Quest for the Truth Part II

Here is part two of Double A's book Quest for the Truth. Sorry I haven't been posting the story for a while.

Wow, that was a pretty sad story, I thought. If only we could - DUH! I thought. "Marla, why don't we just call your parents?" She agreed that was a perfect, yet obvious solution. I just got up when I heard the front door open. Oh great!, I thought. It was my brother Alex!

"Quick, hide!" I whispered to Marla. She scrambled into the small, grimy space behind the toilet. I could hear her stifling a gag. Then I went to the door to "greet" Alex. I have to admit, though, distracting people is not one of my finer points.

"Hey, Amy" said my brother, his face sweaty from working hard at the practice. "Hi" I replied. Then, horror of all horrors, Alex started walking towards the bathroom. "Alex, wait! I, um, want to show you a cool new website!"

"Amy, it can totally wait. I have to do all my homework. It's not like I have two teeny papers or something like you would!" he replied. I stuck out my tongue at him, but I was sooo relived he wasn't headed to the bathroom after all. I breathed a sigh of relief. "What's the gasp for? called Alex from his room across from the bathroom. "You sound like a sick Chihuahua!"

I rolled my eyes and went into the bathroom. Then I whispered to Marla "You can come out now! Sorry that took so long! That's Alex, my annoying, popular, football-playing big brother," I told her. "Oh." Marla stood up, stretched, and brushed the grime off her loose-fitting jeans. Then she peered out into the hall. Coast clear. We crept down the hall into my room, but suddenly we were falling through the floor. Marla and I screamed, but the sound was drowned out by the high-pitched screams being emitted from down below.

We crashed into the wet , muddy soil at the bottom of the long metal chute now coming out of the hall floor. Next to me, making the strange noises we had heard , was a tall teenage girl with long frizzy blond hair and lots of zits. She was being attacked by strange-looking greenish creatures with very sharp teeth. They looked like a mix between skinny seals, fish, and snakes.

Marla and I pulled ourselves out of the mud and ran toward the older girl. We pulled the slimy creatures off her with some effort.

She thanked us breathlessly, blushing as she said " I'm Zorania. Welcome to Maynerna."

Quest for the Truth Part I

One of my friends A, who I will call Double A, wrote this awesome 10 page book called Quest for the Truth. It's really great. I am going to post it on my blog over several posts. You are about to see the first awesome part of it...


"Knock knock" I said out of habit, even though I knew there wasn't anyone in our bathroom. My parents had gone out to a boring grown-up party (no kids aloud, of course) and Alex, my 16-year-old brother, was at football practice.

"Occupied!" a loud, sarcastic voice replied. I almost fainted. Not sure what to do, I stepped back a few feet. Then, using all the courage I could muster, I swung open the small brown door to the bathroom. Standing next to the sink was a tall, black haired girl. She had no freckles, unlike my dotted face and long hair.

I stared at the strange girl for nearly a minute, then stammered "W-who are you?"

She looked back at me like a deer staring into headlights. She had a hint of viciousness in her eyes, like it was my fault that she was doing something illegal.

'' What the heck are you doing in my house?" I yelled at her. She still looked bewildered, but then she reluctantly told me what she was doing in my house.

" First of all, my name is Marla" she started. " I'm Amy," I told her still fazed by the arrival of this unexpected visitor. Marla continued.

" This morning, my family and I were on a trip to see my grandparents in Phoenix, Arizona. Me, Mom, Dad, and my baby brother Noah." At this, Marla stopped. "Go on, Marla", I urged her. She resumed her tale.

"I really had to go to the bathroom, so we stopped at the gas station. "When I got out of that place - I'm not always speedy if you know what I mean - my family, car, and all, were gone. And believe me, my parents would never abandon me! They're just not that kind of people!" she added defensively. But there was an edge of uncertainty to her voice. "It was such a windy night, it almost felt like a hurricane, and it was getting dark, so I ran to the nearest house, which was yours, and climbed in the window. It felt like the right thing to do at the moment", Marla said.


To be continued.......................................

Stitches...

I got stitches! This isn't exactly recent- I got them 2 days ago- but I didn't really have much time to blog. Here's how I got them...

We got out of lunch and went to recess which was moved indoors due to rain after a minute or two. I was running to put my lunch box, which is blue and has a really long strap, in the place where we put our lunch boxes. I tripped and fell on the super long strap of my lunch box and the sand-stuff on the blacktop. So I fell onto the blacktop and I got a pretty bad cut on my right pinkie, a sort of-almost-maybe bad cut on my right wrist and a scrape that wasn't horrible on my right knee. Then I went to the nurse who cleaned me up a lot and called my mom. She came and we went to the doctors office. They asked me a bunch of questions about how deep it was and stuff, and then they refused to open the bandage and sent me to the hospital to get stitches in the ER. I hadn't ever had stitches before so it was really scary. There was a really nice doctor and nurse. They numbed my finger so I couldn't feel anything and it felt like it had swelled three times it's normal size. My mom, who was brave enough to actually watch, says that it swelled twice the size it should be. I got 5 stitches all in my pinkie. The doctors gave me some pink medicine stuff to put on it when I changed it- twice a day-, wrapped up my whole hand really well and gave me a syringe for some crazy reason. Oh, and they gave me a Nancy Drew mystery. It was annoying because I was so happy that it was over and I couldn't feel anything but then the numbness wore off and it hurt sort of bad. It's been getting so much better and I have to get the stitches taken out in 6-8 days today, the 16th, because when I got them it was the 14th and I was supposed to get them taken off in 8-10 days.

Okay. That's that about my stitches.

Interviewing My Friend B

Okay, I got this idea from my cousin, E. Check out her blog http://e-s-world.blogspot.com! This idea is to interview my friends. I'm gonna start with my friend, and neighbor, B.



Q. What is your fave color?
A. Blue.

Q. What is your astrological sign?
A. Pisces!

Q. Does you liking blue and being a Piscean have anything to do with eachother?
A. Not really... Well, sort of.

Q. What is your favorite book or book series?
A. Well, I like a lot of them.

Q. What are some of your favorites?
A. His Dark Materials Series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, what else... oh, and Maximum Ride.

Q. Do you have any siblings?
A. Yes, I have one.

Q. Is it a boy or a girl and how old is he/she?
A. He's a boy and he was born in March 2011!

Q. Do you like him?
A. Of course I like him!

Q. Do you have any pets?
A. Yes, I have 2 dogs at my dad's house and 1 cat at my mom's.

Q. What are their names?
A. I have a brown dog named Levra and a white dog named Lucy and my cat who is orange is named Charlando.

Q. Do you have any thing else to say?
A. No!



Ok, there's B!

Field Day 2011(and a Summary of the End of Our Trip)

This is my second post about Field Day because I have been writing in this blog on and off for over a year now! The official anniversary of my blog was June 5th. Sorry I haven't been writing recently. I bet you want to hear about the end of my trip but I feel like that isn't really recent enough, so I will just write a quick summary. We took an overnight ferry to the Hook of Holland and took a train to Amsterdam. Then we went to our hotel, Hotel Weichmann, and saw a lot of bicycles and canals. Over the three days we were there we basically just went to the van Gogh Museum, the Anne Frank House , Vondel Park and Blomen Market, a flower market(if you didn't know, blomen means flower in Dutch). We also walked around a LOT. Then we went on the chunnel back to England, which was cool because you're going underwater but you barely realize it because it is so fast. All right. Back to Field Day. It started at 9:00 and everyone got yellow t-shirts to get soaking wet. Then we all went outside and got into our groups and went to our stations. The group I was in went to a new station first, a slip and slide. It was exciting and fun, probably one of my favorite stations. You just took a running start, then slid on your stomach as far as you could. It got you soaked and soapy. Then we went to another really fun station, beach ball volleyball. All you had to do was hit the ball over the net and call out something like your name, your favorite ice cream or vacation destination. Then we did the water fight type thing I described on my other field day post. Check back there if you don't know what I'm talking about, because it's hard to explain. We did tug-o-war and a water balloon toss, which were some good ones, especially when we did Boys vs. Girls tug-o-war. The girls won. We went to the station that my mom was working at, which was basically a weird version hockey but all you do is dribble and shoot. We did a relay race where you fill a bucket by loading a sponge with water and squeezing it out and did face painting. I got a green and purple snake curling around my arm, but I wish I also got a purple flower on one cheek. We lucked out, though, because we didn't have any water stations after that. We had a rest station with popsicles and scooter races that weren't the least bit competitive. I got a green popsicle, my favorite flavor. At 12:00 we went in to change from our wet shirts to our dry ones and went outside again for lunch. I got hot lunch for the first time in about two years or so. It was hamburgers or hot dogs, chips, watermelon and an oatmeal raisin cookie. Then we went on with the rest of our day.

More Things I've Been Doing in London

Here are some of the things that I have been doing in London since I posted last.

My mom and I went to the British Museum and saw the Greek exhibits, the Rosetta Stone and a library place that had a lot of collections of artifacts from foreign places. Another highlight from that day was getting lunch at a restaurant called YoSushi where they had a conveyor belt and, of course, sushi. It was really fun! Another day we were wondering what to do and came across the Ripley's Believe it or Not! museum, so we went to it. Some of my favorite things there were the mirror maze, butterfly and bubblegum art, a piece of the Berlin Wall and a room where they had a piece of a real meteor and fossilized dinosaur eggs. A couple days later one of my best friends, M and her mom, C came! We met them at the airport and it was really nice because I hadn't seen anyone that was my age for six weeks! The next day we went to Westminster Abbey. We saw a lot of tombs of kings and queens, statues of animals and humans, stained glass and cool ceilings. The next day was M's birthday! We saw Buckingham Palace and had High Tea, which was really fancy. We all especially liked this rose-raspberry-french macaroon dessert and I also liked chocolate chocolate chip scones with their homemade nutella. That night we saw Wicked the musical! It was really, really, really fun! I liked the costumes a lot, and the actors and actresses were good singers. The day after that we went to Hampton Court. We saw the kitchens, the Great Hall, went in the hedge maze and even saw the 'king'. Going there was slightly creepy because King Henry the VIII was famous for beheading his wives. The next day was C's birthday! We went to Bath and saw the excavations of the pools that the Romans who used to live in Bath bathed in. The water was pure mineral water that naturally bubbled up from the earth. The last thing we did at the archaeology place was going into the pump room and trying the mineral water that was free there. It was sort of disgusting. After that we went to a spa where we went in a pool that was like a modern version of the Romans' baths- it was also mineral water that came up from inside the earth. It was cool because there was a little fountain thing next to the main pool that was where the water came from, straight from the spring, and also because the water had been down under the ground for thousands of years. Sadly, they left the day after that. Soon I will be in Amsterdam, so I will tell you some things I have been doing more recently here in London, and what I am doing there!

Things I Have Been Doing Recently In London

Here are some of the highlights of my time in London so far. My mom and I went to Harrods. We didn't buy very much, but it was fun seeing things such as fancy chocolate truffles, a fish display and lots of elegant things arranged in the food hall. Another day we went to Shakespeare's Globe. We went inside the theatre and saw an exhibit that had a lot of information and models of costumes. My favorite part about the exhibit was poster that had all these quotes from Shakespeare's plays such as "in a pickle", "dead as a doornail", "for goodness' sake", or "it's Greek to me". We then walked along the South Bank of the Thames and because it was a weekend there were a lot of street performers. There were people such as silver "statues", contortionists, and people who were making sand sculptures on the riverside. A couple days before, we went to Trafalgar Square and also saw the changing of the guard. That was pretty short, but it looked pretty cool. We got there right in time, even though we hadn't planned on seeing it in the first place. Those are some of my highlights here in London so far.