Those two exciting weeks...

From July 3rd to July 17th most of the Draper family came over to Poland to visit me.
And my family.
But I know that deep down inside they came to see me. ( ;D )

The night before they were going to arrive we decided that I'd go to Katowice with dad to pick them up.
When we got there, we drove by the glass wall of the airport. You couldn't see almost anything through the glass, up until we got to this one section where you could see through it, and there they were! They started waving like crazy and getting their stuff and Lily and Beth ran out and stopped a few feet in front of me without a word and just kept eating their sandwiches they ran out with. So I'm like "Hi..." and with their cheeks stuffed they're like "Hi!" and I'm all "So am I gonna get a hug ?" and they run up to me and give me a tight squeeze. And of course I'm like "pleeeease don't get your sandwich on me please please please!" But it was nice to feel their little hugs again after a year.
On the drive home we talked [mostly me & Tyra] and listened to this: 
Ha aha hahaha C:
And then some Green Day.♥
And we got home and all the boys were really shy and stuff and Spence was all cute learning everybody's names. And stuff.
Then next day was the 4 of July, And it was AWESOME. After having a DELICIOUS dinner of cheeseburgers, potato salad, CHIPS, watermelon and [mom, write what else there was in the comments] we went on a walk to the playground in our neighbourhood and played soccer (which was a total disaster with all the falling and "almost dying"), then in the evening we ran around our backyard with sparklers (I burned my thumb trying to start three people's sparklers at once) and was just great. 
Then we kinda hung out at home until Saturday.
That day we went to Sandomierz. 
So: this is important: see, I only had one pair of shorts then. And then some leggings. And since my shorts were dirty I had to wear leggings. And what do you wear with leggings? A short dress, or tunic or basically something longishish. So I wore my only thing like that that I have. This kinda..... thing. (you'll see in the pictures I'll post later). Not the best thing to wear on a hot day, as I found out.
But other than the weather it was really great. First we sorta walked around the little town and I shared some stories I remember from when I went on a field trip there. twice. Then we went to these underground tunnels (where this girl took the bad Tatars telling them she'll show them where they keep all their merchandise. When all the Tatars were in the tunnel the people
 from the town did as it was planned: They dumped sand into the tunnels and 
buried everyone - including the girl - alive. [a legend I learned on the field trip.
 although it probably is true cuz lots of bones were found there])
And it was nice and cool in there. Ahhh...
And I can't remember anything else now about our trip to Sandomierz, so I'll post more if I forgot anything interesting.
The next day we went to our little good old Kielce branch. And by little I mean we meet in the missionaries' apartment. But I think the Drapers liked it.
After church we went to the Baranów castle (mom, was it a castle?).
Then we hung out at home some more, went to the swimming pool once, I rode my bike with Tyra (you know, the one who can't ride a bike ;D )and it was all lots of fun. Oh yeah, and we walked/ rode bikes around Mielec one day. We as in both families without the dads.
Then on Saturday we went on a trip to the Ogrodzieniec castle we haven't been to in a long time. And I'm not really gonna tell you more about that trip cuz you'll see everything in the pics I'll post. Oh, except for that we went to Kraków after that.
And on Sunday we went on a walk around Kielce after church, which started being great as soon as aunt Suzy switched shoes with me. THANK YOU♥.  

And so then the night before they were going to leave we all slept downstairs. I mean except for Aaron, Spence, mom and dad.
Then we all [ALL all] woke up early in the morning to say good by.
And minutes before they left I decided to go with them.
To the airport.
When we got there aunt Su was all freaked out that they were late or that the lines would be long so it would be like another hour until they got to the gate. And we got there and they were at the gate in like 5 minutes.
I remember waving to them from like 20 feet away and how they kept turning around to wave again.
But I didn't cry. I didn't let myself. I definitely had tears in my eyes, but no crying. Which made the way home a lot easier to be fun.
After only an hour of driving dad stopped to take a nap. And I didn't fall asleep so I waited for an hour or so reading this:

"reading"

 Ours is silver. Hm.
Oh yeah, so dad woke up and we stopped at a restaurant and I sorta remember the food and what we were talking about, but mostly I remember my drink:

Lemon-mint.
really good.

Then we stopped at a store and dad got me green earphones so we could listen to this cool audiobook.

And it was all good C:

Even though they were gone and deep inside I was totally depressed.

Pleeeease!

So with there being so many birthdays going on and all, I've been thinking about stuff I would be delighted to get for my birthday.

And even though the post title is "Pleeeease!", its not like I want my parents to see and study this post very well.

OH no,no.

Of course not! Why the very thought?

Here it goes! :

This. The firs season.

Yeah, maybe its a cheap looking Chinese show, but I love it.

Annnd...

Money!

To get...:

THESE.

Ohh yeah.

<3

And that.

But that's all.

Don't need to much to make me happy. :)

And I can even survive without the money part :p

Thank You

A few weeks ago there was Mission Conference in Poland, and Elder Christofferson visited our country. I shook hands with him, and just felt really happy.

During the first session, I helped Cindy (15 year old friend) take care of little (aaannddd not so little) kids. Sorta annoying, but sorta fun. Ish.

Once when I was sneaking some food from the hall, this Sister went out of the room with a little crying boy, saying "You are being very naughty". I smiled at her, and later told her that if she wants, I'm taking care of the kids in another room. She said "Oh, no. Thank you though.".

A few minutes later she came to the kids room. "Could you watch him?"

:)

She handed me a mushy banana- "He should be fine if you feed him this".

uhhh... okay.

But he turned out to be the sweetest boy in the room, so he actually made it more pleasant.

But that is not the point.

The next day, Sunday, was the second Session.

As everyone was slowly getting ready and sitting down (no taking care of kids that day!) a different Sister came up to me and mom. I don't even remember if she handed them to me or mom, but she gave one of us pictures. These:

I didn't even know her.

She told mom "I read your post. I thought this is the least I could do".

Wow.

Thank you.

Now I want to cry.

Touch phones are awsome!

Dad got this new phone: Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S.

It's sooo cool!

And it has this sketchy thingamajig thingy. It's so awsome! And I drew these dresses on it:

This one is sorta freaky. Kinda like its bloody... COOL! ;)

So yeah!

It's really cool!

Bye!

...

Well then.

Did I write about this already?

Whatever.

I'll write about it again.

If I have already written about it.

I'm distracting you :)

OK, OK I'll just write what I want to write!

So in my class I'm the best at English. Who would'a known? ;)

Anyway, so my teacher sends me to all these competitions. And in one I got to the semifinal, but I didn't pass. Yeah I'm terrible. Geez.

But the most interesting thing that happened the day of the competition is this:

I met an American girl.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! :D

Olivia.

No, Poles, not Oliwia. Olivia.

In the bus on the way to the semifinal we had to pick up kids from other schools in Mielec. And so when she came in, the teachers asked her: "So when did you move here?" "Two years ago." And I wasn't sure, but I thought I heard a teeny bit of an accent when she spoke... But I had to make sure. So I called mom and told her my awesome idea about something that doesn't matter right now. In English. And then the girl started looking at me, at my shoes, and back at me. Well, I admit, I did the same. Girl, shoes, girl.

And that's because her's were like:

And mine were like:

And her coat was gold and it had fur and it was gold and it looked new and it was gold.

And my mantle was gross green and worn out.

And she had a purse, where I had a looong bag.

So we looked quite like opposites.

Then when we got into the building, she came up to me and said "Słyszałam jak fajnie mówiłaś do przez telefon". ["I heard how you were talking awesomely through the phone."]

And so I said "No, jestem z Ameryki" ["Yeah, I'm from America"]

"Ja też [Me too]. I feel like an alien."

oooooooo!

So we talked for a while before the competition started.

IN ENGLISH.

So now we're friends, and we've been at each others houses and now David is kicking me off he computer so bye!

12

1. I
2. am
3. twelve
4. years
5. old.
6. Can
7. you
8. belive
9. it?!
10. Well
11. I
12. can't.

Ha!

Let me catch you up on some stuff, OK?

Thing #1: Junior high

teachers:

1/3 nice

1/3 mean

1/3 in between

kids:

most girls are the everyday snotty girls but some are nice and will smile to you once in a while.

most boys are the normal show-offs, but some seem calm and almost normal.

plus there are lots of weirdos.

I have two good friends: Madzia[Madja] and Aga.

subjects:

lame and boring, or interesting and fun, or hard and annoing.

but I like german.

AND I got B+ in chemistry!

thing #2: dad

He's in America.

For the doTERRA buisness.

thing #3: A wierd thing.

Okay so, 2 years ago me and David went to moms friend regularly. She hat two sons - twins. But one had a long face and blackish hair, and the other had a round face and red hair.

Two years after we stop coming along with mom I have to sing the lamest song in the world in front of lots of kids from all the different schools in Mielec. Why were all those kids there? To get awards from competitons throughout the year. Then the persom reading the names of the winners said :

" The winner of the IT competiton is Maksymilian Kilian"

That was the name of the boy with the black hair.

But then I remembered that there were like 10 Kilian families in Mielec (of witch in know literaly 5).

So it plain couldn't be him.

What made me positive it wasn't him was when a boy that was like 10 feet tall with a long, black, curly ponytail come up to the stage.

Exept it was him. YAaay.

And after that I stared at him like I'm psycho.

And he kept glancing at me with his eyes kind of buged out too.

And we didn't say hi to each other cause we werent sure it actually was the other person.

That was just too wierd.

Oh, yeah his shoe size is 16, I just found out. That just shows you what a giant he is.

I'm back!

First of all I'm back from America. Which is sad.
Second of all I'm back on my blog. Which is glad.
When I was in America we went to:

1. The Sacred grove,
2. See the Commorah Pageant,
3. Niagra Falls,
4. New York (twice!!),
5. Philadelphia,
6. canoeing,
   
7. to the beach,
8. laser tag,
   
9. Tyra's friends, Audreys, house,
10. the swimming pool almost every day ( I learned how to swim ),
11. a hotel ;)
12. and I layed on the hammock (over?) two hours straight and read books...
13. and lots more things that I can't remember right now.

I had so much fun. Then when aunt Suzy and Tyra took me to the airport, we found out that I have to wait for another hour. So we played cards, ate Junior Mints and Dunkin' Dounut's. And so then I had to go. And I can still see Aunt Suzy and Tyra waving good-bye in her cute shirt. (RAWR!)(only Tyra knows what I mean so don't ask:) And I can still see aunt Suzy's surprised face and Tyra's exited face, when I just got to America. That's why the moment I got home cried . and cried. and cried. And I'm about to cry now so I should stop writing. (too late.)Thank you soo much aunt Suzy for letting me come.

Starting all over again...

In about 4 months I'll be in Jr. high and I have to start all over again. New system, new kids, new teachers, new school. But mostly new kids. I CAN'T believe I'm not going with Ewa. I need her with me, you know? And then the kids might not like me. AND what if I don't find anyone as good as Ewa!? Plus I only have 3 years to find a friend. I only started being friends after 3 years of being in the same class.
And then there's the other problem. I'm going to a mathematical class. I HATE MATH. Yeah but "How else will I get into a good school, and have a good job?"- as dad said. BuuUUuut he miiIIiight be right !

I especially want Tyra to comment, and tell me how it is.

* * *

Lying on the grass,

the moist, green grass,

I see an ocean of blue,

with soft white rocks,
and fish with wings.

I see a blue chalkboard,
full of white, chalk drawings,
made by a child
trying to draw a flower, a tree

I see the many spirits-
so white and clean,
of people that past away
that are gone-
but not for long-
all in heaven .

I see
the sky...




_______________________________________________________




In a field of black flowers,
among birds with no wings,
there I lay in the midst
of a very bad dream.

Where the trees - have no leaves
Where the sky's a black hole
There I lay in deep sleep
I can bear it no more.

Then it rains - big black rocks
that fall from the sky
Then I'm wrapped in black fog
I start to cry--

I wake up, tears on my
cheeks
I scream-
" It's a dream! It's only a dream!"

Then why am I in a field of black flowers?
Among birds with no wings ?
Why do I lay in the midst
of the land from my dream?





BOOOO!

Ha ! Scared you! See! the last one's freaky. ;D

Ugh. Speaking of dream's:

1. I was dreaming that me and David and babcia just decided to walk 95 miles to a train station, where a train would take us to America. When we got there Abby was waiting for us for some reason. We got in the train (without babcia). When we got to America we were standing in front of the Drapers house. Abby opened the door and said:
"Hey everybody! Look who's here!"
"Everybody" was my whole family from moms side! Everyone was in the kitchen. Aunt Heather was working on a turkey, grama was making a salad, uncle Ben was buttering toast's, etc...
And all my cousins were chasing each other...
I started happily crying, then I woke up and cried of sadness. :'(

2. I had a dream that I went to my first day of school in my junior high. There I met another American girl and we became friends. I wish ....... . . . . . . . .

PS AAA! I can't change the post title color. :[

Well There's Good News and Bad News

Good or bad news first? Hm. I guess best for last.

On Sunday I got sick. Like, really sick. I threw up several times an didn't have enough strength to pick up a book. I was ling in bed all day. I managed to walk down stairs so dad could bring down my bed, because I didn't what to be in my room by my self all the time. Plus we were watching a church show and I wanted to see it. Yesterday I had a horrible headache and I couldn't really move without feeling the horrible pain in my head. I was also weak, but I didn't get sick in my stomach. Anyway, today I'm much better and I still have a headache, but not as bad and I can move pretty comfortably.

I've got two good news...es(?).
1. They opened a new gallery in Mielec. And It's real cool. Me and Ewa went there together three times by now, and I haven't bought anything there! Yet...(*evil laugh*)
2. For the first time in my life I went to a hairdresser! I'll post a pic when I get one!!! Aaa!! It's so awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, yeah. I've read the "Hunger Games" and I'm in the middle of "Catching Fire". Have you read them and do you like them?

happy :D

Yesterday we watched the first session of General Conference and today - the second. I took notes. Here are a few of my favoriet things I noted, but (sadly) never thought about very much.

• don't be judgemental;
• think about Jesus and what he would do in your situation;
• look for oportunities to help;
• serve people in need;
• by doing small things we can make other people happy;

Anyway... at the end of 6th grade in Poland, you have a very important test. During the year, once a month, we have example tests like that. I get ap. 34 out of 40. That's fine, but on the real test I want to get 40 out of 40. I'm counting on that. OH, yeah. the stinkin' test is... on Tuesday. I have two flippin' days!!


[Change of subject]
Spencers such a cutey . I mean look at him!
Such a sweet heart... chewing on poor Maggie.







Wearing my stuff .

Aaron's cute too!






David's something like this though :
And for now I'm something like this :

I almost forgot ! we were in a science muzeum the other day.



Tyra ?! Maby you know what that is ?



Speakin of Aaron .. this is what he does on Sundays:






Bye !

*sob, sob*

Yesterday we (me, mom, David, Aaron (Spence for a short time)) watched "Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken". Mom said that when she was my age this was one of her favorite movies. What she didn't say is that I'll cry after watching it. Well, I cried. I couldn't stop myself . It's about a girl who's dream is to be a diving girl (a girl that is on a horse on a really tall tower and the horse jumps in the water with the girl on his back). She runs away from her terrible home and becomes a diving girl and does a very good job with her last many shows. She never gives up on anything and when she decides she wants to do something nobody can stop her. (No really, nobody.) Once she dives on a pretty wild horse. The horse doesn't jump the right way and the girl freaks out and forgets to close her eyes when she gets into the water. Then she's blind. The doctor comes and says that it's permanent. But she says "no! It is not! It's only temporary!" so I started crying. she dives the last time in her life and that's supposed to be a happy ending. But it's too sad for me.This movie is 1 out of the 2 rare movies that make me cry. The other one is Rigoletto, of which (sadly) nobody knows.


I miss America Like crazy. So crazy that I have to stop my self from crying when I think about it. So crazy that I have a stupid goal to save up for a ticket to America. It might take me 2-3 years. I DON'T CARE! I NEED TO GOOOOOO!

How about something happy in the end? My family is awesome. For an example yesterday was the best Saturday in my life. We did stuff like reading, including mom reading to us, writing little stories, eating together , and stuff. Mom and dad had a little date night on Friday.

Bye Bye

school...

I don't want to brag but I'm doing pretty good at school. No, no, I meant to say quite well... so you know how in Poland It's not like you get an A,B,C,D or F , just 6,5,4,3,2 or 1. 1 is the worst. And 6 is like "you did more then you needed to, so thats what you get more then others.", so if you get a 6 you have to remember things that aren't required. Also, in Poland you get grades in the middle of the school year that show you how you've done this year, so ether you want to do better for the rest of the year,or you want to keep it up. here are my grades:

• polish +5
• english 6
• math 4
• nature 3 D:
• technical stuff 5
• history 5 =D
• art 5
• music 6
• computer stuff 5
• PE +4

Ha, ha! you might think I'm so cool to have two stinki'n 6's. Well I'm no. Because english is ... you know...in english. And then music. Well it's unfair. Some kids just don't have good voice.

Oh yeah, when you have, for example, +5 it means it's a almost 6, and if you have -5 it's almost 4.

Sheesh, I was dreaming that I was eating dinner then a huge 14 foot cat came, took my plate, said thank you and went away.

Don't ask-I have noooo idea.

from grama lee that I love very much

For my birthday from grama (I won't type Lee because she's the only grama I have. I only have one babcia too ;) I got this:


A beauty, isn't it?
It plays ,, You Are So Beautiful"
I almost burst onto tears when I opened it. Don't worry, I'm fine now =)
On the outside it says Dear Granddaughter on the inside I was never as blessed as the day you were born

With Love

All of that was in gold.

chapter 7: so the necklace isn't anything I want to touch...

"I really wish you didn't SCREAM!!!" I said as we ran out of the shoe store. "Well, seeing her everywhere is freaking me out. " " So get used to it!!*sigh* OK, lets sit down on that bench by the fountain and have a look at the necklace". After a while, Elise said "Put it on me. tell me how it looks." "Are kidding?!!" I hollered, "This thing might kill you!". She looked at me like 'That's the stupidest thing I have ever heard..' , but then we hear, "Ha Ha Ha! It won't do you any harm! Give me that-" the witch with 'the hair' said, grabbing the necklace out of my hand," you are such a darling girl, you deserve to wear such a beautiful accessory". She started putting it on Elise, and that girl did nothing. N-o-t-h-i-n-g. Nothing. She looked as if she were delighted. The problem was 'da witch' looked delighted too. Now I know why. When the necklace was of Elise's neck, she said "Au! Au! Au! It's hot, hot ,hoooot. GET IT OF!" When I ripped it of it burned my hand too! I looked around. The witch was gone! "Are you OK?" I asked, staring with horror at my burned hand,that hurt like crazy. ARE YOU OK ?!" I said louder because she didn't answer. Still no answer. I turned around to look at her.

She was sitting there trying to breathe.

We let it snow, let it snow....

That thing with my hand ... I was trying to get some snow on it... (It didn't work;)

... all in a days "work"

We decided to go for a walk after a day of sitting in front the TV all day. But when we got out of the house this little boy here made me and mom hold his arms and swing him every other step we took. It was OK and close to the end of our [not] walk mom looked at Aaron and said "Did we forget to put your hat on ?" and he enthusiastically answered "YES!" with a big smile, showing his little teeth.

You can actually see our fence in the back. I'm sorry it's such bad quality, but I did it with my cell phone.

Speaking of TV, while Aaron was watching Barney I noticed something. DEMI LOVATO AND SELENA GOMEZ WHERE IN BARNEY !

Speaking of trumpets Spencer learned this :

Speaking of Spenc, I'll show you how sweetly he dances ( kind of:):

Merry Christmas!

When I woke up I ran down stairs to finish my cards for mom and dad. My plan was that I'd put them into their stockings and I would see if they noticed them on their own. But mom got out of bed just as I got up from my chair to put the cards away, and she seemed kinda mad at me. Well she "told" me that "...don't you know you have to wait for all of us to go down and open our stockings!..." "they're not stockings, mom, they're cheep Christmasish decorated bags!"(cuz we couldn't find stockings anywhere) I answered, very annoyed that mom ruined the whole surprise. "But..." I thought "but why is she so mad? I would see the "stockings", so what?". Well, I soon found out... When we got in, there ,on the table, was a KEYBOARD. A real, live KEYBOARD. Then when we remembered a bout the bags we took them and opened them. In mine I found lots of candy, these AwSoMe black bracelets, cute Hello Kitty buttons, these kind of sticks that when bend them they glow and these pencils that are exactly the same as the ones the Petty's gave us 6 years ago..!! Then we opened presents. From grama I got these beautiful earrings and necklace that are little dream catchers, from Aaron: 24 złoty ($ 8)to spend in tesco, from David: a letter that made me cry & 30 złoty($10), from grandpa & Pam: a book by an LDS author Shannon Hale "The Princess Academy" and 70 złoty($25) for new boots and 50 złoty ($17) for a whole series of books. Yay for me!


HO
HO
HO!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
WESOŁYCH ŚWIĄT!
FELIZ NAVIDAD!

rozdział 1: ,,Te Głosy"

Obudziłam się w środku nocy i zaczęłam trząść łóżkiem Seliny. Znów TO usłyszałam. Szepty. One tak jakby chciały mi coś powiedzieć, ale się sprzeczały, więc nic nie było zrozumiałe.
-O matko! Znowu to?- powiedziała Selina, prędko wstając. Powiedziała to z przejęciem, nie lekceważeniem. Aha, byłam u niej bo nocowałam...u niej. Najlepsze było to, że w domu nikogo nikogo nie było.
-Tak, to było to, ale tym razem jedno słowo zrozumiałam.- odpowiedzałam.
-Jakie?
-,,wróć"
-..yy.. Spokojnie. Próbuj zasnąć.
-Ale się raczej nie stanie... nie zasnę.
- Dobra to pogadajmy--.
-Nie, nie! poczytam OK?
-No, dobra.
Tak bardzo chciałam poczytać, bo zaczęłam nową książkę: ,,Kornelia i jej Kłopoty". Była bardzo ciekawa, o zwykłej dziewczynie i jej dziwnym życiu.
Niestety, nawet jej nie otworzyłam i znowu coś zaczęło szepczeć.
-Selina!! Nie słyszysz tego?!
-Czego?
-Szeptów, rzecz jasna.
-Ja...nie. Wiesz co? Chodźmy na dół. Zrobimy sobie gorącej czekolady..
-Ehe
Było po jej głosie słychać, że nie tylko mnie pocieszała, ale i siebie.Sama się bała!
Kiedy schodziliśmy ze schodów, coś strasznego.
ZA nami skrzypiała podłoga. Nie tylko POD nami, ale i ZA nami. To nie było najstraszniejsze. Selina zemdlała! Szybko zbiegłam na dół po zimną wodę, żeby ją obudzić, ale to był błąd.

W kuchni, o lodówkę odbijał się czyjś cień. Chudy, kościsty cień.

Merry Christmas!

This is our Christmas tree. It's the first year we've decorated it red and gold. We were going to make a popcorn chain, but when we made a little bit of it and put it up to the tree it didn't look nice.
Usually we made it blue and gold. I'm glad it's this way. I always wished to have our tree this color. I love it.
I also love taking pictures like this ^ one, because it makes me feel like I'm in the tree. I have a dozen of that kind of pictures on my phone.


In Poland there is this tradition that the 6th December is Santa Claus day. That day is when kids get extra presents from Santa. In our class we do this thing, that my teacher gives each kid a number from 1-24 and no one knows the numbers and we say one of them and the teacher tells us if it's a boy or girl that we need to buy a present for. I had boys all my life. This and last year I got expensive (looking) soap stuff. DO I STINK? Well I guess I'm overreacting. That stuff is really nice: very peach scented bubble bath, a nice sponge & three fizzy balls. the first one is milk & honey scented, the second one is caramel apple an the last one is peach & mango and their all from a good company.
Ahh.. I'm SO taking a bath..