Your mind is like a parachute, It doesn't work if it's not open.

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses. You decide.

The worst battles we have to fight are between what we know and what we feel.

Sometimes the most important lessons, are the ones we end up learning the hard way.


Tuesday, December 6, 2011

HUNTING


Author's Note: My writing circles group picked this topic because Chloe and I felt like writing about how are family's go hunting during Thanksgiving break and the other three people in our group wrote their opinions about hunting, and what they think it is.

Every year my family goes up north during Thanksgiving break and my two older cousins and my uncle go hunting. This past year my friend Brody shot the biggest dear we have ever weighed in are three car garage. It was an 8 point buck that weighed 180 lbs. It was huge and since it was outside the garage and then it snowed there was a silhouette of it on the driveway. My Cousin Peter’s friend also came up north with us and shot his first deer, it was a 1 pt that weighed 114 lbs. The funniest one though was my cousin Matt who shot a nub and swore that he would never shoot a nubber. So my mom had to give him a bunch of stuff about it. My uncle’s friend Brian shot a doe that was really small and people thought it was a nub, but it wasn’t. My uncles other friend Moose (Jim) shot a doe that he gave to my uncle and cousins because he already had enough venison. Brian Fiet’s son in law John shot an 8 pointer too, but it only weighed 147 lbs. My family loves hunting season it puts venison in are freezers and lets us spend time together as a family over Thanksgiving.  

THE SMELL


Author's Note: My group picked this topic for Writing Circles the day after this happened. The reason we picked it was because it was fresh on are mind and had a lot to talk about.  

The smell that engulfed the Pewaukee High School on December 1, 2011 was the worst experience ever. If I had to do it all over again I think that I would pass up on the opportunity. Walking down the hallways and sitting in classrooms the smell was so bad kids started getting really bad headaches. Most people believed that the middle schoolers should have gotten to leave too, and this was because they sent the high schoolers home as a precautionary measure. The two schools are connected and it was not fair most people thought. It wasn’t that bad though we just continued on as if it was a normal day, and the smell eventually disappeared.