The end of the song approached and Andrea still couldn’t figure out what Poppy was up to. She stopped singing and looked around at them. Now they all stared and it startled Andrea. Andrea continued to sing when the girls started putting up their pinkie fingers to their lips and swaying left to right. Poppy was conducting a plan to make it seem as if Andrea liked Alex by making her sit next to him whenever it was possible. A f t e r a l l, s h e figured out that Poppy probably moved away from her deliberately. She felt more comfortable sitting with him and with that being said, she nodded to Alex and kept on concentrating on the song. She had no intentions of going to sit with the girls anyway. “Stay with us, Andrea!” exclaimed Poppy’s boyfriend Alex, a boy who Andrea had constantly been helping. She then tried to figure out why she wasn’t asked to move as well. Andrea was left with the boys and had no clue what had just happened. Secretly, Poppy had told them to do that so that the teacher couldn’t see them. However when they were singing the bridge of the song, all of the girls except Andrea moved to the side. Music class came and the students sat at the back of the room. Andrea ignored Poppy for the time being and continued to attend classes. Poppy had a long pointy nose, menacing eyes and a ponytail, which made it obvious she was the ‘mean girl’ in town. Andrea started to sense that something fishy was going to happen when Poppy started making strange shapes with her fingers and smirking at her as they walked past each other in the corridor. Writers’ Ink Issue 6 “Why are you hanging out with that smarty pants?” was a question the boyfriends were frequently asked, followed by “ Why her? I thought she was Chinese?” It was as if almost every girl there resented Andrea’s presence. This made their girlfriends become jealous. With good intentions, Andrea helped the boys with their work whenever they came to her. More importantly, Andrea was very approachable and she managed to get the attention of all the boys, including everybody’s boyfriends. She had black hair and small brown eyes and a crooked tooth and lopsided face. She was definitely not the average blonde, brunette or redheaded girl you would expect to dominate the school grounds. She wasn’t popular among the girls, however, because she ‘wasn’t pretty’. Andrea was doing rather well during the first half of her final year in primary she was getting the highest grades in the class and was popular among the boys, because they were fond of her intellect. You are here to make friends and to get good grades.” “Yes Miss Ward,” the students all murmured, acknowledging that it was going to be a long year. “I don’t care how much fun you want to have, you will be responsible for your own well-being and you must work hard. “Right, this year is going to be a hard one,” she said with a firm and sturdy voice. Startled, all the students sitting in the circle raised their heads and looked at her. He will be missed by many.Miss Ward slammed her hand hard on the doorframe. Charlie's was a live well lived with passion and zest. He was passionate about work with the Rapha House, an organization that is very committed to the prevention of sex trafficking and sexual abuse of young women in Cambodia and Thailand after discovering the horrific abuse that has been happening in the world. It was his life's work and his passion.Ĭharlie was an active member of Christ Church of the Valley and traveled frequently with groups there. Charlie practiced veterinary medicine for 53 years. Charlie and his wife, Vonda, are the owner of Grand Paws Animal Hospital in Surprise. Charlie has practiced in Chicago, Il, Cheyenne, Wyoming, and has been in the Phoenix area since 1999. He attended Purdue University and graduated with a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Degree. He is further survived by his nieces and nephews, his fur babies, his devoted staff, and thousands of clients, patients and friends including his morning coffee crew at McDonalds in Sun City and many Chilis 'regulars' lunch bunch on the west side where 'Charlie's Salmon' is always on the menu.Ĭharlie was born and raised in Frankfort, IN on January 22, 1944, a very proud Hoosier in a long lineage of proud farmers. He adored his grandsons, Jack, Mitchell, Bryce, and Declan and his niece and nephew Gracie and Tate Summers. Charlie is survived by his wife, Vonda Varner Sink, his daughter, Angela Peck (Jon) of Scottsdale, AZ, his son, Brad (Melissa) of Lake Havasu, AZ, brother Garry (Janet) of Indianapolis, IN, his mother and father in law, Doyle and Charlotte Varner, and sister in law, Valerie Summers(Bobby) of Coffeeville, MS. Charles SInk, 77, of Peoria AZ passed away after a brief illness on September 13, 2021.Ĭharlie was preceded in death by this mother, Ruth Surber Sink and his father, Charles Thomas Sink.
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