Thursday, February 27, 2014

Canadian Goose

One early Sunday morning I was walking on a path that I had walked down many times before.  I was reaching a bend in the path and I was about to walk around it when I looked at the sky and saw a huge castle with a rocket booster floating above me.  It started to land on the path a few miles down.  I jogged towards the castle hardly even noticing the wonderful summer landscape around me.  In just under 20 minutes I had reached the castle.  Around it was a moat that must have floated along with it because it had never been there before today.  As I got closer a little mechanical CCTV camera popped out of the wall.  "Who is there?" it asked in an inhuman voice.  "Tate is here." I replied.  Suddenly the CCTV camera shot back into the wall and I heard a little conversation.  I shot back out and said "Enter.".  The drawbridge fell across the moat and I stepped over it.  I walked into the courtyard on the inside of the castle.  There were thousands of trees everywhere.

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Canadian Goose

One early Sunday morning I was walking on a path that I had walked down many times before.  I was reaching a bend in the path and I was about to walk around it when I looked at the sky and saw a huge castle with a rocket booster floating above me.  It started to land on the path a few miles down.  I jogged towards the castle hardly even noticing the wonderful summer landscape around me.  In just under 20 minutes I had reached the castle.  Around it was a moat that must have floated along with it because it had never been there before today.  As I got closer a little mechanical CCTV camera popped out of the wall.  "Who is there?" it asked in an inhuman voice.  "Tate is here." I replied.  Suddenly the CCTV camera shot back into the wall and I heard a little conversation.

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Mad Scientist

Yesterday I was invited to the kitchen of a babbling inventor who escaped from a black hole in space.  I walked up to the door and pressed to oversized doorbell.  The inventor opened the door and said "Come in!"  He had a large blue cyborg eyepiece over his left eye.  I stepped in and looked around.  There were all sorts of high-tech equipment lying around. 
    He brought me to his kitchen and told me to sit down.  I sat down on a floating chair with buttons all over it.  I pressed the up arrow and I started floating higher.  I pressed the down arrow and started to lower.  "Have some chips!" said the mad scientist.  He handed me a metal box with flashing buttons all over it.  I pressed the button that said chips.  A speech bubble came out and floated above the top of the box.  It read "What type of chips would you like?"  "Big, Mexican ones."  I said.  Instantly a bowl of big, Mexican chips appeared with a little bowl of guacamole sitting next to them.  I tried the chip and dip.  They were the best chips I ever had.  They tasted like the chips of my dreams.  I gobbled them all down quickly and asked for some more.  He gave me them then put the machine away.  
    
    "I need to use the bathroom." I said.  He pressed a button on the wall and a row of orange flashing lights appeared on the wall.  "Follow the lights and you will reach the bathroom." he said.  I followed the lights down the long hallways until I came to where they stopped.  Then the door next to me opened and I saw a sign that said bathroom.  I walked into the room and sat on the toilet.  Zoom!  Something whizzed by my face.  That's weird I thought.  I'm sure there used to be mirror sitting on the wall.  Again something whizzed by my face.  "I'll catch it next time it does that." I said to myself.  Zoom!  I caught it.  I looked in my hands and saw the bathroom mirror with a pair of wings squirming in my grip.  "AHHHH!"  I shouted and dropped the mirror.  I ran out of the bathroom and when I looked back the mirror was perched on the wall directly above the sink just like when I first saw it.

I followed the orange lights back to where the inventor was flying in the kitchen.  "How are you doing that?"  I said.  "I'm using magnets"  He said.
He tossed me a box with straps.  "Tie this to your stomach and press the blue button."  He said.  I tied it around my stomach and pressed the blue button.  Nothing happened.  "It doesn't work." I said.  "Press the blue button." said the inventor.  I pressed it again and it didn't work.  "The one floating above your head." he said.  I looked up and sure enough there was a big blue button floating above my head.

I pressed it and started floating up until I hit the ceiling.  "How do I get down?" I asked.  "Press the blue button." said the inventor.  "But it's all the way over there." I said pointing to the corner where the blue button sat staring at me on his green and purple chair.  Wait for him to come back." the inventor said like it was the most obvious thing in the world.  Over 20 minutes later the blue button floated near and I pressed him on the head.  "Finally!" I said.

After both of us were back safe on the floor the inventor asked me if I liked giraffe weevils.  "What are those?" I said.  "They are bugs with long necks" he replied.  Suddenly he gazed past me and said "The cloning machine is malfunctioning."  I turned around and saw a huge bug.  "What is that?" I asked trying to remain calm.  "That is a genetically modified giraffe weevil."  It charged at us and the inventor pressed the blue button again.  Sadly I had already of my magnet pack so I couldn't float above the giraffe weevil like the inventor did.  The weevil charged again destroying the nearest lamp.  I ran into the room where the weevil came from.  Inside there were hundreds of normal sized giraffe weevils milling around.  I looked at the counter and saw broken glass.  Next to the shattered glass was a row of test tubes with purple liquid inside.  A normal giraffe weevil bumped into on of the test tubes knocking it over.  The purple liquid spilled out and surrounded the little giraffe weevil.  It started to grow until it was the size of a small couch.  It looked around, saw me, and charged.  I dodged the weevil and pelted out of the room.  I ran into the kitchen and closed the door before any o the other weevils could get me.  The door started shaking as the giraffe weevils pounded on the other side.  I ran over to my magnet floating pack and strapped it on just as the giraffe weevils broke through the door.  I pressed the blue button and started floating above the scene.  "What do we do?" I asked the inventor.  "Follow me!" he replied.  He started doing freestyle in midair and it made him move forward.  I followed him out of the kitchen and into the basement.  He closed the door behind him and led me towards a large iron cabinet.  He typed in a code and the doors swung open.  Behind them was an extensive range of weapons.  He grabbed a little pistol and tossed it to me.  Then he took out a large rifle like gun with a tank of bright blue liquid attached to the underside.  The giraffe weevils busted through the door and charged.  I aimed my pistol and fired.  A brilliant orange ray of pure energy shot out and disintegrated the nearest giraffe weevil.  "It's a ray gun!" I said.  The inventor shot his weapon at the next weevil to enter.  The weevil was frozen in a solid block of ice.  "A freeze ray!" I exclaimed.


By the time we got back out of the basement all of the giraffe weevils had grown huge.  We blasted through row after row of giraffe weevils freezing and disintegrating right and left.  Soon there were no giraffe weevils to kill.  The inventor put our weapons back in the cabinet in the basement then came back up stairs.  "I think I'm gonna faint." I said.  Then everything went black.

The next morning I woke up in my own bed and not in the inventors house.  Next to me lying on the bed stand was a holo-projector that the mad scientist gave me as a parting gift.  I pressed the button on the side and a moving 3D image of the inventor came up.  "Hi there!" it said.  "Um, hi." I said back.  "Just wanted to make sure your fine, bye!" it said.  I went back to sleep and hoped the inventor invited me back.

Monday, February 24, 2014

Mad Scientist

Yesterday I was invited to the kitchen of a babbling inventor who escaped from a black hole in space.  I walked up to the door and pressed to oversized doorbell.  The inventor opened the door and said "Come in!"  He had a large blue cyborg eyepiece over his left eye.  I stepped in and looked around.  There were all sorts of high-tech equipment lying around. 
    He brought me to his kitchen and told me to sit down.  I sat down on a floating chair with buttons all over it.  I pressed the up arrow and I started floating higher.  I pressed the down arrow and started to lower.  "Have some chips!" said the mad scientist.  He handed me a metal box with flashing buttons all over it.  I pressed the button that said chips.  A speech bubble came out and floated above the top of the box.  It read "What type of chips would you like?"  "Big, Mexican ones."  I said.  Instantly a bowl of big, Mexican chips appeared with a little bowl of guacamole sitting next to them.  I tried the chip and dip.  They were the best chips I ever had.  They tasted like the chips of my dreams.  I gobbled them all down quickly and asked for some more.  He gave me them then put the machine away.  
    
    "I need to use the bathroom." I said.  He pressed a button on the wall and a row of orange flashing lights appeared on the wall.  "Follow the lights and you will reach the bathroom." he said.  I followed the lights down the long hallways until I came to where they stopped.  Then the door next to me opened and I saw a sign that said bathroom.  I walked into the room and sat on the toilet.  Zoom!  Something whizzed by my face.  That's weird I thought.  I'm sure there used to be mirror sitting on the wall.  Again something whizzed by my face.  "I'll catch it next time it does that." I said to myself.  Zoom!  I caught it.  I looked in my hands and saw the bathroom mirror with a pair of wings squirming in my grip.  "AHHHH!"  I shouted and dropped the mirror.  I ran out of the bathroom and when I looked back the mirror was perched on the wall directly above the sink just like when I first saw it.

I followed the orange lights back to where the inventor was flying in the kitchen.  "How are you doing that?"  I said.  "I'm using magnets"  He said.
He tossed me a box with straps.  "Tie this to your stomach and press the blue button."  He said.  I tied it around my stomach and pressed the blue button.  Nothing happened.  "It doesn't work." I said.  "Press the blue button." said the inventor.  I pressed it again and it didn't work.  "The one floating above your head." he said.  I looked up and sure enough there was a big blue button floating above my head.

I pressed it and started floating up until I hit the ceiling.  "How do I get down?" I asked.  "Press the blue button." said the inventor.  "But it's all the way over there." I said pointing to the corner where the blue button sat staring at me on his green and purple chair.  Wait for him to come back." the inventor said like it was the most obvious thing in the world.  Over 20 minutes later the blue button floated near and I pressed him on the head.  "Finally!" I said.

After both of us were back safe on the floor the inventor asked me if I liked giraffe weevils.  "What are those?" I said.  "They are bugs with long necks" he replied.  Suddenly he gazed past me and said "The cloning machine is malfunctioning."  I turned around and saw a huge bug.  "What is that?" I asked trying to remain calm.  "That is a genetically modified giraffe weevil."  It charged at us and the inventor pressed the blue button again.  Sadly I had already of my magnet pack so I couldn't float above the giraffe weevil like the inventor did.  The weevil charged again destroying the nearest lamp.  I ran into the room where the weevil came from.  Inside there were hundreds of normal sized giraffe weevils milling around.  I looked at the counter and saw broken glass.  Next to the shattered glass was a row of test tubes with purple liquid inside.  A normal giraffe weevil bumped into on of the test tubes knocking it over.  The purple liquid spilled out and surrounded the little giraffe weevil.  It started to grow until it was the size of a small couch.  It looked around, saw me, and charged.  I dodged the weevil and pelted out of the room.  I ran into the kitchen and closed the door before any o the other weevils could get me.  The door started shaking as the giraffe weevils pounded on the other side.  I ran over to my magnet floating pack and strapped it on just as the giraffe weevils broke through the door.  I pressed the blue button and started floating above the scene.  "What do we do?" I asked the inventor.  "Follow me!" he replied.  He started doing freestyle in midair and it made him move forward.  I followed him out of the kitchen and into the basement.  He closed the door behind him and led me towards a large iron cabinet.  He typed in a code and the doors swung open.  Behind them was an extensive range of weapons.  He grabbed a little pistol and tossed it to me.  Then he took out a large rifle like gun with a tank of bright blue liquid attached to the underside.  The giraffe weevils busted through the door and charged.  I aimed my pistol and fired.  A brilliant orange ray of pure energy shot out and disintegrated the nearest giraffe weevil.  "It's a ray gun!" I said.  The inventor shot his weapon at the next weevil to enter.  The weevil was frozen in a solid block of ice.  "A freeze ray!" I exclaimed.


By the time we got back out of the basement all of the giraffe weevils had grown huge.  We blasted through row after row of giraffe weevils freezing and disintegrating right and left.  Soon there were no giraffe weevils to kill.  The inventor put our weapons back in the cabinet in the basement then came back up stairs.  "I think I'm gonna faint." I said.  Then everything went black.

The next morning I woke up in my own bed and not in the inventors house.  Next to me lying on the bed stand was a holo-projector that the mad scientist gave me as a parting gift.

Sunday, February 23, 2014

Mad Scientist

Yesterday I was invited to the kitchen of a babbling inventor who escaped from a black hole in space.  I walked up to the door and pressed to oversized doorbell.  The inventor opened the door and said "Come in!"  He had a large blue cyborg eyepiece over his left eye.  I stepped in and looked around.  There were all sorts of high-tech equipment lying around. 
    He brought me to his kitchen and told me to sit down.  I sat down on a floating chair with buttons all over it.  I pressed the up arrow and I started floating higher.  I pressed the down arrow and started to lower.  "Have some chips!" said the mad scientist.  He handed me a metal box with flashing buttons all over it.  I pressed the button that said chips.  A speech bubble came out and floated above the top of the box.  It read "What type of chips would you like?"  "Big, Mexican ones."  I said.  Instantly a bowl of big, Mexican chips appeared with a little bowl of guacamole sitting next to them.  I tried the chip and dip.  They were the best chips I ever had.  They tasted like the chips of my dreams.  I gobbled them all down quickly and asked for some more.  He gave me them then put the machine away.  
    
    "I need to use the bathroom." I said.  He pressed a button on the wall and a row of orange flashing lights appeared on the wall.  "Follow the lights and you will reach the bathroom." he said.  I followed the lights down the long hallways until I came to where they stopped.  Then the door next to me opened and I saw a sign that said bathroom.  I walked into the room and sat on the toilet.  Zoom!  Something whizzed by my face.  That's weird I thought.  I'm sure there used to be mirror sitting on the wall.  Again something whizzed by my face.  "I'll catch it next time it does that." I said to myself.  Zoom!  I caught it.  I looked in my hands and saw the bathroom mirror with a pair of wings squirming in my grip.  "AHHHH!"  I shouted and dropped the mirror.  I ran out of the bathroom and when I looked back the mirror was perched on the wall directly above the sink just like when I first saw it.

I followed the orange lights back to where the inventor was flying in the kitchen.  "How are you doing that?"  I said.  "I'm using magnets"  He said.
He tossed me a box with straps.  "Tie this to your stomach and press the blue button."  He said.  I tied it around my stomach and pressed the blue button.  Nothing happened.  "It doesn't work." I said.  "Press the blue button." said the inventor.  I pressed it again and it didn't work.  "The one floating above your head." he said.  I looked up and sure enough there was a big blue button floating above my head.

I pressed it and started floating up until I hit the ceiling.  "How do I get down?" I asked.  "Press the blue button." said the inventor.  "But it's all the way over there." I said pointing to the corner where the blue button sat staring at me on his green and purple chair.  Wait for him to come back." the inventor said like it was the most obvious thing in the world.  Over 20 minutes later the blue button floated near and I pressed him on the head.  "Finally!" I said.

After both of us were back safe on the floor the inventor asked me if I liked giraffe weevils.  "What are those?" I said.  "They are bugs with long necks" he replied.  Suddenly he gazed past me and said "The cloning machine is malfunctioning."  I turned around and saw a huge bug.  "What is that?" I asked trying to remain calm.  "That is a genetically modified giraffe weevil."  It charged at us and the inventor pressed the blue button again.  Sadly I had already of my magnet pack so I couldn't float above the giraffe weevil like the inventor did.  The weevil charged again destroying the nearest lamp.  I ran into the room where the weevil came from.  Inside there were hundreds of normal sized giraffe weevils milling around.  I looked at the counter and saw broken glass.  Next to the shattered glass was a row of test tubes with purple liquid inside.  A normal giraffe weevil bumped into on of the test tubes knocking it over.  The purple liquid spilled out and surrounded the little giraffe weevil.  It started to grow until it was the size of a small couch.  It looked around, saw me, and charged.  I dodged the weevil and pelted out of the room.  I ran into the kitchen and closed the door before any o the other weevils could get me.  The door started shaking as the giraffe weevils pounded on the other side.  I ran over to my magnet floating pack and strapped it on just as the giraffe weevils broke through the door.  I pressed the blue button and started floating above the scene.  "What do we do?" I asked the inventor.  "Follow me!" he replied.  He started doing freestyle in midair and it made him move forward.  I followed him out of the kitchen and into the basement.  He closed the door behind him and led me towards a large iron cabinet.  He typed in a code and the doors swung open.  Behind them was an extensive range of weapons.  He grabbed a little pistol and tossed it to me.  Then he took out a large rifle like gun with a tank of bright blue liquid attached to the underside.  The giraffe weevils busted through the door and charged.  I aimed my pistol and fired.  A brilliant orange ray of pure energy shot out and disintegrated the nearest giraffe weevil.  "It's a ray gun!" I said.  The inventor shot his weapon at the next weevil to enter.  The weevil was frozen in a solid block of ice.  "A freeze ray!" I exclaimed.


By the time we got back out of the basement all of the giraffe weevils had grown huge.  We blasted through row after row of giraffe weevils freezing and disintegrating right and left.

Poem Video

The sound wasn't working on my computer when I recorded this video.

Friday, February 14, 2014

Mad Scientist

Yesterday I was invited to the kitchen of a babbling inventor who escaped from a black hole in space.  I walked up to the door and pressed to oversized doorbell.  The inventor opened the door and said "Come in!"  He had a large blue cyborg eyepiece over his left eye.  I stepped in and looked around.  There were all sorts of high-tech equipment lying around. 
    He brought me to his kitchen and told me to sit down.  I sat down on a floating chair with buttons all over it.  I pressed the up arrow and I started floating higher.  I pressed the down arrow and started to lower.  "Have some chips!" said the mad scientist.  He handed me a metal box with flashing buttons all over it.  I pressed the button that said chips.  A speech bubble came out and floated above the top of the box.  It read "What type of chips would you like?"  "Big, Mexican ones."  I said.  Instantly a bowl of big, Mexican chips appeared with a little bowl of guacamole sitting next to them.  I tried the chip and dip.  They were the best chips I ever had.  They tasted like the chips of my dreams.  I gobbled them all down quickly and asked for some more.  He gave me them then put the machine away.  
    
    "I need to use the bathroom." I said.  He pressed a button on the wall and a row of orange flashing lights appeared on the wall.  "Follow the lights and you will reach the bathroom." he said.  I followed the lights down the long hallways until I came to where they stopped.  Then the door next to me opened and I saw a sign that said bathroom.  I walked into the room and sat on the toilet.  Zoom!  Something whizzed by my face.  That's weird I thought.  I'm sure there used to be mirror sitting on the wall.  Again something whizzed by my face.  "I'll catch it next time it does that." I said to myself.  Zoom!  I caught it.  I looked in my hands and saw the bathroom mirror with a pair of wings squirming in my grip.  "AHHHH!"  I shouted and dropped the mirror.  I ran out of the bathroom and when I looked back the mirror was perched on the wall directly above the sink just like when I first saw it.

I followed the orange lights back to where the inventor was flying in the kitchen.  "How are you doing that?"  I said.  "I'm using magnets"  He said.
He tossed me a box with straps.  "Tie this to your stomach and press the blue button."  He said.  I tied it around my stomach and pressed the blue button.  Nothing happened.  "It doesn't work." I said.  "Press the blue button." said the inventor.  I pressed it again and it didn't work.  "The one floating above your head." he said.  I looked up and sure enough there was a big blue button floating above my head.

I pressed it and started floating up until I hit the ceiling.  "How do I get down?" I asked.  "Press the blue button." said the inventor.  "But it's all the way over there." I said pointing to the corner where the blue button sat staring at me on his green and purple chair.  Wait for him to come back." the inventor said like it was the most obvious thing in the world.  Over 20 minutes later the blue button floated near and I pressed him on the head.  "Finally!" I said.

After both of us were back safe on the floor the inventor asked me if I liked giraffe weevils.  "What are those?" I said.  "They are bugs with long necks" he replied.  Suddenly he gazed past me and said "The cloning machine is malfunctioning."  I turned around and saw a huge bug.  "What is that?" I asked trying to remain calm.  "That is a genetically modified giraffe weevil."  It charged at us and the inventor pressed the blue button again.  Sadly I had already of my magnet pack so I couldn't float above the giraffe weevil like the inventor did.  The weevil charged again destroying the nearest lamp.  I charged into the room where the weevil came from.  Inside there were hundreds of normal sized giraffe weevils milling around.  I looked at the counter and saw broken glass.  Next to the shattered glass was a row of test tubes with purple liquid inside.

Love is Patient, Love is Kind

Dad,

You are patient
You are kind

You are patient

With trials of crooks
When they bring worries to you
When they argue, fight
You put them in the slammer
Now all will be well

You are kind

When I am mad
You are nice and calm me down
When we yell at you
You forgive us and love us
Never being mean

Love is patient
Love is kind

You are Love, Dad

You are Love

You are Patient, You are Kind

Mom,

You are patient
You are kind

You are patient

With Zane and with I
When we bring worries to you
When we argue, fight
You listen to our troubles
Now all will be well

You are kind

When people are mean
Your peaceful heart loves them back
When ignorance comes
Deep breaths you offer and smile
Refusing to judge

Love is patient
Love is kind

You are Love, Mom

You are Love

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Mad Scientist

Yesterday I was invited to the kitchen of a babbling inventor who escaped from a black hole in space.  I walked up to the door and pressed to oversized doorbell.  The inventor opened the door and said "Come in!"  He had a large blue cyborg eyepiece over his left eye.  I stepped in and looked around.  There were all sorts of high-tech equipment lying around. 
    He brought me to his kitchen and told me to sit down.  I sat down on a floating chair with buttons all over it.  I pressed the up arrow and I started floating higher.  I pressed the down arrow and started to lower.  "Have some chips!" said the mad scientist.  He handed me a metal box with flashing buttons all over it.  I pressed the button that said chips.  A speech bubble came out and floated above the top of the box.  It read "What type of chips would you like?"  "Big, Mexican ones."  I said.  Instantly a bowl of big, Mexican chips appeared with a little bowl of guacamole sitting next to them.  I tried the chip and dip.  They were the best chips I ever had.  They tasted like the chips of my dreams.  I gobbled them all down quickly and asked for some more.  He gave me them then put the machine away.  
    
    "I need to use the bathroom." I said.  He pressed a button on the wall and a row of orange flashing lights appeared on the wall.  "Follow the lights and you will reach the bathroom." he said.  I followed the lights down the long hallways until I came to where they stopped.  Then the door next to me opened and I saw a sign that said bathroom.  I walked into the room and sat on the toilet.  Zoom!  Something whizzed by my face.  That's weird I thought.  I'm sure there used to be mirror sitting on the wall.  Again something whizzed by my face.  "I'll catch it next time it does that." I said to myself.  Zoom!  I caught it.  I looked in my hands and saw the bathroom mirror with a pair of wings squirming in my grip.  "AHHHH!"  I shouted and dropped the mirror.  I ran out of the bathroom and when I looked back the mirror was perched on the wall directly above the sink just like when I first saw it.

I followed the orange lights back to where the inventor was flying in the kitchen.  "How are you doing that?"  I said.  "I'm using magnets"  He said.
He tossed me a box with straps.  "Tie this to your stomach and press the blue button."  He said.  I tied it around my stomach and pressed the blue button.  Nothing happened.  "It doesn't work." I said.  "Press the blue button." said the inventor.  I pressed it again and it didn't work.  "The one floating above your head." he said.  I looked up and sure enough there was a big blue button floating above my head.

I pressed it and started floating up until I hit the ceiling.  "How do I get down?" I asked.  "Press the blue button." said the inventor.  "But it's all the way over there." I said pointing to the corner where the blue button sat staring at me on his green and purple chair.  Wait for him to come back." the inventor said like it was the most obvious thing in the world.  Over 20 minutes later the blue button floated near and I pressed him on the head.  "Finally!" I said.

After both of us were back safe on the floor the inventor asked me if I liked giraffe weevils.  "What are those?" I said.  "They are bugs with long necks" he replied.  Suddenly he gazed past me and said "The cloning machine is malfunctioning."  I turned around and saw a huge bug.  "What is that?" I asked trying to remain calm.  "That is a genetically modified giraffe weevil."  It charged at us and the inventor pressed the blue button again.  Sadly I had already of my magnet pack so I couldn't float above the giraffe weevil like the inventor did.

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Mad Scientist

Yesterday I was invited to the kitchen of a babbling inventor who escaped from a black hole in space.  I walked up to the door and pressed to oversized doorbell.  The inventor opened the door and said "Come in!"  He had a large blue cyborg eyepiece over his left eye.  I stepped in and looked around.  There were all sorts of high-tech equipment lying around. 
    He brought me to his kitchen and told me to sit down.  I sat down on a floating chair with buttons all over it.  I pressed the up arrow and I started floating higher.  I pressed the down arrow and started to lower.  "Have some chips!" said the mad scientist.  He handed me a metal box with flashing buttons all over it.  I pressed the button that said chips.  A speech bubble came out and floated above the top of the box.  It read "What type of chips would you like?"  "Big, Mexican ones."  I said.  Instantly a bowl of big, Mexican chips appeared with a little bowl of guacamole sitting next to them.  I tried the chip and dip.  They were the best chips I ever had.  They tasted like the chips of my dreams.  I gobbled them all down quickly and asked for some more.  He gave me them then put the machine away.  
    
    "I need to use the bathroom." I said.  He pressed a button on the wall and a row of orange flashing lights appeared on the wall.  "Follow the lights and you will reach the bathroom." he said.  I followed the lights down the long hallways until I came to where they stopped.  Then the door next to me opened and I saw a sign that said bathroom.  I walked into the room and sat on the toilet.  Zoom!  Something whizzed by my face.  That's weird I thought.  I'm sure there used to be mirror sitting on the wall.  Again something whizzed by my face.  "I'll catch it next time it does that." I said to myself.  Zoom!  I caught it.  I looked in my hands and saw the bathroom mirror with a pair of wings squirming in my grip.  "AHHHH!"  I shouted and dropped the mirror.  I ran out of the bathroom and when I looked back the mirror was perched on the wall directly above the sink just like when I first saw it.

I followed the orange lights back to where the inventor was flying in the kitchen.  "How are you doing that?"  I said.  "I'm using magnets"  He said.
He tossed me a box with straps.  "Tie this to your stomach and press the blue button."  He said.  I tied it around my stomach and pressed the blue button.  Nothing happened.  "It doesn't work." I said.  "Press the blue button." said the inventor.  I pressed it again and it didn't work.  "The one floating above your head." he said.  I looked up and sure enough there was a big blue button floating above my head.

I pressed it and started floating up until I hit the ceiling.  "How do I get down?" I asked.  "Press the blue button." said the inventor.  "But it's all the way over there." I said pointing to the corner where the blue button sat staring at me on his green and purple chair.  Wait for him to come back." the inventor said like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

complaints

better plowing services

Monday, February 10, 2014

Mad Scientist

    Yesterday I was invited to the kitchen of a babbling inventor you escaped from a black hole in space.  I walked up to the door and pressed to oversized doorbell.  The inventor opened the door and said "Come in!"  He had a large blue cyborg eyepiece over his left eye.  I stepped in and looked around.  There were all sorts of high-tech equipment lying around. 
    He brought me to his kitchen and told me to sit down.  I sat down on a floating chair with buttons all over it.  I pressed the up arrow and I started floating higher.  I pressed the down arrow and started to lower.  "Have some chips!" said the mad scientist.  He handed me a metal box with flashing buttons all over it.  I pressed the button that said chips.  A speech bubble came out and floated above the top of the box.  It read "What type of chips would you like?"  "Big, Mexican ones."  I said.  Instantly a bowl of big, Mexican chips appeared with a little bowl of guacamole sitting next to them.  I tried the chip and dip.  They were the best chips I ever had.  They tasted like the chips of my dreams.  I gobbled them all down quickly and asked for some more.  He gave me them then put the machine away.  
    
    "I need to use the bathroom." I said.  He pressed a button on the wall and a row of orange flashing lights appeared on the wall.  "Follow the lights and you will reach the bathroom." he said.  I followed the lights down the long hallways until I came to where they stopped.  Then the door next to me opened and I saw a sign that said bathroom.  I walked into the room and sat on the toilet.  Zoom!  Something whizzed by my face.  That's weird I thought.  I'm sure there used to be mirror sitting on the wall.  Again something whizzed by my face.  "I'll catch it next time it does that." I said to myself.  Zoom!  I caught it.  I looked in my hands and saw the bathroom mirror with a pair of wings squirming in my grip.  "AHHHH!"  I shouted and dropped the mirror.  I ran out of the bathroom and when I looked back the mirror was perched on the wall directly above the sink just like when I first saw it.

I followed the orange lights back to where the inventor was flying in the kitchen.  "How are you doing that?"  I said.  "I'm using magnets"  He said.
He tossed me a box with straps.  "Tie this to your stomach and press the blue button."  He said.

Complaints

1.  The schools should change the limit of snowdays before we make up in the summer.
2.  Our neighborhood should have better plowing service.
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Sunday, February 9, 2014

Mad Scientist

Yesterday I was invited to the kitchen of a babbling inventor you escaped from a black hole in space.  I walked up to the door and pressed to oversized doorbell.  The inventor opened the door and said "Come in!"  He had a large blue cyborg eyepiece over his left eye.  I stepped in and looked around.  There were all sorts of high-tech equipment lying around.  He brought me to his kitchen and told me to sit down.  I sat down on a floating chair with buttons all over it.  I pressed the up arrow and I started floating higher.  I pressed the down arrow and started to lower.  "Have some chips!" said the mad scientist.  He handed me a metal box with flashing buttons all over it.  I pressed the button that said chips.  A speech bubble came out and floated above the top of the box.  It read "What type of chips would you like?"  "Big, Mexican ones."  I said.  Instantly a bowl of big, Mexican chips appeared with a little bowl of guacamole sitting next to them.  I tried the chip and dip.  They were the best chips I ever had.  They tasted like the chips of my dreams.  I gobbled them all down quickly and asked for some more.  He gave me them then put the machine away.  "I need to use the bathroom." I said.  He pressed a button on the wall and a row of orange flashing lights appeared on the wall.  "Follow the lights and you will reach the bathroom." he said.  I followed the lights down the long hallways until I came to where they stopped.  Then the door next to me opened and I saw a sign that said bathroom.  I walked into the room and sat on the toilet.  Zoom!  Something whizzed by my face.  That's weird I thought.  I'm sure there used to be mirror sitting on the wall.  Again something whizzed by my face.  "I'll catch it next time it does that." I said to myself.  Zoom!  I caught it.  I looked in my hands and saw the bathroom mirror with a pair of wings squirming in my grip.

Thursday, February 6, 2014

Mad Scientist

Yesterday I was invited to the kitchen of a babbling inventor you escaped from a black hole in space.  I walked up to the door and pressed to oversize doorbell.  The inventor opened the door and said "Come in!"  He had a large blue cyborg eyepiece over his left eye.  I stepped in and looked around.  There were all sorts of high-tech equipment lying around.  He brought me to his kitchen and told me to sit down.  I sat down on a floating chair with buttons all over it.  I pressed the up arrow and I started floating higher.  I pressed the down arrow and started to lower.  "Have some chips!" said the mad scientist.  He handed me a metal box with flashing buttons all over it.  I pressed the button that said chips.  A speech bubble came out and floated above the top of the box.  It read "What type of chips would you like?"  "Big, Mexican ones."  I said.  Instantly a bowl of big, Mexican chips appeared with a little bowl of guacamole sitting next to them.  I tried the chip and dip.  They were the best chips I ever had.  They tasted like the chips of my dreams.  I gobbled them all down quickly and asked for some more.

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Mad Scientist

Yesterday I was invited to the kitchen of a babbling inventor you escaped from a black hole in space.  I walked up to the door and pressed to oversize doorbell.  The inventor opened the door and said "Come in!"  He had a large blue cyborg eyepiece over his left eye.  I stepped in and looked around.  There were all sorts of high-tech equipment lying around.  He brought me to his kitchen and told me to sit down.  I sat down on a floating chair with buttons all over it.  I pressed the up arrow and I started floating higher.  I pressed the down arrow and started to lower.

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Yesterday I was invited to the kitchen of a babbling inventor you escaped from a black hole in space.  I walked up to the door and pressed to oversize doorbell.  The inventor opened the door and said "Come in!"  He had a large blue cyborg eyepiece over his left eve.

Monday, February 3, 2014

Kodu

One evening I was working on making games in Kodu.  Kodu is a program that is used to make games and is much simpler than real coding like JavaScript of HTML.  I was working on a project where there were giant creatures called sputnicks would fly around destroying everything.  There would be defenses on the ground that would try to stop them.  I was a jet and I created a special runway to boost me way above all the fighting.  From my vantage point over the battle, I would shoot missles and blips which are little dots of light that shoot out like a machine gun.  The giant sputnick was attacking the second most powerful creature, a stick.  The stick put up a good fight but eventually the giant sputnick destroyed him.  There was a second stick but he was focused on another enemy.  The giant sputnick zoomed towards one of the small sputnicks on the ground and destroyed him instantly.  A puck on the ground shot out a missile at the evil sputnick but it shot the puck and zoomed away before the missile could hit it.  The giant sputnick spotted the other stick and raced toward it.  Blam!  The stick knocked the sputnick right out of the sky.  Now I had to defeat all of the other enemies.  A small sputnick raced towards me.  I flew at it and dodged while shooting blips.  The sputnick blew up.  I raced towards the stick as blips rained about me.  The stick shot at me like crazy.  I dodged while shooting missiles all the time.  The stick blew up.


We took an Argument Paragraph test.

Sunday, February 2, 2014

Schools should not use the year round schooling system.

Schools in Michigan should not have year-round calenders because it gives kids no time to relax.  If kids have no time to relax they will get overwhelmed and won't be able to take the pressure of school anymore.  If kids can't relax they won't get any time to hang out with their family or friends and they will start to feel lonely.  "It's a good idea, whether you live in the city or on a farm," said Ashley, who will be in 11th grade. "Without the summer off, we might go insane."(Opposing Viewpoints)  If there is year round school, there can't be summer break which will give students even LESS time to relax.  Some psychologists believe that too much study is detrimental to a child's mental health and children need time away from the regimentation of school.(Opposing Viewpoints)  Scholars such as the education reformer Horace Mann argued on behalf of a long summer vacation. Mann wanted teachers to have time off to better prepare themselves in their chosen profession. The freedom from study and lack of schedules associated with summer vacation is good for students and their families and is good social policy too.(Opposing Viewpoints) Year round schools don't give kids time to relax so they are bad.


Works Cited
Mann, Horace "Summer Break is Important to Students and Families"" Opposing Viewpoints January 31 2014 Web

Matthews, Joe "Summer Break is Important to Students and Families"" Opposing Viewpoints January 31 2014 Web

Sturgeon, Ashley "Summer Break is Important to Students and Families" Opposing Viewpoints January 27 2014 Web