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As we walked out of the school doors, a breeze hit us. With it being around ninety degrees out that day, a breeze was very unexpected, but it was there. The breeze caused signs and trees to move along with it. With the trees moving with the breeze there was the sound of the leaves rustling and this noise could be heard from over the ruckus of the highway. As these cars drove along the highway they passed between two cornfields that were next to the high school. One of these cornfields were alive and green while the other was dead and brown; they were different and yet the same crop, in the same general area. Soon, I saw a large white trucked that kicked up some dust particles from the dust-covered road next to the dirt parking lot.
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As I watched the trees, I realized that it was almost as if they were dancing for me. They were swaying perfectly with the beat of the rope hitting the flagpole. The leaves joined in on the trees dance by falling off and landing gracefully onto the ground. They laid there, probably waiting for the heat of the sun to hit them. The sun was high in the sky, radiating heat to where I could feel it in the shady spot I was sitting in. Yet, the heat was the relaxing kind causing me not to be miserable. Soon, I begin to close my eyes and listen. The whooshing of cars on the highway is soon all I hear, but once I started to focus on other sounds I could hear the leaves singing their songs as they fall. As I sat there, relaxed and tuned into the sounds, I wondered why we don’t get to go outside more. Soon after that I opened my eyes and realized why we really should get outside more. We are all trying our best to focus on things all day long that we need some time to sit outside and listen to our surroundings. There should be some time when we do not listen to someone talking and just sit back to relax. Going outside is something we really should get to do more to calm our fried leaning nerves. After coming to this realization, I was informed it was time to go inside. I sadly got up from my spot on the ground, trotted inside and dreaded the fact that I had to move on and sit in another boring

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