Learn to drive, perform on stage, go camping and lots more

I’m going to present to you things to do before you turn 18.

• Learn to drive. Think about it. When you go to work, or go to a restaurant, or even to visit your parents, a car is going to make that a whole lot easier.
• Perform in front of an audience. If you have stage fright, then fear not. Once you get on stage, you remember all of your lines, and it’s extremely fun.
• Ride a roller coaster, or a scary ride. It may be scary at first. But once you get on the ride, it will be so much fun, you’ll even forget that you were scared at first. When you get older, you will probably not want to ride any roller coasters or scary rides anymore.
• Write a letter to your future self. Write random thoughts and stuff that you think about. Your future self will find all of that interesting.
• Go camping. It’s fun to eat s’mores and to sleep under the stars.
• Go to a concert. Personally, I have been to two concerts and they were both amazing.
• Make up a fake holiday and celebrate it every year.
• Wake up early to see the sunrise. I’ve done that before, and it was extremely, brilliantly, beautifully breathtaking.

Debbie Cain and Derrick Horodyski’s sixth-grade class, Chatterton Elementary School, Merrick