Carli's Storybird

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Carli's Narrative

Under The Bed

As I sit there slaving around after my family, I watch my brother getting beaten for not collecting the firewood. My name is Miya and I live in South America, my family is very poor - I live in a house made of mud, flax and bamboo. In our house we have only two beds, one for Aunty and one for Dad. My mum died only two years ago from not eating and drinking enough. My brother and I haven’t started school yet because we have to work to make money to buy food. My brother is 12 years old and I’m only 8. On Mondays and Wednesdays, I work at a clothing shop, that’s how I got my pretty new blue dress but Dad wasn’t very impressed because I didn’t get paid that week. I’m too young to get beaten so I was punished and was not allowed eating for three days and doing a double lot of chores for a week. My life is bland and boring - there is nothing enjoyable about it.

This morning when I woke up I gave a quick glance around the room and to my surprise I found my Aunty spread out in the middle of the floor. I raced over as fast as I could, but there was no movement what so ever. I went outside to get some help there was no one in sight. I ran back to her side the only thing that I felt like I could do was to grab my teddy, hold it tight and pray. I had never done that before but I couldn’t think of anything else to do. I sat on my knees and tightly squeezed hers and the teddy’s hand and prayed with all I had. I then grabbed the only blanket we had. It was old and brittle. I wrapped it around her thin, bony body and waited for about 10 minutes.  Suddenly I saw movement, her eyes slightly opened and she squeezed my hand tighter. She opened her mouth and mumbled to me ‘under my bed is a box, when I am gone, get it and never come back’.

Later that afternoon I heard a shriek. I ran back into my room there was no sign of Aunty: she had vanished. I looked out on the roads there was only an old lonely man that lived across the street, who was stumbling about alongside of the road but he was harmless. So I followed her instructions. I crept into her cold, dark room and knelt down on her cold unbalanced floor. I lifted up her slim frail sheets only to find that there was nothing under her bed it was completely empty nothing in sight. I wondered to myself why she would give me false information, why would she tell me that if it wasn’t true. How come when she vanished so did the box. Then I started to wonder if there ever was a box, but she wouldn’t lie to me would she. I guess whatever was in the box must have been important enough to tell me never to come back. My mind was completely stumped.

Later that night Dad came home. I tried to tell him about what happened to aunty but he was really angry. He hurt my brother and I. He threw stuff at us and abused us. So my brother and I ran. We ran into the richest place about eight blocks down the road we put on our cutest faces and politely asked if we could use the phone. We rang the police. We felt really guilty but at the same time, pleased.

Dad was put into jail and we now live eight blocks down from our old house in the richest house on the road. We start school next week and we have our own beds. We still have to do chores but this time we get the money. We can spend it on anything we like I might even buy a red dress. But every day I think about what could have been under the bed.

Carli

Carli's Lances Lab

Lances Lab Report

 Lance Bass the singing superstar is going to space for three months and will be staying on the ISS (International Space Station). This report will outline what his compartment will be like in space, how he records music and how he communicates back to earth.

Living

Lances everyday tasks in space are much different than back on earth. The food defiantly not the same to earths. Lance can’t have normal food because it would float everywhere so instead Lance’s food is contained in cans but not the average can it’s been designed pacifically for space. Food is stored in big sacks which are held down by straps and Velcro.

The toilet isn’t a normal toilet. Instead of having water to flush it, it has a suction valve at the bottom so when you do your business it sucks it straight into a tank.

Due to there being no gravity lance will be sleeping in a bed similar to a coffin. This coffin has air holes around it. On the inside there are straps to strap him in and a latch so he can get in and out. He does have a washing machine in space. It uses very little water and has suction vents at the bottom to stop the clothes from floating everywhere in the machine.

He relaxes by listening to music on the laptop and playing computer games on the laptop.

Communication   

Lance uses pretty much the same devices as we use on earth. He uses a laptop and a satellite dish to connect to such things as Facebook, Skype and Twitter. He’s got his own profiles on each of these sites so he can talk to his friends and family back on earth. On Facebook he has a special page where all he does is talk about space and what he has been through.

Music

Lance loves to record music so in space he needs a place to do that. On the ISS there is a special music room made for Lance. It has all the equipment he will need such as; a guitar, laptop and a voice recorder. His guitar but at the bottom of it there are two bits of Velcro. That is necessary when he is playing it so it doesn’t float everywhere.

He uses his voice recorder for recording his vocals. He uses a programme where he connects his voice recorder into his laptop and it downloads his music and sends it to his producer back on earth using the satellite.

Space

Lance didn’t just go to space for the experience, he went for the experiments. He wanted to know facts like how do you write, read and most of all eat in space. Lance  will have a difficult time trying to do the simplest thing that people do back on earth. He says he’s up for the challenge. Some foods will be hard for him to eat because being in space effects the taste buds.

While Lance is on the ISS he will have a hard time trying to work out how everything runs. He will have to find a way to make a living with what he’s got and use the resources he has to live and communicate back down to earth. He will record music in his recording room as well as study space. Lets hope Lance will really enjoy his time in space.

Bibliography

In this report information was found from these following sites YouTube, Wikipedia and Google. If you want more information jump on the computer and look up space in the sites that were listed.

By Carli Alison