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**How to Brush Your Teeth**

Brushing the teeth is very important. It keeps the teeth from getting covered in plaque, rotting and falling out.
 * 1) Make sure you have all the right equipment: toothbrush, toothpaste, tap, and most importantly, the mouth - hopefully it has teeth in it. This will ensure you do not have to go to the shop to buy something in the middle of the process.
 * 2) Pick up the toothbrush and toothpaste, one in each hand. Open the toothpaste and squeeze some out onto the bristled end of the toothbrush. This will make it possible for the toothbrush to clean the teeth.
 * 3) Turn the tap on, and put the bristled end of the toothbrush, with toothpaste on it, under the tap. Turn the tap off, because you don't want to waste water.
 * 4) Open the mouth. This will ensure that you can put the toothbrush in the mouth. Now put the toothbrush inside the mouth. Start moving the toothbrush up and down, side to side, and in circular movements. Make sure the toothpaste is being spread around the mouth, and is foaming up.
 * 5) Brush every side of the teeth. Also make sure every tooth is brushed. If any one tooth is not brushed for long enough, it will get rotten and fall out.
 * 6) Open the mouth and take the toothbrush out. Turn the tap back on and rinse the toothbrush. Spit all the foam out of the mouth so choking does not occur. Turn the tap off and replace the toothbrush and toothpaste. This makes the bathroom tidy.

The Parallel Dimension The Space Saga – Part 3 WHOOSH! We were flying through space. “How long will it take to get to Earth?” Adriaan asked. “About a week,” I replied. “A week? But it only took half an hour to get to Pluto!” exclaimed Eman. “Yes, but we were going faster than our rockets would usually allow,” I replied. Eman looked out the window, annoyed. Adriaan ran one of his blue, slimy tentacles over his hairless head. “Are we getting faster?” asked Adriaan. And we were. We were getting a lot faster, as well as getting pulled to the side. “What’s over there?” Eman asked. “It looks like a wormhole,” Adriaan said. The wormhole looked like a huge black spot with a purple haze around it. The purple haze had sparks of all the colours of the rainbow rotating through it. “Oh, no,” I said, “We are getting sucked into a wormhole.” SHLURP!

WHOOSH! We were still flying through space. “What just happened?” asked Eman. “It looks like nothing happened,” I said. Five minutes later, we saw Mars. “I thought you said it would take a week to get back to Earth,” complained Eman. Half an hour later, Earth was huge. “We are about to re-enter the atmosphere. It might get a bit a bit warm,” I said. Crackle, crackle, WHOOF! The spaceship looked like it was on fire! “Where are we going to land?” Adriaan asked. “In the ocean.” Eman said casually. SPLASH! Tssssss… “To the inflatable boat! Away!” I said, picking up the emergency cellphone to call a helicopter. An hour of doing nothing later, D-D-D-D-D-D! A helicopter was lowering its winch towards us. Eman got on first and explained the presence of an alien. I got on next, then Adriaan. “And don’t cut me up for experiments!” he said, knowing that the American government might. On the way back to New Zealand, I looked through the contacts of the cellphone, and found the Beehive. “Hello, John Key, Prime Minister speaking.” “Uh, hi. My name is Daniel Oosterwijk, and I was on the space mission Helen Clark sent last year,” I said. “Oh, yes, that! So it was a success then?” “Yes, definitely! We actually got teleported onto Pluto, it was destroyed, and we brought back a Plutonian!” I said happily. “Destroyed? But I was looking at it last night at the observatory!” “Well, look at it again tonight, it won’t be there. But the reason we got back so fast is we got sucked into a… wormhole… oh.” I turned to Adriaan. “Can wormholes do the transport to a parallel dimension thing?” “Oh, yeah, I forgot about that!” he said cheerfully. Everyone just stared at him. “What? Why is everyone staring? Why? Oh…” Crackle… WHOOSH! “What was that?” asked the PM. I looked up. “That was… another spaceship that looks exactly like ours coming into the atmosphere.” I replied. “Go have a look.”

We sped towards the landing site, and saw two people coming out. As we got closer, we realised that they were… me and Eman! “How is that possible, and where is Adriaan?” Eman asked. “Yep, we are definitely in a parallel universe.” I said. “Please, you have to help us!” said the me from the parallel dimension that we were in. “Why, what happened on Pluto?” I asked. “Who are you, and why are you me?” he asked. “Well, this is a parallel dimension to me, and I am guessing Pluto was not destroyed. In ours it was.” I said. “Now, back to my question.” “Well, I said something that must have been offensive to the Plutonian leader. His name’s Bob. Oh, and who is that? He looks like Adriaan from Pluto.” “That would be because I am Adriaan from Pluto.” Adriaan from Pluto said. Suddenly, there was a huge sound that was like an explosion from above us, which soon turned into a splashing sound. “I demand an apology!” said Bob. “Oh, we are all so sorry!” Adriaan gushed. “He did not mean to offend you! Uh, wait, which one of you Daniels is from this universe?” The correct Daniel put his hand up and said, “Yes, I am very sorry. I did not know that it was offensive on Pluto. Please forgive me!” “Okay, I will forgive you…” POOF! “By turning into a genie and granting you one wish!” “Ooh! Ooh! I have always wanted to be a flying space monkey!” Adriaan said. And so, in a puff of lime green smoke, he turned from a blue slimy thing with tentacles into a monkey wearing a white suit with the New Zealand flag on the right shoulder with a gold helmet. And he had wings sprouting out from his shoulder blades! “I bid you all farewell!” the genie said flying off into the sky.

By Daniel Oosterwijk