The Adventures of Flat Stanley

One of the other reasons I have been too busy to blog, I had a higher purpose, an assignment! A very important assignment for a very important person.

The Assignment: As part of their school work, the kids in my niece's class read a funny book called "Flat Stanley" by Jeff Brown. The book is about a young boy named Stanley who is accidentally squished "as flat as a pancake" when a bulletin board falls on him. The story goes on to tell how Stanley discovers some real advantages to being flat. He can slide under doors, go down into sidewalk grates and even fold himself up small enough to fit into an envelope and be mailed to California for an exciting vacation.

For my assignment, I was asked to "host" Flat Stanley in my city and he also came along on all my other travels. He then gets sent back to the class to tell them of the exiciting things he saw or did while he was away. Flat Stanley is now getting ready to report back to the class with a short movie about his adventures:



(Please note that this is pretty much my first venture into the world of multi-media so all you movie critics, go easy! It took eons to produce even this much ... technical difficulties, learning a new software, running out of memory, a non-existent DVD-burner and a movie camera with an obscure format that is not compatible with anything it seems! If I had another 8 or 9 months, I could do something *really* good! But maybe my British colleague has a point when he talks about "polishing a turd".)