Christmas

My sister Tanya and I have been in America for 2 years and almost 2 months. Today we are celebrating our 4th Christmas together. I am really happy that God had sent me this family.
This year I am playing basketball, and I really enjoy it. Our team consists of 12 girls. We have played 6 games total, and lost only 1 of them. We lost to Willamette High School. The score was 61-39. I enjoy riding the bus to away games, because I like to talk to my friends.
I enjoy going to school. Every morning at 6:57 Am, the bus is waiting for me by the drive way. Most of my time on the bus I spent talking to Delano or listening to music.
Today my family and I had an amazing Christmas. My sister Kim woke me up at 7:00 Am, just to tell me that the Santa had eaten all the cookies, drank most of the milk and left her a letter.
Merry Christmas to Everyone!!!

This week was really though for me because we had tryouts for a freshman basketball team. The tryouts were after school from 3:40, until 5:30. I enjoyed practicing. I can't believe that my coach Mr.Monger was Tanya's last year P.E. teacher. After 5 days of tryouts, I was sore. My legs were killing me, but I made a team . My friend Jenny made it also. We were on a basketball team together last year and this year. I met a new friend whose name is Mabinty and she is good at basketball also. We are becoming good friends. I enjoy having her as my friend, because she is kind, and she acts the way that a true friend should do. I'm doing great at school. I was seek the last week so I wasn't singing in choir. Everything is doing okay and I'm happy that I will play on a basketball team. My basketball practices are everyday from 3:45 until 5:30 at Cascades school. After school is over, my team and I would have to walk to Cascades school. It is close to High School. I'm really exited and looking forward to becoming a better basketball player than I already am.

High School

I really enjoy being in the High School, but I have to be able to take on more responsibilities. My dad allows me to drive to school in the morning, but not everyday because I want to be in the bus with my friends. I have really good teachers. Almost every Friday we have assemblies. Assemblies are my favorite things to do while the school is in session. I met a lot of new kids. On November 9th we are going to have tryouts for the basketball teams. I hope that I will make it. I can't believe that you have to tryout for a team! I enjoy my PE class because we have been playing badminton and now we are playing volleyball. Next semester I'm going to take guitar lessons. Every Wednesday at 7:45 I have voice lessons with Mr Wong. I used to have them on Friday's at 4:35-5:00, but during that time I will be practicing basketball.

It is Alexis she is 8 years old.

First day at school

It is Tanya she is 11 years old.



This is Kim she is 6 years old.


This is Declan he is 10 years old.

The first day at High School

Friday was my first day going to High School. My school starts at 8:15 and ends at 3:15. I have total of 7 classes. I have Algebra 1, LA-9, Life science, Warrior, a warrior it is when you can do your homework, Geography, Physical Education 1, which is PE, and Choir A. In all of these classes I have friends.
My lunch starts at 11:55 and ends at 12:10. Jenny my girlfriend from last years basketball team goes to my school and has lunch with me.
We had an assembly and it was fun. Kids that had chosen by their teachers, had to go in the field and use the watermelons as their shoes. The team that had 2 of their shoes safe by the time they would reach the finish line, they would win the competition. Oh my goodness, it was hilarious watching them. After the watermelon competition, each class had to sent to people to the track. One person had to sit on the others person's back and whoever gets to a finish line first would win. Teachers participated in it also. Everybody started laughing after the teachers started racing. They lost :]
After the school was over, I didn't want to live, because I had a great time with the other 9 graders.

Time with friends

Yesterday we went to Riley's, Vanessa's and Noah's house. We were on the road for 1:30 minutes. We came to their house and had lunch. After lunch Riley and I played basketball, then everybody else came and we played games that were called "Pig and Horse." I had fun playing basketball with him. Also we all kids had played soccer and had an opportunity to ride on the horses. Mom did ride on the horses also. It was fun watching her. We had stayed for supper and roasted the hot dogs on the fire and we also had marshmallows, of course, everybody was so tired after a busy day, so when we came home, we went straight to bed. On our way home, everybody kept asking to come again to their house because we had a lot of fun.