We are off to China

We are off on Saturday .
Our team shirts look really great and the weather in Beijing is looking fabulous ! Can't wait!

Home - By Yashvi

Home 
The end of school bell rang as I was thinking about my new stepmother and Russia. I’m going to miss my friends, my home and most of all my mother my real mother .it’s a pain when your parents get separated and you get juggled between two parents that love you equally, but I know it’s going to change forever .I stepped out of class saying bye to it silently in my mind and remembering my memories I have had in it.
I made my way to my locker trying to stop my tears.I open the door of the locker and see myself in the mirror in my locker. The same old Sara brown freckles randomly placed pink glasses, long brown hair and a small pointed nose. I got all my stuff from my locker and made my way out.
I feel as if I’m in one of those really sad movies that my brother watches. ’Sara I’m going to miss you’’ said Jenny then she went back to stapling the picture from our play to the wall. Jenny is my friend she is short, smart and she’s a goody toe shoes the teachers like her a lot. She has been my best friend since kindergarten. I’m going to miss her but only for a few months though because she is moving to Russia as well and co-incidently she is going to the same school as me.
I saw my dad waving to me as he parked the car in the five-minute parking zone. I walked to the car and sat down thinking it was all a bad dream, I felt as if I were to explode with tears. Hats when my dad gives me the news, he had postponed the whole going to Russia thing instead we were going on a family cruise tomorrow, with my mum a double plus but she’s coming with her own little family (husband Ray 3 year old son, Jake and 13 year old, stepdaughter Alice also the same age as me ) , my step mum a minus because e my dad forgets about me when he is with her but anyway she is pretty nice for a step mother not like Cinderella’s and my step sister angelica who is the same age as me(13) and I do get along with her pretty well which is a plus but her two older brothers (twins) which are very horrible people they are like their father as I have been told their father was a horrible person.
When I got home I was sent to my room and pack my bag for the cruise. I packed some of my summer clothes, togs, sun cream, sun glasses and my swimming goggles.
I got into the car.I looked out the window I knew that this was my last glance at my home my sweet home .that’s when it hit me I needed to get my step mother to cancel the plan about going to Russia. I belong here

- Writing by Chloe - HOME

Home: Gloria the Goose

One day Gloria the Goose was traveling swiftly down the stream and looking for a new home as her old one had been taken over by frogs. This time she really wanted to get her fishes worth (fish is money). She came across a duck and asked him for advice on where to find a nice home, he thought for a moment and replied "Yes actually in fact I do, just straight up ahead you will come across a waterfall, there are a few for sale down there". "Thanks" Gloria said as she started paddling her way down the stream again.

On her way down there she seemed to get lost even though the duck said there would be a waterfall. But it was too late to keep going as the sun had disappeared, she ended up sleeping in the bushes.

The next morning Gloria got up and down the stream she went for day two of home hunting. As she got to the place where the duck said the waterfall would be she got to a dead end with nothing but a patch of grass and a pile of sticks. Gloria soon then realised that she had been tricked by the duck and when she thought back to when he told her about the houses/homes down by the waterfall, he did have a little bit of a pause before he replied.

At this point Gloria was very confused, hurt and worried about the whole situation and said to herself "I guess it’s back to the lonely bushes tonight". As she was swimming back to her 'temporary home' she came across the duck again and he asked "So how did the home hunting go?" Gloria just kept paddling down the stream.

This particular morning Gloria felt like this is where she belonged, even like home and that was a good thing. She tried one more time to look for a new home but nothing really clicked or suited her and was also way too expensive. This time she really wasn't bothered about this because Gloria had realised that the bush felt like home more than anything else.

What Gloria realised is that home is where you feel comfortable, safe and where you return by instinct. Home can have lots of different meanings depending on who you are and what you think home is.    

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