Last week we went to a retirement home. Each base group got a certain person to go and talk to.  My particular base group got to meet a very nice lady named Betty. We asked Betty some questions. Here are some of the questions that we asked her.

Do you have any siblings?

Yes

How many siblings do you have?

1 and he is a boy

Where did you live before coming to Campbel Stone?

South Carolina

Did you go to college?

No

Did you have a job in South Carolina?

Yes I was a nanny

It was fun listening to all of their stories and just spending time with them. I hope that we go back there soon!

Kolys life was practically on a quilt. Kolys mom quilted, her grandmother quilted and everyone else back as far as she knew. Koly was always quilting and making saris, but she was putting everything that happens in her life on a quilt or sari. One time in the book Koly wanted to give Chandra a present for her wedding so she made her a quilt on what had happened at her house. Later on Koly even got a job making saris and quilts. The thing that Koly loved was that Mr. Das let them embroider what ever they wanted on a sari or quilt, so that let Koly put anything that she wanted on her work. When ever she and Raji were about to get married she had made a quilt about all of their memorable times together. Quilting is a big part to Kolys life.

An outraging tornado hit many places, destroyed everything and killed about three hundred people. Many were hiding in closets and having hope.  “We can’t control when or where a terrible storm may strike, but we can control how we respond to it,” In the article Obama said. “I want every American that’s been affected by this disaster to know the federal government will do everything we can to help you recover and we will stand with you as you rebuild.” The NOAA said it was the worst tornado outbreak since 1974.

This was an important event in 2011 because it was one of the only tornados in 2011 and it was one of the worst.  Many people’s lives got lost but they still have hope.

If I were Koly I would think about running away, but I would think twice because I would not want to bring shame to my family. I would also like to give sass a piece of my mind. I would also like to tell sass that I was sick of her bossing me around. I think that at this point Koly should not be doing what Sass is telling her to do. I would go to the Ganges River and float there for weeks or months and then finally my spirit will go up with Hari. That will make her happy because she will be away from sass and will be up with Hari.

My gift of time was packing for my whole family while my mom was working out. So here is the story. It was the last day of my family’s trip at Sea Island so I was packing myself. I had finished packing myself and I was kind of bored and I knew that I had to complete my gift of time. My family is pretty large and I knew that it would take my mom a long time to pack, so I went up to my brothers’ room and started to pack them. After packing the boys’ clothes I had some time, so I packed my parents’ suitcases. Who would have thought packing would be so fun. Once I finished, my mom came back and gave me a big hug.

I can
Remember the
house with many lights?
As we get out of the car we bang
our heads against the gate, all of us see
the jack in the boxes. We eat our ginger
bread cookies and laugh and cheer. The smell of ginger
bread helps me remember the house with many different
lights

Kaki Zuch

On Thanks Giving I lost my tooth. I was eating my turkey and then it fell out. It made my turkey all bloody. My brother started screaming when ever it came out because he hates blood. My Thanks Giving was very exciting.

Our buddies were so cute. My buddy is a girl and her name is Victoria. I get to share a buddy with Kate.

When we visited them we made pumpkins. Victoria wanted to make her pumpkin scary so Kate and I helped her cut out scary eyes and eyebrows but then she did the rest on her own.

I can not weight until we visit buddies again.

“AHHHHH” I yelled in an excited voice as I was being tossed up in the air and flipped on a bed in a hotel. There was a line because my brother Alexander, my friend Alex, and his little sister Mary Claire thought that it was really fun so we were in a line. We were in Rosemary Beach so we had lots to do but my parents were out to dinner at a fancy restaurant with Alex and Mary Claire’s parents so all that we could do is stay home with a baby sitter and play.
I got on the bed and this time I asked my baby sitter to flip me backwards which sounded like a good idea at the time. She threw me up and I did one flip two flip, SPLAT I landed on the floor.
I started crying so much that once I was done I asked my baby sitter if I could have some lemonade and she said no because she hates whenever kids cry. I started complaining so she put me in the time out bench for about 5 minutes but it felt like an hour. I knew that time out would not be very fun so I picked up a ball beside me and started throwing it at her.
Once my parents came home the terrible baby sitter did not tell my parents anything about me landing on the hard wood floor. She just said that I was complaining, Alexander was very quiet, Alex was good and Mary Claire was a sweety pie. My parents did not like her report from her about us at all. My parents actually paid her and then she set off back to her house. It almost looked like she was running to avoid telling my parents what she did to me.
I told my mom that my arm hurt so she took me to the emergency room. I felt like my arm had been ripped off.
The doctor did some x-rays and it was officially broken. The doctor rapped my arm in a purple cast and I went home. The doctor told me to scratch my broken arm with a pen. He did not even give me a sling to hold up the heavy cast. I had to wear the cast for about five or six months and then I got it off.
I was so happy until they took an x-ray to see if it had healed correctly and it turned out to be broken again. This time I had to get it a blue cast.
I had on my blue cast for five or six more months of not being able to do any fun things.
Once I got to the doctor I was very happy to get it off. The doctor sawed it off and I could not even stretch out my arm so the doctor took my arm and forced it to go down. I was so glad to have my normal arm back.
There were lots of pen marks because the pen that the doctor gave me to scratch my broken arm with. The cast was not that bad because I got lots of comments about it but I do know that I will never miss my baby sitter that was cruel and that broke my arm. The hospital in Rose Mary got to see us the next trip.

Rick is a very good author. my brother has read the whole series of Percy Jackson and the lightning thief but I just have not gotten around to them. It is funny that on his first book he published his class started highlighting all of the bad words. It is amazing that all of the books that he has written have been published. Now I want to write a book when I get older and for now be a better writer.