The Amazing Race

By The Smartest Peoples

a.k.a Rachel, Bishop, Tiffany,
Darlene, and Giselle

   
 Portal Beginnings
One day Rachel, Tiffany, Darlene and Giselle were
walking through the school and Giselle found a half of a
coin in English. When she read it out loud, it said, “This is
your token of life.” Giselle said, “Wait, look, it says
something under it, it says….”
“It only has part of the something.” Darlene
interrupted. “It says, YOU?” Giselle
continued. Tiffany said, “I don’t
get it.” After Tiffany had said that, some kind of portal
opened. “Let’s go in it!” Tiffany shouted.
Darlene said, “We shouldn’t go, wait, yes, no, yes,
no, I don’t know!”
Rachel said, “Wait, guys look over
there!” Over there, was another group of kids about to run
in their
  portal.   Darlene said, “Let’s
hurry up then, JUMP!” “WOAH, this
 Egyptian Ways
“We ended up in Egypt just to beat a group of kids,
just great!” “Now how are we gonna get back home?
Huh¿” “Hey look! It’s Bishop.” Said Tiffany. “Why is
he in Egypt?” asked Rachel and Darlene. Since we
were stuck in Egypt, we thought we might as well
explore the land and try to find a way out of here. A
few minutes later, Darlene had found another half a
coin. “Hey guys, come here, I found another half a
coin!” “Wait, it’s in hieroglyphics, hey wait, I could
read that, hahahahhaha!” “The message on this coin
says, HAVE SUCCEE?” “Where’s the d or ded to make
succeed or succeeded?” asked Giselle. Bishop
interrupted, “I found another whole coin!” Bishop
handed the coin to Darlene since he couldn’t read it.
“It says DED TO.” They kept on walking, hoping that
they could find more coins, but they didn’t, instead,
they found Egyptian items. They also found out how
the Egyptians lived back then because they ran into
   
some people that showed them around the city. They
 The Egyptians lived a very different life style from the
five kids. They had an unelected pharaoh to start with,
instead of an elected president. The Egyptians also farmed in
the rich farmland near the Nile Delta and were surrounded by
desolate desert, They often used boats to travel up and
down the Nile. They believed in many gods as well, but Ra
was the god they worshipped the most. They built one of the
seven wonders, the pyramids, to bury the mummified
pharaohs and wealthy nobles along with some of their
treasure and personal belongings. The Egyptians also buried
mummified slaves in the pyramids to serve the wealthy
nobles or pharaohs in the afterlife. The Egyptians also had a
form of writing called hieroglyphics. This helped them
communicate with each other. They were also conquered by
the Assyrians for a small time, but soon took back over. They
invented many things and did so only because of the great
Nile River to supply them with water, food, and more.
After they had seen it all, Tiffany suddenly found a half
of coin. “It’s in Chinese”, Tiffany declared. “It says REACH.
That’s all it says nothing else”. “
 
Yeah”,  
Giselle agreed,” but is the word supposed to be
`reach`, `reached` or `reaching`’” she pondered.
 Chinese Customs
“Wow we’re in China”, Bishop exclaimed.
“Yeah. I guess we are”, Rachel said. “Well
we might as well start searching for another half of a coin.
It seems that portals only appear once we find and read
one”. Everyone agreed to this and so they set off
searching but exploring at the same time. They discovered
China had advanced ways of farming for the past and that
though isolated they traded and traveled a lot even
though huge mountains surrounded them. They had two
major rivers, the Huang He (Yellow River), and the Chang
jiang (yangzi River). The rivers were their source of daily
life. They bathed in them, drank in them, watered their
crops from them, produced food fro, them, traveled
through them, and much, much more. They too had a king,
an emperor in fact, that ruled over everyone and
commanded the army. The emperor and many others they
believed they could communicate with their ancestors
through cracks in oracle bones that were said to predict
the future, and they often made tough decisions through
the  oracle Bones. They also  built, tore down, and built
again the Great Wall of China that was at first meant to
 Roman Culture
After they had searched everywhere, Darlene suddenly
found another half of a coin. “ Hey! I found another half
coin,” Darlene exclaimed. Everyone rushed over to her and
asked what it said. “ It says ING YO”, Darlene said confused.
“
You have succeeded to reaching yo--”, said Tiffany thought
aloud.“Yo-”, Giselle said thoughtfully. “You, your, you’re, yo-,
yo-, yonder, yo-yo,” she finished. “I think that’s all the words
that I can think of that start with yo”.
“ I think you’re right”
Rachel said. “ So if it makes a
sentence, I guess we have to complete the sentence to go
home,” Bishop stated. Then, out out of nowhere, another
portal appeared. “ Might as well go in”, Bishop said, and
entered the portal. Everyone followed. “Looks like we’re
in Rome,” exclaimed Darlene and Tiffany. “ Well lets
start looking for another half coin so we can get home”,
Giselle said. And so they started looking for another half coin.
   
 As Rachel, Darlene, Bishop, Tiffany, and Giselle were
searching for another half coin, they discovered a lot about
the Romanian life style.The Romans conquered many
countries in the Mediterranean area through self-defense.
They had a republic government until Augustus became the
emperor.They influenced many cultures and took many Greek
idea into their own culture.The excelled in satire, drama, both
comedy and tragedy,and speeches. They were great at
architecture, and art, which ideas were usually based off the
Greeks’. They created cement, arches, and great dome
buildings. Their approach to science and engineering was
practical, so the Romans found many things that improved
their everyday life. The Romans especially enjoyed watching
gladiator fights and great races in one of the most famous
buildings they built, called the Colosseum. They influenced
many languages, called Romance languages, because they
conducted business in Latin, their official language.Our
alphabet today is in fact the ancient Romans’.Even today,
many  centuries later, the Roman   life-style still lies through
out the world.
“We’ve looked everywhere and there’s no coin,” exclaimed Rachel.
“Great! We’re stuck in this stupid place now!, Tiffany yelled. “I hate you
Giselle!”.
“You’re the one who ran into the portal without thinking in the first
place,” Giselle retorted.
“That’s true,” Bishop said.
“So, you followed me,” nagged Tiffany.
“We only followed you because we knew you would do something
stupid”, Giselle came back.
“Will you guys stop fighting and get over here. I found a coin”, Darlene
yelled.
“Finally!” Rachel said, and headed over there with the others. “What
does it say”, she asked.
“It says UR GOAL,” Darlene explained.
“ You have succeeded to reaching your goal”, Bishop said. “
If that is the sentence though do we get to go home now?” Tiffany
whined.
Then, out of nowhere another portal appeared. “ Finally the portal!”
Tiffany exclaimed, and ran through the portal. Everyone followed suit,
one at a time. When they all went through portal, they found themselves
at back
  at the exact place where the  first portal appeared.
They all looked at each other and said in unison, “Now that, was a crazy