On a lighter note...

I found this the other day. It was a free write I did last year when I was out of school and missing writing papers. My roommate gave me a title and a list of words to write off of.

The title I had to use:
The Price of Tea in China

The words I had to use:
Duck
Blimey
Shepherd
Pariodontist
Antidisestablishmentarianism
“Sugar Daddy”

The essay:
Do you know where your stocks really are? Is it all really about Dow Jones and the NASDAQ? A few months ago, most Americans would have answered “yes” to both questions. Now things have changed. Yesterday marks three months since we first heard the story of Sou Lee of Sapporo, Japan about the secret rise of the stock market there—in the duck hunting industry of all places. Recently, an article published in Time magazine, “Who’s Your Sugar Daddy?”, became a fresh source of controversy surrounding the ongoing debate of today’s stock market and the shift of power from Wall Street to a town, which up until recently, was known only to its residents and other nearby towns. The city—Gou Yun, China. The market—an industry specializing in spelling bee study courses in conjunction with martial arts.
Sources say parents of elementary-aged school children are investing millions in the business. One consumer commented, “Oh, I definitely trust where my money is going. I have no doubt that Shepherd’s Spelling and Samurai will be the number one company in China within the year. My six-year-old was able to spell antidisestablishmentarianism while karate chopping a piece of wood within two weeks of starting the course.” The founder of SSS, Tea Shepherd, a former periodontist from Sydney, Austrailia, who moved to Gou Yun to teach English, commented, “Blimey! I had no idea it would take off as it has. I’m still completely astonished. I feel like a little kid who gets the duck in Duck Hunt.”
The sensation has come to be known as “The Price of Tea,” an obvious name play on the name of the SSS creator. And now the question looms—where will you buy into for your next investment? The stocks that are old news, or Shepherd’s Spelling and Samurai, the new company with a strange name that could very well determine our children’s future?