Now I Am Not Ever Going to Get a Date

This is supposed to be me?

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September 10, 1991

Dear Journal,

Lately things have been kind of hectic at WMS. This is me during 6th hour language, 7th hour guidance and 8th hour social studies.

AHHH! Okay okay I'm not the best drawer in the world, so what?

This looks more like Medusa than me, but 12-year-old me was right: I was not (and still am not) a very good drawer!

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I am wondering about if someone will ever ask me to the junior or senior prom. From the looks of it now I am not ever going to get a date. Though I suppose they guys will eventually grow up and I will like them more and I will get older and prettier. Things can still go either way. After all I'm only twelve! I will be thirteen on February 23.

I'm not sure if the big oil fires have been put out yet. People were actually being paid a thousand dollars a day. Wow! Talk about being mega rich!

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I'm referring here to the Kuwait Oil Fires, which burned for ten months according to a 2009 study released by Disaster Prevention and Management. As Iraqi forces retreated from Kuwait, more than 650 oil wells were set aflame. As a twelve-year-old at the time, this was one of the first world conflicts that I was aware of, and I wrote about it a lot in my journal. Learn more about these fires here.

This weekend our plans include going up to Urbandale on Friday the 13th after school and then spent the night and on Saturday we will go to Adventureland, my favorite amusement park! Amusement is so dumb for A Land. It should be called something more suiting, like, Excitement Park!

Anyway, I was going to spend the night again on Saturday, but plans have, unfortunately, changed, and...

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as it turns out, after a land, at about 10:00 p.m., parents will have to take me. Aah!  I could get my homework done on Friday, for heaven's sake. That's the reasons they're taking me home, because I would need to do my homework.  Oh. This is so dumb.

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Now for today's journal prompt! Write about your favorite amusement park experience as a kid or a park that you dreamed of going to, but never did. Is there one you'd go to now if you could? I personally haven't been back to "A Land" since I was about that age. I'd go back to relive the nostalgia, but I'm pretty fortunate to have some awesome theme parks pretty close to me, so I have options closer to where I live now.

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