Monday, May 16, 2011

Hobbies!

              Hobbies are designed to help refresh and rejuvenate people. They have the wonderful effect of restoring a energy and a love for life and release stress. Hobbies are our getaway, we can escape from the world for a few hours. With the different options their are out there, I have come to love several different hobbies. To be somewhat short I'll only name three...Swimming, reading, and drawing/writing. These three things are what keep me loving life (well, and reading the Book Of Mormon and Praying and going to church, too.) and happy.

               Swimming I've found I've had a passion for it since I was little. In fact I often refer to myself as "half fish." When I was four or five at one of my first swimming lessons,  my teacher had shown me how to do something in the water and I was so excited I literally pushed off my teachers belly. My dad told me I didn't even realize, and I think I thought she was the cement wall. hahah! I was recently on a swim team for almost two years, but unfortunately it closed down. while I was swimming constantly I was very fit and always had tons of energy! Swimming fills me with a sense of calm and I always feel relaxed and ready to tackle the day and all my homework. 

   
               Reading is also a joy for me, but not as productive. I often use it to enter another wold and forget about my life and all the homework I left behind. Still, I love to read, but I have to be careful not to start a book when I have homework, or I won't get anything done. What I love best about reading (when I'm not procrastinating homework) is that with it I can become someone else and feel their joy's and sorrows to experience different world and 'see' incredible creatures that don't exist in our world.

               Last of all I love to draw and write. This is a new talent I'm developing and with any talent it takes time. This summer I'm planning on talking lessons from my Grandma Berry. I want to get to the point where when I draw things they appear completely life-like. Writing is also a new skill I'm working on. This semester I took creative writing and at the begging of the class my teacher asked us if we wanted to practice different kinds of writing or just chapter book writing/novels. We all wanted to learn how to write novels and she told us, that from the beginning of the class we will each write our own novel and at the end of the year we would each have our books published! Hobbies are so fun, and you can have hundreds of different kinds. they make life even more enjoyable. Go find more!

Work!

 

Hello! For this assignment I'm going to write about my job. Right now it's BABYSITTING!!!
So, here's a scene from a regular babysitting night:
Mother of kids I'm babysitting drove me to her house. I go inside
ME:Hi you guys! 
They are busy with playing the Wii or eating. They say very distractedly...
Kid's: Hi.
Mom looks at kid's and smiles
Mom: Aren't you going to say hi to Richelle?
Older kids: Hi, Richelle.
Younger one's will look up at me with excitement and come up and give me a hug. followed by the youngest saying...
 Youngest: I like her.
Mom: I'll be right back. I just want to finish getting ready.
Me: okay.
She leaves. Then the kids will show me a new toy they got and I will "oooooh" and "Ahhhhhhh" it....
ME : That is so cool when did you get this?
Child I'm talking to: For my Birthday.
ME: WoW! how does it work? Can it fly? Can you hold onto it and it will shoot you to Disney land?
Child: no! it can go like this! bbrbbrbraaaooom! Vrooooom!
He is running around with it and making cool noises. :)
Me: Oh, my gosh! How are you doing that?!
Mom comes back.
Mom: OK, Richelle they need to go to bed at 8:00. You can either give them sandwiches or make macaroni Or whatever. We'll be back around 10:00 ish so make your self at home. They can have a snack's just not the cookies, I need those for relief society tomorrow. Bye, thank you so much!
Me: Have a good time! Bye!!
Kids: Bye Mom!! Bye Dad!
After parents are gone, kids and I usually watch movies and play games and cars or barbies then We eat diner. play some more and then I put them in bed. I make up a story and sing them a song, they say their prayers. Then I leave and go back to living room, clean house. then Watch a movie or do homework till parents come back.

Silly ditty about school

School is fun, school is great if I hurry I won't be late.
I was late, oh, what to do! Would you look at that I dropped my shoe.
Leave it there and start to run, I'm sure that I still have time, some.
My car pool comes and picks me up "You were late" they say, "Ha! Good luck."
I jump out the door as we pull up, Run to class, Hop hop hop!
"If only I had more time." I say as a sit down at my desk with my hair in disarray. 1st is women's choir and I totally love that class, next is science and I wish I could say I care less. Third, is creative writing and we are each writing a book, if I finish it by the end of the year, it will be published (much to the delight of myself  and that of my sister Brook).
I Go to P.E, and I start to relax. "This isn't so bad, hand me that bat."
Computer Technology smell's like poo and I had a huge presentation due, that I'd forgotten to do.
Tomorrow is going to be so fun! I have choir, English, history, and seminary, my last class of the day would be math (Oh, what a pun!), secretly I call it a bumb.
Sometimes school can be really stressful but others completely blissful.
School is fun, school is great if I hurry I won't be late.

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Daily Schedule

6:54  Wake up to my dad saying "it's time to put on your spiritual armor!"

7:00   Family is in living room

7:15  Finish scripture study and start memorizing quotes with family

7:30  Finish memorizing quotes- family prayer

7:45  Get in Shower

8:01  Get dressed and do hair

8:15  make lunch, get shoes on, get back-pack ready

8:20  run out to car pool and shout "goodbyes" and "I love you's" to family

School

3:45 Get home from school

5:45  Dinner

6:00 Realize I need to start with homework, start

8:00  Brush teeth, wash face, read scriptures, journal, read if time to spare

8:30  Pray, jump in bed, and go to sleep!

Things in my pack-pack

  • Water bottle
  • 2 chapsticks and one 'soft lips' chapstick
  • a random book I'm reading and a small copy of the Book of Mormon
  • a Planner
  • 1 bobby pin
  • scripture reading sceduale
  • Mascara
  • winter fresh gum
  • 2 mini bottles of perfume
  • clear nail polish
  • a bottle of foundation
  • 2 small rocks
  • three machanical pencils
  • 2 regular pencils
  • 1 pen
  • 1 apple and 1 orange
  • an altoid box with one stick of gum in it
  • flash cards for root words
  • Music for solo and a progress report and stuff for New York Blast
  • Math homework and Math book and Math binder
  • history none book
  • scriptures
  • english binder
Over all it is very organized! I have  BIG pack-pack.

Monday, May 2, 2011

Richelle's Eulogy-told by my future daughter: for an assignment, Telling of Goal's

"My mother was an exceptional woman. With every person she met she would alway's try to make their lives easier in some way, and learn more about them. She made them feal absoulutly comfortable in with her and would in a matter of minutes become very good friends. I remember when I was little, she told me the story of how she came to pick my name and my siblings. She was in math class in the ninth grade and was supposed to be taking a test, but got out the book of mormon instead and started to read. She felt that she wanted her childen to have names that would alway's remind them of the person they could become or a person the can look up to consanlty. So she started jotting down names and then wrote them in her journal. she kept them for when she would find my dad and have us. She still has that entry of the names she choose and I'll read the part were it says the names:
  • Joseph Moroni
  • Jacob Nephi
  • Hyrum Samuel
  • Rebecca Emma
  • Noel Ruth
  • Christa Rachel
  • Mariah Esther
I talked with my Mom's sister Mariah and asked her to come up and share a few memorys she has of my mom. Aunt mariah do you mind coming up here?"  (Mariah start's speaking)

"Richelle brought love into the home and she had a great relashonship with all her sibling's. She always spoke with patience and love even if we were driving her insane...She was always on time for school. and would never turn in assignment's a second late. She was a faithful journal writer, and never missed a day. she would tell us 'read your scriptures and write in your Journal and pray and you will be the most happiest person on earth!'  She would often invite the four of us sibligs for a 'pee' party were we would play games together and laugh untill we literally almost had an accident." she chuckels, " Oh, how I miss her" weeping silently she sits back down in her seat.

"Thank you aunt Mariah. We all know of Mom's book's the first one she wrote was in the her second semester of ninth grade. She started it in her creative writing class and published it by the end of the year, and it was a number one seller! know we have a whole library filled with her creative and inspirational novels. Mom showed me by example in the way's she talked with people and handled stress I'm so greatful for her and all she did for me. She was a wonderful mother and I look forward to the day I can see her again.

assignment: Letter, telling about friend's

Dear Grandma Berry,
I know your having an AWESOME time in alaska with Grandpa, But I just want you to know I miss you like crazy! I hope you don't run into any polar bear's! I want to tell you about my fun friends from school. I think you’ve only met two of them (Elle and Alexa)
Alexa: I’ve known for nine years! She always gets A+'s and is at the moment telling me about this guy that is SO gross. :) She takes pleasure in constantly reminding me How I never get on my email and If I’m moving then I have to get in the practice now or I’ll never do it after I move and it  will result in me forgetting all my friends. She’s silly. If you don’t remember Alexa, She’s the one with dark curly hair and big brown eye’s. She sometimes wares glasses, but only when she really needs them. If I could guess her colors if she were to take the color code test they would be red, white, and a little bit of yellow.
 Melanie: Is right next to me, looking stylish with jewelry and hair ribbon’s she made, from her awesome skill.  She has brown hair and never ceases to make it look absolutely flawless she has pretty ice blue eyes and red lips. If she were to not where her foundation her skin would be so fair it would appear translucent. Color code test would be Yellow and blue and white.
Elle: and I are two peas in a pod!  I’ve known her as long as I‘ve known Alexa, nine years, I love her to death!!!  She’s a dirty blond and is always is either laughing with me or we’re having a serious discussion. If Elle took the color code test she would be blue and white.
 Kathrine is occupied with working light's, she's a techy. I don’t get to see her as much as I did last year but she’s always a joy to be around! She would be a yellow through and through with a little bit of white
 Jessie: is also a joy to be around! I swear to you she will be a professional artist. She ‘s very talented even more so because of her dyslexia. She’s so fun!  Jessie had greenish-brownish-blue eyes and has full lips (jealous!)  I think Jessie is mostly white with yellow.
Mckayla Morgan: broke up with her weird boyfriend, I’m greatful she doesn’t have a current boyfriend right now. She is totally boy crazy and might get into some trouble in the future!
Well now you know tons about a few of my best friends. I would right about Annilese and Kenyon, maddie, and destine. But I’m so tired I might die! I miss you! Hope your having a BLAST!!!
/ Richelle