Month: December 2014

A boy went to bed on a night where the wind whistled outside his window like the sound of wind on a high mountain cliff.  It was the  sound of a wind whizzing about. Slowly the wind went around, like a snowstorm coming over the cold mountains.  Except he was nowhere close to the mountains and the cold weather.  It was a night in early September.  There was a breeze blowing and it was 75º outside, yet it had a crisp choppy autumn feeling.  It felt like a crunchy, juicy apple that you eat in the fall.  The street was for once quiet and the shouts from the teenagers eating across the street at Dallas’s BBQ had died out over the night like a fire slowly fading out.  The lights in Central Park had gone on, casting an eerie  glow on the small trails across the wild park.  It had drizzled earlier so a wet smell wafted up from the streets.  Along with the smell of the Italian restaurants and the BBQ and all of the other smells(some good some bad.)  They all floated into a window of a room.  There was a fish tank above a couple of drawers, next to that was a desk that was poised in front of the window and lots of ledges with books and collections.  In the far side of the room there was a table with a lamp casting a glow over a bed, with a heap of covers and stuffed animals.  Out of the middle of it, a face had been left, uncovered.  That was me.

 

My eyes fluttered as I started to dream.  I sank into my bed.  My stomach and chest sunk into the bed, my hands sunk into my chest and my head sunk into my pillow.  My pillow sunk into the bed and my head slipped out into a totally different world.

 

I whirled and whirled, finally I got my senses.  I is in a sunny garden, surrounded by flowers.  The flowers were arranged in paths that all went to the center of the garden.  There is a statue of my family all huddled in a group, with our heads in the air, spitting water out of our mouths.  The fountain is surrounded by a lake.  The statue could only be reached by a row boat.  There were a few islands some covered with flowers.  There were cherry blossom trees, blueberry bushes, raspberry bushes and rose bushes.  On some, deep within the foliage, there were a few Gazebos hidden amongst orange and pink trees and bushes.  There were many swans and turtles and fish in the lake.  The lake is so clear that you could see the 100 feet to the bottom in the center.  Many bedazzled dragon flies flew around the lilypads, once or twice being zapped by a frog’s tongue.

 

If you were to go farther,(towards the edge of the lake) you see a big island with beautiful statues of all sorts. There is for example, dragons, literally swooping over the garden; their big stone wings frozen in mid air.  The dragons looked as if to quickly swoop into a dive. The mouth is poised, as if to catch a human gazing into its deep mouth and swirling tongue!  There were Centaurs, and all of those mythical creatures, and of course they had real animals.  There is a big beautiful wood and a white, arching and beautifully carved bridge connecting the island to the mainland.  On that island there is a house, a huge house, about two square miles and six floors high.  It is an artwork of swerving wooden curves at sides and moss covered walls with water trickling down it!  There were also outside sections of the building in modern design  (metal and glass.) On the house there were also sections from the times of ancient China, Japan, South America, Ancient Rome and Greece.  There were outside sections from the Renaissance and from the White House!  It looked totally different although you think it would look bad, it surprisingly looked good!

 

But inside the house is a different story.  You walk in and you immediately enter the huge foyer.  It had big tapestries all over the walls of scenes of animals, scenes of ice, fire fighting and interesting things like that!  Then there are many beautiful offices, some with bright blue walls or with deep ocean blue walls.  There were environments painted on the walls or myths painted on the walls.  The offices were home to many of the secretaries and lawyers of the household.

Every place has to have entertainment so that is another reason why this place is created.  It is amazing at entertainment.  The place is a hubbub of game noises and beeps from the arcade.  I should save the best for last, as we are on the first floor(main floor.)

 

Then you open some HUGE doors (about 50 feet tall.)  There are guards standing to attention at the door.  You walk by and they snap you a crisp salute.  Then they open the doors…

 

You walk into the KITCHEN.  The kitchen is a big room with at least 200 stoves 6,000 closets and cupboards; also about 120 refrigerators, 400 sinks, 300 ovens, 300 toasters and LOTS of cooking space.  There are also about six, 100 feet walk-in refrigerators.  There are huge cooking tables and chairs to discuss the meals.  There is also in total about 31 million cooking utensils and four million eating utensils.  There were too many pots and pans to count.

 

There obviously is a dining room.  There is a main table with 75 chairs and 100 other tables, each with about 100 chairs also.  The main table is for all of the important people, and all of the other tables were for less important people.  There is a bar and there always is an orchestra and a singing group in the background.  There is a big marble staircase and huge four ton chandeliers made of diamond and crystal.  There were 300 waiters, 500 servers and 550 busboys.   There were people that collect menus and people that pick up food scraps off the floor for a living, just to be in the house!

 

Some of the awesome features of the house were that you could get a pin as a visitor and you can make a microchip with your favorite things on it.  When you walked in a room, your favorite music plays, your favorite temperature will be put on and your favorite art is displayed over electronics!

 

Like I said, the house is the heart of entertainment.  The house has six bowling alleys, a barber shop, makeup shop, spa and many more things in the basement.  On  the top floor there are 21 bedrooms and 30 bathrooms, a movie theater, and six meeting rooms.  On the third floor there are 731 more bedrooms and another meeting room.

 

There is lots other (pastime) entertainment.  There is a pool that is about 111 feet long.  It plays music under the water.  There is also an outside section of the pool.  You can get to that outside bit by waterslide.  You could also get there by going under a big glass screen, going on a lazy river, going on a shoot out(kind of like a geyser,) or going in a quick whirlpool.

 

In the outside pool there are 16 hot tubs.  The hot tubs are ranked in different heat “levels”.  There are 4 levels and 4 tubs in each of them.  There is, burning(175º F.)  There is also, hot, 105ºF and cool 60ºF.

This is the house of my dreams!

This is the “waten.”  The, wa, is for watch and the ten is for listen.  The case would also be priced for $10.00.  All the programing that went inside that would cost, $30.00.  What it would do is it would be able to listen to  what is going on and if some kids were fighting it would show that which one started the fight and if that it has a punishment needed.  It will help because it will show and work for anything.  (also there is a self destruct button in the middle of it so you can use it in a war and can have it explode itself and many other things as well.)

Even when you are separated from people, you can keep them in your heart.  Parvana stays in Kabul to be closer to her father.  She stays when Mother, Nooria, Ali Myriam go to Mazer-E-Sharif.  She stays with Mrs. Weera because father might come out of jail.  This shows that Parvana keeps her father in her heart at all times.  Nooria is getting married in Mazer-E-Sharif.  Mazer-E-Sharif is a free place, where girls can go to school.  Instead of going to Mazer-E-Sharif and school, she stayed in kabul, to wait for father.  As Mother and nooria are getting ready(planning) The trip to go to Mazer-E-Sharif, Parvana says on page 135,  “We can’t leave Kabul what about father?  What will happen if he gets out of prison and we are not here?  He won’t know where to look for us.”    This shows that parvana will forfeit something amazing for someone.  That shows that even when she is separated from father she is keeping him in her heart.

Some things that I do not like about New York are, the subway.  I hate the subway because there are lots of rats, the ceiling drips, people do not let people get off first, it is so packed and that the train squeaks when it comes to a stop.  I also think that there should be air conditioning in the summer.

“Even when you are separated from someone else, you can keep them in your heart.”  The quote means that if Parvana is away from father she can always remember him and pretend he is right next to her.  She can remember him by reading his books or by looking at his clothes or by being in the market.  An example of this is when Parvana and mother go to the jail, where father is, the go there to “rescue” him.  When they get to the jail, they yell for father and they get beaten.  Also, Parvana calls out, which she did not think to do.   When she yells at the Talib to stop hitting her, he stops hitting her.  I think that what powered Parvana on to do this (to yell out) is that she had the sudden feeling that a wave of sadness from other families that had their fathers killed or taken to jail was overcoming her.  I think he stops because he has empathy for her and he understands what is happening for her and he is feeling for her.   Another example is when Parvana saw the Taliban cry when she read the Talib the note, in the market, in Kabul.  So she might not realize it but the Talib, whipping her could have had a bad experience before like that; but his family probably was not allowed to be let go so, he joined the Taliban and saw people suffer; therefore sharing feelings with them.  The quotes that back up my evidence, “Let my father go,” and, “Stop whipping me and I will leave!”  I think this shows that she cares a lot about the other people, and the Taliban are not self minded bratts