VBS, the shalom house, flying wagon, and a trip down memory lane

Ok, today was a good day, but I'm kinda down right now...But I'll talk about why later.

Today at VBS I wasn't in the nursery! I went with Faith and Bethany (Emily's older sister) who taught the kindergarten class. There were a lot of really sweet kids in there. After words I went home and slept for three hours, then I went back to the church area (we didn't go to the church but we were close by) and helped at the shalom house. It's kinda like a restaurant, except smaller and it's free. They only have it open two days out of the week ,I think (hehehe I rhymed.). The two people that work there on a regular basis I like. The lady has black curly hair. Her skin is tan and kinda wrinkly. She smiles all the time, and is really nice. She works in the kitchen. Her husband helps serve the food. He has curly, brown hair. Always wears jeans and a belt with his shirt tucked in. He knows everyone that comes there. But for some reason I really like those two.

Ok now to the reason I'm kinda upset. I just got done watching 'radio flier' with Hannah. Elijah woods is in it when he was younger. It's about these two brothers who get abused by there step dad, and at the end the boy who gets abused flys away in this wagon thing. Ya, that's not very detailed, but I don't care. It just makes me sad to see kids hurt and stuff. Why do people have to be so mean?

I remember being little and trying to make contraptions to fly in. I was certain me and my friends were gonna make 1) a hot air balloon. 2) an air plane 3) a car out of a skate board. But really me and my friends at school stuffed our pockets full of trash and junk we found at recess. I use to have this really long purple coat, it went all the way down to my feet. It wasn't that it was a long coat, I was just super small. I would wear it cause the girls at the school were only allowed to wear dresses, so our legs would freeze during winter! I remember curling up in a little ball and just waiting to go inside! It was like recess was torture lol. The recess playground was pretty lame, all it had was a meddle slide (which the kids christened the big, blue slide), a plastic slide, some swings, and a kick ball field. It actually wasn't that bad for me at least, I liked just walking around and being by myself...wow I was a weird child. I remember one day finding this little ghost collector things...I don't remember what there called, but I apparently found a very rare one, and I was so popular on the bus ride home. EVERYone wanted it. I finely gave it away for five more pieces. It makes me smile to think about that. I remember the first day of first grade I cried cause I missed my mom so much. Then we lined up to go to recess, and I thought we were going home, so I got all ready to go and...we didn't go home lol. Later when we really were going home and I got on the bus, I started crying again cause I didn't know if that was the way to get home, and I thought they were just gonna take me some place and drop me off. But this girl named Emily ,who went to my church, said it would be all right. I also remember leaving my lunch box in the bus, and crying cause if you did that you had to flip a card, which was the worst thing in the world! But an older girl I was walking with to the school (I don't really remember why, I guess we had buddys or something.) asked me why I was crying and I told her, so she took me to the bus and opened the door. We had a hard time getting it open , she had to pull it really hard. And there it was! I was so happy. Man, I had a lot of good times on the bus. We had to wake up SO early to go to school, most of the time we would just sleep on it. It took thirty minutes to get to school from wear we lived...yes be amazed. So it was a good time to sleep. I remember Emily would sleep on the floor and I would sleep on the seat. I also remember my mom dropped me off in the wrong place once, well she didn't really drop me off at the wrong place, the school was just being stupid. Usually before school the kids played out side and then the teachers would blow the whistle to line up and we would all scamper off to our lines. But if it was really cold we would go to this one room and hang out before school started. That's were my mom dropped me off one day cause it was SOOO cold. But everyone was out side. My teacher said if you went to the wrong place you would get in trouble, so I ran around the school like a spy trying to get out of the building. I remember walk behind one of those food tray things...Though I don't know why they would have one of those in a school. I did somersaults around the building and stuff trying not to get caught. Man, I was a funny kid lol.... But what smells come to mind when ever you thing about school? For me it's always black asphalt in the sun. My second grade teacher was the best. She would bring in food ALL the time to have us sample them. We would try food from different countries most of the time, maybe thats why I like trying new types of food. woooow.....I just went down memory lane. I should probably end this soon.

Well, I'm gonna go to bed. Maybe later I'll talk more about my wounderful childhood adventures, like making car like things to go down the drive way, before the bus came to pick us up. Now that was fun. -Sarah