Where I'm From

Where I'm From
I'm from Mike smiths lighting fast reflexes to save a puck
And Steve Nash's high jump as he takes a shot
That goes straight through the white mesh
From Collin Doyle getting a breakaway
And scoring a point for the Toronto Rock

I'm from Ringo Starr hitting his drums
In perfect order and key
To woo he crowd
As he plays you've got to hide your love away
At Shea Stadium

I'm from the loud engine
Of the cart going up the big drop on Behemoth
And the loud screams as we dive down the drop
From the people on the ground
Looking and laughing
At our petrified faces
In the park of Canada's Wonderland

I'm from the tropical sun
Burning my face
Until it's the shade of an old mango
From the Icy water
Landing on me
Making me sting all around
As someone jumps into the dip
From the exotic foods
That I am dying to try
On my expensive family vacations

I'm from all the memories
That that have thrilled me
And Left me hanging
Like an old photo album
That will never leave me

Book Talk By Kyle

Book Talk By Kyle

Harris Burdick Story Ch 7

Chapter 7 The next night he had homework to do, Alberto had to do math but it was his least favorite subject. Alberto wanted to use the wand to magically finish it for him, he pulled out the wand and waved it at the work, when he waved the wand it hit the tip of his pencil and BOOM! It flew across the room and hit the opposite wall, he had found it! The wand's magic couldn't penetrate lead!
The next morning Alberto biked down to the Museum of the History of Science to get a custom lead box for him, luckily he had gotten his allowance a few days ago and could pay for it without his dad getting suspicious. He asked the person at the ticket desk if he could talk to one of the scientists. They escorted him to one of their smartest scientists and Alberto asked," Can you make a full lead box for me? It is for a science project at school." He replied," Sure, that sounds great!"

Harris Burdick Story Ch 6

Chapter 6
Alberto thought that if the wand was in a box it wouldn't be able to wash back up on shore. He got a regular cardboard box and put the wand and book in it, he then biked back to the main river and CHUCKED IT! It started to sink so he thought it wouldn't come back. In a matter of minutes he couldn't see the box at all so he picked up his bike and went home. That night when he was at the hotel he looked through his binoculars at the river and didn't see anything so he looked at the bank and saw something in a rectangular shape, he couldn't tell what it was through the binoculars so he biked down to the river bank to see what it was. When he got there he immediately noticed a distinctive purple glowing coming from the rectangle, he looked closer
and saw it was his cardboard box that he through in.
That night when he was in his bedroom, he started experimenting with the wand, particularly what the magic couldn't get through. He tried copper, foil, paper and brick, but none of them could stop the magic.

Harris Burdick Story Ch 5

Chapter 5
That evening when he took the wand home, he started to think about how he could stop the wand from working. He first thought to simply break it, so he took the wand and tried to break it on his knee." I did it!" He said when he first saw the broken halves of the wand, but then something magical happened, the wand molded back together. He was very freaked out at this and instantly dropped the wand and backed away." Well, that didn't work." He had thought of many ideas but one in particular sounded like it would work; he would throw the wand in the river. The very next day Alberto went to the river bank and had with him the wand and book." Here goes nothing." Alberto said as he hurled the wand and book into the flowing blue river. Later that day when Alberto came back to the river he saw something very odd, the book and wand were lying in the same spot he threw them from.

Harris Burdick Story Ch 4

Chapter 4
At first, he was freaked out, but then he started thinking of how he could keep it. Then he remembered that he had an old bird cage because he used to have a pet bird that died of disease so he kept the cage hoping to sell it one day.
The next day when Alberto came back to the hotel he brought along his old bird cage to put the dove in. When his father came in the room, he asked Alberto " Why do you 'ave a bird cage in da hotel?!" Alberto replied " I brought it for decoration because this hotel is so plain." His father replied"I guess that is ok."
After his dad left the room, he made his way to 313 on the third floor, the dove room (Alberto's nickname for the room), to get the loose dove. When Alberto opened the door he saw several doves diving at him to get out of the room. He quickly closed the door and heard a bunch of thumps. He opened the door again, this time much slower, and was amazed at what he saw. There were birds flying around everywhere and some had weird flying patterns like one wing moving really fast, or random jerking while in flight. As he walked into the room he heard a crunch from under his foot and felt a little lump on the sole of his foot, he was scared to look down to see what had happened but when he did, he saw a crumpled dove wing under his foot. He quickly backed off the bird and looked at the sheer amount of doves in the room, there were about 40 - 50 doves in the room and only about 20 still on the wallpaper. Alberto then realized that the wall opposite to the one with the wand in it had the most doves still on it. He exclaimed out loud " The wand!"

Harris Burdick Story Ch 3

Chapter 3
When Alberto went back to that room a few days later he found that one of the doves on the wallpaper was gone... When Alberto's father came in the room he said to Alberto " Vhat 'append to da vallpaper!" He replied " I don't know papa!" " Did you do anyting to da room?" His father asked and so Alberto said " I don't think so." and his dad suddenly realized that the window was open " Alberto, vhy is dis vindow open?" Alberto replied " I opened it because it vas really hot and I must've forgot about it." His father went and closed the window without asking Alberto any more questions.
After his father left the room, Alberto noticed a small purple glow coming from the wall with the box In it. Then, all of a sudden one of the doves from the wallpaper ripped off of the wall and became alive! Alberto was very freaked out for two reasons 1) because a dove just became alive after being on wallpaper and 2) because he thought his dad would yell at him for having an animal at the hotel when he shouldn't.

Harris Burdick Story Ch 2

Chapter 2
The next day Alberto came back to the hotel and went to the same bedroom, 313 on the third floor, and took the wallpaper off the spot with the box in it. After he got the wallpaper off, he started to pull the box open. Inside he saw that the wand had been glowing immensely. He realized now that he was sweating, not from excitement but because it was really hot out. He reached over to the window and opened it. He then went back to the book and wand and put them back in the box and put that back in the wall. He then walked out of the room locked the door behind him and walked home.
Alberto didn't know at the time but that wand would change the third floor bedroom forever.

Harris Burdick Story Ch 1

The Third Floor Bedroom
Chapter 1
Alberto, a child who lived in Florence, on Via Del Corno was about to find something amazing, because his dad worked at Hotel Fiorino which was nearby. Alberto Rivero liked to go to his dad's hotel to watch him clean the bedrooms from the first floor to the fifth floor, sometimes he helped out with the chores.
One of the chores was to strip the wallpaper off the walls and replace it with new wallpaper with a dove pattern. One time he was doing this and his dad had gone to take a break so he continued stripping the paper. As he was doing this, he came across a strange metal box in the wall, Alberto was intrigued. He looked at it closely and saw an opening, he grabbed the opening and pulled. Inside, he found what looked to be some sort of wand and a book of some sort. He picked them up and started to try to figure out what they were. As he held the wand, it started to glow with purple light. He got a bit nervous when that happened so he put it and the book back in the box and pushed the box into the wall. After that, Alberto's father came back and said " Alberto, vhat are ye doin'?" he replied " Just strippin' the wallpaper papa!"

Prediction By Kyle

Planet Hillcrest: Report Mission Legends

Planet Hillcrest: Report Mission Legends

Hello I’m Crovler Sloth just starting to come back to my normal home planet Grimth. I am going home from the craziest reporting mission in history. Today I went to Planet Hillcrest to report on the crazy things humans do. When I got to Planet Hillcrest I saw the most random and funny things I’d ever seen in my life. I can’t wait to tell you about the things I saw on my mission.

My mission day started like this, it was eight at the beginning of the day. I got my cup of rekish (a hot morning drink on my planet), sat down and waited for my favourite hologram show to come on, The Wigglebots, when my sound transporter buzzed. I was thinking who calls people this early. I picked up the phone and my boss was on the other end of the line. He said with his deep, intimidating voice, “Get down to your office now! I have a job for you.”

It was cloudy out, just the way I like it. I wanted to stay outside but I had to get to my office. When I got to my office my boss,Rolck Lore, said, “We need you to fly to Jupiter.” “Why?” I replied, with a mixture of excitement and fear. Rolck replied, “We need you to report on life on Jupiter just in case they try to do something bad to us.” The next thing I knew I was testing the engines and taking off in my shuttle.

I was about two hours away from Jupiterwhen my shuttle started to overheat. I had to land somewhere to let my shuttle cool down. Luckily for me, another planet was just underneath me. I decided I’d land and let my shuttle cool down.

When I landed, I opened my shuttle door and screamed (laugh on my planet). I saw a bunch of creatures running around and doing things illegal on my planet. Then I recognized the creatures as humans which I read about in a book. Although I forgot the name of the planet the humans lived on, when I looked up at the symbols on the big building I remembered the planet as Planet Hillcrest. Then a loud, ear bursting, bitter, high-pitched sound came from what felt like everywhere and all of the little humans got into mini parades. Then the little humans went into the big building and the big humans followed as did I.

Inside, all of the little humans went into different rooms and I picked one room to go into with them. When I got inside the room, the little humans stood up randomly and looked up at a piece of paper with three red symbols while some source of smooth sounds filled the room. When that strange moment was over, the little humans pulled out what I thought were manuals and started looking at them. After a few minutes of being bored while the little humans read the manuals, the big human in the room said something in a strange vocal pattern and all of the little humans put away their manuals and pulled out blinding yellow and white folders. Then, for ages, all the little humans did was write down their funny little symbols until finally the big human said something else and the little humans lined up in another mini parade.

The big human then led the little humans to an even bigger room than the one they were in before. This room was white and blue with little cracks full of what looked like juice to me. There were also no chairs to sit on. All of a sudden the little humans split into two groups. While the little humans did that, the big human put colourful bombs on one of the juice cracks on the floor. “SHREEEE!” Out of nowhereagain came that annoying, shrill, high-pitched sound. Then I noticed that all of the little humans ran to the bombs, picked them up and started throwing them at each other. I was terrified, just waiting for a bomb to go off and destroy a little human, but to my surprise no bombs went off. A few seconds later, I turned around and saw a bomb coming right at my head, but, luckily for me, my reflexes allowed me to dodge the bomb just like the little humans were doing,

After that psycho time in the big room, the big human led the little humans to a different room yet again. In this new room, there was a different big human and the first big human disappeared. The new big human started speaking and made the little humans speak in a different sound pattern than usual. That annoyed me because I just got used to the first sound patterns. After adjusting to the new sound patterns, I must admit that I started to enjoy the new patterns better. However, before I knew it, we left the new room.

When we left the room, the little humans gathered in the long, thin room and changed feet protectors, which I just noticed they had been wearing. When the little humans changed their feet protectors, they lined up in their parades at the end of the hall and went outside as the big humans followed. Outside, the big humans tried to catch the little humans. But, only humans doing certain things would get caught and either be yelled at or sent to the wall of, what I think now is a little human prison. After a few minutes went by, I was about to go to check on my shuttle when all of a sudden I heard, “SHREEEE!” That annoying, bitter sound came once again so I went inside in one of the parades.

After being outside, all the little humans did was write down more symbols until, “ZINGGGG!” a slightly different but still annoying sound came from seemingly everywhere. All of the little humans filed out into the thin but long room, changed their foot protectors once again and went outside. The only difference this time was that the big humans did not follow. So, I went to my shuttle and found that it had cooled down sufficiently for me to fly again. All of a sudden I remembered that I was supposed to report on Jupiter life. Then I thought that it would be more interesting to report on Planet Hillcrest instead and bring that back to Grimth.

I do hope you are going to like it on Grimth as you are now reading my report which is on my shuttle with me at this very moment.

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​By

​Kyle