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gardaland in august,2010 my sister,my mom,my dad and me went to verona,italy and decided to go to an amusement park called gardaland my sister and i were jumping all around the car excited have you ever been to gardaland well i have this is my second time and i think it will be more exciting than the first time because i will go on more rollercoaster s and experiences that s because i am older and taller yeehah we arrived then i saw the ticket man and so did the rest of my family my mom bought 4 tickets and 2 maps when we entered gardaland i saw plenty of people after that my mom checked her map then she thought and finally decided to go to the pirate experience then i told my mom in a surprised voice look at the line my mom answered ya isn t it long we waited for 45 min next we entered a small pirate boat the boat went slowly and we could see sculls all over destroyed boats and pirates then we heard false gun shooting and pirates again finally we got out of the boat already i liked it which men a good start we checked our map let s go through the volcano i said we headed to the volcano this time the line was not that long that s why we entered in 15 min it was a pretty long ride to the volcano but then when we started to go

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through it i heard weird noises theboat lead us out of the volcano into a jungle with false animals after i even managed to touch a snake it was so enjoyable i really don t know who would not like it next we were on our way to lunch when we entered the restaurant it was decorated with pirate boats and sculls we all ordered a steak and i drank a 7up then i asked my mom where are we going next she answered turning rollercoaster again the line was not that long it took us about 25 min waiting that rollercoaster was doing turns around an island and really fast when i got on my sister screamed aaaaaa when we got off i told my mom this was the most fun rollercoaster she smiled then we went to the mammoth the line was enormous we waited for 1 hour to get in the rollercoaster when we got in the rollercoaster i shivered then a guy said 3 2 1 go aaaaaaggggghhhh we all shouted the rollercoaster went so fast with plenty of sudden turns and i was so scared when we got off i said so fun next we went to the shark rollercoaster and waited for 1 hour again plus my sister was a centimeter too small to go on the shark so my mom started to beg luckily it worked when i got on the rollercoaster it did not go fast but then it started to climb up and suddenly it went down so fast that the water under the

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rollercoaster sprinkled into my face then the rollercoaster went through a dark tunnel and up again again the water sprinkled into my face and got soaked then the shark went through a dark tunnel again and then we saw a stone statue of poseidon he was holding a trident as the rollercoaster went through another tunnel we had to get out of the rollercoaster you can t imagine how fun this rollercoaster was after that we went to the caterpillar rollercoaster and we waited for 15 min only though it was not that fun because it did not go fast and it was more suitable for younger kids next we went to buy the photos that were taken of us on rollercoaster s we bought a photo of us on the caterpillar mammoth and shark then we headed to the hotel finally we got out of gardaland the amusement park and opened the 4 doors of the car and entered it then i asked where are we going next my dad answered hotel of course i felt so joyful about the experience it was the most astonishing time i went to gardaland the rollercoaster s were so fun and exciting i loved all the rides then i told my mom these were the best rollercoaster s i ve ever been on by adrian d aoust

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the big accident one sunny morning i asked my mom can i go to the skate park she said yes then i went to the skate park really fast because i wanted to be alone i wanted to be alone because i didn t want to get humiliated from other kids if i fell when i came to the skate park i was alone i was riding my skateboard and i decided to go on the half pipe a half pipe is made out of wood it haves a size of a school and it s like a later u i was going too fast and suddenly i fell on bought of mu arms and i screamed in pain it felt like i broke bought of my arms it was noon and i slowly took my cell phone out of my backpack and i called my mom mom i fell it rely hurts so much come quickly i said she came right away to pick me up when she saw me she screamed what happened and she ran to me i fell from over there and i pointed on the half pipe she picked me up and took me to the hospital because i couldn t move my hands and my hands ware rely hearting me when me and my mom came to the hospital we ware waiting for over two hours then the doctor finally came and he took an x-ray picture of my hand when the doctor took the x-ray picture of my hand he took me to his office and gave me a hand brace he told my mom he is gone ware this for a week if his hand is better just take the hand brace off if his hand isn t better bring him to me so i can give him a cast my mom was relived.

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after this long day we ware finally going home and i was rely tired and i couldn t wait to go home sleep by arman

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the story behind the black dot on a warm summer night in arlington virginia a minor disaster happened to the oldest daughter in a family of six her name was camila anderson what was her disaster how did it happen what caused it to happen why was it minor there are many other questions you could ask but please don t ask them now camila will answer them as you read even before you have a chance to even ask them i slumped into the art room in my house i walked and stepped on something that slightly pinched my left foot but i didn t care its probably was just a broken crayon i thought in my mind i was really bored i ouch i raised my left foot up hmm nothing a cloud of confusion filled my face i suspiciously walked again ouch my mouth shot open and let out a series of ear-splitting screams my mom came rushing toward me like a dog running to its master for a soggy green tennis ball or a milky white bone what happened she asked urgently my foot hurts i responded groaning my mom took a good look at it then she called my dad over to look at it he said i would need to go to the hospital uh-oh going to the hospital was never good my mom said i had a splinter but couldn t they get it out?

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me and my mom climbed into the car i strapped on my seatbelt i didn t want anymore accidents mom do we really need to go to the hospital i groaned loudly i hate car-rides i always get headaches well camila i m sorry but the answer is yes you have a splinter and we can not get it out besides we don t want you getting any infections do we she replied her eyes focused on the wheel we rode in silence after that i leaned my head against my window and watched the landscape zoom by as we rode on and on and on i really had a terrible headache after a while suddenly my mom stopped at a large building here we go she chirped i shot a quick glance around and clambered out of the car we arrived in front of the hospital my mom carried me in her arms muttering something about me being too old to be carried at the age of eight we entered the hospital and my mom heaved me on a chair to sit so i sat on that chair in the waiting room glancing around bored i waited for what was like forever after a while of sitting i realized that the hospital smelled like like blood and medicine i don t like the taste of medicine then finally the doctor came he wore a long clean white suit/coat and had a cheerful face that said everything is going to be alright!

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he took me to his office there we would see my splinter when we got to his office the doctor told me to sit on a white bed i sat on the white bed the doctor asked me something weird he asked what t v channel do you watch i watch nickelodeon i whispered not knowing what to do with the information then he pulled out a little t.v and turned the channel to nickelodeon and hey my favorite t.v show was on icarly yay i know i know icarly is a weird show but hey i was eight ok i told myself so i just layed there watching the t.v while the doctor used his doctor tools to get that splinter out of my foot my head was filled with a rush of relief the doctor pulled out a piece from a mechanical pencil graphite i was glad it wasn t lead relief that was locked in my head in my head finally flooded over my body but still the stain left a little stain on my left foot the stain was a little black dot that would be on my left foot forever juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust great that was the price i paid for getting the graphite out plus the money my mom had to pay the hospital so unfair i was careful how i walked in the art room after that i was also careful how i dropped things sometimes i would just stare at the dot remembering how i got it if you don t believe me about my story experience whatever you want to call

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it you can come to me and i can show you that tiny little dot on my left foot to prove that it really did happen the end by camila anderson

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a bad dog accident dad where are we going i said to a temple ough great be quiet my brother shouted into my ear as we arrived i saw two little puppies straight away i ran toward them and started stroking them on the head between the ears for like two seconds until the mom came and bit me into the upper leg aaaaaaahhhhhhh what happened my dad asked me as saw the blood flowing down my leg that dog attacked me ok ok we will bring you to that street apothecary but i shouldn t have come mamamia i shouted in a really loud voice calm down the dog doesn t have rabies my dad said to me as the doctor put alcohol on the one centimeter deep whole and stitched it but i think

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he doesn t know how to stitch because there were five stitches for one tiny hole later in the afternoon my mom how is it going my mom asked me in a worried voice not good i answered ok we will bring you to the hotel but don t use roomservis you can use the snack bar ok ok back in the hotel i switched on the tv but it was really boring why because it was on burmese i found a stick in the room but i don t know whose it was or where it was from but i guess it was a broomstick so i called my parents and they picked me up straight away because i guess it is batter being at a pagoda than being bored to death and every dog i saw just ran away i really don t know why so from this day on i hated street dogs and sometimes i have small sticks to throw at them but that would probably never happen and i learned that i will pet small puppies with the mom near it by cedric pasch.

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my accident it was a worm summer afternoon in istanbul turkey i went to the park to play by myself there are seesaws slides and many flowers i played so much my mom called me this is enough come and eat dinner emir but i did not want to go home i wanted to keep playing in the park i did not realize that i was tired i decided to go on the slide it was a big red curvy slide i like that slide because it was fun i slid very fast down that slide i fell down from the top of the slide my head hit e piece of metal on the ground it hurt a lot i was going to my home and the blood was dripping on the road i was thinking aloud the man how will he clean the road my mom didn t see my head because she is in the highest stair my mom came down stairs she looked my head and she said emir what happened we went to the car my mom drove the car to the emergency then they took us to the hospital at the hospital the doctor checked my head and stitched my head he gave me some medicine and it s little bit heart i stayed one day in the white hospital that day i ate one sandwich i slept in the big room there were 13 beds for ill people a few days after i came home my dad had to clean my head and my stitches because there was blood still on my head that was dried i hope i don t get into an accident like this again by emir

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my horrible sickness i was breathing heavily my lungs were burning and i had a clogged up throat my mom was terrified her face was red and she was trembling she took me to the doctor s office the doctor came in the room and asked what is wrong i didn t answer because i was crying and coughing because i had asthma i was only crying because i was only one after a few check ups the doctor said luka has a horrible case of asthma and he will have to go to london to treat it the doctor put out his hand and on it was a bottle of liquid my mom snatched out of his hand later my mom made me take the medicine but i didn t swallow it i just spit it right out the next thing i knew i was on a plane to london england as soon as we arrived at the hotel i threw up i couldn t stop coughing my mom threw me in the back of her rental car we took off to the hospital once we got there about five minutes the doctor tried to feed me the medicine but of course i still wouldn t take it so he acted quickly took a needle out of one of his desks and gave me a shot i yelled and started to cry i stayed in the hospital for quite a while finally after thirty minutes the doctor came in to check what was wrong at first he thought i was a 911 victim because it was in the year 2001 which was the year i was born he put me in a room the front door of the room had a skull with across over it painted on the front door my mom wasn t allowed in because the doctors thought my sickness

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