You can also come by the office of 2nd ESO to read the stories of the three runners up posted by the door. Marina Echaniz, Izaro Salcedo and Carla Lopez, all of 3rd ESO received an honorable mention.
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I am pleased to announce the winners of the 53-Word Story Competition whose theme was "A Good Neighbor." Loreto Marsal and Maria Gomez of 3rd ESO have won this challenge and you can read their entries below. Loreto's is called "Good Neighbors" and Maria's is entitled "Different Views."
You can also come by the office of 2nd ESO to read the stories of the three runners up posted by the door. Marina Echaniz, Izaro Salcedo and Carla Lopez, all of 3rd ESO received an honorable mention.
You can also come by the office of 2nd ESO to read the stories of the three runners up posted by the door. Marina Echaniz, Izaro Salcedo and Carla Lopez, all of 3rd ESO received an honorable mention.
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Lift
The wind
over the sea
over the cliff
petting the trees
moved the clouds
on a grey, grey day
suited for such a morning
The mountain
lightning stretching, touches the sky
The green ferns that grabbed
that grabbed at my legs
Marina Echaniz, 2 ESO
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“A Piece of
Magic, a Piece of Luck”
by
Izaro
Salcedo, 2 ESO
It was a warm afternoon on a sunny day when
Chickeyti was walking down her favorite street. She liked climbing and most days when she saw
a tree, Chickeyti would climb it. She
resisted climbing the first tree she came upon that day. She also turned away from the second
tree. She climbed the third tree, however,
and that is where she found a blue polar bear charm on a silver chain. She had never seen such a magical charm
before, the head of the polar bear
having such beautiful detail.
Chikeyti believed she had
entered upon a lucky streak. She decided
to wear her necklace everywhere, to school, to the swimming pool, to the zoo,
and she never took it off, not even to sleep.
Her faith was that the charm truly charmed her life and brought her
luck.
There was a catch, of course, as
there is always a catch. On the back
side of the polar bear, a name was engraved on it: Georgepous.
At first Chikeyti didn´t give it much thought because it was a name she
didn´t recognize. The more she thought
about it, though, the more she was convinced that she had to discover who or
what Georgepous was. She tried the local
library and when that didn’t work, she tried Google.
And there he was. Georgepous, Chikeyti learned, was a magician
from the not-so-distant past, someone that her grandparents or even her
parents might remember. From the
information Chikeyti had, Georgepous was still alive and living in a remote
village across the country. There was an
image of the polar bear charm in one of the documents about him. The inscription under the photo read, “The
magician’s enchanted pendant.”
Chikeyti took some necessary
things to travel and she set out in search of Georgepous. His last known address was in a town called
Spotted Hare, population six. Chikeyti
hoped to find him there, and so she bought a bus ticket.
On board, the last seat
available was next to a very strange boy with only one eye and no nose. When Chikeyti sat down, the boy spoke to her
straight away.
“Hi! I’m Cyclopesiti. What’s your name?”
“My name is Chikeyti. I’m sorry,
but I have to ask. What happened to your
face?”
Cyclopesiti rose quickly, stepped
over her and jumped off the bus.
Chikeyti watched from the window as he ran into a nearby wood. She was stunned by her behavior, but she knew
that the bear charm had something to do with her new assertiveness.
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Life is like a little boat packed
with people
in the middle of a storm.
They might push you, as though you
don´t see
more than their smiles, but
make a mistake, you will fall into
the sea.
You got into this boat and now the
storm approaches.
Joana
Gonzalez, 2ºESO C
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Creative
Writing in English!
This year marks the
first year Ayalde has an English writing club. It´s called Just Write! and the students meet once a week in the
English department with Beth Boyle to create short fiction and poetry.
So far we have 13
members, all from 2º ESO, but once you´re a member of the Just Write! club, you´re a member forever. Students who belong to the club will finish
the year with a beautiful writing notebook full of inspiration and ideas. They´ll also learn how to submit their best
work to literary publications.
Please check in to our blog Audiovisuales Ayalde from time to time to read examples from these future novelists and storytellers.
Pictured here from left to right, members
Loreto Marsal, Carmen Calzado, Alejandra Garbati, Nuria Gamez, Ines Marina,
Joana Gonzalez, Maria Gomez, Marina Echaniz, Izaro Salcedo and Ainara Tapias. Not pictured, members Adriana Fernandez de Aguirre, Patricia Lazaro and
Sofia Sota.
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“Brother Jules”
by
Joana
Gonzalez (2 ESO)
To her mother, Grace was more than a blessing, certainly more than a
child who´d just happened to be born. At
Grace’s arrival into the world, the town, which consisted of many of Grace´s
mother´s friends, delivered gifts of all sorts.
For years Grace was worshipped by everyone who knew her and her
family. However, that all seemed to
change when her parents found a child, such a mysterious boy who had no one to
go to but was perched against a tree in the forest near Grace´s home.
Grace was only a few years older than this child, but the moment she saw
him, she knew that she adored him. Grace
learned how to bake just so that she could give the boy
delightful goodies. They explored the
forest and gardens together. When the
boy finally revealed that his name was Julian, Grace was the first of the
family to begin to call him Jules.
A singular curve appeared on Grace´s lips, a smile that seemed to make
the world around her stop and look, a smile that brought with it so many
memories all at once in a brief second.
She gazed at Jules, who bit his bottom lip. She felt that he seemed to know that his
inclusion in her family was something very dear. Jules drank from her mug, and Grace´s
singular smile turned into a giggle. Her
official new brother.
Jules played an important role in Grace´s life. She would spend most of her days over a span
of many years with him. However, there
would also come a time in her life which would cause their relationship to
break, when Grace would discover that it would be best for everyone if she
distanced herself from her precious little brother.
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“A
Bird´s Crime”
by
Loreto
Marsal (2º ESO)
He sat staring at the
TV, but it was switched off. He was
thinking about how much he wanted to go for a walk.
Suddenly Mia
appeared. She screeched, “Disco, it’s
raining outside, but I’m going to open the window. I’m hot!” She shook her finger at him and
said, “Don’t go outside.”
Mia threw the window
open and went back to her room.
She’s going to sleep, Disco thought. The
road isn’t so long. Just a short ride,
no more than 10 minutes.
He waddled to the
window, stopped at the sill, and looked both ways. Then he jumped out!
Several hours later
when he came back, no one had even noticed.
Disco went inside his cage, his jail cell, and fell asleep.
The
next day he woke with a terrible headache.
Mia was there. She said, “While
you were sleeping, I heard your coughs.
I took your temperature. Such a
fever! I won’t be opening the window anytime soon!"
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“Sparkling Blue Sapphire”
by
Carmen Calzada (2º ESO)
One lonely Sunday on Namjoon Street, in the garden
of the tiniest, most beautiful house, a girl named Lisa Jung Kook was throwing
a ball for her two dogs. She did this
while she waited for her mother. They
were going to visit Lisa´s grandmother at the hospital. Lisa played with her pets to keep from
getting more nervous. Her grandmother
was in a coma.
The kitchen door opened, and Lisa looked up. There was her mother with tears streaming
down her face. Lisa understood that they
wouldn´t be going to the hospital after all.
Her grandmother was dead. Lisa
ran into the house and straight to her room to bury her head under her pillow
and cry.
Not long after, Lisa´s mother gently opened her door and came in. She had with her a ring of brilliant sapphire,
diamond-encrusted. Lisa recognized it at
once. It was her grandmother’s ring, but
now Lisa’s mother was giving it to her.
Lisa put it on her finger and hugged her mother long.
Later that week, when Lisa got back to school and her normal routine,
her friend Ashley was so happy to see her.
They talked about what had happened on Sunday, and Lisa showed her the
ring.
“I’m never taking it off,” she said.
“I wouldn’t either,” Ashley replied with tears in her eyes.
Lisa had difficulty that day concentrating on her classes. In fact, she found it nearly impossible to
keep up with anything having to do with schoolwork for the rest of the
year. Everything had changed. Lisa had changed. She changed the moment she’d put on the ring.
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by
Marina Echaniz (2 ESO)
She was a new prisoner. I´ve
never looked at prisoners very much, but she was different. She came from Skyrim, not from Oblivion, and
apart from that she was different from most Argonians. I had never seen one as amazing as she.
I was her warden. I´m Argonian
too, but Argonians haven´t got blue eyes.
In Oblivion, Argonians eyes are usually red, just like mine. They can be green or white in Skyrim, but never
blue. This prisoner´s eyes were blue
like her skin, but not as dark. She
stood head and shoulders taller than me, which made her a giant compared to
most Argonians.I ask for her name.
“Kerna,” she replied. Her voice
was strong and calm, like she had never experienced fear in her life.
I asked more questions about her home, where she´d been, but she turned
away and said nothing more.
After three and a half weeks, when it was again my turn in her block, I
looked in her cell and she was gone. I
spied a crumpled bit of paper by the leg of her bed. I opened it and read:
Goodbye Ivan
Kerna
How did she…?
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