A Capital Idea
My
traveling companion is a very nice man.
He takes me on all of his business trips, to strange and exotic
places. Even though he is quite busy on
these trips, he always finds time to take me around to see some of the
interesting sites in the city. He takes
pictures on our travels, for me to put in my scrap book, and to email to my
family. But he doesn’t take me with him
everywhere when we are on these trips.
Sometimes he goes out with his friends, and leaves me in the hotel
room. I don’t mind this at all. We Bears are very solitary creatures, and
need time to ourselves or we tend to get rather grumpy.
One
evening I was sitting in the hotel room by myself, thinking of all the amazing
things that I had already seen, and wondering what new adventures lay in wait
for me. I started going over each city
in my mind, trying to remember every last detail, so that I would be able to
tell my family, my bear friends, and of course my new grade 3 human friends,
all about my adventures when I saw them again.
I began to worry that it would be impossible to remember
everything. After all, bears like me
don’t have big brains like you humans do.
Then I
had a brilliant idea. Earlier that day,
my traveling companion had been showing me his computer, and telling me how you
could use it to write stories. I
suddenly realized that I could use the computer to write down everything about
my adventures. I thought I was the first
one to ever think of this, but I have since learned that many humans used to do
this, and that it is called a diary. I
still like to think that I am the first bear to have ever thought of the
idea. In any case, that night I began
writing down my adventures, and adding in pictures, so that I could tell my
friends about everything I have seen.
This happened in
Before
meeting my traveling companion, I had never been to
Everything
I had read said that
I
don’t really care about things like how tall it is, or how many stones there
are in it. You can look that up for me
if you want to. I am interested in more
unusual things.
Take a
close look at this picture. Notice how
the bottom stones almost look white, and then, about where my scarf is, the
colour changes to look more like sand. You
can almost see a line where it changes.
Doesn’t that look strange? Have
you ever wondered what could make that happen?
Well, I wondered too, so I investigated, and found out exactly what
caused it. Would you believe that they
did not build the monument all at once?
They started to build it and then stopped for over 20 years. When they decided to start building again,
they couldn’t find the exact same type of stone. That is why the stone looks different –
because it is different.
The
After
seeing the
I am
sure you know that