Student Samp Creativ

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grandparent’s house to collect their presents. I new it was coming% a dress fit for

an old person. "ere we go% my turn. I opened the bo4 with the big pin flower on

it and pulled out the dress with the soggy green loo that made you want to turn

your head. Ewwww%* I remember thining to myself% but the word formed into

!han you.* I mean this was my grandmother who went out of her way to buy

me the ugliest dress in the store% but who can hate her- 5o try it on%* she would

say. 5randma% why-* I would thin. I’d stand there in the mirror with the

guacamole colored dress on looing lie I was going to audition for a star role in

the circus. 5randma% why-* I would play it over and over in my head0 +hy%

why% why- !o thin I’d have to wal in the outside world looing lie an over6

grown frog. /h well% I guess I might as well wear it a few times. ears pass% the

same thing each year. A new dress until ’22 when my grandma died. ow I say%

5randma% why- +hy won’t you come bac home-*

!y "oll "on’t eed o Com$

I can remember as a child not liing African dolls. !he +hite one’s were always

better. #e and my cousin #egan would sit in the living room of my Auntie’s

house and play with our dolls. Every time would be the same 7uestion0 +hy you

playin’ with that doll-* and I would answer% 8ecause my doll don’t need no

comb.* !hey mae the African dolls with nappy hair that broe your comb when



you tried to comb their hair% but not my white doll with hair so sily lie the

princesses you see in the storyboos. "air so neat% it didn’t need a comb. #y

mom and sister tell me stories of how they would buy me white and blac dolls

and when they proceeded to give me the dolls% I would run away from the African

doll as if she had suddenly become human and reached for me. 8ut I would run to

my white doll lie I found comfort% to see she was an ordinary doll.

8eing the age that I am now hasn’t really changed anything. I still will play with a

white doll before I’ll play with an African doll. /nly now I will consider playing

with both. 8ecause I choose to play with a white doll doesn’t change who I am. I

am proud to be me. $till% I always find myself answering the same 7uestion +hy

you playin’ with that doll-* with the same simple answer0 8ecause my doll don’t

need no comb.*

Student Sample #%: Creative Pieces

The Time & as So Sic'

I was hot lie the steam that rises when water boils% so sic that nothing came out

of my mouth when I taled. #y whole body was burning. I wanted to &ump into

water that was free9ing cold. I felt lie a house that is caught on fire.



8eing sic is lie my worst enemy. I couldn’t fight it. It was hurting me. I

thought it was going to last forever. It seemed lie a car stopping at a stoplight and

the light never turning green for you to go. :ntil so much later.

It didn’t stop until I awoe the ne4t day% feeling lie $leeping 8eauty when the

prince issed her.

(ost !oney

I was a little girl% age ;. #y mom offered me five dollars if I washed the dishes. I

did it and when she came bac from my auntie’s house% she gave me the money. I

wasn’t smart at the time. I was sitting in my living room watching television. I

didn’t have any pocets in my pants so when I left the living room to go to my

room so I could sleep% I left my money where I was sitting. I came bac the ne4t

day e4pecting it was going to be there. 8ut it wasn’t there. I was so mad. I ased

my mom who too my money. "ow am I supposed to now where you ept your

money-* she said in Cambodian. I ept trying to find it everyday when I passed%

sat% or &ust stood there lie a Californian looing for gold in the tunnel that would

never find. I was so frustrated. I felt lie &umping into another person’s body and

beating them up% but there was nothing I could do about it. !hen I decided to as

everyone in my family% "ave you seen or taen my money-* !hen they said% I



don’t now.* All of a sudden my sister said that my older brother has it. I went to

confront him and he was denying it. I did believe him because I really didn’t now

who did and I couldn’t &ust blame it on him. $o% I let it go. After all I went though

looing for five dollars% I learned that money could come and go at any time.

!y Heart

I felt lie a bug that got smashed. #y heart felt lie it was out of place% but still

beating faster and faster. #y heart was beating lie I was running 2< laps non6

stop. #y heart was sad. I didn’t want to live. I also didn’t want to die.

I &ust wanted to be left alone.

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