The Phone Call

 

Suddenly the window slammed shut. Eerie sounds came from every room echoing through the walls. Then suddenly the phone rang. Sylvia, who was all alone, slowly went to pick up the phone. An unfamiliar and creepy voice answered asking where her parents were. Sylvia actually had no idea where her parents were. She just woke up an hour ago, finding herself all alone in this gigantic mansion where her family just moved in. Her hand was trembling and she started to panic while the person on the phone was breathing loudly. She finally decided to tell the person that she didn’t know where they were, since she really didn’t know where they were.

Then all of a sudden the door slammed open and she heard someone walked in coming towards the room where she was in. Sylvia put the phone down and ran to another room hoping to find somewhere to hide. But it was too late. Something or someone was already in the room where she was and there was nowhere to hide. It seemed that her breathed was sucked out of her lungs for she was so terrified and it was hard to breathe. Someone walked towards her and talked in a creepy tone, exactly like on the phone. Now Sylvia was wondering how the person on the phone came to her house like out of nowhere. The person then grabbed her and tied her up and carried her outside through the rain. She was trying to scream and kick this stranger but she was tied up too tight that it was hard to suck in air. The person seemed to be running quick and fast that Sylvia was getting wet until they came to a car. She was thrown to the back seat and the person drove on to the road.

Sylvia saw that the person was actually a man. She expected him to look scary but he looked like the kind of guy who was made fun of because of his glasses. She wondered how this guy had a scary voice with such a face like that. Right now all she could do is think of some possibilities and why this man kidnapped her. The road seemed to go on for miles and miles so she lay down and fell asleep.

Sylvia woke up, still soaked up from the rain inside the car all by herself. She struggled to get up to look out in the window seeing that the car was going to fall over the cliff if she moved. She gasped and wished she had never slept when her parents left the mansion. She turned her head slowly and saw the man talking on his cell phone then turned to look at her. She snapped her down pretending she was still asleep. She was panicking and was hoping she would know how to get out of this situation. At that moment, she reached her fingers to open the window to hear his conversation.

 “If you don’t give me the 20 million dollars that I want I will make this car drop with your daughter inside over the cliff!” the man shouted.

Sylvia closed her eyes as the rain grew harder, shifting the weight of the car and dropping the car off the cliff…

But when she opened her eyes all she felt right now was the car bobbing up and down. She then heard sirens and saw the man handcuffed. The police untied her and so she went to look in the front to see the “cliff” only 2 to 3 feet. The man should be stupid to put me here as a threat for 20 million dollars thought Sylvia. But now all she cared about was to go to her parents and to go home.

 

 

 

The Economic Crisis!

 

As you know, the economic crisis is getting worse and the prices of almost everything are getting high for example, food, housing, oil prices, and other things. Many people are losing their jobs and the banks are getting bankrupt such as the Lehman Brothers. It started because of the subprime lending, which banks lend people money who are not qualified for loan. The banks actually expected people to also give them money because of their greediness for more money but as it turned out, people didn’t pay, so that’s what caused some banks to go bankrupt. At first this subprime lending crisis was only the stock markets and banks that got affected but then it started to affect the whole world and it became an economic crisis which involved the whole world with many people and banks losing their money and jobs. This affected the world because other countries invested money to other banks in other countries such as the US and this caused banks to lose billions of money. Now the in the US, the congress and the senate are voting whether or the government will give money to the banks to help them. I just hope they won’t be greedy again when they are given the money or this might make the situation worse!

 

 

 

My Summer…(^_^)

In Snow World!!

 

Well since I almost did NOTHING during the Eid Break, I’m going to talk about my summer break in the Philippines.

It had been almost 3 years since we haven’t gone to Philippines so we decided to go there during the summer break and not the winter break this year. When we arrived everything seemed to look the same and look different at the same time. My aunts, uncles and cousins changed and they told me I grew thinner (well the last time they saw me I was fat which was three years ago.). My family and I had to stay in our new house which my uncle and his family was living in for 3 years while we were gone and the house seemed to be in a bad shape. We had to sleep on this air bed and old bed with lots of spiders, cockroaches, and maybe rats. The first few days went by and my parents decided to buy furniture, new beds, a car, and a TV.

The days went like that for a few days and nothing interesting seemed to happen. Then a typhoon, typhoon Frank, hit Philippines, which was one of the worst typhoons that hit since it destroyed almost every province in the Philippines. Well it wasn’t that interesting since all you had to do was wait in the house with no electricity, watching rain and trees blowing outside, and listening to the radio for news.Well 1 or 2 typhoons passed by Philippines and went towards China or Japan and it wasn’t damaging any of our property.

My cousins and I would go to the movies, shop, or just walk around the neighborhood. Once we even went wall climbing and I actually reached the top. Yay! My dad then taught my mom to drive with the car we just bought. He also taught my sister and me to drive around this circle near our house and I actually drove home with the help of my dad. It was fun and scary at the same time with cows in the view, students walking to school, tricycles, and cars coming. When my dad went back to Saudi, my aunts and my cousins went to Star City, which was an amusement park in the Philippines and to Snow World because my cousin and my grandmother were going back to the US.

My dad was in Saudi and we couldn’t go anywhere since he was our driver. So one day my aunt decided to drive us to our other aunt’s house since it was her baby’s 6^th month birthday. But then she wasn’t aware of the cars on both sides so she accidentally scraped the right side of the car but didn’t do any damage to the truck that she hit. But fortunately the car was just new and it had insurance so my parents didn’t have to pay much. It was pretty much boring after that staying in the house since my mom became very busy with her driving lessons which was almost everyday.

So the last weeks of our vacation in the Philippines weren’t that memorable but it was sad to go back to Saudi since it’s been a long time since we were there.