By HANNAH WESNER
Horizon Christian School
February 12, 2008

When I was in the sixth grade I started attending Horizon Christian School. My classroom was in the basement of a church and our recess was in the parking lot.

I began to hear people talking about a building project and I could not wait to see it get underway. In reality our building has been a dream for longer than I have been alive.

Plans progressed and finally we acquired some land. After it was cleared we took a bus full of kids to see the land, we stood in a dirt field.

One year later we went back and the field had turned into a building. During the next Thanksgiving we moved into our new home. The building was wonderful; however it was not completely finished. We did not have a gym. But now, after a year-long wait, we do.

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Last year when we played a “home” game, it meant playing in someone else’s home. We had to set up and take down all of our equipment at every game. But now we have our own home, a place that is truly ours.

With our first game in the gym comes many emotions for everyone involved. We are all so happy to see this day finally come. I am thrilled that it happened before I graduated.

I am also so excited that we now have our own place to put down roots, a place where we can hang up banners, and leave them up, a place where we can sell “hawk dogs” in our own concession stand.

It is good to be home.

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