Chikere begins keeping a journal at age 12 to document her daily activities. On June 24th, she spends the day with her brother and his girlfriend, going to the river walk and park. They have a picnic and she gives her nephew a bath. The next day, her annoying brother is home and bothering her. Later, she documents spending time with her sister and niece, getting soaked with water outside. She provides details about her family and friends.

1. (Chikere’s Journal, first starting at June 24, 2012 while I am 12 years
old)
Hi I am making a Journal just for me, and I am going to tell
what I have been doing for the day and what I am going to
do or what I wanna do, and stuff like that. So, today right
now it is 10:28 pm, earlier I went to my brothers and his
girlfriend house Tasha and it was so fun! I met to girls named
Kala, Her little brother phat, and T-T, the girl named T-T is the
same age as me, but Kala is only 8 years old and she is still
bad though. I had so much fun at their house. First, we went
to the river walk and we took the baby Kaden with us in a
stroller and he fell asleep. When we got to a stopping point
we saw three cities at one, the cities were: Bib city, Phoenix
city, and Columbus, which is the city I live in! Then we went
back and played some gold fish in the house while my
brother was out and the baby (my nephew) was sleeping.
After that game was over we had a picnic and we at a big
bowl of popcorn and we ate some corndogs and the baby
was awoke by then, so he tried to eat the popcorn but he
only can get alittle bread from my corndog and I gave him
some and he really liked it, but he tried to eat way to much
at once so he kindaaa……… spit up it was ok since he is a
little baby. So we finished and we went to the park climbed
one monkey bars, and other stuff like that then we just left.
So after that they went home and I got on woozworld.com
(a virtual website for kids my age) and the internet went
out. So Courtney (my brother) cooked dinner some pork
chops with macaroni and cheese, and YES it was good! Oh

2. yea and he had a friend over there his name was Ray and
he fixed the baby toy for Kaden too………………well,he
didn’t fix it but he figured out how to work it, while Kaden
was sleep still sleep. I also forgot to say that I got to give him
a bath and I took pictures of his naked butt it was so cute,
but that was that morning before I did all that stuff. Sooooo,
pretty much after all that good activities happen my
mommy came and picked me up.
***
Hey, I am back it is 1:36 am, I have to go to bed at 2:00 and
so I just decided to type alittle intull then. I only have one
bar of internet and I tried to listen to KeKe Palmer (my
favorite singer)on YouTube, but it was running slow so I just
started typing. Today my brother is home and I wish he was
back where he came from because he is so annoying.
This is what he was doing to be annoying:
Making stupid noises
Over humming my music
Go back in forth in my room
Saying I am not anything I am just a peace of lint
(He says it over and over like a broken record
it don’t hurt me though)

3. He trips me up; well he tries to trip me up
When I write it kinda sounds like a 5 year old is messing with
me well guess again………… he is 15 going on 16. Well,
enough about let’s talk about one of my vacations I went
on ………Oh wait I am so sorry I have to go o bad it is like
wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy past my bed time I guess I got caught
up it is 2:44 I have supposed to been in the bed at 2:00 got
to hurry and go bye I’ll probably get on tomorrow evening
I’m not really sure, Oh no it just turn 2:46 now I really have to
go bye bye!!!!!
***
Hey it is 8:22 am in the morning and I am used to being here
by myself on the computer but, nope not now, and I hate it!
So my mom was yelling about head phones when she
couldn’t find them. When, she started yelling that is what
woke me up, but whoop-dey-doo……she found them. She
apologized about it but she still woke me out my good
sleep, and she blamed us soon as she couldn’t find them.
That is just the irritating part. But, as many times I woke my
mom out her sleep I guess that was payback……… I guess
you can call it that? So, I really don’t have much to talk
about but it just make me fill beater when I type and more
happy, I don’t know why I am going to start doing this more
often. Oh yea! I forgot to say more about myself, Ok I’ll type
all that need to be typed and I am on summer break.

4. Gender: Girl
Grade/Grade I am going to: I’m in 6th going to 7th
Color: Black
Pretty or Ugly: BEAUTIFULL!!!!!!!
Well that is pretty much all I didn’t tell you I’m in 6 th grade
going to the next (7th grade). On top of the screen it already
says my name (Chikere) in red. It also says my age (12) in
the other paragraph and in red. So, now I have to go
Sooooo bye!
***
Hey I am back and it is 9:34 pm and, I just came from my
grandmother’s house. Right know my mom and my brother
are playing arm russell and my mommy won and my sister
and brother played and my sister won the right hand and
my brother had the left hand……… Ok, I am back sorry I got
distracted first I had to pee, and then my sister left so my
mom went to go drop her off. Oh, yea and I started over
that movie I was watching earlier the A-teamI love this
movie I watched this movie once already and this is a show
my mom used to watch when she was younger she says she
never messed one show, she must really love it, just like I love

5. SpongeBob SquarePants TV show and I never missed one.
Right now my mom went out to the stop to get something I
have no idea really. My favorite character in the movie I am
watching is that black man that has one fist that says “pity”
and, the other fist says “fool” they are tattooed on his
hand. He is the funniest because he is big and black but he
acts like a baby and always calls everyone fools, but he
beat people up, only when necessary though. Oh yea! I
forgot to tell you about my day! Today, I was with my sister
at her boyfriend house, and her boyfriend has a daughter
and the daughter has cousin. The cousin name was Lay and
she was my age and his daughter name was Mariah and so
she has some friends over. We all got wet with buckets,
bowels, cups, and, Kool-Aid containers. Also, I had an entire
bucket of water dumped on my head, and a bowl of water,
and a Kool-Aid container, sometimes I’ll even dump water
on myself. Mariah had 2 more friends, Journey she was the
fat one and this other girl with long hair both of them was
about the same age as Mariah. Mariah and Lay laughed
way too much Mariah was ok because she is only 7years
old, but Lay is my age (12) and she acted like she is 7 I have
no idea what is her problem but at the end of the day I still
had fun. But, there was this one part that was Sooooo funny,
that girl journey is weird and kinda stoker. I think that
because, we were eating and she came to see if we could
come outside and we said that we will be out in a minute,
and then she knocked on the door again just like 2 minutes
later exactly. Man (My sister’s boyfriend) said that she

6. sometimes she is inside the house while everyone is outside
playing, and she goes in there refrigerator and freezer time
to time because I saw it with my own eyes. She was also
sitting on the kitchen floor. But like I said at the end of the
day it was all fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well, sorry but I have to go
I’ll come back soon love ya all!
TTYL XOXO
Meaning
Talk to you later &Hugs and Kisses
Hey, I’m back and it’s July 5, 2012 Thursday day and
yesterday it was Independence Day. I have been sick since
Friday and todays Thursday, first I had the fever for like three
days and I had a slight fever yesterday. So, basically what I
was sick on Fourth of July, well sorry I have to go so early
bye, I will explain tomorrow.
***
I am back and it’s the next day July 6, 2012 Friday so what I
was saying yesterday was that I was sick last Saturday but
now I feel much better now. I had the fever last Friday
through Sunday. When I had the fever I also had an
extremely sore throat, I was weak, and I couldn’t eat
because my throat would hurt badly. So, after my fever
went away everything else stayed with me and I still wasn’t
eating so that was one of the reasons I wouldn’t eat. Then
not too much later Fourth of July (IndependenceDay)

7. came, every one eat good tender and yummy food, while I
was sick. So, later on when everyone when outside to play
spades or whatever adults do I went out for a second then I
came back in when my sister was eating. So I got one rib
and I ate the whole thing quick, I was so surprised my throat
didn’t hurt at all it was just so good. So, after that I went
outside and I took pictures with my Nintendo3DSI of my
whole family. But enough about me and my sickness let’s
talk about my Fourth of July! So first it stated of badly.
Flash back time:
First me and my mom woke up and my throat only hurt just a small pinch so we
both use the restroom, then my sister knocked on the door. She knocked on the
door because I washed my hair the night before and I didn’t clean it so I got
dressed and we went over to my grand ma house because my mommy let Jasmine
use her car to take us ( where I washed my hair at and were my sister, Jasmine
lives). So, my grandma yelled at Jasmine because she thinks I am too sickly to
wash the bathroom tube out, Jasmine ended up cleaning it out but she didn’t
really want to because she cleans the tube out every day every week when it is
my untie Charlene’s job (another person who also lives there) to clean the
bathroom. So after that we came back and chilled. Then Courtney (my oldest
brother that 24, with a baby named Kaden that’s 8 months years old) went over
my grandmother house and called and said he is going walk over to our house
with the baby. So Jasmine hopped in my mom car and went to go get Courtney
while he was walking. While Courtney was over there we played with the baby
for a little bit, and my mom started on my hair.Then, we went over to my
grandmother house. My mom left, then everyone started coming and they ate
after all that, my mom came back and they all played spades and I fell asleep for
a little. After I woke up I finally ate one rib in like three days, then everyone
started laughing playing and having a good time like any family holiday.
The end

8. ***
Hey, it is me and it is Saturday July 7,2012 11:41 pm at night
tomorrow I am going to church with my grandma so I am
going to get my hair done all pretty and curly for church in
the morning. So all I did today was go with my mom to do
some little girl hair and me and my mom wore the same
dress today but my dress is pinker, they’re still both pretty
though. I also have a loose silver tooth I used to have five of
them all, now I only have two left and one is coming out
and it won’t take long. So now I am just sitting here with my
mom watching this lame movie I don’t know what the
name of it is though. Only thing I know that it is a Japanese
movie but I can only hear it I am not really watching it I am
mostly just on the computer messing with stuff and typing.
Now I am back I went to go drink some Kool-Aid now me
and my mom are going to split a pop tart it is chocolate
kind, we go it from the little girl house mom was doing hair
on, I put it on the toaster so it can get warmer and toasty-
err. She didn’t really eat hers she let me have most of it.
Right now I am playing a game called I-dress up and it is so
fun because I can dress up dolls and choose their skin color
and their hair and their clothes they wear on their body and
it is just so fun and exciting to me! It is slow so while it slowly
loads I just decided to type for fun, I call it a side kick, and

9. oh wow I crack myself up! “HA-HA-HA”Ok, now I have
nothing to type about that is why I made that laughing
sound, but I don’t want to stop typing, but I have to have
some to type about then it just gets stupid and boring and I
don’t want to write anything stupid and boring. That’s is
when……………. well I don’t know what happens, what I am
writing now is what is going on in my head so the first thing I
think I type it so I have to be very care full of what I think.
Now my mind is going blank because I am getting sleepy,
well that’s not good “Ummm let me think what I can type
about?” Ahh someone please help me I am in a world of a
farty mom she is really letting it loose I think she is having fun
with it and when she fart she says “excuse you” I thought
you were supposed to say “excuse me”, well the world has
changed. LOL: D Well, byezzz people love you!
***
Hey what’s up people it’s me and it is not the next day it is
actually like a week later it is July 14, 2012 I was over my
daddy house but my mom came to pick me up because
there was alittle bit of drama going on between them and
he made my mother mad so she came to get me and my
brother Xavier. It started like this: On Fourth of July my other
brother Courtney wanted to use Xavier’s Xbox so my mother
said “ yes, but she will get it back when she is ready”, that’s
because Xavier was not acting right with my mom so she
didn’t let Xavier use it for a while because of his attitude. So,
Xavier (claimed) that Courtney called him and was

10. bragging about how he has his Xbox. So, Xavier got mad
and tolled my daddy and then weeks later I guess Xavier
started talking about how he want him Xbox and all that
mess. So my dad decided to go over Courtney house and
take the Xbox and my dad was going to hit Courtney but
Courtney begged him not to hit him so he didn’t so then
after he left he took the Xbox with him. So then my mother
figured it out and she got really mad and came to get us.
So, that is what happened…………… Right now I am
watching Snow white and the Huntsman. At first my brother
was watching it and I thought it was boring but, now that I
am watching it by myself it is kinda interesting I am starting
to like it. Well, it is 1:46 at night bye I am going to finish
watching my movie then I am going to bed Good Night!
Love ya.
***
Hey Hey! It’s me and it is Monday July 17, 20124 in the
afternoon 12: yesterday was Sunday and I had to wake up
early to go to church. So, I got ready for church at home
flat ironed my hair, took a shower, then I put lotion on and
got dressed. Then after I got finish getting dress I went over
to grandma house and I brought me some potatoes to eat
and put ketchup on it. Then, me, my grandma and, my
sister Jasmine went to church, but we got there late. Oh yea
and it was like last-last Sunday only me and my Grandma
went to church and then after we went to our church we
went to her niece church to see her for the second time

11. only. Because, my grandmother had a brother but his
girlfriend shot him. So, that lady my grandmother niece