Hi there! My name is Ivy! Ivy Tran. I'm currently an eighth grader... but then I'm gonna start ninth in the fall. I'm already nervous about starting high school! I'm nervous because I've toured the school with my class during the spring semester back in early March and the school is literally huge and I'm worried about getting lost in the school and so yeah...
But on the positive side... I'm just happy that we're on summer break now and I'm just lying around on my bed texting nonstop with my friends in my group chat that we all agreed on and so I created it like five, six months ago maybe? I don't remember exactly when though... but yeah!
We're just taking about what we were going to be doing for Memorial Weekend. I'm going to going to my dad's farm in Sacramento for the weekend with some of my parents friends since they wanted to visit the farm. It's just like any other farm seen on TV. We have a red barn, a pig pen (Ugh... stinky), cows in a field, horses in their stalls in the barn, a chicken coop (obviously for the chickens 🙄), and anything else that you can name.
I know that it's a pretty far drive to get to my dad's farm, but I guess it's worth it since my older cousin's family lives in San Jose just about two hours and half from there. But still a pretty far there... to San Jose, it's eight hours long... but then to Sacramento, it's another two hours and half, almost three hours drive there so basically we're in the car for about eleven hours almost twelve hours long. So maybe we'll be staying there for a week, I'm not so sure yet. I guess that I'll have to wait and see until then.
So far right now... Emma keeps repeating, "I can't believe you're going on a trip to visit your dad almost twelve hours away! How are you going to last that long?" And as she keeps repeating herself, I sigh and answer, "We're having breaks in between the hours. Maybe it'll be longer than twelve hours long. Who knows?"
The reason behind that is because Emma- who's going to tenth grade, has some brain issues... she has amnesia making her forget things like every five minutes or so. She's had it since we were in a car accident a few years ago.
It was our whole gang traveling together with our families tagging along in a bus and then next thing we knew, we were in an accident. All of us who were in the front half of the bus (except for the driver, the driver was okay)- were all knocked out. That was Emma, Randy, Ace, Andy, Dante, Danielle, Jen & me.
That worried everyone else on the bus especially our families. We were all brought to the nearest hospital and we stayed there for a long amount of time that I wasn't sure how long we were there. Good news was that everyone else was in good shape then, but then there's Emma... she hadn't woken up yet then... she was still unconscious for quite a long time.
We had woken up several weeks later and our families were all around our beds. Emma was suffering for a bad head concussion from the accident so she had stayed longer in the hospital than us. We had gotten better and was discharged from the hospital with our insurance covering us all so all our parents had to do was fill out the paperwork and we were allowed to go home.
But anyways... we all are good now and Emma still has to leave school early every now and then so that she could go to therapy and go do surgeries. We all feel bad for Emma but then yeah... she's still the happy girl she was before. I'm just glad that she's the happy girl she used to be.
I'm just texting my friends lying on the edge of my bed on my back with my phone over me as I'm texting them. Our group chat was made for particularly reasons... we just wanted it for fun and other stuff like that. We were all doing our own things when suddenly Henry, one of the guys who's in our gang (who's gonna be junior in the fall) texted us with the message, "Hey guys. What are y'all doing? I'm boreeeed... do y'all have any plans for Memorial Day weekend? I don't think my family is going anywhere for the weekend..."
I immediately jumped on that message and I began texting this message, "Hey back Hen! I was just cleaning my room and other things like that. Yeah... I do have plans for Memorial Day weekend. I'm going to Sacramento to visit my dad and swing by my cousins house for a night or something like that in San Jose and then continue the trip the next morning. Awww... bummer... maybe we can plan something and meet up during the summer."
Emma replies back, "Bummer you Hen! But hey! At least we're out for the summer and great idea Ivy! Lucky you get to go visit your cousins in San Jose and then go to your dads farm! I'm jealous! I got plans with my family as well but then it's a family reunion on my moms side so I have to go to Vegas for that... 😞" I texted back, "Well... AT LEAST YOUR FAMILY TRIP TO VEGAS IS ONLY FRICKING FOUR HOURS LONG!!!! MINES IS EIGHT HOURS LONG WITH NO TRAFFIC!!! IF THERE IS TRAFFIC... THE RIDE WILL PROBABLY BE ABOUT TEN HOURS LONG MISSY!!!! 😤"
And then... just like that, Randy, Jen, Danny, Danielle, Dante, Andy, Ace and everyone else in our gang joins the chat. With the chat starting with Randy- who's a freshman like me as well) stating, "Hey Emma... you shouldn't be huffing about that you have to travel to Vegas for four freaking hours long. What Ivy had said was right, you shouldn't be the one complaining about that... but she should be the one complaining about going to her dads farm which is nearly half a day long."
And just like that... the chat started as everyone arguing over which trip is longer than which.