Last year on the night before Halloween, I was listening to the radio. There was a contest on 92.3. The contest required that if you call up, and Chunky doesn’t hang up on you and give good reason for wanting to go to Six Flags, then you win 2 free tickets to Six Flags Fright Fest. Right after I heard this announcement on the radio, the doorbell rang. I went downstairs to the front door and answered it. It was Effie. I brought him up to my room. I told him to call 92.3. He called the radio station but Chunky hung up on him. Then I called and I heard Chunky say, “Hey this is Chunky! Tell me why you think you deserve the tickets to Six Flags Fright Fest.” I thought quickly about it and said, “SIX FLAGS ROCKS YOUR FACE!” I waited a little and heard “Congratulations! You just won two free tickets to Six Flags Fright Fest! I will personally drop the two tickets off at your house tomorrow. I will also include a limo to take you there and back.” I screamed. I then told Effie that I had won the contest. I asked him if he wanted to come and he said, “Is that a joke? Of course I’m coming!” I told him that the limo would leave from my house at noon tomorrow. For the rest of the night, Effie and I watched a movie.
Sure enough, the next morning Effie arrived at my house at 9 a.m. I could tell by the look on his face that he was super excited and couldn’t wait until noon. He had to arrive super early. Both of us were way too happy to speak although I forced out the words, “Six Flags has been building a new haunted house for the past year.” We both looked at each other. Great minds think alike. We both nodded out heads. (Without even saying anything, we both decided to ride that ride first.) We had passed the time by eating and text bombing one of our friends. Literally, every minute we would go to the bathroom so we wouldn’t have to go at the park and waste any time. Finally the time came. The limo showed up in front of my house. We both got on. The entire ride to Six Flags, we played with all the buttons on the limo.
When we got to six flags, we rushed to the new haunted house. We got the first ride of the day! When we got on the ride, the ride manager launched us into the house. After about ten seconds inside the house, we stopped moving. All the lights went out. All we could hear were people talking and laughing. Effie and I both thought this was part of the ride. After sitting there for ten minutes we heard a loud “BANG”. Someone had jumped onto our cart. It was a zombie clown! There was blood all over his face. There was no way this could be part of the ride. The clown had picked up someone in front of us. The clown brought her by the wall and then she screamed so loud that caused everyone else on the ride to scream. She screamed so loud that I woke up to find myself sitting in my bed, holding the two tickets in my hand, when I heard a limo pull up to the front door…
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
haikus don't always make sense
today as i walked into my English class i saw my teacher was dressed up in a ridiculous costume. on the board was written "haiku." everyone had a puzzled look on their face and some kids even said, "wahaaah?" i was the only one who knew what a haiku was. it was a kind of poem that only contains three sentences and seventeen syllables.
after seeing everyone's reactions, the teacher said, "everyone quit now!"
i could tell by her voice we were about to have a pop quiz. and just i was thinking that "TAKE OUT A PIECE OF PAPER!" i started laughing because it was pretty ironic. she stared at me and i was biting every part in my mouth that was bite-able to hold back from laughing. i bit my tongue so hard it started to bleed.
my teacher called out, "you have one minute for this test, you start after i give the instructions...write a haiku. You may begin."
as soon as she said that i whipped out a pencil from my pocket and stared writing to fast my pencil point broke. luckily for me it was a mechanical pencil. i clicked the eraser and continued writing. not shortly after, i realized everyone was staring at me. i started to think "was this a joke? i mean, i have a great teacher but she's usually very serious about jokes." then i tried to ignore that thought and within seconds, i blurted out "done!" everyone was saying, "what how are you done?!" then i realized she was serious for everyone's reaction.
after the minuted passed she started collecting everyone's paper and started grading them. everyone's paper was blank except for mine and a few other kids. Their papers said WHAT, THIS IS NOT FAIR or I'M GOING TO TELL MY PARENTS ABOUT THIS and just stuff that they were complaining about.
it didn't take a long time for my teacher to grade the tests. but while she was grading them i heard her start laughing one kid stared crying because he thought she was laughing at him. i knew she was laughing at what i wrote.
after she was done grading them, she passed them out and said, "everyone FAILED. Except for one: Michael."
I've always wanted to hear someone say that but when she said it, it sounded like i was in a movie or a book; it just didn't seem real.
then she said "Michael will you please explain to everyone what a haiku is?"
i was still in shock from what she said earlier so i couldn't speak. I'm usually very good at speaking in public but i was speechless.
then all of a sudden i heard the bell for social studies. i realized that either i took a half an hour trying to talk or she gave us a little more than one minute to write the haiku.
my haiku was:
after seeing everyone's reactions, the teacher said, "everyone quit now!"
i could tell by her voice we were about to have a pop quiz. and just i was thinking that "TAKE OUT A PIECE OF PAPER!" i started laughing because it was pretty ironic. she stared at me and i was biting every part in my mouth that was bite-able to hold back from laughing. i bit my tongue so hard it started to bleed.
my teacher called out, "you have one minute for this test, you start after i give the instructions...write a haiku. You may begin."
as soon as she said that i whipped out a pencil from my pocket and stared writing to fast my pencil point broke. luckily for me it was a mechanical pencil. i clicked the eraser and continued writing. not shortly after, i realized everyone was staring at me. i started to think "was this a joke? i mean, i have a great teacher but she's usually very serious about jokes." then i tried to ignore that thought and within seconds, i blurted out "done!" everyone was saying, "what how are you done?!" then i realized she was serious for everyone's reaction.
after the minuted passed she started collecting everyone's paper and started grading them. everyone's paper was blank except for mine and a few other kids. Their papers said WHAT, THIS IS NOT FAIR or I'M GOING TO TELL MY PARENTS ABOUT THIS and just stuff that they were complaining about.
it didn't take a long time for my teacher to grade the tests. but while she was grading them i heard her start laughing one kid stared crying because he thought she was laughing at him. i knew she was laughing at what i wrote.
after she was done grading them, she passed them out and said, "everyone FAILED. Except for one: Michael."
I've always wanted to hear someone say that but when she said it, it sounded like i was in a movie or a book; it just didn't seem real.
then she said "Michael will you please explain to everyone what a haiku is?"
i was still in shock from what she said earlier so i couldn't speak. I'm usually very good at speaking in public but i was speechless.
then all of a sudden i heard the bell for social studies. i realized that either i took a half an hour trying to talk or she gave us a little more than one minute to write the haiku.
my haiku was:
hai-kus are ea-sy
some-times they dont make much sense
re-fri-gi-ra-tor
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