Amelia's Travel Blog : Out of the Dust

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Out of the Dust

In the book "Out of the Dust" Billie Joe's mother finally has the baby and dies because she was burned by an accidental fire. The fire burns her and the side of the baby, and then the baby dies too because of the burn. Now her father and her are barely speaking and everything seems dead until her father starts digging a hole which will soon be the pond that her mama always wanted to build. Because of the dust storms, many people's houses are being destroyed so one family has to stay inside Billie Joe's school classroom so they don't have to sleep in a truck. People start bringing in toys for the children and clothing for the pregnant woman's baby. Once the baby was born the family waited a few weeks before moving west towards California. Billie Joe chases their truck begging to go with them but they were already too far away. After a few days, it starts to snow for the very first time that year and everyone in the town is exited for the snow to melt into the soil for their crops. Everything in the town starts to perk up, Billie Joe enters a competition playing the piano and they go to the presidents birthday ball. Even though everything seems happier after Billie Joe's mothers death, there were still more dust storms waiting to turn her life back into a dull nightmare.

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Notre Dame

Today we visited notre dame. Notre Dame is a gothic cathedral in Paris. Once we got to Notre Dame we had to stand in a large line. it took about 15 minutes until w actually got inside. Right away we started to climb the 400 steps to the top of the church. We climbed and climbed and climbed and pretty soon we got to the first level. it was a pretty good view but the top was much better. Once we got to the top we had a spectacular view. Not as good as the Eiffle tower, which you could see, but still a view of the river and below Notre Dame. Inside the church the priest was preaching and there were candles lit everywhere. We walked around and looked at statues like the sculpture of Joan of arc. Once we left we headed on looking forward to the rest of the day.

The Patisserie

Today after we got back from are big museum walk my brother, sister, and i went to the Patisserie to get dinner and dessert that night. We walked around the corner towards a little shop that was down the street from our apartment. they had decorated treats like pie with the fruit in beautiful designs and they had treats that looked like they were a big glob of whip cream. We ended up getting one tiny pizza and a bunch of little pieces of pizza. For dessert we got to pieces of berry pie and 2 pieces of apircot pie, also an apple pie. The pie looked so pretty you didn't want to eat them to destroy the designs. they tasted just as good as they looked. when we got back we feasted on pie and pizza.