Mrs. Loy's English Class

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• Shannon Grady

  This summer i went to Tennesse. It was AWESOME! I got to sit in a waterfall and jump off a 200 foot waterfall! It was a once in a life time experience! There state parks are awesome!!!

  9/2/2009 9:20:07 AM
• Chad Theis

  Last year during the week of Thanksgiving my mom and I went to Florida to attend my cousins wedding. She chose me to be a grooms men at her wedding, which I was very honored to be. The wedding was very nice and the reception was a lot of fun. After the wedding we spent the rest of the week doing various activities especially going to the beach. We went to the beach about three times while we were there. One beach we went was red flagged which means there were animals in the sea to be aware of. That did not stop us from continueing to swim. On our last day we spent it at this African zoo thing. We took our car n drove through a few miles of road and the animals were able to come as close as they wanted to you. We saw everything from a turtle to a lion to rhinos. It was one the most memorable trips I had and I will never forget it.

  9/2/2009 9:26:31 AM
• Tim LeTourneau

  I went to Florida for about a week and we went to Disney World and it was a memorable vacation because my family and I had a great time and had alot of fun.

  9/2/2009 9:29:22 AM
• Maureen Conway

  This summer my mom and I drove 25 hours west into South Dakota. We visited many of the same things you said in your example, such as the Wounded Knee site, Custer State Park, and the gravesites of Chief Red Cloud and Sitting Bull. Seeing the broke down town of Wounded Knee where so much important history has happend was depressing. There were historical markers covered with graffiti and a museum that wasnt even opened on a Thursday afternoon. The gravesites were very interesting to walk through and to read all the names of the deceased Native Americans.

  9/2/2009 9:44:04 AM
• jessia rodriquez

  One place I really enjoyed on vacation in U.S was South Dakota. My family and I went cave diving. It was so much fun, but really scary. We also went to the black hills. They were so pretty. OMGSH! They were so colorful! We so many animals.

  9/2/2009 9:47:31 AM
• Brittany Turner

  Freshmen year during spring break I went to South Carolina. I remeber driving there in the pitch black of the night and all the snoring of my siblings, it took us 15 hours to get to our destination and when we finally got there all we wanted to do was sleep. We went and saw Fort Sumter and seeing all of the old artifacts hearing about the first woman serial killer and all of the pirate stories. It was the best vacation ever!

  9/2/2009 9:47:40 AM
• Rick LeFevour

  SOuth Haven, Michigan!! I have been going to South Haven since i was 4 years old and to this day it never gets boring. My family and I rent a condo right on the beach. It has its own private pool and beach. We swim in lake michigan even when it feels like it is 32 degrees. We also attend harborfest. harborfest is a huge festival with music food and fun. There are boat races and swiming races. There are also dance competitions I still havn't won one of those. South Haven is my summer get away and i love it and can't wait to go back next year.

  9/2/2009 9:47:59 AM
• Joe Loebach

  My mom and i went to San Fransisco a couple of weeks ago. iv never been on a plane before so that was cool. We flew over the rocky mountains and they were a LOT bigger then i thought they were. When we got there it was freezing cold and windy. I was hoping for warm sunny whether because i wanted to go surfing. But my mom said that was SAn Diego, which bummed me out. My mom was running a marathon so we had to get her registered and we pretty much walked through the getto of San Fransisco. It was no different then chicago. But after that we went to the hotel and then walked around on the oceana and stuff, we saw a lot of cool things like human robots and other street preformers. We went to the aquarium and saw sharks and sting rays, then after that we actually got go pet the sharks and sting rays that was cool, i almost got bite by a sting ray...
  there was a lot of hobos there to....
  We also went to alcatraz which was sweet! we took the night tour and the boats actually come and then drop you off and come back hours later so you cant get off the island untill the boats come back. it was cool to see how evryone escaped and stuff and were all the fights were. It was kinda freaky because they turned off the lights and opened and shut the doors so you could experience how the prisoners felt. it was a really loud sound having like 100 doors slamming at the same time.
  but ya we went there and other places it was the first time i had ever been to the west coast which was pretty cool.

  9/2/2009 9:48:00 AM
• Courtney Latowicz

  When I was little I went to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. While we were there we visited the battle fields where the Civil War was fought. There were many graves and cannons amongst every square inch of the land. There were huge monuments for the key people and graves for almost everyone who lost their life in this glorious battle. There were even dog houses on the battle field! This place was very memorable because of the beauty and honor of every solider that fought in the Civil War. At night we went on a “ghost hunt” on the battle in the battle field. We were freaking out because we saw a red light in one of the dog houses. Talk about scarey!

  9/2/2009 9:48:07 AM
• Karly Free

  A few summers ago my family took a trip to New York. We went there with the intent of visiting Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. Sadly the day we were to go, there were some storms. I guess that doesn't stop boat people from making money. So with our hair already saturated we took about an hour and fifteen minute boat ride to Ellis Island. When I got there you could tell that something rather important had taken place there. I waited in a line to look through a glass window at what was the belonings of a family that came through there. The family had clothes that all combined would not make up half of my wardrobe. I suddenly felt guilty that I was living in this land that they so desperately wanted to be apart of and didn't even realize I was that priveledged.
  By the time we got to the Statue Of Liberty is was lightening and we took about five minuteds taking pictures. I will remember that trip for the rest of my life. I'm not sure if our parents took us there because they wanted to go on a trip or teach my sister and me a lesson.

  9/2/2009 11:56:08 AM
• Amanda Dobbins

  In America, I have been to Florida, Michigan, Washington D.C., Virginia, and Wisconsin. The coolest and most historical place I have been to was Virginia. In Norfolk, Virginia, my family and I stay on a Navy Reserve. A Navy Reserve is a vacation place with homes and condos for families of the people in the Navy. In Virginia, we did a lot of historical site seeing. We saw the USS Wisconsin, which was a large ship that was on the ocean for three years. My uncle was on this ship for almost a year as well, so that was very cool to see a part of his life that was so vague. We also meet up with a Top Gun navy pilot named Louis. He brought us to a twelve fly by. A twelve fly by is when twelve navy pilots fly by in numbers of twelve. The pilots were flying in from the Dwight D Eisenhower carrier, which was out at sea for five months. The pilots where flying in to see their families. But the rest of the people of the carrier pulled into the Virginia beach doct the next day. We also got a spacial tour by Louis to see the inner rooms of the Dwight D. Esinhower carrier, where the pilots slept, eat, and meeted. IT WAS AWESOME!!!!! One last awesome experience we got was, Louis brought us to a flight simulator, where all the top gun pilots have to train on and pass, to fly the actual planes. And we got to do it, even though we all crashed, it was AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  9/2/2009 1:39:11 PM
• conor Dougherty

  in seventh grade may class viseted washington DC to learn about the nations capital and its workings. I thought it was very interesting to learn all the different things that go on in the captial and visit the different placed.

  9/2/2009 1:40:02 PM
• Hannah Frazier

  Over the summer, my family and I traveled to Washington D.C. and New York City. This was an amazing trip and I learned alot about the different monuments in Washington D.C. The World War II Memorial was very intersting beacuse this memorial honors 16 million who served in uniform and more than 400,000 soldiers who gave their lives. This memorial also honors millions who supported the war effort on the home front and celebrates the American spirit. There are 4,000 stars on the Freedom Wall that commemorate more than 400,000 Americans who gave their lives. My family and I also visited the Newseum in Washington D.C. This is the world's most interactive museum, and has five centuries of news history. There is a gallery of September 11, 2001 in this museum. This gallery has pictures and newspapers from all 50 states from that day. There is also a piece of the Pentagon that was damaged from the terroist attacks in the Newseum. While my family and I were in New York City, we visited Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. I was amazed at how large and tall the Statue of Liberty is. The Ellis Island Immigration Museum is dedicated to the immigrants that came to the United States between 1892-1954. I was also surprised at how the immigrants were treated. They went through many rigorous tests and were not treated with respect. Families would be separated depending on if they passed the tests. If you did not pass these tests, you would be sent back to the country that you were from. Overall, this was a great trip and I learned so much about our country. However, these are just some of the many momuments and museums that my family and I visited.

  9/2/2009 9:00:31 PM
• Pat Mueller

  Last summer, my brother, dad, and I traveled to Maui, and experienced something very similar to how Mrs. Loy felt at Wounded Knee. When most people think about Hawaii, they usually picture white sand beaches with blue waves crashing on the shore...a perfect getaway. But the first thing i saw after the eight hour flight was a one-thousand foot peak called the Iao Needle. Initially our thoughts were surrounding the wonders of mother nature, but as we hiked to the lookout we noticed signs along the path. Each sign was a short fact about the battle there in 1760. I then thought not so much about the beauty, but of the Battle of Kepaniwai that had occured there hundreds of years earlier. I found that no one else seemed to notice the signs, partially hidden in the brush. They seemed insignificant, concealed by the beauty that surrounded them. The battle was apparently so bloody that the bodies blocked Iao Stream. Something that brutal should never be ignored.

  9/2/2009 10:51:25 PM
• Dorianna Piechota

  Lady Liberty
  
  When I was younger, I flew to New York City with my father. As our plane was circling to land, it went out over the harbor. I looked out the window and saw a giant statue of a green lady. To me she looked like a queen with a crown. Her right arm reached up to the sky, bearing a torch with a golden flame. I asked my father who the lady was, and he told me that she was the Statue of Liberty.
  Then my father told me how his own family, who had been forced to work as slave labor for the Nazis, came to America on a ship after World War II. He explained how impressed they were when they first saw the Statue of Liberty as their ship sailed into New York's harbor. His parents were immigrants who were processed on Ellis Island before they were allowed to enter the United States.
  Later my father and I visited the Statue of Liberty so that I could read the inscription on the base of the Statue. They are words I will never forget. They shine like a beacon of welcome to all those people in the world who so desperately want and need the blessings of Lady Liberty.
  
  "Give me your tired, your poor,
  Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
  The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
  Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
  I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

  9/2/2009 11:56:21 PM
• David Serpe

  I went to Florida... and we went to the beach and the pool....oh yeah by the way we own a house down there so its nice we can stay there for a while and we basically just chilled for about 3 weeks just to get a way from school it was really nice wish i was still there. couple of my family members live down there to so we went and visited them it was a fun experiance to see some family members that u havnt seen in about 9 years. so that was my awsome vaction this year

  9/3/2009 5:31:58 PM
• Jen Grob

  This summer I went to St. Augustine, Florida. It is the oldest town in the US. Some roads were made of cobblestone and you could walk to pretty much anywhere in the town. On our hotel there was a plague and stairs left from when they reconstructed it. The importance of this was the stairs were where Martin Luther King, Jr was arrested. The view from our room you could see the Matanzas Bay, a gorgeous scene to see when you wake up. There was also a fort, Castillo De San Marcos. The entire trip was beautiful and amazing.

  9/3/2009 7:16:11 PM
• Christina Pauley

  Last summer my family and I took a long car ride to Wyoming to go to Yellowstone National Park to see Old Faithful and to just visit the park. It was all really pretty to see. We also stopped in Jackson Hole which was a big tourist area. While we were there we stayed at several different camping places in some big parks by yellow stone and went horse back riding, hiking and canoeing. It was a lot of fun and i learned some things too.

  9/3/2009 7:32:26 PM
• Anna Wiznerowicz

  When I was about 5 years old, my whole family and two other families traveled to disney world all crammed in a big van. Since me and my brother were the smallest of everyone, we had to be squished between my mom and her friend for the whole ride...which was over a day, but of course we stopped. With me and ryan crying, and the lack of space, the ride there wasn't very pleasant...but once we got there, it was beautiful. All i can really remember is that it was a huge place and we got to stay in really cool condos. I got to meet mickey and minney mouse and swim in the pool all day long. I had a blast. Hopefully i can go there again sometime soon!

  9/3/2009 8:46:16 PM
• Nick Skaleski

  Two summers ago my family and I went to Los Angeles and San Diego. I always wanted to go to the beaches down there such as Huntington beach because I knew they were famous and you could do activities like surfing or boogy boarding. We also took a tour of the entire city of Los Angeles which was unforgetable. The next day we went to the Warner Brothers studio and saw where some of the most famous movies and shows were shot, such as Friends and ER. Then when we were in San Diego I mostly enjoyed the seafood, and walking around by the Bay. The vacation was definitely a good experience.

  9/3/2009 8:53:48 PM
• Paige Gulbrandsen

  Two summers ago me and my family took a trip out west. I learned many different things. We went to see amaziong things like Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse, Devil's Tower, and Yellowstone. At mount Rushmore i learned things about how the people built it with dynamite and carving tools and how it took hundreds of years. The same thing with Crazy Horse. At Devil's Tower I learned about the old Native American legends that go with it. In Yellowstone i learned so much about the enviroments and the different animals and the habitats. It was so intresting. Another thing we learned about there was the wild west gunslingers and cowboys and how the shaped the old west. It was an expirience i will never forget.

  9/4/2009 3:46:33 PM
• Devin Prisching

  My family and I have been to many places over the years, and the place that struck me with the most fascination was Washington D.C. We saw pretty much everything there and just to think of all the events that took place there amazed me. From the White House to the Vietnam memorial, it will all stay with me for the rest of my life. The Korean war memorial also had some great statues of soldiers of what they would've looked like dressed in their full gear. Behind all of that was a quote inscribed on a wall that read "freedom is not free." That made me wonder about the person that wrote that and what he must have been through. Then we concluded our vacation with a day visit to Arlington National Cemetery. Wow was that a sight. Seeing all of the graves of those soldiers who sacrificed themselves so that we can live freely. Thanking each and every one of them individually is something you wish you can do. But is seems as though the graves stretched on forever. Dying for your country, now that's sacrifice.

  9/4/2009 5:20:05 PM
• Katie Miceli

  This summer I went up to Manatawosh Waters in Wisconson to spend a weekend at my friends lake house. While we were up there we went to a resteraunt called Little Bohemia. Turns out Little Bohemia was one of the places that John Dillanger stayed when hiding. We got to see all the bullet holes that were shot through the windows and through the walls, and some of the things that John Dillanger left behind. It was also just pretty exciting to know that Johnny Depp had been there!

  9/5/2009 10:57:49 AM
• kurtwoolridge

  my most memerabel tripe is when i went to stembout colorado to go skiing with my family.

  9/5/2009 1:04:02 PM
• Jennifer Behler

  Two summers ago my family and I left good old Woodstock for about two weeks and traveled north on a journey that ended up being far more interesting than we ever imagined. We traveled to South Dakota and saw Mount Rushmore, the Black Hills, Crazy Horse, the Badlands, Devils Tower, and Custer State Park. We saw some of the most beautiful creations of man and nature on this trip. All the hard work to build Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse ; which is still being built really moved my family and I. Custer State Park was really awesome because we literally were walking with the buffalo. Of course the natural monuments like the Badlands and Devil's Tower were even more moving. It is one thing to see these places in pictures but it is something completely different to actually stand in front of these wonderful works of art!

  9/6/2009 11:17:05 AM
• Andrew Caldarone

  Flew out to Seattle at the tail end of May earlier this year. Got out there on an American Airlines Boeing 757-200, in first class! Got to go out to the mountains, took a floatplane tour of the Puget sound, and went to the Boeing plant, where they construct the 767, 777, and upcoming 747-8 and 787 Dreamliner.

  9/7/2009 4:39:35 PM
• Rose Domski

  Hi Mrs. Loy's class! I went to Michigan. I took a ship down there. It was kind of fun!

  9/11/2009 8:45:40 AM
• Loy

  hahaha! ROSE! Too funny! Hope all is well with you kiddo!
  
  Well - I'm really glad so many of you visited the Yellowstone area - since a bit of what we'll be studying in class pertains to it!

  9/13/2009 3:52:05 PM
• Robert Mecchi (Ryanbob)

  Last summer I went to Europe. Now you all may be thinking, "Well now, thats not in the United States...dur." Well who-ho, I have visited a place in Europe that was dedicated to the United States after WWII ended. It's called the Normandy American Cemetary, and it's right next to the beaches of Normandy. It was a welcome break, after visiting war-torn landscape after war-torn landscape. We entered american soil at the gate where I were checked for firearms or any metal I were carrying. As soon as I entered, I felt a serene peace flow through the air. As I walked around the outer walkway of the graveyard, I was overwhelemed by the tens of thousands of marble crosses, all lined up perfectly, as if they were soldiers awaiting another call to arms. I walked over the grass, which was so finely kept it really was amazing that it was actually real. I bent to one knee and began to read the names off the fronts of the crosses, each one chiseled precisly into the marble. It can really make one think of the happenings on that day, and how shameful it is that the world will not remember these names, for they are too many to retain. What is remembered is the actions of that fateful day, and what those who died had sacrificed for freedom. It truly is awe-inspiring to see the effort put into a memorial like this, an area of our dead given to us by the french for the sole reason that so many had been lost here that the bodies were too bountiful to bring home. They rest forever, on the battlefield, forever remembered as heroes...for they ended as heroes. It's a shame that one must travel all the way out to France to see this magnicificant beauty, but once you step past the gates you truly feel back home, because you are. Well, you're on american soil, and thats good enough for me. If you ever get the chance, please look up some pictures of this place, it's breath-taking.

  9/14/2009 7:54:20 PM
• Robert Mecchi

  OFF TOPIC!
  
  Ello, how come I can't find my post on here?
  
  And also...Evil Dead 2 is awesome :P

  9/21/2009 6:24:38 PM
• Shannon Grady

  I have been to Texas. This was my most favorite vacation because it was a mini family reunionof the family i never get to see.Also because I got to go jet skiing for the first time. It was awesome!!!

  9/21/2009 6:42:59 PM