Eliza S...
Yokota Middle School
I’m Eliza Shirley and I’m what people call a “military B.R.A.T.”. I lived in England at the time, so we traveled a lot in Europe. We went on a family trip to the Tenerife, Canary Islands which is off the coast of Africa, owned by Spain. We explored the island, climbed the inactive volcano, Mount Teide which is higher than tree altitude so there weren’t any tree’s up there. For my brother’s birthday we went to “Monkey Park'' which has all kinds of animals, like guinea pigs, monkeys, and even parrots. As we went in, we had to travel through a large pin full of guinea pigs! My heart exploded instantly. In the past I had two guinea pigs, Sweetpy and Missy. They were sisters but since I’m a B.R.A.T. we moved and left them in Mississippi. “THEY’RE SO CUTE!” I screamed as loud as a rooster doing his wake up call. I was standing in the middle of guinea pig chaos! The guinea pigs were running around snuggling people and squealing.
“MOM I NEED ONE!” My sister Hanna yelped for joy as she chased all the poor guinea pigs around like her life depended on it! We finally made it out the giant pin and we moved on to all the monkeys. I don’t remember much because I mainly focused on the guinea pigs. I only remember three other animals. A baboon, Parrots, and little squirrel monkeys! The squirrel monkeys were adorable!