Life is like a Book Bag
By: Marcy Harris

Life is like a book bag. You never know just how much you can fit in it before it rips and falls apart, and everything that you've been dodging reoccurs forcing you to deal with it There's only so much one person can take before they crumble. Tension can tear you that nothing but affection and you nearest and dearest can help put you back together.
Everything is just so hard. Especially when you have the pressure of your mom in the background telling you that anything lower then an A+ is just not acceptable. Since nothing be low an A is acceptable I have this weird thing in my mine that anything below an A is failing. I know it’s stupid but I have to think this way just so I don’t go below an A and upset my mom.
I want to become an architect but my mom wants be to be a judge or a lawyer, but I don’t want to be that. She thinks that with my grades I can do something that is really important. But it is not what I wan to do. She always that she doesn’t want to keep me away from my dreams, but she kind of is.
The other day my mother asked me where I wanted to go college. I replied “BYU, or BYU Hawaii”. When I said that she said that” a girl with my grades should go to Harvard or maybe a Historical Black College”. I wanted to go to a place that is close to home like BYU is, and a good college that I like.
Impressing others is just too hard and impossible. Trying to get others to be happy with every little thing that you do will just make you rip and fall apart. But making yourself and others happy will keep the stitches from ripping and letting lose.

Simile Sensation-By Paige Lundeen

Life is like…
A roller coaster ride! It has its ups and downs. But also it can have a big turn of events. My life has had some major up and its major downs. I’ve gone from going one direction into another direction. It goes fast and you don’t realize it till it’s over. Life is like a ride you don’t want to end, but when it does you look back and say man I had fun!
Fasten your seat belts for what’s going to be the best ride you have ever been on. November 29, 1994 a little girl is born. Her name is to be Paige Nicole Lundeen. Wahh Wahh she is crying (as all babies do). This little girl is going to be loved by so many in this world and I don’t doubt you that one bit. 14 years down the road, many things had happened! (Here is the part where her life has a major turn). Seven year old Paige had just been told that she is going to have a little sister by time she is eight! Nine months later her sister Kaylee was born. No more being an only child. Oh well I guess having a little sister will be fun! Ha-ha five years down the road Paige and Kaylee are screaming at each other, for no reason. Not only is Kaylee only five but Paige is almost fourteen! That is an eight year age difference, obviously they are going to fight and yell at each other. Anyways on with the story, like I have said before my life as had so many ups and downs, a have had many moments that I will never forget. I have one that is really special to me and will never be forgotten.
I was July 2005 and we have just arrived in Denver, Colorado. I had been doing really well at my home track of Rocky Mountain Raceways and I wanted to put the icing on the cake. I had all the confidence in the world to go out and win my first national championship. Now I know most of you are saying well she is just going to tell us about how she won. Well I didn’t win, but I was close.
It had been so cold that day in Denver. My car didn’t want to run and it was just miserable. We had gotten time trials done and gone into 3rd round. Well Mother Nature decided she was going to rain on our parade. She literally “rained on our parade,” and when I say rained on our parade I really mean it. It rained for about 2 hours and just made it colder and even more miserable. We were so lost on what to dial the car on what it would run. It finally stopped raining and they had finished drying the track. I only had three rounds until the final. Well I ended up winning those rounds and was into the final. I raced a girl from Texas. Her name was Erin Scott. She was very good and I was way excited to race her. We go up, she pre-stages, I pre-stage…deep breath, stage, as the tree counts down I see Erin leave early…red light. I WON! I was in awe. I didn’t know how to feel. I got down to end of the track, it felt like everything was moving very slow, but fast at the same time. Erin came over and said good race. You could see the disappointment on her face and you can tell she really wanted to win. Once she told me good job it finally had hit me, I had won the ten year old shootout at the “big one!” Everyone I knew was coming up the return road screaming, “Good job, you won!” I had never been so happy in my entire life. The thing that made this so special to me was what my dad had said. It really had meant a lot to me and it’ll be a single moment that will last a lifetime. “You did it and I’m so proud of you.” I might not mean a lot to people but to me I couldn’t of asked for anything more!

Life is like a roller coaster- By Jonny Hummer

Life is like a roller coaster. It goes up and it goes down. You have fun and sometimes it is just plain boring. It gets really fast and then it get slow. See life is just like that. You have your ups when you feel like the king of the world! But then it has its drops when you feel like nobody likes you. It gets fast when you are just having a ton of fun with your friends. Then it gets slow when you really have nothing to do and your just plain bored. You all know how when you have fun things go by fast and when there boring they go by very slowly. It gets thrilling when you meet new people and great friends. Then it gets slow and lame when you lose people who can be very dear to you. When my grandpa died he just got of the ride of life. Then when my soon but then did not know best friend made me want to stay on the ride because got thrilling and interesting.
When I was younger my grandpa died on New Years. It was like he just got off the roller coaster of life. He had diabetes and it was a very hard time for my grandma and also for my dad and his sisters. During that time soon one of my soon to be best friends had just moved into my neighborhood. So then my life was like a roller coaster. It was very sad and great with my new friend. So it was a hard time wanting to stay on the roller coaster of life with my new friend or get off it with my grandpa. To this day my grandma is still a live and is very sad. For my grandma it was a even worse ride then mine. It was like a ride gone wrong. She was living in a roller coaster getting her self thrown around in the car. After that she had some problems. Not financial problems. No not at all she was depressed for months after that and still is very sad. After that we visited her a lot. I like that time a lot it was fun just to talk to her. I also talked to a lot of my aunts and uncles more about my grandpa.
Well when I was about to get in to 5th grade in July 5th I moved here. It was a pretty emotional time for me. I had lived in draper for 8 years so leaving was hard I had so many friends there. Life was a very hard roller coaster then. It had ups and downs to the moves. Like an up my school is close my dads school he works at was closer, Cottonwood High. Those were some ups to that ride but the downs. I lost lots of friends there it was hard. But now I am proud to say that I still see those friends every now and then.

Life is like sweet & sour chicken
By Theo Gochnour

Life is like sweet and sour chicken. Sometimes it is sweet, sometimes it is sour. Sometimes you get picked on and feel like your getting eaten up. Other times people don’t like you and they spit you out. On occasion you are the last one on the plate and you feel like complete reject. There are moments of pure joy and also moments of terror in life. Just like when you bit a burnt piece of Sweet and Sour chicken.
I am going to talk about a time in my life of pure terror and extreme joy.
It was July, The hottest month of the year. My family and I wanted to get out of Utah. Go on a fun vacation for our family to get to know each other. We decided on Mexico. My family was going to Mexico. I thought this trip would be all sweet with no sour. I was wrong.
We arrived at the Cancun international airport. It was a whole different world. My joy and happiness was quickly deteriorating the longer we were there. Everyone around us was speaking Spanish. No one in our family knew Spanish! This was a match made in heck! We came out to the taxis. We saw a man holding a sign that said Gauchners. That obviously wasn’t our name but we knew who he was looking for. We hopped in his cab and he took us to our hotel in Playa Del Carmen just outside of Cancun. Our hotel was nice but still everyone was speaking Spanish! I didn’t know if we would make it out of this strange world alive.
Our hotel room was beautiful. The sour part of the chicken in my life was suddenly becoming sweet again. There were three beds perfect for our 4 person family. We were getting ready for our packed day ahead of us.
The catamaran was boarding we barely got there in time. We were sailing out to a coral reef to go snorkeling. My stomach dropped as we sailed farther out. I always hated going out to sea. It seemed like my life had just bitten into a piece of sour chicken. I checked on the depth monitor and it read 400 feet! Now I was really starting to freak out on top of that I was getting seasick. Mexico was different than I thought…not in a good way.

3 days later

We were packing up and getting ready to leave. In our sweet but sour trip we went to see ancient Aztec Villages, Snorkeled, and rode power scooters on a deserted jungle island. Overall our trip to Mexico was just what is expected. Sweet times like snorkeling & scooter riding. There was also a fair share of sour parts to our trip too. Some included being seasick, everyone speaking Spanish, and nearly getting heat stroke from the extreme Mexican temperatures and humidity.
Life is like sweet & sour chicken sometimes its sweet and sometimes it’s sour.

Simile Sensation By Tyler Knight

Simile Sensation

Life is like a soccer game. You never know to slow down or to run faster. To pass it or to kick it out of bounds. There are a lot of choices.
Well today is the day after Christmas and I’m going skiing at snowbird with my friends Trevor and Britney and they’re uncle Chip. I woke up kind of early to get ready then Chip picked me and Trevor and Britney. Then we went to get are snowbird passes then we headed up. It took forever to get there but it was fun because we listened to the strongbad album. It was way funny but the whole time up there I could only think that today was going to be way fun because it was only my second time skiing. So we get up there and we get all ready and sense it was only my second time skiing I went on the small hill with Britney and Trevor and Chip went to the top of the peak. I went down the small hill three times before Trevor and Chip made it all the way down. They asked me if I wanted to go to the top of the peak but I said not yet so Britney and me went on the small hill three more times while Trevor and Chip went to the top of the peak and came down. It is about 2:00 and we where all starving and in order to eat you had to go to the top of the peak then go down about half way to eat at the restraint so I said ok I’ll go so we get on the lift and up there it was snowing so I had to use my goggles. So we finely make it up there and get of the lift and started going down the hill to the restraint and it was an easy and smooth ride there. To when I get there I stop and take of my skies and we go inside to eat. We all got some cheesy fries and they where way good. So where done eating so I get my skies on and we start heading down. It was good until we got to these two really step hills that are rite before you get of the lift for the small hill. So I start going down the first hill really slow and on my but. I make it down fine so on the second hill I think I can go a little faster so I stand up and start weaving back and forth but I got going to fast and I’m all most to the end of the hill but then I hit a bump and fall face first and my skies get stuck in the grown. My leg started hurting and my skies didn’t fall off because they weren’t a jested right for me so I start screaming and lucky there was a worker right in front of me so he called one of the sleds down. It took forever for the sled to get there but when it got there they put me on it and I had to go down backwards the rest of the hill while a worker on skies controlled it. It was way scary but when I got down there they asked if I wanted a doctor to help me there and to be driven down the mountain to the hospital. I said the to be driven down the mountain. So we get down there to the hospital and I’m rushed in and they take all my pants and my ski boots of which hurt really bad and they put me in a splint that I stayed in for two weeks. So when I finely get x-ray they find out that I have a tumor in my bone but they ignore it for now. So about two months later I get my cast of and I have surgery about three years later but that’s a different story. So that’s my worst experience ever.

Simile Sensation by Chandler Hendrickson

Life is like a school. Some parts are old some are new. Some are tall some are small. A school could break down but someone could re-build it. Small parts of the school could be fixed into a bigger part of the school. Some stories are small some are long. Some stories could be old or new. Schools could grow larger and larger. Some may break and get smaller and smaller. Some stories could grow bigger while some stories get smaller. Here is my story that is big!

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Simile Sensation
Life is like a roller coaster you never know when it is going to go up when it is going to go down. You don’t know when it will turn left or turn right. You never know when it is going to be a thrill or when you are going to go on a boring ride. You never know when life is going to be fun or have a bad part in it but whatever you will go for a ride.
Today I am going to talk about how my life went way down. Then went up, it was a week before my trip to Cooperstown New York. We were going there to play baseball. A week before we had a baseball tournament, we were playing a bad team I got up to bat and the pitcher throws it and it hit my elbow. I went to the doctor and he said that I broke it so I was really bummed.
So then I went to a different doctor and he said to come in right before we left so I go in and he said that it is broken but then… this is the up moment. He said he would have to cast it but then he said that he will let me play so I was so happy that day and I would never forget it in my whole life.
So I went to New York and I had a blast. I got to my hotel and it was awesome. We went every where. First I think we went to the Statue of Liberty then went to the Museum of Natural History. Then we took a long drive all the way to Pennsylvania. We went there and stayed in a nice hotel. We went to the best amusement park in the world. It is Hershey Park. They have rides and also they have lots and lots of chocolate.
What back in New York I forgot to tell you this we went to time square. It was so awesome. We went to M&M world it was so chocolate. We also went to the biggest Toys R US I have ever seen it had a Farris wheel in side the place it was insane. I also went to wicked the play it was so cool. I went with my mom well actually my whole family. Then we took a big walk in the park it was way fun. Then I went to Pennsylvania It was so awesome we went to the Hershey factory it was so fun. Then we went to the amusement park. My favorite ride there was Storm rider it was so fast and it was also fun. Then it had to be the Great Bear it was a fu ride I went on it with my dad he was screaming the whole time. This is my trip to New York and how my trip almost came to a stop on the rollercoaster. Thanks for reading.