A Story

   I got this story idea from my language arts, and so I am going to write it here. It's kinda dumb, but hopefully you'll think it's funny.
   "Full Name: Elliot Doug McBackster," I wrote on my secret-agent application. "Special Abilities: Eating 2 tacos per minute, practical jokes, running, flipping on trampolines. Allergies: I'm allergic to pears. I'm also afraid of spiders bigger around than a centimeter, snakes, and cactus."
   Okay, you might think it's weird to be afraid of cactus, but it is practical. I mean, those intimatating spikes are pretty scary. Imagine being poked by one. And, they're plants, but they don't have to be watered regularly. It's weird.
   I filled out the rest of my application, then handed it in to the person sitting at the front-desk. She was talking to someone on her ear-piece and took the application as I reached out to give it to her.
   I noted how everyone there was dressed nicely in a black suit with a black-tie. I made a mental note to wear my best suit next time I came, instead of my worn shorts, tennis-shoes, and faded T-shirt.
   The lady at the front-desk had stopped her conversation with whoever was on the other line of her ear-piece, and started talking to me. "Thank you, we will meet Friday next-week at 5:00PM to take the physical test."
   "Thank you, Miss..." I replied, looking at her name-tag, "Samantha."
   "See you next week, Mr. McBackster."
   "Thank you, bye."
   Slowly, the days passed until Friday. I waited and hit the gym everyday to prepare myself for the physical test. Finally, Friday came. At 4:00, I dressed in my thirt-best suit (I didn't want to get my other suits dirty, plus this one was lighter than my other suits) and slipped on my black tennis-shoes. I combed back my orange-hair and ate some food and brushed my teeth and flossed. Then, later, it was time to leave.
   As I reached the headquaters (which was hidden underground a computer-shop) I saw Samantha sitting at the desk. When she saw me, she said, "Follow me to the training course."
   I followed her and we walked into a door which led to an obsticale course. She told me that I was to dodge every obsticale without getting hurt, and I would get in.
   She quickly walked away and into this really techy-room where she, and some other people, could observe me or something.
   "This looks easy," I said to myself. Then I started. I jumped over a small wall and crawled through a small tunnel. Next I was supposed to find my way through a maze, and all of a sudden fire just flames down, catching my shoulder on fire! I frantically tried to get it out, and finally I took off my suit-jacket and stomped on it until the fire went out. It was singed a little, but I continued on throught the course. I wound my way through the maze and right as I got out gallons of water poured on me.
   Next came a flurry of the strongest wind I've ever felt as I kept trying to go through the course.
   Finally, worn out, I somehow managed to complete the obsticale course.
   "Congratulations, you have passed," quickly a voice said. "You will recieve a suit, an ear-piece, a de-coder, a codename, an ID and a badge. Do NOT reveal that your a secret-agent to anyone, or you will be cut from the business. Do you understand?"
   "Yes," I answered. I was so happy I jumped up and shouted, "WOO!"
   "Secret-agents don't do that," teased another voice.
   "Right. Just exampling what they don't do," I said, a little embarassed.
   "We will give you your things when you start Monday at 7:00AM. Don't be late," the first voice said.
   "I won't!" I promised. Then I went home.
   
    I'm tired of writing so I'll post the rest some other time. I hope you enjoyed it. LOL X)

 

What's New

   I haven't been posting much but that's because I've been so busy the past couple of weeks, but now I'm posting, right?
   Anyway, I went to California for my relative's birthday. It wasn't all about the birthday party, though. My great uncle took me and my family to San Francisco! It was so much fun, and we took a train called the B.A.R.T. that goes under the bay to San Francisco!
   I will tell lots of the cool stuff I saw there.
   I saw a really narrow "pyramid", Alcatraz (an old, really bad prison where pretty much no one could escape. Then someone did and they closed it), part of the Golden Gate Bridge, a famous building (no, I'm not talking about the Golden Gate Bridge) based on a fire-hose in honor of fire-fighters or something, and all these big buildings and trollies and buses and cars and people and etc. and it was so cool! We even went into Chinatown!
   But, it was sooo crowded almost everywhere we went. It was almost like Disneyland except for there was no rides, except for crowded buses (not fun), steep streets (not fun either), and this one street we saw in the distance that zig-zagged 'till the cows came home.
   Oh, and I'm forgetting to say that we climbed up three street-hill things and at the top we went to the bathroom in a really fancy expensive hotel! It was so cool! LOL ;)
   Anyway, if you haven't noticed, my blog looks different, doesn't it? Well, that's because it is. And yes, the picture above is me in my pointe shoes. :)
   Peace out home dawgz.

Review

   Instead of "The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe" I'm going to reivew "Nancy Drew: The Clue of the Broken Locket" by Carolyn Keene. I know I've switched already, but it just didn't work out.
   "Nancy Drew: The Clue of the Broken Locket" was great and I really enjoyed reading it! There was lots of surprises, and I liked the non "bad-guy" guest characters.
   It almost always left me hanging whenever a chapter ended and I liked that; it made you want to keep on reading. I would recomend you read it if you like good mysteries!
   Overall it was a really, extremely good mystery book! I would say it's one of my favorite Nancy Drew books!
   If you want a picture of the book cover, and want to know where to buy it, click here: http://www.amazon.com/Clue-Broken-Locket-Nancy-Drew/dp/0448095114/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323560653&sr=8-1
   If you buy it, I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

   Anyways, I'm excited that the holidays are coming up, and so are a lot of Nutcracker shows, and I'm in one of them! I love the holidays!

Oops...

   I guess I was supposed to post a book review for "Petals in the Ashes"... and do the fashion column thing... but both of those didn't work out, sorry. So I will have a book review ready for either "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician's Nephew" or the next book in the series, "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe".
   So yeah. Sorry. :}

Halloween!

   You probably know that Halloween is tomorrow. It's going to be fun! :)
   Anyway, I am going to list all the things that I like about Halloween here:
   1. CANDY CANDY CANDY CANDY!
   2. You get to dress up in crazy costumes!
   3. You get to hand out candy:)
   4. You get to eat CANDY CANDY CANDY CANDY!
   5. You can carve pumpkins! How many times a year do you get to do THAT?
   That's about it. Not much. But at least it's something.
   Oh, and my least favorite thing about Halloween is that it's on a school night. WHY NOT MOVE IT TO A WEEKEND? :(
   If your reading this... what's your favorite thing about Halloween? Just 'cuz.

New Fashion Column

   Until I have a book review ready, I thought I would write a new fashion column every week (or at least I'll try), starting today, and I will continue it after the book review (maybe).
   Okay, so now here is fashion advice for middle schoolers:
   Let's say you don't know what to wear to... a casual event. What I would wear is a plain colored T-shirt, ripped jean shorts, and a brown belt around the waist of the T-shirt, and add sandals, flip-flops or even tennis-shoes, depending on what you would be doing at that casual event, and WALLA! It looks great!
   But that's just me. Instead of shorts, maybe you could wear a jean-skirt, and instead of the three types of shoes above you could wear boots. And since it's turning fall you could wear leggings and a sweater.
   And if you were going to a more formal event, you could wear a colored skirt with a white shirt, black leggings, black sandals/ballet flats, and maybe a necklace.
   That's just some advice, if you needed it. LOL:)

Book Review Alert:)

   My Mom does book reviews on her blog, and she wants me to do one too. So I think I'll review a book called "Petals in the Ashes", sequel to "The Sign of the Sugared Plum", both by Mary Hooper.
   "The Sign of the Sugared Plum" is about a girl with flaming red hair named Hannah who is eager to go to London to help her sister with her candy shop. But when she gets there, the plague picks up and swipes away thousands of lives. I finished that one today. It was really good. Obviously, Hannah, her sister and another person (who I don't want to give away) escape London to make sure the third person is safe.    
   "Petals in the Ashes" is about the terrible fire in London right after the plague. So far, they are sent to a penthouse for a reason I won't give away!!
   If you want me to give away this stuff just ask...
   Duh...
   :) good books.