Justine

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My mom is Egyptian, my dad is British. Dad was an archeologist, he came to Egypt to look for artifacts, and instead he found my mom. Mom was a farmer. I lived in Egypt until I was 9. We don't have a lot of money; we could not afford our house. So we moved, to Cleveland Heights. My father’s cousin lives there, and says it is very cheap. We moved in with him, his wife and his 3 year old twins. I share a room with the twins, Margret and George. There is a window in my room, above my bed. I look out that marvelous window and see a miracles garden. I see girls around my age! I want to join, but am afraid they will not accept me. I have no friends, I don't go to school. We can't afford it. I want to go to school. But I can't, so I just sit and watch out my window. Summer was here and I had to get out of the apartment, we have no air conditioning! I went to the garden. I had kept the seeds from my pear that I had for breakfast. I brought a jug with me too and I filled it up with water. I dug a hole the dirt, with my bare hands, and watered the seeds. I did this back in Egypt. Now that I am 11 I am not "allowed" to get muddy! I don't care! They are tall and proud now, and have loads of fruit on them! The garden was messy but it is pretty clean now! The garden still has some trash scattered around. I found a crate, wood and some concrete bricks. I made a fruit stand with some nails from my dad's hardware store, along with some green, brown and gold paint. I picked all 23 pears off my 8 trees. I put them in the stand and sold them for 50 cents each. A girl my age came over to my stand and brought a pear for 50 cents. Her name was Amanda, and her mom was Leona. //Who is that//? I wondered.

A man named Samuel had a competition to save water for the garden. Everyone’s ideas involved tons of money, and, knowing haw to save money, I said, "Maybe, well, we could, I mean, well, we could get some trash barrels and put them under the rain pipes, so, well, the water would run into the barrels and we could, well, maybe, and, also get some buckets and fill them up with the water from the barrels and water our plants with that. Um, thanks." And the winner of the contest got 20 dollars, and that was ME!!! I spent 5 dollars on new seeds, the rest I saved. I brought orange seeds, grape seeds, lemon seeds and water melon seeds. I sold the produce and lots of it! Amanda and I are best friends and now we both are 15 and starting high school, I saved enough money!!! Next year I will start school with all my awesome friends!

Thank you, my sweet little garden. I wrote a poem for you here it is.

My sweet little garden, You bloom every spring, You live every summer, You suffer every fall, You die every winter, And you are reborn into my world, my sweet little garden!

Thank you, my miraculous little garden!