the past and the present

I love the holidays! I have grown up celebrating more than one holiday in the winter because my dad is Jewish and my mom is a traditionalist Christian. My mom grew up in a Native American tribe called the Cherokees and my dad grew up in a Jewish village but when they were grown they both moved to my home town which is Maui, Hawaii we live by Venice Falls which if you don’t know is THE MOST beautiful thing you will EVER see! I love waking up to hear the water pouring down into the pool of water below. It is great to be able to look out your window and see such a beautiful site. My friend lives by Kahekili Beach so everyday during winter break I grab my bike and ride over to her house. We play a couple of board games that I have left over at her house for days like this and one that she and her brother have gotten as presents over the years! Then we get the swim suits that we have hidden in her beach bag (one is mine and one is hers) then put them on and grab towels fresh out of the dryer and put them in the bag. Api grabbed her skateboard and her poi which is a two year old Rottweiler who is gentle, sweet and a little hyper.

“A hui hou Ku`u ipo!” Api’s mother said. If you do not speech Hawaiian then just turn to the back of the book and look it up!

“A hui hou!” Api said as we walk out the door. And that is were we are right now today so let’s get going. So we are on the beach and I was in a striped Poni and Ke'oke'o bathing suit. Api was in a Melemele and 'Ula'ula polka-dotted bathing suit.

We are under our umbrella with her dog pouncing on us with his little paws. He is SO cute!

“Hey Kalea what type of flower is this?” Api asked me.

I looked at it very closely and examined it “This is a plumeria pua,” I am looking out at the beach the water looks so picture perfect. “Want to go find some shells for our necklaces and bracelets?”

“Sure!” So we’re leaving now so I’ll write the rest tonight after dinner. BYE for now! J J
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WOW! Today was awesome it was SO much fun! Api is sleeping over tonight. She is spending the next couple of days over at our house because her mom will be on a business trip so I suggested she spend the night tonight too. I got her present for Hanukah since it starts tomorrow. Today was P�`akolu so the beach wasn’t as crowded but it still was pretty packed!

“Hey Bright one! Abby, how is it going?” my dad just walked in.

Gone to the Dogs

I had I great life and I thought nothing
would ever change that. But I was sadly mistaken because in a couple of weeks my life would change forever and so would I! It started on a normal day; wait first let me tell you what a normal day was. I fell asleep curled up on the couch at about twelve o’clock. I woke up at about eight or nine o’clock and I heard howling which meant that my best friend was up. She was putting up a fight while having her mom hovering over her with a brush, just like every morning and as soon as I heard that I got up from the couch and started my morning routine.

Food was first and it was downstairs. After that I groomed myself and was off. Bare-foot and all; just like every morning. All I had to do was walk to the big oak tree in my yard and could already see that she was waiting; waiting for me. So we said good-morning. Then Shelby and I went off to go mess in the woods.

“So Chris how did hunting practice go?” Shelby asked just to try to make it seem like she was interested and to make conversation.

“It went pretty well but I like fishing better!” I said as I climbed up the fence.

“Well that’s cool! You’ll have to show me how to sometime,” she said while jumping over the fence.

Shelby was pretty big and tough for a girl. She was about seven and I was around five or six. If anyone looked at either one of us funny then Shelby would tackle them. I tried to pounce and get into the cat fight but by the time I would the job would have already be done so I didn’t try anymore.

Shelby was a lot more flexible than me. Probably then best gymnastic move I could do was stretching my arms! She was definitely a tom boy but if you told her that you would get knocked out.

Anyway we just got into my neighbor's yard. I suggested that we should play tag so we did.

“Who ever heard on a cat and dog playing tag?” Shelby asked.
And yes she is a dog and I’m a cat. A golden retriever and a tiger tabby are the main characters in this story and we’re the best of friends.

“You know I don’t like the term cat; it reminds me of my sister and I swear she’s a different species! And c’mon let’s go fishing!” I said running off. “Oh and the last one there gets the rotten fishhhhh!” I was off.

Of course we tied. I showed Shelby how I turned around backwards and put my back claws in while keeping my balance (I used my back claws because I no longer had my front ones). Shelby tried it with her front claws but, instead of getting a snack from it she got a drink and swim.

“C’mon do the doggy paddle!” I said bursting a gut by laughing. Before I knew it I was doing the same thing after getting clonked by Shelby’s big paw.

Now I enjoy the water unlike my sister but, when I saw my arch numinous I took off running. I have never liked that tabby partly because when we first moved here he made fun of my sister and that’s my job! We got into a full out cat fight, no pun intended!

Decipherer

A story where a kids curiosity led her into a world of unknown. Where just because she decided she would involve her brother and friend it led her down the path to his answer. It started on a regular snowy December day (the sixteenth I think), Charlie & Alison just had arrived at their house. Charlie got the mail as usual.

“A package? For Mom? What is it?” Charlie asked as he went though the mail.

“I’ll take that!” His mom said picking it up as she passed. She darted in the living room with the package as soon as she walked in and then came right back in with out a package.

“Hmmmm… Thinking what I’m thinking?” Charlie said as he heard the door slam.

“Yep those packages are suspicious and so are these cookies lets inspect them. Here!”

“Ally I’m serious, what Christmas present could it be? And for whom?” Charlie said pondering about the thought.

“First let’s get the package!” Ally said drinking out of a juice box and finishing her cookie. “If I was a mysterious package where would I hide?”

“Let me see; how about…” Charlie said getting cut off.

“Found it!” Ally exclaimed holding it up in the air “Now go to the computer and type in River.net………, NOW!” Alison said as she acted large and in charge. She was seating in a wooden chair that was painted black. The dim light from the fading sun was the only light visible in the room. The chair made shadows. It reminded Charlie of the head villain in an evil corporation ordering his evil minions to find out what the good guys were planning.

“Here it is!” Charlie said.

“Username and password? I’ll be right!” Ally said grabbing the phone. “Hey, Will how much do you know about hacking into a computer? Excellent; now ride your bike over here with your equipment a sap!”

It took about five seconds for Will to arrive at the door step with a silver briefcase. He got on the computer as soon as he walked in.

“First I’ll do something simple!” He typed things that looked like a secret code. It
looked like it was crying out to be deciphered.

Charlie thought of it as if it were a spy that worked for the evil corporation was sending a message to the head villain. Charlie was pretty smart for an eleven year old. He was advanced in class he took except band and gym; he was the smartest kid in the whole sixth grade in that county. Alison was advanced in everything but a couple classes, which made her one of the smartest seventh graders in the county (That was really good for a thirteen year old too).