Hopes and Wishes - Vocab Assignment 10/23/08

Hopes are when someone desires to have something happen in the future, and there is a good chance it will happen. Wishes are when someone wants something to happen now that may or may not come true. Everyone has hopes and wishes. When you really hope for something, you want to work really hard to see it happen. Wishes are good because they can be fun think about. However, wishes can be bad because if you wish too much, you will never get anything done. I have many hopes and wishes.

I have many wishes. One of my wishes is a fancy tree mansion that is made up of four houses in a square, but they are still on the ground, and the only way to get to the one of the other houses, is to walk on a bridge. My second wish is that math could be easy. I envy people who are good at math. Another one of my wishes is to actually pet a unicorn, just to see what it is like. My last wish is to read one million books in one week. I know these wishes wont come true, but it is fun to think about, especially when you are having a bad day. When you are having a bad day you can dream about your wishes, and add more stuff to them.

I also have many different kinds of hopes. Some of my hopes for this year are, to pass my last multiplication holey card and to ace my STAR and CST tests. To achieve this, I have to persevere, and always do my best. My hopes for my life after elementary school are to, stay in touch with my friends, go to Harvard School of Law, be the best lawyer in the world. I also aspire to beat my uncle Ruben in Scrabble. For this set of hopes, I have to take time for my friends, learn some new words, and work really hard in high school. My hopes for my family are for them to be healthy and strong. My hopes for the world are for Barack Obama to win the election and that when I grow up and have a child, the Polar Bears have not gone extinct by all of the Global Warming. Alone I cannot do all of these, but I can make a difference. We can work together to make things happen. For example, to prevent Global Warming, we can use less energy and every little things count.