The Last Day of School, Ezmeralda, A Thievery & The Return to the Island

Jun 11

Jun 11 The Last Day of School, Ezmeralda, A Thievery & The Return to the Island

By Camilla Garrison

The Last Day of School

Friday June 7, 2024 Camilla Garrison officially completed the Seventh grade and Isaac Garrison completed the Fourth grade, therefore finishing the entirety of Elementary School. That day, Camilla’s seventh grade class of six hosted the monthly School Wide Meeting in which the students of the Grace School share and present pieces of their writing and an essay about that month’s read aloud book. The class that hosts the meeting gets to lead by introducing every section which are Introduction, Sharing Time (readers and writers responses), Special Events, Birthdays and Closing. In addition to students and the hosting class speaking, the principle also announces a Student of the month in each class, and this time, since it was the last one, gave out recognition pins to all the sports teams and stuff (and also student council members which includes the Treasurer: Camilla!) At the end of the meeting seventh grade put in a special request for a song and dance at the end The Veggie Dance Remix (last years’ was the Cha Cha Slide!) The Veggie Dance is from the kids’ show Gracie’s Corner but for some reason adults at the Grace School love it too.

The Veggie Dance (remix version):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMe2aJsJtjo

Ezmeralda

A few months ago Camilla’s seventh grade class started their paper mache projects in art class that every seventh grader who goes or went to the grace school has done. The project is making heads of animals, people or sometimes other stuff like basketballs on gigantic green round balloons. These balloons were particularly hard to find or so said the art teacher, because they had to be purchased on eBay which is the only place to find perfectly round balloons of this size. Well, for a few weeks, students paper mache-ed many layers, attached any extremities of styrofoam and cardboard with hot glue, and then paper mache-ed ears. eyes, mouths, horns and more! After the paper mache-ing was completed, the students then started to paint. Camilla painted first a white layer to cover up serial killer articles and others on the newspapers. Then, in a matter of two days, painted the whole thing blue and the horns brown. In the weeks proceeding, Camilla finished up the facial features, and added a little special something to give the overall personality. You may be wondering now what kind of thing Camilla was creating, and the answer to that, is she, Ezmeralda is a creation of Camilla’s very own creativity. This character was from a watercolor painting originally and since then has come to life. You may now meet my friend Ezmeralda!

A Thievery & The Return to the Island

Just yesterday, the Garrison family completed their journey back to the island! It was a mighty eventful day, with packing from five up until they left at eleven o’clock with a car full of food, air conditioning units, two cats and more people as well as a Thule rack on top (which the aerodynamics on the highway did not play well with) and a bike rack with a singular bike on it. Only one bike because- and this is a fairly long and infuriating story, Camilla’s bike had been stolen three days prior. The day before the family left, it was June 10, Camilla and Isaac went out back to get their bikes in the very hidden fenced in nook behind the studio in Providence to prepare for the day to come. Well, Camilla went back first, because hers was put in last, which meant it was the closest to get, as soon as she had seen it was not there, and told everybody, Hannah knew immediately it had been stolen. Luckily for the Garrisons, they were prepared with three security cameras in the backyard and caught this sneaky jerk-theif on video who must have peeked over the fence, then came in the side gate walked around and took the bike right out of there. But still, now Camilla was bike-less and the meant she had no transportation for the summer to and from her new CIT job at Camp Block Island or anywhere else she wanted to go. So, Camilla is still in search of a bike and if you happen to have any connections please notify!

The rest of the venture to the island went surprisingly well giving that we had two kittens in the car at the time. The Children enjoyed the ferry ride, the Kittens not so much, but were fine when the AC was on, and Chris in the car. Now Echo and Ember are exploring Claudia Surf City, and are finding quite enjoyable places to perch, for example, the driftwood at the top of the stairs.