Writing Challenge #3.

Last fall, some friends and I were hanging out. It was late at night and we had nothing to do. We decided to go for a drive and just see where we ended up. As we drove, we came upon a eerie and dank cemetery. I was wary of entering the cemetery at first, but as soon as I saw how ardently my friends felt about going, I decided it would all be fine. As we walked along, we began to hear voices. We looked around, but we did not see anyone else there. In the sky, there were crows circling the sky and squirrels running around the tomb stones. In the distance, there was a dog barking. We continued walking, and as we walked, we kicked the superfluous leaves around. We all stopped kicking the leaves as soon as we heard someone else doing it. Again, we looked around, but could find nothing. We decided that it was all in our heads, but thought maybe our parents would be worried so we turned around. Just as we turned around, we saw a shadow creeping across the lawn. As soon as we looked in the direction of the shadow, it disappeared; it was no longer existent. We began to run and as we ran we all felt as if we were being chased. Just as we were walking up to the gates, it swung shut. We could see are car, but were not able to get to it. The wind was so strong that we were not able to open the gate. We decided to go to the next gate. Just as we turned our backs, the gate swung open. We escaped while we could and went to the car. That was our adventure in the cemetery...

Writing Challenge #2

TORTILLAS DECLARED KOSHER FOR PASSOVER;

CREATES DILEMMA FOR JEWS.

Minneapolis- Local Rabbi's announced today that they were in agreement over a new set of foods that can be labeled as kosher for passover. Tortillas have now been declared kosher for passover, the Jewish holiday that falls this week. " Besides matzah, there are not many other options in terms of foods that can be eaten during passover" says a MN Rabbi. He went on to talk about the introduction of ethnic foods into passover " in the past, we have never had a mexican food item that is kosher for passover. This is really exciting!"

A member of Temple Israel who wished to remain anonymous felt just the opposite. " I think this was a horrible idea. Chinese food has always been our go to cuisine, but now we are forced to choose between mexican and chinese. It's going to be a stressful transition." The MN council of Rabbi's agreed unanimously on this decision over a lunch of peanut butter and jelly matzah sandwiches. They said they were all sick of relying on the bland, tasteless cracker to get them through the holiday. 

Does this introduction mean we might start seeing quesadillas on the seder plate? Guess we will have to wait and see!

Writing challenge # 1

One evening, My best friend Charlotte and I went down by the Guthrie Theatre. It was a spring night and there were tons of people out and about. We parked by MTN and then walked accross the Stone Arch Bridge. We had met up with some other friends along the way and took our time walking accross the river. When we got to the other side, we were debating what we were going to do. As we made some potential plans, we saw a group of people congregating around a fence. We decided to go check out what they were all watching. As we walked over, the amount of people around the fence grew. When we got there, we discovered that there was a beaver that could not get back into the fence to get back by the river. Noone was helping the ebaver, they were only making it more difficult. People were chasing it and taking pictures. We hung out in the back and watched as people started to lose interest and continue on with their walks. Soon, we were the only people by the beaver and decided we needed to do something to help it. When we tried to go near it, it would waddle the other way. We then realized that it was injured ( people later told us it had been hit by a car). We called animal control but they were closed. We realized there was nothing we could do for this beaver so we walked towards the guthrie. On our way back to the car, the beaver was gone. Later that evening, we were driving down Chicago Avenue and came accross some more wild life. On 46th street and Chicago, we saw a deer walking down the side walk. At first we thought it was a dog, but as we got closer, we realized it was a deer. This time, we called 311, but they were closed for the evening. We continued on with our evening but kept thinking about all of the wild life we had seen in the city. It was sad, but also kind of exciting. Later that night, I got a text from Char saying " That was some adventure, huh?" and it sure was.