Monday, May 4, 2009

Youtubelandia

Here is a story that I made up. Enjoy! 
Once upon a time there was a land, but not the fairytale kind of land with castles , or an underwater land. This was a very different land, it's name was Youtubelandia.  From a distance , it looked liked any other city or country but when you looked a little closer paying attention to the details you could see that it wasn't. I have been to Youtubelandia and so I will share with you all that I saw and my experiences.  The houses there,were square and in the shape of computer screens. Inside the average house there were three types of rooms: the kitchen that was simply a wall with buttons ( later we will find out what they were for) , the bedrooms that were quite big with mattresses and pillows and the bathroom that was medium sized and had red beams that were for scanning ( we will find out more about these later) on the walls. But stranger than the buttons and scanners in their houses were the people inside them.  And they were the part of Youtubelandia that surprised me the most of all. Because they were shaped like boxes with keyboards on the bottom and arms and legs,inside each of these boxes there was a black space that; when the Youtubelandians talked would not speak words but would show videos. The people of Youtubelandia did not have names such as Sarah, Tom, Amy... but they had usernames like: princess_amy54 , Dragon slayer_ tom19, Sarahpinkfactory34. My Youtubelandian friend Vcfairygirl_isa for example instead of saying "i'm happy" would show on her screen a video of a rainbow or of  happy person and by doing so would express her feelings. Her mother cakey_30 who I also met would not say "Thats wonderful darling" but would comment on her daughters video using the keyboard. You may be wondering how I know all of this so here is the story of how I stumbled upon Youtubelandia.
It was a sunny morning in New York and I decided to take a walk in Central Park. I had just gotten a chocolate drink from Starbucks and a book and was looking forward to devouring both of them; when a little girl told me to come with her. At first I resisted but in the end I decided I should go with her and see whatever she wanted to show me so that i could get on with my day.  She brought me to a bench at the far end of the park where she told me to close my eyes, I obeyed and then she asked me to hold her hand and walk forward. I did that and found myself walking into a tree! I fainted and when I woke up I saw that I was on some kind of street. I looked up to find myself in front of Youtubelandia. I will be forever thankful to that girl in the park and in fact she is sitting in the room next me right now,plugging her self in to the wall in the kitchen and pressing the button that says ideas on it. While I'm typing this in a large room with a mattress and pillow smiling ,proud of myself for having been able to recount all that has happened to me in the past few months. By the way the scanner in the bathroom would scan the Youtubelandians for bad content and take it away.
I hope that someday all of you reading this will be able to see Youtubelandia for yourselves but for now I hope you liked my story!
aylarox 

3 comments:

  1. Great story Ayla. Quite an imagination. Keep up with the great writing. Love, Grandmarox

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  2. How cool would it be to go to Youtubelandia for your birthday trip 2011?

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  3. Great story. Sounds like a place i would love to visit. Fascinating!
    xoxo,
    Eren

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