Janelle+Lee

“Janelle time to get up now! said my grandma.” * Yawn! * As I started to walk to the bathroom to turn on the shower & to do my hair. “Janelle you need to hurry up, you only have 30 minutes until you have to get to the special event.” “OK - leave me alone!” As I got in the shower and finished bushing my teeth, etc. “BAM” went the hairspray that went flying on to the floor. “Janelle, are you okay?” Yes grandma I’m fine? My grandma is a very special person to me. She always there for me and supports me in any possible way. She had taught to be true to myself and everyone else. She is my world and my everything. She is someone I look up to. Arriving at my special event at my church, when I walked in the doors, I felt so nervous but also felt like I was a celebrity because everyone was coming up to me saying “congratulations on your great achievement.” I replied thank you and took a seat waiting to go into the church where I would take my oath to become a member of the church. I felt the pressure was all on me, standing in front of everyone, answering questions and saying “I do”, I felt like I was getting married but I actually wasn’t. I was making a commitment that I would come back to church. As I started saying I do a lady came up to me saying congratulations on such a great achievement and handed me a gift. She had tears in her eyes and started to cry. I cried with her because I felt so happy someone was paying attention to what was happening. After all the questions and everyone welcoming me, going home sitting back on the couch thinking to myself “Wow I am so proud of myself, never thought this day would come.” This day taught me believe in yourself anything is possible. My father, brother and I went to see my grandparents in Virginia. My mom couldn’t come because of work and needed to stay home with grandma and my aunt. My father asked one of our neighbors if he could borrow his yellow shiny “ baby “ & his army quad for us to ride while we were down south. See, my grandparents have a lot of land in the back of their house and my 2nd cousin lives right up the road plenty of area to ride a quad or a dirt bike. We finally got to my grandparents and unloaded the quads. Our neighbor let us bring both of his quads down so that was so much better. Well as you know I am extremely inpatient and couldn’t wait to go riding on the quad. Dad was tired from driving and told me to wait. Well I just kept asking until he finally gave in and said “Ok Janelle lets go”. Finally I rode with my dad and my cousin Nina rode with her dad on the second quad. We had a blast. Then, my brother took me riding on the quad when dad got tired. We had so much fun. My cousin Nina almost flipped the quad when she gave it to much gas which was hilarious. This trip was the best trip ever to my grandparent’s house. I still talked about what a great time we had. I just wish my mom was here because she likes to ride also – maybe next time.
 * Confirmation – 11/6/11 **
 * My Adventure of Riding on a Quad **

 On August 27th, I received my first bus pass and the name of my teacher. Hoorah! I’m finally going to get to ride a yellow shiny bus. Jumping up and down getting excited because I’m going to get school supplies, a book bag, new clothes and new sneakers. I couldn’t go to sleep the night before the first day of school, way too excited. Finally the morning came and I got up put on my new outfit. Mom and Dad took off from work to see me off to school. OH MY GOD! did they have to take so many pictures of me! The yellow school bus coming up the street with squeaking brakes sounding just like a mouse looking for some cheese, as I was getting on to the school I saw dark red empty seats. The bus driver asking me for my bus pass I got it from my book bag and showed it to him, he then he told me to take a seat. I didn’t know what seat to take since I didn’t know if any of my pre-school friends would be on the same bus. As we started to drive away my entire family waved good bye and have a good day, I felt like a celebrity riding a limo. At the next bus stop more kids got on and they were very loud. One more bus stop and I made more friends. As the yellow bus approach the school I noticed so many kids hanging outside in the parking lot. As we got off the bus I stayed with some of my new friends I met on the bus but then I saw Cathryn and Caitlyn and her mom, I gave them a big hug and hoped they would be in my class. I found my teacher and she gave us our shiny glittery name stickers that read “Hello my name is Janelle”. As the teachers walked us to the class, the class was so clean you could of eat off of it. As Ms. Castles introduced herself and the rules of the class, getting the paperwork we needed to bring home I felt like a big kid now. The first day of school went by so fast. As I approached the BF8 bus and got home my parents was waiting for me. Their first words were “how was your first day of school Janelle”. As I calmly replied back it was so fun, I showed them my self portrait of me and all the papers they have to complete so I can return them back the next day. At dinner, I thought I would miss my pre-school teachers and building but Ben Franklin is a fun place also.
 * My First Day at Benjamin Franklin **

Janelle Rose Lee is a young teenager. She enjoys and loves to shop. Her hobbies include collecting anything with a cheetah print, talking on the phone and facebook. She plans on becoming a police officer. She currently lives in New Jersey. My favorite quote is//: The biggest challenge in life is to be yourself in a world that is trying to make you like everyone else.//
 * Note from Author **