France- Day 2

18 March 2010; 7:41 am (Paris time)-


Last night we went and looked at Notre Dame Cathedral. We took lots of pictures of the river. After that, we wandered around and got lost for a while, but found our way to the Café Creperie, where we had crepes. I had a crepe called the Belle Hélène, which had ice cream, whipped cream, chocolate sauce, maple syrup, almonds, and pears on it. It was one of the tastiest desserts I have ever had. We had breakfast of croissants, hot chocolate, and baguettes, which were also good. I lost my hat today, and I think that I left it at the crepe shop. We are going to look for it today. I hope I find it.

18 March 2010; 9:55pm (Paris time)

We went to the Louvre today. We saw the Venus de Milo, tha Mona Lisa, and many other famous works of art. I was amazed at how large the whole place was. I was so happy to be there because in all my architecture books, I saw the great center pyramid, and I have always wanted to see it, and today was that day. I was so excited. We had lunch outside of the pyramid. I had a salami sandwich and an éclair for lunch. We saw the obelisk in front of the garden of the Louvre. It amazes me how someone was able to bring the obelisk all the way back from Egypt. We later went to the Pantheon. We saw Focault’s pendulum, which hangs amazingly high in the building. I learned that St. Genevieve was the patron saint of Paris and that St. Denis was the first archbishop of Paris. I thought that it was great that both St. Genevieve and St. Denis were helping and encouraging the French when Attila the Hun came to Paris. We also saw the National Convention statue and the memorial of Denis Diderot, editor of the first Encyclopedia. I also saw the crypt in the Pantheon and saw the coffins of Voltaire, Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Émile Zola, Alexander Dumas, Pierre Curie, Marie Curie, and Louis Braille. Afterward, we went to see an old Roman colosseum that was turned into a park. We had Salami, Cheese, and a baguette for dinner. We are going to see the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triumphe tomorrow.

France- Day 1

This last week, I went on a trip to France, and I decided to use a travel journal while I was there. Now I will write down my journal entries as blog posts. Enjoy!

17 March 2010; 4:27pm (Paris Time)-
Today was a big eye-opener for me. I know little French and felt like a child in Paris because of my limited speaking abilities. The way everybody talked made me feel American. My dad stood out in the crowd even more than I did. He wore a white sweatshirt, while everybody around us was wearing dark clothing. Luckily, I was wearing a dark coat that day. Although we walked by the Pantheon today, we did not go inside. We are going to save going inside for a different day. We went into the Jardin du Luxembourg, which was probably the largest park I had ever seen. The fountain was interesting. I thought it was funny how you could rent a small toy boat and set it free in the fountain in the middle. We also went to the Jardin du Plantes. This garden had its own zoo. I had a panini today for lunch. It was called a 5 Fromages Panini and had Emmental, Chevre, Feta, Mozzarella, and Mascarpone cheese. We had a nutella-filled beignet for dessert. We hope to go to the Louvre tomorrow.

Using Words Weirdly

CLAMS

There was once a clam who happened to be a CLAM club clam. This clam was no ordinary CLAM clam. He was a member of the Cooperating Limo Association of Mustard, also known as the CLAM club. In this CLAM club, clams club clams. The name, CLAM, the club uses to hide the clams' clubbing of clams. When a CLAM club clam from the CLAM club clubs a clam, he clubs the clam as best as a CLAM club clam can club a clubbed clam. Soon the CLAM club clams had clubbed so many clams that there was not a clam to be clubbed. The CLAM club clams had an idea on how to club more clams. The CLAM club clams decided to club the clubbed clams again. When the CLAM club clams had finished one round of clubbing clubbed clams, the CLAM club clams would go to their club and eat some clubbed club sandwiches. After the CLAM club clams had finished their clubbed club sandwiches, the CLAM club clams went outside to club the clubbed clams with their clam clubs again, But when the CLAM club clams went out to club more clubbed clams with clubs, they found that the clubbed clams had run away from the town of the CLAM club clams. The CLAM club clams had no idea where to find more clams to club. Unfortunately, the CLAM club clams could find no one else to club but the CLAM club clams. So the CLAM club clams who clubbed clubbed clams had to club other CLAM club clams, and the CLAM club clams clubbed happily ever after. The CLAM club clams clamed down.

The Clubbed Clam End

The Different Types of Friction

Rabk’s Depressingly Strange Day

There was once a person named Rabk Doomfish and he lived in the town of El Dorado Hills. In his house, Rabk had a room covered in wallpaper, and when Rabk got tired of the wallpaper, he went outside of his room. One time when he got tired of his wallpaper, he decided to go to the park. On his way there, a squirrel popped into existence right in front of him, about 5 ft of the ground. It hovered in the air for a second and then fell with a crash onto the sidewalk. Then, a small skateboard rolled up to the squirrel who immediately got up and rolled off on it. Bewildered by this strange event, Rabk kept walking to the park. When he got there, he saw Bigfoot, who was trying to knock over a tree. After a couple minutes, Bigfoot pushed too hard, hit his head on the tree. Bigfoot fell over, unconscious, on the ground. Just afterwards, a small mouse came up and tried to topple the tree. Although he didn’t knock it over, he did get it to slide all the way onto the sidewalk, where a jogger promptly ran into it. Rabk shook his head in disbelief and walked over to the fountain in the middle of the park. He fished around in his pocket and when he found a penny, he threw it into the fountain and said, “I wish all these strange things would stop happening.” Unfortunately, that wish did not come true. The water in the fountain started to over flow and so much water came out that Rabk slipped and was being carried away. As he was being washed about he looked over and saw Genghis Khan, in full uniform, swimming the other way. After a while, the water went away, and Rabk got up to find himself completely dry and in front of his house. He decided to go back into his room to get some rest and clear his mind, but then a Pterodactyl flew overhead and dropped some dynamite on his house.


The End

Rabk- Part 11

Rabk

Part 11

The Creature in the Cave

As Rabk and Beowulf went down the Yellow Brick Road, they entered a forest. The leaves and debris from the countless trees covered parts of the road and the two travellers would have to sweep up some of it to see where they were going. At one point, the brick road went very close to a solid rock cliff, and soon they went into a tunnel in the cliff, itself. Beowulf and Rabk looked into the tunnel suspiciously. "So we need to go into this tunnel to get to the Library?" asked Rabk. "Apparently so." responded Beowulf. "But an adventure never stopped a fictional character before! C'mon!" Beowulf walked in cheerfully, followed closely by Rabk. Beowulf pulled some out of his bag for them both. As they went father in, the cave got dirtier, wetter, and had more cobwebs. After about an hour of walking, they came to a fork in the road. "Which way do we go?" asked Rabk. Beowulf shrugged. He bent down and brushed the layers of dirt off of the floor. Both paths had yellow bricks leading into them. He got up and looked at the sediment on his hands. "We need a sign..." he said religiously. Beowulf held the hand with the dirt on his fingers into the air and closed his eyes. Rabk stared at him in annoyance. After five minutes, nothing happened. Beowulf opened his eyes and looked around for Rabk, who was sitting on the floor next to him. "Are you done yet? 'Cause we have to go sometime." "No!" snapped Beowulf. "We need a sign." As he said this a breeze came into the cave and blew the dirt off of Beowulf's hand into the tunnel on the left. "The spirits have spoken!" shouted Beowulf happily. "We go left!" Rabk got up and they headed down the left tunnel. After walking into the tunnel a couple yards, a roar came from farther down the tunnel, stopping the two travellers in their tracks. After a moment, Beowulf shouted. "The spirits have spoken!" he said once again. "We go right." Rabk nodded quickly and they hurried down the path. As they walked down their new path, they found cobwebs large enough to capture a bird. Soon they were large enough to capture a full grown elephant. Even farther down the tunnel, they found webs large enough to capture a Rana catesbeiana! They now crept slowly through the cave. Then a large object jumped out from behind a web. The two travellers pulled out their swords. It was a giant spider with fangs as big as small elephant seals. as it attacked, Rabk and Beowulf tried to fight back. As Rabk swung for the beast, but his sword got caught in a web that was hanging above him. Beowulf jumped on the spider and started jabbing it in the back. The spider wobbled for a while, then slammed Beowulf against the wall. As Beowulf fell, he turned to land on his feet, and with his sword still in hand, he attacked the spider again. It shot out a string of web and pulled the sword from Beowulf. "Impressive." said Beowulf. Rabk yelled at him as he ran away from the beast. As he fled, the beast caught up with him and put his leg on Rabk's stomach. The spider had another leg firmly around Beowulf. The spider's teeth lunged for Rabk.

TO BE CONTINUED...

The Author on Vacation

Once upon a time, there was a man who wanted to write a book, so he took some time off from his job so he could write his book.He tried to write his book, but he kept on going on all the online social networks. For three weeks, this man just went on social networks. On the last day of his vacation from work, he realized that he had barely started working on his book, so for the whole day, he worked furiously on his book, zooming through every subject. Although he zoomed through each topic, he was a very fast writer, so each topic was about five chapters long. After all 24 tiring hours of that last day, the man finally finished his book and rested. Then he realized that he still had to work that day. He tried to work, but he kept on falling asleep. He then decided get some coffee. After drinking 22.5 cups of coffee, the man did all the work he needed to do for that day. After he finished that work, he crashed. After a week of drinking coffee, working, and crashing, he realized that he hadn't published his book, so he did, and he made a fortune off of the royalties and never had to work again in his life.

A President's Day Story

The Era of the Presidents of Gindoris

There was once a land known as Gindoris. At one time, Gindoris was a great Empire, ruled by an Emperor, but the differences between many of the people were too great, and the country split into 27 individual city-states. The people within these city states couldn't decide on names, so they name each other after letters in the alphabet. The A-tribe was the most populated city-state, and the Z-tribe was the least populated city-state. The A1 city-state was the only one not named after just a letter. For some reason, the other tribes gave it this name for its people's love of raising cows. The tribes were separated for so long, that all the good things that the Empire had given to the people had disappeared. A radical group of scholars wanted to reunite the tribes so that they might regain the greatness that the Empire had, but because none of the tribes could agree on who would lead them, the scholars proposed the creation of a democracy, run by presidents. All the tribes saw this as fair, so the democracy was begun, with a great president at their head. The president restored the greatness of the tribes and everybody was happy with him. Although the first few presidents were good, the presidents started becoming corrupt, and only candidates from the old A-tribe were getting elected. These A-tribe presidents would always give A_Tribe the best of everything. The other tribes became jealous and war broke out. Eventually, the A-Tribe was kicked out of the democracy, and everybody was happy and the democracy lived on forever. The A-tribe became a small, weak country known as Alabarkit, and the A1-tribe was renamed to the A-tribe. And everybody (except the A-tribe) lived happily ever after.