Wednesday, April 20, 2016

The Community Center

Hello future readers,

This past Saturday, Raychel called me and told me that the Community Center was having a movie day. Every 2 months, they show a free movie!  Sometimes, they show older Disney movies, or nature films. The boys like it when they show the old black and white monster movies. Since it was movie day, I knew most of my friends would be at the Community Center, so I told Raychel I'd go.





I know I've talked about the Community Center before. Since Springfield is so small, we haven't had it very long. Shante's dad, Mr. Crawford is the director. It's open every day, except Sunday from 11a.m. to 6 p.m. They rent their meeting rooms to businesses that have workshops or other events earlier in the day on weekdays, and then after school or on Saturdays it's mostly for kids. Sometimes they open at night for church suppers or ice-cream socials. Some of my friends take classes there. I don't really go a lot, but I sure dig free movies!

When we got there, some of the kids were in the game room.




The game room kinda reminds me of the Rec Hall at camp, except it has a soda machine and a bigger pool table than the boys' camp,








We decided not to go in, 'cos we wanted to get good seats for the movie.  We passed by the Dance Hall, and we could see Cheryl and Bridget at the barre in their Ballet class.






Further down the hall, we could hear all kinds of yelling! That was in the room they call a "dojo" and Kyle was in his Karate class.








I was pretty sure after it was over, Kyle would change clothes and join the boys in the game room.




Anyway, we passed the Music room and saw Kerry giving Susan and Kim a guitar lesson.




Kim told me that Kerry couldn't do the lesson on Tuesday next week, 'cos she had 2 big tests to study for, so she offered to give Kim and Susan their lesson on Saturday instead. Wasn't that nice of her?







I looked up at the clock in the hallway. We needed to hurry and get our snacks, the movie was gonna start soon! Even though the movie was free, we still had to pay for snacks. For 35 cents, we could get a soda, a candy bar and a small bag of chips. Some of the kids from the game room were coming in to join us, so we got our snacks and sat down on one of the large benches. I wondered what movie they were showing that day.Then Raychel pointed out the sign on the wall.



Ha! Now I know why the boys weren't here. They would rather shoot pool, than watch some movie about fairy tales. That was fine with me. This way they wouldn't be booing and making dumb noises. So we all settled down to watch the movie.







They showed Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, The Princess and the Pea and Sleeping Beauty. They were all really groovy. The only part I didn't like is when the woodcutter, cut open the wolf's stomach with his axe to get Grandma and Red Riding Hood out. Yuck! It wasn't bloody or anything, but sitll, that part is just creepy!







It was a super way to spend a lazy Saturday afternoon. Are there still Community Centers in the future? If there are, can you see free movies there? I bet kids in the future never get bored. I bet you have all kinds of neat things to do like beam over to fun places with transporters like on "Star Trek". If I had a transporter, I'd beam myself to Disneyland, and Hawaii and all sorts of far out places! But maybe only at special times, like Christmas, or summer vacation. Oh well, maybe someday.....




Until next time, future readers,
Your friend,
Julie Newman

16 comments:

  1. Looks like you had a good time with your friends! Yes, some places still have community centers in the future. We don't but there are several movies over the center that they do outdoors in the park! You bring your own chair or blanket and whatever you want to eat, so it's picnic and a movie.

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    1. Outta site! Kinda like a drive-in movie without the car! I think it would be so groovy to have a picnic and watch a movie at the same time! Far out!

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  2. That's supposed to say "over the summer"--oops!

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  3. Hi Julie. It looks like you had a lot of fun. I don't have a community center, but sometimes all of my friends come over and watch movies with us.
    During the summer, some movie theaters show older movies for kids during the day. I have been once or twice to do that.
    Sadly I the future, we can't beam ourselves places. That still hasn't been invented. I wish it was, because I would love to visit SeaWorld or Disney World.
    Morgan (Melodie's sister)

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    1. Really no transporters? Wow...I thought for sure some scientists would have invented one! Maybe someone will ever further into the future. If you buried a diary from your time, like the one you're reading now, maybe they will think it's weird you DON'T have transporters!

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    2. I'm sure they will. What movies are popular for you right now? I love watching movies.
      Morgan

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    3. It's hard to say what's popular right now, because Springfield gets movies after all the big cities have already seen them. I think the last newer Disney movie I saw was "Escape To Witch Mountain". I've seen most of the older ones though. Right now there's some "R" rated movie at the movie house, so of course I haven't seen that. I hope there's a better one that kids can see when that one is through.

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    4. There can be up to 30 movies shown at the same time! Right now, my favorite movie in theaters is called Zootopia. It's a Disney movie.

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  4. Hi Julie! There are Community Centers in the future (including one in my town!). I don't know about other towns, but the one where I live doesn't show free movies..most of the time boring grown-up things like court hearings take place there. :P Your community center sounds groovy! And I'm glad you enjoyed the movie.
    Sadly, kids in the future do still get bored (I suffered from boredom myself earlier, in fact!), but there's still plenty of things we can do to have fun. There's no way to beam ourselves though...but I wish we could do that, that would be really fun!
    *Sunny

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    1. Hi Sunny,

      That's a drag about your Community Center. Kids are part of your community, too, right? Maybe it's different for small towns.

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  5. Hi Julie,
    What a nice Community Center you have! We have what is called a Rec (Recreational) Center. It is where kids can play indoor soccer, basketball, gymnastics and adults can take exercise classes. The Rec Center also has an outdoor pool. It is too far away to walk but we can drive there in about 20 minutes. There are still no transporters in 2016, but if there were, I'd transport myself to Springfield. I'd love to meet you and your mom in person.
    Fawn

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    1. Sounds like you have a fun Rec Center. I know my mom would like to meet you someday, but you already met me, remember? *giggle*

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  6. We have a community center not too far from our house. We have summer movie nights in the park. It is so much fun!

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    1. Outta site! I wish our park would do that, but since we already have a movie house, a drive-in theatre, and free movie at the Community Center, I guess we have enough, huh?

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  7. That does seem to cover a lot of movie entertainment venues!

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  8. Wow Julie, I just love your community center! When I was young, I would go to the center all summer. My favorite game was ping pong!

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