Survey #2

Here are the results of the second survey on my blog, 'Which one of these random animals do you like best?'

*Drum roll, please*

Octopus, with 6 votes or 54%,

Bunny, with 2 votes or 18%,

Panda, Chickadee and Leopard, all with 1 vote or 9%,

and Tree Frog and Rhinoceros, both with no votes, or 0%, for those of you who can't quite figure out that nothing is equivalent to 0%. Too bad. So sad.

The next survey will be...

'What is your favorite sport?'

The options are:

Soccer,
Basketball,
Skiing,
Baseball/Softball,
Football,
or Other.

There are ten days that you can vote on it. Hope you do!

Quest for the Truth Part VI

Here is the sixth part of Quest for the Truth.

"Let's find something to do. It's almost been two hours." I looked at my watch. Thirty minutes to go. We could start our search now, keeping out of sight of the librarians, but that would be to risky. We could wait.

I pulled a world records book off the bottom shelf and opened to a random page. I was reading about the longest toenails ever (ew!) when I heard footsteps coming up behind me. "M-marla is that you?" I whispered timidly. I turned around to see and old woman with red glasses and gray hair staring at me. I almost breathed a sigh of relief. For a second there, before I turned around, her presence seemed ominous, as if there were a monster lurking in the shadows.

"It's getting late girls! Isn't your mother wondering where you are?" She asked in a cheery voice. I got the creepy feeling again.

"Um - wow. Time flies in a library!" I said nervously. "This book is really interesting. My cousin and I should be heading home." Anything to get away from this strange lady. Marla nodded her head in agreement.

The librarian eyed us suspiciously. "Do you girls need a ride home?"

"Oh, no thank you" said Marla. "Amy lives right down the street." True, I thought.

"All right, then. Have a nice night!" she said, but in a way that made me feel like she wanted our night to be anything but nice.

"Let's go, Marla, I said to my so-called cousin as I pulled her out the door. Once we were out of Ms. Creepy-Nosy-Librarian-Lady's range of hearing, Marla whispered to me " How do we get back in there? I'll bet that freaky librarian is watching our every move!"

Hmm..."Marla, walk around the library and open the window, just a crack. I'll do the same for another one. Meet me back here and we can pretend to walk back to my house. Then we'll hide behind a tree until we hear the librarian drive home. Let's just hope she doesn't close the windows."

Quest for the Truth Part V

Here is the fifth part of my friend A's story, Quest for the Truth.

"We could hide in the library until it closes," suggested Marla.

I agreed that would probably be the best idea, since we didn't have a crowbar. Ha ha. But now there was the problem of having my parents agree to us sleeping over at the library after it closes. As if!

Then I had a brainstorm. I had been nagging my parents to let me sleep over at my friend Anna's house for about a week. She was conveniently located right down the street, so if I could convince my parents to let me stay there for a night, we could pretend to be going there but instead head down to the library. And of course, Anna's parents would be dropping me off here the next morning. Perfect. Now all I had to do was be a little angel so I could get what I wanted. But I'm always a little angel!

An hour and a half later, after a tiring walk, we were at the library. It wouldn't close for another two hours, so we picked up some magazines and sat in a corner trying hard not to be seen. I heard people walking by, and each time, I felt nervous. Just because someone sees me, it doesn't mean that they'll know we won't leave, I reminded myself. It's okay.

All in all, though, if you have two hours to waste somewhere before finding a key that will unlock the secret to finding a missing family, a library isn't such a bad place.

After reading five issues of Grl * Frend magazine and laughing at the perfectly make-upped models, I got impatient, so I went to look for Marla. The crowd in the library was starting to diminish and I had to be ultra-careful that none of the librarians would spot me. I should go into espionage, I thought. Finally I found Marla in the tween graphic novel section. She jumped three feet in the air when she saw me (okay, maybe not quite) but then she got herself together and said "Hi Amy. What's up?"

"I'm just really bored," I told her. "Let's find something to do. It's almost been two hours." I looked at my watch. Thirty minutes to go. We could start our search now, keeping out of sight of the librarians, but that would be too risky. We could wait.

Quest for the Truth Part IV

Here is the fourth part of Quest for the Truth. Just so you know, it is really long, so this is not one of the last parts.

"Treasures in a library!", I said. "Those have got to be books!"

"Yeah", agreed Marla. "And we have to find them before morning is nigh. So I guess we have to go to a library at night to find some key."

We debated about when we should start our quest for a while. Finally Marla gave in and agreed with me that we should get a night of rest before setting off to the local library after-hours (I had no idea how we were going to get in).

"Hey Amy", said Marla. "Do you think any time passed while we were in Maynerna? I mean, when stuff like this happens in the books I read, no time passes."

"Well, I know how to check. Wait here.", I told Marla. I crept into Alex's room. Sure enough, he was still on question number three.

The next morning was a Saturday. I made myself a bagel and ate it with my parents while Marla waited in my room. When Mom and Dad were done eating, I toasted another bagel, spread cream cheese on it, and took it over to Marla.

When I came in, she was on my bed leafing through a USA Girl magazine. "Well, that took long enough!", she joked. "I was getting hungry!"

I rolled my eyes and gave her the bagel. "C'mon Marla, we need to plan how the heck we're gonna get into the library."

"We could hide in the library until it closes," suggested Marla.

I agreed that would probably be the best idea, since we didn't have a crowbar. Ha ha. But now there was the problem of having my parents agree to us sleeping over at the library after it closes. As if!

Survey

Howdy partners! As you all probably know, I had a survey on my blog which was 'Who is your favorite singer?' I hope you voted!

The outcome was:

Other, with 9 votes or 40%,
Lady Gaga, with 5 votes or 22%,
Taylor Swift and Katy Perry tied both with 3 votes or 13% each
and Ke$ha with 2 votes or 9%

Now there will be a new survey on my blog that you can vote on. It is 'Which one of these random animals do you like best?'

The options are:
Panda,

Chickadee,

Leopard,

Rhinoceros,

Octopus,

Tree Frog,

or Bunny

You can vote on it for ten days. I hope you do!

Summer Camp

All right, now I will tell you guys about the camp I was at for the last 3 weeks! My cousin E was there, too. The camp is a wilderness camp for girls from 9-ish to 14-ish. It's not all based on wilderness stuff, though, so there is also a barn and a garden, etc., etc. It's a Quaker camp and there is silent meeting for 15 minutes on a regular day and, get this, 45 minutes on a Sunday. Yeah. I know, right? Just thought I'd let you know. Oh, and they sing a lot and are very enthusiastic about everything.

I will tell you about the awesomest of the awesomest parts, which will be hard because there are a lot of the awesomest parts. Okay. *Takes deep breath*. Here I go.

One of the days was SOMEDAY! Isn't that exciting? No, really, it was. We woke up and there were some people who brought up the goat, Sally, and the bunny, Ginger. Breakfast was Lucky Charms with chocolate milk and green colored strawberry yogurt... oh, and bananas. I basically just ate the Lucky Charms. Then we had silent meeting, which wasn't exactly silent because the counselors were having baby sheep, hula hooping, running around with walkie talkies and such and such.

Every day we have morning activities, and on Someday there were activities, but they were things like having counselors throw chocolate pudding at you from above, and having a water slide, rather than plant flowers in a flower box or learn how to identify mint. I went to the chocolate pudding thing first, which was SO AMAZING! There were a bunch of campers all squished together on a tarp, and counselors above you, basically splatter painting you with pudding. Sadly, they eventually ran out of chocolate pudding, so I went to the water slide area and stayed around there, where they were also playing loud music.

Okay. Right now I am having a brain freeze and can't remember what we did in the afternoon. I know I will remember it sometime........................ Sorry sorry sorry!

Another exciting day was my birthday! I woke up and opened my packages, which my friend H had been keeping for me for days. I got earrings, a pretty scarf, silly books about summer camps and some other random things.

The rest of the day was pretty normal. I got to call my parents *sniff, sniff SO EMOTIONAL*. My older cousin, M, came to dinner because she is at a different camp within the camp, which is hard to explain.

Last but not least, FAIR DAY, my friends. Fair Day. This was only yesterday. It was really exciting because this is FAIR. The moment we've all been waiting for. We sang a lot while waiting to start parading down to where the fair is. Then we started the parade and sang some more. The other camps within the camp on the way to the fair place followed behind us. Then I saw my mom and grandpa and aunt and uncle. A camp within the camp performed a play and then it started. I got candy and cookies and cordage bracelets and coneggberted some people and got coneggberted by some people. Ha ha! Those all start with Cs! Let me explain what a coneggbert is. It is an egg, emptied out, painted and filled with confetti that you smash on each other's heads. They're cool.

After that we got dinner, which were sandwiches. I had turkey and cheese. There was a square dance and a huge bonfire that a group of older girls in my camp made. It really was huge. Like, humongously ginormously... big. Then the parents went back to where they came from and so did the campers.

Back Home

I. Am. Home.

I will post so much about my experiences at summer camp in a bit. Until then, toodles!