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Hi, my name is Gaby. I am 11 years old. My favorite hobbies are swimming, volleyball, and rock climbing (even though I have so much vertigo). I am from Argentina and the USA, I live in Buenos Aieres, Argentina. My favorite books are Diary of Anne Frank, and Candyflos. They are both wonderfull books.

First Draft

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Bye Collette” Colletes dad said as he vanished into the gates. Collette and her family satrted to ball with sadness, her father was leaving to Iraq until who knows when. Collette said with dificuly to her mother ”,Do you think we are ever going to see him again?” Collettes mother started to cry like a baby so did Anthony, her older brother. Collette tried to stay on the positive side but there was not positive side. She started to cry more than her mom and brother. Collette loved her dad more than anything in the world if she lost him she would go into deep depression.

Collette said to her mom”, Ok let go to the Admirals club to cool down for our flight to Argentina.” Collette was moving to Argentina the same day that her dad was leaving to Iraq. Collettes eyes filled with her saddnes she started to think “It will be ok, it will be ok” but nothing could stop her from crying she kept on like that unlit she got to the admerails club then she cooled down. Collette is used to being moved aroud. Her father is in the military so she is used to saying goodbye. She moves every single year. When she got to the Admerails club she cheked her email. 12 new emails. She alwas had allot of emails this was allot they were all goodbye emails exept one. The one email that did not say goodbye was the one from her dad. It said: My Pumkin,

I will miss you more than anyone in the world. I will think about you every day. If I don’t something is wrong with me. I promse I will call everyday. I will email every week. I miss you so much. Already.

Yous truly, Marcos (Dad) She started to cry and cry. She could possibly swear that she has never been that sad in her whole entire life. Collette whent to the computer and searched the school that she was going to. It seemed huge to her! She went on the online tour. Even bigger! She went to cool her mind off with a glass of milk. Finaly she went to the place her Mom and brother where and fell asleep on the sofa. Her mom woke her up saying “, Hunny we need to go to our flight.” She got up, got her bag, and left into the plane.

The plane for everyone was luxurious, well at least for the people in 1st class. The chair was gigantic and it went all the way back into as bed. Collette was served hot chocolate with marshmallows and whipped cream. Collette loved it. She felt like she was in a castle with the best luxury ever. Anthony and her mom felt the same. Anthony got some sprite and her mom a glass of wine. It was so good. For dinner Collette had sushi with lobster. Anthony had pasta and mom had a salad. It tasted dreamy everyone thought. Collette watched two movies then collapsed into her sleep.

When she woke up a few minutes before the plane landed. She woke herself up and had a quick breakfast, and got her book and started to read. The flight attendant said, “ We are landing in a few minutes, please collect your personal belongings to be ready when the plane lands thank you we hope you had a delight full flight, bye.” The plane landed and they got off super fast to be the first ones to the luggage pick-up. They each looked for their luggage, when they got their luggage they got onto a taxi. They wanted to see the school, to see how it looks like and maybe even have a tour. They got to the school. It was gigantic. There is nothing like it. It was cover in tall, blue gates, and took up two huge blocks. They asked the guards if they could have a tour, the guards said to come back in a hour. They went to a bar it took quite a while because the only person who knows Spanish is Anthony and he completely refused to talk Spanish he does not like to talk in other languages other than English. Collette got a sandwich and her mom got coffee. Anthony got a prettey big sandwich that they called a sandwich de jamon de queso. We all shared it. We went back to the school for the tour. It was even bigger than she thought. Inside there is what they call the “mantion” it is prettey big. Their tour was longer than usual because they had to look at the high school for Anthony. Collette though the high schoolers scare me they are so big! They saw the track and tennis courts on the other block of the school. Then finaly they went to the elementary. They saw the Spanish classes and her new class. It was 5c class of Mrs. Brooks she is tall blone and very nice. You could tell that she liked Collette because she smiled at her in a nice way when she introducer herself.

When the tour ended Collette and her family went to chek in at a hotel. The hotel was very far away from the school. Collettes dad has already made a reservation for the hotel. When they got to the hotel they were blown away from how luxuryus it was. When they (finaly) got to the room they saw that their dad got the sutie. There was 5 rooms. Three bedromms, living room with a tv, and a Kitchen. All her family loved it. Collette ran to her room to call it. Anthony was so mad he did not get her romm because it is the biggest. Her mom did not care. She likes small rooms. There was a computer in Collettes room. She cheked her email. 12 new messages. She opened the one of her dad. Dear My Pumkin,

I got to Iraq safe, tell Anthony and mom that. Everyone here is so scared and shocked. So far I herd two bombings. I got a mine dog, I called it Eva, I know you like that name. I got a mine dog because there are so many mines here. Let me promise you something, when I coe back I will buy a beagle for Anthony and you how would you like that I know you have been asking for one for a long time. Just to let you know I will be emailing allot.

Love, Dad