Kojolica's Story Part Two: Meeting Caleb

We were last with K when she had found her parents and learned to adventure. K loved being a farmer and also an adventurer at the same time, but it got a lot more difficult once she was called on her first adventure. K was sleeping and it was 5:00 in the morning when she was shaken awake by her mom.

"ALRIGHT MOTHER I AM AWAKE!" K insisted in a weak voice."DON'T YOU KNOW THAT IT'S FIVE IN THE MORNING?!?"

"I'm sorry. I forgot you were not used to getting up this early. I'll let you sleep for a while." said K's mother kindly. But K didn't get much sleep after that because her older brother, Caleb, came in and woke her up about two minutes afterwards.

"GET UP!" Caleb yelled in K's ear. "You act like you've never lived on a farm before! You're like a whole different species!" He yelled with a combination of anger and jealousy.

"Caleb," K started to explain in a calm voice, quite like her mother's when she was taken off guard like this. "I have lived with BEARS for most of my life, NOT ON A FARM!" she screamed suddenly. "The earliest I have ever woken up was at 4:00...P.M.! Let me get some sleep."

"I hope you can sleep air-borne!" Caleb muttered under his breath so K couldn't hear. He walked to her bedside not daring to yell at her again (remembering that her father bear had thought her self-defense), and the next thing K knew she was flying at her journaling desk with her mattress flipping hopelessy after her.

"I AM GONNA DO SUCH ILLEGAL THINGS TO YOU, YOU BOXHEAD," K yelled at her brother in the loudest bear roar she could make.

"IT'S BLOCKHEAD, KOJOLICA!" Caleb shouted as he ran for the harvesting field. Caleb felt proud of himself for thinking of that, when he saw K's disgusted face. She HATED her full name.

Kojolica made a bound at Caleb and he realized that she was a faster runner than he thought. Caleb did the first thing that popped into his mind: he ran for the stables down the faraway street and didn't stop to look back.

He remembered the creek that the road followed and ran for the bridge that goes over it. When he finally stopped he didn't stop for long. He jumped into the creek and let all of his power AND the current take him down to the stables.

When he saw the log that had fallen over the creek once by the stables, he climbed out and ran to the stables that he could now see. He ran to his where his stallion, Lighting Bolt, was standing in his stall, opened it and got on bareback. He went out to the road to see if his sister had caught on where he had gone with his escape plan; she had. By now she was on all fours like a bear and was running faster than ever!

Cold and dripping, Caleb jabbed his heals into the sides of Lightning and galloped down the street into the city. Dodging everybody in his way, he ran down the streets of the farmers market taking every street that goes the deepest into town.

His plan backfired on him when he saw his FATHER there picking out groceries near their pick up truck. He wanted to turn around and just go the other way but he remembered his sister coming around the corner. So he took a chance. He ran past his dad in such a blur that even HE didn't know what he was!

Soon he was REALLY in a sticky situation. He had ran up a steep slope and ran across the bridges to the mayor's house, but there were no bridges except the one he had taken to get to the mayor's house.

The pressure was getting complicated and Caleb knew these were going to be the last moments of his life if his horse didn't push him into the water. It was only maybe three feet higher than he was. He could swim across! When he got to the other side, he looked over at the island, and K was hesitating to jump, but she did.

Soon Caleb was climbing up the mountain to his gang's clubhouse--the only place he knew that was safe. When he got there he waited for a while. When he didn't hear anything he felt a little concerned. But when he looked down from the mountain peek everything was fine. And K wasn't there.

After taking a COMPLETE look over everything he decided it was safe to come down. He went over to his horse, looked him over thoroughly, and slowly crept down to the farm. He was happy to see nobody was in the harvesting fields, but when he walked into his kitchen, he thought he rather would have.

When he was jealous of K not having to wake up early, he had forgotten to take his dog out to get his energy out in the cow field. EVERYTHING was broken. And worse yet his PARENTS were in the room.

"Caleb, I am very disappointed in you--not only for not letting the dog out but for throwing your sister across her bedroom as well," said Caleb's mother.

Snap, I'm caught, thought Caleb. What could be worse than my little SISTER tattling?

"Oh and by the way, are you missing something of Lightning's?" asked Caleb's Father, holdng up a stirrup from his saddle.

Snap again... it just got worse.

Suddenly Caleb saw a mischevious smile rip across K's face."Ya see? This is why he is not in a totally life-changing school. So what, West high. *yawn* I mean if he went to a school like mine he would be totally mature in his second month," said K.

"Oh no, this is terrible," thought Caleb. "I'm a total nerd in my present High school, let alone an adventuring school. I'm terrible at adventuring!"

"You know, I think we should transfer Caleb over to the Adventure School. I mean look at our favorite little girl," said Caleb's mother. K's smile got even bigger by the second.

"I think you're right. I mean after only one year at the Talented Adventurers School, K is experienced enough to let two hens live in her room," said Caleb's father. "So it's settled. When school opens next week we'll be transfering Caleb to the Talented Adventurers School."

Caleb's stomach lurched. "Are you alright Sweetie?" asked Caleb's mother "You look like you're gonna throw up." "YEAH," said Caleb right when his mother stopped talking.

The next week K and Caleb were back at school. And Caleb was really nervous. "Okay Caleb, you can do this. It's just like last year." Caleb stopped in the middle of his own encouragement to see a little kid who looked to be a freshmen wearing a sweater vest, glasses, and neatly tied shoes. He couldn't see what he looked like because his head was down. He was being teased by the seniors. "Yep. Excactly like last year, Caleb," said K who had heard his self-encourgement and had walked over to help him find his locker.

"Okay. You know I would never do this in real life, but since I'm the school president I have to help ALLthe students..." K looked Caleb up and down. "Even pests like you. So just follow me," said K in her normal "I hate you" voice.

"Uh, K? We just passed the locker," said Caleb. "No, we didn't," said K."Uh, yeah actually, we did," he replied, looking at his locker card. "It says 16." K took the card and turned it over. "Yeah, it's 16 if your name is Belac. You got your card flipped over, Einstein."

Suddenly they heard the loudspeaker. "Caleb and Kojolica Gratter please report to the prinicpal's office immediately." Caleb's first instinct kicked in. "I DIDN'T DO IT!" K rolled her eyes and headed for the main office. Caleb followed.

When K and Caleb got to the office, Samantha, the prinicpal was waiting there. K and the prinicpal were friends so K had no worry. She knew Samantha's "mad" face.

"Hey Sam, what's up?" Said K, not worried that it would annoy her. On the other hand Caleb stepped in and said, "Hello, my name is Anthony what a pleasure to meet you." K was REALLY annoyed at this point."OH, GIVE IT UP CALEB WE AREN'T IN TROUBLE!"

"Well I wouldn't exactly say that," Sam said. "But it's the first day of school what could we have done?" Caleb thought out loud.

"K graduated from school last year," K and Caleb suddenly heard in thier fathers voice. K's parents had now entered the room. "I called your parents in to keep you calm and relaxed when we tell you where you have to go. You two know that once you graduate from freshmen year you have to go on an adventure," Sam revealed.

Caleb started to feel queasy. He had to save himself from going on an adventure

"But I didn't go to this school last year! I don't even know what to do first when you TRY to go on an adventure like this," Caleb said. "Yes I know that," Sam explained. "But my boss thinks that best way to learn how to adventure is to GO on an adventure yourself."

"Ok, well I'm not going," Caleb told everyone.

"Suck it up. You'll have to go to math class if you don't go," K said to encourage her brother. "I'm in," Caleb said when he heard K's news.

Caleb and K were excused from school that day to go home and pack, eat, say goodbye to their friends, and get a good amount of sleep. When they got off the bus at school the next day they had their suitcases and a bad lane of traffic of other leaving sophmores.

When they got to the front of the line they were told the rules of beginner adventuring. "All new adventurers must be with a 'buddy' at all times, you must be equipped with 20 pairs of pants, shirts, and whatever else you need to be dressed with,"the man at the desk said. Caleb shuddered at the thought. At leased HE knew what he meant!

"You must also have your adventuring manuals at all times. Please show me your adventuring manuals," the man said. Caleb was confused. He had never gotten an adventuring manual before! K, on the other hand. was holding hers up to the man. "And you, sir," he said to Caleb. "Uh, I don't have one." K then explained to the man that he didn't go to freshman year here. Then she told Caleb, "You get these on the first day of freshmen year, and you didn't go here then. It's an honest mistake!"

Then Caleb turned back to the desk to see that the short stumpy old man was holding a book to his face. When Caleb took it he studied the cover there were two stick figures each with a walking stick in their hands and a back pack on their backs. It read "Exploring Manual Level One Volume One" on it.

"Now if you would be so kind as to turn to page 48 you will see that the only food you will have is nature and river water," the man said to them. Caleb didn't think that that was very safe. What if the water was poisonous? Or what if the plants they ate gave them some type of disease?

"Now if you would step into Ms. Samantha's office she will tell you what bus to get on and where you will be going for the rest of the school year," the man said to Caleb and K.

When they got in, they saw Sam fighting with someone who looked to be her boss. When the man left Sam shouted out the door, "THEY'RE JUST KIDS THEY CAN'T GO TO A BIG DANGEROUS PLACE LIKE THAT!"

When Sam calmed down a little she invited Caleb and K into her office. They sat down at her desk and Sam started telling them what to do. "You guys, I have some REALLY bad news. My boss is always on the growing-up-fast and advanced adventuring, and he has been wanting to put everybody in really dangerous places that he says will 'build self-esteem'," Sam explained to Caleb and K. "But the main thing you really have to know is that your going to Black Spore."

Oh no! Caleb thought to himself. I've never been on adventures this hard.... In fact I've never really been on ANY adventure before!

"Now I know you kids may not be ready for something like this, but if I try to talk my boss out of it one more time, I could get fired. I mean I care about your safety MUCH more than my job but, it's BECAUSE I care about you that I need to keep my job! If I get fired or quit than the only person who will want to be your principal is Principal Ryan, that evil man from the begining of last year. The only reason he was fired from his job was because he couldn't control you kids but he would be able to NOW since he's out of the hospital," Sam told Caleb and K.

"So here are your walkie-talkies. How about you kids go and get something to eat before your bus leaves," Sam continued.

When Caleb came out of the lunch line area and sat down next to K, he could see that she was scared. "Are you scared too?" Caleb asked K "Yeah, are you OK?" K asked when she saw the twisted look on his face. "No. I mean, I haven't been this scared since my first day of middle school," Caleb said. "I haven't been this scared since the day I had my first gallop on a horse," K said fighting back. "Well, I haven't been this scared since the day I found out how I was supposed to get my cast off," Caleb said in a bit of a shout. "Well, I haven't been this scared since I found out our cat ran away," K yelled back. "WELL I HAVEN'T BEEN THIS SCARED SINCE I GOT BUCKED OFF THE BULL AT MY 5 BIRTHDAY PARTY," Caleb screamed back. "WELL I HAVEN'T BEEN THIS SCARED SINCE THE DAY I FOUND OUT I WAS A HUMAN!!!!!!" K screamed.

Then the whole lunch room went silent. Nobody ever spoke of K's bear-or-girl story. It made K more homesick than ever. Once K missed home so much that she tried to sneak out of school to go visit them during freshmen year.

"Well... I guess I can't fight with that," Caleb said to K.

Soon Caleb and K were on the bus and on their way to the crossroads where everybody went the ways of adventures. Soon when all the kids got off the bus it was time to go to Black Spore.

Soon K started telling Caleb what she knew about Black Spore."There is this wall that was broken down by old age and floods. Oh, and there's a rumor that when ever somebody aproaches Black Spore all the happy thoughts evaporate from the mind and darkness falls over the person. But I don't think that's real! Haha" But K was wrong--for once they set their eyes against the entrance to Black Spore, they were consumed by complete darkness.

My Friend Ben

Have you ever had a friend who you thought was the funniest person on Earth? Don't get the wrong idea; I don't feel that way about any of my friends. I almost feel that way about Ben, though.

You see, Ben's one of those people that you think can't get much funnier in any way possible. I mean you may know some hilarious people in your life but Ben is like, close to that comedian/singer Dean Martin. He helped me make this video. Let me give a compliment to my very funny little brother, Cooper who is holding the camera (because it took Ben and I a while to encourage him before he finally agreed to film this with us).

I, for one, think that is very funny, but you know, who am I to tell you what to think? There are a lot of videos that Ben and I have made but I don't want to bore you with like 25 comedy videos. But I do want to tell you about a video that we call, "Stupid Hammock."

My friend Hunter came over to Ben's house and lay down in his hammock, and I hit the "record" button on Hunter's camera. We waited like five seconds to make sure everyone thought that Hunter was asleep, and then Ben comes out of absolutely NOWHERE! He grabs the hammock, and starts yelling, "YOU STUPID HAMMOCK! YOU STUPID HAMMOCK! YOU STUPID HAMMOCK!" Soon Hunter falls off the hammock and starts running. Ben starts chasing him around his yard. This takes a while because Ben's yard is HUGE!

I met Ben when I was like six or seven. It was on my friend Samantha's birthday, and also the day I learned to ride my bike without training wheels. And his hilariousness is what made me notice him. And plus he moved in to the white house across our street that is now like totally reddish orange and twice the size it was before he moved here!

Ben is like the funniest person all of my friends I know. Hunter, (from 'Stupid Hammock') has to come in second funniest. When Hunter and I were both younger, Hunter would would play with me more but sometimes we played something rough so I would cry sometimes and he would cheer me up by running himself into the wall. And once he made me stop crying and then he was going to go get a soda and he actually ran into the wall by accident! I was definitely cheered up then.

Well I need to go now. It is about 10:00 at night and the Winter Olympics are on. Bye!

Free Realms--Kojolica's Story, Part I

What? Oh,her? Yeah she is my friend Kojolica. I made her at Free Realms! Do you know you can be what ever you want to be there? It's like super cool! You can be many things like a city kid, a country kid, a kid who grew up in Alaska, heck, you can live with BEARS for Pete's sake! Here is Kojolica's (a.k.a. K's) story.


When K was a baby she got seperated from her parents on a family hike through the woods. Soon after K's parents had given up looking for her for the day, a huge bear came and saw the baby in a pile of robgoblin junk. (A robgoblin is a little, dangerous monster.) The bear took the baby to his cave and introduced her to the rest of the family. When K was twelve, zoo catchers took the bears and were going to take K to an orfanage. But the father bear refuse to let them take her.


So K grew up in the zoo. The zoo catchers explained to everybody that K thought she was a bear. So everyone treated K like she was a bear. When K was sixteen she found out she wasn't a bear because of a little kid at the zoo, who asked why a human was in the bear habitat. K insisted she would find a way to comunicate with the humans. So she learned what the humans were saying at the zoo when they walked by. From that, she learned to tell the zoo keeper she knew she was not a bear and they let her go.

After she learned how to ask people where to find Mr. and Mrs. Gratter, she finally got an answer from someone on a cow farm that acually turned out to be her cousin! He said they live on a farm a few miles away from the Sanctuary. K went by bus, by flight, by water--and I mean swimming--and by foot to get to her parents. She finally found them after a week of traveling! Her mother was relieved to have her beloved daughter back, and soon she came out of depresion!


K was still rusty on the whole human thing, and was still walking on all fours. Her parents told her that, and she realized why the other kids were laughing at her! Soon K got a scholarship for the Talented Adventurers School, because when K told the prinicpal her amazing story, he couldn't believe that she went all this way to be with her family again. She learned quickly about adventuring.

Soon she graduated and she was so smart that sometimes when she studied she ended up having a ginormous head!


But don't worry--with the power of this special button, it goes down easy.


K learned about being a farm girl quickly. Soon she was already harvesting food for birthday feasts! Being a farm girl is always going to be fun to K, but after she was a full-fledged human she got called on her first adventure. To be continued...

Hamster Names ( Help Me Choose!)

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! GUESS WHAT?!!!!! My mom says that if I clean my room, she will get me a HAMSTER!!!!!! I want to name it cheese! Actually, I would like to name it whatever it looks like. Like if my hamster looked like this...

I would name it Brownie. And if it looked like this...

I would name it Snowball. And if I got a hamster that looked like this...

I would name it "GET IT OUTTA HERE!!!!!!!" Literally!

When I go to the pet store, I side tracked soooooooooooooo badly, or "cute"ly! I'm talking about the animals. Now I'm thinking about naming the animals that I see there. OK how about the gray bunny in a cage on top of the other bunny tank near the fish? I think that Shadow would be a good name for him. No, wait is he a she? Or is she a he? I'm confused. Hey, if you get a really "wild" rabbit as a pet do you name it Rabbid? Hey you know what would be a good name for a desert rabbit? Jack! You know a "Jack" rabbit. So Jack would do very nicely!

A good Hamster name on the other hand would be Nibbles! I think it's just so cute to see a tiny, little, hamster nibbling on a block of cheese! Well, you can say whatever you want about the name but I think it is a very good name! You know what also is a good name? Fearless! It's kinda like a joke because hamsters are not fearless at all! They see a weird lookin' person they run to Canada from where I am!

Guinea pigs are also really cute! For starters, look at this video of a guinea pig doin' some tricks.



Isn't he amazing?! OK I need to go to bed cause it is 11:30 pm. See y'all later! <3

Welcome Aqua!

Last month, my fish Stillwater died, so we got a new fish today named Aqua. She is the same kind of fish, she has the same colored body, and she reacts the same way to me tapping on the glass. But she is smaller and slower.



I don't know much about Aqua yet, but I just got her today so who can blame me? I don't know why I picked her out of all the other thirty or so betta fish, but something just pulled my hand to her like it was fate!

There were soooooo many other animals at the pet store. There were bunnies that were sooo sweet that the two that were in a big glass tank ran up to everybody walking past, and the bunny that was in a small cage would lick your fingers if you let her sniff them! The pet store sold one of their parrots and got a new one to fill in the empty bird cage and it copied me when I did something simple. Like when I waved my hand, it would open and close its tallons. And when I nodded, my head it would nod its head! And there were these cute little hamsters trying to wrestle over who would get on the running wheel first! The parakeets were cute too!

You should have seen how hard it was to get to Aqua! First we had to try to get past these huge goldfish that are as big as when you make Cs with your hands and put them together! Then we had to go past these cute little crabs that were sooooooooooooo hard to pry my eyes off of! Then the bunnies, and snakes, and then my dad had to pull me away from lizards! But eventually we got to the betta fish and got Aqua.

So everybody was happy today, (except for the chinchillas that I freaked out by knocking into their cage with Aqua). Goodbye!

and more swiming

Hi everybody! Sorry I haven't been writing for a long time but when I remembered about my blog I was like "Oh crud how long has it been?" So anyway I'm on my vacation right now (August) and I am in Canada and my aunt Sharon has a pool and my cousin, Kathleen (not Sharon's kid), and I love it and today is the day I am leaving and so my cousin and I wanted to swim one last time before I leave for my dad's concert in New York.

We wanted to go see the falls today but we didn't have the time to do it. We all slept in really late this morning. Well I have seen them before so I guess there's no loss. The falls are so pretty. Sometimes I wish I lived in Canada so that my family could see the falls like every week!

I don't get why the Ohio Falls are right next to Niagara falls. 'Cause Ohio is so far away from Niagara Falls. Ohh wait... yeah that's it the Ohio Falls is Part of the Ohio River. I am soooooo stupid... well ya know at some points!

Well anyway, back to the reason I called the title, "More swimming." I learned how to dive and so did Kathleen. She took a lot longer than I did, but she did learn it super fast! I'm not trying to brag when I said I did it faster than her, but it is kinda true. But when she learned how to dive she was--and I'm not exagerating when I say this (well, write it, of course)--she was amazingly great at it! And Cooper went down the slide even with his cast on!!

Well I have to get my luggage ready for my dad's concert in Buffalo and then we are gonna stay at the Comfort Inn and go to this fair.

[Later] We're in Hamburg, New York, now, where the Erie County Fair is. We saw all of the rides and games at my dad's concert--oh yeah, I didn't tell ya the concert was at the fair. Well I'm gonna go on a super fast roller coaster and then I'm gonna go horse back riding in a corral that's more than twenty feet long! That was an estimate. Well I'll write to you soon... I promise this time! Bye!

P.S. If you want to learn how to dive here is a tip. Try to jump a bit higher than you want to 'cause if you jump the height you want to jump on your first dive, you'd actually be lower than you think because your head is down and for some reason it feels like you're going higher than you actually are. Don't ask how. Well bye!

P.P.S. Sorry this is so much later than my vacation. My mom didn't get around to posting it until now.

Clouseny's

Last year in school near the end of the year, we had this lesson to learn about money where we made a restaurant called Clouseny's (a combination of my teachers' names, Mrs. Clouser and Mrs. Studeny) and we all got assigned jobs. I got assigned advertiser and I loved that job! The other advertisers and I got to make the comercials! We also got to make posters around the school! And on practice days, we don't even need to do anything, because THE ADVERTISERS GOT TO BE THE CUSTOMERS!!! Awesome!

Here's one of the posters I designed for the commercial.



Once on practice day I got seated next to my friend Levi. We were supposed to get pretend food and drinks and we didn't even get the pretend food when we had to leave to get real food! This is what Levi said to his own class mates. "THIS PLACE STINKS! WE DIDN'T GET ANY FRICKIN' FOOD! I'M GONNA SUE YOU! I'M GONNA SUE THIS RESTAURANT! SUE IT!!!!!!! LEVI IS OUT. I SAY GOOD DAY!"

Yeah. Crazy right? Ya know he also does stuff like when I punch him really hard he says "That didn't hurt." And when I touch him with my pinky on the other hand... " OH THE BLESSED PAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

On the day of the restaurant opening I made sure Levi was under control. "OK, there are a lot of people in there. I want you to promise that you won't go "'Sup, Dad? 'Sup, other random peeps?". Ya got that?"... He didn't get it. But at least after everyone left we got to eat the leftovers!

I'm gonna go now. I didn't have breakfast yet. See ya!