Matt Chanwai 8CH @ Southwell

It was a beautiful sunny day and Harry and his friend, Bob decided to go to their hut in the nearby forest. They wanted to go for a explore around the forest, so they set off and came upon a bridge with daffodils. The daffodils were huge, big, pink, fluffy daffodils. Harry and Bob were very interested in these daffodils, but didn’t want to touch them in case they got hurt. But they decided to go back to the hut and get gloves and scissors to cut them. After they got the gloves they noticed that the daffodils had gone. Someone else was in the forest.

“What’s this?” I asked to my friend. “It looks like some green, spiky, plant.” he replied. It was a Monday and Cameron and Justin had decided to skip school and explore a lost park. They were running around and found a bush. It had some unknown, ball shaped like plant poking out of it. “Should we touch it?” Cameron asked. “I’m not, but you can go ahead.” Justin replied. “Here goes nothing.” said Cameron as he reached forward to touch it. He touched the plant but nothing happened. “Oh, nothing happens.” said Cameron Suddenly Cameron went into a seizure. He shook and vibrated non stop until he passed out. Justin froze in shock.

“Oh no, we have PE now.” I said to my friend. “This is going to be a nightmare.” he replied. PE was always a nightmare with Mr. Johnstone. He always was so mean to the students. “Alright kids, don’t just stand there, 20 laps now!” Mr Johnstone bellowed. It took them 30 minutes before they finished half of the laps and Mr Johnstone called them over. All of them were huffing and puffing in exhaustion. “Johnny, could you please go have a break. You’ve worked hard.” Mr Johnstone said. I thought that’s really strange. All of the class looked at him like he was a mad man. I was about to ask him to repeat what he said, but he interrupted. “Well, don’t just stand there.” he said. I went over and sat down. “What do you think you are doing, sitting there?” Mr Johnstone said in rage. “But I didn’t understand the instructions.” I pleaded. “Enough.” he replied “200 laps, and don’t stop until you’ve finished.” I must of been daydreaming.

Where did you meet success, and who might benefit most from what you've learned along the way? I meet success today in assembly when me and ollie played our cellos. Other people might be inspired by both of our performance. Where did you encounter difficulties or struggle today? How did you overcome that? I met difficulties today also in french when struggling on my worksheet. I overcame that by working with persistent until I finished the worksheet. What learning or work today brought you the most satisfaction? Why? My french worksheet brought me the most satisfaction today because I had worked hard and had finally finished it.

I opened the door and entered. What stood before me was amazing creatures with all different vibrant colours shining out so you couldn’t miss it and mutant creatures with six legs. A weird four-legged creature crawled up to me. “Hey there little buddy.” I said “What are you?” The creature said “Oinoof” “Oh you are a pig mixed with a dog.” I replied in realisation. Suddenly a human walked up to me and I backed away in fear in not knowing who they were. But the human walked up to me and shook my hand. “What’s your name?” the person asked. “Craig.” Out of nowhere every creature swarmed me like a nest of bees. I ran. “Wait, Craig, wait, Craig, Craig, Craig, Craig wake up!” My eyes jolted open and I sat up in my bed. It was a dream.

It was the day I had been waiting for. The day that I had been constantly worrying about. Will it arrive? Will it not arrive? I got up out of my bed and went outside to the kitchen to find my mum standing waiting for me. She was holding it. Is that my clothing parcel I’ve been waiting for? “When did it arrive?” I said. She replied “This morning when I woke up I saw it.” I grabbed it and it felt unusually heavy. I put it to my ear and heard an interesting ticking sound. I smelt it and it smelled like metal. Even more unusual. I checked the address from where it had come from. Nothing. There was also not our home address, where it had been delivered. Then it struck me. Could this be something dangerous?!

Where did you meet success, and who might benefit most from what you've learned along the way? I meet success today when my group finished our formal language sheet. My group benefited because we all learnt together.