THE GECKO
By Léonie and Marine

A long time ago, the Geckos were completely white because their ancestors lived on a snowy mountain.
One day their ancestors crossed the desert to live in the tropical forest.
A little gecko walked in the desert and a horrible spider asked why his body was white. He answered: ”It’s because for several years I lived in a snowy mountain.” The spider was very surprised because she had never seen a white animal before. In the desert, animals are generally orange, brown or red.
The gecko was very frightened in the desert because all the animals could see his white body on the red sand.
The gecko continued to cross the desert… It was very very hot and the sun burnt his back. Little by little the gecko became red all over. He managed to cross the desert without any animals seeing him.
This is why today all geckos are red !

Why does the rattlesnake rattle?
By Nicolas and Antoine

A long time ago, in the dreamtime, the rattlesnake was a snake like all the others. It was silent, and that’s why it was very dangerous.

One day it wanted to go in the forest, to hunt some rats and some birds.
At the same time, in a tree, a kookaburra was preparing a nest. In her nest she had a rattle - kookaburras like to play with noisy toys! The snake heard the kookaburra and prepared to attack.
It ate the poor kookaburra and her rattle.
After his lunch, the snake went home, but when it moved, it began to rattle, so everybody called it Rattlesnake.

Now, when the rattlesnake hunts, the kookaburras can know when he arrives, thanks to the poor kookaburra.

The End.

Il était une fois un serpent très dangereux car très silencieux. Un jour qu’il chassait, il entend un Kookaburra jouer dans un arbre avec un hochet. Rapidement, il se jette sur l’oiseau et l’avale tout rond, avec le hochet. Le hochet en question s’est retrouvé dans la queue du serpent, qui depuis ce temps-là fait du bruit lorsqu’il bouge !

The European Parliament

We went to Strasbourg because we wanted to see and visit the European parliament. We saw a modern and beautiful building with lots of windows. There were also all the European flags.
First we went in its oval ground where we saw a big ball in the middle. Probably it was the earth. Then a man explained us things about the European parliament. We saw a film about the European Parliament and the European Union in a big hall with lots of red seats. We went to another hall, which was bigger than the previous one. In this hall all the seats were blue. In the parliament, there were also two small gardens. When we left the parliament, we could take a comic strip about the European parliament in different European languages. And there were also a lot of documents about the parliament.

By Thibaut.

Arthur in China

My holiday in China

China was very interesting and very different to France.
I saw the great Wall of China and the army made of clay.
At the great Wall of China I bought a Chinese hat. It was fantastic!!!
There were lots of Bouddha temples there, and a Shaolin temple too.
I bought a nunchaku, in China, it’s a weapon and I learnt Chinese writing for one hour.

China is a beautiful country but there was just a problem: 24 hours by plane!

By Arthur.

Charline on holiday

My summer holidays!

During my summer holidays, I went to a holiday camp in Nice at the end of July with a friend. We slept in a hut. Every day we had different activities. One day we went on a boat to do scuba-diving and we saw a lot of beautiful fish. We went for a ride on a bike too, it was good fun! We tried to do windsurfing but in the Mediterranean Sea it was very difficult. We always ate on the beach and we made lots of friends especially Pauline, who met a beautiful boy! Unfortunately we stayed only 10 days. It was a cool week! :D
After, I travelled with my parents in the north of Italy. There, we went hiking in the mountains and we saw wonderful landscapes. There was no sea but a nice swimming pool in the hotel. The weather was great, just one day which was rainy, that day we went shopping.
The rest of the time I met my friends and I had super summer holidays!

by Charline

Laurine's summer holidays.

My summer holidays

During the summer, I went to Carcans-Maubuisson, in the south-west of France. I was very happy because the last time I travelled I was five years old. The journey seemed too long because I was impatient to arrive. I stayed there one week with my family.

The weather was strange: first, at ten o'clock it was very sunny, then at midday it was rainy, the afternoon was sunny and hot and finally in the evening it was raining again! Each day we could go to the beach, and that’s what we did. I also swam in a lake but I prefered the sea: the waves are so big! Everything there was beautiful: the houses, the landscape, the sea… everything! But there’s a thing that I saw which was even more beautiful: the sunset on the sea!!!

I was sad to come back because I really enjoyed my holidays. But all good things come to an end!!!

Laurine

The Rabbit Proof Fence

The Rabbit Proof Fence

“The Rabbit Proof Fence” is a film about three aborigine girls, they’re eight, eleven and fifteen. The three girls are removed from their homes by white men because they are half caste.
They are sent to a school where there are white people and half caste children.
One day they decide to return to Jilagong but a tracker wants to catch them.
But the oldest of the three girls, is crafty and the tracker doesn’t find them.
She decides to follow the rabbit proof fence to find their home.
The girl who is eleven is caught but the two other girls arrive at home and they find their family.

Arthur.