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Today mom has got to go to work even though it is only Monday. The semester is done for Mom, but Thursday was canceled due to bad weather. Mom just needs to go to work to grade everything. I am going to be home most of the day. I'm free! Just kidding. I have quite a bit of work, but most of it is on the computer. Five out of the eight things are on the computer and things on the computer take only a little bit of time. Sadly, the rest not on the computer, takes a long time. I try to categorize my work. For instance, since I have a lot of computer stuff, I can do it all at once without moving. By categorizing my work, I get things done twice as fast. Well, I have to go, and finish my work. See ya!

Music

Whenever I go on the computer to do something, the first thing I do is go to Pandora.com . Pandora is a website that generates music. When I listen to music it seems like I am only doing something for 5 minutes, when I am actually doing it for an hour! Music kind of rests my mind. I can focus on something even better when I have some music playing. Besides, the music gives me good ideas to write about. For instance, I wouldn't be talking about music right now, without it playing. My favorite song is playing right now. Down by Jay Sean and Lil Wayne. This might seem like an irrelevant topic to homeschooling, but it helps me a ton! Sometimes my mind just go blank, but for some reason, I haven't stopped typing this post since I started. Usually I have to stop and pause after every sentence. The music keeps me alive. Music helps me when I am studying, why not you?

Essays

Today mom has a lesson plan for me. Oh-no! She wants me to write an essay. Write an essay about what? I don't know. I am secretly hoping it is only one essay, but sometimes Mom goes overboard and gives about five essays for one day. Then it takes me until 7:00 to finish all of them. I guess I should practice writing one for this post. You know what? I think I will. Here goes nothing.

Snow

by Connor Peters

Today, at about 6:20 a.m, I heard hail. Call it what you want, sleet or rain, but I am sure I heard hail. I heard it pounding on the roof as if God himself wants to break inside our house and take me away. I took a peek out of the window. What did I see? Naught, but snow covering the ground like a sheet of of ice covering the racing river. I could see the icy white color of the snow. I could almost feel the damp snow covering me as I built an igloo. Oh the snow!
I could smell the icy air being sucked into my lungs. The smell of a blanket of snow covering the old country terrain filled my thoughts. I would, not for anything, want to give up that smell. I could smell it playing with my nose, swirling around my head, even from my bedroom window. Ah! Snow.
As I lay there in my bed, I felt that today nothing could go wrong. Even if I got in trouble, not even the screaming rampages of my mom, could drown out my Holiday spirit. The snow, December and Christmas carols are all a sign that Christ is being born, again after 2009 years. Christmas is alive.


How was that? I think it sounds more like a poem then a essay. *Sigh* I'll get it soon enough. I am excellent at creative writing, but when it comes to an essay, I struggle. I know how essays are supposed to be written. Introduction, three examples defending the point I am trying to make, then a conclusion. But I just don't seem able to do that.

Travel

On the 26th of November, my family flew to Florida to see my grandpa. We just got back last night at 11 o'clock. This is my chance to write. I think traveling is very educational, even if you are only going another city nearby. It is good to go to other places you have never been before, because you might be around other people of a different race or people speaking different languages. It is good to see things you have never seen before.If you don't travel , you will never be able to meet new people and never be able to try new food. As I always say, it is good to spread out. And besides from that, if you go to a historical place like Gettysburg, or Washington DC, you will learn tons of stuff from that! It is awesome to learn historical stuff, although it does get kinda boring after a while. My point is, it is good to travel. I know I have said this before, but get the most out of everything! Even those seemingly endless plane rides can be educational. That is where books come in handy.