Club Penguin- Coins for Change

Sorry I have not written anything in a long time but the good news is I will blog more often with my new laptop (thanks to my Aunt Sue). I also have been working on a couple of picture with the help of the Snagit program. I will not always make posts on Club Penguin. I have some pictures that I made and are on a small slide show somewhere on the side.

Many people claim that Club Penguin is childish and unreasonable, but they forgot an important event that happens almost every winter on the website that is caring and helps many in need. Coins for Change. I don't really know how it works in the real world but I do know that all over the island at this time of year there are small buckets with coins in them. You go up to them and click them and this image will appear. Thousands of coins are donated each year the Coins for Change comes. This year I'm going to donate thousands of coins (my clones will donate thousands too)! Usually a penguin pirate called Rockhopper comes and starts the coins for change. Many of my (penguin) friends are also going to do the same. We are going to use a device on Club Penguin called the Money Maker and we are going to get 100,000 coins and donate it all!
During the Coins for Change many critics stop complaining about the website. Instead, they praise the website for how they try to help kids all over the world in need.

Sikou's story

We got Sikou when he was about 4 years old from a refuge called the American Eskimo Refuge Sanctuary. Before he went to the refuge he was trained to be a guard dog and a breeding dog. He lived outside almost all of his life. He was given up by his old owners because they wanted a bigger house, a bigger car, and a bigger dog. They took his dog house, and left him. He ran away and the American Rescue League took him. The people who owned the American Eskimo Refuge Sanctuary (Stacy and Perry), saw him and took him to their refuge. He lived there with about 15 other dogs. The refuge is a small house so it was very crammed. I had wanted a dog about the time he was there and I had studied dogs until I knew a lot about them. We had narrowed it down to American Eskimo, Keeshond, and a Norfolk Terrier. We choose American Eskimo because we couldn't find any Keeshonds or Norfolk Terriers. When we got there Sikou was all excited and jumped up on the bench we had sat on licking our faces. At that moment we knew we had to take him. But when we had taken him home, he acted like he had never been in a house before. At the refuge he had lived in a large cage in the garage. My mom and I have had Sikou for almost 3 years and he has turned out to be a fuzz ball of joy! He has trouble with others dogs though because around when we first got him he was attacked by 3 dogs. He is now scared of big dogs and black dogs because 2 of the dogs that attacked him were black and the other dog was big, but he is a very good boy.

Mud Hornet

Tonight there was a HUGE hornet in my house. It was 3 inches long! I was scared so I ran into our computer room and hid in there with Sikou (C-Koo). Our friend Mary Ellen was there and helped us figure out how to catch it. But our other friend Virginia stopped by with her dog, Zeke and also helped figure out how to catch it. The hornet thing or whatever it was had big bright yellowish orange colored wings and was very loud when it flew around. When my mom first saw it she thought it was a humming bird. I ran outside and went to Virginia's house because I didn't want to be stung or anything. While I was over there Virginia ran over in her the back yard with a container. Inside the container was the hornet. It was buzzing around making the container vibrate, creepy. She was going to open the container and let it go. I don't really know how they caught it but... I made a mad dash as far away as possible from her backyard. I waited for 2 minutes and went back to see what had happened. The hornet has flown straight up and then away. But as I was going back into my house, I saw it fly by and I got freaked out and ran inside. It was creepy.

The Planet

The planet is in danger and some of us know that. Global Warming is causing many things. Oceans are rising, more smog, more dirt in the atmosphere, and the ozone layer is disappearing. The ozone layer we NEED to protect. With out it the sun's harmful rays will burn us to nothing. We need to protect the Earth. We have to try to not throw our food on the ground. We need to try to recycle. We have to save ourselves. Oil is running out, along with the ozone layer. We have to face it, with one step at a time. We need to recycle, use electric cars, and take a little bit of time to turn off lights when your not using them. Global Warming is actually causing the world to go into another ice age. I'm not really sure how it works but the hotter the world gets, the closer we are to an ice age. So think about how you can save energy. Saving energy is the key. Solar panels, wind turbines, recycling. If we all work together we can save the world. The world needs us. We need the world.

"A Special Gift"

OK, today after I got back from my dad's house, I talking with my mom and she let our cat, Diamond in from outside. That little cat that always wants wet cat food, thinks she is a princess, cute, and is Innocent, brought a chipmunk in the house! My mom, freaked out of course screeched, and hid behind me. What was I supposed to do!? So Diamond dropped it, and played with it. It was ALIVE!!!! So we started yelling at Diamond, or at least I did, and she picked it up and ran upstairs in our attic. By the way our attic is hot, full of my old baby toys, and stains in the carpet from old cat throw up. So we went upstairs. My mom went to look for it while yelling at me to go get our neighbor, Virgina. She wasn't home so we were stuck with each other- wonderful. So while my mom was watching it, I freaked out because there was a spider web in my path to get over to where she and the chipmunk was. I finally braved up and went under the web and realized I had to go back downstairs and get these glasses that has two lights on the sides that are really bright. I grabbed them and went back upstairs. We both shined the light on it and... It was an old little chipmunk! It was so cute. My mom called her dad to ask what we should do, he is good with these kind of things. While she was on the phone I stopped hyperventilating and some how made the chipmunk go around the corner of the wall and go in to another corner. Trapped. So it huddled up in the corner, as scared as ever, poor thing. I barricaded the wall with all the things I could find while my mom was on the phone with a friend... I named it Charlie! So we said goodbye to it and we shut the door to our upstairs. My grandparents came the next day from Maine. My grandpa thought about what we should do with it. But when we went upstairs, it was gone! But my grandpa found it in the window. so he some how opened the bottom part of the window to the outside but making it so it can't get out the other way. It never crawled down the window so my grandpa forced down and it crawled down the side of our house. Bye Charlie! But all well ends well, sort of. So Diamond brought a nice gift...

Our Trip to Maine

I'm Annie and I went to Maine this summer. I go to Maine every year because my mom grew up there. We drove one year from Des Monies, Iowa with my mom and dog Sikou (C-Koo). We drove through Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, New Hampshire, and Maine for five days. One night I got food poisoning and it wasn't fun. I felt like I was puking out my guts. On the way we saw swimming snakes, open roads, and a lot of wind turbines. When we finally were there we met up with my grandparents in a small cabin on the side of a lake that they had built when my mom was about 4 or 5. we stayed out there for a week. We went kayaking with my mom and Sikou, we swam in the lake, Green Lake, and when Sikou got wet, he looked like a wet mop because he was all white and is really fluffy. We stopped by one of my moms good friends, and we brought Sikou, which wasn't a good idea, and put him in a fence at my moms friends house. They had a small dog and Sikou isn't good with other dogs. So we left to go out to eat leaving Sikou in the fence. When we got back he was gone. He had dug under the fence. We called a whole bunch of people in the area and somebody found him. They poor guy had "done his business" all over himself. So we had to hose him down. After all this we had to go back. We were sad but we had to go home sometime. So we said goodbye to my grandparents and we headed back. It was good to be back home. Our cats were happy to see us and we were happy to see them. That was my vacation to Maine.