Riley's Adventures

Today, Maggie's fish passed away. It was right after dinner, when Maggie went upstairs to read, and then we heard crying. "Is she crying?" said Mom. Maggie came downstairs looking sad. Mom said, "What wrong?" Then Maggie said, "My fish died" Even I was a little sad. Maggie had just got that fish in August, on her birthday, and it was even acting weird this and last week. I went upstairs to check it out after Mom went with Maggie, and it was floating like a boat with 1,000 life vests in it. 

It is sad to leave Germany. When I hit the ground on the airplane at Albany International I felt like there was nothing special in USA after experiencing a year in Europe. We drove back to our house for about 30 min because we were just dropping of our luggage. When I walked in the house I just felt so sad because my body was reminding me that I wasn't in Germany or any other destination in Europe. When I was in Germany, I was planning that when I entered the house for the first time that I would run to my room, but I didn't realize how sad it would be. I looked out the window and saw that there weren't any trams driving by, then plain old cars. It was really sad...