If I had to create a holiday, I would create an end of the school year, swimming, stuffing your face Saturday. I would call Summer, Special Saturday. Since there is not many holidays in the summer and no chance of getting presents, I want my holiday to be in the summer. Therefore, it would be the first Saturday of June every year in honor of school releasing and summer beginning. Prior to the holiday, the whole week would be called summer, special week. The week would be filled with big, blowout sales from every store leading up to Saturday.

Summer, Special Saturday would be begin with presents for each person even the parents. They would be delivered by the “sun man” who is believed to come from the sun as soon as the sun rises to deliver all the presents in the early morning. It would be like Christmas in June. After all the joys of opening presents, family and friends would either spend their time swimming, shopping, having parties, hang out, play with presents, or whatever they would like to do. They would spend the day relaxing and having fun.

As the day goes along, the most important part of this holiday is the food. All throughout the day, everyone is allowed to eat as much as they want. Every meal is tradition to have a feast. The purpose is to give a day to eat whatever you want without having to worry about it. The food in stores will be having major sales throughout the week and Saturday. Summer, special Saturday is for stuffing your face with all you can eat.

Last year, I lost my phone one night while playing outside. I go inside, take a shower, and get ready for bed. I go looking for my phone and can’t find it anywhere. I tell my mom and we go looking both inside and outside. After a few days, it is nowhere to be found. We come with the conclusion that I lost it.

As for me losing it, my parents were disappointed. My punishment was not having a phone for a few weeks. Eventually a positive outcome came out of it. After serving my time of not getting a phone, I got a new, better phone. After about a month of having my new phone, I find my old phone buried in mud under the tire swing at our house.

I learned that don’t lose your phone because you get in trouble. I’ve also learned that if you lose your phone, you get a new one. It was a blessing in disguise because my phone was an older model that wasn’t worth much and would eventually be cut off from cellular service later that year. I think I was let off pretty easy because of these reasons whereas other kids might not be with the newer, expensive models. Overall if you have a crappy, old phone, lose it and you could get a newer, better one.

One of my top passions in my life would be my family and friends. They make my day ten times better each day. I have so much fun with friends and have so much support from my family. Their is never a dull moment with either of them. I truly do love my friends and family to death. They make my life complete.

I have many favorite animals involving pandas, dogs, and goats. I have loved pandas for my whole life. I have always had panda stuffed animals and even a panda pillow pet. In fact, I have a giant stuffed panda bear sitting in my bed right now. I also have a love for dogs especially puppies. We have a 3 legged husky already but I still want my own house puppy. I think any dog is cute. Last but not least is another favorite animal: goats. I grew a love for goats when my grandma lend us mini goats to show for 4-H. They were so cute and tiny that I would play with them everyday. I would love to have a mini goat running around in the house.

I am very passionate about the college SDSU Jackrabbits. I was raised into a SDSU family so I grew a love for it. I love to watch and attend as many games as I can. I am particularly found of Jackrabbit basketball. I am such a fan, that my whole room is literally SDSU. I plan to become my own SDSU Jackrabbit someday.

I have a deep passion for most kinds of food. I could eat food all through out the day- and I mostly do. After a long, tiring sport practice, I love to come home to eat supper. Although I eat most foods, my favorite food- and about everyone else’s favorite- is junk food. Most of the food I eat is junk food and yet I am still skinny today. Food is one of my favorite passions.

Playing sports would definitely be considered a passion for me. I usually do as many sports as I am allowed- ranging from volleyball to basketball to track all school year long. Although practices can be a drag sometimes, it is all worth it. Playing the games or attending the meets are the best part. I am going to savor every minute of it while I can.

Sleeping may be boring for some people but I love sleep. Although I don’t get enough sleep as I should, I am pretty sure that is why I have such a deep passion about it today. Meaning, I don’ t get enough sleep so I value every minute I can get. I love getting into my nice, cozy bed at night and letting my body and brain rest. It’s a time where I don’t have to worry about anything and just fall asleep. Even though you don’t know when your sleeping, I still love it.

Most people hate reading and their are a few that do like reading. I am one of those few. I love to read and I usually spend most of my time reading. I could read about anything and everything. You give me a very interesting book and I will sit down and read it for hours. I know I may sound like a nerd to people but it won’t stop my love for reading.

A bad habit I may have is procrastinating which leads to no sleep. I tend to have plenty of time throughout the day to get whatever I need done. However I use my time poorly and end up at 10:00 having nothing done and stressing over it. Therefore, I stay up late, get no sleep, and bring my bad attitude and stressing to the next day. These two main habits I have to lead many other bad habits and problems.

As for procrastinating, I could have a whole day to myself and still get nothing done. This is fairly often for me during the weekends, making me stress over the week. I will waste my whole day on sleeping in, sitting on my phone, hanging with friends, or in other words doing things that waste my whole day away. I am a very bad procrastinator that myself and my family both know it. I am known for being the slow one in the family for getting things done. As for trying to fix it, I am trying to get things done faster by leaving myself a list of things to do. However I am always catching my self procrastinating again.

The bad procrastination habit then leads to another bad habit: not enough sleep. I have a horrible sleep schedule and am never getting near enough sleep as I should. With my procrastination, I wait all day and then all of a sudden it is 10:00 p.m. and I have nothing done. Then, I stay up late trying to get as many things done as possible before I am too tired to stand. I may not feel it as much at night but I sure do feel it in the morning. Even if I do or don’t have things to do, I will stay up late and not do them but rather just chill and do absolutely nothing. Or I will stay up reading till late hours of the night. For some reason I just don’t like going to bed until it is the morning when I have to get out of bed. For fixing this habit, well it is a work in progress. I hope to start getting to bed earlier everyday. I could really use the extra sleep. Sleep is not as important to me as it should be.

If I could give advice to anyone, I would give advice to any person going to work at the World Trade Center in New York on the day of September 11, 2001. I would tell them to not go to work and to tell everyone else going to work there to not go. I would say that there are going to be planes crashing into the Trade Center and many people will die. By providing this advice, there would have been less causalities on 9/11. I would also tell them to say goodbye to the Twin Towers because they will no longer exist.

Along with telling all the people working at the Trade Center, I would try to convince the Islamic Terrorist Group al-Qaeda to not fly planes into the Twin Towers. Their selfish acts would not only kill many Americans and start a war, but their own people would also suffer as a consequence. I would remind them of how wrong and deadly this would be. I would try my best to tell them that they should not go along with plan, therefore, benefiting both Americans and Islams.

After talking to the terrorists and the workers, I would also warn the city. I would warn them about the incident and make them aware of the black smoke that will fill the city sky and the collapse of the towers. My advice to them would be to stay calm and stay somewhere safe. After all my advice and convincing, I hope it could prevent the deadly plane crashes from happening or at least result in fewer casualties.

Ms. Jansen is such a young, beautiful teacher that teaches communication arts for our class. She is such a good teacher because she is such a happy and bubbly person. If you are in a bad mood, she will be the one to cheer you up. Every morning, she is outside her door, greeting us to come into her class. As she walks in she tells us cheerfully good morning. She is always having funny, joyful conversations with us. She rarely ever has anything but a smile in her face.

Although she may get a little irritated with us sometimes, we should’ve excepted it coming. After all we are middle schoolers, we don’t have the best behavior. But she either bounces back and is back to laughing and talking to us. She has a very good attitude and lots of patience. I don’t know how she can still be happy person she is with us everyday. In my opinion, she has lots of patience and joy to be able to deal with us everyday.

Along with being a wonderful person with such great attitude, she is a very good teacher. She does fun activities but also make sure we know the fundamentals. If you have any questions, she is never annoyed but always glad to help you. Plus, she hasn’t been assigning much homework which is a students dream. Hopefully this doesn’t make her want to assign more homework. Overall, she just makes learning way more fun then it actually is.

Usually you think of classrooms as boring rooms but not Ms. Jansen’s. After her greeting, you walk into her beautiful, colorful room. I remember walking in on the first day of school and was only thinking “wow.” You may look in there wondering why she has all these things, but each one of them mean something important to her. Half of her items are from her students to show how much they care for her. The room is just filled with colorful, bright, inspiring things. No wonder her class is so fun. My favorite thing in room is probably the big SDSU flag. Her room is so cool and filled with such interesting things, it makes you never want to leave.

From her positive attitude to her amazing teaching, Ms. Jansen is person you would look up to and want to be friends with. You know she is such an amazing person when all the students love her and want to be friends with her. I hope she continues to stay at Hanson School so I can be blessed all throughout high school to have her as a teacher. She has touched many of the students lives already including mine. When she leaves, hopefully after I graduate, I will miss her greeting me everyday right by the door to her bright classroom filled with joyous memories.

One of my greatest blessing is life itself. Without being granted a life, I could not have all the other blessings I have today- my family, my friends, my faith, my education, my health, and my necessitates. And I have all these blessings thanks to God. Without him blessing me with my life, I wouldn’t be able to cherish all the blessings I have had and will have in the future.

The day I was born, I was blessed with my parents. Over the years, our family grew and I gained three other blessings- Brooke, Drew and Luke. As a family, we love, care, and support each other. My parents work hard to provide our family with life’s necessities. They also care about the health and well-being for all of us. Furthermore, our family’s strong faith was instilled in us by my parents. I am grateful to them for providing me with the many blessings of health, faith, necessities, and family. I don’t know what I would do without my family. Other than life, they are my next greatest blessing.

As I grew older, I started school and met my friends. I am truly blessed to have the opportunity to attend school and learn many things. There are many people in this world that do not have the privilege to get an education. I am also very blessed to go through my school years and life with my friends. I couldn’t imagine school and life without them. They make it so much more enjoyable and worth living.

I have been granted many blessings in my life. However, I wouldn’t have had any of them if I wasn’t blessed with life. I am grateful that God blessed me with life, so I can enjoy all the blessings I have now and all the other blessings to come.

When I pass away, hopefully not soon, I would like many things said at my funeral. At my funeral, I would like to be known and talked about how nice I was. I want many stories of me being kind and caring for other people. I want them to think of my name and remember how loving I was. As I am still alive, I try to accomplish that goal so when the day comes, people will have many stories and remember me being a kind person.

On my funeral, which I hope is somewhat sad since I left this world, I would like it mainly to be joyful for the wonderful gift of life I had. I hope someone speaks and brings a little joy by telling the stories about me and my life I have created. I want all the endless stories of my blonde moments, my endless laughs that were for no reason, and all the other laughable and joyous moments in my life. I want people to be smiling and laughing as they are sharing all these stories. I don’t want anyone to forget all the joy I encountered while living.

I hope people also share how successful of a life I’ve had. I desire to have a successful family, job, and life. I want to be remembered for raising a wonderful family. I want people to talk about my successful career and how I have really contributed to our world. I just hope that by the time comes, I would have lived a successful and meaningful life rather than a worthless one.

Lastly, I would want everyone to remember my strong Catholic faith. I want others share how I devoted myself to God, prayer, and going to church. I hope it is known that I never strayed away from the church and had strong faith to the very end. I want to be remembered for raising a Catholic family and taking my kids to church every Sunday. I hope that after all these things are said at my funeral, they will inspire someone to also lead a life of Catholic faith.

If I could do over anything at any point in time during my life, I would do over going camping. We have recently sold our camper before the last summer started and no longer got the privileged and joy of going camping. I would love to go back to all the camping trips and convincing my parents to not sell the camper. Though all the camping trip were fun, I were do over any of them even if it the smallest one.

One of the main camping trips I would love to do over, not because it was bad but because it was such a fun time, was our annual camping in Huron at the State Fair. We would always go up with our cousins, the other Endorf Family. It was always a fun time going to ride rides with them and walking around at all the exhibits. You cant forget about getting their amazing cheese curds with all four of the different flavors. Camping at the State Fair is definitely a thing I miss every year and something I would do over.

I wouldn’t want to do over not only the state fair but also the little camping trips like just simply going to KOA in Mitchell with family. Or going to Dakota Land in Mitchell and pitching a tent with my friends. Yogi Bear was always so fun too with all the hourly activities and the jumping pillow. I wish I could do over every night of sitting outside right by campfire, roasting delicious s’mores and listening to the endless amounts of stories.

Overall, I would do over all camping trips from the little ones at KOA to the the bigger ones at the state fair. I would do over all the memories and make even better ones. I would try to convince our parents not to sell the camper. I miss camping to this day and would do over camping in a heartbeat. In conclusion when I get asked if I could re do anything in my life, I would say I would do over all the amazing times while going camping.

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.

— Oscar Wilde.

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