I ♥ Maersk!!

Santa brought me the Lego Maersk train!  My mom and dad got me Power Functions and the Lego Maersk container ship!  My sister gave me Flex Track. Christmas this year was awesome!!  I am very happy.

An Open Letter to Maersk

To  Whom it May Concern,

    Hei hei. My name is  "Buddy".  I will be 7 years old in a few months.  When I was in Denmark in May, I saw the Mærsk headquarters when we took a boat tour of Copenhagen.  At home here in California, sometimes I see Mærsk trucks and containers.  They are really cool.  I also like Legos.  I hope to get the Lego Mærsk container ship and train for Christmas. 

     When I grow up, I would like to work  for Mærsk.  Can  you  tell me  about  some  of  the  jobs  at  Mærsk? What should  I  study  at  school? I would like to design Mærsk trains and ships or maybe be a transportation engineer?  I  really  like  math  so  I  think  this  would be a good job.

    Should I learn to speak Danish or another language?  Right now, I am learning Mandarin.  My mom says this will be an important language to know.  

     I  hope you  will  take  time  to  wnite  me  back.  I  really  want  to  learn  more  about Mærsk.    

Sincerely,

"Buddy"

Maersk Line

Maersk trains are cool.  Trains can carry Maersk containers.  The containers can carry many things, even cars.  Maersk is the biggest shipping company in the world.  They operate in 130 countries and have a workforce of more than 108,000 employees.  Maersk works in Los Angeles, Miami, Newark, Brisbane, and in many more places.

Musical Jelly Beans

Once upon a time, there was a bowl of jellybeans.  They were all cherry flavor and red in color.  The bowl was sitting on a table in an attic. It had been forgotten so the jellybeans were old and sticky.  

One day, Harry Potter was a little curious so he went up into the attic to see what was there. When he entered, he saw the bowl of jellybeans next to the stairs.

He ate some and then got an idea.  He cast a spell on every jellybean by saying, 

“Magic for fun. Magic for beans. 

Make these cherry jellies little human beings.”

All of a sudden the jellybeans came to life. Tiny little jelly people appeared in the bowl.  They were all moving around and trying to climb out.  They made a little jelly ladder and climbed one over the top of the other.  Soon little jelly people were walking all over the attic.

After a while, the little jelly people found a piano hid in a far corner in the back of the attic.  They made another ladder and climbed up onto the keys. When the first three jelly people stepped onto the keys, the ‘C’ chord sounded loudly.  They were all surprised.  Then they started jumping on the keys and discovered they could make music.  It sounded beautiful.

[I wrote this story in January 2010.  I was almost 5 years old. It was dedicated to my piano teacher, Janellybean.]

Hello. Nihao.

Welcome to my blog, A Boy & His Trains.  You probably know that I love trains.  My mom thought a blog would be a good way for me to practice my writing and also share my love of trains and Legos.