1. My Side of the Story

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1 My side of the story. My name is Andrea and I love school! Ha! I bet you were expecting this story would be told by my boyfriend and future husband, A.J. Well, think again, silly! Arlo (that's his real name) and his family are on summer vacation in Bermuda. They're not coming back until next week, when school starts. So now it's my turn. Finally, I get to tell my side of the story.

This is going to be fun! I even got a special notebook to write in. I love writing. Don't you? (Oh, I guess you can't answer that question because you're on that side of the book and I'm on this side.) Aren't parentheses fun? (Answer yes or no here.) I love parentheses because I can pretend that I'm whispering into somebody's ear (like this). Let's get started! Aren't exclamation points fun? I love exclamation points because I can pretend that I'm shouting (LIKE THIS!). Exclamation points are sort of like the opposite of parentheses. The more exclamation points you use, the louder you can shout!!!!!!!!!!!!! (See?) I like question marks, too. (Don't you?????) In general, I'm a big fan of punctuation.

(Can you tell?) Anyway, as I was saying, I love school. School is cool. You can't spell "SCHOOL" without "COOL," right? The only thing I don't like about school is that we can't go there during the summer. Do you know the reason why we don't go to school in the summer? It's because a long time ago when most kids lived on farms, they had to help out in the fields during July and August. I know that's true because I looked it up in my encyclopedia. (I love looking up stuff.) Most of us don't live on farms these days, so we should really go to school all year round, if you ask me. Anyway, back to the story... Ding-dong! Oh, wait. Hang on a second. Somebody just rang the doorbell. That's weird. It's nighttime. Why would somebody be coming

over to my house now? I'll be right back. "I'll get it, Mom!" I shouted. "Who could that be at this hour?" my mom asked. Well, you'll never believe who rang the doorbell. It was Arlo! The #1 reason why I love school... Our wonderful teachers! I love teachers because they are so nice to

devote their lives to children (not even their own children!). Maybe I'll be a teacher when I grow up. Or maybe I'll be a veterinarian. Or a singer. Or a dancer. Maybe I'll be a singing and dancing veterinarian who teaches in her spare time! I'm really not sure what I want to be when I grow up. But I don't have to decide that right now, do I? If you ask me, a teacher should win the Nobel Prize. That's a prize they give out to people who do something good for the world. What, you thought it was for something else?