The Time to Shine 
 Hi, my name is Jenny Hopper. I'm in seventh grade at GWMS ( George Washington Middle School) I don"t know what I should tell you so, here are just some random stuff about me. Favorite color- blue. Favorite day of the week- Saturday. My birthday- June 17. Siblings- Alley my 5 year old sister. Address- let's leave that one out. Well I don't know what else to tell you about me, so how about I tell you my most memorable moment, when I auditioned for the school talent show.

 It was a sunny day, May 21 at 3:30 to be exact ( I remembered the day and the time, that's how important this was to me.) I had just gone to my locker to get my things for when it's time to go home. Homework, check. Text book, check. Planner ( to write my homework in), check. Once I put everything I needed in my backpack I went to the stage/ cafeteria, where they were holding auditions for the Annual GWMS Talent Show. I set my bag down under my seat, that my best friend saved for me. We weren't performing together if that's what your wondering, we were each performing alone. 
                                                                                                                        
 As any other pair of BFF's would we talked sorry, whispered to each other as we waited for our turn to shine. Hey, I just remembered something. Did I ever tell you that we were having auditions because they could only let a certain amount of people in, you know because of time reasons. It's a shame though because there are a lot of talented people here, and I mean talented. One kid even rode a unicycle while juggling and singing Poker face by Lady Gaga. That kid is getting in for sure. Anyway neither me or my BFF have gotten called up yet which is a good thing because after you perform your supposed to leave, so that puts a lot less pressure on us.

 The third to last kid that goes was great and you'll never guess what they did as their talent. THE SAME THING AS ME! I can't believe this I say to my BFF. Why? Because she is doing what I was going to do! I start to panic what am I going to do. Then suddenly it hits me! WHAM! Do you remember our dance, I ask my BFF. Yeah, why? Can we do that together for the talent show? Please please please! Okay says my BFF. Just in time to because the girl who stole my talent finished right after my best friend said okay. A few days later they say the results for the talent show. Mary Lue, John Lobster, Joseph Janeter and Jenny Hopper and Jessica Ser ( my BFF. ) YES! I scream. Talent show here I come!

             LOL, OMG Added In The Dictionary


 What is?! Why would Oxford dictionary allow OMG and LOL in their dictionary? This news is tragic for many horrible reasons. I found out these news Wednesday in class by going on Edmodo, a website, and reading the article my teacher found. On Edmodo we respond to the article by typing what we thought of the topic and then hitting reply. I read all of the replies and 47 out of 50 hated the fact that they put LOL and OMG in the dictionary. Most said that it would be ridicules to write a report and put those abbreviation in it. For example say you had to write a book report and your first sentence was OMG I love this book! Do you think that you will get a good grade for that!?

 I personally think that if we put text lingo in the dictionary it will ruin the English language! Others think the same as well, and we are only in middle school! I would like to know why we can see that putting text lingo and slang words in the dictionary will ruin the English language forever and that grown adults can't. In the future if we use these abbreviations in everything we write or say, nothing will be professional anymore! Nothing will be taken seriously anymore! How would you feel if you were saying something important but, the person you were talking to didn't take you seriously? You would probably feel angry at the person, right? About a month ago I was doing this project called the Apprentice ( if you read a past post you would know what it is) in English class. I know that if my group used abbreviations when we spoke like if we said something funny and right after we said LOL, we would lose no question about it.

 That is my opinion on the topic and I would like to hear yours. Thank you for reading my post but, before you go here is a link to a website that tells you about the topic http://tweentribune.com/content/omg-lol-makes-it-oed
Hope you liked my post! :)