Ahhh, summer

Ahh, summer.
late nights. sleeping in. lazy days. wearing shorts. swimming. the beach. sunglasses. summer.

   My summer this year was amazing! From the end of June to the beginning of July, I spent my days sleeping in and relaxing. DEFINITELY a nice break from waking up at 7:00 every morning! Towards the middle of July, my family took a vacation to Mexico to see all my cousins! We went to Acapulco for a week and had a blast! I am an only child so when my parents told me my cousin would be coming home with us after the trip for two weeks, I was thrilled! We are the same age so it definitely felt like I had a sister! After my "sister" went back to Mexico, I had about three days before I left for sleep-away camp for two weeks! My camp was awesome!!! It's in Hancock, NY so it's up in the mountains which was so cool! I tried so many fun activities like barefooting, ziplining, and flying trapeze! When I came home from camp, my school schedule was waiting for me. THAT was really depressing because it made me realize that summer is almost over!
   I have a theory that you never actually realize it was summer until the first day of school! If you are lucky, like I was, you are so busy with friends or traveling that you never keep track of the days so you don't realize that school is coming! I am not upset that school is coming. I do, however, would like to have a word with my superintendent about what time school should start each morning! :) Summer's not over yet though! In fact, my father and I leave for Ireland tomorrow! We will visit Dublin and meet some relatives who my Dad had not seen since he was eighteen years old! I will post some pics!
So enjoy the rest of your summer and remember to make the most out of what you have left!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo,
TOD

Summer Vacay

 Hola people of Earth and beyond! This is TOD here to talk about one thing: SUMMER VACATION! Sorry, i felt the need to scream. 
 This past school year has been filled with change, happiness, and of course some education. Change has occurred this year because I just started the whole process of changing classes, lockers, and meeting new people from other schools. I have made tons of new friends from all the different elementary schools, we have become super close throughout the year. My favorite class this year was Digital Literacy. Dig-lit class is when you learn different skills on Mac computers. For example, we learned how to morph different animal parts together on Photoshop to create a new kind of animal. That was one of our projects, I created a Gorifishrd. This distinct animal has the head of a gorilla, body of a fish, and talons of a bird. (Right)                  

 My least favorite class this year was Health. I don't know if health will always be my least favorite because it was only one unit we did this year that made me hate health class. The unit was......suicide......(scary music please). We read almost 5 cases of kids that were bullied or cyberbullied so hard that they wanted their life to end so they killed themselves. It was a very depressing unit.

 Anyway (on that happy note) school was fun this year; my teachers were great,  I learned a lot, made new BFFs, and became more independent. 

HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!
-TOD

P.S. Another extra credit project I did was create a screaming apple so you can take a look at that too! (Below)