Colour Pencils

… was fun! We went snorkeling and I saw lots of fishes and there was a seal two feet from me! And it looked at me with giaaant eyes!

Okay, so yesterday I went on Quest Camp. The bus trip was long and boring. We passed… cows. And more cows. And grass. And more grass. And hills.

We were driven to the camp, where they welcomed us. We unpacked our stuff and went to the pool, where there were four- oops, three pools connected by tunnel-esque things. It wasn’t very big, but the pools were deep. It kinda felt like an island, as the pools were overlooking the lake. The lake is rather big.

We were taught by the instructors how to snorkel and put on our wetsuits and stuff (we had to jump backwards!), then we had a lunch break, then we went to the pier.

Snorkeling around there was pretty cool, but I didn’t see much fishes around – JAL saw a pufferfish and someone saw a long pipefish.

Went back to camp, ate dinner, watched ten minutes of a movie before I wanted to sleep, fell asleep for an hour, woke up, ate snakes, listened to iPod, talked to girls and fell asleep.

Oh, and after dinner, we went and visited this guy’s two dingos and two dogs. One of the dingos licked my face (and part of my tongue…) and we got to pet them. And we played with the other dog and threw this pinecone for him to fetch.

That was Day One.

Now, today we woke up at the glorious time of… seven! Breakfast was pancakes and it was yum. We then packed our stuff and got on the bus to go and snorkel again.

I won’t bore you with more boring details, but we snorkeled in two places! The first was an atoll full of Australasian Garnets and birds I swear are penguins and there were fish there. The second was a brief, 10 minute snorkel with…  seals!

One of them was two feet away from me, and was looking at me curiously with BIIIIIG ROUND EYES. It was very much awesome, and the seals were cute (despite anything Pyro will say. LEECHES MAY BE CUTE, BUT SEALS ARE CUTER).

Then we ate lunch and got on the bus, where we went back to school. That was the end of the trip, the last of the journey, the blah of the blah.

The trip was awesome.

four. Well, the Fourm hasn’t exactly been the quickest of websites on my computer, so I may not be able to post much. At the moment, it’s been at least ten minutes (or five) since I opened a Deck of Cards, and it still hasn’t loaded… I clicked on Segmentation Fault instead, still not loading. Four Island (the main site) and Colour Pencils are slow, but not too slow that I can’t post.

It’s not my computer, as I can go on other sites quicker (FanFiction.Net loads quicker than Wikipedia, which takes five minutes to load!)

I’m just attempting to do Hat’s challenge, but I had to talk about my problems with the Fourm first. ANYWAY… Or not. I’ll do the challenge later when Four Island doesn’t lag as much.

Oh, and Segmentation Fault has STILL not loaded. Sigh.

Yes, I am redoing this challenge as I have found something very, very, weird. Plus, I actually read the rules this time! Go me!

We present…

The Brokers With Hands On Their Faces Blog.

Yes, I know. Some of you may be thinking “What the hell?”, but I just find it very funny that someone made a blog comprising of only brokers with hands on their faces.

I actually didn’t know brokers looked like that!

*am listening to Because I Do by Pearl and the Puppets”

I feel happy, because some people like my very random story. But, just a few hours ago, I was being tortured. Why was I being, um, tortured?

The teachers had dragged us all the way to the rainforest. We had to walk and walk and walk and WALK, and it hurt. However, there were a few highlights and a few downlights that I’d like to share with you all.

Leeches

Yes, there were leeches. You know, those bloodsucking vampire/slug things that move like inchworm. Quite a few people had felt a curious tingling when they had just past this bridge, including Sammi94, but they had just shrugged it off.

It turns out that they were leeches.

The guide talked a bit about the leeches and one of the boys was showing off the leech on his arm to everyone. Pyro wanted a pet leech afterwards, so she got ahold of one and named it ‘Fluffy’. Luckily, or unluckily, Mrs. Henderson found out and didn’t want any squeamish kids freaking out, so Pyro couldn’t bring Fluffy along.

The Lyrebirds That Were Never There

I like Lyrebirds. They look cool and can mimic almost anything, from a magpie to a parrot, from chainsaws to cars to a girl screaming, “WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CHEESECAKE” really loudly. I’d have liked to see one, but our group was… um… as quiet as a herd of stampeding elephants?

The Insane Asylum

There’re a few reasons why I like Pyro as a friend. One of them is the fact that, um, Pyro is, um… it’s hard to say. So, me, Timbo and Sammi told her that the rainforest was actually one room of a giant insane asylum.

She’s been scared of The Men In White Coats for a while and doubly scared of The Men In White Coat’s Van. That freaked her out, until she found Fluffy.

And if it had rained, that would have been the sprinklers going off. The clouds were made by a fog machine, the roof was blue and lightning was the thing from the science musuem, the plasma thing.

And now for the downlights

Idiots on the Road

Some people are, let me say this, true idiots. When I was really tired walking up, this person yelled out “All in favour of breaking [Drifty's] ankle?”. Another idiot put his hand up.

And when I walked in front of the aforementioned idiot, he’d yell about how I was pushing in and stuff. Crazy.

And last, but not least, WALKING

OH GOD. OH GOD IT WAS TORTURE. WE WALKED AND WE WALKED AND IT SEEMED TO END BUT IT KEPT GOING! IT WAS LIKE TORTURE! WE WALKED ALONG THIS PATH THEN IT WENT UP AND IT NEVER ENDED UNTIL WE SAT DOWN! That was painful! So painful!

So, now you have it. Reasons not to go to the rainforest.

I… wrote a story last week. Actually, two, but I’ll put the other one up… later. Or maybe as a prize for certain deeds.

Anyway, I wrote a story.

Read the rest…

Once upon a time, I was OBSESSED with these. Cyber pets are simply images of ‘pets’ that people put on their website. Most of the time, the ‘adopters’ write a little bio for these pets and maybe even a little story.

Most of the time, there would be creatures all plonked on a page for people to save to their computers. Occasionally, someone would offer custom made cyberpets if people emailed them. And then there was my favourite one, the hunt.

The website would be written like a second-person story and you could explore the website, looking for creatures. I loved places like Skyhaven Adoptions (redone since I first went there) and other stuff because most of the time you had to think.

I tried to make my own creatures, but I was too lazy to open the site. So, um, what does this have to do with anything?

… I dunno. And there is your daily Ramblement of the day.

http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/blog-challenge-unusual-blog-subjects/ Can’t be bothered, got idea from Hat.

Now, you may think the way to write the most oddest things may be to find the most unusual event, but I have an idea – write about the most common object, but write about it in an unusual way.

I doubt I’ll succeed, but I’m going for it!

So… Something that’s fitting with this blog, like… pencils. Hey, have you actually wondered how many stories would not exist today if it weren’t for the pencil?

Or how many artworks? Think about it, kids would only use paint for their Painting-Of-A-Giant-Monster-Called-Mommy, hey, maybe Harry Potter wouldn’t even have been written!

Some English villiagers were the first to mark things with graphits, and the Italians were the first to think of wooden holders. Makes you want to feel grateful to the English and the Italians, right?

I’m going to become more creative with my Report names, lol.

The Third Report

What’s this? Look here, for we have intercepted another report from the evil pigeons.

The Second Report

Oh, and how do I make those thingies when you have a blog post, then you click on a link to read more of the blog post? That’ll be helpful for posting stories.

EDIT: Thanks Hat!