Summer School Stories #3 A Million Years Ago By Ger A million years ago, there were no earth, no sky, no people, no animals and so on. There was only God and his lovely wife.     One day, God said to his wife, “We must create the earth and the sky.”     His wife said, “Okay, I will create the sky and you create the earth.”     God answered, “That is fine. Lets go for it.”     God and his wife spent twelve years creating the sky and the earth.     After they finished creating the sky and the earth they put them together. God said, “The earth is bigger then the sky. We have to do something about it, so the earth will fit under the sky.”     Then, God squeezed the earth to make it smaller and fit under the sky. While squeezing the earth, his palm prints were imprinted and He also created bumps on the earth. The lines on God’s hand became known as rivers and the bumps became mountains and hills. Be Yourself By Makayla     “Hey Rose!” yelled Crystal.     “Hey yourself!” Rose yelled back.     “Hey White girl, mom said to do the dishes.” said Crystal.     “My name is not White girl!’ Rose yelled as she ran upstairs to her bedroom. Rose looked in the mirror, her skin was tan, her eyes slightly slanted, a broad nose with brown freckles, and natural red highlighted hair.     “I’m not white; no way am I!”  Rose thought for a moment. “Well, okay I am. I have a little but not enough to be ‘White Girl’.”     “Anyway, mom said do the dishes!” Crystal yelled up the stairs.     “No, you do it!” Rose yelled back.     “No, White girl, mom said you do it!” Crystal yelled.     Rose didn’t answer. She wasn’t going to say, “My name isn’t ‘White Girl.’” She wasn’t even going to reply to Crystal calling her White girl again.     “Did you hear me White Girl?” Crystal asked walking up the stairs. Crystal tried going into roses room but, Rose had locked the door. Rose slipped a note under the door that said “I am not named White girl!”     “Oh yeah! That’s good reason to ignore me. You idiot!”     “Don’t call me an idiot you idiot.” Rose yelled back. Rose sat on her bed, she was thinking about being called White Girl, and she didn’t like it.     “Wait Crystal has light skin, blue eyes, and freckles. She looked the whitest of the two of us. She wants to be like me!” Rose whispered to herself.     “Rose, I told your sister to tell you to do the dishes!” yelled Rose’s mom. “Well, I was mad at Crystal, because she kept calling me White girl, and I didn’t like it so I went in my room and locked the door,” Rose spilled out effortlessly.     “I go to the store for thirty minutes and I come home and your sister is calling you White girl!” said their mom laughing.     “Well, it’s because, I like Rock music, and I can’t dance and, plus I don’t know fashion, and she likes Hip-Hop, and she can dance and she knows fashion,” she said quickly.     “Who said Hip-Hop is the only good music?” said their mom.     “Nobody did! But the girls at her high school that like rock and can’t dance and don’t know fashion are white,” said Rose.     “Well, I can’t do anything to stop her,” said their mom.     “Yes you can! Mom tell her to stop.”     “She’ll still do it!” said their mom.     “Not if you take her car away!”     “That’s a little much.”     “Ipod?”     “No!”     “TV for a day?”     “Yes.”     “Tell her now.”     “Crystal, get down here!”     “What?” said Crystal, with attitude, as she walked down the stairs to her mom.     “You’re not going to call your sister ‘White girl’ again so no TV today and Rose, you do the dishes.”     Crystal went to her room with no complaint. Rose was very happy while she did the dishes.     “You tattle tale!” Crystal said when she walked by.     Well I don’t want her to be mad at me! Rose thought.     The next day was a Sunday and Rose usually went out and played with Donny and Kimmy down the street. But this Sunday she was going to be like her sister.     Rose went to the mall with her mom and bought cuter clothes. She bought make up and Hip-Hop CDs.     “Mom I want Hip- Hop dance lessons!” Rose said.     “Rose, no, just keep working on your dancing.” said Rose’s Mom.     When Rose was home she dressed up in the new Crystal-looking clothes, put on make up and looked a lot like Crystal. Then Rose blared her new music in her room just like Crystal.     “Hello Crystal!” said Rose.     “Hello Crystal wanna be!” said Crystal.     “What will make you quit calling me names?” Rose asked.     “I do it because it bothers you!”     “You’re mean!” Rose yelled.     “Bye, Bye!” said Crystal.     Rose ran into her room and tore off the new clothes and put on her own comfortable clothes.     “Love yourself be yourself!” Rose said as she turned off the music, and put on her rock music. The Bird, the Fish, and the Crab. BY: Ka Bao      A long long time ago there was a bird and fish. One day the bird flew over the lake and saw the fish. The bird said to the fish, “I see a big lake and it is very beautiful.”      The fish said to the bird, “Can you take our cousins to see the lake.”      Then the bird said, “ OKAY.”      The bird took the fish to the beautiful lake. The bird put the fish into the lake. The fish swam around the lake and it was time to go back. The bird picked up the fish, and took it to the lake that he had come from. The fish told the other fish all about the beautiful lake.     The father said to the bird, “ We will go to the lake that you told us.”      The bird said, “O.K. but I can only take three fish a day. One in the morning, one at lunch, and one at night.”      In the morning the bird came and took one fish for his breakfast. At lunch the bird came and took one fish for his lunch. At night the bird came again to take one fish for his dinner.     In the morning the crab saw a bird taking the fish and the crab said, “Can you take me to the beautiful lake too.”      The bird said, “O.K.”      The bird took the crab to the bird house and the crab saw a pile of fish bones.     The bird said, “I will eat you.”      The crab choked the bird’s neck. The bird was going to die.     Then the crab said to the bird, “If you do not take me home I will strangle your neck.”      So the bird took the crab home. The crab came to tell the other fish that the bird had taken the fish to the beautiful lake. The bird ate all of them, so the fish can never go to the beautiful lake again. The Tiger by Sia     In Thailand, there was a boy and a girl, they were brother and sister. Their father died three years ago and they were left with their mother.     One day, Lee who is the boy and Mai Chong who is the girl saw that their mother was sick.     The mother said, “Lee, come here. I am sick and want you to go to the village across the forest and bring me medicine from your aunt.”     Lee agreed and ask Mai Chong to cook something for their mother. They both prepared food for their trip.     Lee said, “Mom, you’re hungry, eat the food before it is cold.”     Then they left. The sun was falling and night came. Lee and Mai Chong slept up in a tree. “Woooo!” There was a sound. Then came the wind. It was blowing hard. A light came closer and it was a man holding a fire stick.      The man said, “You! two little children! Are you not scared of the dark? Come down!”     Lee knew that his mother told them not to go down if someone asked.     Lee said, “No, we will fall. Mai Chong was scared.”     The man was mad.     He said, “You, little boy! I am hungry. Come down and give me food!”       Lee laughed, “I can’t see you. It’s too dark. I need you to raise the fire stick, so I can see your face. I want to know if you are bad or good.”     The man raised the stick and showed an ugly face. He was not human. Lee saw and knew he was a tiger. Mai Chong cried and called her father to help them.     The wind blew and the man’s fire stick went out. It was dark; Lee couldn’t see, but they both went to sleep.         The next morning Mai Chong and Lee saw a tiger skin, “Dad help us,” Lee said happily. Then, they got to the village and brought medicine home for their mom. Their mother was not sick anymore.  She had taught Lee a good lesson of taking responsibility as a man.  I Was In Thailand by Kao     One day I was in Thailand and I was going to school. My dad had to drive me to school because my school was far away.     Then I got to school and my dad said, “I am going back home.”     I said, “Goodbye dad.”     When I said goodbye to my dad I went and I saw the second grade teacher and she said, “We have to clean our school.”     The teacher is all Thai and some students are Thai too. When we were done cleaning we had to lineup straight and sing the Thai song. Our teacher takes us to our class room. Then the teacher teaches us.     After that we went to lunch and played,  we were running up and down the stairs while the teacher was eating. When the teacher finished eating she asked, “Who was being loud.”     A Thai student said, “Kao and his friend were.”     Then our teacher hit us on the hand. But my teacher was very nice to us. We went home. My dad had to pick me up and we went home. The Hen And The Chicks By Chue     When we were in Thailand my brother told me about the story of a hen and chicks. A long time ago there was a hen, chicks, Buddha and a man. One day there was a Buddha coming to the man’s house. The man said, ”Hi Buddha. Where are you going? I think you should stay here for a while and eat.”     The Buddha said, ”It is so nice to stay in your house and eat your food.”     That  day the man went to make chicken for lunch. The man said, ”I am going to kill the hen or the chicks.”     The man said to himself again, “I think I will go to kill the hen.”     He thought if he killed the hen then the chicks would have no mother. If he killed the chicks then the hen would have no chicks.          The hen told the chicks that if the man cooks the hen in the cooking bowl the chicks should jump into the fire.     When the man tried to cook the hen in the cooking bowl, the chicks jumped into the fire and the hen turned into the moon and the chicks turned into the stars. My Family Fun by Taylor     I am 11 years old. I live with my mom and dad. I have two dogs, one hamster, and one cat. I live in a big house. I like to play basketball with my mom and dad. I like to play soccer. I have four bikes. I like to ride my skateboard on the sidewalk. And play with my friends. I like to play in my backyard a lot. I like to play football with my dad and baseball too and also drive my r/c cars. I like to play video games and build stuff out of wood with my dad. I like to go to a hotel and spend the the night there and go to the arcade while my parents are in the casino.  Forever Love by: Paaj Ntsaas               In Thailand there was a family that was poor. They had a girl and a boy. The girl’s name was Nkauj Lee Pa and the boy’s name was Ger. The dad went and married another woman because their mother died from a sickness. The woman had two girls. The two girls were mean to Nkauj Lee Pa and Ger. When they were done working they always hit them and made them do their chores.     When it was time to go to school, the two girls went to school late and Nkauj Lee Pa and Ger were at school. When the two girls came to school, they saw a cute guy and they went up to him but there were too many girls around him already. He went and sat next to Pa, but Pa ran away from him and sat somewhere else. The boy’s name was Yeng. Every girl liked him at shcool but Nkauj Lee Pa.     The next day Nkauj Lee Pa came to shcool. Yeng was the first person at school. When Nkauj Lee Pa came in Yeng went by Nkauj Lee Pa. He thought she was pretty and Yang fell in love with Nkauj Lee Pa. Nkauj Lee Pa went and sat down at her desk. She was looking over her homework. Yeng came over and looked.     Nkauj Lee Pa said, “Please do not sit next to me.”     Yeng said, ”Do not think I am dumb, because I am not. I already know that you are falling for me.” Yeng blushed and went to his seat and sat, because the other kids were coming.     Day by day, week by week, month by month, year by year they grew. Nkauj Lee Pa was now 21 years old. Yeng was 21 years old too. Yeng went to ask Nkauj Lee Pa on a date. At school all the girls was jealous, even her step sister.      She said yes because all her life she had a crush on Yeng. One day the teacher said that Nkauj Lee Pa had to go abroad because she was the smarest girl in her school and was popular in her school too. She had to go to America.     Nkauj Lee Pa was sad but she went and studied for four years and she came back to her home town. She was happy to see Yeng and her family. She gave everyone a present, but not Yeng. Instead of a present she gave him a kiss. They got married and went to live in America.    WHY ANIMALS CAN’T TALK By Spencer     A long, long time ago people and animals could talk to each other. Monkeys could talk to tigers and snakes could talk to rats.     One day a boy name Spencer, a little boy, went into the forest to hunt for food. His family was hungry. He saw a wild chicken. He took an arrow and put it in his bow. He pulled the string back and was going to shoot the arrow out of the bow to the wild chicken.     Just before Spencer shoot the arrow, the wild chicken said, “If you shoot at me, I will tell God.”     Spencer said, “If I don’t shoot you, my family will starve. Spencer shoot, the wild chicken and brought the wild chicken home.     The wild chicken’s spirit went to God. The wild chicken said, “A boy named Spencer killed me.  I need justice.”     God said, “Animals are supposed to be food for people. Spencer is not wrong killing you.”     After that, God made animals to not talk so there will be no more problems between humans and animals. The Quiet Girl By: Yer     In Thailand there was a girl who was very quiet and very shy. Everybody was jealous of her, because she was pretty and was very quiet.     At school a girl named Pa Houa asked the very quiet girl, “What’s your name?”     The very quiet girl answered, “My name is Blia. What's yours?”     “My name is Pa Houa. Do you want to be friends?”     “Ok.”     They became friends and always hung out together.     After school she told her mom that she made a friend. Her mom did not do or say anything. Later when they were eating dinner Blia’s mom put poison medicine in her cup, because she did not want her daughter to get teased at and she did not want people to know that Blia was her daughter.     After Blia died her mom put her on her bed.     Four days past and Blia’s room started to stink. Blia’s mom did not want people to go upstairs because she was scared the room might stink more.     Late at night when her mom went to sleep she saw Blia standing at the end of her bed. She was wearing a white dress and her eyes looked very very black and wide. Blia’s mom was  scared. Blia started to kill her mom, everybody that had teased her,  and almost everybody in the Earth.  “Mistake Brings Regret and Loneliness” BY KA YING     Long time ago there was a couple. They loved each other very much. They had dated for three months, and they got married.     After getting married, life became hard because they did not get along well. One day the husband came back from the farm. His wife was lying down on the bed.         He shouted, “Get to work. Don’t be so lazy. You have to help me with the farm.”     She softly said, “I am very sick and I can’t get up to help you. It is not that I am so lazy.”     The husband looked at his wife and did not say a word. He got very mad. He climbed up on the bed and kicked her down. The wife fell and hit her head on the floor and died from suffering brain damage.     After the wife passed away the husband was so lonely. He thought to himself, “What have I done? I know that I love you very much. If I could fix it, I will do it.”     However, it was too late and he could not do anything about it. He then lived by himself forever.