My community

Category: J. Frank Hillyard Middle School, Shenandoah Valley, VA

The place in my community that's most special to me is the baseball park. I like to go there in the summer on a particularly hot day. It’s just a very relaxing spot for me, to hear the creek laughing and burbling as it travels over and around the smooth pebbles that are embedded in the creek. It sounds like children playing gaily in a soft meadow.
My family usually has my nephew Ryan’s birthday in that park. That is where most of my memories and stories come from. One time me and my sister was walking down a path parallel to the creek and out of the blue my sister shoves me forwards and says “oops!”. I climbed out of the water and said “oh that’s okay I don’t get mad”. I walked up beside her and then whisperd “I get even” and with that I shoved her into the middle of the creek. When she climbed out I said to her “oops!”. She got really mad and said I’m telling dad. Got home the first thing she did was stalk over to dad sucked up to him a little bit and then said, “Dad TJ pushed me in the creek”.