Summer Vacation

This summer I did nothing fun at all. Usually, my mom schedules vacations but not this year. All she did was work and I was stuck at home. The most fun I had this summer was going to the movies.  Pretty much everyone I knew was on vacation while I was stuck in Dallas. The only thing I was wondering was why my mom decided we weren’t going to go on vacation. Why work the whole summer?  We did not need the money but she said she wanted to work so to bad for me. We had so much planned.

            We were supposed to go to Washington D.C. then go to Connecticut to see the football hall of fame. But since she got a job she applied for we cancelled. The whole summer I was stuck going to band camp for Skyline. All we did was play music and exercise. “Oh what a joy it was sweating in the heat, playing an instrument, and using up time I could be at home sleeping or playing my video game”. This summer by far was my worst summer yet. Usually every odd number year we travel to different states. In 2005, we went to Orlando, Florida. In 2007, we went back to Orlando, Florida. In 2009, we went to Las Vegas, Nevada. In 2011, I went to band camp and back home.

            When I said the most fun I had was the movies I meant it. I went to see movies such as X-Men First Class (very good), Thor (Good), Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Amazingly Awesome), Harry Potter 7: part 1 and 2 (well written), and Rise of the Planet of the Apes (Good and kind of comical to me). All of those movies were worth seeing but it would have been better seeing them on vacation. This is pretty much what I did this summer. The most boring summer ever.

            But since what I did this simmer is so depressingly dull and boring, I will tell you about the summers mentioned above. In Orlando (the first time), we went to Universal Studios Island of Adventure and Disney world: MGM Studios. I also got to go to Magic Kingdom with my mom’+

+s friends. In Orlando (2007) we went back to Universal Studios, went to Disney World: Animal Kingdom, and a place called Gatorland. Gatorland was interesting because you could interact and touch actual alligators and crocodiles. And in Las Vegas (2009) we went along the strip and went to various amusement parks (the stratosphere, New York New York). It was interesting and much more fun then this past summer. I hope I get to go somewhere next year. That is if my mom doesn’t take anymore jobs next summer.

PERSONAL OBITUARY ESSAY

Cedric Christopher Hart was born April 1, 1996 in Dallas, Texas to Cedric Hart and Claudette Hart. He died on April 21, 2072. As a kid he was very mischievous and always into something he should not have been. He used to climb on the counters and get into baby powder and pour it on himself. Cedric always found a way to irritate his sister. He used to go in her room and bug her. He did it because he loved her and that is how he held conversations with her.

Cedric attended R.L. Thornton Elementary school from 2001-2007 and H.W. Longfellow from 2007-2010. He also attended Skyline High School and graduated with the class of 2014. At skyline he attended the Architecture cluster under the teachings of Peter Goldstein and Tom Cox. After High School he went to the University of Texas to study architecture and graduated with an M. Arch. This took him 7 years to accomplish.

After college he did 2 years of interning for Joel Fitzpatrick Design and went on to start his own architecture firm in Dallas. He lived there his entire life and worked for 30 years until he retired. He and his wife, Monica, built there home on 15 acres of land they owned. They had two children named Derrick Hart and Jenae Hart.

His firm was very successful, pulling in over 30,000 customers and starting ten more firms in various cities such as Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, Miami, and four other U.S. cities. With his success came fame and fame became riches. He began to build houses and buildings internationally starting more architecture firms in Paris, France; London, England; and Rome, Italy.

 After his retirement he spent his days traveling with his wife and kids, enjoying the simple things in life and practicing to become a reverend at his church, Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship. He died in Dallas of natural causes at the age of 76. He was a great man who loved his family and will be forever missed by family and fans of his architecture as well.

Cedric is survived by his two children, Jenae and Derrick Hart; his younger brothers, Joe and Jeremy Hart; his older sister, Jasmine Hart; his younger sister Jayda Hart; and his wife of 32 years, Monica.

Condolences may be sent to

5734 Old Ox Road

; Dallas, Texas, 75241. The home he was raised in for 18 years.