Elaine's Journal

I came home from school one day two years ago and I got called to come into our din. I looked and my mom had a black and white cat in her lap. She told me that the cat's name was Lily and I whined " How did she get that name? " and she said that she named her that.  Lily drove me nuts when we got her. She played with my house shoes, the keychains on my backpack, and my shoelaces. I called her the t'word because she drove me nuts and my mom didn't like that. Lily let me pet her and she even climbed in my lap. I let her in my lap until she started drooling on me. Now she scoots toy mice under doors at my house, including my door. When I throw them out in the hall, she will run after them. Lily lays on the ironing board and sometimes she sits in the bathtub.

I was moving into 5th grade at the time. I was sitting next to the girls restroom door after I came out. The students in wheelchairs that were rode the school bus with me were sitting in the middle of the hall. Some lady came to us and I was one of them, I don't remember her though. She asked me what my name was and I answered "Elaine" and she told me to come here. So I got up off of the floor I walked with her and she told me that Mrs Buck changed her last name to Mrs. Shepherd. I walked into the classroom and I found a seat. I put my head down when one of the students who was in the same education as I was. I was put in a regular education class that year. The teacher that I really hated that year was Mr. Rodkey from the Learning Center. Please don't ask me why because I don't want to talk about it. I said that my cat was going to kill the h'word out of him and My mom got a phone call from Mrs. Shepherd about me saying the h'word. My mom had a talk with me about it in her car when she came to get me from school when I got sick and the next morning before I went to school, my dad had a talk with me in the kitchen about saying the h'word. I never did it again. I said that my cat was going to kill Mr. Rodkey. One time when I said that Mrs. Shepherd and I took a walk during recess. She told me that my cat was a sweet kitty and he wasn't going to kill Mr. Rodkey.

Eight years ago when I was in middle school, I went swimming in my old friend and neighbor Chuck Campbell's inflatable pool. We talked and we played tag. I was in the pool with him until a man who lived next door to him came in the backyard and he told me that my dad was calling me. Then I asked "Who me?" and he said. "Yes you!" I got out of the pool and I got my stuff and then I went home.