This Isn’t Even A Snow-Day

Quick Bucket List
1) Fall asleep against a door in a room full of strangers – almost completed, District Lock-In for church
2) Get a Snow Day twice in 1 year – completed 1/24 and 1/28, year 2014
3) Be the only student at school – completed 1/28/14
4) Spend half of a snow day at school – completed 1/28/14

Yes. Right now as I’m writing/posting this, I’m the only student at school. Seriously, it’s a snow day and I’m STUCK AT THE SCHOOL!!! I’m not happy. Everyone else that’s stuck here is really nice, though, so it’s not all bad. No… It’s bad. It’s very, very, very bad. Everyone is just scared because the road is covered in ice, and no one wants to drive but everyone wants to go home. Oh! And I wanted to share this with y’all:

We were just driving along. I wasn’t paying attention, I was in the world of Jeremy Fink trying to find out the meaning of life. Suddenly, the car starts spinning wildly. My backpack falls of the seat. I hold my breath and close my eyes. We’re only spinning for a second but it feels like a lifetime. Finally, it stops. When I open my eyes the car is crawling down the street. We didn’t hit anyone, and nobody hit us. Everything was ok, but I was terrified.

Ya, that’s right. We hit a patch of ice. That’s one reason why nobody wants to leave the school. I don’t call this a snow day. This is an ice day. These are some pictures I took at school and on the way home (I did leave).

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The Scene…

I just woke up this morning at about 8. I already know school is gonna be delayed, so I got to sleep in. I look at my phone and notice my friend has texted me answering my question, “Will we have morning practice for basketball?” I check my phone while still in bed.

Lizzie: No it’s snowing
Me: It’s not snow [my thoughts: “It’s just ice and snow that’s melting on the ground. I call snow ‘white cold stuff that’s stuck on the ground.’]
Lizzie: It is here
I jump out of bed and run to my window
Me: Oh my gosh it’s here too!
[my mom comes in]
Mom: By the way, school is totally canceled.
Me: No science test!
(Sorry science teachers and science lovers, but science is not my best subject and I do not look forward to tests)

Yup, I was really happy because it was a…

(I just figured out how to do that!)

Anyway, visitors, that was morning. I’m really happy that we don’t have school, and that we do have snow. There is still a lot of ice, which is not good, but I’ll take it. Here are some pictures:

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My dog getting his warm on.

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My Texas snowman (Ok, sure he doesn’t have a face and is just a lump, but don’t talk about it. He’s sensitive.)

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Ya, that’s not what it looks like, but that’s what I see!

Thanks to the Glitter Text website for the glitter text!

Jack Frost’s Curse

Have you ever wondered why it gets colder in some places than in others? It’s not because of the ‘placement’ of the equator like your Social studies teacher told you. Oh no. It’s much, much, much more. This story has been passed on for years and years (ever since December 12, 2013!). This is the real reason why some places are colder than others:

It all started a long time ago…

Once upon a time (sorry I couldn’t think of another way to start it) there was a little boy named Jack. He was born in Minnesota. However, at this time, there was no such thing as cold, no snow, so Minnesota was as hot as Texas.

Jack was just a normal boy: he went to school, he did his work, and he made friends. However, when Jack got into middle school, he moved to Texas. The kids there picked on him since he wasn’t from there. Sometimes they would lock him outside when it was really hot out. Naturally, Jack started to get mad. The next time the kids locked him outside, he didn’t push at the door or try desperately to get in. He just walked away. He climbed into the nearest tree and stood.

The kids were confused. They didn’t understand why Jack wasn’t upset. Meanwhile, Jack was at work in his tree, but he didn’t know it. Jack was constantly wishing for it to be colder. Suddenly, the tree turn frosty and cold. The bullies gasped and ran away from the door yelling, “Jack made frost! He’s Jack Frost (get it now?)!”
Jack was furious. He ran towards the school. Everywhere he stepped got snowy and cold. When he touched the door, it froze. He was confused. Jack started running around, touching everything he could. Everything turned to frost. People started gathering around to see Jack Frost,the freak that made cold. Jack was humiliated. He ran of, away from everyone, not to be see for years.

While he was gone, Jack swore revenge on those people that embarrassed him. He decided that annually he would make it freezing cold in where ever those kids were, and their defendants. The kids all moved up north to get away from him, but they were really cold ever year to mark the day they made fun of him. Jack also wanted to make it cold every now and then in Texas because of the other people.

And that is why it is cold in some places and not in others.

Thanks, Weather!

 

 

 

I would personally like to thank the weather. Recently the weather here in Texas has been freezing! I would like to actually thank the weather for:

-Little homework this weekend

-Late Start Day

-Making it feel like winter

I would not like to thank the weather for:

-making it so cold I must wear a jacket inside my house

-being cold on-and-off so I don’t know when it’s freezing and when it’s not

-being freezing and wet but not snowing

and most of all…

-causing the Basketball Tournament to be canceled!

That’s only a big deal to me because we were supposed to play Small Middle School (an AISD school). This was a school I applied for when I “graduated” elementary school. I was really looking forward to it, but it was canceled! The first tournament of the year. Ya, I’m disappointed, but I know we’ll still win when it comes up again!

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Rain

As I lay in bed staring out the window, the rain tries to fight its way into my bedroom from my window. The only light outside was from lightning striking often. It felt as though the sky had been holding it in for ages, then finally opening up and letting go.
Down, down, down it came. All throughout the night the clouds cried, but I slept soundly. Suddenly, there was a massive thunder crack! I jolted awake, my heart beating. However, I did not stay awake for long. The pouring rain quickly had me drifting back to sleep.
Hours and hours of pouring rain. Darkness filled my room. When I awoke, the sun had not. It had stopped raining, but the dewy smell still remained. As I was about to get up for the day, the clouds reopened and started pouring again. Thunder rang through the neighborhood, and I drifted back to sleep. When I finally woke up, I could tell the rain was not going to be done for a long, long, long time.

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