Intresting Islands and Honey Badger Madness

Eraser City, as you may know, has two major islands outside the mainland. I have never gone into them in depth, so here goes....

Badger Island is the perfect getaway when searching for a warm, sunny spot to live out your vacation dreams. There are bamboo cabins, a smoothie and souvenir shack, and awesome party spaces on the docks! If you like studying the science of the ocean rather than surfing in it, there is an observation deck, underwater museum, and a field full of honey badgers to study. Unfortunately, as convicts leaving the jail in Chaotic County using the secret passage found out, there's an underwater prison, too. Spy Bob often heads here for relaxation after chasing down erasers who rap about anchovies (hint, hint).
Frosty Phillip's Island is where you should go if you're searching for something that is the exact opposite of Badger Island! It is FREEZING and snows every day year round. The population is ten: erasers one, polar bears nine. That doesn't mean you can't have fun, though! Frosty Phillip is happy to let tourists into his home to hold sledding contests, make snowmen, and buy snow globes. If you want to buy hot chocolate and other groceries or chow down on a lemon-lime icee, make sure to check the convenience store and slushie shack. If your feet are sinking in snow, you can get snowshoes for free at the local shop. And if you just want to get out before you become an ice cube, stop by Freezin' Flights Travel Agency!

Each island also has mini islands. Badger Island has Little Badger Island and Mini Badger Island, and Frosty Phillip's Island has The Island Of The Wild Polar Bears.

Now......on to the honey badgers.

When Eraser City was still springing up, all of the buildings were being named after stuff Laney, K, and I were obsessed with. Laney and I are crazy about zebras, and K loves honey badgers. It's very random, but what can I say, he loves honey badgers! If you counted how many things in Eraser City were named after honey badgers, you'd be surprised....
*The Honey Badger Blast at the amusement park.
*Honey Island at the water park.
*Badger Island.
*Honey Badger resturant.
*The Honey Badger Hotel.
*Annnnnd....there was that dance Laney and I made up about Lays bags, zebras, and slow dancing that had honey badgers in it........
So, in other words, a lot, not counting the stuff I missed! I guess this is going to be another one of our quirks this year.

BLOG YA LATER!

Next Time, On Claire's Creative Days....Jean-Claude moves to International County! Reasons why Keyboarding should be illegal! Plus, the story of the Lays Boycott Club! All this and more in the next few posts....

Video Crazy!

Oh yeah, did I mention that another wonderful part of summer is pulling out a camera and shooting random videos of your yard at 7:30 pm?


Ever since I found my camera in a back corner of my closet with dead batteries, I've been shooting videos of unusual topics, including me chasing my sister, upside down places (created by flipping my camera upside down), and other things. After charging the batteries, that is. And yesterday, my neighbor and I shot 40-something wacky ones involving us playing sports, jumping off swings, and running. Boy, were there a lot of ones 0f us running! I would post one, but I can't for privacy reasons. S0 here's a different one I took on vacation while we drive past "South of The Boarder" on the way to Georgia...


(aka The Tackiest Landmark Of The South...)
Blog ya later!

DI News:

WE WON!
WE'RE GOING TO STATES!
At first, we thought we lost after they finished calling the winners for our problem. But then they announced, "And now, the winners for Group B." GROUP B?!? We didn't know if we were in that group or not. But then they called us for 1ST PLACE! How exciting!
The school we went to this time was called Hermitage High. It was a nice little school that I could navigate very easily. There were also some cool pieces of student art, especially in our areas. Dad got the entire thing on video. I'll only have to see if I can post that...
BLOG YA LATER!

Time Flies.....

it was
a hot November afternoon
my neighbors and i were hiking by the creek
i was being tour guide
showing the landmarks
of the woods
that one of them had never seen before
because it wasn't in his yard.

then
we heard a cry
from somewhere else around the bend
yelling
"h2o!"

it was the boy
who hid among the various trees
letting his anger
sizzle away.

we kept hiking
and figured out why he had
yelled his cry. there was
a new river
that we had never seen before
curling toward the trees
and branching away.

and he was stuck on the other side.

so we built a bridge
with a huge big stick
and just as he was about to walk across
my mom called my name.

my mom didn't know where i was
but she knew i was in the woods
but that wasn't enough.

i raced home
dragging my pants in the mud on the way
and bogging my shoes down
and rescuing them later
while running by the huge tree
then to the log pile
then to the driveway
then up to my own back porch.

my mom let my shoes sit outside
and threw my clothes in the wash
just like she did when we had that water fight.
and when i showed her the map i drew
of the new terrain
she thought it was quite amazing
but thought we weren't on the boundary line
like when we discovered what the environmentally protected area is.

and to think it happened
at least
two weeks ago.

The Rocky Tower

Today at recess, my friends Soso, S, and I went over to the far corner of the playground by the woods when we got a surprise. Somebody had been there before us, and they had raised all the playground rocks in the area to make a giant raised platform! It looked exactly like a tower! We kept looking around, and we saw 2 more in the area. Before sitting down, I dug pathways from one island to the next, and S made footbridges to connect the island towers. Then we all sat down to watch the football game. I spy something to FINALLY do at recess!

The Fads Return

Ah, 5th grade is here and everybody is trying to make the most of it with some FADS! Here are some of the clubs, media, fake products, etc. so far...

1. Paper Punch World. Paper Punch World was a land of notebook paper folded shops, where paper punched people, animals, and food lived. There were tourist signs that decked our desks, encouraging kids classwide to be creative!
2. Eraser Hotels. It has become a very popular trend in Mrs. C's class for kids to organize their desks and decorate them with beads, posters, bottle caps, and paper accessories so they look like hotels. And on Fridays, if your erasers are taking up space in your desk, you can send them to these hotels for a weekend stay and they'll get returned on Monday!
3. Magical Llama Beans. This product was fake, but it raised a lot of attention! Two girls made up a fake product that turned you into a llama, and before long, the class went crazy! A few kids made up their own products, like Taco Balls and Magic Fries.
4. The Secret Spy Society. My friends Soso, J, and I made a club that took place at the top of the playground slide, where we watched the happenings of recess. If there was too much gossip or a dodge ball fight, the Secret Spies would investigate!
5. The Playground Olympics. During the last week of September, lots of kids got together to sign up for unique, crazy, invented sports contests. If you didn't want to play sports, you could always broadcast the game!
6. The Home Run Derby. We have invented a new sport. It's kind of like a home run derby. L and C shag balls, E and S pitch, S also catches, and I keep score!
7. The C Chronicle. Our class started a student- run class newspaper. Anyone can drop an article in the box hanging from my desk as long as it's appropriate. So far we have an advice column, games, sports, class news, comics, Soso's Local column, and just plain stories! I can't wait for it to come out!
So anyways,
(in newspaper font...)
Blog Ya Later!

Extreme Makeover: Desk Edition

My friends and I enjoy building "Eraser Lands" at school. We take our erasers, draw faces on them, and build a world for them in our desks out of bottle caps, desk tools, and paper accessories, including paper punch pets and food. But sometimes, it gets our desks just a tad bit messy! Recently, though, I looked in a friend's desk and noticed her awesome world but messy desk. But we've changed that!We put all her school supplies on one side so she has a giant area for her to build her world in. She now has a hotel with a TV\Laptop area, little cafe, and sleeping zone with a chandelier made out of a paper clip and beads! You can even give her erasers at the end of the day for an "overnight" and then she'll return them!Someone else is getting a rock and roll arena in their desk next. I can't wait to get started!
Now I will put the first photo ever on my blog, of some past erasers.....
...
Updated: The photos cannot download on my computer. ARGH! Sigh...

Well, anyways,
BLOG YA LATER!

An Update

There are so many things to blog about, I think I need to use this post to cover them all!
1. The Playground Olympics. Here are the explanations for our Mystery Games:
Snakepole is a game in which you twist around poles like snakes. Crash into your competitors and you are eliminated!
Hoop Roll is a game where you must roll the hoop to the other team. If they miss it, they earn a miss. Whoever has less misses at the end of the game wins!
Jump Roping was just a simple game of who can go the longest without tripping up on the rope.
Running was a simple race with a few obstacles.
2. This weekend, Mom, my sister and I went to the pumpkin patch and picked out five pumpkins in their enormous field, which had scattered scarecrows and old sheds surrounding it. Then we headed back to their little shop and bought 4 more. We got a good deal on them, too: they were only 20.00 all together! Next we went to Cici's Pizza and had a pizza lunch before driving to our church to set up for Mom's bell choir. I like spending weekends with family.
3. I'm visiting my cousins in Maryland for L's birthday! I made her a neat gift and card (but I won't drop any hints about it in case my aunt is visiting the blog). I also am bringing my video camera so S and I can do some serious shooting. He enjoys making Lego Star Wars movies. Check out his blog, Wii Little Movies! And there is no need to worry about bringing princess dolls for M to play with with the amount they have at their house....

What are YOU doing?

The Playground Olympics

During recess, a group of girls and I are doing The Playground Olympics!
(Note: Some people competed in very little events, so they have less medals.)
L: Gold Medal in Snakepole, Silver Medal in Hoop Roll, Bronze Medal in Jump roping, Silver Medal in Running.
J: Silver in Snakepole, Silver in Hoop Roll.
Soso: Silver in Hoop roll, Silver in Jump roping.
M: Silver in Hoop Roll.
CJ (me) : Silver in Hoop Roll, Gold in Jump roping, Gold in Running.

Can you guess what these crazy events are? Leave me a comment guessing what they are and we will reveal the guesses (and answers) in the next post!

I Love To Paper Punch

Lately, I've been doing a fun craft- paper punching! I paper punch animals, food, and other things and add them to the growing city on my group's desk at school.
I sit at a table at school with 4 other nice girls. Together we have constructed a place called Paper Punch World. Here are all the cool features:
1. An announcement board.
2. The sidewalk.
3. SC's Pets. This is a store that sells paper punch animals.
4. LF's Food Store. A food store that we're still making food for!
5. The Jackpot Toy Store. This store sells paper punch animals, toys, and food.
6. The Eraser Hotel. A bed and breakfast inn you can send your erasers to. It features tables made from bottle caps, beds made from erasers, and hippie posters hanging from the wall...
7. The Tourist Center. Still under construction....
8. The Recycling Bin! When we have old math worksheets, old spelling papers, etc. we put them in the Ziploc bag hanging from SW's desk and they later get used as building materials. This feature makes our little world 100% GREEN!
Got any other ideas?

Welcome!

One of my friends started a blog! Her name is Soso, and you can find her blog by clicking on the link that says soso's prose on it on my blog list.
Happy blogging, Soso!