret know, we had last months doing this and organizing that know I couldn´t tell my parents that I am not going to Miami.

I forgot all that I was thinking and I start to think possitive things, so I got into my car and my dad start riding. On the way to the airport I start thinking the great moments I was going to have with my new friends there in Miami. But then again I start thinking of my family, and my brother fights, all of those things, also my school, and my friends that I had here in Cartagena, I think this is a great city with exelent people and I am going to miss a lot all the places that I visited when I go out with my friends, especially the Campito, Clubs, and all this places that I am not going to have there in Miami. And what I was going to do if I din´t make any friends and people treat me bad and don´t acept me like I am.

"Hey!" My brother told me, "What are you thinking, we had got to the airport, come on!", he told me. We had already got to the airport, time had been very fast, I din´t realise that we were already at the airport! My father got all the bags of the car and we start entering the airport. I realise that I had to talk with my mother of what I was thinking about. But I was nervous of what she was going to tell me.

"Mom, I have to tell you something very important about this trip", I told her.

"Yes Jenny, what do you wan´t to tell me?" she answered me.

"I dont know if wan´t to go to Miami, I am very nervous of this trip, I don´t know if the people are going to accept me", I was nervous of what she could said me because we had done everything for this trip for me and know I am telling her that I am not shure.

"Why? I think that youre are going to be ok there, the family that you are staying with, is a very... It's a very good family! Well, that´s what I have understand", she said me.

My mom start saying me a lot of things about that family, but she din´t convenced me. My brother and my father were organizing all the things of the tickets and all that stuff while me and my mom talk about my problem.

I think this was imposible, it was to late for me to regret and don´t want to go to Miami for the next 6 months. This was incredible, I was very exited with all of this and know I realise that I din´t wanted to go to Miami. And I couldn´t stay becuase I had already bought the tickets and there was no way that I could change them and have the money back.

Know it was the moment that I had to get in the airplane, I din´t want to make this, I din´t wanted to go but know it was too late, know I had to go to Miami. It was the moment to said goodbye to all my family, this was to difficult for me, my mother started crying and she made me cry too. I said goodbye to my brother and my father, when I finished I was going through the airplane.

I heard that my mother shouted at me, "Jennifer, come here a moment", she said me. Very fast I go back to her.

"I don´t matter that we have already bought you the tickets, this is your decition, if you really wan´t to go to Miami you can go right know, but I think that this is not a good moment, you are only 14 years old and I think that you could go there for 6 months when you are bigger, know you have here in Cartagena your best friends, you decide!"

I thought that my mother had the reason. I am not prepared know for this, i am only 14 years old and I have hear my family and all my friends, I know that I am not going to survive in Miami without my family! I decide I had to stay here in Cartagena, it is the best choice for my own good. My mother was glad of me, they din´t really matter the tickets, they respect my decision of staying here and not going to Miami.

Know it is night, I am very tired, this was a very long they, it is 9:34 P.M. All they I had being getting out the things of my bags and putting the again were they really belong. Then I called all my friends and told them that I was not going to Miami, they were very happy, some of them even cry! Well, I am sleepy! I am glad that I had not went to Miami, I think is the best decision that I choose, it is not a good time! Ok, so know I am going to sleep! have a very good night, bye!

My Worst Nightmare!

My worst nightmare was when I was at a island with my family and my 1- aunts, uncles, and cousins. We where going to sleep there. At night me and my cousins were playing cards outside. There was a 2- black, thin, hungry dog that was asking us for food, later we gave him a piece of meat that lasted from dinner and then he went away. It was like 1:00 A.M and we were still playing cards, I was very scared because they said that on the islands after 12:00 A.M, there are witches. Then I decided to go to one of the cabins and I saw that everybody were sleeping in 3- beds, mattress, and couches. Later I went down again. I was still very scared because I heard rare noises and I thought in witches. My cousins were still 4- playing, laughing, and eating outside and I wanted to go up to the cabin because I was scared.

It was 2:00 A.M and they were still playing cards! Each time I was more scared. Later I when´t upstairs to the cabin, I was going there and 5-under a chair, there was a big rat! I din´t know what to do, I 6-running very fast, I got out of the cabin and went were my cousins where. I told them about the rat but they din´t believe. I thought that 7-we were all afraid from the rat, but they din´t admited. I start telling them to go to the cabin, after all they decided to go with me to the cabin. When we got on to the cabin I thoght that the rat wasn´t there. The rat had been gone from a little window on the cabin. My cousins said that they knew that it was false, but I din´t really matter, know I was very happy because there was no rat at the cabin! Later we went all upstairs to sleep.

8-Well, I think that this was a terrible experience, but I am glad that when I got into the cabin there was´t the rat, I finally sleep and anything happened!

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