Spaulding High School

Dear Mr. Gevalt.

I am sorry that I procrastinated on getting my prompt in last week. You see, I sat down at the computer and said to myself “OK, now, Tim, it’s time to write” when all of a sudden, the fire alarm went off. It was my kid sister, Lucille playing with matches again. So, I had to get up, hit her again with the fire extinguisher before I could write. The whole living room was in flame;’ I was so upset I Said to myself how in the would I am I going to tell mom and dad when they get home? I got the fire out be for it did too much damage thank god. My kid sister was bawling and telling me that she was sorry over again and again. I told he not to worry it was my felt I should have been watching her more closely.

BY: Danielle Rogers

SPLAT! “YOU JERK!” Shelly yelled at Alicia as she bent down to scoop up another ice ball to throw at her.
“What was that for”? she demanded.
“You made my boyfriend break up with me”. screamed Alicia as she threatens Shelly with her fist.
“No I didn’t”. yelled Shelly as she reached for a powdered jelly doughnut. She then side -armed it at Alicia’s head as it flew through the air with a whooshing sound. As Shelly was just about to throw the doughnut at Alicia, Alicia ducks and the powdered, jelly doughnut completely misses her. Then “SPLAT”, the doughnut hit the wall and left a huge, sticky print.
“Look at what you made me do” barked Shelly.
“Me?” “It’s your fault that print is there” replied Alicia.

Jasmine Goodell
English 403
1/08/09

I love shopping!
Girls like to shop,
and boys bitch about it.
$90,000.00
One day of shopping
What would I buy?
I would buy at least
20 brands of Angels pants.
I would also buy
Everyone that was my
friend a little something
for Christmas and what
ever I had left I would
either give to Alex or I
would give it to charity.
That would be the nice thing
to do for someone that really
needs it. This is normal for
All girls because we need new things.
All guys get very irritated cause we buy
Too many things when we go shopping
So that is normal for most guys cause most
boys end up complaining over the littlest things
to complain any cause they think they have to
complain over something even though it is nothing.

There are a couple of things that I hold off till the last minute, but there is one big thing that I barely can get it done, but I push myself so I get it done on time. If there were more time in the day or week or even in the year than I would be able to hold off doing my homework. I hate homework so when I have it I like to wait till the VERY last minute. Like the day that it is due. The reason why I like to hold off from doing my homework during the week is because I like to hang out with my friends or Im just too busy to do it. Im either riding around, shopping or in Burlington or something. I know that’s not a very good excuse on why I don’t do my homework till the very last minute but HEY at least im telling the truth. The reason why I get my stuff done at the last minute is because I stay up very late the night before its due that’s the only reason why I get it done.

Saint Trenton high school was a beautiful high school, with a lot of creative kids, who loved their individuality. One day everything changed, the school got a new principal named Mr. Dasani. He had many new ideas for the school. The worst idea was school uniforms.
Over the intercom he announced “There will be a new dress code in order. All girls must wear a dress or a skirt and it must go past your knees with a turtle neck. As for the boys you must wear a dress shirt and pants with a tie.” As this was going off the kids of the school went into a panic of chaos and anger.
One student stood above all others, Tanisha Mission. She said “We will not stand for this! Just cuz he’s new he thinks he can change everything. Well it ain’t gonna happen.” The students all cheered in approval.

Saint Trenton high school was a beautiful high school, with a lot of creative kids, who loved their individuality. One day everything changed, the school got a new principal named Mr. Dasani. He had many new ideas for the school. The worst idea was school uniforms.
Over the intercom he announced “There will be a new dress code in order. All girls must wear a dress or a skirt and it must go past your knees with a turtle neck. As for the boys you must wear a dress shirt and pants with a tie.” As this was going off the kids of the school went into a panic of chaos and anger.
One student stood above all others, Tanisha Mission. She said “We will not stand for this! Just cuz he’s new he thinks he can change everything. Well it ain’t gonna happen.” The students all cheered in approval.

Saint Trenton high school was a beautiful high school, with a lot of creative kids, who loved their individuality. One day everything changed, the school got a new principal named Mr. Dasani. He had many new ideas for the school. The worst idea was school uniforms.
Over the intercom he announced “There will be a new dress code in order. All girls must wear a dress or a skirt and it must go past your knees with a turtle neck. As for the boys you must wear a dress shirt and pants with a tie.” As this was going off the kids of the school went into a panic of chaos and anger.
One student stood above all others, Tanisha Mission. She said “We will not stand for this! Just cuz he’s new he thinks he can change everything. Well it ain’t gonna happen.” The students all cheered in approval.

Have you ever had someone who is in your high school who things they are all that and is better than you are? Yes, I think everyone has had that. There is always in everyone’s school who think they rule the planet and those people like to start a fight or a rumor about you. Those kinds of people I don’t like and not a lot of people do. They think if everyone isn’t like them than something is wrong with everyone and those people want to try to make your life horrible by starting rumors about you or doing something horrible to you.

Winter is my favorite time of the year. The bitter cold air and all of the snow makes me feel good rather than a very sunny, hot and humid day. This winter is starting off good with all of the powder snow we got so far. This snow is great for snowboarding and skiing. It is also good for getting a day off from school every now and then. Though shoveling gets old after a few storms, it is totally worth all the snow. The snow banks are allready tall and this is only the beggining of winter. Still a long time to go before it all starts to melt and with more storms in the forecast, it can only get better before it gets worse.

One of the things that concern me a lot is hunger. There are a lot of poor people in America. Even though America is the strongest country in the world, the number of poor people is still big. But most of them have their own cars, they can get free food in food bank and some people will contribute old clothes that poor people can use. Also, they can get money from government and maybe from some non-government groups. Actually, most of them will not die of hunger. If they get ill, they can go to the hospital to have free medicine. Their children can go to public school without pay and can have free food in school. One of the purposes of non-government groups is to stop hunger.

why do you have to hurt me so much
your hurtful words they peirce my heart
so much i cry and scream in terror

Snowflake

I’m a snowflake, alone on the sidewalk.
Alone and cold.
No one stops by to see this miracle.
Soon I’m going to die, no one will care.
I was here, now I’m gone
I’m not going to be missed
cause I was never here.
I’m a minute snowflake.
One minute here, next minute gone.

Cloud

I’m a cloud, alone in the sky.
Others don’t see why I cry.
I traveled the world; saw the good and the bad.
Everyday I fly and see this awful world that makes me cry.
I see poverty, wars, and death.
I see kids crying, and I see those who don’t care.
I see everything from East to West.
My friends cry too, under the blue.

Fire is the most powerful energy on the Earth
yet it is also the most dangerous.
If you play with fire you will get burned,
but if you can control it you can preform wonders.

Wrestling sucks balls and is hardly worth spending 10 hours a week practicing and spending 2 hours driving on a cold bus to tournaments on a Saturday and staying there for six hours to wrestle 18 minuets and spend another two hours on the bus ride back but I never quit because I have been wrestling to long to give up now. and it also wouldn’t feel right if I did so I show up with a smile on my face every day anyway and do what the coaches say and try my best not to complain because when I get out of school, I will look back and be able to tell that it was worth it and It paid of kicking all those kids asses.

Well there was this one time when I lved in Plainfield, I had a couple of friends over to my house. We were walking through the woods and were about to build against my brothers and his friends. So as we are building this tree fort we took some branches from this fallen down tree and my friend Chet stepped on a bee hive but we didn't notice until a couple minutes later. Sowhile we were standing there my other friend Chad had got stung by a bee so we all started walking back to my house. As we are walking back to my house we all start to get stung by bees, and that is when we all start to run back to my house.When we got back to my house we all went into the bathroom and took tweezers and the stingers out of our skin. that was the end of the day, after all that my friends and I decided not to go back to that spot again until winter or we had some bee killer spray.

Emmett Louis Till

Ever felt alone?
With your friends lies all shown.
Like they have all turned,
Once they all learned.

Left you shaken and crying,
With all the friendships dying.
Through the hardest time
Feeling like a mime,

It isn’t so easy,
I begin to feel dizzy.
Always being so positive
And remembering he’ll live.

I try hard to do it for him
Though my world is growing dim,
Alone I become sad
With him however, I’m glad.

When I see him, I get butterflies.
And my heart slowly sighs.
When his face lights up
I realize he won’t give up.

Once I see that
I know he wants more then an act.
I remember why I go on
And even though the road is long,

I have finally decided
No matter what happens,
I will always be there
To prove to him I care.

There were many times i was scared but there was this one specific time. one night me and my mom were headed back from the mall and on our way home we stopped at beverage baron to get some sodas and i went in to get them and while i was in there, there was this really creepy guy that walked in and he was staring at me and kept following me around it was really freaky so i quickly got the sodas and walked out to the car and of course he parked right next to us and when i walked out he did too and he was walking really fast trying to catch up to me and i swear i thiught he was going to grab me or something and it was just really scary i never felt so scared before. ever sense i never liked going to that pacific store.

we hardly see each other
we hardly talk anymore
and when we do you never
act like you

your always saying how
much your like someone
else and you act like
you know everything
thats going on in my
life

Its sad when i think
about you know adays
the way you act and the
things you say
It makes me want to
puke

i miss how we used to be
when you acted like yourself
and made me laugh because we
used to be such idiots together

know its just me

I think it was 3 years ago during youth weekend and it was my fist encounter seeing deer in the woods. Even know they were running by it was just the feeling I got when I saw them even know I have never shot a deer it is always cool to see them and experience them in the woods.

Hey there,
I know it's,
Hard to feel,
Like I don't care at all,
Where you are and how you feel,
With these light off as wheels,
Keep rolling on and on
(And on and on and on)
Slow things down or speed them up?
Not enough or way too much?
How are you when I'm gone?

Cause i can't make it on my own,
(and i cant make it on my own)
Because my heart is in ohio,
So cut my wrists and black my eyes,
(Cut my wrists and black my eyes)
So i can fall asleep tonight,
Or die,
Because you kill me,
You know you do,
You kill me well,
You like it too and i can tell,
You never stop until,
My final breath is gone.

Spare me just,
Three last words,
I love you is all she heard,
I'll wait for you, but i cant wait forever (x2)

Cause i can't make it on my own,
(and i cant make it on my own)
Because my heart is in ohio,
So cut my wrists and black my eyes,
(Cut my wrists and black my eyes)
So i can fall asleep tonight,
Or die,

My life consists of Hockey, lacrosse, hunting.

When I watched the movie I had expected it to not be that good, sense I read the book in all. It kind of made me think about how much the movies messed up the Harry Potter books. I was especially disappointed that they took out the shopping scene with Bella and Alice. I also thought that Jacob's story of "The Cold Ones" was way to short and made no sense that Bella would immediately assume that Edward was a vampire. I thought most of the characters were pretty well chosen I just didn’t like the way they presented themselves, I also didn’t like how the Cullens barley talked at all in the entire movie. I didn’t even realize the meadow scene was even in the movie till my friend pointed it out the scene was way to short and didn’t fallow in anyway the book put it, like the kiss.

Ridding Silver

By Alicia Santin
Spaulding High School, Grade 10

The sea laps up against the shore
Footprints are gingerly washed away
Leaving no trace that someone was there
Next to the salty waves
And the gulls that screech long into the night
Clomp…clomp…clomp
Can you hear the hoof beats pound against the water's edge?
Can you see a fair maiden riding on the back of a silver horse?
She’s there watching, waiting, dreaming
Hoping she isn’t alone
Hoping she wasn’t left behind
Forced to ride on the back of Old Silver for the rest of time
Beyond reality, space, dreams and eternity
The moon refracts a calming glow
Shimmering off the metallic tears that cascade down her face
Off she rides into the motionless night
Just listening to the sound of the waves crash against the shore
The sound of Old Silver’s whinnies
And the sound of space and time colliding together once more.

Tractor Ride

By Dustin Gilbert
Spaulding High School, Grade 12

It was another crazy summer day. My friends and I can be creative when we are bored. Our latest invention was dragging a tractor with no brakes around behind a four wheeler. It was a lot of fun but very dangerous. That is why I was not the idiot who took the wheel of the tractor; I drove the four wheeler.

Vermont

By Eric Thompson
Spaulding High School, Grade 12

Vermont is a very boring state. In Vermont there really isn’t any thing for kids and teens to do. One of the effects this has on people here is that they might do things that they normally wouldn’t do. If there’s nothing to do kids and teens might try something new, like drugs, underage drinking or vandalism.
Vermont is a very big drug state. One of the reasons it is, is because there isn’t any thing fun to do, so they try drugs and other bad things. Vermont is the number one state in the country for marijuana. It is also the number two or three state for the use of hallucinogens in the country. If Vermont had more things to do people might not even think about doing drugs or illegal activities because they could have fun doing something without being on any drugs.

I’ve always had questions of who invented something and what were they thinking when they invented it. Take clothes for example, who decided to make people self conscious by hiding their bodies. Clothes also hinder sex. Think how much easier sex would be if you weren’t wearing any clothes. How about guns? Why would we ever need guns, was there ever any need for man to invent guns. Think of what the world would be like if people didn’t have clothes or guns, we would all live in the southern parts of the world and would still use bows and arrows. It’s sad when you can go out hunting on a full stomach. Not that I don’t enjoy hunting as much as the next guy, but is there any need for it when you have plenty of food already? I guess what I’m trying to say is that there are some things we could really do without.

Christopher Garland
English 403
Mr. Parsons
11/03/08

Vermont

Vermont equals winter and brings out the child in all of us. In the winter there are many things we can do in here. We can make forts, snow angels, snowmen and snow ball fights, and sledding. Winter also provides jobs such as shoveling porches, walkways, driveways and some times roofs. Vermont is a peaceful place where in the winter there are many children sledding down mountains, skiing, and snowboarding in the country side of Vermont there is a nice place that I go to when I hang out with my family, where the snow isn’t muddy in the roads and there is a fresh powder of snow.
We would go snowmobiling, sledding, snowboarding and we would have snowball fights against each other. In the end there was never a winner because we would go inside let our hats, gloves, mittens, socks, and ski pants dry while drinking hot chocolate.