AGS student places is Chicago Young Writer's Review Contest
November 22, 2022
Launch the media gallery 1 playerCongratulations to Aidan Edwards for placing in the Chicago Young Writers Review Contest with his written memoir entitled, “My Happy Place”. Aidan’s piece was one of the top 13 pieces from students around the country that will now be published in an online book with all 13 winners' pieces compiled. Aidan will also receive a certificate from the Chicago Young Writers Review. Mrs. Smith had the students complete this writing assignment for her ELA classes and she submitted six different student pieces to the contest. Aidan's piece is below:
My Happy Place
Aiden Edwards
October 20, 2022
If you have a place where you are happy and feel safe, you are one of the lucky ones. Many people do have a place like that, but also many do not. And you will find out that having a place like that often gets taken for granted.
I am one of the people that do have a place like that. It is when I am with my grandma. During the summers, I basically live at her house. When I am there, we have a lot of fun. We love to do things and spend time together. When I am at her house, I also feel safe and protected. She never judges me for any of my decisions, and she pushes me to be brave and face my fears.
My grandma and I have a money spending problem. We love to go shopping anywhere and anytime we are bored. We love going to Walmart, online shopping, thrift shopping, garage sales, and many more different places. My grandpa does not like our money spending problem because he says we are eventually going to run out of money.
When I am with my grandma, we are very creative. We love doing arts and crafts to occupy ourselves. When my grandma and I have a problem, we love to make a creative solution. One time we stained a white shirt with coffee and could not get the stain out, so we just stained the rest of the shirt with coffee so it would all be the same color. We do not like taking the easy way out of problems, we like to take a different approach to solve it.
My grandma and I are kind of hoarders. Since we have a problem spending money, we buy a lot of items we do not need, so after a while, things start to pile up and we begin to run out of space to put things. I try to keep things organized so we have more room to put things. But sometimes I think that is not the best idea because we need to stop getting unnecessary things rather than getting more. Eventually we have a garage sale to get rid of all the redundant things and what we do not sell, we donate.
I am glad to say I have a place where I feel happy and safe. Although having a place like that often gets taken for granted, I now know to make sure I do not take that for granted. If you have a place like that, make sure you appreciate it.