Monthly Archives: March 2014

Amazing Apps

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When I turn on my iPad, I have a bajillion things I could do, and all of these things come from apps. There are apps for texting, gaming, school, typing, recording, movie-making, emoji 😜, and more! Apps make life easier, entertaining, and better. I love all of my apps, but here are just a few that I use on a daily basis

•iMessage
I talk A LOT, and to me, texting and talking are pretty much the same thing. Texting basically let’s me talk with anyone whenever I want, wherever I am. It also allows me to send pictures to friends when I need help with a homework assignment or something. I really enjoy texting, and I find it as more of an app for entertainment rather than communication.

•The App Store
I’m already talking about how great apps are, so what’s not better than the app that gives you apps. When I’m bored, I find an (usually game) app, play it beat it, show off to my friends, heheh, and then get another app. The App Store gives me a bajillion apps to choose from, and guess what? Some of them are STAR WARS!!!

•Emoji
When smartphones came out everyone started the “:)”s and the “;(“s, and everyone thought it was clever, but it really isn’t that clever. For years I just used the strange combinations of keys, then I learned about emoji 👍👍👍. Now I can express pretty much any feeling from a tap on my keyboard 😊. I’ve used emoji so much that it seems as if it is just another part of the English language! 👏👏👏👏👏👏

•Skype
Skype isn’t just for the iPad, but by having it, my life is so much easier! I usually like to Skype my friend so we can help each other with homework. Since I have Skype on a mobile device, I could be doing my homework anywhere in my house and still be communicating with my friend. It’s also way less complicated than actually calling, and you don’t have to pay anything to use it!

•ALL Game Apps
Games are AWESOME! I spend pretty much all of my free time on games. I’ve got entire pages of my iPad filled with games. iPad games are great because you can play them anywhere. No need for giant computers, some special programs, and controllers, I just need my iPad and I’m good to go!

Apps are a great thing to have around. With so many apps with for plenty of categories, apps can do almost anything!

A Wonderful Place

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I really, REALLY don’t like leaving the house.  I’ve gotta keep playing videogames right?  When relatives come though, they want to go to stores, and restaurants, and stuff, because they don’t have those where they live. I really don’t like to do this, but there is one place I like to go to…

Olive Garden is the best restaurant in Texas ever. A calm place to spend time with your family while enjoying the delicious food. Olive Garden does an amazing job of filling you up, while keeping your entertained. If you’re going to stop in Texas, going to Olive Garden has to be one of the reasons as to why you came.

My dad’s kinda cheap when it comes to eating out, so we usually don’t get any appetizers, but that’s one of the best things about Olive Garden! Flavorful soup, warm breadsticks, and delicious salad is a meal in itself—did I mention that it’s all you can eat appetizers? Then, although it’s an Italian restaurant, the menu appears as if it has everything. I personally enjoy the Parmesan crusted tilapia, but if you don’t like that, just look down about a few inches for another amazing meal!

Another great thing about Olive Garden is that boredom does not exist there. As I said before, the food just keeps coming, but still, there are plenty of other ways to stay entertained rather than getting your phone taken away for having it out at the table. My dad and I have a bit of fun with the drink coasters: we try to see who can flip and catch the most at one time. Then there are the nice patterns of lights, quite sounds, and delicious smells that (I believe) is the secret formula to sparking conversations, to keep the entire family involved.

Olive Garden is one of the only places that doesn’t make me think Icould be playing a video game right now. I can’t resist the endless food, and great memories that come from going to Olive Garden.

The Phantom’s Lair

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Okay, so there’s this thing called the Phantom’s lair, and its supposed to be  really scary and stuff.  I think these ideas are a bunch of baloney.  In Christine’s room- rumor has it that behind the mirror I this trapdoor thing-a-ma-jiggy, and it leads down down down down down down down down down down down down down down into the Phantom’s lair.  Sooooo… behind the mirror is this (obviously) painting of a fake tunnel that leads downwards.  Well, it is amazing artwork, so I’ll take a photo of me leaning  against it to make it look like I’m falling.  Here we go, and- AHHHHHHHHHHHH.  Okay, there’s my picture, now for a more realistic pose… AHHHHHHHHHHH (I’m actually falling this time.)

Deep deep down below the opera house you stumble upon the lair of the Phantom. Only being able to see 2 feet in front myself through the thick veil of fog, I attempted to find a clearing. As the mist begins to fade I jump at the sound of a single drop of water that had managed to escape the grasp of the ceiling to reach the lake below. My feet make a clamping noise from colliding with the ground after the jump… the sound seeming to echo on forever of the vast walls of emptiness.

Through a door I find a small chamber. In it is an organ–rotting away as if nobody had ever given it any care. In the opposite corner stands a frame. Below it– lay fragments of a shattered mirror. Looking closer, in the place of where the mirror should have been, is a skull– drawn out of ashes

About ready to leave, I make your way back to the underground lake. The murky water makes the lake appear to have no bottom.   In the reflection of the water is a torch, the only object providing light to this lair of eternal darkness. The torch is flickering about– a bit like a tongue– in the darkness surrounding. It’s the only torch there, the only one…and its flame goes out…

My first thought– oh-no-bro, this ain’t good.  Unable to see, I’m about to panic when this music starts playing.  Although its a bit creepy, and its not a song, just the sound of an organ as if someone was slamming his hand up and down the keys of the piano. I’m a bit calmer after the music ends, but I’m still trying to find my way out.  Then I feel something slip around my neck. I can’t see anything, is it… a necklace maybe?  You know what, this place might not be so bad after all. I mean, the music was a little creepy, and the necklace may be a bit too tight, but– okay, maybe the necklace is way too tight.  Anyways, as I’m gasping for air because of the constricting force of this tight necklace, but maybe the Phantom isn’t so bad after all…

End of Act III