Sunday, October 18, 2009

Writing and A Personal Update!

Updated 10/20/09
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Thanks!


Hello! Sorry for not writing in a while. I would like for you all to see some cool pictures, maybe you can send me "mini essays" on each picture and how it resembles (if I may use that world) France, or Paris. You can just tell me "the pic from the whatever the post is post". That is how we will assosiate Paris in this Post.

I haven't been updating lately because I was reading and working like crazy. I am very proud of myself becasue I can read a big book (like The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma) in basically four days! I read a 350 page book in three days, and the Mysterious Benedict Socity, book three, in about four days. I am only in Middle School, but hey! I like to write and I feel I am strong in my writing also, so sadly I have dedicated this most of this post to my writing, not to Paris (huhhhhh??????) I want to hear your comments about this story. Thanks you guys:) :) :)

Also, this past weekend I went to a wedding. It was the first wedding I have ever been to and it was fun. Ummmmm... what else have you missed????? Well, this is all I can think of, but if I think of anything else special that has happened in October, I will have to share with you! Oh yeah, and if my posts are too short or too long (probably not too long ;) you can just comment about them. Thank you!

-Sam

This is the book... enjoy and make sure to tell me critisism if there be any and comments. Thanks. I have a couple chapters layed out but I may change them according to your comments. Read!!




Chapter 1







A small wooden boat roughly swayed in the dark blue waves. Three men were in the boat. They squished together, their blue suits covered in raincoats. Their wigs were slipping off because of the pouring rain. They traveled for hundreds of miles. The whole time it was raining. Now, the waves had turned rough. Two men were steering with buckets. Their oars had gotten swept away into the ocean.


“Are we heading toward Britain?” one of the men had said trying to be heard over the deafening waves. He was steering the boat and was referring to the man with the golden compass in the palm of his crippled hand.


The man simply nodded his head. Another man smiled a mischievous smile and started steering ahead.


Thunder sounded.


The men’s coats flew backwards into the air, but they still stayed fastened onto the colonists. The man without the oar put one hand tightly on a chest in the boat. For a long time no one talked.






Loud and deserted…the ocean was loud and deserted. Loud because of the thunderstorm, deserted because there no one was in the ocean, but the isolation didn’t last for long. Soon, a big wooden vessel woke up the young patriot’s attention. They saw the ship from two miles away.


About a mile away, using their magnifying glass the patriots saw the ships name: East Columbia Tea. The man with the compass yelled out commands about where to steer as if yelling to a giant ocean liner. “North, north, north, north… west, west, west, west,” the young man yelled out commands that slowly turned into a whisper as the vessel moved forward. Then once he saw that his partners knew what they were doing he opened the chest. He took off three layers of cloth and dug around the chest for a while. It was a very big chest, but eventually he took something out.


“Wood softener,” he said to the two men steering. “Drop this into the water when I wave my hand, but make sure you open the bottle, and also, only drop it behind our small ship. It will break our ship if its liquid touches the hull.”


“Yes, sir,” both men said.


The “sir” handed the men the liquid and waved his hand. The freckled man with the breaking oar poured it into the water. Then, the boat steered around the East Columbia Tea ship. In about half an hour they all saw the ship sink. Wood had splintered every direction. Again, the men smiled but kept on steering straight ahead in silence.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Taste of Embarassment, Taste of Copyright


Picture taken by me, SBB, Copyright (C) 2009
Americans love French food, French people, French shopping, French sights, everything French! We marvel at stuff they seem not to care about. I bet most of the french people either found this movie (Julie & Julia) offending, or never heard of it. So, we are kind of, well, in a way gullible losers. Also, not to make you feel bad, but Americans eat. If someone in your bookclub says "Who wants popcorn," probably everyone will raise their hand, but not run up and stampede, same with children. But if the case is "Who wants Ice Cream?" then everyone will run up, or with children, stampede and jump and reach until they get their third serving of Ice Cream :) :) :) :) :)

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Recently, in my hometown, we had a foodie festival, if I may. All the resturaunts from the Bethesda area set up tents in downtown Bethesda (all in the same few blocks of each other... they get assigned tents) and give out tastings. For example, you could get Ice Cream from Ben and Jerry's. You couls get a little tortilla from Calafornia Tortilla. Even Mortons was there giving out delicious steak sandwhiches. Anyways, I was thinking about how this relates to somethings... it was on the tip of my tounge... THE FRENCH! This month as a matter of a fact, the French are having a chocolate festival in Paris. The French often have "fairs" like we had. It was very enjoyable, and very fun, but it made me wonder who came up with this clever idea out of the blue...???

I was thinking I should she some small print saying "Copyright French People Forever," but whatever! If I cannot travel to Paris every year, I mights as well eat some inexpensive tortillas and steak sandwhiches. Also, my friend told me that when they lived in Saint Louis, they had a 'Taste of Saint Louis," and this was "Taste of Bethesda." Then we realized that basically every town in the world has some type of tasting reunion every year.

"TASTE OF AMERICA**"

**Copied off of the French :)

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

E-mail me!

I would love for you to e-mail me!
If you have any questions, comments, reccomendations, I might even start to put up posts occasionaly of really good questions, comments, etc. To e-mail be about anything related to my blog, I can be reached at footstep24@yahoo.com

Thanks all!

This photograph was taken my me, SBB.
Copyright (C) 2009