Jacksonville, Florida
July 5th, 2009
This never happened before and it’s happening now. I wrote a piece about my brothers’ fighting over the fishing rod. I fixed the writing about 10 times so that it could be perfect. At the last minute I tried to save it, but pushed the wrong button and erased it completely. So [...]

Bound for life

BOUND FOR LIFE.

“We have no complaint.” Frank Marrujo, who was with twin, Joe, celebrated their 90th birthday together. I’m not sure if I want to live till 90 and being around Scott. He’s so annoying. We got this twin story from the San Jose Mercury News. Mom made us read it, compare their life to [...]

THE ART OF THANK YOU (Crafting note of Gratitude)

We are supposed to read this book so we can write “Thank you “ notes when we receive presents. Mom makes each of us write a sample ”Thank you.” You should see what Scott‘s thank you note looks like. He drafts a Thank you note to our uncle who sends him $20.00( for real) for [...]

Earn our desk

Why should we earn our desk?
by Scott Nguyen.

Dear Teacher,
We should earn our desks because it would be embarrassing when others teachers or students walk in and see that we haven’t yet earned our desks.
The second reason is our legs get so cramp, and we really want to move but we can’t. If we do, we [...]

08/17/2009
It’s Monday; we come to school early this morning since you don’t want to be late here. There are a few kids who run in late. They are called to stand in line by themselves and explain why they are late. It looks so embarrassing because everyone staring at you. I would not want to [...]

My New School

Today, we started at the new school: our first day at the Heartwood Academy . It was very emotional and nerve wrecking for Scott and I.
We came early, stood in line watching; everyone looked so serious. The principal was yelling :
”Everyone should be in a straight line. I mean everyone.”

She reminded me of Mom on [...]

Mom came to school to pick up Scott and me. We waited in the yard for 15 minutes – still no sign of Scott. We went to his class room, no Scott there either. So we had to scan the school playground. There were Scott and Ricky playing on the swing like it were still [...]

There is a sad news this week: Kevin‘s friend’s Mom finally got divorced. She told Mom she was very generous because she wants nothing much from the ex-husband except enough money to buy food, to pay rent, going shopping and taking the kids out to eat every weekend.

She also wants to take the [...]

Scott has set up a home for himself next to the bed: a huge box taken from the shipment of the Mac computer from Florida that our GrandDad no longer uses; Scott climbs in here to hide when he gets into trouble.

Lately when going to bed, Scott will also put a soldier hat [...]

The meeting

Mom thinks we need to put me on the rescue plan ASAP because she believes in doing things now, not later. She called for AA phone number, talked to the lady to find out where the meeting would be held.

Last Sunday we went. It was raining really hard. The meeting was held in a big [...]