When I grow up...

   From the day we were little, people have always asked us what we want to be. It changes every time we get older. From princess, to doctor, to a cosmetologist. Well now that I've really thought about it, I have my answer: I have no idea!! This isn't the time to focus on the future, this is the time to learn from our mistakes, make new friends, go to parties, experience things that we wont get to experience later, like being a crazy teenager! We can only be a kid once, and when we're an adult, we can't go back. So while I'm still a young teenager, I want to spend my days thinking about what color I want my hair after the purple fades away and what I'm going to wear to my best friends party. I don't want to waste my fun years now thinking about later, I'll have all those adult years to think about that. But for right now, I think I'm good on not having any clue what I want to be, and I'll just continue to be a kid while it lasts.

“Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change”
-Clay Frey

Activities are fun but you need to stay in school!!

Choir, sports, art, and many other after-school activities help make our school lives seem a little bit more interesting, but school is the main thing in our adolescent years that we need to focus on. School is what helps us to learn, and to find answers to questions that will be with us, possibly forever. It's not about the fact that you're in school, sure that's great, but it's about whether you're actually learning or not. School is everything on lives depend on from the day we start kindergarten, to the day we graduate college/high school. It's what gets us jobs when we need them, its what gets us money to buy food, clothes, and things we want. Without school, you wouldn't even get a job at a restaurant, because in a restaurant, there's LOTS of math, and you learn math where? School. Whether it's home school, private school, or public school, you need to be educated to be able to be the best that you can be when you grow up!

My New Years Resolutions For Reading!!

   Reading! It's so important! You do it in school you do it on your spare time, you do it every where you go! I love to read, it helps me to relax and it's my favorite thing to do at the end of the day, and when I just need a break from everyhting.
    As my New Year's reading resolution, I think I would like to start reading novels. Not your classic 300 page novel. I would like to start on BIGGER novels! My mom has told be before about an author named Anne Rice...she writes very deeply, you immediantly get hooked into the story. I love those kind of books. I love to read, but I only read when I'm interested in the book, if it's something I don't like, I'm not going to read it.
    Reading is an inspiration to me. It's so peaceful and you can't help but be happy when you read. It's like TV in your mind, but you see the characters how YOU want to see them, and the emotion in the story, you can let it be expressed however you want. It's truely amazing!

    I'm truely going to try and succeed at my New Year's reading resolution, and if you have one too, I highly encourage you to try and reach your goal! And remember, never stop reading!

Friendship

  Friendship is very important! No one, wants to be alone in the world, no one wants to travel through the hardships in life without someone there to be there for them. To support them. To help them. To be their best friend.
  Friendship is very important to me. Whenever I have a secret that I feel I can't tell my parents, I tell my best friends, because they understand, because they listen. Parents sometimes just...talk FOR you.
  I have several best friends. Some of them are actually sitting with me right now! My friend Jasmine (we call her Jazzy) is sitting across the classroom, my friend Lexi is sitting in front of me, my friend Sarah is sitting beside me, and the rest are in other classrooms.
  I love all my friends! I hope whoever is reading this has friends, or just a friend, that they can rely on when they're in need. Friends are great, and we should never take advantage of them. Friends shouldn't be a symbol of popularity, they should be a symbol of trust, and honesty. Of peace and happiness.

  I hope you have a best friend, and I wish both of you luck while you travel a great road together!

This is me!!

Well Hi! My name is Ashley (obviously), I'm 14 and I love soccer! I don't play that much, but when I have time to, I love to! My favorite color is purple but I like blue also, my favorite animal is a monkey, my favorite food is peperoni pizza, and I love sweet tea! My daddy is in the military so we move all over the place! I've been to south Korea, Japan, Hawaii, China, New Zealand, even Alaska! But my favorite place in the whole world...Paris, France! I would also like to go to Rome, and to Italy though. I love it here in Clarksville, Tennessee! I love the school that I go to, and I love all the friends that I have! But my best friend, her name is Jasmine, I love her like a sister! Well...I have to go back to class now! Bye!