Wednesday's Words on a Friday

 

The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems.

The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind.

If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along to read it and add a few encouraging words.

This month the words/prompts are supplied by Charlotte and can be found here

This week's words/prompts are: 

1. death 

2. truth 

3. chemistry 

4. restaurant 

5. Mom 

6. opportunity 

and/or: 

1. fact 

2. agency 

3. instruction 

4. clothes 

5. philosophy 

6. people

Here is my story:

Khoral had the children entranced with his facts about chemistry. “I’ll tell you the truth,” he said. “It isn’t all about test tubes and laboratory experiments. Chemistry happens almost everywhere else too. In your Mum’s kitchen even.” “Really?” Charlotte’s eyes were wide with wonder. “How?” she asked. “Well,” said Khoral, "chemistry is simply a matter of taking physical things, you know, a bit of this, a pinch of that, and mixing them to see what kind of reaction you get.” Charlotte caught on very quickly. “Like making a cake,” she said. “A bit of flour, add some eggs and sugar, then bake it. The heat causes the reaction and makes the mixture a cake.”

“That’s exactly right,” said Khoral, "and just like laboratory experiments, there are instructions to follow. Your mum’s recipe book has the instructions for cakes and yummy dinners, a Restaurant has instructions on how to cook meals for dozens of people at once.” “My mum does that by calling for pizza,” said Joe. Everyone laughed. “What else?” asked Kate. “Long ago some people discovered a chemical reaction that made nylon, I don’t remember exactly what from, but a few years later nylon was used to make many things, even clothes,” said Khoral. “How can we learn more about things like that?” asked Joe.

“If you have the opportunity to go to college after high school, you can continue learning about chemistry there. In high school you will do chemistry and physics too, but in college you can specialize if you want. Of course you still have to do the basic lessons, like math, but there are plenty more to choose from. Some of you might want to study philosophy.” “What’s that?” asked Charlotte. “That’s an explanation for another day,” said Khoral. “I have to leave you now, I have an appointment with the travel agency. I want to find out how to visit the South Pole.”