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This year my whole grade went to Plymouth Plantation to study some more about the Pilgrims. Just to let you know the bus ride is SIX HOURS!!!!!! Anyway, we didn’t exactly see the rock because they were redoing the place where the Plymouth Rock stands (or should I say sits.) We slept in a museum and we saw a Native American home-site but the people there are Native Americans and they just practice their ways. My class went to this place and there were Pilgrim actors and actresses that dress up like Pilgrims and talk like Pilgrims too. The whole grade also went to a graveyard which was kind of scary but we went to see William Bradford’s grave (by the way he was the second governor of Plymouth Colony.)  We also saw a replica of the Mayflower. I had a blast at Plymouth, Massachusetts and I’d love to go again.

It is our final blog post and I am really REALLY sad because blog posting was really fun and it’s a once in a life time experience.  I am writing another post about Plymouth Plantation because I never really finished that one. I will miss blog posting and I will miss Dalton too because I am moving to London for a year or two. I wish every kid could have an experience of blog posting like me and you can make that change. This is a final goodbye of posting on Edinger house blog.

My little buddy interviewed me today which was very VERY fun. It was really cool to be interviewed. My little buddy is from Little Dalton third grade. She asked me a few questions about Big Dalton and what was it like graduating from third grade to fourth. Here is our interview down below.

 

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I am so happy that c16ac and I are done because it took forever (well not forever) to finish this comic. Since we are done I am not showing you the comic. Kidding! of course I’ll be showing you my comic. I am so happy that we are done because now we are going to start something even better I think. If you click here you can see my Alice comic of the chapter Alice Sends a Little Bill.

Okay I know what you’re thinking. “When is this girl going to be done” or “Why is it taking her so long” or eve…. you get my point. We are really Really REALLY close to done and this time I mean it.  So me and  c16ac  are so close we could even taste it  (well not latterly.) We are so close not even Miley Cyrus could stop us. Well maybe her but you get the idea. So we are making are comics and ours is about a rabbit who mistakes Alice as his maid Mary Ann so Alice gets him his kid gloves he asked Mary Ann  for. Alice finds an eat-me cake and she ate it. The cake made her bigger and the rabbit send this lizard named Bill to get Alice out. Of course in real life that would never happen but any way Alice kicks  Bill out of the chimney,  the animals  are after  Alice meets a big dog yada yada yada. Guess what the chapter is called (long pause) don’t guess because I want to tell you it is called drum roll please (pat pat pat) The Rabbit Sends a Little Bill.

I am so happy because 16ac and I are almost done with our Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland comics. YAY! Before I start brag to my brother about how “I was making comics and he wasn’t” I am still not done yet. It’s hard to make a comic I can tell you that. But luckily 16ac and I are really and when I say really I mean REALLY close. Here are some of our drawings.

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll is a classic. Basically everyone know about it, but they probably just saw the movie. Their is a book too. I didn’t know that till Ms. Edinger announced that we’re reading the book. I was very excited, Alice Adventures in Wonderland was my all time favorite movie well next to The Wizard of Oz. Ms. Edinger read the book out loud to us. Just to tell you it is way different than the Disney movie. We learned a lot of things about Lewis Carroll. Did you know his name is not Lewis Carroll it is Charles Dodgson and he named the girl Alice because he used look after a girl named Alice and he told her stories. Alice told Lewis a.k.a. Charles Dodgson to write a stories so he made Alice in Wonderland. We saw movies like Betty in Blunderland and Nineteen Hundred House. I love Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland it is a great book and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Now we are making Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland COMICS!!!!! C16ac and I are partners and we are working on The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill. I think it is a fun chapter if you ask me. C16ac and I just started drawing and it isn’t going too well because we keep on messing up. Ms. Edinger said we can only have 10 comic boxes but we have about 12. Here is some of the comic.

The Rabbit Sends in a little Bill

1. The rabbit yells at Alice (Mary Ann) to get him a new pair of kid-gloves.
Rabbit : “Mary Ann! Mary Ann! Get me a new pair of kid-gloves!”

2. Alice gets him a new pair of kid-gloves and finds an eat-me cake.
Alice: “ Oh, an eat-me cake if the drink me bottle made me smaller this will make me….”

3. Alice eats the cake and gets bigger. She punches her fist through the glass.
“…..bigger”

4. All the animals that are working for the rabbit are terrified so they send in a lizard named Bill.
Alice: “Oh look a giant fist we better get bill to see what it is.”

5. Alice kicks Bill up the chimney.
Alice: “ Hello Bill, nice to kick you!”

6. The goose calls for an ambulance to take Bill to the hospital.Goose: “Hello hospital we need an ambul… oh you’re here already.”

7. Alice finds a drink-me bottle and drinks what’s in it and goes back to her normal size.
Alice: Look a drink-me bottle! It will make me smaller! I’m very uncomfortable.”

8. Bill comes back with a sling and crutches.
“Oh my leg, my arm, my head, all because of you Alice.”
Rabbit: “ Get her!!!!!!”

9. Alice runs away and finds a big dog.
“ Hello Doggie. you are awfully big. Oh look a stick, want to play fetch?”

10. Alice throws a stick so the dog will go away.
Alice: “Fetch doggie!”
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We studied forced immigration this year. It was very interesting. I learned how cruel it was. Did you know that it was illegal to get slaves from Africa, but Americans took them any way? Some slaves got fake names and passports. We also went to the African Burial Ground. It was very intresting but it was also scary for me at the same time because it was a graveyard.(If I was scared of this what will I think when I go to the graveyard in Plymouth?) Forced immigration is very interesting and I hope you look into learning about it.

We have been working on Cinderella stories. I wrote a story about a girl who broke her leg. I wanted to write about this girl because this year I broke my leg and I wanted to make people see what it feels to be in a wheel chair. Why stare at someone in a wheel chair on the street? They’re just like you inside so I hope next time you see someone in a wheel chair or walker or even on crotches just think to yourself “Maybe it would hurt their feelings if I stare.” So just think about it.

Broken Melissa

Mr. Cinders was very pleased, he loved his daughter ever so much but soon she was going to be 16 and he was getting older and it might be time for him to get another wife. Mr. Cinders wife died when Melissa was 10. It was very tragic but they had to move on in life. Melissa was extremely happy today. It was the Ice Skating Party. Melissa was very good at ice skating. It was her specialty. “I better get ready dad. I’ll be in my room if you need me!” Melissa screeched. She was worried that she was going to be late. Melissa put on a red skating skirt and a black fleece. Melissa came to the kitchen. She looked very beautiful. Mr. Cinders loved seeing Melissa ice-skating so he decided to come to the party.

Melissa ran to a stool and put on her ice skates. Amy, her best friend, saw Melissa and they walked to the rink. Amy and Melissa got on to the ice. “UH OH,” Amy whispered softly. Then Melissa knew this was going to be bad.

“UH OH is right,” said Stacey, Amber and Ashley nodding their heads. They agreed with everything Stacey says.

“Don’t worry Am, nothing’s gonna happen” pleaded Melissa.

“I gonna stay here Mel, just for safety.” replied Amy.

Mr. Cinders watched Amy and Melissa talk and saw Melissa go on skating and Amy go back to take off her skates. Melissa skated and skated but then a big thud hit the ground.

“Oh sorry, I didn’t mea…” started Melissa.

“Oh its okay my fault. So my name’s Justin…and you are?”

“Melissa.”

“Melissa is a nice name,” and then he zoomed off in a flash.

Melissa looked surprised. The cutest guy in school was talking to her.

Then Stacey came over. “What are you doing talking to my boyfriend!?” She pushed Melissa to the ground. What could a little fall do? Melissa thought. But when Melissa hit the ground she burst into tears.

“Melissa!” Amy screeched and jumped on the ice for she didn’t take her ice skates off. Mr. Cinders took a sip of his coffee and saw Melissa on the ground flooding the place with tears.

“Sweetheart what happened?” asked Mr. Cinders terrified. Melissa tried to find the words for the answer but all she could tell her father was that she was in a lot of pain.

“My leg, my leg, please help me dad, please!” Melissa tried to talk over her tears but it was too hard. Right at that very moment two men came and picked her up.

The two men took off the skate and examined it. “Don’t worry sweetie, it’s just a sprained ankle,” said the infirmary man.

“Dad, is there an ambulance coming?” asked Melissa in a stumbled voice. Mr. Cinders didn’t answer. He was worried he was going to lose his daughter.

Melissa fell asleep waiting and woke up almost at the hospital. “Okay doctor this is what I want to do: 1. I want to find out what wrong with her and 2. I want to get what she needs and leave,” exclaimed Mr. Cinders. He was very aggravated with what happened. So Melissa took a ton of x-ray’s.

“My leg,” moaned Melissa.

“There is good news and bad news,” started the doctor. “Good news is it’s nothing that seri…”

Mr. Cinders turned bright red. “Nothing that serious! NOTHING THAT SERIOUS!”

The doctor looked as if a ghost came by, “As I was saying, the bad news is she broke her leg. Don’t get mad, its just a clean break, no surgery just a cast,” exclaimed the doctor. Mr. Cinders looked relieved. Melissa got her cast and went home and went to sleep. She had an exhausting day.

Melissa woke up to the face of her father. “Dad, I had the strangest dream last night,“ she started.

“What was your dream sweetheart?” asked Mr. Cinders.

“My dream was that I broke my leg at the ice skating party last night,” said Melissa. Melissa took her blanket and screamed, “Dad, why is there a big block of plaster on my leg?” Melissa began to cry.

“Well, Melissa honey, I don’t know how to say it but you broke your leg,” Mr. Cinders said softly. Mr. Cinders hated to see Melissa cry. Melissa just couldn’t stand it she just couldn’t. She missed her mom more than ever. Melissa didn’t want her stuff she wanted her.

Mr. Cinder allowed Melissa to stay home from school so she stayed home and watched any thing she could find on T.V. She also looked at pictures of her mother and then she had an idea.But her father would never take her to the cemetery. It was all the way in Chicago. “Dad life is fair and unfair but my life is nothing but unfair,” said Melissa almost into tears.

“No it’s not,” said Mr. Cinders. He was trying to make his daughter feel better even though it was true.

“Yes it is true daddy. First mom dies, then I brake my leg and then your are going to have to pay about a thousand dollars for the doctor appointments. What next?” Melissa was now crying so hard that she got a headache. Melissa went to bed trying to clear her mind.

Melissa just didn’t want to go to school tomorrow, she just didn’t want to. Right that second she fell asleep. The next day was really hard. Melissa was treated differently just because she had a cast. Everyone but Amy and Justin made her get stuff off the ground and was mean to her, especially Stacey.

“MELISSA hold my bags and be a nice girl and get me some water,” Stacey shrieked.

Three months later Melissa was about to get her boot off she was so excited when suddenly her smile fell, the color in her face drained and she had a pit in her stomach. “Th-th-the skating com…” Melissa could hardly speak.

“…petition” Amy shouted. Melissa glared at her. Amy knew she had done something wrong.

“Amy!”

“What did I do?”

“Oh, nothing but make my feel bad about the competition!”

“Sorry,” said Amy, as quiet as a mouse.

“It’s not your fault, okay? I just overreacted, really it’s not,” said Melissa, upset that she yelled at her best friend.

Melissa went outside to see her dad and go to the doctor’s office but where could he be. “Oh Melissa I was looking all over for you, now lets go to the doctors office,” said Mr. Cinders.

So they went the doctor’s office and got her boot off. “Doctor can I ice skate cause the skat…”

“Yes you can, Melissa,” interrupted the doctor.

It was the day of the skating competition. Melissa was nervous. “What if I break my leg again?” Melissa faced her fears and put her skates on slowly.

“Next up Melissa Cinders” the speakers rang. Melissa stumbled on to the ice. She had no routine, no nothing she just had to go with flow. “Wow Melissa started with a triple axel amazing and now she’s doing the Mohawk lovely,” ringed the speakers. Melissa ended with a split. She was terrific and Justin fell in love with her by every second.
The minute she finished Stacey got on and Melissa zoomed off the ice and her skate fell off.

Justin screeched, “Wait! Your ice skate,” but she was gone.

The next day Justin made an announcement at school. “Who ever this ice skate fits I will go out with.” Every girl went in line of course but none of them was Melissa because she was out that day.

A week later Melissa and Justin were talking right before the bell. “Melissa, I know this sounds stupid but will you try on this ice skate?” asked Justin. You see, Justin had always liked Melissa.

“Sure” replied Melissa. The skate slid on to her foot and it was a perfect fit. Justin’s heart leaped for joy.

“Melissa, I know this is stupid, but I promised whoever this skate fit I’d go out with,” said Justin.

“OK, but sure,” said Melissa. Then Justin kissed her on the cheek.

“Justin! What are you doing?” it was Stacey.

“Stacey, meet my new girlfriend.”

A big shriek came over the school. “What! Justin! We just broke up yesterday and you’re seeing other people already!?” said Stacey. Then she stomped away.

Twenty years later Melissa is now married to Justin and they have two kids and a great story about how they met. And just like how every story ends, they lived happily ever after. Now, my friend, that is the story of “Broken Melissa.”