My eighth grade year was filled with happy and sad experiences; some were not even at school. I have had some funny times that I will never forget and many of these memories are about friends. That just shows how much friends help in life, whether you need physical help mental help or even just a laugh, your friends are always there to when you need them the most.

Most of the sad things that happened to me is away from school and happened to my pets. When I went to California to enjoy a week of sun at my aunts house but a week before we came she called with very bad news. Her dog has lived to be sixteen years old and had to be put down. My aunt also has a couple of cats at her farm that we have claimed as our own. The whole week we were there one of the cats was missing on the last day we were driving to the air port on the side of the road she got out of the car and looked at the mutilated cat…… It was the missing cat. The last thing is probably the hardest for me to write about. My dog has lived with us for six years his weight was 190lbs and it was a healthy weight. He stopped eating for about three days so we took him to the vet he lost more than 50 lbs the vet took a blood test and told us that he has a tumor on his kidney. He is going to be put down by the end of this month. I have spent almost all my spare time with him. We also learned that his hips were displaced. One hip is 90% displaced and the other, 80%.

NOT DONE