Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Cute, Bizarre Story by My Student

My nutcracker's name is Nicole. She is a ballerina nutcracker. She has a mom and a dad, and she lives with her sister and her brother. She has a big sister. Her big sister's name is Janelle. Janelle is nine years old and Nicole is seven years old. They live together and they share a room. They don't always like to share a room because they argue and fuss all the time. Sometimes they get in trouble with their mom because their mom does not like them to fight at all. When they start fighting, their mom makes them hug so they'll never fight again.
When Nicole left the house to walk, she discovered something from the woods and she walked down to the woods and she saw this thing that has magical powers. It will give her any wish that she wants. She wished that her sister was gone. Then, when she went home, she went upstairs to her room and she looked for her sister. Her sister was nowhere to be found. She started to worry that if she didn't get her sister back she would be in big trouble.
She went back to the forest to see if the tree would give her another wish and the tree began to think. 'Should I give you another wish?'
She told him that he should because she would get in big trouble if she didn't get her sister back. The tree told her that first she had to do something, and then she could have her sister back.
The tree said, 'You must go to the prince's house and meet him and dance with him at the ball tonight.' She said, 'How am I going to get to dance with the prince? I don't even know him.'
The tree said, 'That's why you have to go and meet him. If you don't dance with him, I won't give you another wish.'
She asked the tree where the prince lived. He said, 'Go two blocks from your house and you will see the big castle. That is where the prince lives. Meet him and ask him to dance.'
She met the prince, and the prince said she was very beautiful. Then the prince said, 'Sure, I would love to dance with you.' They danced and then she went back to the tree.
The tree said, 'Since you have danced with the prince, you can have one more wish.'
She said, 'I wish to have my sister back.' She went home, went up to her room, and saw that her sister was there. She was so happy that she hugged her sister for a long time. The End.

** Makes you want to give your sister a hug, doesn't it?!?**

Sunday, December 11, 2005

We Love Katamari!

Hi, My name is Marie, and I am a Katamari addict.  So Troy bought this video game where the character runs around rolling stuff up into a big ball.  I am obsessed.
 
I spent most of today doing laundry and studying for my final tomorrow.  I also ran for an hour this morning- 4 miles.  I'm going to back off next week.  I just wanted to see if I could do an hour.
 
Henry appears to be feeling better.  No accidents in the house and no puking.  We like that.
 
Today I learned that Andy Kaufman was on the first episode of SNL.