Christmas!!!!!!

"....Santa is coming to town...." as my little brother sings happily that Christmas is right around the corner!

"....Oh boy! Santa is coming... what fun!!!" explains my friends that have celebrated Christmas for almost 13 or 14 years.

"....Yeah! more presents to buy, Yippee Santa gets to come, hopefully there is something there for me..." wishing hopefully that they can get something in return for all of there hard work for Christmas.

As everyone is getting ready for Christmas, everyone is going to get more and more excited that they get to spend the holidays with there family and friends and make sure that they are having a great time! Most times little kids are excited for Santa to come, but as they get older, they get the news broken to them. They are sad that they don't realize how much some of the older kids they know still want to know Santa Claus is real. So this Christmas, celebrate how you want to celebrate it and let all of your wishes come true!!!!!!

Refrigerator Pies

Painted by Wayne Thiebaud

As I take a seat in the living room
Thinking why I don't want anything…….
But pie.
Just. Pie.
Shelves and shelves of pie sit in my fridge.
Not good enough for my mother to accept
That I’m fond of pie
I wish for pie
Something that we all resist
Just an appetizing, thanksgiving desert that we all have every year
Those poor Thanksgiving pies that aren’t able to be seen anymore
All of those people that worship paintings of pie are sad
Nothing we can do
Fills our mouth with a sweet and savory taste
I have a piece
Delightful
What delectable refrigerator pies
Anything that I could do to have these come back
I adore the piece, gaze at it bit by bit
Scrumptious
My mother still doesn’t like me eating them

All of his art seems to “POP”
To real life
Amazing all of us in its mouth-watering feel
With the pop art he does
Just using oil and a canvas,
All made by Wayne Thiebaud
Since the day he was born
In 1920, his pies are wonderful
That was when we all knew he could make such great pies
Pies that no one can sacrifice ever
Never.
From pies and pastries to toys and other objects
Everyone will miss him
Then came 2007 and no one was able to enjoy his pies anymore
What a sad moment
I still want pie
That we will all desire
Thinking of pie makes me picture that there are always magnificent pies
For all to go around

Is cheerleading a Sport?

            Have you ever thought if cheerleading is really a sport? Well if you are thinking it is not a real sport, think again, it is a sport.  There is strategy in it like every other sport uses, like memorizing the cheers for example. Every cheerleader has to remember each and everyone of the cheers to get the crowd happy and excited for each of the teams that they are cheering for. Another strategy that each cheerleader has to do is read your audience, for example if they are not excited or if they are excited they want to keep it that way. If they are just sitting there, they want to keep them very happy that our team is playing their hardest. Cheerleaders have to know how each stunt goes and when they are suppose to do it. Like for example when they do a touchdown cheer, they have to remember how they do it otherwise the fans will never know what is going on and they think that you do not know what just happened. The stunts make the crowd more energetic and then they want to keep cheering on our team so that they know that there is always something good going on for them.

          Like every other team, cheerleaders go to competitions. Football players compete to win a game. Cheerleaders compete to win a competition to see which squad is the most preppy and happy squad around. Each and every competition is put together like the super-bowl. People want to watch and see who wins and see who made it through without loosing one game. Well that’s like a cheerleading competition, but it isn't football. These cheerleaders practice and practice for hours and hours, day by day, week by week, and so on, but what some people don't think of is how much time and effort they put into it, so that's why they say it's not really a sport when it is. Like every other sport, cheerleading is a sport where they can get very injured and may never be able to compete again. In football guys get very hurt and will never be able to play again because they got it bad, that is the same way with cheerleaders. Doing what you love, is something that everyone likes doing, but not always a good thing when you get injured.

          The injuries in cheerleading are really bad. It has more injuries than actual American Football and more injuries than rugby. Think of it this way, when your feet are first 5 or 6 feet already in the air and your head is probably 9 or 10 feet up in the air, and your bases aren't able to hold you any longer what do you think will happen when the flyer falls forward and no one will catch them? They are going to get very injured and may have to quite all of their sports they where playing because they have to be careful for the rest of their life. So now are you changing your mind about cheerleading being a real sport???? Well stunting is like getting tackled by a 200 pound guy without any padding on, yeah you are going to get hurt like every other sport you see. That is the same way with cheerleading and it causes more deaths and permanent injuries that could cause families moments in life that make them fell sad about their son or daughter.

           Why is cheerleading a sport? It is a sport because, think of all of the other sports that you see on

T.V. or go too, people get hurt that think of ways to beat the other team. Well that is the same thing with cheerleading. If you every think of ways that cheerleading can't be a sport, well that will make you even wonder more if they use it. Pretty much everything that you use in cheerleading, you use in any other sport you see. So next time if you see someone and they are wondering if it is a sport, and they are saying no, correct them and give them examples on how it is just like any other sport you see with injuries and strategies.