the journey of writing
soul log is the writing playground of thirteen year old Brandon Wang, a student and self-crowned web designer, living in the Houston, Texas area. He has been writing soul log for over four years. This is his journey.
Monthly Archives: April 2008
A Lesson From NASA
“A new-fangled technology came out a few years ago,” my teacher told me, “and it’s called video chat, and we’re going to use it today, again.” My teacher loved humor, and she was pretending we didn’t know this information.
We had used it before, with the Tennessee Science Center. We ended up having technical difficulties, and [...]
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Mixed Money
I had one hundred and fifty dollars stored in a bank about a year ago. Within a month, I had probably forgotten about it. The statements that came never mentioned anything about my one hundred and fifty dollars, but my parents kept on insisting they were of separate statements, probably.
I thought that was queer, since [...]
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And you Had a Bad Day…
Talk about having a bad day. My poor father had one indeed.
He had just come home, and my mom was still out taking me to swimming practice.
We had received a notice from the neighborhood office about the weeds growing out in the cracks on our driveway. Honestly, they didn’t seem too many… until we saw [...]
The Brownsville Story: II – The One Who Loves Dolphins
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On the lower coast of Texas, where South Padre Island was, there was a dolphin watcher. Her name was Marg (not really). She loved the dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico, and her husband ran a dolphin-watching business.
We went dolphin watching with her for an entire day during my Brownsville spring break vacation.
This is her [...]
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The Brownsville Story: I – The One Who Loves Dolphins
On the lower coast of Texas, where South Padre Island was, there was a dolphin watcher. Her name was Marg (not really). She loved the dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico, and her husband ran a dolphin-watching business.
We went dolphin watching with her for an entire day during my Brownsville spring break vacation.
This is her [...]
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The Biggest April Fools Prank
My teacher pulled the biggest prank on me on April Fools. We all knew the teachers were going to pull a prank; they did this every year.
My friends tried pulling a prank on the teacher as well, but it was nothing compared to the teacher’s.
“Can you come to my birthday party?” One friend asked me. [...]
A Competition for TAKS