Why I Wear Glasses

This is me in one of the boats that Teddy's dad has been working on. He works in the boat yards in San Clemente, a small fishing and boat building town near us. Teddy is one of us, Death and Glory Crew.

I wear glasses, though I have very good vision, because we have very, very thick air on my home planet, Korea. It is so thick that we can't see more than a few miles, so we don't need distance vision. We can't see much distance. So when Wookies come to visit Earth they have to wear eye glasses or contact lenses. I have to wear glasses because I will be here for a whole year and contacts can only be worn by us for a month or so. If I were to move here I would have surgery on my eyes to make distance vision.

If you visit Korea you will not like seeing only a few miles but you will like the colors. We have more colors in our environment. I like seeing far here - it is so exciting that I don't miss the colorfulness at all. It is pretty here.

When I first got here the hardest thing to deal with was your gravity. You only have one gravity and you always have to be as if you are standing on a straight line to the middle of the Earth. On Korea we stand that way if we are on what you call level ground. The difference is when we are not on level ground, when the ground is uphill or down. We stand as if we were on a line perpendicular to the slant of the hill or mountain or anywhere on Korea. Our buildings are built that way too. If it is built on "level ground" it is just like yours but if it is built on a hillside it is perpendicular to the slant of the hillside.

It was hard because where Whatsis lives is very up and down - lots of hills and a mountain. When I would start walking up I would keep my body straight and fall over backwards. If I was going down I would fall frontwards. It was hard to remember to feel if I was going up or down.
On our planet you feel level all the time except in small ways like on a ladder or chair or stairs. They are pretty much like here but not as heavy because there is always a pull to the gravity of the chair or ladder or stairs.

I guess that is why we don't have water, or any other large amounts of liquid. They wouldn't stay flat like liquids do here.

Once I got used to up and down walking I found that it can be fun - especially with my bicycle. Up is hard but down is so much fun!

Swimming Today

We went swimming today. The water is very cold but once you get used to it you can swim for hours. We swam to Teddy's house. He is in the Death and Glory Crew and is the closest. Lilly, another D&G crew member lives across the creek from him.

This isn't really a creek, it just got called that years and years ago and it stuck. It is really a channel in an estuary. Whatsis' house is were this channel joins the main channel. Lettis lives a couple of houses down from Lilly; they live on the Horseshoe Bend boardwalk. Patricia lives on the main channel on the St. Basil's boardwalk. Lettis, Lilly, Patricia, Teddy, Whatsis and me - that is the whole crew.

When we got to Teddy's we found that he was out with his mom shopping for new shoes. We went across to Lilly's. She was home. She phoned Lettis and invited her to come and swim with us. When she came we swam back to Whatsis's and got into the dory and rowed to Patricia's house. She was home and invited us in for lunch. Peanut butter sandwiches. Yum.

She had interesting news, she had sighted some Zarwas. The Zarwas are another Tiger Patrol, not Sea Tiger's but still Tigers. Their troupe leader is an Indian of the tribe that used to live in this area. He has studied his tribes history (hardly any left) and is teaching the Zarwas how to live like his tribe used to. They have made boats out of the marsh grasses just like the Indians. They were paddling past Patricia's house when she saw them. They were headed out to 'Open Oceans'. That is what we call the bay that this estuary is part of, the Sequoia Creek estuary. It is preserved from being messed up. Only the boardwalks and houses that were here in 1921, when it was made into a preserve, can be here. The old houses can be fixed up and the pilings that they stand on have been changed by the estuary board to be more earthquake resistant. The pilings don't go straight into the mud; they go on platforms on the mud so that the houses will move with the earth when there is a quake.

Back to the Zarwas. We decided to go Zarwa hunting. We all got into the dory and headed out to sea. This dory is big enough to have two rowers at once so we all took turns rowing. Once we were out in the first bay we couldn't see them, so we kept rowing while we argued about where to look for them. We could go to the St. Basil's Monastary's public dock or head for San Clemente, a town across this bay. While we were arguing we saw them, three grass canoes coming out of St. Basil's. We rowed as fast as we could so we could conquer them and loot their ships. But when we
got close to them we could see that they weren't in a warfare mood. They were willing to share the cookies they bought at St. Basil's. We all headed to Patricia's so we could make some hot chocolate to go with the cookies.

We didn't do much swimming today but the cookies were awesome.

About Eating Fumes by Chewy

Everyone asks about how I eat food. We eat fumes or solids and liquids changed to a gaseous state.
We can't eat protein - but a little won't hurt us, we just won't use it. We can eat the rest of the food you humans eat. We don't put it in our mouths and chew and swallow. We hold it up to our nose and release an eating fume that goes over the food and changes it to fumes and they pass into our mouths where they are absorbed into our fume circuit system. One of my favorite Earth foods is peanut butter and jelly sandwiches soaked in Pine Sol.

We are natural plastic. Plastic trees, rocks, and animals all grow on Korea. No blood and guts. Sorry. Wookies (real Wookies - not at all like Star Wars wookies) can not make babies with humans.

I have seen Mr. Lucas, who created Star Wars, but we haven't talked. He was at the same cafe we were in. Whatsis' dad said that it wouldn't be polite to interrupt his meal to straiten him out about Wookies. He must know by now.