Blog story ideas

I know I'm late with this blog post... but you need to be in a mood of sorts to blog and I wasn't in it. (Yes I was lazy)

Hey there internet people!
I trust everyone had a nice holiday. Yes?
My grandparents left us yesterday :( and they arrived safely in South Africa :) We had a very fun time with them. I'm glad we had them over.

My school starts again on Wednesday! I've missed it. (I'm not being sarcastic, its true) 
I'll also get to initiate my sister and her friend into high school. Any ideas of what I should do with them? I have a few planned but I can't tell you, its a secret.

Okay, now for the real purpose of this post.

I have an idea for my blog this year...
I want to challenge myself to start a story here. I guess what it comes to is I want to write creatively. (Bear with me, I'll make sense eventually.)

Have you ever played the game where you're in a group of people and someone starts telling a story, stops, and someone else pick up and continues the story, stops, another person continues it? My idea is almost like that.

No I don't want you to continue where I leave off... instead I want you to leave a comment on the post with a suggestion of what should happen next... who the hero should meet next... everything really.
You, the reader of my blog, gets to decide where the story goes; I have to write your ideas into a story.

If you don't understand what I'm saying just leave a comment and I'll reply with a answer that hopefully makes more sense.

I don't know how often the story will be updated, it really just depends on your ideas; but I would like it to be updated once or twice a month.


My first suggestion requests is:
A name for the story- Something exciting
Who the main character should be- Gender, race, age, job, interests...
Who the supporting characters should be- best friend, enemy...
Where should the story be set?

And finally

What should happen in the first chapter?


I don't care how wacky it gets, just keep it appropriate. 

You ready?
GO!

 ~DFTBA

I'm back!!!!!!!!!!

Hello there beautiful internet people!
I have returned from my super long trip to South Africa! I've actually been back a week now, but for some reason the internet didn't want me to update my blog, silly thing.

I had a wonderful time. All the wishes I made before I went came true. I even found some A&W root beer!

 

The convention was very fun. My poem got eighth place!!

The speakers were very good. Each night they got someone new to speak. They had fantastic music and the air was always filled with excitement.

I also met plenty new people. We were given 'passports' when we arrived, these were little booklets you needed to have around your neck at all times (except when sleeping!) and there was a section where you could ask people to sign it. The first time someone asked me to sign their passports my first thought was "You must have me confused with someone else." But luckily I watched what other people were doing and refrained from making a fool of myself.

I'll be posting my events after this post.

The Rally tent

We also got to go to my cousin's wedding.

He is in the army in England, so we didn't get to see him for the past six years. I'm very proud of him. His new wife is also a very nice lady. We also got most of the Nel clan together so I saw my other cousins as well. Fun times, fun times...


Oh, and I coloured my hair!!

Before......

 And after!!!

What do you think???

School started again on Monday. It went for a loop while we were away. Who knew late nights visiting with friends could be so exhausting. *I'm so sarcastic*


Well, I plan to write more soon...

~DFTBA

Excitement

Hey there!!

 Next week we're going to South Africa!!!!!!!!!

I am SUPER excited. We've been gone for almost 10 months now, so its about time we went back again. We'll be staying there for more than two months. I so happy right now I could burst.

There are so many things I look forward to:

Seeing my friends again...

Seeing my family again...

Visiting our church...

Shopping Malls...

Bacon...

McDonnalds...

 Steers...

Biltong...

Root Beer?... (if I can find some) 

I give up; I can't list them all.

(I'm hungry now..... grrrr)

 The first week is going to be hectic! But I don't mind it one bit. (not yet anyway)

We also get to spend a week at my Aunt's sheep farm with my grandparents. :D

Then my sister and I'll return to our school books; but it will be a lighter load, so we can't complain.

In September I'll be going to that convention I've previously blogged about. I am cautiously excited about that. I don't know anyone who will be attending, so I'm scared. But I'll probably end up enjoying myself very much.

After the convention I'll post my short story and poem so you guys can see it.

I have to go now, because I'm not on holiday yet...

My McDonalds misadventure

 Hey guys!
 I've been really busy with school the past few weeks, and that is why I haven't done a post in weeks. :O

 So last year in September my family and I had the pleasure of going to Canada! We went for a month, and I have to say it was the greatest holiday we ever had!
I thought I'll share with you one of my many adventures (and probably the funniest one) I had while I was there.

 In South Africa, where I'm from, we don't have a Walmart. Rather we have stores like Pick 'n Pay, SPAR, and WoolWorths. Walmart have left it mark on South Africa though, because it bought stores such as Macro and Game, and they sell some of their no name brand products. So it wasn't as though I didn't know anything about this amazing shop.

 This one day, the people we were staying with, wanted us to visit their 'medium' Walmart. They'd already taken us to the 'small' one, and I had thought it was big. I was very pleasantly surprised.

 When we got there My family and Auntie Joann were dropped off. I went along with Uncle Paul to the house of a girl I had met at the church. Uncle Paul was going to sing with the girl at church the Sunday so they needed to practice. I just wanted to watch. About an hour later we went back to the Walmart. I then proceeded to cruise the rest of the store with my family.

 The thing about my family is we can cruise through a grocery store for the longest time. We are far too amazed at all the new products that comes out in the time we are in Malawi. I think the store employees think we must be crazy.

 But anyway, back to the story.

When we were checking out my mom gave me some money and told me to get something to drink at the McDonald's.

When I got to the ordering counter I asked for a COKE. I do not know whether she wasn't really listening to me, or maybe didn't understand what I was saying due to my accent, because I could not understand why she said, what she said after that.

"Would you like apple or caramel?"

I think my face must looked somewhat like this:

I stood there just staring at her, and I think she got pretty impatient. I remembered seeing something about apple on my way in, but I thought it had been apple juice, so I just assumed I must have read it incorrectly.

I stood there thinking there is no way apple Coke can be good, and then I remembered reading on the Coke can once that one of the ingredients is caramel, so I assumed the caramel Coke must be 'normal' Coke so I asked for the caramel.

Imagine my surprise when she handed me a small pie.

I said thank you, took the package she was holding out to me, and walked back to my parents as fast as I could and told them what happened. After they laughed they said I can go back and get myself a drink too.

Turns out they had gotten caramel pies too, only they had specifically asked for it.

When I returned to the McDonald's counter the girl asked for my order. I VERY loudly and VERY clearly asked for a ROOT BEER. I decided she couldn't miss hear that.

She didn't and I finally walked off with my drink.


I later decided she must have heard CAKE when I said COKE, and assumed I meant pie.
It makes sense now, but it sure didn't at the time.


So yeah, that's my McDonald's misadventure.


In other news, my family and I will be going to South Africa in a few weeks. I am sooooooo excited.

I have to attend a school convention thing. I am very cautiously excited about that.
It is a five day thing for which I needed to enter in three things. I decided on Poetry and Short Story. I'll post these on here after they have been marked.

The other thing I'm entering in is Checkers, because I wasn't aware you needed three things until Wednesday. Whoever is playing against me can rest assured, because I'm not very good at it.

I'm also doing Camp nanowrimo. My goal is only 10,000 words because I'm too busy for anything else.


Well, that's all I have for now.
Bye!