Christy Rozek--Assignment #6--Astronaut, blue staircase, kitten, palm tree

Astronaut, blue staircase, kitten, palm tree.


I am a palm tree; I see many interesting things. I have seen things from the ground up to the sky, and I’ve even made a few coconuts in my time. You may picture me on some corporate campus, put there to make the atmosphere tropical, but in fact I am not one of those palm trees. I live in Florida, in the United States, in ‘gator land. My prime purpose is to watch over those coconut devouring fiends, and to make sure that crazy Italian tourists don’t try to bring in blue staircases and try to pose with the alligators on them.
If this were an interview and you the reader were asking in-depth question of me, the palm tree, I’d have some in-depth answers for you. Like for example, what is the scariest thing I ever encountered? Once a kitten managed to climb up my trunk, and nestle himself in my leaves. He meowed a bunch, and all these people started calling law enforcement. Finally the Southern Floridian fire department arrived and stuck ladders all over me and things were just fine.
Now, if you asked me if I’ve had any extra-terrestrial experiences lately, I would have to say that…I haven’t. If your question were, what is the coolest thing you’ve ever seen? Well! Because I’m located in ‘gator land, I’m obviously in Florida, and because I’m in Florida, there are spaceship launches. Neil Armstrong actually got his picture taken with me! He made me a wood burning (with some other tree’s wood) that has both our signatures on it, and built a fountain for pets to drink out of at my base.