Jenny’s Blog✨

  Over spring break I am going to celebrate. A lot. On the first day of spring break (March 30) I’m going to celebrate my older sisters’birthday! The six of us going out to dinner. Reservations have already been made. My parents are trying their hardest to come through with her wishes. So far, things are looking good. But of course other than my sister’s birthday, possibly my whole family is going to celebrate Easter! Where it’s going to happen still remains a mystery. My family doesn’t even know if all of us will be available to celebrate. My mom might be working that day. On the bright side, we’ll get free food! Anyhoo, that’s all I know for now and times up anyway. 

  If you didn’t know, there was an ELA “Go for the Gold Challenge”. Containing multiple skills and lessons you needed to do. Including a couple articles that needed to be read. Of course it’s not a challlenge without a deadline. We had two weeks to read four Newsela text sets and complete 16 IXL’s. You would land in one stage of the challenge depending on what you’ve done. For example, there would be silver, bronze and gold. If you made it to gold, congrats! Each student that met the gold stage got a chance to go into an incentive room- which happened last week Friday. As well as you got 80 falcon dollars, and a morning where you’d get to switch excels. Fortunately, I got to go into the incentive room! Whoop whoop. Anyhoo, that’s the end of my blog. :)

   Yesterday, Brianna came over after school and we went on another adventure. Why you ask? To prepare ourselves for PARCC today. We were on a hunt for mints, but we ended up getting extra goodies. Our first stop was the gas station. There we got chocolate raisins, jolly rancher chews and sour patch kids. Took us a while to make up our minds but after a good while, we took all of our  goodies and payed. NEXT STOPIT ! We went to ANOTHER gas station across the street to try and look for the mints. No luck. Our final stop, we went to 7- Eleven. We lucked out! Two bags were hanging on the rack. But of course, we bought one more goodie. Hershey’s Cookies and Cream chocolate bar. Yummm! Our mission was complete. As a submission, we needed to cross the bussiest street ever! SUCCCEEEESSSSSS! 

   There are a number of different ways you can show support more Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. For example, you can participate in the rally that will be happening tomorrow or you can participate in the dress down that’s happening tomorrow as well. All of the collected money from the dress down will go to MSD. Or instead of walking out, you can walk up! #WhatsYour17! You can say hi to friends or people you rarely acknowledge 17 times, you can high five classmates 17 times. You’re commemorating all of the 17 lives that were lost during the shooting.

 Yesterday, Brianna came over after school and we had an adventure. We were determined to play volleyball, yet we didn’t have the ball. Instead of switching our plan, we decided to go get the volleyball. Which was in her moms car, which was at MacNeal. Therefore, we solved our problem and started to run to the hospital. We’re running faster than the wind is blowing when we decide to STOP. At this moment we were about one block away from the hospital, so we just decided to walk. Brianna and I arrive at our destination which was the hospital, but we weren’t quite where we needed to be. We walked through the hospital where we later on exited with pizza and the prize, car keys. Trying to look for the car, we hear the keys jingling. From far we see a red light flickering, we found the car! Without hesitation we open the car, get the volleyball and go.. back up to the hospital to return the keys. Brianna goes to return the keys while I stay in the lobby. She comes down five minutes later...

 On Sunday October 8, 1871 a fire was started in Chicago, yet the reason still remains unknown. Many skeptics have multiple ideas on how the fire started. The oldest and most iconic is the Great Chicago Fire was started by Mrs. O’ Leary’s cow. Who supposedly kicked over a lantern while the cow was being milked. The O’Leary’s were a poor family with three children. The fire lasted two days and died out on an early Tuesday morning. With a result of killing about 300 people, and destroying 2,112 acres of land. Not only that, the fire left more than 100,000 people homeless. The blaze lasted so long because Chicago at the time had rough winds and dry conditions. The reporter, Michael Ahern later on admitted in 1893 that the story of the O’Leary’s was fake. Therefore the cause of the Great Chicago Fire is still unknown.

 “A WOMEN IS LIKE A TEA BAG; YOU NEVER KNOW HOW STRONG IT IS UNTIL YOU PUT IT IN HOT WATER” Eleanor Roosevelt I like this quote because it’s implying that women are stronger physically and mentally than what others think. For example, women are always underestimated and seen as weak. This quote helps break the image of what girls/ women are pictured as.

    I have nothing to write right now so therefore I’m just going to right about what’s going on in E L A today. I’m currently sitting in the table closest to Ms. Haury’s desk with Castro, Aliyah, Harvey and Pablo. The room is only quiet because Ms. Haury threatened us saying if we were to talk we would get a foul. She knows how to get us quiet. I’m looking over to my left and I see Castro mouthing what she’s writing in HER slice of life. Go read hers instead because mine isn’t entertaining! And now she just said she was done and so am I so byeeee.