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There’s a nervous tension in the air for me these days. I just finsihed my first semester of law school. I feel like a weight has been taken off my shoulders yet at the same time I feel unsure. I don’t know if I feel nervous or excited for the future. Now that my grades have come in, I’m not sure what’s in store for me. To find out more, visit my blog at StartingAtThe17.com. After taking a look at this
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10 COVER FEATURE! Second-time American Idol Contestant, David Oliver Willis shares his journey back to the sizzlin’ stage in Hollywood.
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14 Rest When I Sleep Frances Hamilton 11 of Truckee, CA can hardly sit still when winter beckons her. Follow her jam-packed day-in-the-life.
18 How To Deal With Bullying
Samantha Sousa 12, Apopka, FL knows from first-hand experience how to handle a bully. See her tips.
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1. Buy more pizza and ice cream. 2. Don't let my sisters get away with messing up my room. 3. Stop working and go on a bike ride with me.
To make more time for yourself. With all the business in the day, even parents need some time off.
Jillian 8, Mount Dora, FL
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Remember that we always love you, even when you are not at your best.
Pick and choose your battles (with teens).
Josephine 9, Eustis, FL To remember that part of growing up is to make your own mistakes and learn from them. Victoria 15, Mount Dora, FL I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think I have any advice I would give my parents. I think they're doing a great job. Madison 14, Sorrento, FL
Don't stay up late.
Alissa 16, Mount Dora, FL Well I don't exactly know. I imagine it would be hard for a lot of kids to choose maybe something to help them with their work or with just chores around the house maybe to get a bigger car or even a pool! Larissa 10, Mount Dora, FL To be a kid with your children and understand them as much as they do you. Abby 17, Sorrento, FL
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Dance and do activities if they have some. I love it because it's all about fun.
Play with friends and jump on the bounce houses.
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Play with my friends, because I like my friends.
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Chill.
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like if you could splash through a giant puddle of mud or to traverse across a river or small lake? I am sure there are lots of people in the world who would like to experience this. Fortunately for me, I have. My family owns two Jeeps. One Jeep is blue; the other is red. We like to take them out to play in the Ocala National Forest. It is great way to spend time outdoors with friends and family. During our last outing, we experienced going through the sands of Florida and even better, the mud. A lot of my friends enjoy
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this activity because it is fun and the experience is different every time since the world is always changing. Sometimes there will be a tree in your path that you have to maneuver around and other times there can be so much water and mud that you get stuck. All in all, it is an exciting thing to do. Our last excursion started with making sure we had everything we needed such as water, food, bug spray, and all of the other basic needs. Next we met up with the other jeep owners that were joining us. After some good conversation and making sure that everyone knew the plan for the day, we hit the trails. We normally go
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to about three or four different trails each time we ride. Last time we went, there was a lot of water and mud that we drove through with a big splash. Our friends got stuck in some of the mud and water. The water was mid-way up the doors on their Jeep. That’s crazy! There is a hidden world out there waiting to be explored and I think that this is one of the most fun and adventurous things you can do. Hanging out with friends and family and getting muddy; can’t get much better than that. So next time you happen to see a Jeep, look closely for scrapes and splatters and smile because you know they’ve been having fun.
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By Dakota Storlie 15 Henderson, MN EdVisions On line
I go to Edvisions Off Campus School. It is an online, project-based school. This is my day. I wake up around 6:20 am to get ready to take my sister Alona to school. After that I start advisory on my computer. It’s kinda like homeroom. I do activities like “Where in the World is Gumby?” that teaches us geography. My advisor Chris puts a picture of Gumby on a map of the world, and then hides it, after that he counts to five then uncovers it. The first on who guesses it wins. Then he reads us these cool news articles. After that, he shows us an up-close object and we need to guess the picture. I usually get it right. Chris helps me by going through projects and checking them to make sure they are done. He also approves my projects and helps me write a project request. The best part of my school is the projects. You pick your own projects and it can be anything you want as long as your parent and advisor approve of it. Next I do writing class. I do yoga for my phy-ed project, which is actually pretty painful. Edvisions Off Campus somehow turned Minecraft into a game that you can learn from. I am doing an alien research and a Minecraft project. This is where I am researching aliens and making area 51 on Minecraft. Soon after that I have lunch. Then I do more research on aliens and put the information in my powerpoint for final presentation. After that I meet with a teacher named Jessica. She helps me with all my projects. I am currently doing other projects that are researching on my other projects. Then I draw for my art project. Then I log time for all the work I do to get good grades. Shortly after that I pick up my sister Alona with my mother. After that, I play video games. Then I eat, play video games and go to bed.
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David Oliver Willis is Going to
Walking down the cobblestone alley in the quaint city of Mount Dora, FL one would not expect to come upon a second-time American Idol contestant. Nestled between a bookstore and a fine dining restaurant, the Mount Dora Coffee House and Bistro holds the backstory of an American Original, 22-year-old David Oliver Willis. The singer, songwriter and guitarist,
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is on his way to make his mark in the music industry. Beginning his second season on American Idol, Willis is excited to share his voice with a new panel of judges and viewers. Willis started singing at the age of three and got his first guitar at 12. While being drama club president at his alma mater, Mount Dora High School, and singing at church, David found his love for singing. Now he is owner of an eclectic and cozy coffee house in the heart of Mount Dora with his wife Olivia, also an accomplished singer. Being in American Idol for the second
time has not only made David a better singer, but has made him find himself in other ways. “Showing how much you’ve grown from the year before is big.” In Season 12, Willis finished in the top 20 before being cut. After
use your past experience to your advantage. The audition process can be very overwhelming. Willis said that he was more nervous the second time than the first. “You not only have that first impression that
the season ended, auditions began again
everyone is anxious about, but you have the
only two weeks later. After being eliminated
new first impression, plus making sure that
in Season 12, life continued and Willis and
impression is better than everything you gave
his wife bought a coffee shop and completely
the season before.”
renovated it. “I saw that they had an audition in Atlanta,
Backstage there are so many people it’s hard not to have them get in your head, Willis
but at that time we were just getting ready for
said. “My goal is to showcase who I am and
our grand opening for the coffee shop and
not compare myself to anyone else, because
at that point I was not sure if I was going to
at the end of the day, I am an artist and what I
audition. But then, someone gave me a flight
do is my art.”
out to Detroit and that was where the next audition was.” Over 8,000 people auditioned in Detroit, one of the seven American Idol audition cities for Season 13. Auditioning this second time was completely different for Willis. And just because he was picked last year, didn’t assure him a spot this season. He lined up just like everyone else
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tage in the selection process if they choose to go that route, but Willis refused. “I wanted
Hear Annika’s complete Hear Annika’s complete interview with David here! interview with David here! said, noting that it seemed kind of arrogant to TheBunkRoom.com/podcasts TheBunkRoom.com/podcasts to stand in line just like everyone else,” Willis
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My name is Frances Hamilton and I am 11. I live in Truckee, California, which is a small town in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
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Winter is my favorite time of year here because I get to ski, sled, ice skate, and being inside with hot chocolate and books while having the cold and snow outside. I do pretty much everything possible to be
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around the cold in the winter. I love my busy winter days because there is never a time that I am just staying still. I don’t understand people who just want to lie around all day watching TV, playing video games, or being on their phones. I don’t understand people who don’t give their ALL to every second. My main motto is: “Always give your all to every second during the day because you can rest during the night as much as you want while you are sleeping.” I love big days because I love the feeling of not knowing what’s coming next.
1 It’s the beginning of my day! My mom
wakes me up at 5:15. She reminds me at
and the bass takes
night that I want to wake up early. That way
up less room stand-
in the morning I don’t get too grumpy.
ing than lying on the
2 When I’m reading in the morning while
ground.
drinking my tea and juice, I always have to
6 I have a whole set
be in my coziest outfit because you probably
of constellations on the
can’t see this but in Truckee in the winter it
underside of my sister’s loft.
can get to -20 F.
My inside night sky. When
3 If you think I wake up early, you should
think again! Because my mom wakes up around 3:30 every morning and spends some of her time finding cool articles for me to read. This one was a list of things mentally
them stick a star onto the ceiling. Every night, I can look up and name out who I have with me.
7 My sister playing music. I love
that mentally strong people don’t give up
listening to her, too. In this picture
after failure. I don’t ever want to give up!
she’s figuring out the violin part to Can’t Hold Us by Macklemore.
like reading and math and some geography;
8 I always have to do my chores! I
but mostly I wake up for music. I just love it.
pick up the poop. I feed the dogs. Walk
I just auditioned and got into an orchestra
the dogs. Train them when I have time.
with my bass. I love the bass because it’s very LOW and big and it’s very pretty.
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I just got a new bass stand so I have to find
some time to put that together, too. We have
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my friends come over, I have
strong people don’t do. My favorite one was
4 I know I do a lot of things in the morning,
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a really small house
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9 Oh, the joy of putting on ski boots!
10 I have a carpool with my friend Mikaela. As you can see on the license plate she loves snow, too. It’s kind of a sad season
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for snow so far, though.
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license plate might have
this, I need to take a few
jinxed it.
seconds off to just rest!
Dylan, Isabella, Monique.
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interesting. It buzzes and you can switch around
chairlift that takes us up
all the heads to make
to the race arena where
different sized holes. And
we train.
you can shine things, always looking for the
not that much snow. But
shiny things in life! I’m
we still can train. Here I
making a necklace while
am on my way up for an-
we wait for my sister to
other training run. Today
come home so we can
we trained slalom. Skiing
eat dinner.
eggs. But this night my
MT tells me to have my
mom said I had to eat
head forward and to put
protein. I’m a vegetarian,
my hip into the turn.
so I had to think of some nuts. Made myself an
talk with your friends
egg for dinner! My family
without having your
had fish tacos.
helmets in the way!
14 Food! I think that food
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lay out my clothes.
22 I love this book so
on top. I like to listen to
me when I was really
stories when I eat. So
young. Now I’m reading
I’m waiting for my mom
it again because I don’t
to read The Book Thief.
remember it. I like these
My friend Cody and I
kinds of books because
are studying this book
they always remind me
together.
to love every moment
She is actually two years older than me. On race
like it’s the last moment you’ll ever have.
23 Good night! Thanks
days, she wears cow
for exploring my day!
pants and I wear lion
Watch Frances Ski! Youtube.com/TBRkids
16 This person is very special to me. Her name is Kianna. We have a lot of fun together.
17 My friend Casey and
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Nordic races so it’s fun to
far. My mom read it to
pants!
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21 I always dress up for
grapefruit with sugar
15 This person is Addi.
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good protein other than
of ski team. You get to
ever invented! Especially
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20 I usually don’t like
close together. My coach
is one of the best things
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too. My mom says I’m
you can see how there’s
13 This is a very fun part
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me this tool. It is very
we’ve had to hike to the
between gates that are
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19 My grandpa gave
These past few days
12 In the background
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5
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though I said I don’t do
11 Here I am hiking with
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18 Sometimes, even
And I’m thinking the
I are practicing skiing against each other for the upcoming race. It’s going to be a dual start!
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When I grow up, I’m going to work for Walt Disney World. I want to work with computers and help their website make more money for them and be more interesting. I’m going to live in a nice home with my wife. I’ll have a flying car that looks like a Ferrari. My car will be able to blend in with anything. It will be a camouflaged flying car. I’m also going to have an old beagle. If it’s a boy, I am going to name him Shaggy. If it’s a girl, I’ll name her Lovelace. I will enter every chess compe-
tition there is and win them for the trophies. I will keep all of the trophies in my trophy case. I’m going to also enter the golf tournaments and try to win them all. I’ll put all of my golf trophies in the same case where I keep my chess trophies. I will have two or three children. If one is a girl, I will name her Joscelyn. If it’s a boy, I will name him Alexander. I’m going to live in an underground house and every day, if my kids are late for school, I’ll put teleporters on them and teleport them to school.
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Everything in my house will be made by robots and I’ll have robot servants that will get me anything I want, whenever I want it. My kids will be able to eat everything healthy because we will have a food replicating machine that will make whatever you ask it to do. I will keep my kids safe from any danger. If they get into danger, the robots will put a huge, gigantic shield that can’t be broken all around them which will take them to safety. I hope you all liked my story.
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Beautiful notes fill the air while Susan Cole Shaw plays her organ she affectionately named “Ruby.” Shaw has been playing piano since she was 10 years old and has been teaching since she was 16. That’s a grand total of 54 years! Shaw currently has 10 students but she has had up to 90 students. Her students range anywhere from 3 to 101 and everywhere in between. Shaw loves teaching people for the fun of it. “I always want to make music fun for people and something they will always look forward to,” Shaw said. Teaching is a big part of Shaw’s life but there are some challenges. She finds challenges with the different age groups. “The challenging part is to give the lesson in the right way (for the person’s age).” Shaw is not only a piano, keyboard and organ teacher, but she plays all around the
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I love being homeschooled. Would you like to know why I love it so much? You can sleep in and you can wear your pajamas all day. I like that because my pajamas are very comfortable. I get to be home with my mom all day too. You can start your school work as early as you want. When you start really early, you can get done early and then do anything you want. I like play the Wii, Play Station 2, play with my sisters, read or watch TV. You can do two days of school work in one day and then take an extra day off. My favorite part of being homeschooled
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