the day I got student council

 At school our family is doing good and doing our best.  One day, I got.... student council !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The day we were voting the girls went first.  There was 7 girls who threw their names in,.  The winner is....... Lois!!!  Now for the boys there were 4 boys including me who were running there. I was a little nervous but the winner is ..... me!!!!!! There were 17 girls and 13 voted for me, so it made me wonder, why me? why did almost everybody vote for me? So during lunch I asked a girl who voted for me, and she said, "because I like you" then I said "oh.. well bye" and I asked all the girls that voted for me and they all said "I like you."
Then I realized, what do you do in student council? nobody told me! My teacher said, "you'll see, you'll see."  I haven't seen yet.  All I know is that its going to be freaking awesome.  I think I'll do good and make everybody happy by doing it, and Lois will do really good too.

Respect Day

Respect day was at our school to teach us how to respect the environments and others. Respect day is a day where we learn how to respect the environment and everybody. I think respect day was very respectably fun. Because we played games about being respectful. I got to dress up in garbage as a garbage model and I was super awesome. because I looked good for a garbage model. I also planted corn and we made signs with our hands.  We learned how to dance it was a left row then a right row we would punch the sky and stuff it was fun. We also learned how to work as a team. I was having a great time as vice captain of simba. I learned how to respect the environment.  

 

Motorcycle

This week my dad, Porter, and Everett and I went on a fun motorcycle ride to hoteli called Makuti Grill. It is common in Africa for lots of people to cram on one motorcycle and ride. On the way it started to rain and I was in between my dad and Porter. Everett was in the very front. I was really hot so it cooled me down but it soaked Everett because he was in the front. The roads were really slippery so it was kind of scary but it was still really fun. Out of no where it stopped raining and the roads were completely dry.  So we sped up and when we got there we were all wet and it was not wet outside there because it did not rain there . So it kind of seemed like we were sweating. Everyone was staring at us and looking at us funny.  Then we ordered chapati na maharagwe and Ben and my mom showed up in the car and we were already eating. I really liked riding the motorcycle because I felt like a real African.

How to be Awesome

Awesome Everett

I told you how I made friends with a kid on the first day of school. One day another kid came back to school after missing the first week.  He was my new friends old BFF.  So I knew I had to make my friend think I was still his BFF.  I tried to be nice, do everything he wanted to do, but this kid was too good, way too good, but I was still in the game.  I went up, then down,  but he was still beating me. Not just on friendship,  but also in awesomeness.  He was getting more popular each hour. I knew I was going to be a goner.  I still was trying harder and harder.  I'd never let him beat me on awesomeness, but while I was trying to be awesome, he beat me on my friendship with my new pal. My new friend was playing with him all recess long.  I tried to play with them but it didn't work, and having friends one of the biggest steps of being awesome.   I thought,  I am awesome Everett Fairbourne, I can do this!  I'm master of being awesome!  I finished all the steps of being awesome.
1.have friends
2. be popular
3. be funny
4. do awesome tricks
5.be nice
 6. have a girlfriend

I have done all this, but back to the story. I saw every body laughing at his jokes and that was the last straw I've got to step up my game.  When I was walking outside at recess I saw them together having the best time of there lives.  At first, I got angry, but then I realized that it looked just like me and Cole, my BFF in America.  They were having fun, doing their own thing.  I miss Cole so much and I remembered how much fun we had.  So I just left them alone.  I  didn't want to ruin their fun that would be un-awesome so I walked away.  Then I realized,  I'm awesome Everett Fairbourne! I'm totally awesome!  I fit in great with these awesome dudes!   One day later,  I was the most awesome/funny kid in the class.  I have lots of friends and I have a secret girlfriend.  So I'm still Awesome Everett Fairbourne.  It turns out that now both of them are my really good friends.  So actually everything turned out good.

my sunday talk

Bamburi Branch Primary

This Sunday me and my family are all going to talk in sacrament I am really exited about it and I thought that I could share it with you,  this is what I wrote.

 Hello, my name is Alta and I am ten years old and I have been asked to talk this Sunday and I chose to talk about choosing the right.  I know that Heavenly Father, and Jesus want us to Choose the Right so we can come live with them again. When we choose the right we are blessed with many things like the Holy Ghost. I have a story I would like to tell you about someone who chose the right. I will start with Abinadi the prophet who bore his testimony to wicked king Noah. In his testimony he said "Behold, thus saith the Lord and thus hath He commanded me, saying go forth and say unto this people thus saith the Lord -wo be unto this people for I have seen their abominations and their wickedness and their whoredoms and except they repent I will visit them in mine anger and except they repent and turn to Lord thy God Behold, I will deliver them into the hands of their enemies that they should be brought into bondage and they shall be afflicted by  the hand of their enemies "  and when Abinadi was done with his testimony he knew his words would his life away. When wicked King Noah heard these words he said "Who is Abinadi that I and my people are being judged of and who is the Lord who gives people such great affliction?" "I command you to bring Abinadi forth that I may slay him for what he saith." As you can see Abinadi chose the right and bore his testimony unto King Noah even though he knew he was going to be killed, because he wants to obey Heavenly Father and choose the right, He also wants to be blessed by choosing the right.  It is not always easy but we still want to choose the right because it makes Heavenly Father and Jesus very happy.  In Alma 9:13,  it says "insomuch as ye keeps my commandments ye shall prosper in the land and again it is said insomuch that ye shall not keep my commandments ye shall be cut off of the presence of the Lord" Like the scripture said, if you don't choose the right you won't be blessed and you will not be able to live with them again. Here is another story about Jonah the prophet who messed up and disobeyed Heavenly Father. One day Jonah was called bye God to go to Nineveh to preach unto the people and make them repent but he did not want to go. So he fled on to a boat, but then God sent wind and the boat sunk and Jonah was thrown over board into the sea where he was swallowed by a huge fish.  Jonah was in his stomach for three nights and three days. Soon Jonah repented and he was spit out from the big fish and he went Nineveh and preached unto the people. When Jonah disobeyed God he was not blessed with the safety on the boat and he was thrown over board. If we don't choose the right, we won't be blessed. But it is ok because we can always repent and Heavenly father and Jesus will always forgive us.  I know that we should choose the right for a reason and I know that Heavenly Father and Jesus want us to choose the right and repent and live with them again I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ amen

THE ELECTION

I Porter Fairbourne was elected Vice Captain in House Simba at school.  So this is how it went down, I was in class when our teacher said we have a assembly meeting.  So we all got up and walked down to the assembly hall.  They told us to go to a room to decide who would be the Captains and the Vice Captain of Simba House.   At first I was pretty bored, until the teacher said, "who wants to be captain for the boys?" Then he said usually its year 10 and up so I didn't raise my hand,  but when he asked, "who wants to be vice?" Then he said again its usually year 10 and up but I still rose my hand.  He said come up all people who want to be vice and give a speech.  There were 10 of us who wanted to run. I knew I was pro in speeches so I got up there and said, "my name's Porter and I am running for Vice Captain.  I know that Simba is a great team.  We have won in a lot of things, but we lost last year in cricket and hockey, but not this year.  The other houses got nothing on us! We will beat them in every sport! Then I pointed to the sky and walked off. Everybody was clapping, my speech dominated everybody else's speech.  So the votes came down between me and a guy from Year 12 (like a junior) .  I got twice as many votes than him and I won!  I am the youngest person to ever be elected the vice captain.

                                      

first day of school

The first day of  school was fun. When I first walked in the room my teacher (Mr. Fisher) came up to me and asked my name and shook my hand. I sat down at a table then class started and Mr. fisher paired me up with this girl named Anna and she showed me around. Then at recess I played with Anna and her friend Ruth and we became friends.  When we went back in the class room we made name tags for our desks.  Then we went to assembly for the first day of school. After the assembly we went to lunch we had chapati and meat. After lunch we went to recess and I played rounders with some girls in my class Jade, Kirsty, Elaine, Lena, Ruth and Anna.  After recess, we did some other things then we went home. I really think Braeburn is really fun and there is a lot of nice and fun people and there is great teachers I am looking forward to going to secondary school next year (junior High).

My first Day of school

    My first day of school was awesome! It was like I was already there for three years.  I felt like I knew everybody and we all were just fine.  We met all of our new high school teachers and I started taking Kiswahili. There are 19 people in year 7 so that is my whole grade. So it was just a pretty awesome day, but then it got even better.  The lunch there isn't just slop on a plate.  It's really really good food! We had chapati and nyama (roasted meat).  You know what? that might have been the best part of my day and then I continued on as a really really good day.

my first day at school

My first day at school was AWESOME"!!!!!! So first, my teacher Mr. Willi introduced me to a kid named Reis.  He was going to show me around.  He showed me everything I needed to know.  After that, we went to the bars because there was no playground.  Well kind of there was, there are bars, swings, piled logs, net, and ropes.  So we were just talking and he said, "so where are you from" and I said "America" then he said "wow! America, I always wanted to be friends with an American" then I said, "well then your wishes are coming true, we're friends!"  And that's how you make a friend on the first day of school.  Man that's my new record of making a friend during school, awesome! So now we were in class and I was kind of confused because I'm new here and they were saying something about a holiday.  At first I thought it meant holiday, like Christmas but then I realized  there is more than one holiday, so then I thought it meant a birthday but it meant summer.

The first day of school is a big deal, its your first impression, its time to shine. And at first I was scared and nervous but then It was AWESOME!!!!!

The food

In Africa the food is different than in America. In America, there is fast food and fountain drinks that go up to the size of a bucket. In Africa, they have simple, healthy, different, and delicious food all over Africa like chapati (flat bread, like a tortilla), maharagwe (beans), pilau (rice and meat with spices), matoke (green bananas that taste like potatoes), sima (boiled ground maize), and much more.  I love all the food here, and I love to go out to hotelis (little shack cafes) and get these things.  I love chapati and maharagwe the most and I don't really like the green bananas.  Africa has glass bottled soda everywhere like Coke, Sprite, Fanta, and more.  They have no fountain drinks anywhere and very few cans. The juice here is really good, my brothers and I always have a craving for passion juice! Some of the very fancy restaurants try to make American food, but it is really gross. One time we went to a restaurant called King James and it was a hoteli.  It cost only 5 or 6 American dollars for my whole family and I even had a cold soda with my meal and it was the best food ever! I love African food it is really good.
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a trip to the village for my dads birthday

t was my dad's birthday, he turned 40.
In the morning we gave him our presents I'm pretty sure he loved them all.  After that we went to the village where my mom and dad used to live 14 years ago.  They had a friend named Sudi and he kept pictures of my mom, dad, and porter as a baby. He gave them to his other friend named Ali he was also friends with my mom and dad.  Ali owned a restaurant, so we ate there and it was delicious.  I ate chapati and I loved it.  After that we looked around where my mom and lived.  I thought it was really cool that my mom and dad were here 14 years ago and now they are here in Africa again.

With Ali in front of his "hoteli" (swahili for restaurant) 

Still, my dads birthday, and I cant believe he's turning 40! They grow up so fast, but 40, man that's old. So old he could be a grandpa!,  no not a grandpa.
I still cant believe that were in Africa. I learned that this is a once in a life time chance, a experience of a life time that hardly anyone gets

Many kids watched us while we ate

to have. I just think its really cool.