"Mary Poppins"

Things were not going well for Mr. Banks. His two children had run away, again. He was thinking of hiring a new nanny because the old one was sick of the kids running away, and she had quit. Little did he know, his children were about to have an exciting journey. While the new nannies were waiting outside, a big gust of wind blew, and they all ‘magically’ blew away. Then, out of nowhere, Mary Poppins came, flying and holding an umbrella. That is highly doubtful, and that explains why it could be either irony or romance, because those are the only two plot lines with characteristics of, “highly unrealistic.” The movie is not scary, though, so it must be a romance story.

In the beginning of the movie, it already has reasons of why it would be unrealistic. First of all, she came, flying. That is completely impossible, unless there are very, VERY mighty winds, or if you’re on an airplane! Then, Mary and the kids clean a whole room in 5 minutes by snapping and singing! Boy, don’t we wish we could do that. It is not possible to snap and something then gets put away. Mary then takes the kids out to the park, and that’s where they meet Bert, a Chimney Sweep. Bert was at the park because he draws amazing pictures with chalk, there. As they were looking at the pictures, the little girl said, “I wish I could go there!” And with that, Mary Poppins used her ‘magic’ to make them all jump into the picture. They stayed and played there for a while, but then it started to rain, and they were teleported out of the drawing. That is highly unrealistic; as we could never, EVER jump into a drawing! The next day, they went to Mary’s uncle’s house, because he had an alcohol problem. When they got there, he was laughing so hard, that he had floated to the ceiling! They had a tea party on the ceiling, because none of them could stop laughing and they couldn’t come down! Later in that story, Bert, Mary, and the kids were all jumping on chimneys when they came to an end, and so they rode a cloud of smoke? Ha! None of things are possible.

Most of the scenery and such matched the romance scenario. The house was a big, luxurious home, not including the fact that their neighbor had such a boat obsession, that he turned the roof into his own top of a ship! He fired cannons and everything! Anyway, the sky was most of the times a silver kind of color, and mostly all of the trees were evergreens. There were some doves, and while they were in the picture, there was a rainbow. Also, most of the story took place in the mornings. It looked as if it was spring, everyone wearing light coats, and there was no snow. That is something that points out that this story is romance.

Also, the story follows the romance theme very well. The minor conflict is that the kids drove away yet another nanny. And through the course of the story, their lives get better. That is the life symbolism, because the ending was a little more realistic than the rest of the story. The main character (Mary Poppins) can do no wrong and the evil (Mr. Banks) is weak and laughable. Most things in this story are better than they are in real life, like walking on smoke clouds, being able to jump into drawings, jumping along the rooftops, or even dancing with penguins. The story is very much so a fantasy vision, because the majority of it is things that we wish we could do but can’t.

This clearly states why this story is a romance story. There are very many facts to prove it and It makes a LOT of sense! Therefore, the story is a romance! I think it all matches very well!

CHRISTMAS!!!

Christmas sure is funny! A bunch of random people sing Christmas songs like Walking in a Winter Wonderland:

Sleigh bells ring
are you listening
in the lane
snow is glistening
A beautiful sight
we're happy tonight
walking in a winter wonderland
Gone away is the bluebird
here to stay is a new bird
He sings a love song
as we go along
walking in a winter wonderland
In the meadow we can build a snowman
Then pretend that he is Parson Brown
He'll say: Are you married?
we'll say: No man
But you can do the job
when you're in town
Later on
we'll conspire
as we dream by the fire
To face unafraid
the plans that we've made
walking in a winter wonderland
In the meadow we can build a snowman
and pretend that he's a circus clown
We'll have lots of fun with mister snowman
until the all the kids knock him down
When it snows
ain't it thrilling
Though your nose gets a chilling
We'll frolic and play
the Eskimo way
walking in a winter wonderland
Walking in a winter wonderland!
walking in a winter wonderland!

 HEEHEE! Christmas is so much fun! (P.S. Peekers are NOT COOL!!!)   :0

Good times, good times...

There are a LOT of good times I have shared with my great, hilarious, bizarre, and spaztastic friends.
I remember one time, when I was home alone, and my friend Jade wanted to come over and hang out. Unfortunately, I'm not allowed to have anyone over when my parents aren't home. So, she came over anyway. Why?? BECAUSE SHE SAID HER PARENTS DID NOT HAVE ANYTHING GOOD TO EAT FOR DINNER. Well, we started making Ramen Noodles, and I stood outside watching for my parents while Jade was inside cooking. I saw my dad, and I yelled, "GRUNT!!! COCK A DOODLE DOO!!!!!" (that was our code). She sprinted out my back door, left the noodles, and my dad walked in. I was laughing and trying not ot give away that I was up to something. He asked, "Kasia?! What the heekers are you doing laughing and making noodles... in the microwave???" I never make Ramen Noodles in the microwave, so, I winged it. "Um..." I was laughing even harder. "Because I was trying to experiment new things...?" Unsure, he said, "Alright...??" It was so funny. Jade called 10 minutes later, and she yelled, "KASIA! DID YOU EAT MY NOODLES???" I was laughing so hard now, I was on the floor. I tried to stop, but soon, Jade caught on and started laughing too. We were on the phone laughing for about 15 minutes until my dad got mad and screamed, "GRUNT!! KASIA GET DOWN HERE AND EAT THE NooDLES THAT YOU MADE!" It was hilarious!
This other time, at Camp Whitcomb, my friends Ali and Rhiannon were both in the same class. There was a skit contest, and so, we came up with something really. Really. Weird. We were thinking, and we scratched out a bunch of ideas... until this one idea we had... Our skit ended up being a fashion show. But it was no ordinary fashion show. When it was our turn to 'walk' down the 'catwalk', we ran out in front of the whole 5th grade with our underwear on our heads and our underwear over our pants! We were called the "Sexy Lumberjacks", because we had sticks in our hands. Everyone was laughing. Show success!
One time, last year in 6th grade, my friend Brittany and me were really bored. So as we were talking, we made up nicknames for ourselves. I'm Pop, and she's Gramgram. We started making these weird stories about an old man named Brittany, and they got pretty funny. Later in the year, our class got a student teacher, Ms. Pergande. We thought it would be funny if we started leaving the stories on her desk. So, we changed the old man's name to Stu, because we didn't want us to be a giveaway. And then it began. We left a new story about Stu on her desk every night. Then one morning when we walked in, 3 of our stories were hung on the board with writing under them. It read: "WHAT???" Britt and me practically fell on the floor laughing. When the teacher came in, she asked us, why are you girls laughing so hard?" and we laughed even harder. We kept leaving stories on her desk and at the end of the year, she wrote this in my yearbook: "Have a great summer.. LOVED the stories you left on my desk. -Ms. Pergande" Guess she found out it was us... WE WERE NOT GIVEAWAYS! :0
Another time, my friend Brittany and me were having a noodle slurping contest. We were eating spaghetti, and, well, I was, but she doesn't like the sauce so she was having the noodles plain. She blurted out, "LET'S HAVE A SLURPING CONTEST, POP!" So I replied, "OK Gramgram, but you're going DOWN!" 1....2...3.. GO! I was done slurping the noodle in a second but when I looked over at Britt, she wasn't even halfway done... and the noodle she was slurping was shorter!
GOOD TIMES, GOOD TIMES, MAN!!!!!!!!!! :D

Snow!

Snow is amazing! It is like a big pillow... but a LOT colder. If snow was warm, I bet everyone in the world would be outside laying in the snow and having fun. What I love even more is when the snow is frozen, like ice! I go to a huge hill and I go sledding. There is a bump that you create and you fly off the bump laughing and hoping you wont fall off. This one time, me and my friend Ali went sledding and we didn't have a snowboard so one of us would stand down in the middle of the hill, the other one would sled down on a saucer, and then the one standing would jump on the one in the sled on the way down. I love snow! :)

Tubing :)

I love tubing. It is so much fun! one time, I was tubing with my cousins Sarah and Brianna, and I was tubing with my sister. The boat was going to fast, and she couldn't hold on, and the tubes crashed into each other. It was very funny because she turned upside down and she started riding the tube... UPSIDE DOWN. EPIC FAIL. It was really funny though because she fell off and no one noticed and I was just laughing my head off trying to keep my grasp on the tube while she was drifting away and yelling, "SOMEONE COME AND PICK ME UP! AHH FLOATING AAAWWWWAAAAAAYYYY!!!!!" Another time, I went tubing with my friend Ali. It was really fun because she only had one tube, and it was only supposed to be for one person, but, of course, we didn't want to be lonely, so we decided to try and find a way to fit both of us on the tube. Unfortunately, we didn't fit that well on the tube, and so, she pushed me off a bunch of times, but one and ONLY one time, I jumped off. It was because my bracelet fell off and I didn't want it to drown without me, so, I jumped off the second i saw it in the water, grabbed it at the last possible second, and saw Ali laughing her head off at me. It was funny, I will admit that. I love going tubing. If you haven't gone, well, BUY A TUBE AND A BOAT AND GET SWIMMING, MAN!!! :D

Humina Bobe the Old Man

It was a windy day when the man crossed the road and went into the bus station. It was almost night, as the sun was setting fast. The old man began to get scared. He knew that his granddaughter would be very angry if he missed her birthday. She was turning 16 and he didn't want to miss it. He waited.. ..and waited.. ..AND waited... Suddenly, he saw a squirrel in the foggy distance. He was shivering in his beaten and torn up coat. The squirrel came over to cross the road, but, that's just when the bus came. The man felt the warm, salty tears trickle down his cheeks. He loved animals so much. When he looked up, he saw the squirrel at his feet, just lying there, curled up in a little ball. He was very, very confused. The squirrel squeaked to the man, "Hi! I'm Jiggle Muffin. What's yours?" The man just sat there. The squirrel yelled. "HELLO! SIR! I AM JIGGLE MUFFIN! WHO ARE YOU??" The man said with a cracked voice, "You just died. That bus ran you over. How did you..."
"Of course I did. I have 5 more lives left."
"What??"
The squirrel burst out laughing, as if he knew everything there is to know. "You know how cats have 9 lives?"
"Yes."
"Well, squirrels are the REAL animals with 9 lives. Have you ever seen a cat get funny run over and still walk straight as if nothing has happened, like I just did?"
"No."
"Well, now you know. Where 'ya headed?"
"My granddaughter's birthday party. But I don't know what time it is. It's very dark and I think I missed it."
"Hm.. well, I'm going to check my watch then!"
"Squirrels wear watches??"
"Yea. Duh. You do too, don't 'ya?"
"Well, yea, but I'm not wearing it right now."
"I can tell. Hey buddy, I never got your name."
"Humina Bobe."
"Well! Butter my butt and call me a biscuit! That is one honkin' name!!"
"You don't like it??"
"Hey. Listen to MY name. Of course I like it. Jiggle Muffin. HA! I love saying my name!"
"So now how are we going to get to my granddaughter's party?"
The man stood there with a very sad face, as if something had just crushed his heart.
"Well, we could:
a. Get a ride on my Ninja-Mobile
b. Wait for the next bus
c. sit on my back and we could FLY LIKE THE WIND, MAMAJAMA!!!"
"Hm... Number 3 sounds good to me!"
"Then LETS GET TO THAT PARTY!"
The man and the squirrel start to fly off into the distance. They crash into a clothes line. They could hear people from below yelling.
"Woah!"
"It's a bird!!"
"No, it's a plane!!"
"Is that guy wearing my underwear???"
The man looked on his head and realized... he was wearing that guy's underwear! he threw it in a puddle and no one ever saw it again.
They finally got to the party when it had turned to 9:30.
"Wow," The man gasped. "I thought it was much later than that!"
"Well, ya gotta trust a squirrel!"
"True that, mamajama!"
They walked into the party and realized... IT WAS THE WRONG ONE. The man had a heart attack and the squirrel just froze.
"MAMAJAMA!!! WAKE UP MAMAJAMA!!!!!"DON'T LEAVE ME HANGING!"

...........

In the paper the next day:


MAN AND SQUIRREL DIE TOGETHER AS BEST FRIENDS! JULY 15TH 1993

A man and a squirrel were found dead at a party. After research, the hospital found out that they both had a heart attack. They were left untreated for too long and they didn't make it to see the sunlight. It was very tragic. After much more research, the hospital found out that the squirrel had died after the man. At first, we hadn't a clue of how the squirrel met the man. I guess we'll never know. We did find something, There was a piece of paper found in the man's pocket. It read:

JIGGLE MUFFIN AND HUMINA BOBE: BEST FRIENDS FOREVER. BEST FRIENDS LIVE LIFE TOGETHER; BEST FRIENDS DIE TOGETHER. Friday, July 13th. 1993

Stream of Consciousness: Fall

I fall too much. I fall all the time. There is this one picture on my friend's iPod that says: CAUTION! It takes skill to fall on a flat surface. Funny saying, huh? Well. I HAVE TOO MUCH SKILL!!! Actually, it's quite funny. Not really. I'm just saying that. Because I am. Because that's what skilled people do. Ha-ha IM SO SKILLED its not even funny actually it is because as I'm reading this I'm probably laughing just kidding I'm probably not just kidding I'm walking on a stick just kidding I'm walking on air just kidding I can fly so y would I need to walk on air just kidding I cant fly just kidding I'm a ninja I can fly just kidding I cant fly its impossible just kidding I'm so annoying just kidding I'm really funny just kidding I'm hilarious HAHAHA!!! :) timers up. Good bye! (I realize how much this does not make sense, but that's just me!)

What I'm Doing This Weekend

This weekend, I'm going to Texas. I don't think anyone will care though because they will all be jealous! :D We are going canoeing and we are going to the San Antonio Six Flags park. I can't wait! I just hope I don't fail miserably when I'm canoeing because when it comes to boats, I am just the most epic fail I know. Texas is so much fun and I can't wait to go because I'm going tomorrow! The only bad thing is that our flight is landing in Dallas so it is a 4-5 hour drive to get where we're going.
B-O-R-I-N-G-! I hope I don't fall in a hole.

Candy.

Candy is O.K. They best kind to me are Snickers and Botan Rice Candy(that's Japanese, and it's better than it sounds). But I HATE CHOCOLATE. I think it is one of the worst things unless it is mixed with something 100X better. That's why Snickers are AMAZING. Chocolate ice cream is the worst. A lot of people I know would prefer vanilla over chocolate. I'm with them. The only kind of chocolate I like is white chocolate, and that's not even real chocolate. It's just made the same way. One of the really gross things about chocolate is that when you find Chocolate Jimmy's (sprinkles) on the floor, and you have a hamster, it looks so much like hamster 'droppings', that it would be too hard too tell apart. That's just really weird. Imagine if you got tricked into eating what came out of a hamster's behind. Ugh. Disgusting. That's why we don't buy those. We have a hamster. I bet he wouldn't even be able to tell them apart, and he's the one that makes one of them! I hope you are now more cautious about chocolate. If you are ever in a situation where there are two chocolates, pick the one that smells better.

Beaches

Beaches are horrible. Your feet just feel weird when you walk through the sand. It gets stuck in between your toes and it feels like you're forced to walk around in shoes that are too tight until you wash your feet off. Also, the water may look pretty because of its brightness and how it shimmers in the sun, but it smells and sometimes even has deadly creatures. If you think about it, there's no such thing as a perfect day at the beach. The water's always cold and it's not clear. That freaks a lot of people out because you wouldn't be able to see anything that's happening by your feet. What if you were in the ocean, and you just happened to step on a poisonous sea urchin because you couldn't see where you were going? The feeling would be just horrible. You wouldn't even be able to see anything that could kill you, like a lion fish. Did you know that most people who get stung by a lion fish die because they are paralyzed and they can't swim? They drown. But if you can swim to shore BEFORE you are paralyzed, whatever it stung will most likely decay and fall of without treatment because the venom is so strong. That's just sad.

Patriotism - Exactly 350 Words!

            BOOM! POW! CRACKLE! Those are sounds you hear on the Fourth of July, right? What most kids don't know is that it is also called Independence Day. It is the day that we won independence; the day we earned America. It was our soldiers that fought, the ones with the most patriotism. They fought for our country and were willing to die for it. Patriotism is very important to them, as it should for most everyone. Patriotism still matters and always will.

             Patriotism is a symbol of our appreciation for our country. It shows how much we care. If patriotism were to be dead, where would we be now? That question is unknown and for the sake of our lives should stay unknown. We should always have spirit somewhere in our hearts. Patriotism is what we are. We are America, and this is our home. If we don't protect it, we could become part of another colony. We won our own independence, and we should be able to keep it.

             Everyone has different opinions. It's kind of hard to understand why people fight and have war. What if there was no such thing as fighting? Would it make our life better, or worse? Less people would die, and that's for sure a good thing. If there was no such thing as patriotism, would there be countries, or would we all be one large country? If the world had formed differently where all the land as connected, would we be one country? Then we wouldn't have to fight about which country is the best. There is no such thing as bad taste because it's an opinion. One's trash is another's most valuable treasure.

             As clear as it is, all countries are important and all countries matter. It's just the patriotism that makes people get excited and spazz-like. Even though it seems as though it would be a better life without it, its still important. No matter what, patriotism is always going to be important, no matter what. It's good to be different. Our country is and always will be very important.