stream of teen spirit

exercise #13

Too much? Or not enough?

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too much (exercise #13)

I have too many little sisters that get me into trouble for no reason and it’s annoying.  Like this morning, I was walking through the dining room into the kitchen and accidentally bumped into one of them because she walked in front of me.  She said “Tony pushed me” and my dad believed her.

I was playing catch with my little sister because she wanted me to.  We were playing and I tossed the ball to her and she didn’t catch it and I hit her in the leg and she told my mom I had thrown the ball at her and purposely hit her.

I went to a grocery store with my mom and my two little sisters.  They were being loud and annoying the whole time and whenever my mom went down an aisle, my sisters would say, “I want this” “I want that.” They would end up getting it because one of them would start crying and being loud and obnoxious and by the time our cart got to the register it was filled to the top.  2/3 of it was junk and the rest normal food and it was like $300 for all of it.

~ tony l., 16, (bellows falls, vt)

not enough (exercise #13)

I want a play station three and I want a game called White Knight Chronicles.  I don’t have either.

I want them so I can play with my brother.  I can’t get them because I don’t have the money.

 My brother and I have a unique bond.  With all brothers and sisters in spite of the times when that they are at school and act different towards each other, they have their unique bond.

My brother and I are the oddest of friends.  He the oldest and I am the youngest.  Other brothers would not bond as much.  When I was growing up, I used to watch him play video games.  I had a big imagination.  The years went by and I was old enough to play.  A lot of the time I play games that I watched him play.  There was a game that was perfect.  A game that I could play with my brother.  This game was World of Warcraft.

World of Warcraft is an online game and a role-playing game.  You can be across the world but play together.  It is a game where you are a character. You quest and get armor and gold. You pick a class and the class determines what abilities you have.  You can be a warrior, a rogue, a magus and more.  My brother is a rogue.  That is his favorite.  I like to be a Paladin.  A Rogue is kind of like a ninja, that stealths around and backstabs monsters.  A Paladin is a knight of the light.  They fight the undead mostly.   We play together and quest together.  We fight evil, all kinds of it.

Once he moved away, we could still play until we could not pay for it.  Now I do not have a computer.  While he is away, his visits are scarce.  The reasons for his infrequent visits are because of money.  He has very little money.  Now we will visit when he can afford it.

~ dominic anderson, 17, (bellows falls, vt)