My Scarriest Moment

My older cousin Marissa convinced me that it would be fun to go to a haunted house with her and her friends. Little did I know that the reason she wanted me to go was that her mom, my aunt, told her that she could only go if she had an adult to go with her. Marissa approached my mother asking her if she would take her and my mom said that she would be fine with it as long as I was fine with going. Long story short she got us out to Phobia ( the haunted house) when we walked in Marissa told us she and her friends wanted to go to the clown phobia haunted house first. We made our way over there and I was 10 at the time this all happened, I had no idea people were scared of clowns, we went in and the first thing I saw was a clown with the usual outfit, the only difference was that it was covered in fake BLOOD! I freaked out and had to stay behind my mothers back the rest of the way with my eyes squeezed shut. When we made it out my mother announced that she needed to use the restroom, so we went in the direction of the porta potties. As we walked along there were workers in costume out side of the haunted houses scaring people who didnt expect it. There was a clown that I didnt see that jumped out from behind a false wall that was in the middle of the walk way for some reason. The clown jumped out and I freaked out it was closer to me than I thought and when it jumped out I screamed and, my arms shot out, and I started scratching the clowns make up off before I realized what was happening. When I realized what was happening I stopped and my mother made me apologize to the clown. We finally made it to the pita potties and we waited for my mother to finish up there, was another false wall in front of the porta potties that no one noticed untill my mother came out and started walking towards us when she was about to pass the false wall the clown jumped out and screamed BOO at her she just about screamed her head off. It was so funny and everyone laughed for the rest of the night about it. When we went home that night I jumped at every sound and thought that things were moving when I looked away I was so freaked out and I thought everything as out to get me. I haven't been to a haunted house in 6 years scince then.

ELA 10/9/13. (Journal)

Journal:

       I did not know that houston had its own port, when people talk about ousting port I always think       they're talking a it Galveston and they just call it houston. I never knew that we had our own port, but apparently we do it was what is now called buffaloe bayou. I didnt think that the bayou was big enough to fit ships through but they transported cotton through there, because they were afraid to ship from Galveston. Apparently they thought that Galveston was going to wash away because bad storms kept hitting and ruining the things that people had built down there 

       Another thing that I didnt know about houston is that when we integrated we were peaceful for the most part the press didnt get to have a field day. There were no walk outs or sit ins, we got the press to give us 12 days to work it out and we did. Houston was successfully integrated with little to no problems, people might not have been very happy about it but it happened successfully.

Hope

"Hope" is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul

And sings the tune without the words

And never stops at all,

                                         - Emily Dickinson,