Dear Jerry,
I have been tasked with recommending a book to you and I’m having trouble picking one there are so many to choose from. I think I have recommended Unbroken before so I will stick with another of my all time favorites The Hunger Games series. I don’t know if I have recommended this book before but even so I will recommend it again. The Hunger Games is a fantastic dystopian trilogy following a young girl named Katiss Everdeen. As she fights for her life she discovers that survival in a world where children are sent to fight each other to the death is a lot harder than anyone can imagine. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who loves action and dystopia. The Hunger Games has plot twists every turn and will keep you flipping the pages. This series is one of my favorite series because I love how realistic parts of it can be. Of course there are parts that are not realistic at all but for the most part the book is very believable and I think that is part of why the series is a best seller. If you like the book 1984 by George Orwell then there’s a pretty good chance you will like The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is a more modern version of 1984 it exhibits the same kind of ideas that the government is not what it should be. If you haven’t read it go read it its a must read. I would recommend this book for teens and adults. So that’s it Jerry go read the Hunger Games until next time. your bud

-Caroline

Dear Jerry, 

This week I’m gonna be giving you a book reccomendation, assuming you can read that is. 

One book that I really like is When God Writes Your Love Story by Eric and Leslie Ludy.  This book was a huge help for me and I’m sure would be for young girls wanting a relationship. It is written by a husband and wife that both waited for God to bring them together rather than just going around dating and being heartbroken. They are funny, kind of cheesy but it is not a boring read, they tell their stories and take turns writing. Every chapter they go back and forth so it keeps the book interesting, hearing each side of the story, while learning about letting God take over. 

I for sure reccomend this book to young women. I have already read it twice and learn more from it every time. 

Oh Jerry, the only thing I would change about the D.C. trip would be buying an extra plane ticket for you. You should have seen it! All of the laughs, sights, and adventures. I can’t bring myself to choose “one favorite part” because, let’s face it, who can actually pick a favorite for anything.

I’m just going to list a few of the memorable things that occurred (in no particular order.)

First off, as much as we love the kindles, getting to see Miss Sarah in person is always awesome.

I SAW SNOW FOR THE FIRST TIME! IT was amazing! It was cold (duh) and fun to play in. Definitely fun to play in, but I would wouldn’t want to live in it. One of the best days with snow was a day that wasn’t supposed to happen. Because of the snow storm, Stella, our flight was delayed. so we had an extra day to do whatever we wanted. So what was on that to-do list? A snowball fight in the mall of course. That was fun.

One of my favorite parts of that snowball fights happened like this:

After apparently failing at building a snowman, the northerners started to instruct the Floridians bow to construct the proper snowman. So as I was trying to make the body to my snowman, Caroline asks me, “Rebekah, do you have your camera around your neck?” I was very concentrated  on making my snowman’s base so I replied, “No. Why?” “Just because I didn’t want it to get wet.” I knew something was up but I wasn’t prepared for what was about to happen. Out of no where I find myself pinned against the ground. Caroline tackled me. It was really funny.

Speaking of Caroline, it was her 18th birthday! Mrs. Barley surprised her with unicorn cupcakes. They were delicious and adorable.

This next story  had the whole girl’s room laughing for a solid five minuets.

Miss Sarah is on her phone reading an email from the airport. She reads it intently assuming it’s something serious that might have happened with the flight. But instead of letting everyone know what’s up, she just starts laughing. The email was letting Mr. Bergquist know that their departure was delayed by one minute. At the end of the email it stated “sorry for any inconvenience this might have caused.”  They were supposed to leave at 6:00, instead they were inconvenienced to leave at 6:01.

I could keep going on and on and on about the trip but I better stop.

Until next Jerry

Rebekah

Dear Jerry,

I recently arrived home from One Room’s second trip to Washington D.C. My classmates and I had another wonderful time in our nation’s capital. Many of us thought that last year couldn’t be topped; but I believe it was. This year was full of surprises, brand new experiences and many sights and sounds that we know and love from last year. In today’s blog I will do my best to narrow down my highlights of the trip. 

First, I must say that it is impossible for me to choose my favorite part of the trip because I enjoyed all that we did so much. I truly don’t know what the best part was in my opinion. With that said, we did so many awesome things! The National Spy Museum and the National Museum of African American History and Culture were just two of the new things we did this year. Both were very fun and interesting. Another brand new experience for many of us wasn’t a museum or exhibit, but snow! My siblings and I got to see it for the first time. On our last day there, we got to have a big snowball fight and made a unicorn-pig snowman (it had an even longer title which I am unable to remember). There, of course, was the National Air and Space Museum which we went to last year but it is so amazing we had to do it again (if you can’t tell, that’s my favorite museum). Even there, we did something new. Adam Gillispie and I got to do the fighter jet simulator for the F-4 Phantom II. I was the pilot and Adam was the gunner. We got the rating of ace for shooting down eight aircraft. In the end, one of the great parts of the trip was just being back in D.C. I’m so glad I was able to be a part of this trip again and the memories we made there will have a lasting impact for years to come.

Until next time,

Stephen

Why hello there Jerry. I might as well tell you all about what I thought the trip to D.C. this year was like. It was better than last years kind of. you see we missed the Lincoln monument and I’d really like to run up and down the steps of that place again. Yes I know that’s not everything that matters there. I just really want to do it again. Now on the plus side we did get to go to the spy museum. That was fun, the simulation could have been better but I’m not gonna get all up in a bunch just to talk about what could be better about it. The snow ball fight was fun and funny. I mean it was enjoyable and to watch Mrs Barley school Caroline in a snowball fight was priceless. Building our Anorexic unicorn snow pig was fun and memorable. I still think we need to create a movement to back that up. It would have been really cool to meet the president but we didn’t, maybe next year. Spending time with people that I could actually talk to was definitely a good part of the trip. There was also thankfully less whining and less gift shop shopping. The flight simulators were so much fun. Me and Stephen got Ace on the flight simulator so that was an accomplishment. There was of corse some stuff I didn’t enjoy. The holocaust museum was harder than last time. And the long periods in the cold windy outdoors. Yeah that was probably the most physically stressful part of the trip. And of corse I got home sick. Just like last time we were in D.C. towards the end I just wanted to go home. Maybe it’s the bed I miss, I don’t know. So all in all I enjoyed the trip more than I did last year but I still had that Home sick feeling throughout the trip. Maybe next year it will be better. Who really knows.