Myriam+M

=Tori=

Being a kid is the is the worst thing ever.I have no choice,but to move with my parents.We never should have left Africa.Our apartment in Clevelandis cramped and the whole city is trashed.

Two years later,I'm seven years old,going into second grade,with still no friends.This place is still the same,but our apratment is not so cramped now that my father left me and my mother.When I go out on the street and I walk by a lot and I see people leaning over and digging holes in the ground, they drop seeds in the holes,cover them up and drenched them with water.As I look closer they seem to be creating a garden.

Every time I pass that dirty,well almost clean lot,it puts a smile on my face.A week later,as I was staring down at some growing plants,I see a man haning up a sign and then what it says inspires me to think of an idea. After three long days of thinking and then putting my idea int he box,the day has come and the whole garden was there and I move to the front of the crowd and I started dy dreaming that the winner was me,but I wasn't dreaming it was actually.Everybody started clapping and my mom started cheering as loud as she could,then she picked me up and took me to our apartment.

Ever since my mother started going to the garden,I have been asking her very often if I can go to the garden,but she says I can't go. Why won't she let me go?.She was there when my idea won.but after a long week of beging and crying,I did it.But there was just one little problem I didn't know how to plant a garden.SoI decided to go to the garden and watch other people take care of their part of the garden.I saw this two girls I think their names are carrie and Kim.I walked over to them and if they could could help me plnt my purple tulip seeds.I like purple tulips becuase I like purple and I love tulips.They helped me did and put the seeds in the holes.They taught me everything I need to know about my garden.Going to the garden every day was the best thing that happend to me ever since we moved here.And Carrie and Kim were my friends from that day forward