Old Things

Two Frogs
A group of frogs were traveling through the woods, and two of them fell into a deep pit. When the other frogs saw how deep the pit was, they told the two frogs that they were as good as dead. The two frogs ignored the comments and tried to jump up out of the pit with all their might. The other frogs kept telling them to stop, that they were as good as dead. Finally, one of the frogs took heed to what the other frogs were saying and gave up. He fell down and died.
The other frog continued to jump as hard as he could. Once again, the crowd of frogs yelled at him to stop the pain and just die. He jumped even harder and finally made it out. When he got out, the other frogs said, "Did you not hear us?" The frog explained to them that he was deaf. He thought they were encouraging him the entire time.

This story teaches two lessons:

1. There is power of life and death in the tongue. An encouraging word to someone who is down can lift them up and help them make it through the day.

2. A destructive word to someone who is down can be what it takes to kill them.
Be careful of what you say. Speak life to those who cross your path. The power of words... it is sometimes hard to understand that an encouraging word can go such a long way. Anyone can speak words that tend to rob another of the spirit to continue in difficult times. Special is the individual who will take the time to encourage another.

My Response To Two Frogs

If you saw 2 different people fall into a very deep hole, what would you do? What would you say? Would you cheer them on or would you discourage them? Would you laugh at them if every time they attempted to get out failed? Would you attempt to help them? Well in a short story that I read, called “Two Frogs”, 2 frogs fell into an extremely deep hole. Instead of the other frogs helping them to get out they discouraged them. It is hard to reach your goals but it is harder to reach your goals when people are discouraging you.

This short story proves it is hard to reach a goal but harder to reach it with people discouraging you. If people encourage you it is way easier to reach your goal.
-Kiki

Rain At My Window

Pitter patter at the window,
What is it?
What is that sound?
It looks like rain,
Let’s take a look,
It IS RAIN,
Wait now that I look closer,
Oh no,
It is hail,
NO, NO, NO
It can’t hail,
I have to walk home,
Why does it have to rain today?
Is it true?
Oh my,
It is, it is,
The rain and hail is going away,
Yay, yippy,
Can’t wait to walk home now,
It looks like the sun is coming out!
Yay I can walk home in the sun light,
Wait now that I think of it would be nice to walk in the rain
I could jump and play in the puddles,
Get wet, let lose and have fun!
Aw now I want the rain and hail to come back.
-Kiki

What Is Your Prized Position?

What is your prized position? Can it comfort you? Can it protect you? Does it love you? Does this position trust you? Does it understand you? Is this thing living? Does it eat or drink? Do you have lots of fun with it? Do you have hundreds of great memories with it? Does it love you for you? Well for me it is. My most prized position is all of that and more. Can you guess what it is? Did you guess my pet? Well you are part way right. Did you guess family? Family is correct. My most prized position is my family. You can’t pick and choose who they are, how they look, how they think, or even what they do but that makes things more fun. For example my family goes on lot of family trips so one year they went on a fishing trip in a camper. The people in my family that went on this trip were my Uncle Kevin, Ralf, Grandma Char, Grandpa Bob, my dad and my grandparents dog Shena. That year they were talking about how there were many bears and they were all over the camp grounds. Well they were playing cards when dad got the job of taking Shena out for a walk. As he took Shena for a walk he decided to play a joke on the rest of the family by the windows and growling like a bear. The windows were right by the top of the table. Ralf was in the frig grabbing something to eat the rest of them were at the table. Dad walks up to the windows and growls as loud as he could. Ralf ran out of the refrigerator and out of the room and uncle Kevin ran out of his seat and in to the living room with Ralf. They both ran faster than you could say I. My dad and grandpa bob are practical jokesters and will tease you but don’t take it seriously because they are just joking they don’t mean anything they say. I could not choose if my dad and grandpa were practical jokers but since they are they make things much more fun. So in the end if you have no choice in what your family is like then they make thing more fun and interesting.
-Kiki

A Clean Well Lighted Place

What would you do if when you got married your wife/husband died? I think I would get depressed and I don’t think I would be able to move on. Well that happened to an old man in a short story I read called “A Clean Well Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway. There is another character (the old waiter) that had never had a wife and was very lonely and he under stood the old man. The older waiter and the old an are very much a like in many ways.

In the story there was an old man and he had lost his wife so he was depressed so he drank a lot, and he tried to comate suicide. The older waiter knew what depression, and loneliness felt like because he was going through it. I know what depression feels like, it hurts really bad almost as if you are slowly dying in pain and on top of that there is no one there to help or comfort you. You are probably thinking I am just a kid how could I know what depression feels like well I do because I was unbelievably close to my great grandmother and we were like two peas in a pod but then she got very sick and died. Since the old man lost his wife he went to the café to drink till 3 in the morning. The older waiter watched the old man at night and liked to stay later at the café because he don't go to bed till the sun was up any ways.

The older waiter understood the old man and why he drank till morning in fact in stead of his wife dying he never had a wife. The old man liked the café better then the bars because it was clean and well lighted and so did the older waiter. If I had a choice I would most likely choose the clean well lighted place rather than a well lighted dirty bar. I feel bad for both the older waiter and the older man because they are both lonely and no one should be lonely no mater what they have done. Since the old man and the older waiter are both alike and lonely I think they should be friends so they are not lonely and depressed any more. -Kiki

Does Pattroitism Matter?

Do you think patriotism matters in your family? Why or why not? Patriotism matters to my family and me because there are people who are fighting and giving up their lives to keep our freedom, and are saving us from other countries trying to hurt us. Patriotism is giving thanks to and honoring the people who risk their lives every day to save, protect, and give us the right to be free and safe. The least we can do is honor them after all. They are willing to die for us so we should be willing to honor and pray for them at least 15 minutes a day. If we don't, that is like saying they are willing to die for no reason and that is not right. Now please honor the ones who fight to keep our freedom, and for all of our well beings. You might not think that is a lot but they give up so much every day while we give up almost nothing so the least we can do is honor and pray for them.
You might be asking yourself, "Why is she so serious when it comes to this?" The reason this is very serious to me is because one of my friends joined the army a few months ago, 1 of my cousins joined the army over three years ago and; currently fighting in the war right now, and my great grandpa fought in Pearl Harbor. My uncle Ernie was drafted to Vietnam and almost died at war. He got shot up really bad and so he had to stay in a Japanese hospital for a very long time because he was very close to death. He still has shrapnel in him to this day. He got malaria in Japan from the war and it still flares up every once in a while today. My great grandma was in the navy and my other great grandpa fought in the army. My aunt Margie was in the navy with my great grandma. So many of my family members fought and served in different wars and survived but survived just by a little. I am proud of my family because a lot of them fought, or served this county. In our family patriotism most defiantly matters because we understand what it is like to give up so much for nothing in return and we also have many people who fought and still they get nothing in return.

-Kiki