Descriptive Essay - A Slimy Situation - 865 Words

A Slimy Situation â€Å"I’ll be right over!† I excitedly told Carly over the phone. â€Å"Mom I’m going to Carly’s to make slime!† I yelled from my room. BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM. Four stomps boomed from the ceiling, my queue to go upstairs. â€Å"Coming!† I screamed. I bounded up the stairs into my mom’s room. â€Å"I’m going to Carly’s.† I repeated. â€Å"Ok† she advised, â€Å"Bring your brother’s bike and be home by 6:30.† â€Å"Ok, thank you, bye Mom, love you!† I hollered, already down the hall towards the door. I scooped up the ingredients to make the slime, put it in my backpack, and ran out to get my bike. I opened the garage door and scooted my brother’s big blue bike onto the driveway. I hopped on and was on my way the half mile to Carly’s house. I was SO excited to†¦show more content†¦Next, I grabbed a mixing utensil and went to town on the mixture. Once I finished mixing, Carly was already behind me with some pink food coloring. She lightly squeezed the container, bright red liquid came bursting forth from the bottle. Carly missed the bowl and got some on the counter, but there was already shaving cream everywhere so, I didn’t say anything. After I stirred the slime again, I put a pinch of corn starch and some contact solution into the mixture. It was now time for my favorite part, the glitter! We poured a ton of glitter into the pink slime. Then, we mixed it and then kneaded it to fine dough. Finally, it was time to play. Carly and I squished, squashed, and scrunched our pink glitter slime. â€Å"Cassidy, catch.† She told me, and I did. We threw our slime around for about 5 minutes. Until Carly chucked the slime at me and instead of landing in my hands, it hit the ceiling. Carly and I couldn’t stop laughing. We laughed until the slime fell down. When it did it was surprisingly as hard as a rock. â€Å"Why is it so hard?† I asked Carly â€Å"Oh† She surprised turned to laughter again â€Å"We added to much corn starch. Now the slime is hard!† Then we started laughing again, passing the pink glittering rock around like before. We were having so much fun, I didn’t notice the clock. 6:27! â€Å"Oh no!† I frantically started packing my stuff. â€Å"I have to be home at 6:30. â€Å"Sorry Carly, thanks for making slime with me. Bye,Show MoreRelatedThe Rhetorical Analysis Of Mary Crow Dog And Graduation By Maya Angelou1640 Words   |  7 PagesThe rhetorical situation helps the audience understand all aspects of which the rhetor writes. When an audience understands the rhetorical situation, they are able to make a judgment on whether they believe the author to be credible or not, or their writing to be effective or not. Mary Crow Dog and Maya Angelou are both effective rhetors because their rhetorical situations work together to make their essays compelling. â€Å"Civilize Them with a Stick† by Mary Crow Dog and â€Å"Graduation† by Maya AngelouRead MoreEdgar Allan Poes Use of Descriptive Language in The Pit and the Pendulum1609 Words   |  7 PagesEdgar Allan Poes Use of Descriptive Language in The Pit and the Pendulum Edgar Allan Poe has been known for writing stories of mystery and horror. He has composed poems dealing with the occult. He favors those themes and ideas that people shy away from, death, pain, suffering, torture, terror, and fear. His gothic stories burn fright into the hearts of the reader or leave them with a sense of remorse for Poes poor and unfortunate characters. Not many people have ever thought aboutRead MoreEssay on Teaching: Grammatical Number and Notes21041 Words   |  85 Pagesrelationship between two events do future time clauses represent? Future time clauses are used to show the time relationship between two events or situations. Using the connecting words  when, after,  or  before  shows when each event occurred. Review the Meaning and Use notes on page 144. * When using  if  clauses to show a cause and effect situation, is the  if  clause associated with the cause, or the effect? The  if  clause represents the cause of the scenario. Review the Meaning and Use notes onRead MoreIgbo Dictionary129408 Words   |  518 Pagesillustrated the meaning and use of words; the great majority of the examples are due to him. Their merit is that they are not translations from English, but natural Igbo sentences elicited only by the stimulus of the word they illustrate. The short essays which appear from time to time (e.g. under otà ¹tà ¹, à ²Ã¯â‚¬ ¤gbanÌ„je) on aspects of culture are also his work, as are the sketches which served as basis for the illustrations, a large number of new words, and various features of the arrangement. When he had