Something Happened at School that Day

“Screech, screech!”

The rusty, old school bell sounded. My next lesson was science, my favourite class. It was the year 2019 and we were at a special boarding school in Bern, Switzerland, called St. Paul’s Exclusive Science Academy.

Today we were trying to make a real monster out of a toy monster that would obey our orders for our final school project. I grabbed the toy monster to look at it more closely to get an idea of what to use to make it come alive.

All of a sudden a little child ran through the science lab, straight into me! I fell loudly to the floor with the monster in my hands. As I fell, a little piece of the toy monster broke off, and went under the table. Unfortunately, I didn’t see the piece until later in the day.

Our challenge was to figure out how to make our one inch tall toy monster come alive, and to make it grow to 2 feet tall. The toy monster was green and alien-like, with big, sharp-like teeth. We had to make some type of quick growing liquid for it to get bigger in less than an hour. “Lets go grab some fertilizer from the garden shed” someone suggested. I volunteered to go and get it.

When I came back, the others were discussing what else to put in the bowl with the fertilizer. They decided to add some water to the mixture. When we added the water to it, it became all brown and mushy. Little did we know that some of the mixture fell on top of the broken piece of monster on the floor.

It was then recess, so we kept everything out because we were going to head back to the science lab after recess. For recess, I played a soccer game with some friends, and when recess was done, I sprinted back to the lab to continue on what we were doing before. I was terrified when I entered.

The little piece of monster that fell off earlier was alive! Apparently someone at recess had yelled out, “Live, live, live!” And there it was in the lab, growing in height and growing back it’s body. The monster’s head slowly headed to the roof and when the monster’s head touched it, the monster smashed right through. It then grabbed the science lab off the ground and threw it away like it weighed nothing, with me watching underneath.

Scary Plastic Monster!

The monster suddenly turned around, and with me terrified, ran in the opposite direction. In and out of buildings I went, trying to dodge the monster. But he kept coming, smashing buildings as he went.

When I lost him in a pile of bushes, I started to think of a plan. I started to run to the garden shed when the monster wasn’t looking. When I got there, I found some weed-killer and some water and threw them into a bucket and started to mix. I stopped mixing when it was ready, and ran out into the open so that the monster could see me.

The monster saw me and started to chase me. I started to run and hoped that the monster would land on the bucket. The monster did land on it and crushed it to smithereens. It let out an ear-piercing scream and started to shrink before me. It grew so small that I couldn’t see it until I walked forward and looked at the ground. The monster was the size of an ant! I then jumped up high and smashed the monster to bits. The monster was dead!

I was a hero! I rescued everyone from the dreaded monster! Of course everyone knew how the monster had come to life, and were all very happy that the monster was dead.

It was the end of the year and when I got my report card, it said that I got an “A plus” in science, because I rescued the school from the monster that was created in science class. My parents were very proud of me and they said, that I could be a professor one day. And that’s exactly what I did.

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The Lost Generation – Letter to The Protector of Aborigines

Below is a letter that we wrote as part of a school project as we learned about the Lost Generation of Australian Aborigines …


The Protector of Aborigines
The Aboriginal Protection Board
George Street,‭ ‬Sydney,‭ ‬NSW

Dear Sir,

When I was ‬8‭ ‬years old,‭ ‬I was taken to a mission.‭ ‬I obviously didn’t won’t to go because I’ve heard what the can do to you.‭ ‬I went only because they said that if I didn’t go that they’d kill my family and myself.

Aboriginal Missions School

At the mission I was‭ “‬looked‭” ‬after by‭ ‬2‭ ‬maids.‭ ‬They then changed my name that used to be Tubby but changed to Caleb.‭ ‬The maids also worked me very hard.‭ ‬I had to make meals,‭ ‬polish the floor,‭ ‬feed the animals,‭ ‬and clean the house.‭ ‬It was so hard and tiring.

I was then moved to another place to be put to work.‭ ‬This time it was a farm.‭ ‬Now I had to pull weeds and harvest crops instead of doing house jobs.‭ ‬The farmer only sat back and relaxed while watching me work.‭ ‬If I wasn’t doing a good enough job though,‭ ‬he would come and whip me‭ ‬15‭ ‬times.‭ ‬I also had really bad food and had to sleep on the hard cold floor in the barn.‭ ‬I now just wanted to go back to the way it used to be.‭ ‬Relaxed,‭ ‬composed,‭ ‬and effortless sort of life.‭ ‬Not the way that I was living right now.

The farmer then took me to this school type thing and said that I needed to learn English and the culture,‭ ‬Christianity.‭ ‬They taught me horribly though.‭ ‬Whenever I got a question or word wrong,‭ ‬they would whip me at least‭ ‬5‭ ‬times.‭ ‬It was atrocious! ‬I couldn’t wait until I got home.‭ ‬Unfortunately I don’t now when that would be.

10‎ ‏years later I was free‭! ‬Free‭! ‬Free‭! ‬It was a glorious day to be free and get to see my family again.

I hope you can just stop taking kids away from their families so they can live a dandy and contented life.‭ ‬If there still is any children still in the missions,‭ ‬please let them be free.‭ ‬Please don’t do any thing like this again.

From Tubby‭ (‬Caleb‭)

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Time Machine 2

The Time MachineThis time we’re going back to the dinosaurs. I am thinking about going to the Cretaceous period , but given the experimental stage of our time machine, we will have to wait and see when we turn up …

So I hopped into time time machine and was of.

When I landed I jumped out. All I could see was trees after trees. It was like the opposite of what we live in right now. Also the atmosphere was very humid. What was really cool, I saw some volcano’s.

Then all of a sudden a Tyrannosaurus Rex started chasing me, distracting me from my thoughts. I ran for my life. I guess I should have signed up for the Olympics. Then out of nowhere a Triceratops jumped out and started to attack the T-Rex. That’s when a Quetzalcoatlus swooped down and picked me up. Before I new it I was 1000 feet of the ground. I was shocked about what just happened.

Running from the DinosaursAfter a while the Quetzalcoatlus put me down near the time machine. Then he flew of.

I raced to the time machine before any other dinosaurs started chasing me. When I got there I dove right in and slammed the door shut. Then I sent it back to the year 2014.

Diving into the Time Machine

When I got back I inspected the time machine for any damage. Then I saw a juvenile Troodon, which looked like an featherless ostrich.

Then I had a great idea. But that’s for next time…

Time Machine 2 - Caleb Hutchison

The Time Machine

I, Caleb, was the first person ever to create the first time machine, and to test it too. And this is the story of how it happened.

Caleb's Time MachineOne day I was busy in my workshop when my friend came in. He said, “I’m bored. What are you doing?”.

I answered, “I’m building the first time machine ever!”.

“Cool! When can we board it?”

“Just wait one minute then I’ll be done. I’m finished!”

“Great! Can we go in the future right now?”

“Sure”

So we entered the time machine. I asked what year he wanted to go to and he said the year 2100. So we headed of.

When the time machine stopped spinning around, we climbed outside. It took us 1 hour to get there.

When we stepped out we were in a humongous hole.

I said, “What are we going to do? There’s no one here!”.

“I’ve got an idea. Get the rope and I’ll throw it all the way out of the hole.”

And it worked. When we got out of the hole there were millions of people around. They were all on these sort of hover-boards and in the cars they just to say where they wanted to to and the cars will drive them there. We were so astonished!

Then all of a sudden there was a robot chasing us! We ran for our lives! We ran straight to the time machine, jumped in and set the dial to 2014 just in time.

When the time machine stopped spinning around, we hopped out and said together, “That was so much fun! We aren’t going to tell our parents or anyone about this fabulous invention. We swear!”.

Image from Sarah

How the Thorny Devil got his Spikes

I wrote this story at school this year (2013).

Thorny Devil - Australia

Once upon a time there was a devil in the outback. There was also a dingo, a bandy-bandy snake and a kookaburra.

It was in the morning when the kookaburra laughed and everyone woke up. The dingo was very angry because the devil was on top of him, and the the bandy-bandy snake was under a rock ready to see what will happen next.

All of a sudden, the dingo started chasing the devil. The devil didn’t now what to do, so he just started running this way and that. After an hour of running the devil decided to give up. The devil just stopped dead in its tracks and so the dingo came up too the devil.

All at once the dingo started tearing the devil apart, or at least he thought he was. The dingo was actually adding spikes to the devil. Once the dingo thought that he had killed the devil, the devil rose and started chasing the dingo away. The kookaburra and the bandy-bandy snake started cracking them self up really hard and loud too.

So that’s how the thorny devil got his spikes.

The End

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Pip the Pig Saves the Day

One day Pip the Pig went to his friends house. His name was called Fred the Bear. Fred went biking to school, while Pip tried to find the princess Tamara in a mushroom garden.

Princess Tamara found a mushroom that said, “I will give you one wish that will come true.”.

She asked Pip, “Can you help me make a wish?”.

Pip said “Yes.”. Pip came up with a cake.

The princess said “Yes.”.

So they wished for a cake and they ate the yummiest cake ever.

And that is how Pip saved the day…

The End

Silly Sentences

Silly Caleb doing Silly SentencesThe slimy fast pizza flew at midnight in Australia crazily.

A slimy fast pizza crazily flew in Australia at midnight.

That slimy fast pizza in Australia flew crazily at midnight.

This slimy fast pizza crazily flew in Australia at midnight.

A slimy fast pizza in Australia flew crazily at midnight.

That slimy fast pizza at midnight flew in Australia crazily.

The Day I Went Camping

(a work of fiction)

One day we went camping at Banff. It was as beautiful as a flower.

We started to pitch up our tent when, BOOM! It started to rain. There was lightning and thunder when suddenly, BOOM!

Then we saw some light and some smoke. There was a forest fire! Luckily there was rain to put the fire out. But the bad news is that there’s lightning and thunder. It was as scary as a bear trying to kill me and eat me. Then we put on some special clothes and went to investigate what was going on.

When we got there two people where hurt. I rushed back to the tent and called 9~1~1. There was no answer. I got some emergency stuff and ran back to the fire. I told Mum and Dad “I tried to call 9~1~1 but it didn’t work because the power line is broken”. I said as well, “I got some emergency stuff from the tent to help these people out!”. We did our best to help them and it worked.

They said to us, “Thank you for helping us!”.

We replied, “Your welcome.”.

I made an announcement, “Let’s get this fire out!”. Then we got to work. We did our best to get the fire out and it worked.

My family said to the two people, “Do you want to come to our tent and warm up?”.

They answered, “Yes!”.

They came to our tent and warmed up and asked, “Can we come to your house?”.

We answered, “Yes!”.

Then they came to our house and we lived happily ever after with the two people.

The End!

Fire photo courtesy of Stephen John Bryde Design