Asha-Linh

Asha-Linh

= Fantasy Diary 3 – Animal/ Insect in the R**ain Forest** = I am a Rain Forest monkey, and I live in my favourite tree. It’s so beautiful- its flowers blossom before all the other trees flowers does. It also has the most delicious fruit ever. The tree I live in is very tall to – it’s the tallest tree I’ve seen in my whole entire life. Since it’s so tall every morning and evening I can see the sunrise and sunset, which is beautiful over all the green trees. But there’s something I always wonder about which is why some of the animals are leaving and what that strange noise is which is getting louder every day. Every morning it seems that a few trees have died since last morning. Every morning the trees that have fallen seems to be closer than the trees that had fallen the day before. I am worried, but I hope that my tree won’t fall down. Before I used to be able to play with my friends. We used to have huge parties and invite the whole neighbourhood. We also used to share our fruits and everyone used to love mine so they’d almost give anything! We used to help each other with almost everything! That would mean that it’s very hard for me to live here alone now. Now I am playing with my friends in a party and everyone is happy and eating the fruit off my tree. Soon we can hear loud noises from under us. We all started to tilt from one side to the other, but this is making me seasick. One second later my eyes are open for real – that was just a dream. But what wasn’t a dream were the terrible, loud noises from under me and the tilting from one side to the other. When I looked down I can see a few men holding a saw and trying to cut down my beautiful tree. Oh no! I am very worried; I swing from branch to branch as fast as I can. But I didn’t do it fast enough, so the humans saw me and shot me. Then I sadly died. My friends were waiting for me but since I didn’t come for such a long time, they came back, but they got shot to, so at last this type of monkey got extinct. The End! The Monkey! By: Asha-Linh

= Fantasy Diary 4 - The Environmentalist =

I’ve always wanted to be a campaigner for the environment – even when I was a little child! So I basically had a plan in my head about what I was going to do when I was older since I thought about it all the time. Today I’ve decided to go to Mexico City because it’s one of the most polluted cities in the world. One reason why it’s so pollutes is because it’s so polluted is that it’s surrounded by mountains. When I arrived in Mexico City I was shocked because there was much more air pollution here than I thought it would have. I saw the big huge mountains the city, but that was when I was in the air plane of course. Because from here – in the middle of the city you couldn’t see any mountains at also it would really feel like a legend that there’re mountains everywhere around the city. As an environmentalist I kind of feel happy and sad at the same time. I feel sad because I’ve seen how bad the air is in some places and how many people, plants and animals die of air pollution. You might think it’s kind of weird that I feel kind of happy, but it’s not because there’s a lot of air pollution in the world, it’s because I have seen a lot of improvements where I’ve already gone in the past. I didn’t really have a good plan so I started to put many ads around the whole city. I also had some meetings with some car companies, and we decided that the more the car pollutes the air, the more it would cost, and there would also be fewer options for the cars that pollute the most. Then I had some meetings with the government and people who work in factories to try to reduce the emitions. We talked about it for some time, and then we reduced the gas emitions for every factory in Mexico City. Soon I visited the car companies again, and the workers said that all the people who came here to buy a car bought a car which is better for the environment. A few days later I was walking on the street, and then I suddenly saw something flying in the sky. They were heading towards the main mountain. When they came to the mountain, they pushed the mountain away. They did the same thing with the other mountains. They were super heroes and heroines. I came to meet them. After I met them they were one of my best friends, and soon Mexico City was one of the least polluted cities in the world! The End! By: Asha-Linh


 * __ My break __****__ January 10th 2011 . __**

During my break i went to Canada and we stayed there for a week. Then my family, my grandmother and I drove from Montreal to New Jersey. We went past New York State. i hadn`t seen my cousins for 2½ years. when we arrived at their house in the evening I was very happy to see them. Even if Christmas had already past they gave us lots of Christmas presents. For christmas they gave us each a bascet with a lot of presents in them. We had a lot of fun playing just dance together. I also liked to play with their dog. When we celebrated my brothers birthday my cousins had baked a cake which looked like an ice-rink. It tasted really good but I had just lost my two back teeth so I didn`t eat a lot of the cake. I had lots of fun with them, but I we only stayed there 3 days.

=**Fantasy Diary 1 - Soap Bubble**= I am a Soap Bubble and I am around 2,000 years old so I’ve seen humans progress. Just around 15-20 years ago humans have stopped using most CFCs products, and that made me a bit happier. The reason why I didn’t pop of happiness is because humans were still using other things that were polluting the air like factories and cars. But if you compare these days with days 100 years ago then you could see that humans aren’t polluting the air as much as they used to. At that time humans heated their houses with coal, which could be very bad for the environment. Nowadays some energy we use is renewable, but there still are some sorts of energies which are polluting the air like coal, or oil which are types of fossil fuels. Sometimes I can see huge clouds which come from rockets or volcanoes. I can see clear water drops from the clouds but when it comes closer the surface it turns to acid rain and kills plants and animals, and I can see fog turn into super dangerous smog which is killing humans. I can see that in the future our planet won’t be able to hold all the cars. I have felt that the tempeture has risen a bit more than 30*C and the ice caps are melting because of this. 40 years ago the ice caps were big but now 40% of it is gone! I hope humans will soon understand this and do something about it. By: Asha-Linh = = = = = Fantasy Diary Two - Oil Slick! =
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Now I’m stuck in an oil tanker which i really don’t like because its tight, dark, lonely, scary – I want to go out of this thing and see the real world and make friends and… Well anyways now I’m in here and the more I think about going out the more really want to go. Crash! The ship started tilting to one side, and it didn’t feel as tight as before.

At last! Somehow I’m not in that uncomfortable boat anymore. I’m starting to feel freedom. It’s bright – I can see the blue sky and the sun shining, I can see birds flying like huge butterflies. I’m so excited! Wait a minute… Why can’t that beautiful bird fly and why is its feathers black and sticky? And why are so many fish dying now? And why are the humans looking at me as if I was very harmful? And why are other humans shouting at me and getting sad? Now I get it. It was very sad when I started to understand. It was my fault, plants, fish, humans, all the animals’ here are usually happy. I don’t belong here; I wish I could go back into the ship. I feel much worse here seeing myself doing this to the beautiful environment than being in the lonely ship. I’m a murderer! I wish I could control myself, then I’d not be here following the waves moving closer to and. Instead I’d be on my way back to the ship. I wish a miracle would happen so I would be somewhere else. .   I can’t believe it! It’s a miracle! Some humans were working with nets and trying to pick me up. I got really happy. After a week I was out. I wished I could thank them but I couldn’t speak. I learned how to control myself so I made myself look like a smiley. A little girl saw me and smiled back. Soon we became best friends. The End! The Oil Slick! By: Asha-Linh