Monday, October 13, 2008

Club Penguin

I've been playing Club Penguin for about a year and a half now. If you don't know what it is, then I'll tell you. It's a website where you can be your own penguin. You can waddle around in a little world called Club penguin. You can talk to people, make friends, play games to earn coins, and tons of other stuff. You can also dress up, which is my favorite part.
A while ago, I was just a regular penguin. I was relatively new, and I had a few clothing items, colors (yes, did I mention your penguin could be any color you want?), and player card backrounds. I wished I had more clothes, but I didn't know how to get them. Then I discovered a little thing called the giftshop, where you can use your coins to buy shirts, hats, shoes, jewelry, and even wigs. I immediatly started saving up to buy everything I wanted, which was practically everything. After all that was done, I waddled back to the giftshop only to learn that I was unable to spend my coins on all those wonderful items. Why? There was something called "membership". Then it hit me: you could pay money to be a member on club penguin and be able to get all those awesome items. I spent the rest of the day sulking, and I also learned that members could buy special igloos, instead of just having the teeny, plain white one that everyone got for free when they signed up. They could also buy awesome furniture in the furniture catalog, and I saw some other stuff that was just as cool as the clothes in the gift shop. I started begging my parents to ge me that membership, and after a few months, they finally let me and my sister have it, who wanted it just as much as I did. We were sooo happy. But after, like, a year, the whole thing started to get old. We cancelled our membership because we never played it anymore.
A few months later, my sister started playing on it again, but as a non-member. I eventually joined her, and soon enough, we were craving membership again. Now, it's early/mid-October. Our report cards come out on Halloween. My parents said that if we get straight A's, they would strongly think about it.
Now i'm trying extra hard in school so I can be a member again. It's the circle of....well, club pengiun. I hope it never repeats again.