Nixon Journal-Friday, October 17th, 2008

Hi, this is Allie and Sally. Something dangerous and not normal happened to us today.
Sally: This morning, when we walked into the classroom, I found DISASTER DRILL written on the board. Since I was new to Nixon this year, I didn't know what it was. Unfortunately, Allie knew what was going on. We were finishing up our Wordly Wise test when suddenly, a loud blaring noise caught us by surprise. Allie was practically leaping out of her seat. I looked around. Was THIS the disaster drill? No! Mr. McD. hurried us out the door. What was happening? "Hey, Jo, what's going on?" I asked the girl next to me. "It looks like a fire alarm." she replied sheepishly. "Mr. McD., what's going on?" "Honey, this is a fire drill. But I really didn't know about this!" he ran his hand through his hair nervously. "I don't think this is a fire drill, Jo, otherwise we would've known it, or at least the teachers would've known it." I whispered to Jo. Just then, we saw a bright, flashing, red light, what was it? The... FIRE DEPARTMENT! Along came the ambulance, and even the police car was trailing after. Later, Allie found out that a spider had triggered the fire alarm.
Allie: We wasted some of our P.E. time. But I wasn't that glad when it came. Sally and I had to run the MILE!! I wanted to beat my record from last year and Sally wanted to be first. My time was 11:50 last year. We started running. I was behind. After a quarter of a mile, Sally was way ahead of me. Just then, my shoelace untied. I stopped to tie it. After starting to run again, my shoelace untied AGAIN!!! I didn't stop this time. I ran the rest of the mile with my shoelace untied. I ran into the finish, with Sally's time being 9:01 and mine being 10:09. Our wishes came true. I beat my record by about a minute and a half and Sally making it first. Going to the library, my legs feeling wobbly, in five minutes we ducked under the tables for the disaster drill. We headed out of the library onto the blacktop meeting Mr.McD. there. Then we walked calmly to the field, getting our tags. Then, for a LONG time we chatted, read books and other things. By the time we went back to the classroom, there was no time for the spelling test. After lunch, we did the spelling test, and the math test. Both were easy. Hours later, Sally and I went to do flag and training other people. Finally, finishing, we went back to pack up.
So, that was our bizarre day. Hope you liked reading about it!!!
-Sally-
-Allie-