Staring at the teddy bear…

Staring at the teddy bear, I would have never imagined that I would have been here, in this wet dark suffocating cellar. I don’t know how long it’s been since I was on the streets with my girlfriend going to a haunted house when all of a sudden everything was black. That’s when I realized she wasn’t there and started to yell for her calling her name as loud as possible but there was no response only silence and the muffled echo of her name. I started to look at my surroundings a little bit more, that’s when I realized there was a creepy teddy bear sitting on a shelf there was a rusty old sink on the wall I tried to turn it on but the handles were rusted in place. I moved on to a little tool bench that had a few tools laying on it I thought I might be able to use them, then I realized there was a little closet in here so I went into it and found nothing there wasn’t anything in it besides a piece of paper. I then moved towards a door that seems like my way out and as I passed under the archway I got a huge shock to my leg and I couldn’t move finally it subsided and I could back away from the door. I quickly pulled my pant leg up and there is an ankle bracelet on me and attached to it is a tazer. I cannot believe I didn’t notice it earlier but now my leg feels like I’ve been stabbed. “So I’m not going over there anymore” I said out loud which startled me because it was the first sound I had heard since I woke up.

Since I couldn’t get close to the door I set about searching the rest of the cellar for anything I could use.  In one of the corners was and old bed with a paper thin mattress and a wool blanket, in the adjacent corner of the room there was an old crate that looked as if it had been there since the 80s. Then I realized I hadn’t checked my pockets. In one pocket I had my car keys and pocket knife; in the other pocket I had a phone and a lighter. I quickly got the phone and dialed 911 but there was no service and I couldn’t call anybody. I then thought I could light the mattress on fire so somebody would come but decided against it since it might be and abandoned house in the middle of nowhere. So I just sat down on the bed and tried to think, but the pain in my leg seemed to get worse and I couldn’t focus. I paced around for what seemed like days. I then started to hear a very annoying beep and looked around and didn’t see anything electrical. The beep continued and I stared to walk around the room that’s when I passed by the teddy bear and heard it. Instead of button eyes, it had camera eyes. Starring at the teddy bear I just snapped how someone could do this to another person was just insane. Lock them up and just forget about them, so I grabbed the teddy bear and ripped the head of, took the cameras and smashed them. Panting with anger I made my way over to the tool bench and grabbed for the hammer and screw driver. I started to go to town on the ankle bracelet, I could feel it getting looser and looser and it finally broke loose and I ran for the door but it was locked, I took the hammer and broke in the lock and ran through the door.

 As I made my way through the thresh hold there was at least a dozen more doors just like mine. And by each door was a little monitor with live feed from inside the room. And in every single room there was another person just like me freaked out. And in the furthest door from mine was my girlfriend laying down on her bed just laying there I quickly open the door to get her, run to the bed and when I get there I just freeze I couldn’t move just stood there. Her face was gone and I just stood there she wasn’t breathing or moving and I heard something coming from the hall and I ran to see what it was with hammer in hand. And the creepiest looking man I have ever seen was in my room with a machete and I ran down the hall and closed the door behind him found a chair and set it against the door to keep him in there and opened all of the doors. But everybody else was dead or not conscious so I took off for the stairs and as soon as I got to them the man broke through the door and started after me. I ran as fast as possible but my leg, still hurting from the shock I received earlier was slowing me down. I got up stairs and made a hard left for the door and as soon as I got outside I was shocked.

 I thought that I was only in there for a few hours or a day or two. But when I was grabbed it was summer now it was the middle of winter. I turned to get I good look at the place before I ran and that’s when the big guy barreled out of the building. And right as he did I took off, the weird thing was there was no one around and the big guy was gaining on me. We ended up going through a park and I thought I might lose him on the ice so I ran to a nearby pond and the ice would barely hold me. I was about half way across the pond when I heard a crack I turned and the guy had broke through the ice and was having trouble swimming then he just disappeared.

The best costume I have ever worn was a gillie suit. I was dressed as a sniper and I would squat down on the side of the side walk and when people walked by I would scare them. It was all fun until I made a little boy cry because I had scared him. I felt so bad that I gave him a whole bag of candy. But then I scared someone I knew so bad that they lashed out at me and punched me in the throat.  

While trick or treating, my friends and I decided to explore a dark street that we had never seen before so we headed down the long foggy street. And as soon as we did it was almost like we were transported to another world. The trees covered with cob-webs and the sounds of far off screeches echoed down the street.        

poem

Even if the sky is falling down
I put you high up in the sky
Safe and sound
And now, you're not coming down
Hold your ground
In the torn up town, no post code envy
We jumped, never asking why
In a tidal wave of mystery
Feeling my way through the darkness
And I'm not proud of my address

ask a teacher

What music or songs reminds you of your childhood?

My parents always listened to old, classic country music like Johnny cash when I was a kid so I know all those songs.

Who is your favorite singer or group or song and why?

I really love a very electric variety of music… not sure I have one single favorite.

What music reminds you of someone you love? Your child? Spouse? Parents?

“Jesus Loves Me” reminds me of my daughter because it was the first song she learned.

Do you go to concerts? Which are memorable to you?

My favorite concert was U2, in Las Vegas sometime in the early 1990’s.

What radio stations do you normally listen to in your car? Do you sing along?

Sirius “coffee shop” is my fave. It’s like acoustic cover songs by various artists… I always love to sing along!!

Which music or artist was “controversial” or “offensive” to some when you were growing up? Is any music offensive to you?

Some rap music could have been considered offensive but I’m not easily offended, so not so much for me.

^^^^^^^^Mrs. Constantine

Which music or artist do you really dislike or refuse to listen to?

All country because all they sing about Is “ their truck broke down then my dog died then my girl left me”-Mrs. Hopke

The way music makes me feel

The way music makes me feel

1)      When I listen to music it gives me a kind of warm feeling inside like the one you get from doing a charitable the and seeing the reaction on the face of the person you help. There really anything else like music that takes you from grumpy to delighted, in a short period of time.

2)      One of my all time favorite songs is by the Soggy Bottom Boys “man of constant sorrows”. I like the way it sounds it’s a kind of blues country and bluegrass song which I like all three of those and it combines them into one song. The first time I heard this song was in the movie “oh brother where art thou” which is also one of my favorite movies of all time.

3)      My taste in music has changed a lot throughout the years of my life. I used to not care what kind of music I listened to, but now it is completely different I always want to control the music I listen to so I never listen to the radio because I can’t pick the kind of music and songs playing.

4)      Without music I feel like my life would be the same but with very small differences. Like I would never go to dances because it would just be dancing by yourself and that’s not very much fun you need a type of beat for it to be enjoyable. So dances and long car rides would be the worst without music.

5)      My friends sometimes listen to the same music as me but not all the time. They mainly like rap and all that but I’m more of a country and blue grass kind of person. I don’t think this means anything negative it just means that we don’t view music the same.

window poem

I see nothing but trees
Forrest and a volcano
But now there are charred remains
I always thought it couldn't happen
The once lush green forest, black as night
Steam coming from the glassy lake, while animals flee

6 word

Have A Girlfriend Always Loved
Do What's Right Not What's Accepted
Love All You Need To Survive                         

my family

fear

It was a strange place in the woods.
The air was stagnant humid and it had the smell of routing animal
He ran stumbling on weeds that came up and grabbed at him as if they wanted him to stay forever
But he powered through constantly scanning
Scanning for the evil's of the forest that are trying to keep him there.
He ran until he got to a cliff scared and bruised and nowhere to go turned to fight
Then with a mighty howl the forest and its spirits sent forth its might
For standing in front of the boy a mighty wolf
Shaking the boy stood up and started running at the wolf all of a sudden with no fear
And since he was no longer afraid the forest had no power any more over him
The wolf ran off defeated and the boy stood there panting but not harmed
For fear is our true enemy it has the power to control our every action that we make and will haunt us Forever

rail road car

The year is 2025 and its been 10 years since the bombs went off and there wasn't a soul in sight. The world has become a barren waste land of death and disease.The smell of sulfur and death linger and no one is around to smell it, nothing can be seen any more anymore buildings fallen and destroyed people who were outside when everything went down got vaporized shadows burned into walls. houses moved from their foundations and tossed around like nothing and trains and rail cars moved like toys. Rusting away just sitting there nothing to do but wait, wait for the world to change back to the way it was. No fighting no conflicts or power races to see who could kill more effective. just peace, quite and bliss. But there is no one to fix things this time everyone is gone, people who thought they could go underground thought wrong. there is no protection that can stop a power such as this one. so rail cars houses fortresses of the rich nothing was safe from anything it just goes to show you how vulnerable we as a species, as a planet really are.

MC Escher

MC Escher was born Mauritis Cornelis Escher in a small village in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. he was born into a fairly wealthy family and was admitted to a primary school failed out then he went to a secondary school and did the same. he wasn't very smart but he was a very talented artist and soon enrolled in haarlem school of architecture and decorative arts. where he soon fell behind in the architecture part of school due to a skin infection. however he excelled in the decorative arts part of the curriculum. he made friends with his professor whom he became dear friends with. after school he meet a women by the name of Jetta Umiker who he married soon after.he had a very succesful carrer after the fact that he lived through 2 world wars and Nazi and Italian invasions and take overs.he had produced many intricate and "trippy" works that have stunned and amazed people over the years.

flowers

As I walk down the long white corridor to the waiting room I can’t imagine what’s going on I was 9 at the time and I really couldn’t wrap my head around what was going on. My grandpa had just had a seizure and was in the hospital and we were there to visit him. At the time he seemed perfectly healthy after it had happened. But after they released him from the hospital on the way home he had another one. This was the second one in 2 weeks so this time the doctors did more test and they came back bad. He had spent 4 years in Iraq and Afghanistan and had received a head injury not very big at the time. But now he had fluid in the brain and it wasn’t looking very good. I went up every weekend to Columbia too see him and I never once left his side I would sleep eat buy him. Honestly I can still perfectly imagine each of the hospital rooms he was in and every waiting room I slept in. and the one thing that all of the rooms and waiting rooms had where pictures of flowers. To this day I can’t stand being in waiting rooms just because they remind me of my grandpa and his battle that went on for a year. He was more of a big brother getting in trouble with me, causing mayhem, and just having fun. I will always miss him and I wish he was still here.

 

sleep

Sleep it sounds like a simple concept and very easy to do. However it can and usually is the single most difficult thing you will do on a regular base. It can be difficult for many reasons and if you try to fix it usually leads to more and more problems.  You move your head one way it becomes uncomfortable for the rest of your body. So you move around for a while trying to get comfortable the pillow gets to hot so you flip it but now you’re not in the same position so you move and wiggle yourself till you are. And by now it’s probably already midnight then the worst thing that could happen, does. You start to think! And that’s when you get into trouble because now you can’t stop yourself you’re like a runaway train barreling into a disaster. Because when you think your mind can get to the most random stuff and you can’t stop it. You just have to strap yourself in and pray it will get over quick.

 

                                                                Disappointing sleep

                                                                Restless nights awake thinking

                                                                Hot cold never right

what my future holds for me

In the presentation Monday I liked the fact that The Art Institute had many options on what I could do and the fact that no matter which way I decide to go in there program I’m pretty much guaranteed a job later on. I do have a question on the average pay scale for the jobs that there students get after school.        

In a year from now I expect to be right where I am now in school working all the time and playing sports. But in five years I plan on finishing up college through a ROTC program and completing most of my training to become a officer in the US Army. In ten years I see myself still in the military but in the army rangers and serving my country to the best of my ability. In 50 years I see me being retired from the military in a cabin in the middle of the woods secluded fishing and hunting.