Single-elimination tournament

“It was all just big joke!, I’ve should’ve known a girl like me could never fit in with a group of people like them." It was a fun and games until Senró Ines handed me the items of mortification. This is what I receive for being “the best behaved” and so I thought. I helped them hand out cake, assisted them with the hotdogs and put up with Luciana’s cousin. “You and your mother do your homework together?” asked the girl the bow, giggling. She was no different than Regina George, but she…

I enter the music room really nervous about asking Mia to the Yo-Yo Ma concert, What if she say “No”. I mean I have done this other time so why am I nervous so I am just going to ask her, “Have you heard of the Yo-Yo Ma dude?”. She rolls her eyes and say “Everyone’s heard of the Yo-Yo Ma.” I grin and hooked my ringed thumb out toward the quad, “I don’t think you’ll find five people out there who’ve heard of YO-YO Ma. And by the way, what kind of the name is that? Is it ghetto or something? Yo Ma…

Picking a job can be quite hard and confusing. It takes a lot of thinking and preparing for a job and what you would like to be. Going into a job one must know the skills it needs to have, if you don't know how to work with the career then maybe you should rethink a different career. Looking over the payment and how good they have been rated is also a good thing to look into. A good job that makes good payment and that also helps people is a Physical Therapist. Looking at jobs, a good job is…

*** Ponyboy's P.O.V.*** The best thing about being in a gang like ours, is you get to know each other real well. Sometimes too well. Like what annoys each other. Since we we're so close we hardly ever fight with each other. Today was of those day however, where we didn't get along. I'm not sure how it started really. Things had been alright, then suddenly turned bad and got worse. It had been a normal Sunday for the gang. Connie had gone off to church like she does every Sunday…

Glittering sunlight bathed the world below it in shades of gold. The smell of stagnant water and juniper lingered in the air. Gleaming water flowed into Lake Billy Chinook from the Dechutes, Crooked and Metolius. All mixing together to form a long ended valley full of ultramarine agua that was often much too cold to swim in; But I did not care. Splash. Euphonious sounds of laughter and boat engines running rings through the valley, bringing nothing but a colossal smile much too large for my…

Zombie Apocalypse Around 10 a.m. I woke up, stretched and brushed my teeth. I turned on my television, like my daily routine. Well, today was different. Every channel displayed, “Breaking News: ‘Evacuate your homes now and get to a safe location, a zombie apocalypse has started and is coming to an area near you’”. The first three things I decided I needed to do were a zombie apocalypse would be to gather my family who were uninfected, run out of town, and find someone creating an antidote. It…

My book I'm reading is called Fish in a Tree. It is written by Lynda Mullaly Hunt. The book is about a girl named Ally who has gone through to fourth grade without knowing how to read or write. She struggles to make friends because she is so different from everyone else. Ally may not read or write very well, but her new teacher Mr. Daniels notices that she does think outside the box more than any other student he has had in the past. After reading this book I learned that if you don't try to fix…

Karli started to get very nervous. The tornado was expected very soon. Leo and Karli drove to where the tornado is expected to start. On the way there it became very windy. But they had to keep driving. Leo and Karli started talking and then both of them heard whooshing winds. So they sped up the car and when they finally arrived they had no extra time because of the rain and wind. So Karli put on her shoes as fast as she could “Karli, it's time for you to save this town for the second time.”…

My heart was pounding so quickly I thought it was going to fly out of my chest. I’ve been waiting almost a month for this and it’s finally happening. I was at The Who concert. My mom told me to pick something fun to do as a graduation present and as soon as I saw the concert online I knew this was the one. Tickets were kind of difficult to get because it was so close to the concert, but they were some of the best seats I’ve ever had at a concert. We didn’t feel like finding a parking spot at…

Now that I finally had my Costa Rican money in hand, I was prepared to start the ten day adventure. Although I could not understand the energetic conversations all around me, I could tell that people were happy. It was such an infectious feeling. We pushed through the glass doors, the atmosphere from inside the airport, to just a few steps outside was so different. The Costa Rican sun kissed my pale-skinned cheeks, and the chatter of people could be heard. Natives were yelling out, “Pura Vida,”…