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Table of Contents: Vilchez Magazine3.“Speaking Spanish”

4.”I am a Brother of 3”

5.”I am a Smart Dude who Likes Turtles”

6.”Olives”

7.”Friends can be very useful”

8.”How P.E. saved a student $30”

9.”Letter to Bob”

10-11. “The Basketball Uniform Caper!”

12-13. “ Biography - Joe Mangrum”

14-15. “ The ‘Pizza’ “

16-17. “ The Hottest Hamburger”

18-19. “ The Remarkable Record Player”

20. “Hispanic”

21. “Olives”

22. “Pizza?”

23. “The Solution”

24. “The Ocean”

25. “Music”

26. “Top Secret Letter”

27. “Missing Basketball Uniforms”

28. “The Paradise That You Need”

29. “Money”

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                       Speaking SpanishJust Because I’m HispanicIt doesn’t mean I love beansDoesn’t mean I don’t speak English wellDoesn’t mean I speak SpanishSee me for what I am and not my race

Just Because I’m Hispanic

It doesn’t mean I love spicy foodDoesn’t mean I’m poorDoesn’t mean I like Spanish musicIf you are mean to me I won’t stopyou, and I won’t be mean to you

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I Am A Brother of 3 I am JoeyBrother of Austin, Anthony, AndrewWho needs education, foodWho loves his familyWho sees the ocean as beautifulWho hates Spicy FoodsWho fears Spiders, War

Who dreams of Sheep  Resident of the small town inCalifornia called Millbrae           Vilchez

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             I am a Smart Dude who likes Turtles

I am a smart dude who likes turtlesI wonder what happens after you dieI hear trees underwaterI see sharks on Jupiter

I want 1 million dollars I am a smart dude who likes turtles

I pretend to be in a video gameI feel small and overworked

I touch ducks in midair I worry if I can finish my homeworkI cry about pets that dieI am a smart dude who likes turtles

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                                                  Act 1                    Who actually likes olives? Olives are really disgusting. Especially when they put olives onpizza, it just ruins the flavor. Olives are all fancy, but they aren’t “all that.” They don’ttaste good at all! Some people put olives in their drinks to be extra fancy, but it doesn’t reallydo anything but taste bad. I guess olives are useful when you make olive oil to use to cooksomething better, but not much else.

Act 2Joey: Hey mom, what’s for dinner?Mom: Homemade pizza.Joey: Oh, cool! When is it ready?Mom: It’s just about done, I’ll bring it to you right now.Joey: Thanks, mom.Joey: Hey, wait… I think I taste ---olives?! Mom, you know I hate olives, right?Mom: I thought you didn’t like the bigger green olives because they tasted funny.Joey: No, mom, I hate all olives.Mom: Well, too bad. You eat what I give you!Joey: Fine, I won’t eat.

Act 3Mom: Fine, don’t eat. Make yourself something else to eat.Joey: Maybe I WILL!

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                         Friends can be very useful

I once got my foot stuck in a wastebasket at lunch time by trying to shove a bunchof garbage in it using my foot. I felt really embarrassed about having my foot stuck in a garbagecan. I tried to shake the basket off of my foot by moving my foot around wildly, but all that didwas just shake all the garbage out of the can! I got someone to help me by whispering tosomeone I know whenever they walk by to avoid any attention, and one friend agreed to help. Heeventually solved this problem by gripping the wastebasket and taking it off. I thanked him

and continued to go on with my business.

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How P.E. saved a student $30

A boy named Joey Vilchez once lost his jacket when he left it on the fieldat P.E when the period was over. It was a really nice jacket and his parents justbought it for him! When he found out that he lost it, he panicked… he lookedall over the school, trying to think of where he could have put it. He nevercould find his jacket, and he worried what his parents would say. He thoughtthey would kill him if they knew he lost it.

He decided to tell the truth to his parents, and accept any punishment that

would come his way. He was his normal self while walking home, excepthe did anything to avoid going home, like going to the candy store, or take thelong way home. When he got home, he tiptoed to his room, and he made itinside without anyone noticing, like a ninja.

When he forgot about the incident and went in the living room to watch TV,and his mom was out there, she asked,“Where’s your jacket?” Well, he told the truth, and they appreciated hishonesty, and said that if he didn’t find it by Friday, he would have to pay for it.It was Monday at the time, so he got a fair chance to find it. He went to schoolthe next day, and he looked in each period of class. He looked in the lost andfound, but it wasn’t there, either. At the end of the day, in 6th period P.E, theyweren’t on the field exercising anymore, they were in the gym.

After that day of searching, when he had to run the mile on wednesday, hespotted his jacket right there on the field! He was very happy he didn’t have topay 30 dollars to make up the loss. After school he grabbed the jacket, andhappily proceeded home. He showed his parents, and they were proud of himfor taking responsibility and finding his jacket. After the whole incident,everyone went back to their normal lives.

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     Dearest Bob, I have something to tell you. It is very urgent and I must tell you now. I like another planet.Her name is Jennifer, the most popular girl in the Mother Planet Middle School. It’s veryimportant that you do not ever tell anyone this secret. Afterall, her boyfriend is the Sun*. Youwould not want to mess with the Sun, because he’s the biggest bully in the whole school. I know thisletter is so sudden, but it’s an emergency. I don’t even trust my parents with this, because it’s suchfragile information.

If, perhaps, you did tell people this secret, don’t even get me started. I would be the leastrespected planetary-ringed planet in the whole school! To start off, Jennifer wouldn’t remotely beinterested in me, especially since me and the Sun are complete opposites. The Sun would beat meup every day for the rest of my time in school! I don’t want to go through that, man. Everyone elseat the school would be disgusted in me, and I’d never get a girlfriend PERIOD! I bet even theteachers would be disappointed, and give me F’s just for that (okay maybe not that far). So, pleasebe a pal and don’t tell anyone, even your parents!

Well, now you’re probably wondering, “Gees, what’s the point, I got things to do with my life,”So I’ll cut to the chase. My parents are friends with Jennifer’s parents, and they want to comeover for dinner in only 3 days! How am I supposed to prepare for this! I haven’t had a girl come tomy house for dinner in my life! I don’t know what to do, it’s really stressing and confusing. You maysay, “Well, you’re lucky a girl’s going to have dinner at your house,” you’re wrong! You haven’t feltthis much stress in your entire life, but I have--just now! So, I need some help on how to act.

Thanks,Richy

The Sun*

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The Basketball Uniform Caper      One day, a principal checked the closet where all of the athletic uniforms of the school werestored. He saw that all of them suddenly were not there anymore. He was very surprised andconfused. He didn’t know how they could have gotten out since the sports director is the onlyone with a key! The sports director was very trustworthy, and would have no use for stealinguniforms. A basketball player who was trying to help out told the principal that he saw two guyswith masks on around the uniform closet on Saturday. The principal said the basketball playerhad to return all of the uniforms somehow.

So, the basketball player began his investigation right away, because he loved basketball,and he didn’t want any old crooks to take their uniforms. When the basketball player thought alittle bit harder, he remembered that one of the men was unusually short, as if he were a child,and the other guy looked nervous and shaky, as if he was afraid of being caught. The basketballplayer asked around about people with these specific characteristics, but it came with no results.He didn’t know what to do to continue his search, but he used a social networking site to furtherhis investigation. He posted a “wanted poster” for those people with the specific characteristics.He got something on a man who was really short, and the guy who posted it actually knew thatman personally, so he provided a link to his profile. The short man was accepting donations ofbasketballs and uniforms to kickstart his new basketball team. He had been posting things abouthow he was disappointed that no one was donating uniforms. The basketball player found thisinformation to be very suspicious, since no one was donating uniforms or basketballs, and hewas getting very frustrated. The investigating basketball player assumed he was taking mattersinto his own hands and tried to search for people of his name. After an unsuccessful search, hewent back to the social networking site to look for anything else suspicious. He had foundsomething BIG! The man posted something about his first practice down at the Hills High Schoolthat night, and he invited every one of his friends to the first practice because he said that hehad enough “supplies” to start his team. That was the biggest clue, and the basketball playercame to the practice to confront the short man and possibly the tall shaky man. The basketballplayer played through the whole practice, and afterwards, he followed the short man to his car.He smugly said“Hey, where did you find those basketball uniforms?” The little man froze up, ran into his car,started it, and drove off. The basketball player was disappointed, and he waited eagerly for thenext practice, so he could confront the little sneaky man. Sure enough, next week he hadanother practice, but this time, the angry basketball player had waited until after practice nearthe little man’s car. After practice was over, the basketball player had came out of his shadowyhiding spot and he finally confronted the short man. He decided to confess because he knew ifhe ran away, at the next practice the basketball player would be there again. The short man hadgiven all of the uniforms back to the school. The thieves had been put in their place, and theyresumed their basketball season at Hills High School.

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Joe Mangrum

Joe Mangrum is an interesting artist and works with things he finds indaily life. He was born on February 10, 1969, in Florissant, Missouri. At 16years old, he won a trip to India to enter his first art contest, in which hisentry consisted of alot of baskets. Joe had gotten his Bachelor of FineArts degree in 1991, from attending the School of the Art Institute ofChicago. After that, he traveled places like Europe and across the USAbecause he likes to adventure and explore new things. Some time later, hewent to Laguna Beach and started to express himself with seashells andother objects on the beach. His creations were taken down by the parksdepartment, and after he put more creations on the beach, they just tookthem down again. After a road divided a natural space, Joe decided to doart based on environmental problems with the world. An art gallery ownerasked him to do some work at his gallery, which was environment-related,and he agreed. He then moved to San Francisco permanently, in which hedid works of art all around San Francisco. He got noticed and peopleinvited him to do works both outside and indoors. In total, Joe Mangrumhas won 6 awards for his art. He was even on Sesame Street once. Helikes nature and he features live plants in some of his art pieces.Currently, he is working on a book about the history of his art.

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Some of his many works…

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The “Pizza”

One random winter day, in San FranciscoA humongous pizza fell out of the skyIt was the size of the moon!At least, it looked like a pizzaLater reports said that it was An unidentified flying object that crashed on to Pier 39, *KAPLOW*, crushing some of the 2nd story stores then pieces of it broke off, fell into the sea, never to be recovered againThe main piece remained unharmed,it stayed on the Pier, it had strange windowsmade of no material man had ever known of.

No one knew why it fell there or how it fell.All of the kids thought it was really coolall of the adults were extremely concernedSince this phenomenon had not happened before.Eventually people accepted it for what it was the government took a crane brought it on its own island where they kept it for public sightings, it became a major tourist attractionBut they never had figured out where it came from.All traces had been eliminatedIt didn’t seem to have any signs of life.It remains a mystery to this day...

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             It’s hurling straight for Pier 39!

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The Hottest Hamburger

Once, there was a hamburger that was really hot

He was so hot that when anyone tried to eat him, it burned their mouth

He was as hot as the sun, even producing sunburns when someone came near him

No one would ever be able to eat him

He is a sad hamburger and he just lies on a table

Never to be eaten, or enjoyed, doomed for eternity

Sometimes, he got so sad that when he cried, his tears were burned instantly

No one knew what to do to make the burger happy and hopefully

fulfill his destiny to be eaten and enjoyed

Finally, since no one had found a way to eat him

they put him in a museum as an attraction

He didn’t like being in the spotlight, getting pictures taken of him *FLASH* *SNAP*

But one time, someone had walked into the museum one day

The person was a very intelligent man, with a big appetite

He liked that exhibit so much and he wanted to be able to eat the burger

So, he thought in all of his free time on how he could eat it

He came up with something late one night

He theorized that if the actual sun had ice all around it

It would be colder, so that’s what he did to the burger

*SSSSSZZZZHZHH* smoke was everywhere, and after it cleared,

The man happily ate the burger that was no longer burning, *CHOMP*

This all happened before complicated astronomy had been established

So, no one else thought of the idea of ice being all around the sun

Until something similar had happened on earth and opened people’s eyes

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The Remarkable Record Player

Some time ago, in the 1900s, a record playerthat loved to partyHe had been able to pick up recordsplay them by himselfit was remarkablehow a machine could do such an unreal thing! He was good at it, he was always invited to partieshe made the parties very enjoyable he could talk, dance, and even sing.Everyone loved him for that he was such a hithe got offered deals left and right he never accepted themhe wasn’t in it for the moneyHe was in it for the party, nothing else. Since he was made, he was used at partieshe developed his own style of party from all of his experience.He loved partying so much, after all, he was made to do so.No one else could ever figure out how to make any types of music playing devicesanywhere close to him.

He was a hit until when CDs and CD players were introducedhe was thrown out like old trash in a dumpster or binHe never, to this day, figured out why he was tossedIt was because when CDs came out, he was left at a partyWaiting for the next one to take placethey put a CD player in his placethrew him awaythey thought the new devices were better even though they couldn’t talk, dance, or do anything cool like him.Nowadays he lives in an antique shop, where he isn’t allowed to move until someone buys him uses him for their own purposes, good or bad.He lives in fear of hoping no one buys him and then scraps him for partsor make him into a hanging decoration, without any free willto move or party ever again.

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The evolution of music

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Olives

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Pizza??

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TheSolution

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The Ocean“It oozes COOL “

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Music

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TOP SECRET LETTER

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Missing Basketball Uniforms

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The paradise thatyou need

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 Money

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