In fourth grade, my teacher announced we would be taking a spelling test. But this wasn't just any spelling test... this test would determine which two students would take part in the spelling bee. I tried my hardest on the test, and handed it in to the teacher. Later, the winners were announced; a boy named Jonathan and I would be participating in the spelling bee! Spelling is definitely one of my strengths; I always tend to get good grades on the weekly spelling tests we take in ELA. Despit...
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9/9/09

It was just an average day at school... nothing particularly exciting or interesting. But when I got home... everything changed. On Neopets, it was Draik Day. If you don't recall what a Draik is, it's a Neopet that resembles a small, western dragon. It's a lot sleeker than Scorchio, and cooler looking than Scorchio and Shoyru combined. But unfortunately, the only way you could ever get a Draik was to hatch an expensive Draik Egg (which sell for millions of Neopoints) or use a Draik Morp...
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It was a mid-August night; the night of a meteor shower. My mom had taken Jo and I outside to watch, when she started telling us about how it's always wise to wish upon a shooting star. She told us about all these times she'd wished upon a star, and her wishes had been granted-- one of them being her having Jo. I was like, yeah right. It's all just a coincidence... why would anyone believe in that sort of superstitious stuff? But for whatever reason, I decided to make a wish... not anything r...
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