The document discusses the narrator's large extended family, including having 8 aunts between their mother's and father's sides. Their favorite aunt is Aunt Sharon who passed away from cancer. The narrator feels honored to be named after her. The narrator also discusses enjoying spending time with their family for birthdays and holidays like Christmas and appreciates their close family bonds.

2. I have so many Aunts
that it is hard to count. I have 3
aunts on my mothers side and 5
aunts on my dads side. But then it
goes further. My Grandparents
siblings count too. So added to
that I have about 16 aunts.
There are many of them
but I still love them all equally. I
may not see them all as much as
others but they will always have
my love.
I think that the aunt that
means the most to me is my Aunt
Sharon. I have actually never
meet her but I have the most
respect for her she had two
different types of cancer and she
died of heart problems. I have felt
so honored to be named after her.
My grandma tells me story about
all of the amazing things she did My aunts in front of a church.
and it makes me proud to have
been named after her.

3. Being 13 years old I have obviously had
13 birthdays . Each and every birthday was filled
with joy and laughter and most importantly family.
Every year the entire family gathers to my
grandparents house. There are streamers,
balloons and a sign that says “ Happy Birthday “.
We have pizza for dinner and open presents and
eat cake after the whole family sits and enjoys
sometime together.
I always have an amazing day on my
My cousin Talia and my Uncle John birthday. I love being with family and having them
around me. I love how close my family. Just
knowing that everyone is enjoying themselves is
what makes my birthday worth wild.

4. Christmas is my family’s
favorite holiday. We have many
traditions around Christmas time. On
the first day of December we always
put our tree up. Throughout the week
the lights and decorations are put on.
My little brother Christian in My family has many decorations.
front of the Christmas tree Snowmen are all around the house.
Ornaments over flowing the tree.
Cookies being made. Even towels with
snowflakes on them. My mom goes all
out for Christmas.
My Aunt Lori with her daycare
kids , visiting Santa

5. This is the sign for my dance studio.
I have been dancing since I
was 3 years old. Dancing is
something I love to do. There is not a
day in the week that I wouldn’t be
caught going over a routine or doing
any kind of dance steps. The types of
dance I do are ballet, pointe, modern,
hip-hop and tap. My favorites are
modern and tap. Modern is one of my
favorite types of dance to do and
watch because the storyline doesn’t
come across very clearly. So it leaves
me guessing. Tap is also one of my
favorites because I do very well in tap,
it is probably the thing I am best at.
But all in all I love dance because
everything comes at the audience like
a story and knowing that I am part of it
is amazing.

6. My education is a very
big thing in my life. Both of my
parents are very smart and were
A+ students. So I do always feel
that I need to live up to that. I do
enjoy going to school. I find it as
a time to escape from my
obnoxious family and see my
friends. But, don’t let my last
sentence foul you I love going to
school and learning and realizing
how much I know and learn. It is
amazing to me how much a brain
retains in one sitting. We learn so
much and I think most students
take it for granite. All the things in
school relate to our lives in
someway.

7. When I was little
other then dancing I had
loved to fly kites. I still to this
day love flying kites. In fact
every summer I go to my
grandmother’s house for two
or three weeks. One tradition
that we have is flying kites in
the back yard. Now that I
have so many little cousins
My little cousin Phillip flying a kite. on my father’s side of the
family they join in as well. It is
so much fun just watching the
littler ones run around the
yard pulling the kite behind
them.

8. Most people say that they hate
spending time with their grandparents, it is
just so boring and there is nothing to do and
there grandparents sit there and do nothing
all day. But I don’t in anyways feel like that.
My favorite grandparent is my Grandma
Rhonda. She is my mother’s mom. She
buys me everything I want and is always
super nice and sweet as can be. My
Grandma has been through some pretty
rough time. Five days before Christmas in
2011, she had been in a terrible car
accident. She broke 3 bones in her face, 2
bones in her right leg, broke her right arm, My Grandma Rhonda.
dislocated her left elbow and punctured a
nerve in her right hand. To this day she is
still trying to regain strength in her arm four
times everyday. She has only driven 3 or 4
times in the past year.

9. When I was in fifth grade my family
took a trip to Hawaii. We were going to visit
my Uncle Jim, Aunt Sarah and my two
cousins, Anna and Eva. They lived out in
Hawaii because my uncle is in the Navy. But
they now live in Korea and will soon be
moving to Naples, Italy. I knew that having a
chance to go to Hawaii was already so
amazing but I was very excited to see my
cousins. Although they were at school most
of the time, except for the days they stayed
home to be with us. We had done many
things on our visit. We had gone to the
Polynesian Culture Center, Armory Museum,
and many others that I don’t remember the
name of. We went to many beaches as well, (left to right) My little brother Christian, my
two of which were actually featured in my grandma Rhonda, my grandpa Jon, my
movies. But I think that the best time we little cousin Eva and my Aunt Sarah
spent in the ocean was when we went out to
the sandbar. My cousins had taken the day
off from school. I remember seeing jellyfish,
all kinds of fish and what I thought was the
coolest, a sea cucumber. But we had to
make sure that the crabs didn’t come out of
the crab holes and pinch us. Being in Hawaii
was so much fun and I would love to go back
in time so I could cherish that time with my
family once again.
The waterfall at the Polynesian Cultural Center.

10. Being a dancer many
people think that when I brake
something it is caused from dance.
But that isn’t always the case, I may
be graceful on the stage but off I
am as clumsy as could be. I broke
two bone s while I was in the fourth
grade, my ankle and my thumb. I
broke my ankle from slipping on ice.
It was the day of my aunts baby
shower and I was rushing to get
into the house and slipped and fell
on the ice into the snow. Then
about a week after I got my cast of I
was riding my bike and I slipped in
the sand. I landed on only my
thumb and my knee. It took me
about ten minutes to get up
because of all the pain in my leg,
There was blood running down my
leg and my thumb was completely
swollen. I think that after breaking
these bones I had learned a lot
about how clumsy I was and
honestly still am.

11. When I was about 7 years old I had moved to Leominster from Holyoke. I had moved
about five minutes away for JA, in walking distances. I was enrolled there for 4 years, second-
fifth grade. I loved every teacher I had there. I was very shy as a child so moving place to place
wasn’t so easy for me. Throughout the first half of second grade I was usually sitting away from
everyone else, they didn’t even exist. But I think as time went on and I became more acquired
to the my new surrounding I had came more and more out of my “shell’’ . Thanks to the
teachers and the friends I made I am now a smarter and more confident person.

12. There are so many things to
say about my mom that it would take
days, so I am just going to tell you the
information that I think is the most
important. My mom is 31 years old. She
was born on December 8, 981. She had
lived all over the world because my
grandfather was in the Navy. She had
played the clarinet for 9 years and had a
child her Junior year of High School. She
attended Mount Holyoke University at the
age of 19 and started to raise her child.
Although she had to drop out of school to
take care of her child. She then became a
waitress at the 99 in Holyoke. In the year
2006 in the month of January she had
My mom and I at her cousins wedding.
her second child. Later in the months the
entire family had moved to Leominster.
She then worked at the same chain
restaurant but instead of Holyoke it was in
Fitchburg. Her and her two children now
live in a condo in North Leominster. Both
children are at school every weekday and
she attends work every day but Thursday.

13. My favorite band is the
newest pop teen sensation, One
Direction. I could listen to them all day
everyday for the rest of my life. I know
all od there songs by heart. There
middle names. There favorite colors.
And what I would say the most
important there personal life. I have so
many things of One Direction that you
will probably think that I am crazy. I
have a One Direction calendar, about
30 or 40 poster, a blanket, 2 DVD’s and
a teddy bear that has hearts that attach
with Velcro.

14. I have two siblings. A
brother and a sister. My brother is
6 years old and turns 7 at the end
of January. My sister is 10 an
turns 11 in the middle of
February.
Christian attends
Johnny Appleseed Elementary
School. He loves Power Rangers,
watches SpongeBob and loves to
play with Legos. My brother and I
are very close to each other. We
live with my mom so we see each
other everyday. Charlotte does
not live my me as my brother
does she lives with her mom in
Fall River, Massachusetts. She Christian at Universal Studios.
has a younger brother and two
older brother. One that is my age
and another a few years older
then me. But even though we
don’t live together and I have to
deal with Christian everyday I still
love them both very much.

15. Summer is my all time favorite
season: being out of school , hanging
out with friends, going to the beach,
going swimming and my favorite thing
to do, tubing. Every weekend all year
round me and my little brother go to my
grandparents house and I love it so
much, but my favorite time to go is
during the summer. Every single
weekend as soon as I get there we all
change into our bathing suits and go for
a ride on my grandfathers boat.
Occasionally jumping out into the middle
My mom and her friend tubing of the lake. But then after the ride the
fun happens. We strap up the tube, I get
my life jacket on and set off. Hitting the
every single wave. Skimming over the
water, it is an amazing yet some what
terrifying ride. The thing most people are
scared of is falling off, I know I was. But
then you fall off for your first time and
you realize that it is the best part about
tubing. You get the feeling of anxiety as
you slowly fall off, but once you fly
backwards it all goes away.
My friend Melissa and me tubing

16. I may not go on as many
vacations as some people that I
know, but I think that just makes me
appreciate it more. We always go on
vacations with my mom’s parents and
they always pay for it, which does
make me feel bad sometimes
because of the cost but they don’t
seem to mind. With them we have
gone to Walt Disney World three
time, Hawaii twice, I have been to
Atlanta, Georgia and Jacksonville,
Florida. Each of those visit were so Cinderella’s Castle at Disney World.
amazing and I was able to spend so
much time with my grandparents. My
grandparents are actually planning
another vacation to spend a couple of
weeks down south, so we can visit
his siblings and also visit and do
some of the things my grandfather
did as a child. I can’t wait.

17. The Wyman House in Burlington, Massachusetts is
a big part of my families history. The house has actually been
funded by the government and now considered a historical
landmark in the state of Massachusetts. My grandfather is
actually the president of the Wyman House Association. Every
summer in early in the month of September, the entire
association gets together for a meeting about the house,
improvements that have been made and improvements that
need to be made. The meeting usually lasts two to three hours
and then the house is opened up to the public. We have
traditional games from the 1800’s. People dress up in costumes.
Quests are given tours of the home.
Over this past summer, we gave many different The picture from the annual
tours. On some of the tours my grandfather wasn’t able to come meeting from this past summer.
because of work, so I had to take his place, with the help of the
other members of the association. I had to set up the tables for
the games, help put up ramp for the handicapped. Although I
had help it was mostly me that did all the work. I was the main
person to get information from, the main tour guide and the
scariest the one I had control of everything. So thank goodness
nothing went wrong. Having been able to know where my family
came from and how they lived and what they did is an amazing
thing for me to know, if it wasn’t for everything they did I
probably wouldn’t have nearly everything that I have now.
A picture of the landscape of the Wyman
House.

18. I am always terrified to go to the doctors, I hate the thought of something
being wrong with me. Although I especially hate going to the doctors when I need x-rays
because I know that something is wrong. I have had x-rays done many times in my life. I
was born with a heart murmur that soon went away, but they do keep checking to make
sure it doesn’t come back because it did seem to just disappear. It is terrifying to me to
think that I could walk into that dark room thinking that there is something wrong and then
I could possibly leave that room knowing that something is wrong
I have also have had x-rays when I broke my thumb and my ankle. I remember
the pain, as they try to move the injured part of you in all different directions trying to get
every single angle they need. I have had an x-ray recently on both of my ankles because
I do have ankle problems, I have had ankle problems since I was about 6 years old and
being a dancer it does sometimes make it much harder for me. I am usually wearing
either an ankle brace on both ankles of an ace bandage on both ankles. I think that I am
honestly very lucky that I can do all I do with my ankles.
X-rays of the right thumb.
X-ray of an
fractured ankle

19. Newport is one of my
favorite places to go. I was born in
Newport and raised until I was
about one and a half years old.
We had lived on the Naval Base
because my grandpa was in the
navy. I don’t remember any of it
but the stories are pretty good.
Since I was born every summer
we take a day so go to Newport.
The number one thing I look
forward to every year is the Fudge
we get, we get it from the same
store every year. We usually also
get some kind of sweatshirt or
shirt to remember our day we
had.

20. Zoo
I have been to many zoos in my lifetime of thirteen years, so many that I won’t
even name them, but I will name my favorite. My favorite zoo is in Providence, Rhode
Island. It is the Roger William Park Zoo. I have been their numerous times and each time
I go, I get a new memory. Each memory was another time with my family. In fact one of
the times I went I was with my dad, my grandma, my little cousin Julie and one of my
best friends, Kaitlyn Stemler. As we were walking towards the exit a bee flew into my
dad’s pocket. Kaitlyn is allergic to bees so we knew that we had to get away, but we
couldn’t go to far because we were with a group. But then the bee started to follow. My
dad told us to run, so of course we did. As we began to slow down my dad ran up to us.
My dad was sadly been stung afterwards on the back of his ankle, which did give him
much pain. But he thought that at least it was him and not Kaitlyn that got stung by the
bee.

21. This is the kind of phone I have.
My phone is like my child. I have it all the time. By my side all day everyday.
A woke up with the sound of my alarm and usually fall asleep texting. During school
my phone is always in my pocket, off I might add. Although because there is a ghost
in my phone it turns on and off by itself all the time, usually by the end of first period
its back on again. In fact sometimes when I’m trying to send a text message my
phone will just shut off with no warning. Making me have to wait at the least 5
minutes. It is very frustrating. But even though I don’t have an fancy kind of smart
phone I do cherish my phone.

22. I think that everyone
deserves to laugh. Laughing
gets you through any kind of
situation. Whether its
awkward, funny, depressing,
or just really anything.
Everyone has a different kind
of laugh. I always love to hear
different people laughing. It
could be deep, it could be
high, it could be fake. Many
A comedy group from Australia that I watch
on Youtube.
people, especially my friends,
say that when I laugh I sound
like a little baby, but I don’t
really think so. I mean I am 13
years old I hope I don’t sound
like a baby.

23. I am scared of many things but one of my top ten is
roller skating. I hate the feeling of falling over. Even though you
can always get right back up and try again that is a hard thing for
me to do. When I was 8 years old we went to Roll-On-America. I
ended up falling and sprained my ankle. I was on crutches for
about a week and had to wear a splint for a few more weeks,
because of this injury I have never worn roller skates again and I
don’t really plan on it.
The place where I sprained my ankle, Roll-On America.

24. Throughout life I
believe that there is no
possible way that one person
on this entire earth could not
have a single friend. Whether
your are the biggest bully or
the quietest person in school.
You know you have someone
there for you. My friends are
always there for me when I
need them. I will always have
a shoulder to cry on. I wouldn’t
in any way say I am “popular”
or “nerdy”. I think that my Some of my friends that I dance with.
friends and I are somewhere
in the middle. I think that the
only word that can describe
the friends I have is weird. I
honestly love all of my friends
from now till forever.

25. My youth was very confusing
for me as a child. We had moved around
a lot . I would go back and forth my
grandparents house. I never knew what
we were going to do, what our plans for
the days were. We really just winged it,
pretty much everything we did was at
random. I would be with my mom one
day and my grandma the next.
Sometimes my Uncle J would watch me.
There were times when I actually had
gone to work with my mom, I would sit in Plains Elementary School, this is
the back and talk with her co-workers. I the school I attended in
mean my childhood was always very kindergarten.
amazing but, oh so confusing as well.
Selser Elementary School, this is
the school I attended in first grade.

26. “Under the Pillow” is an
expression I like to use. I would not in
any way say I use it everyday though.
The way I interpret this quote is it
means that the things that you keep to
yourself are fully classified just for you
and you always. I think that everyone
has something that they keep “Under
the Pillow’. Whether it is unhappiness
or feelings about someone, it is always
something.

27. My least favorite thing in life is when
people quit. Especially when you have to work in a
group for a project and say one of the students in
your group aren’t participating and decide to walk
away and talk to someone in the other group. Or
when you are part of a team and you stick it out for
half of the year and then quit right before a
competition or a game. Leaving the rest of the team
out cold. I never understand why people do this. If
you make a commitment you should keep it.