I was Skyping with a friend, Alex, from elementary/middle school, when it started to storm. It was a pretty hardcore storm. So hardcore that a lightning bolt struck the bird feeder right outside of my kitchen window! As the feeder went up in flames, I shouted to my dad that he should so something! He was like, uuhhh, and walked upstairs. I had to take matter into my own hands because my mom was doing the dishes. Luckily for me, she had just finished filling up a watering can and a pitcher with water. I told Alex hold on, grabbed the water containers, and went outside to extinguish the flame. It took two trips to extinguish completely, but I prevailed in the end. Inside the bird feeder, we found three birds. Two words: rigor mortis. They were struck by the lightning and killed, it was sad. At least our outdoor fish in the cruise ship fish tank were still alive. The guy who installed the fish tank, however, did a terrible job, so the water circulation was a failure. This resulted in miniature lampreys attaching to the sides of our fish, sucking out their guts (one of the many reasons I hate lampreys). My dad came outside and tried to swipe the lampreys off of our fish, but I woke up before I found out the fate of our swimming friends. Or I had the chance to say goodbye to Alex.
Then, it was snowing. I was in a strange town. Marisa and I wanted to go sledding, the hills were fantastic. As we approached the hills, we saw that they sloped at a 90 degree angle and were actually really tall buildings. I was like, no way Jose I am not going down those hills. Marisa was like, come on Katie don't be a wimp. I was like, ok fine. We began our journey up the hill. I'm not sure what happened next, but we ended up crashing into an a cappella concert. Oops. Then, we saw this arts program going on with very questionable things happening. I walked away and entered into this contest; whoever could translate the sub titles of foreign movies the fastest won a prize. I beeped in first and answered "November 6." Not sure what the movie was or what it had to do with November 6, but I won.
