Once upon a time, I left home with my mother and went on a trip to many Northwestern national parks. This meant a lot of camping and braving the great outdoors. I was scared! I knew that tornadoes were not uncommon and we’d be in Bear Country. And then there were the geothermal features of Yellowstone…
We had to take a long and stressful trip into South Dakota. From there, we went to Sioux Falls and Wall Drug (the huge store with everything!). Mount Rushmore was our next stop.
Finally, we went to Mammoth Dig Site. It was so much fun until we were racing to the car. I won the race. My prize? As I rolled down the ramp, I tumbled onto the parking lot and earned a concussion and a trip to urgent care. >:-( Luckily, going out for ice cream helped a lot. I even met a famous archeologist, who gave me his book and even signed it! I felt much better and from there left South Dakota.
We went to a campsite, about a mile or two from Devil’s Tower. Devil’s Tower, millions of years ago, was a volcano. It oozed out sticky lava that plugged its vent, causing the volcano to become extinct, or die out. The lava cooled as the cone of the volcano eroded, leaving the plug standing. Back to topic-we watched Steven Spielburg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Then, we visited the tower itself.
The tower is beautiful!
We then stopped in Cody to watch the rodeo, and it was their first night doing it! Fun, fun, fun!
Our very last attraction of the trip was Yellowstone. It is the largest national park in the USA, and for a reason: over half of the world’s geothermal features are in this park, including two-thirds of the world’s geysers! The place reeked of sulfur(which smells of rotten eggs), and we had to stay on the trail to avoid getting cooked by the boiling water. However, the place was beautiful! I was sad to go home, but I was very homesick.
I woke up with my dog licking my face. “ Really Thanos. Come on.” He is my first dog I’ve had. I like him but he is extra sometimes. Sometimes he just pees on the floor when he’s scared or excited. He gets in trouble for that. But I still like him. He gets on my nerves when I’m with him and he’s extra. When I take him for a walk, I grab his leash and take him outside. Then when it’s not even time for me to go in, I take him straight inside if he’s doing too much. I just sit down and watch TV. I don’t know what I’m watching, but I know it’s old.
One time, I fell asleep with my phone on the floor. I woke up with my dog licking my face. Thanos was in my face about to jump on the couch. “Really bru. Sit Down!” I said. He didn’t sit, but I let him slide.
Today I’m going to be talking about color, but not just any color, I am talking about radium. Radium was discovered in 1898 by Marie and Pierre Curie. Radium is a glowing luminous green, a color never seen before by anyone. Radium was used in many beauty products and other items, such as jewelry, medicine, toothpaste, water, and food. It wasn’t until the mid 20th century that we realized radium’s harmful effects.
Unfortunately, radium isn’t the only pigment that historically seemed harmless or useful but turned out to be deadly. Our story begins with white. As far back as the 4th century BCE, ancient Greeks treated lead to make a brilliant white pigment.
Once upon a time, I was having a bike race with my friends in the middle of the night. Something happened to me which made me very cautious on other people’s bikes. It was very scary, and I thought I broke my leg. Thankfully, my knee was scraped, but still, I was in a lot of pain.
Here is how it happened: So, my friends and I were bike racing, and this one girl was smoking all my other friends. I wanted to end her winning streak. I got a green bike, and pedaled my fastest. I was winning. At the end of the race, I was nearing a fence. I pushed on the brakes and…… the chain broke! It was time for my drastic maneuvers. As I neared the curb, I jumped off my bike and rolled off the bike which was going at full speed. The bike crashed into the curb and flew into some sunflowers. The bike broke a sunflower. I was scared because the people who grew the flower took a long time. I was alright at the end.
