Being a student at Crestwood Elementary is outstanding. There is an excellent educational curriculum. Also, the school is not very far away from the large neighborhoods so I can walk home with all my buds!

There is only one downfall to Crestwood: the parking lot. Once all the teachers park there is no more room, then in the morning a billion buses and you have to make room.

Then in the lane to drop your kid off there is always that car with the kid getting ready in the backseat and then the mom will watch their little kid walk all the way up to their classroom, THEN they leave. Takes so long!

My mom is just counting the days until she says a sweet goodbye to that parking lot.

It gets even worse in the afternoon. When you finally turn out of the dreadful lot, you have to make it all the way down to the light! It is like those dreams where you keep running but you’re getting farther from the door. It just seems like miles!

One time when I was in kindergarden, my dad was working graveyard shift, and was coming to pick me up by my classroom, but fell asleep while parked in the parking lot! About thirty minutes later he wakes up, and we STILL have to wait a while to get home!

Now, the teachers are AWESOME! I am currently in sixth grade — Mrs. Mansfield, if you are reading this, you are the bomb! All the other teachers are amazing too. School starts at 9 a.m. sharp, and ends at 3:08 p.m. Students have two or three recesses, depending on your grade, and you either have P.E. with awesome Mr. Nettles, or music with great Ms. Lyons. Or if you are in 6th grade and decide to do band (like me) or orchestra, you don’t have music.

We always have a spirit day or two each month. That is all run by our student council. At the beginning of the year a student president, vice president, secretary, and historian will be selected by a vote.

Then, two representatives will join from each class starting at fourth grade. They think of special fun days Crestwood can have to show its good spirit: Wacky hair day, Sports day, Hippie day, and many others.

One of the school favorites is Pajama Day. Just roll out of bed and go to school in your PJs. I love twin day, find as many things in common with another person. So fun! Crestwood has lots of good vibes. Like that one guy in the Volkswagen commercial who is always so happy because he drives one of those new slug-bugs.

Crestwood also each year has an annual fundraiser, to raise money for new P.E., music, playground, and general school supplies.

I loved the cookie dough fundraiser. When some little girl comes to your door, puppy-dog eyeing you to buy something, you want Otis Spunkmeyer cookies, not a Weight Watchers magazine.

But it always happens, the fundraising company always coaxes kids with the prizes. If you sell three, you get a light bouncy ball, but if you can sell 50, you get everything below that AND a inflatable game chair or a gigantic spongebob plush toy or SOMETHING that gets the kids to sell stuff. But you know the moms or dads will just take them to work and do it for the kids — happy ending.

Other than the parking lot, I believe that Crestwood is an amazing place to learn, and be happy from beginning, all the way to the end.

Annie Livengood of Covington is an aspiring journalist and sixth-grader at Crestwood Elementary.