Happy HALLOWEEN!!

Okay, well, happy Halloween for everyone in the states and elsewhere. Halloween is not a Nigerian holiday, so we'd look pretty weird going from door to door with plastic fangs in out mouths, saying "trick or treat" and asking for candy. They'd probably think we went off the deep end, so none of that this year. But, if I was in the U.S.A. and I could celebrate, I know exactly what I'd be. I would be the three scariest things on earth: no internet connection, textured plastic, and The Lion King 2. Duh duh duh! Those three things are the scariest things in the world!!! Lemme explain:

No internet connection- No Google Buzz?! No YouTube?!?! No Google Earth?!?!?! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Textured plastic- The most annoying sensation to fingernails known to the human race. Totally irritating. It makes me flinch just thinking about it.

The Lion King 2- Corniest movie in existence. Sorry Kiara and Kovu fans; it is. A movie my sisters forced me into watching: DON'T WATCH IT. Only if you want to see lions kissing, and a monkey singing something about crazy moons and baboons swooning. Yeah, it's that bad. Leave it to Disney to make the most embarrassing romance scenes known to cartoons. And on top of all that, the animation was definitely not the best. And there was no story! Okay, well maybe there was, but it was so shallow, your ankles would be perfectly dry if you waded in it. Please, save yourself the pain and steer clear away from it, alright?

That's what I would be. The three scariest things in all of the world!!!

Mwahahahaha!
The Traveler (Dramatic!)

A Little Bit More About Birds

Guess what? Just after I had written yesterday about birds and stuff, I had another adventure with them! This is what happened:

I had finished my post and published it on my blog, and went to go eat my breakfast of Quaker's Oatmeal. I always put butter, milk, and sugar in mine. After that, I went about doing the usual: reading, doing schoolwork, when I heard a very strange bird call. I was in the back of the house, near the office room, when I heard a sound like somebody clicking their tongue on the roof of their mouth. They were fast, and they came one after the other rapidly. I heard the sound, and I walked into the office, since it was louder there. Through the window, I saw the bird. It had orange wings and back, a white chest, blue head and beak, and a wide wingspan. I mean, it was wide for it's size. It also moved differently; it would hop, and sort of fan out it's wings as it turned, and perked it's head up, as if it was trying to see something. I think it's a male, since he was the one calling, but I don't know jack about birds anyway. I know that's a pretty vague description, but are there any birdologists that know the name for this species? It lives in a subtropical climate (we are in Nigeria, after all), and the description is pretty much all I know about it. Thanks,

Signing off,
The Traveler

Rainy

It's really overcast as usual in the rainy season, and I'm just sitting inside, listening to the birds. Man, do those animals know how to sing! Their songs are very different than the ones we have in Durham. But, I've also heard some bird calls that sound exactly like what I heard back there! Weird. So, we aren't really doing anything. It's morning, I just woke up. That's really it for now,

Signing off,

The Traveler

RAIN! THUNDER! LIGHTNING! BOOM!

HEY! I'M GOING TO RIGHT EVERYTHING IN CAPITAL LETTERS AND END ALL MY SENTENCES WITH EXCLAMATION POINTS IN THIS POST (THERE WILL BE NO COMMAS) TO REPRESENT HOW STRONG IT JUST RAINED! WE WERE SITTING IN THE LIVING ROOM I WAS PLAYING ON MY WII (I WAS TRYING TO GET SOME MORE STARS SO I COULD ADVANCE IN SUPER MARIO GALAXY 2) WHEN ALL OF A SUDDEN IT STARTED RAINING! INSTANTLY! THERE WAS NO WARNING IT JUST STARTED RAINING OUT OF NOWHERE! SINCE WE HAVE A METAL ROOF WHICH HELPS COOL THINGS DOWN THE DIN  WAS AMAZING! YOU COULD BARELY HEAR YOURSELF TALK! WHICH WAS TOTALLY AWESOME! AND THEN THE THUNDER AND LIGHTNING CAME ROLLING IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT WAS THE LOUDEST THING EVER! MY TEXT DOESN'T DO IT JUSTICE! THERE WERE TWO THUNDER CRACKS THAT SOUNDED LIKE GUNSHOTS OUTSIDE OUR HOUSE! NO KIDDING! I EVEN FLINCHED IN MY SEAT THAT'S HOW LOUD IT WAS! IT WAS C-R-A-Z-Y TO THE MILLIONTH POWER!!! THEN IF YOU LOOK OUTSIDE YOU SAW A WALL OF RAIN! IT LOOKED LIKE AN ACTUAL WALL! WE COULD BARELY SEE THE BUILDING NEXT TO US! EVERYTHING LOOKED GRAY! AND THEN I WENT OUTSIDE AND THE GROUND WAS LIKE A LAKE! WATER WAS E-V-E-R-Y-W-H-E-R-E! MY SANDALS GOT DAMP! GOOD THING THEY'RE WATERPROOF! OK I'M ENDING MY POST NOW! RIGHTING IN CAPITALS AND EXCLAMATION POINTS IS SO WICKED COOL!

SIGNING OFF!
THE TRAVELER!

A Piece of America(n Food)

We went to Glory 2 Glory again today and went on a shopping splurge! I picked out a cereal I wanted, my baby sister picked out hers, (we got Rice Krispies and Fruit n' Fiber), we got snickers, we even got real milk! I say real milk like this because in Nigeria, most of the milk is dehydrated. It tastes like real milk and everything, but I myself am lazy, and I like just pouring it from the carton into the bowl. Even though it's 6:58, all my and my two sibling each ate one bowl of cereal. In the night! We usually get Kellogs Cornflakes, but we wanted to switch it up a little, and it was worth it. Now I'm full with loud Rice Krispies!

Signing off,
The Traveler

More Riding

I'm pretty much biking everyday now on our awesome land. I like to go off-roading on a dirt path. Feeling the wheels skidding is really cool, and then some of the bumps energize you. We have a natural spring in the back, and my parents made a canal so it could flow again, since some bamboo blocked it's way. The stream is super clear like glass, and nice and cold on my hands. There's also a farm of corn in the back that some people put there 

(after we allowed them, that is). I've gone into it a few times. And then, the bamboo grows in clumps, and they spread out and look like giant mushrooms, which is really weird, and funny at the same time. There's also raw iron floating in the stream; it looks like little orange clouds. I've touched it before, and it flattens onto my fingers. It's also fun to jump from island to island in the stream as well, exploring everything that's there. Well, that's my land,

Signing off,

The Traveler

Biking Back and Forth

We were just cycling to and fro on our main road: my little sister, my mother, and myself. I went down a route I had never biked down before, and we said we'd stop at a sign for a church. There are churches everywhere in Nigeria: it's almost like Nigeria's infested with them. You'll see one around the corner, and you go down that street, and you'll see another church, and then you turn down another street and you see three more churches! They're everywhere! Now, I'm not saying that a church is a bad thing; I respect all kinds religions and people, and it's definitely not a bad thing to have a church you go to or anything like that. But there are churches EVERYWHERE. You might see one or two mosques, but then for each mosque there's a hundred churches. Maybe they should also invest some of the money from churches to other things like renovating buildings?

Signing off,
The Traveler