My 13 birthday

My 13th birthday I was in the flight from Canada as an exchange student. My Canadian family, cellebrate this event with a party the day before I left Canada, with some of my Colombian friends that went there too. We were very happy because that was the last day of the exchange. At first we saw a movie called Perfect Score. Later we had a marshmellow war at the back yard where we throw the marshmellow to each other. This was the 5th of October however my birthday was the folowing day at the plane on my way back to Bogotà.

After that day, it was time to go. At six o`clock in the mornig I left Saskatoon on my way to Toronto. I was very tired because I could not sleep. We were sad of leaving our families. After three our in the plane we arrive to Toronto`s airport where we had to stay four more hours.

Finally we left Toronto to spend 7 hours in the airplane on the way to Colombia. When we arrived in Bogota, we were received by our families. We felt very happy knowing that we were at home. But I was much more happy that any one, my family cousins, aunts, uncles, father and friends were there for my birthday. The noise, confeetis, signs and gifts makes me feel the happiest boy in the world.

firefighters

Tommy and his parents and grandparents went out for a summer picnic with their family. It was a warm July day and they went to one of the local areas in North Carolina. At lunch time when they went to eat, no one could find Tommy. Everyone began searching, but they did not find him. Then someone called the police and a full search was started.

Bear and Brenda were the closest to the area, so they went there. Bear is Brenda´s rescue dog and partner. We checked into the command post and was told where Tommy had been last seen. It was already starting to get dark. Tommy had been missing for over six hours. Bear had picked up Tommy's scent . Bear followed it to a small creek and then he lost the scent. We knew Tommy had gone into the creek, but which way?

Two hours later, they look up all over the creek. Bear found the scent again and they took off. They went through the woods to a small clearing and Bear went to the middle and sat down. This was his way of telling that Tommy should have been there, but he wasn't. During the night a second rescue dog arrived and he came to the same place we were. They searched over 72 hours, but no one find Tommy. Where did a 4 year old boy went?

They were released from the search. No one could find Tommy. The dogs had done all they could do . Brenda loaded Bear into the wagon. Part way down the road, she pulled over and got into the back of the wagon with Bear and cried.

fables

The Fox and the GrapesIllustrated by Ann Palica
One afternoon a fox was walking through the forest and spotted a bunch of grapes hanging from over a lofty branch.
"Just the thing to quench my thirst," quoth he.
Taking a few steps back, the fox jumped and just missed the hanging grapes. Again the fox took a few paces back and tried to reach them but still failed.
Finally, giving up, the fox turned up his nose and said, "They're probably sour anyway," and proceeded to walk away.
It's easy to despise what you cannot have.