My Australian Refugee Story

By Andromeda

Chapter one
My name is Andromeda. I have a dog and a goldfish. My dog is called Ruby and my goldfish is called Goldy. I have blonde hair, blue eyes and I live in Daylesford. Daylesford is pretty much bush, but there are roads, houses, shops and schools. There are so many trees I am surprised that there are not many at my house.

I like fluffy bunnies. I also like sushi, climbing trees, going on holidays, going out for dinner, visiting my grandparents, going to Sydney and eating cakes.

I live with my two brothers Callan and Llywelen, Ruby my dog, two goldfish and both of my parents. My great grandmother has just died recently. If you were wondering when and how, in April we think she died because the night before she died she had bumped her head.

My best friends are Isobel, Yemaya, Ozzy and Lizzie. Yemaya and I have had ten sleep overs!

Chapter two
A bomb exploded in our town. No one was allowed outside of their house. My mum and dad were too worried to let us out of the house, so we couldn’t play with our friends.

Everyone was scared sick. Mum and Dad kept vomiting. I was too worried to be silly. We could not go to school which I really wanted to go to. I really missed learning.

People with guns came. One person with a gun came and knocked on our door. Mum answered the door. We all got taken out of the house, even the animals. Ruby got excited and jumped on the soldier. He smacked her really hard. Dad yelled at him.

We went to the boss’ office. Dad got yelled at. The boss went mad at Dad. They had a punch up. Some soldiers tried to stop them, but they couldn’t. We got put in a bus and left Daylesford. Dad got left behind. Everyone was really sad, Dad was too. The bus was taking us to the airport. Soon after Dad arrived everyone was so happy to see him. Everyone was worried about how we would pay for the bus and aeroplane.

Chapter 3
We got on the aeroplane and left. I was really scared. I had never been on an aeroplane before. I almost vomited from looking out the window. I wish people hadn’t started fighting, because I miss my friends and family.

The aeroplane was really crowded. We only got three pieces of food a day. An apple for breakfast, a piece of bread for lunch and sometimes if we were lucky at dinner we would also get a piece of bread. Sometimes, the bread was mouldy. I couldn’t wait to get there because the aeroplane was so awful. My stomach hurt so much from being hungry and thirsty all the time. At night when I tried to sleep I woke up with pains.

It was really smelly on the plane from everyone being unable to shower. We couldn’t even go to the toilet properly. The stench was so strong that my mum fainted. I tried to hold my nose for ages until I fell asleep.

Chapter 4
We landed 9 hours after we got on the plane. I was so relieved and excited to get off and walk around. I jumped out and got my bag. Straight away we walked together and were put on a bus and taken to a place I had no idea where it was.

When I got outside, I froze. It was so different. It was dusty. People were wearing these funny hats. There was food called dumplings. There were vegetable dumplings, meat dumplings. They were really yummy. The family loved them too. Here is a picture of me eating dumplings.

2 years later
My mum is now a really good Chinese cook. I am now used to the new food. I really like the differences. I go back to Australia about once a year.

How the Earth Began

By James

How the Earth began – my version

A big dinosaur was farting in space. He managed to fart SO much that it blew him to the sun. When he got to the sun, he took a big bite out of it.

He burnt his tongue off. The tongue floated around in space for two whole years. It travelled with the stars, around the sun. It orbited through massive galaxies.

It ended up stopping near the sun because there was a big gravitational pull. The tongue tried to get away, but it was being pulled away by another planet that wanted it as food. That planet was called Gloopier. The sun started to pump out lots of heat which made the gravitational pull stronger. The tongue eventually gave up and just stayed there.

There was still lots of bacteria on the tongue from when the dinosaur used to eat old rotting stegasauuses. After two years of orbiting, it changed colour into a weird mouldy green. It became moist, it grew into a slime that started to drip. The drops became solid and flat. They had a strange mushy gas smell. They turned into leaves. The leaves multiplied and then turned into vines.

The sun got a lot hotter all of a sudden. Apparently Jack (dinosaur’s old friend) was cruising around space and let out a massive fart from a heap of fish he’d been eating at ‘Starfish’ the funky new star in the north galaxy where heaps of creatures were visiting. The fart was so big that it made the sun fire up big time. Everything was suddenly so much hotter.

The vines coming out of the old tongue started going crazy and wrapping up the whole tongue into a big ball.

Sloopier (a neighbouring planet) was in big trouble. The inhabitants were running out of supplies. The planet was imploding. Microscopic bugs decided to leave like refugees and embark on an unknown journey through space.

They floated and ran into the big ball of vines. Exhausted, they rested there like it was a big bed. When they woke, they started eating the vines and growing bigger. Their poo mixed with the vines and eventually trees started to form. This was the beginning of earth as we know it.

The bark on the trees started looking very strange and over time long figures started to step out of them. These were the first humans. They were called barkiens. Barkiens were rough sort of characters. They ate bark and made sounds a bit like trees falling down.