If you were given the chance to spend the day with anyone you wanted who would it be? It could be a celebrity, an author, or even a family member that has passed away. Where would you spend this day at, an amusement park, a mall, or your favorite restaurant? If I could spend the day with anybody I wanted it would be my cousin Eddie. He passed away when I was in 8th grade and I would do anything in my power to have him back. He was only 23 years old and he passed away of sarcoma cancer. I should have spent more time with him when he was living but we all have regrets. I would love to spend a day with him and go to a football game. Eddie loved football and I would do anything that he wanted to do. We would go eat at a restaurant of his choice because he loved to eat (don't we all)! Eddie was an inspiration to me and I would love to have him back for a day to let him know the impact he made on my life. I know this is not possible but that is ok because he is in a better place. I will get to see him again one day and that gives me the strength to go on. I love and miss Eddie with all my heart. If I could spend the day with anybody in this world it would be my cousin James Edmond Dyer.

New Year Resolutions

A New Year's Resolution is a tradition in which people make a promise to themselves to improve their behavior beginning on New Year's Day. Some common reasons as to why people do not reach their goals or resolutions for the year are: setting themselves unrealistic goals, not keeping track of their progress, setting too many resolutions, and forgetting about them. Some popular goals include: losing weight, laughing more often, saving money, getting a better job, and getting a better education.

If you are not following your resolutions, maybe you are doing it wrong. Following resolutions is one of the simplest tasks to accomplish. Follow these 5 rules to achieving your New Year's Resolutions.

1. Accept your weaknesses and set realistic goals.
2. Be passionate about your goals. They must be your reasons to live a happy, healthy life.
3. Bring your friends into some resolutions.
4. Go to your role models for some help. Whatever they recommend for us, we will obviously go with what they have to say.
5. Reading motivational books or quotes will boost up our self confidence. Surround yourself with motivational surroundings and you will be on the right track to achieving your goals.






By: Stevee Williams


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Christmas movies

Christmas is right around the corner and I already Hear Santa's bells Jingling from the North Pole. There is many outstanding Christmas movies from Charlie Brown to the Griswold's Family Christmas. Don't get me wrong I love all Christmas movies but my all time favorite would have to be The Polar Express. I remember the first Time I ever watched it was in Kindergarten, our teachers made a cardboard Sleigh for the whole class to sit in. They made us Hot Chocolate while we watched the movie.
If you haven't seen the movie I wont ruin it by filling this blog with Spoilers but basically the movie is about young boy that is losing his faith in Santa Claus. Until Christmas Eve comes around something magical happened. There he lied in his bed trying to fall asleep, when all at once he was awoken by the loud screech of a train whistle. Out of Curiosity he jumps out of his bed and puts on his house slippers to see what the noise came from. When he stepped outside in the cold snowy landscape, there it stood. A magical train locomotive sent from the North Pole. The Boy stood in awe and confusion as a tall man walked out. It was the Train conductor, he asked if the boy was coming with him or not. The Boy asked where they were going, The train conductor then yelled," Why to the North Pole of Course, this is The Polar Express!"
That was Just a little scene I figured I would leak out to the public but that's all I'm going to write bout because I don't want to spoil the movie for anyone else who hasn't seen it yet. I strongly recommend that you watch this with your family, because it fills my Christmas with spirit every time I watch it.

10 Facts About Christmas

Since it's around the holidays, why not read 10 interesting facts about Christmas, that you may or may not find pretty intriguing.

1. The Germans made the first artificial Christmas trees out of dyed goose feathers.
(This is strangely true, Germans where the one's who made up the idea of Christmas trees.)

2.In Germany, they have a bad Santa, named Krampus, a half-goat, half-demon, horrific beast who literally beats people into being nice and not naughty.

3. According to the Guinness world records, the tallest Christmas tree ever cut was a 221ft Douglas fir that was displayed in 1950 at the
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Northgate Shopping Center in Seattle, Washington.

4. Many European countries believed that spirits, both good and evil, were active during the Twelve Days of Christmas. These spirits eventually evolved into Santa’s elves.

5. The traditional three colors of Christmas are green, red, and gold. Green has long been a symbol of life and rebirth; red symbolizes the blood of Christ, and gold represents light as well as wealth and royalty.

6. Oklahoma was the last U.S. state to declare Christmas a legal holiday, in 1907.

7. In Germany, Heiligabend, or Christmas Eve, is said to be a magical time when the pure in heart can hear animals talking.

8. The “true love” mentioned in the song “Twelve Days of Christmas” does not refer to a romantic couple, but the Catholic Church’s code for God. The person who receives the gifts represents someone who has accepted that code. For example, the “partridge in a pear tree” represents Christ. The “two turtledoves” represent the Old and New.

9. President Teddy Roosevelt, an environmentalist, banned Christmas trees from the White House in 1901.

10. Instead of a Christmas stocking it's traditional in France for children to place their shoes in front of the fireplace to be filled.

Breast Cancer Awareness

Breast Cancer is now the second most common cancer among women in the United States. But millions of women are surviving the disease thanks in part to early detection and improvements in treatment.

Now, millions of people everywhere are surviving breast cancer each day with dramatic improvements in cancer research, and treatment and early detection.

Breast Cancer has the Month of October as its awareness month and a pink ribbon to go along with it.

Recently, in our community one great person has beat breast cancer and is thrilled about it, Mrs. Ferguson is the name and calculus is her game. Although she wasn't here at the end of last school year and missed some of the beginning of this school year she is back to her lively, full of spirit self.

Angie Whitmore is the most recent person in our community that has been diagnosed with breast cancer. With her stage 1 cancer we all can wish her the best of luck with it all and support her with the pink bracelet with her name on it.

                                                            Christmas Celebrations

Every country celebrates holidays in a different style. The way we celebrate popular holidays such as Christmas, Halloween, or New Year's may be celebrated a different way in other countries, or it may not even be a holiday at all!

Americans celebrate Christmas in an old fashion way. We gather around singing carols, baking cookies for St. Nick, putting up decorations and Christmas trees gathered around a fire. We sit and wrap presents for our loved ones, exchanging gifts and looking at the giant smile that gleams from their faces.

In China only one percent of people are Christians, so people don't know a lot about Christmas. It is often only celebrated in big cities. In these cities you'll normally only see basic decorations such as Christmas trees, and people dressed as Santa, or as they say, 'Shen Dan Lao Ren'