AEL-Veronica+P.

Hi, my name is Veronica, I am 12 years old. My favorite hobbies are write and sing, I like to write in the computer and sing old songs. I am from Venezuela but I live in Buenos Aires-Argentina. I can tell you more about my favorite hobbie! I satrted singing when I was 6 years old...I started singing "My heart will go on" the song in the Titanic movie. And writting storiesin computeres, I started when I was 7 years old. Of course in spanish, but when I got here to Argentina, I came to the International School of Lincoln I learned english, and started reading and writing in english!! _

A Place Called Home
“Now that I lay down to sleep I pray the lord my soul to keep, love with me through the night wake me with the morning light…” Shante said with the entire church group. "Amen." she said after, thinking about her husband that died a few months ago. He died on Hannah's sweet sixteen. Hannah got to her moms hands; her hands were shivering and cold. The chorus came through the sides of the seats and collect money. Shante looked like she was nervous in giving the only money she had saved to buy food. She got money from her pocket and counting really slowly, the collecting people was far from her, she was the only one in the end of the church. When she started counting the money, she had only 2 dollars and 85 cents. The collecting people new her, they new that she only gave the church 60 cents, because she was homeless.

Hannah got her mother’s hand and went to the line to get the holy bread. Shante got a napkin from her pocket and dry her tears, when Hannah saw her mother drying her tears she asked “Mom, what happens?” Shante didn’t respond and she tried to stay with her chin up, to be stronger. When she got there she asked Father Wajen if he could bless her with strength and love. After he did the blessing to Shante and ate the holy bread, she went outside of the church and walk with Hannah to the get John from the sleeping place he has gone last week. Hannah started singing a song that remained Shante of when her husband and her were ready to go to bed, and her husband instead of praying he sing this song… “Shout to the lord, all the earth, Let us sing Power and majesty, praise to the king Mountains bow down and the seas will roar At the sound of your name I sing for joy at the works of your hands Forever I’ll love you, forever I’ll stand Nothing compares to the promise I have in you” Hannah saw her mother crying again, so she hugged Shante tiedly and held her hand firmly through the way to pick John up.

John is a 16 year old boy, who went to High School in New Jersey, but his mom took him out of school in the middle of the semester because she had so many debts with the school. She had to pay 200 dollars for each year, and that was too much for her to pay, as a maid she earned 50 dollars. She felt bad about him not going to school. John wanted to be a writer. But now he has to work as a genitor in a super market. When they got to the place where John was, they saw that he was the only one out there waiting for them. He saw Hannah and ran to the other side of the street with his bags swinging in the air, up and down. He saw his mom and with a wink on his face, he passed his soft hand by his mother’s eyes, clearing the tears away. He hold his mother's hand and Hannah got the other hand and walked to that place called home. When Shante, Hannah, and John appeared in that place they called home. Dinner was in the table already and Mr. Casey was putting the forks on the table. Ms. Casey was closing the windows, because it was cold night. Ms Casey, saw Shante going to her room and told her..."Shante I am really sorry, but because you didn't pay this last 4 months you can't have the room any more." John looked at his mom and stop to hear how his mom would react...”But I could have the money in 5 weeks…” Shante talked really fast to convince Ms. Casey that she could stay for more time…”No Shante, I’m sorry, but you can’t. Now some one has your room, I put your things on the kitchen.” Ms. Casey said with upset. “I could give you other places that you could stay. One is in the 5th av. the boss is my sister's son! I go there every 2 weeks. And there's one in..." Ms. Casey stop talking, because she saw that Shante was already going to the kitchen to get her things "Shante don’t leave please!" Shante didn’t come back. She turned away and went with John.

When she got into the kitchen she saw Tom on the backdoor leaving rice, milk, meat and some cookies for the kids. Shante got so happy and hugged him; Tom was a friend of Shante’s husband when Hannah and John weren’t borne yet. The kids said hi, and got their things. Hannah got her bag with a photo of her family sticking out of a pocket. Shante saw the photo, took it and folded in four, and saved it in the end of her shoe. She hugged Tom again and said bye, leaving Tom with a smile on his face and waved his hand softly, whispering, “Good bye, Shante…Your husband is watching you from up there!” Shante turned her face back and responded “Thanks, my sweet brother.” She crossed the road. It was raining; the drops splashed the cars. Her face was wet and cold. Hannah was cold, and John wanted to eat. They got to the bus stop and waited for the next bus coming. When the bus came, Shante was sitting down in the bus stop bench, she was hugging Hannah and John. The bus driver opened the door and asked, “Hey, what bus are you waiting for?” Shante opened her eyes and responded, “I don’t know, I just know that I am going to 5th Av.” The bus driver exclaimed, “Hey, I am going there…” Shante woke up Hannah and John. They went in and sat down together. Shante sat on the back and gave John a blanket that she had on her old broken bag. Hannah put her head softly on the window and closed her eyes. Shante was almost closing her eyes when suddenly the bus stop in a hard way. Shante shouted to the bus driver, what is happening here...? But the bus driver keep silence, then he said looking at the window, “Oh my goodness! There is a woman in the middle of the street and I think I just killed her.” Hannah woke up fast, like a flash. Shante stood up to see, and looked out the front window. There was a woman in the floor and her eyes where closed. The bus driver went out and checked the woman. All the people that notice where are surrounding her. A woman was calling the ambulance and 4 man where getting help. 2 cars where besides the bus, and a little girl with his brother by the hand looked at the woman, crying and watching what was happening. Shante looked at the two children and carried them to the bus. She asked them, "Is that your mother?" The little girl shook her head up and down. Shante hug them and asked the bus driver if they could come in the bus. The bus driver said yes, with a freaking-out face. Hannah sat with them in another sit. John was outside with the bus driver and Shante was drying the girl’s feet. An ambulance got immediately where the woman was. They got a bed and some bends. Shante went running outside and left the kids with Hannah. When the ambulance got the woman and put her inside the ambulance, Shante asked the nurse that was carrying the woman's purse, "Is she going to be okay?" The nurse didn't answer her question, the nurse closed the ambulance's door, and the ambulance went away like the wind. The police got there and asked questions to the bus driver. He told Shante he couldn't drive the bus until he paid the accident, so Shante went out of the bus and got the 2 children by the hand. She got a taxi and asked the driver to go to the 5th Av. When Shante got there, she sat in front of the New York Public Library she sat on a bench with her daughter and son, and with the 2 children. The two kids were so scared that Shante couldn't get the girl out of her breast. The boy didn't leave Hannah's hand and wouldn't talk. John was hugging his sister because she was cold. It was a cold fall, and all of the people in New York were working. The city was moving along with them. Shante went to the phone that was in front of the bench. Shante left the two kids with Hannah and John. Shante open her wallet. It had a photo of Hannah as baby, and John when he was 4, and of course a photo of her husband. She opens the back pocket of the wallet and see if she had 25 cents…She found one at the end of the wallet, then put into the phone box. She pushed the numbers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 (479-296-349)    “Hello, Helping Home talking?” “//Yes…Who is it?//” “I am a homeless, I come from //‘A place called home’// ” “//Oh, nice…I guess you are searching for places to sleep…no?//” “Yes…” “//Well how many are you?//” “We are 5 in total, 2 children about the ages of 5 to 7, and two teenagers, and me.” “//Okay we have 2 bedrooms habalible…do you want them?//” “Oh, of course, thanks.” “So see you at 6:30 pm for the bedrooms.” “Okay, thanks” When she hang the phone, her life changed completely, a man came and said, “I m from the BIG GIVE of Oprah Winfrey, your friend Ms. Casey told me you needed some help…and I am here for that,” Shante opened her mouth and couldn’t believe, “So I am Cameron and I will love to give you in your hands, 50,000 dollars that we have collected for yourself and family…” THE END!
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