Another Couple War Stories

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World War Three

Chapter 1
Enemy Attacks

The enemy troops break the door open and barge into your house. Your mom’s arms are around your head, so you can barely see anything, but you manage to catch a glimpse of your bother’s face that is as pale snow. Your father looks through the gap in the ceiling of the dark, damp storage room. You wait and wait, but the soldiers don’t leave. Suddenly, the general opens the cell phone. He was taking about the plan of invading my country.
“ We are in Busan and you are? Oh, you invaded Jae-Jo Island, cool. I better catch up. I’m going to invade Ulsan right now. When you arrive in Moc-po you should go ahead to Gwang Jo. Ride highway number 15 and exit in yong guang and you are at Gwang Jo.” General continued, “After invading Gwang Jo, you need to ride highway number 25 and keep on invading other city to Dae-Jun. We would meet there. See ya!”
General closed the cell phone and talked to his troops.
“ We have to attack Ulsan and go to Dae-gu this instant. Beside there is no enemy defense force until Dae-Jun.”
The enemy went out of our house. Then we waited for a long time.
This war is very stupid. It started because of religious fight between Muslim country and the rest of other nation. It actually started because a Korean boy assassinated Osama Bin Laden by a bomb. Osama deserves to get assassinated for three reasons. First, Osama was evil; he tried to conquer the world. Second, he made a stupid cave that connected to his hiding place. Lastly, his security guard was stupid; security guard can’t even catch a bomb that was hidden by a kid.
I thought when Osama died all the war in Middle East would end. Iraq and Afrigahastan war ended. However, one more war happened that is called WW3. Muslim side (a.k.a. Mus.) that had Iran, Iraq, Afrigahastan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt, and other Muslim country started the war by invading India. India had no power and got invaded in seconds. When India was invaded Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan all went on their knees. Mus. went toward Southeastern Asia. The mighty and evil Mus. took over most of Southeastern Asia. Singapore was the key point of Mus. because it is a port famous for trading. Now evil Mus. is in Korea. They came to invade us first because of the boy who assassinated Osama.

Chapter 2
New Guy

What was U.N. doing? Their militias are still coming to rescue invaded country. It only took 2 days for Mus. to invade all these countries. Therefore, UN didn’t have time to send troop. They should come by 5 days so we don’t have time. I just wish we could throw Nuclear Bomb into Muslim country. This is another side called UN it include every country except Muslim country.
It was about two hours since the enemy left our house. There was nothing left in our house. It was all destroyed. Roof had a bullet marks, door was broken, and my notebook computer wasn’t there. My dad saw outside to make sure there is nobody outside. My dad told my brother and me to see outside. I went toward the window. It was horrible. It was like pictures in war story except I am watching it in 3D. The school was torn apart, my academy building went to the ground (olleh), and my friend house was burning. This was the most horrible sight I ever saw. Moreover, soldiers were walking through the street. They came close to our house. There is light in end of the tunnel. They were American! They were soldiers from UN!!! I went outside of our house first.
“Are you living here?” asked soldiers
“Yes, Mus. attacked this city and my family and I hided in storage room.” I said
Soldiers laughed and I laughed. I introduced my family to soldiers. They said we are the first survivors in Busan. Well, more than half of people went to Chang won for safety. Luckily, Mus. was so in a hurry they didn’t attack Chang won. They went straight to Dae-Jun and Seoul. UN soldiers said they would go straight to Seoul to help Korean army. Moreover, they needed someone to lead them to Seoul. Therefore, my dad volunteered. I couldn’t just let my dad go so I went with him. My mom begged me to stay, but I made my mind.

Chapter 3
The Long Ride

As we were going through where Mus. had attacked. There was absolutely nothing left. There was more torn down buildings and homes as we get closer to Dae-gu. When we arrived at Dae-gu there was nothing left but broken woods and dust. Following the steps of Muslim was scary; I wished I stayed back in Busan. However, I am a man so I have to keep my promise.
When we arrived at Guo-mi city we rode another highway. It prevents us from going pass Dae-Jun and it is a shortcut to Seoul. The highway number was 45. There was no car in this highway so we increased our speed to 130 kilometers per hours. We had no choice. We had to outrun Mus. Highway number 45 was more peaceful than the main highway. There weren’t any burning, torn apart, and destroyed buildings. Actually, there was no building it was just farms.
We kept driving for 2 hours and we reached intersection of highway 50. We needed to go west because Seoul is in the western side. There were cars in this road. Many vehicles were going other side of Seoul that is Gwang neoug. There was a Korean military car that was going to Seoul to protect from Mus. Korean military cars are toys compared to UN troops. There were over 3000 UN military cars that are heading to Seoul. Moreover, my dad and I were riding in the first car because my dad had to navigate. Korean military only had 100 cars.
A call came in from UN general’s cell phone. It was from his spy. The spy said that Dae Jun is in threat of getting invaded. After 1 hour we were at the main highway again. While riding the highway, the view of the city made me think of my hometown, Busan.
“Where are we?” I asked.
“We are in Pan-gyo.” My dad replied. “This is a new city that was developed in 2008 through 2010. If the war destroys this city like other cities we saw. We are wasting a lot of money.”
A war is stupid. It ruins the economy, it makes people homeless, and many people die. Why do we have these wars? Well, it is simple. It all happens because of dispute between people that is dumb. One common dispute is religion. This war was caused by religion. Many wars were caused by religion. Religion is just dumb, it just cause war. I just wish no more wars this is the only thing I want. NO MORE WAR.
We reached to Seoul and it was a long drive. 6 hours ago I wanted Mus. to get away from me. Now I want to kill stupid war makers. I want to teach them a lesson war is bad. The UN general got a call again. The spy said that Mus. is already passed Pung-Take and heading for Yong-in.
Troops waited for 2 hours and UN general got a call saying Mus. is already inside Pan-gyo. Group of armed men navigated us to a safe place away from killings. Military was hiding in Han-river park waiting for Mus. to come. Mus. was destroying Gang-nam and marching toward Han-river park.

Chapter 4
BWAM!

“General BeBeDeBaBeDeBo, I think son of ***** was so scared they run away and gave the country to us.” Said a soldier.
“YOU can say that--,”
Before General BeBeDeBaBeDeBo finished the sentence, UN army attacked Mus. It was a perfect timing. No soldier in Mus. was ready for this attack. It was like watch a war movie. I loved the part when good guy attacks bad guy like BWAM. Some of the soldier in Mus. didn’t even have their guns ready. Few of the soldiers in Mus. were talking nonstop without noticing the surprise attack. Many soldiers in Mus. was dieing nonstop. Moreover, nobody in UN was injured or dead.
After first day, 1,000 Mus. soldiers were killed and 10,987 people were injured. In addition, nobody was killed and 1 was injured in UN team. Oh yeah, the injury was because injured guy tripped over himself and fell into Han River.

Chapter 5
Booooo

It was the fourth day after the war was started and the second day when the war was happening in South Korea. Today is the day what would be a turning point for this war. The day started with a surprise attack from Mus. However, our army was in good preparation. There was more of Mus. dead than the UN soldiers. It was battle time! We came closer to enemy territory that is in Seo-cho and Gang-nam. UN territory was in Yong-san and Han River Park. This war was first war that was surrounded by tall buildings.
Our troops separated into 8 groups. One group of troops went to Dong-jack. Second group went to Song-Pa. Third group went to Su-jung, which is in Seungnam. Fourth group went to Ha-dong which is in Guacheon. Fifth group went to Jang Ang that is in Suwon for emergency. I came out with the emergency plan. Sixth group went straight to the enemy territory. Seventh group stayed in Yong-san. Last group went to Jong-ro if anything went wrong. It was my idea, too and UN general said he would go there.
My dad and I stayed in Yong San. We got calls every 10 minutes of what is happening in the war. First call said that we are attacking through Chungdahm Dong and there is no enemy soldier. Second call said that our troops went to Samsung Dong and no enemy soldiers were seen. Next call said UN troop were in Do-Gok Dong and saw our troops from Song pa. Right after the call there was a call from a soldier in Dong-jack. They said that they are at Korea art center and there was nobody.
It was very strange. I called soldiers that is in Do-Gok Dong and told what Dong-jack solider found. They said they would go to Yang Jae Dong and ride the main highway to find out what had happened. It looks like the enemy had escaped. I think they were going to Suwon for make plans. I was right a soldier in Suwon called me and said there was enemy soldier coming closer to Suwon.
These unexpected happenings lead my dad and me to go to Suwon to see what is happening. We rode a helicopter for safety and it is faster than walking. We reached Suwon in an hour. Soldiers from Dong jack stayed in Seoul and every other soldier came down to Suwon to kill the Mus. The size of the Mus. and UN was almost same. I think Mus. had more army than UN. However, UN had great plans to surround Mus. There were UN soldiers in the sky, ground, and below ground. This made Mus. run away from UN. Therefore Mus. ran to where we didn’t have any soldiers, Incheon!

Chapter 6
The winner is

Incheon had no one it was just empty. We didn’t thought they would go there, but they did. We need to follow Mus. so they couldn’t make any plan to attack us. They have one of the best experts of war planner. Anyway, Mus. rode the highway 50 and went toward Incheon. However, we have soldiers in Song Do International city this army would give time to catch up to Mus. Soldiers in Seoul went to Gwang Mung because Mus. could change course to Seoul. After 30 minutes Mus. rode its way to Seoul instead of going to Incheon.
However, they separated in the next intersection into 3 groups. First group went toward Pan-gyo. Second group made it toward Incheon. Last group made it straight to Seoul. We didn’t care about the last group. We needed to do something about other groups. Therefore, I called soldiers in Gwang-Mong that enemies are coming. Moreover, I called the general to come down to Seo-cho because enemy might go there. We followed the second group.
The second group didn’t go to Incheon they were headed for Seoul. This wasn’t good at all. They went toward the Incheon airport highway. We were very lucky. The enemy went toward the airport. However, we separated just in case. I went toward the airport and another group went to Seoul.
We got a call from Gwang Mung saying that we won the battle. Suddenly, another call came in from Seo-cho saying the enemy fell into a trap and we won in Seo-cho. We followed the enemy and there was no way out. Therefore, the enemies had jump out of the cliff. We had won the World War Three that lasted for 4 days.

Chapter 7
Mystery Death

I was so happy. I could go back home. There was lot of people who was dead because of this war. I believe that there is no winner in a war. Huge amount of money was needed to recover this war. I hate religion that caused war. It is stucra. Stucra is a combination of stupid and crazy. Anyway, I am glad there is no more war. I went to meet the general of UN army. He looked very happy and glad to see me alive.
Suddenly, a bullet shot the general and the general fell to the ground.

The End

#2
The Last Memory
By Alruspeine

"Bang!"
The enemy troops broke the door open and barged into my house. Mom's arms were around my head so I could barely see anything, but I finally managed to catch a glimpse of brother's face which was pale as snow. Dad looked through the gap in the ceiling of the dark, damp storage room. I waited and waited but the soldiers didn't leave house. Suddenly, dad moved his hands up to down. My brother tried to stand up but he recognized father's sign and roughly sat down. And then, pile of boxes fell off. (Tum-Top-Tap-Tip-Tup-Tam-Tap)
"Oh, oh, ha, so so sor rrrry." Albert murmured.
Dad seemed to be so upset. "Be, qua ie ut." He murmured like Albert but it was much difficult to listen at his voice. But the sound was too much to cover. Soldiers came back to our house and shot everywhere except our storage room using some guns. Albert's face turned to pale pink, extreme fear mixed with surprise and embarrassment. We were all afraid but on the other hand, we thought soldiers looked for other room like garret, storage… but only upper side or downside. Usually people build their store room at upper side, or downside and it was very lucky for us that we built a storage room strangely, by making secret wall behind the kitchen. And finally soldiers left the house. Few minutes later, mom spoke to pa.
"Harold, I think we should go out of our house, our town soon. It's too dangerous to be here for long period." Quietly, and gently, mom talked to dad.
Mom was right, we should go out of this town. Dad thought for few second, and answered.
"But going out is dangerous too. Dana, sorry but let's wait more. I think it would be best way for us." Mildly, dad said.
And we waited for one day, by eating sausages those were at the storage and sleeping earlier than we usually did. Every moment after the talk between mom and dad was extremely quiet and only we could hear was the sound of footsteps. So I couldn't adapt to this situation. It was hard to remind me that our family and further nation was in the war. Accepting the fact. My family was expecting too much to 8 old boy. The fact was huge and horrible. Since it was too difficult, I was very sad.

Next day, when I woke up, Albert already woke up. He talked to me first.
"Oh, Kelvin, you woke up too. I went out and it seemed that enemy troops left our town. The next door is terrible. We were lucky enough."
His face was still pale. I could recognize that he was trying to be bright.
"I'm so sorry." Albert said.
I couldn't measure his voice tone since I never expected 'sorry'. He looked like he was crying. I could realize that he felt similar to me.
'Too hard.'
The silence consisted. I slowly fell asleep again.

Mom woke up me. I felt heavy in the head and I couldn't see things clearly. Dad spoke to family.
"Dana and I decided to leave this town."
It was a matter of course. We quietly opened the wall and went out of store room, trying not to make sound. Whole town was silent. We couldn't find any people. Grasses and a signpost(Keep off the grass!!) got trampled underfoot. We walked and walked… Finally we arrived at greenish forest. Suddenly, dad bent his body and said to us, it was similar as telling some important secret.
"Then, we will scatter in all directions. Few soldiers were following us. I i tried to find----- a another way but…"
Dad stopped there, shook and raised his head. He was really trying to stop crying.
"So so sorry. We will meet together someday. Dana, thanks for trusting me. Albert, Kelvin. Be polite, be a good person. Everybody, I truly love you guys. I love you, I love you, I………"
"Baam!"

"Go, go, go! Dana, move! Albert, Kelvin!!" Dad shouted.
Then our family broke up to parts. It was just, just because of WAR. War continued until I became 10, and after the war finished, WAR made me as a war orphan. By one organization, kind, young man and wife, each named Edgar and Caroline, adopted me. I grew up in their house and called them as father and mother. I became a polite and good person.

After 11 years since the war finished, two countries compromised and made a new project named 'A reunion of the separated family members'. I applied at the project and when I got the news that Dana Jefferson, Harold Jefferson, and Albert Jefferson are all missing, I sobbed for a while and finally, I was up to the stern realities of life. THIS was a true sense of last memory to me, still at the whole life.

War Stories

#1
(The enemy troops break the door open and barge into my house. My mom’s arms are around my head, so I can barely see anything, but I manage to catch a glimpse of my brother’s face which is as pale snow. My father looks through the gap in the ceiling of the dark, damp storage room. I wait and wait but the soldiers don’t leave. Suddenly,) I heard a sound of a breaking glass. As the same time, my dog barked. The soldiers heard the noise and then lie down to hear the sound in the below. They notice something and starts to break the floor with their gun. Every time they hit the floor, my mom startles a little. We are all very fearful and scared. "Crack!" Now the soldiers are able to see us. They said, "Put your weapon down and come out!" My dad first went out, and then my brother. However, my mom was holding me so tightly that I can barely move. Fortunately, The soldiers did not see us. May be because my dad was making weird sound so that the soldiers will be distracted. When they were all went out, we were just able to hear the sounds of the guns and the screaming of the people. I heard the cry for help, screaming of pain, and the cry from sadness. Still, my mom and I were still in danger so we were not able to make any sound, and of course, my dog was with my dad, and my brother. I was curious about what would have happened to them. Since, it was the 2nd Korean War, we, South Korean have more power from all over the countries, the U.S, Japan, China. and etc. By those help from other countries we have advantages but North Korea have a lot of weapons that we did not even thought of. We all have to think that it is so thankful to be alive. The thing is that the war did not end but I am starving. I did not have time for breakfast and lunch. My mom is still shocked. She hardly moves and keep watching me carefully. I think she do not have hope to live. Also, she thinks that my dad and my brother died. However, I do not think like that still think that they are alive somewhere. I will find them someday. If they are dead, I will find at least their body and their grave.

4 hours later......

It is now 10 pm. We are still in the corner of the basement making no sound. We are both so exhausted but also nervous. But then, someone came into our house. By the accent, I knew that it was the North Korean soldier. I heard what they were talking about and I heard that "this war is just meaningless". After a short talk, the house was again quiet. I could just hear the sound of my mom's nervous breath. The North Korea soldier said, "I know you are there. Come out!" Again we did not come out. It was strange because no one noticed that we were there. May be because there were a lot of blood near us. Our house was in front of a big road and I were able to see some people dead. We were keep thinking why doesn't the South Korean and U.S army doesn't come to our house? They might be able to help us, won't they? The war has continued more than 5 hours and we were not even close to be seen. That was the good thing but my mom had almost NO HOPE. Her eyes were blank, her face was pale, and she was very weak that she can barely stand up. I was very worried about her health but we did not have other choice. We just slept in the damp, cold basement. No we just pretended to sleep. Can people can sleep when a soldier capture their family and there is a war outside their house? I just closed my eyes thought about my brother's pale face and my dad's eyes full of worries.
'Will I be able to see them again? May be not...'
Still, I tried to think optimistic. If both of us don't have hope, we won't be able to survive. I tried to think of my friends...
'What would have happened to them? Actually, today was Ashley's birthday. I cannot do anything for her, even though it was her birthday. I just can remember her happy face in school. What if she was no longer here? No, she can't be. May be I was the one who was very lucky to be not DEAD.'
I saw my mom. She was asleep. She was shivering in cold and often shriek "no!" in low voice. I still hear bullets flying through the air, soldiers fighting, and some houses were exploding and was in fire. I was losing hope. I can no longer stand the fear and the anger. I just hope to die.

3 hours later...

Again, the North Korea soldier came to my house. I made a little sound in purpose. Of course, this time, he knew that someone is below their foot. I knew that he will shoot me with his gun which killed bunch of people. I was ready meet my friends, cousins, and my family. He came down and with a loud sound, he pulled the trigger to me and my mom. I felt a sharp pain in my heart but it stopped in seconds. I was no longer a person in the world.

Next day,

The war was over now. My father and my brother was alive. But me and my mom was dead. They came back to home. They found our corpse lying in the floor peacefully.

#2 - GDHEARTBREAKER
Suddenly, Sabina could hear the marching footsteps and talking. “There’s nothing here.” Said one soldier. “Well there’s some rat here.” Said another. “Let’s just go back and say to ‘him’ that there’s nothing but rats here and let’s get out of here. I hate this place.” Said the first soldier. Hearing the conversation, Sabina and her family sighed with relief because they thought that the troops were leaving finally. When they could not hear the footsteps and the conversation, they THOUGHT that they were safe now, so the family left the storage room. The storage room was a secret room behind the book shelves in the study room. The family turned the door knob, which was made to look like a book, and pushed the book shelves. Then, the family faced the reality. THEY MET THE TROOPS.
Sabina and her family were terrified. They were so surprised that no one could say a word. The soldiers were bewildered too. There was a strange silence between the family and the troops. Sabina’s father broke the silence. “Sabina, Ted, Sally, RUN!” The family ran to the door. “GET THEM!!” said the first lieutenant Jimmy Cross. “But sir, ‘He’ did not give us the order so we cannot go after them.” Said the second lieutenant Curt Lemon bravely. “I don’t care! Just get them!!” roared lieutenant Jimmy Cross. So the soldiers took action, but it was too late. Sabina and her family were already escaping the town.
Sabina came to a halt. Then Ted, Sally, and her father Paul halted with Sabina. A huge missile was coming toward them. “Turn Left!” said Paul, and the family turned left. Suddenly, a nuclear bomb was coming directly to them. “Turn right!” said Paul again, and the family turned right. They ran and ran and ran. They thought that they were now safe from the bomb. Just then, Sabina screamed. “Dad!! Mom!! Ted!! The bomb is after us!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!” “Where should we go? The bomb is CHASING us!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!” screamed Paul. “We are going to die!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!” screamed Ted. “Don’t scream like that!! It hearts my ears!! AAAAAAAA!!” screamed Sally. Then BOOM!! “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!” screamed all four.
“Sabina? Ted? Paul? Where are you!!” screamed Sally. “We’re all here!! Right behind you, mom!! So please don’t scream!!” screamed Sabina. “Mom, it’s weird. There’s nothing left but us. The trees disappeared!! The birds!! The flowers!! And even the bomb!! They all disappeared!!” said Ted, with awe. “How could we survive?!” wondered Paul. “Well……e-hem. I think it is time to tell you the truth and the story behind me.” Said Sally, mysteriously.
“That’s…” “a perfect…” “NONSENSE!!” said Sabina, Ted, and Paul which their mouths opened. “Do you expect us to believe such a story mom??” argued Ted. “ I am not expecting you to believe me. It is just the truth, Ted. Whether or not you believe the story or not, you have to admit that it is 100 percent fact.” Replied Sally. “Well, if we all are people who do not die, then prove it!” shouted Paul. “Yeah, mom. You have to have some evidence for your argument. I hate to say, but I have to admit that it is truly nonsense that we are people who do not, or cannot die just because of that carrot lucky charm that you carry everyday, you know mom.” Said Sabina, skeptically. “So, you all mean that I have to prove that we are immortal to convince you guys? I don’t want to!!” shouted Sally. “Sally, we believe you anything what you say, but this is just unbelievable. The whole story just sound like what 5 years old kid expressing the imagination world.” Said Paul. “So, are you saying, Paul, that……” The quarrel went on and on until a strange person appeared.
“Excuse me.. but WHO ARE YOU??” asked all four. The strange person smiled. “Me? Don’t you know me already Paul?!” “N-no…” said Paul, with surprised face. “Well, then. My name is… Lord Voldamort -just joking- Hitolo. I am the 274056870th king of Mars. I am the 580173th child, from 580174 children, of Hitlo the Great. My nickname is Lord Voldamort, since I look very similar to the character. Hahahahahahaha…” said the strange person. “Paul, do you know him?” asked Sally, silently. “Actually, to say the truth Sally, I do not know him. This is my first time meeting him. I don’t know how he got my name.” “If I say one, dad, please, go to that person and say anything that would think that you really know him.” Whispered Sabina. “And if I say two mom, say something about inviting him to our home or anything. Do you understand?” Whispered Ted. “Got it.” Paul and Sally said simultaneously. “And if I say three, mom and dad, you say but not now, and kick him or hurt him. You should be very quick so we all can run to the opposite side of him. Do you think that you can handle this, mom, dad??” said Sabina, very urgently. “Yep.” “A perfect scenario. Let’s find out if it works or not.” Whispered Paul and Sally excitedly.
“ONE!!” whispered Sabina. “Ohhhh~~ I remember you Hitolo!! How could I forget you!!” said Paul, acting to be warm. “TWO!!” whispered Ted. “Oh Paul, did you know him?? Well then why don’t you invite Hitolo to our home and have some party?” said Sally, acting very naturally. “THREE!!” “But sorry Hitolo or whatsoever!! We actually don’t know you and the party? Well.. NOT NOW!!” said Paul and Sally together, and Paul punched Hitolo with all his strength, and Sally kicked Hitolot’s leg really hard that Sabina and Ted could hear crack from Hitolot’s leg. The family once again, ran. “Mom, do you act in home too?? You were so natural!! I couldn’t believe that it was an act without practice!!” asked Sabina with awe. Sally just smiled. “Whoa mom. That was a real kick!! Hitolo must have gotten really mad!!” said Ted. “How can you prove it?” asked Sally with a huge smile. “Well… His aircraft is coming after us, so I just used my brain to infer a bit!” said Ted, kinda laughing.
Suddenly, the land came apart as if there was an earthquake. “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!” screamed the family. They all slipped into the crack and they couldn’t stop going down and down and down until they met the center of the earth. “HAHAHA” Hitolo laughed with joy. “What a scene. Now, they will have to live in there for the rest of their lives. HAHAHA” said Hitolo, with his evil laugh. “Not that fast, Hitolo!!” said Sally behind him raising her hand. “Paul?” said Sally. “Ready! One…two…three…” and then BOOM!! Then click.
“That was excellent!! This will be a great movie!! I’m impressed!!” “Not at all, Mr. Balcony.” Said Paul, Sally, Sabina, Ted, and Hitolo together. “You guys are the best actors I have ever seen!! I felt as the movie was real!! Great work, everyone! Perfect acting!!” said Mr. Balcony. “But, Mr. Balcony..?” said Sabina, her face getting red. “What are you going to name this movie?” “Um… I’ll think about it. Well anyway, here’s today’s pay for the great work everyone!!” replied Mr. Balcony.
“You know what, Sabina?” said Ted. “What?” “I just can’t wait to see the movie!! I can’t believe that I acted as Ted!!” said Ted. “Yeah. Me too!” said Sabina. “Me three!” said Sally, Paul, and Hitolo all together. “Hey, how about getting some hamburgers from Mcdonards?? I’m starving!!” suggested Hitolo. “Yeah!! I’m starving too!! Let’s go get some!!” replied Paul. And they all ran to get some burgers, and the sun was slipping down and down and down.

Learning an Important Lesson

#1

One bright,sunny day. One young boy´s most valuable lesson, starts. It was an peaceful afternoon when this little young boy was in the cozy living room with his intelligent grandfoather. ″So.. How was your day , Edward.″ ″It was very fine.″ The little boy smiled. ″Do you want to listen to my story?″ ″Of course. I love your stories!″ ″There was 2 teams in military. And there was a equal mission to two teams. Captain wanted to know which team was better in team work. Also, the captain had to choose which team should participate in important plan in army. The mission started in forest. The mission was to arrive at the final place faster. Group A´s goal was to arrive faster at the final place. This is perfectly normal phenomenon. However, Group B´s goal was to go together. Since, forest got dark very quickly, one teammate in each group sprained their leg. Do you think which team has won the mission?″ ″Well.. I first thought Group A but.. I´m confused now.″ ″Ok. Yes.. Group B has won the mission. Group A got very annoyed with this problem. Because the part of the mission was to arrive together, even though they didn´t want this teammate, they had to go together. Because of this tense atmosphere, there were lots of fights in this Group. However, Group B´s teammates were different. They considered about the patient in all of their plan and helped this teammate. Their teamwork was even better than other time. Captain got very satisfied about this group. Since.. captain was looking for cooperation. Cooperation is key thing in army, you know.″ ″Hmm..″ ″It´s late now dear. Go to your bed.″ ″Okay. Good night.″ ″Good night, Edward.″ ″Grandpa! Grandpa!″ ″Hmm? Edward?″ ″I want to hear more stories!″ ″Well.. Okay.. This story is real one.″ ″Ooh..″ ″This had happened when I was student. There was annual quiz game in our school. The final winner gets prize and honor.″ ″So did your class has won?″ ″Wait.. Dear.. I will explain. Every classes wanted to win this game eagerly. Since this game needed efficient discussion, role of class leader was very important. And.. I was the class leader in my class. I thought about the method to discuss efficiently for a week. The resut was very simple. Listen to ideas. Discuss. Then vote. This was all. But, we were quite good at discussion. Actually, our class had several small fights. However, this was very tiny. Other classes had numerous fights and some were serious. Since, all of classmates should discuss about it, there were lots of conflicts. Anyway, one of other class has won the quiz. But, our class became the real winner.″ ″How?″ ″Teachers said we were the real winner.″ ″Well.. Why..?″ ″They were not looking for quiz wiz, dear. They were looking for the class.. which was best.″ ″Best at what?″ ″Every thing consisting group work. Every thing in school life.″ ″Hmm.. I think I should think about it more.″ ″Okay, dear. Good night.″ ″Good night, Grandpa.″ Grandfather had told Edward 5 more stories about teamwork. These stories had all impressed young boy´s heart. Maybe.. This intellignet grandfather knew that Edward will be a.. CEO. 20 years later. ″Mr. Wilson. There are numerous meetings with other companies today.″ ″Hmm..″ ″First, you should meet CEO of Korean Company, which is very famous.. It´s..″ ″Samsung. Yeah, I know. It´s very famous. Let´s go to meet the CEO.″ ″Okay sir.″ ″Hi. I am CEO of Samsung.″ ″Hi, I´m Edward Wilson. Nice to meet you. Now, let´s talk about our plan..″It has been years that Edward Wilson became a CEO of one of the top companies in the world. And, it has also been very long .. that Edward spreaded those 7 stories and company´s motto became.. ″United we stand, divided we fall.″

#2

″Jamason, what does it mean ´hunger is the best sauce´?″ ″If you put sauce that says hunger on spaghetti, it is nice.″ ″How about ´nothing lasts forever´?″ ″I don´t really have to explain that, do I Mr. Norris?″ ″Then ´a tree is known by its fruit´?″ ″If there´s no fruit, then people do not notice the tree.″ ″Fine. Then how about ´it´s always sunny after a rainy day´?″ ″Well....... Um......″ ″Okay, then. I´ll help you figure out what it means. ″There was a boy, named Jamason......″ ″That´s my name.″ ″Whatever. He had really super important test coming up called SAT.″ ″Horrible. Plus, it is exactly the situation I am situated right now! Aww......″ ″Everyone know the test was extremely hard......″ ″Ew″ ″so poor little Jamason was scared.″ ″Never.″ ″so Jamason ran to his mom......″ ″I would never do such a thing, Mr. Norris.″ ″and begged and begged and begged to help his study.″ ″What a nightmare!″ ″But unfortunately, his mom kicked him and yelled at him to go and study by himself......″ ″Hooray! Great news!″ ″But he disagreed.″ ″Aww...... man...″ ″But his mom disagreed too......″ ″Yipee!!″ ″and she won the conversation by using force - threatening his life by trying to hit Jamason with her slippers and giving him a bone breaking kick - so Jamason had no choice but to follow his mom.″ ″How surprising it is, Mr. Norris.″ ″So Jamason cried in his own room thinking that he is the unluckiest boy on the whole globe......″ ″Actually Mr. Norris, he is quite right.″ ″Then, it was time for dinner. Jamason ran to the dining room, but his mom said ″no food if you don´t study″ so he cried silently in his room with his teddy bear.″ ″Yeah... so.....?″ ″Jamason slept because he was so tired by crying. His teddy bear was tired too. So they slept together in a dark room......″ ″Well, I can´t sleep if the room is bright......″ ″When Jamason and his teddy bear woke up on the next morning, Jamason´s mom called them. ″Jamason! I cooked some chocolate chip cookies for you! Oh, and for your teddy bear, I´ve got some berries and fish.″ Finally, Jamason´s life was becoming bright. ″So what proverb can we think of based on this great and fantastice tale, Jamason?″ ″Probably the most dreadful one I´ve ever heard of. Anyway, the proverb thing... Isn´t it ´it´s always sunny after a rainy day´?″ ″Excellent. And since you got the proverb correct, I will give you A+ for today´s lesson and I will help you take care of your teddy bear.″ ″Gee....... Thanks Mr. Norris. I appreciate your suggestion. Anyway, I really need some help taking care of my buddy, you know.″

#3

Anna is a fifth grader. Like another day, she is preparing to go to the school. She goes outside and exposes breeze. It is warm, bright morning. In the street, students are going to the school, and birds are singing highly. Few minutes later, it is able to see students who are running to the school. All students do not like to be late, but some students feel that going to the school in time is too hard to do. They need to sleep more, wash their face, pack their bag, and eat breakfast. So some lazy students are late school always. The bell which tells beginning of the class rings. But, there are still some students. Half of them are walking slowly, and half of them are running. Students who are walking already give up going to the school before the class. “Okay, class started. Sit down and calm down.” Teacher said, with a thick bunch of papers. Suddenly, the students are strained. One student raises his hand highly and shouts, “Teacher, are we going to have a test?” All are waiting the answer. “Yes,” the teacher says, “but since I did not tell you, I will give you thirty minutes to study. Today, we will have a Chinese test. Oh, do not worry. I am going to test just fifty words. Now, prepare.” Just fifty words! It is too much amount to memorize in thirty minutes to Anna. Anna really hates Chinese. So she never attends Chinese academy. On the other hand, her mate, John is bragging that he knows almost every Chinese, since he attends Chinese academy. Therefore, he does not study and playing. Also, he teases Anna that she is a fool since she does not know the easy Chinese. Anna is too angry and thinking about the ways to tease John. Abruptly, she has a good idea. She studies very hard than others. She just ignores John since he interrupts her study. She memorized and memorized. And before the ten minutes, she asks to Sara to have a mini test to be sure. Of course, Sara helps her because Sara is the best friend for Anna. Because Anna works hard, she gets the perfect score. In addition, she gets confidence that if she puts efforts and work hard, she can do anything she wants. Anna practices Chinese by speaking them to input in her head. Finally, the teacher gives the paper to everyone. “Good luck,” she said. “and if you get the highest score, I will give you a prize.” Anna gets strength because like others, she likes to get a prize. Not only the prize itself is fine, but she can get pride and confidence. ‘It is little difficult.’ She thinks. However, she tries her best. Furthermore, because she tries her best, she does not regret. After she fills the blank, she looks around the class and looks her mate’s face. John is covered with sweat. Probably he thinks that the test is tricky, too. “Okay, children, the test is over. Put your hands on your head.” The teacher takes the test paper and starts checking. Some students are crying, some are mourning, and some are shouting. “Oh, this one was too hard. I believe that no one get the perfect score.” John screams. “Oh, I see. Did you feel it was hard?” Anna asks with smile. “So, do you think it was easy?” “Yes, it was difficult, but I do not think that no one get the perfect score.” “Ha, so you think that you will become the one who get the highest score, right? Do not be silly, Anna. You know that you are not good at Chinese. You…….” “Then, let’s wait.” Anna says softly, bilking her pretty eyes.“Be quite, guys.” The teacher shouts loudly. “I got the test score. Actually.......I disappointed. I know that I did not give much time and the test was hard, but the scores are too low.” After the teacher’s saying, John smiles. “But,” Unpredictably, John stops smiling. “one student got the perfect score! Anna, you got the highest score. Let’s give a big hand to Anna!” Anna is smiling with shy and looks her mate, John. His face turns to red. Anna was proud of herself. “I am so sorry. Teasing, anger, everything. I was surprised.” John says with low tone. “It is okay. But next time, you should study, not playing or teasing someone. Promise?” Anna speaks softly. “Okay. Thanks” John replies. By the test, Anna notices that she should not brag and rely on herself. Even she knows, she should study. And if she work hard, she can get better result. So, she gets confidence and also an important motto.

#4

First lesson
James was walked through the hallway. He was kept thinking what had happened with him. Before he went to cafeteria he checked to see if there was his lunch money in his pocket. He went in to the cafeteria. When I was going to pay the money for lunch. His money was gone. He had 4 dollars and wanted to buy chips, a cider, and ice cream with lunch. However, he is left with nothing, but the smell of aco. Moreover, his free time of learning in prison cell (a.k.a. classroom (according to James)) was gone. It was a mystery. Anyway, James finally arrived in his classroom until lunchtime was over. It was a long time for him. When he had lunch the time went passed like a cheetah. When there is no food on my mouth the time passed like a snail. Can you feel the pain he was having. James loved food. What happened when you eat tramandous amount of food? Well, it is simple you get fat as a pig. James is fat he weight so much you can´t even believe it. If you´re sitting down right now. Huh, you are much lighter than James. In every classroom there is specialize chair only made for James. James is also slow. How can a fat guy (extra large) be faster than you? However, James is strong, too. Therefore, nobody mess with him. James was so sad because he is very hungry. James wanted to commit sucide because of hungerness. In James World, food is money. He thought that he could steal money from other kids and eat delicious food! He walked toward the cafeteria. As he was walking to cafe there were huge amount of noises coming toward him. This wasn´t because he was walking toward cafe, but other kids was coming toward him. The fantastic lunch time was over. All the school prisoner needed to go back to prison cell again to study boring things. James was hungry until he was ready to ride the school bus to go home. When he rode the bus, he stand next to his friend Biss. Biss is a strange name to be a friend. However, James liked Biss it was like his brother. ″Here is your four dollars. You told me to keep it, while you go to the bathroom, dude.″Biss said.Now he found the thief of my precious money, but it wasn´t a thief it was a keeper. James told Biss to give him the money and regret for letting him keep the money for me. James learned a lesson never to let his friend keep the money for him.
Second and third lesson
James was going to the cafeteria to eat his yummy pizza. Right in front of the door to the cafeteria he checked to see his money was in his pocket. OH NO! He left the money in his house. He already tasted no food in free time of prison cell. James decided to beat a kid up and steal his lunch money. It was the first time ever to steal money from another person. James went in to the cafeteria door and ready for punching season. Next, it is to violent to explain. James won the battle between a little kid and earned his money. The little kid was crying and went out of the cafeteria. James loved pizza. It was his favorite food and it had the sweet smell. James didn´t just earn wasn´t just the money, or the food. James won a call from the office. James sighed. He was just eating the fantastic crust. However, he didn´t have any choise. He had to go to the office. It might be an emergency. Therefore, he ran to the office. Anyway, we all know that James is slow so his running is same to our walking pace. So I won´t explain the journey from cafeteria to the office. When James arrived at the office. He was shocked. There was the little kid that James stole money from. He was in a lot of trouble. The office worker asked James if he stole money from this little kid. James said no. The office worker asked again and James said no five more time. James had no choise, but to say no because there is no hope with saying yes. He would get in detention. ″ Don´t argue with me young man, this little kid said extra large and fat guy stole his money.″ Said the office workers. ″ Is this the guy who stole your money?″ ″Yes″ said the little kid with a cute voice. ″But he is be lieing.″ James said. ″I am going to take chances, James.″ replied the office worker. ″Moreover, you will have detention for three month. One month for stealing and two month for lieing! Starting tomarrow″James felt so sad about these detention and didn´t won´t to tell mom and dad about it. When I went on the bus, Biss was in the backsit waiting for me. ″Why do you went to office in the middle of the lunchtime?″ Biss asked. ″I was going to get a 3 month detention.″ James said. James learned two lesson from this day. First, never steal anything. Second, don´t lie to a office worker because it would get even worse.

#5

When a student is learning an important lesson, a student must concentrate, must be positive, and has to maintain some manners that are appropriate to the class. I went to a special program in university since 2008. There, I learned about scientific things, cause it is a science class. I learn more professional scientific stuffs in this class. University professors teach us. There are only 20 students, and the competitive rate was 40 : 1, so I assume this class as an important class. In this class, I learn middle school chemistry, physics, and biology. I don´t know why they don´t tell us about middle school geography, but It is still an important lesson, so there are some manners in the class. First, you must concentrate and must participate. Well, I don´t mean this seriously, but there are some scores in that class. You must attention to the professor and participate by speaking, and giving speech with the powerpoint. It is an important lesson, so you have to maintain these.I cannot say anything about the punishment when you don´t participate or pay attention. Second, there are ´standard´ manners that people have to maintain. like respecting other people, never swear, like that. Actually, I think that there are not many things that are different from the standard class in school, private schools, special classes, and academies except for some learning methods, experiments, and experiences gained from it. The main manner is same. It is simple to maintain it to other people. In conclusion, according to my experience from special classes in university, which is still going until before when I go to middle school, you - no, every people has to make at least respect for the class because every class in the globe, it is still same class despite its importantness.

#6

″Claire, Claire!!″ she said.I just ignored her and came out of house. AHHHHHHHHH!!!!! I cried out.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------″I´m home.″
″Claire, how was your day at school?″ Mom said.″It was good.″ I answered.″Oh, yes.″″Mom.″ I muttered.″Why, Claire?″ Her voice tone was strange, but clear.″A,a,aa,ai, I, no. Ca, c, a c can a....″ I stammered.´I can´t say it. It´s too expensive. But, but anyway I should say it at least once, nope. I can´t.´
″Claire, Claire! What are you thinking about? Claire?″ Mom shouted.″What? what, sorry.″″.....″″Oh, oh. Nope. Nothing.″ I affirmatively answered.″Claire, I am asking you.″ She was strong too.″Never mind.″ I responded.″Claire.″″I said, N O T H I N G.″ ″Claire.″″I said to you!!!″ I finally shouted to mom and opened the door.″Claire, Claire!!″ She said.I just ignored her and came out of house. AHHHHHHHHH!!!!! I cried out.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------My name is Claire Barnett, 9th grade. I live with mom, Hellen Barnett, and we are poor.We need money and also I need money, especially for school trip. But it was too expensive. I couldn´t say to mom, since she will just worried at me. AHHHHHHHHH!!!!! Relaxed.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I carefully came back to home. Mom was sleeping.I searched for my bag but I couldn´t find it. I went to mom´s room and she was waiting me. ´Oh, no. I was wrong.´She talked to me first.″You was trying to say this. School trip. Claire why didn´t you talk to me.″I couldn´t say anything.″I can send school trip, why, why. We are not that poor.″″I, I just thought we were POOR.″ I talked to her with angry voice.″Sorry. Claire. It´s all my fault.″
″Why you should say sorry to me.″ I blubbered.″Claire.″″Don´t cut my words. I thought you will be worried.″ I continued my words.″Claire.″″...″----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------That day, I learned an important lesson.True mind.Mom was truly loving me. And. I was loving her too. And.
We can do anything when we work together.

#7

″Ladies and gentel man thank you for coming to todays party. I hope everyone will have a great time.″ I look at my job certificate Age :28 Name:Long Job: Police special force. Today is the opening day of Korea Hotel the new tallest buiding of the world. We are just hoping nothing will happen. Right now we are one floor 110 the top floor. The big light which looks like a big box in the middle of the room is blinding my eyes. Then l hear people talking loudly. Suddenly everyone starts to gather in front of a wall. My boss Big with a big and fat body orders me ″Long go check out what is happening.″ ″Yes ser!″ I quickly go to see whats going on. Its a note.... I start reading (Hello people sorry to interupt the party but their is a bomb on this floor. The bomb will explode at 12pm. Don´t try running away it´s just a waist of energy. All the doors are locked and none of the elevators are working. Enjoy the last moments of your life) People are starting to shout″Noo! How could this be! I don´t want to die!´ I shout out ″Everyone please relax and keep order″ People are starting to get quite. The clock it is ticking rapidly. I need to think quickly. Their is notting in the room that looks like a bomb. I think to my self ´Is this just a joke that someone made up? No it can´t be no one would do that in a place where many stars come.... Come on. Think!!´ 11:54 six minutes to 12pm. ″Thats it!″ I run towards the wierd light in the middle that I have seen before. Looking around I find a hammer and smash the glass part of the light. Just as expected their is a bomb. Carfully I examine the bomb. Its an electrical time bomb. I start dissecting the bomb to stop it from working. 4minutes to 12pm their is no time. Everyone is shaking in fear. Finally almost done with dissecting the bomb their are only two lines left to cut. If I cut these in the right order everone will be safe. ″What is this! Is this a trick?... Ser their are two lines left unlike normal time bombs″ I whisper two my boss making sour that no one heard. ″What did you say!! You mean their is only a 50% of living..″ Mr.Fat fallsdown in shock. ″Ser their is no time we need to do something.″ ″Just cut any one of it atleast we have a 50% chance.″ He says without hope. 20secounds left I and move my scissors to cut one of the lines. My hands are shaking I think of my familly. I think to my self in pain ´should I cut the left one or the right. Left right left right.´ ″Ahhh!! I can;t think.″ My boss´s voice wake me up″ Long quickly cut one of the line their is 10secounds left!!″ Once again I take out my scissors it is now or never I decide to cut the left one. My hands are shaking Then I look at the right line and hesitate once again. Bam!!!!Boom!!! 12pm and the bomb explodes.

#8

“Olivia Laurens, wake up this instant! I’ve called you more than five times to come down and get some breakfast before we’re late!” Her mother yelled, stomping up the stairs. Olivia sighed, and kicked her covers.
“I’m going, I’m going, Mom,” she replied sleepily. Having been up all night long reading the fantastic book she borrowed from the library, she was tired. After a breakfast of cold, hard bacon and stale toast, her mom had dropped her off at the international school, where she was taking an interview test. Really, she didn’t know why she was trying to get into the school. All because of her mother, she had applied for this school. She didn’t even know the school name correctly. Taking 30 minutes to find her interviewer and her interview room, she was irritated and embarrassed. During her interview, she was asked weird questions.
“Describe yourself in three words.”
“Err… Olivia, thirteen, and Laurens…”
The interviewer raised an eyebrow, and took some notes. “All right, why?”
“My name’s Olivia, I am thirteen, and my family name is Laurens,” she replied. Seeing the interviewer’s reaction, she seemed to be getting bad to worse.
After the interview, her mother’s white sedan drove up. Getting in the car, the more Olivia thought about it, the more she could have answered after having thought more carefully. Overall, she regretted what she just did. To top Olivia’s moodiness, her mother had a dark face on.
“I think you know the results of the interview very well yourself,” Her mother spoke. “You didn’t get in. We’ll have a talk at home.”
After a lecture about her efforts in the interview, Olivia felt very ashamed of herself. She wanted to get better, to improve. Now she knew how failure felt like. She wanted desperately to get another chance, and remembered about the Interview and Debate academy that she once saw while surfing the internet. “Mom, Can I attend the INDB academy? It teaches interview and debate. I think I will get better if I enroll in it.”
Her mom’s reaction was surprising. “Of course, Olivia! Actually, I was thinking about enrollment in an academy for you to get better in interview and debate! I am so proud that you thought of an academy yourself, Olivia, Actually, I was just registering you for the academy, you start tomorrow,” A surge of excitement overcame Olivia. She would work hard, and pursue her goal of becoming a great interviewee.

Presentation Tips

* During a group presentation - make sure that you have speaking parts! Even if you do a lot of work helping your group during preparation, it's very important that you speak during the presentation, or else you will not stand out and your evaluators will not remember you.
* Avoid speaking in a monotone voice during presentations. Make sure you use inflection and vary the volume of your voice.
* Avoid excessive lecturing before explaining specific questions.
* Don't play around while your other group members are presenting.
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Week 3 - From the Perspective of a Shoe

#1
I am red. I am immaculate. I am staring outside through the transparent window. I am in the shop which actors, actresses, models and lots of other celebrities visit. I am new. I am the SHOE!
Somebody entered. She was tall and gorgeous woman. Worker greeted her. I could hear their conversation.
″Welcome to our shop.″ said worker.
″Hi, Long time no see, eh? I was in London for a month.″ said beautiful woman, smiling.
″What kind of shoes are you finding?″
Other shoes started to pretend to be prettier. I followed them too. I am new. I just follow.
″Um.. High heels. The bright one.″
Some shoes gave up. However, I pretended to be pretty even more. Worker slowly introduced shoes which fit woman´s criteria.
″Um.. How about this?″
The worker pointed the orange high heel. But I am taller.
″Uh.. nope. not orange today.″
Worker came by right behind me. I pretended to be taller.
″How about this?″
The worker pointed ME. I waited her answer impatiently. ″It´s new. It arrived 3 days ago.″
″I love it. I´ll take it. It´s.. It´s so beautiful.″
Worker smiled. I smiled. The woman smiled.
I found out woman´s name. Emily Harrison. She was such a lovely woman and she´s a supermodel. I am so thrilled. I am now in her dress room. Silver Shelf- with other high heels. However, I looked the prettiest.
″Hi, What´s your name?″ asked purple high heel.
″Me? Uh..″ I stammered.
″Oh, your name should be in order. Shop name, heel length and color.″
″Oh, I am Angela Errian 13cm Red.″
″Angela Errian? Oh! That designer! I am from there too.″
″Oh, Really!″
″I am Angela Errian 12.5cm Purple. Let´s be friends.″
I nodded. Suddenly, Emily took Angela Errian 12.5 purple. I felt exhausted. I want some sleep.
″Hey! 13 red!″
I opened my eyes slowly. I´m still tired - but better than before. I looked around. 12.5 purple was next to me. But.. it wasn´t her. I looked around again. Every shoes were sleeping.
″13 red! Here!″ yelled the voice.
I looked around impatiently. And.. I could discover green sports shoes.
″Hi, 13 red. I am Belon Shoes 2 green.″
″Oh, Hi..″ I answered.
″I just wanted to tell you..Be Careful.″ said 2 green.
″Why..?″
″Do not pretend to be taller at outside. You´re already our mom´s daughter. Since,″
″Mom´s daughter?″ I interrupted her.
″Yes. Emily is our mother of course. And you´re her daughter. So.. Oh, yes.. Since you could harm your mother.″
″...″ I did not answered.
I ignored her.
´She doen´t know anything about high heels.´ I thought.
I closed my eyes again.
I suddenly wake up. I was dangling in mom´s hands. I was excited. 12.5 purple winked at me. I am ready.
It was warm and sunny outside. Because of the bright sunlight, my red color became brighter and prettier. Mom caught yellow taxi in her eye and stopped it.
The taxi arrived at one very high building. Emily quickly went inside it. Then, she stopped at elevator. The floor was so smooth. I liked this feeling. Emily my mother went in to the elevator and clicked button ´6´.
There were lots of tall and pretty women in 6th floor. Their shoes were colorful and tall. I pretended to be prettier and taller again.
″Emily!″
″Oh, Charlotte!″
One tall woman came by. She looked surprise when she saw me.
″Wow. Gorgeous. Is this new? Where did you bought this?″
I felt very proud.
″Uh-huh. Angela Errian.″
″Ooh- I love it.″
″Me too. But.. it´s kinda high.″
Charlotte came to mom´s house. When I saw Emily´s feet, I got surprised a bit. It was kinda red. I suddenly remembered Belon Shoes 2 green´s advice.
´That´s what 2 green was talking about.´
When, I was back to my silver shelter, I could hear Charlotte´s worried voice.
″What happened to your feet. It´s a bit red.″
″I told you. It´s very high.″
Other shoes in dress room sighed and worried. I got embarrased. Mom wore me for 3 weeks in a row vecause.. well I´m pretty and got compliments from her best friend, Charlotte. She had to get remedy. She wore 2 green that day. She looked very comfortable.. even peaceful. I promised to my self I´ll never pretend to be taller, ever. I closed my eyes. ´Sorry Mom.´

#2
I am a pair of shoes. My color was white with green checkmark once, but now, I am very black.I was treated like a brand new cell phone in the past, but now, the person does not care about me. She does not polish me every night like she did few days ago, and she does not care throwing me out to the rainy sidewalks. But, I am not sad. Instead, I am happy that the person treats me like this. It makes me become healthier and feel that I am special shoes for the person.
When I was first thrown out to the rain, I caught a cold. However, the person did not know that I caught a cold and she did not hear the sound of my coughing. Plus, she could not feel a bit of fever of my forehead. Therefore, the person just ignored my sickness and made me run and run and run. At first, it was very hard for me to take a step because my forehead was burning and burning until it reached 38.8 degrees Celsius. However, after few steps, my body felt as if it was a feather. I felt really joyful. Just then, the person halted, took off me, and she arranged me with other shoes she liked and said ″Good night.″ I don´t know if it was her care for me that cured me or if it was the harsh exercise that had cured me, but one thing is clear, that finally, I have a good health and immune system.
The person kept wearing me, whenever she go to school, she wore me, and even when she went to some kind of party, she always took me with her. Because of that, I became very dusty and black so that I could barely see the white and green. Still, this evidence proves my age and my life with the person which makes me feel very unique and special than any other shoes. Even today, the person tooks me from her closet, where she keeps her favorite shoes collection, and wears me to do some exercise. I will get even dustier than now, but still, I am happy. I am pround of myself, and the person who likes me very much. I wish that the person can always wear me anytime anywhere and remember me. Why? Well, I don´t know. But I want to be the number one favorite shoes for her life and be special and be proud, and that´s all!

#3
Girls like to shop, and boys generally don´t. So it´s no wonder that almost no boy would voluntarily go to the discount mall with their mom. Except me.

″Brian, you better hurry up. We´ll miss the free shuttle!″
″O.K,″ I replied. ″That cheapsKate will beg to a begger and eat from the soup kitchen,″ I continued under my breath.
This was the average day of my self-exilement to my mom´s house after my father found a new lifelong cople. Russian-50,000-won-a-bottle Russian Vodca. He devoted himself to it like a person who suffers from an eating disorder treats a hamburger. Very disturbing to watch.

So the Shuttle, a 24-year old stairless junk scrap which wheezed it´s way along Sunny Palm Road, a new English town built by retired U.S soldiers, ran fom 5:45 to 6:10, circled the whole city once, and retreated back to its home. We boarded it (did I mention it didn´t have stairs?) in a well practiced manner which my mom´s yoga instructor would have been proud of. The bus driver, a formal tenant in the U.S marines, greeted us like old friends. We watched the trees go by, or rather street lamps and mailboxes, and we arrived at Hap-e-mart.
Hap-e-mart is not really what it looks like on the outside, where the wall is literally covered with smiley faces. Inside, moms compete for last season´s fashion shoes and 1,000 won toilet paper. The cashier on the far left waes to us. As my mother becomes distracted by the low price tags, I stray closer.

So on the check-out corner is a round and beefish man who looks like those kids who litterally spend half their childhood in the sweets shop, except stretched to hte porportions of an adult. He waves at me again, and I remember that my mom would leave without me on the shuttle rather than catch a taxi. I found her battering the clothing rack for something a)not too scanty b)not too old and c)lower than 10,000 won. She wasn´t really pleased. ″Bob, we´re going back.″
″But I didn´t get to look at the games yet!″ I moaned. ″You never care about me. You always get my name wrong too.″
″Brandon, Bill, Bob Bibbly-Doe-″
″I´m Brian-″
″You can be Bill Gates if you want but get your disobedient-″
″Mam, can you please leave? Your scaring all the other costumers,″ the fat man said. this time, he was holding a few Dieting program flyers and thumbtacks in his hands. How ironic.
″Hmph, I was about to do so anyway,″ my mother said. She walked off towards the cabinets, grabbed a roll of toilet paper, and ran off.
The Candyman gave me a remote, which was hooked to his shoes. He rewired the wires and hooked them to my shoes, and wordlessly and aqwardly danced off. I noticed the pattern was soothing, and I found myself bobbing to the rythym. it was very weird.

I walked back home. occasionally touching the buttonless remote, which I discoverd was touch-padded. I must hace pressed something wrong, because the next thing I knew, I was my own brown, dirty, 2 sizes small 5000 won shoes.

Blank. Blank. Blank. Blank. Blank. Light. Bright Light. Bright. Light. Bright. Shadow. Dark. Dark. Light. Wet. Wet.

That about sums up my experience as a shoe. To explain, shoes can´t see. They can´t do anything but feel the places they are going. Apparently, nonmovimg objects should be called nonmoving objects. They live in a strange manner, feeling light and water with the neutrons around them. So I didn´t see anything at first, not knowing how to ´feel´ the light around me. Then, I began to take in glimpses, a bit of my mother´s new shoes and a bit of her shopping bag. The light was extremely bright, so bright it hurt. Then, I realized that my mother was shining a flshlight in my laces, looking confused at the extremely numerous amount of wires.

Then, just before my mom snappped all the wires with a scary-looking pair of scissors, Oovie, the milamute, snatched me and began sucking on me. that was how I spent the whole day. I went to all that trouble to become a shoe and I spend it taking an extended bath. So after I was human again, I learned two things. I never wanted to wear another pair of shoes again, and dogs really need to brush their teeth.

#4
I was sleeping peacefully, when I heard my human’s light footsteps and his whistling- always the same Russian national anthem(“Da dee, da dee, da dee do da dee”). He was always up and ready to go in the morning- so cheerful. The human, whose name I think is Astra Nut, always jogs a kilometer before he goes to breakfast in the grand hall. Today he was wearing a hooded sweatshirt that said PULL ME UP upside down. He slipped me-a faded old Nike that he bought at the flea market seven years ago- on his foot and jumped up and down a few times before energetically opening the door and jogging down the hallway. I closed my eyes in embarrassment. What if that sleek new leather Puma saw me on the way? It was always looking at me sarcastically. Plus, on top of that, Astra and the Puma’s human were best friends. Great. Puma might pop up any moment Astra turns the corn-
“Ah, there you were, Nike! I almost didn’t recognize you, your black check erased off a little- oh, and by the way, did you notice that your owner looked like he was dancing the polka? Such abrupt jumps, you know, so strange. Oh, and by the way, your laces are loosening. Mine, you see, doesn’t loosen up very easily. This shoelace is specially exported from Germany. Oh, and by the way, did you know I was made by one of the…..” This is usually how it always goes. I ignore Puma; it talks or either taps me on the shoulder. We went out to the field, and despite my upset mood, I began to enjoy the crisp feeling of the dewy grass. Sighing, I let my human carry me on. When I woke from my nap, Astra was already going to the Cosmonaut training center for his training of getting used to non- gravity. There he donned a blue training uniform and went in a plane. I could feel it rise, and then suddenly, with a cry (of warning?) from the trainer, the plane fell. I thought that something was wrong with the plane, but the floating train- wait a minute. Floating? I looked down, and to my surprise, I was off the ground! So this is what they call non- gravity, I thought. Interesting. Guess I wasn’t so unlucky to meet this type of human. Everyone was shouting happily and waving their arms.I was too awed by the nothingness under my foot. Then suddenly, everyone crashed to the floor. People all around me were smiling and patting each other on the back and calling out whoops of triumph. Guess the training went quite well. Getting a little fond of my human for the first time in my life, I turned over a new leaf- I would never feel ashamed of my human, and if that Puma taunts me about my human, I will talk back to him right than and there.
Sure enough, Puma began to tease me about my human’s leg length. “You’re not keeping up with us,” mocked Puma. “Pity your human’s legs are so short.”
I closed my eyed, and breathed in deep, then looked at him straight in the eye. “Well, if YOUR human is so great, how come he never gets any training with the main officials? I even saw you going into the supplementary room.”
Puma turned scarlet. I turned my head. Instead of the delight I imagined I would feel by getting a blow on Puma, there was an uneasy corner nagging at my thought. When I turned to sneak a peek at Puma, he had tears in his eyes. “My human is disqualified.” He murmured. “He can’t hear well, and he disqualified for the health test. The results came out today- and he will be leaving tomorrow. I know you hated me. I’m sorry.”
All I could do was to stare at it. Then I quickly responded. “I’m sorry too.” I got an idea. ″Do you want to shake?″ I asked.
″Shake?″
″Yeah, for truce and friendship.″″Sure.″
And we did.

#5
I am a shoe. I am a soccer shoe. I was born in a Nike factory in China. I am fit for left feet. I was born yestesterday. Here is my history. I was born by a Asian, who is very ugly. Next, I was sent to a dark cave. I didn´t move, but it felt like moving. It was very strange. After few hours, it was stop moving. Yet, I felt I was flying. I slept and here I am. It is end of my history. Now it is feeling like crashing down. I think I am dieing. I closing my eyes. I going to sleep now.
Someone opened my box. He was very ugly and he had a red shirt saying Ji Sung Park. He put me on and ran. I couldn´t believe this ugly guy is my master. There was a stranger on the ugly guy´s other feet. I asked the strager his name. He said he is Friday. My master ran and saw a field of grass that has two goalnet. Around the field there was crowds cheering.
″Man U, Man U, Man U″ said the crowd.
My master ran to the field. Grass felt wet and dry at the same time. It was soft as a feather. It felt like I was in heaven. It was better than flying. The game is starting. My master was playing in right whig. The ball was coming to my master. My master order me to dribble the ball. The ball was harder than a rock. I didn´t wanted to dribble it. However, I needed to do that. Friday and I ran fast as we could and soon we were on the other side of the field. The Friday kicked the ball hard. It was so hard that our master fell down. Anyway, the ball was coming close to a bold guy that was very ugly. The bold guy trapped the ball with his chest and his shoe kicked the ball toward the goalnet. The ball was hitted so hard it was fastest thing I ever seen. The ball went in- wait it hit the goalpost and coming toward me.
My master ordered me to kick the ball. Although I didn´t wanted to kick the ball, I was forced to do it. I gave all my strength and kicked it. The ball was harder than before. It felt like kicking a pure iron. The ball was flying away from the net. I thought that the ball missed the net. The ball was carried by the wind. It was coming toward the net. I lost blanced. My master, Friday, and I fell down to the field of green grass. The keeper of the net used his hand to block my masterpiece. He missed the ball. However, it hit the upper goalpost and as the ball came down. The ball hit the ground across the goalline it was a masterpiece. It WENT IN.
″GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLL″ said the crowd.
″Goal from Ji Sung Park, Manchester United is leading Bolton by 1 to 0″ said the announcer.
I felt so happy the goal went in with my move. I was the happiest soccer shoe ever. It was only 5 minutes since the game had started. It was so easy to play soccer. I ran back and forth for 30 minutes straight. I felt very tried. Now rain starting to wet me hard. The bad guy had coming toward the net. I ran toward bad guy very hard. Friday was ordered to takle the Bolton guy. I fell down with Friday. We saved a goal. It hurted to slide down and takle. As I was playing the game, I noticed that my master was the only Asian player in the field. However, there was player swicth between a left midfielder and a Asian player.
″There would be a swicth between Fubris Muamabe and Chung Yong Lee for the team of Bolton.″ said the announcer.
The change was done in 38 minutes after the game started. I saw this guy more than anyone else. Sometimes my master dribbled through him and sometimes he lost the ball to the evil guy called Chung Yong Lee. His shoes were more active than Friday and I. I hated Chung Yong Lee, who is known as evil guy between Friday and me.
When one of our player called MIchael Owen was tring to shoot the half time ended. My master ordered me to go back to the bench. I hated being a shoe of professional soccer player. There is sweats all over him. Moreover, I have to take a shower with sweats. In addition, I have to run and kick with rain all over me. If I was own by a kid. There won´t be any sweats around his feet. I would also not play when it is raining. The half time was ending. All the players were in their postion. Yet, I didn´t understood that the guarding net was different. The rain was stopping.
The second half was starting. The grass felt very slippery and it also feel like quicksand. I hate the surface of the grass. Still I had to deal with it besides I am a soccer shoe. I wanted to score like in the first half. I had to deal with the quick shoes of Chung yong Lee. I ran faster and harder than the frist half.
Friday and I was dribbling the ball to the other side of the field. We passed through our toughest challenge, Chung yong Lee. There was nothing that could stop us. Friday crossed to the bold guy again. He used his head to shoot. It is a go- no the keeper of the net used his head to block heading shot. It was great block, but I didn´t liked it. After the block, an old guy called Giggs have ball. It was good chance to shoot. There was noone blocking him. The keeper of the net fell down to the ground. He shoot, it is a go- no it hit the upper post and flying back toward my master and evil guy. Friday and I ran toward the ball. We all needed was just hitting the ball. However, the evil guy went to the ball first. My master order me to tackle so I did it. I hit the ball. The keeper of the net dive to save the ball. The evil guy tried to stop the ball. The ball is touched by evil guy and save by the keeper of the net. IT IS PENELTY.
The bold guy is ready to shoot. He is shooting right. The keeper of the net went right. The keeper BLOCK the SHOOT. It was a fantastic view. Now it was a corner. Someone, who´s skin color was black, crossed in the corner. I think his name was Anderson. The ball was coming closer to red headed guy. However, a defender from Bolton cuted away. Fortunately, the ball was coming close to me. I used all my strength to shoot the ball. It wasn´t hard as first time I shooted. It was very light.
Ohnoooooooooooooooo. The evil guy stole the ball and dribbling through Friday and me. My master order us to go close to the evil guy. Although we ran toward him, we couldn´t catch up. It was 1 on 1 against the Man U´s keeper of the net. The evil guy scored very easy.
″BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO″said the crowd.
″ Goal by Chung yong Lee, Bolton catched up Man U 1 to 1.″ said the announcer.
It was scored in 78 minutes after starting the game. Everyone in the studium was tired even the crowds. It was no fun at all. There was only 5 minutes left. The bold guy passed to old guy. Old guy was good at dribbling. He went through 2 players and passed to red headed. Red headed passed to Owen. Owen shoots!!!!!!!!!!
It was too weak. It was like a pass to the other team. Actually, it was pass to the other team. The other team was dribbling to other side of the field. Still we have a strong defence. Black and bold guy called Evra stole the ball from other team. He dribbled and passed to my master. He ordered Friday and me to dribble through defence. It was about 87 minutes having teamplay with Friday. Therefore, it was much easlier than first time we dribbled together. I pass to bold guy and my master ordered Friday and me to ran towards the goal post. Meanwhile, bold guy shooted with all his might. The ball was carried by the wind and was coming to me. Friday blocked the ball and I shoot the ball. Friday was very hurt that he fell down. This made my master and I fell to soft grass again. It had scored !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
″OLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH″ said the crowd.
″2nd goal by Ji Sung Park!!!!!!!!!!!!! Manchester takes the lead by 2 to 1!!!!!!!!!!″ exclaimed the announcer.
Even though my master scored he is now going to the hospital. It was all because of powerful bold guy´s shot. The game ended. 2 to 1. It was all scored by me. I love to be a soccer shoe.

#6
I am a shoe - my name is Left - adidas - John. I sleep in a closet, and every morning, my master wears me and goes out with me until the night. This common life for years. One day, my master was very angry because of me and he was stomping all over the pavement when going home. And he stomped on a sharp rock and it made a hole through me and my master´s left foot. Master screamed and I was becoming red by the liquid coming out of the master´s foot. I wasn´t repaired for two weeks. Because my master almost forgot me. After that two weeks, I was repaired I am once bright and shiny again, and my master wore me again. But, I wasn´t lucky enough. Again, an accident happened. A car hit my master. My master went to the hospital on an ambulance. He injured seriously and he was lying on a bed. The doctor said that he has to recover for one month. very disappointed of me His family is now calling me the ´unlucky shoe´ and master almost trashed me, but he didn´t. After six months, he had to wear me because there were no shoes left except me. Yes. I WAS an unlucky shoe. This time, the accident killed my master, and I am now burning in a plane crash. I will explain the thing that happened. My master was returning to his home, saying ″whew! Nothing happened this day with this strange, deadly shoe.″ A plane was flying above our head. Suddenly, I wished that plane cause something to us, and the plane suddenly got on fire and started heading to us in a deadly speed. And it just crashed. Because of me, I killled a lot of people. It is truly a terrible day.

#7
″I am new sandal for Jason. Jason bought me yesterday and he didn´t wear me yet. When Jason brang me into his house´s shoe chest. Yesterday, I met a new friend named Tom and listened to his words so I could learn many thing related to Jason and Jason´s house.
´Ahhhhhh! Oh, no. Please leave me alone. Ahhh, Jason, wake up, wake up!! Stop it, stop it, Ah oh ouch. I said. Warf warf doggy barked. Jason always say that doggy is cute, but not me. Doggies are too noisy. Ha, just be quiet. Oh sorry. But you should be careful too. Little doggies usually attack us. My name is Tom according to Jason, the guy who is little bit a crazy something. He is very enthusiastic somewhat creative, somewhat crazy, very talkative. He likes to talk with me too. He calls me as Tom. I am fancy leather shoe. My friend, John can´t say, so I´m suffocating. Maybe you and I are special because we can talk with each other.´
″Tom said, just like previous paragraph, and actually, I knew I am special.Ha ha. I thought I should be careful against that doggy, because Tom described it to be so realistic. Next, Tom introduced his usual life with Jason.″ ´Today, I woke up and a single doggy annoyed me and Jason woke up too. He dressed up, oh Jason. I am male too, but he must exercize, maybe it is major cause of why he did not have any girlfriends still. He went toard his company, Puma. He always designs something but manager, who´s name is Jessica always bits up Jason, and Jason designs new one again. He repeats it everyday. He made successful design twice or once more, and I think it was last chance that he can receive much recognition from his company.´
″Maybe, Jason is reckless person, but bright. I hoped that he can wear me earlier than he planned. I wanted to listen more about Jason but I was so tired. I slowly fell asleep.″
´Also, Jason likes to enjoy sports, for example, swimming, climbing mountains.. etc. So I think he will... Hey, you! Are you sleeping? Wake up, hey!´
″I could hear Tom´s voice who tried to make me to wake up, but I just ignored him, and I had to. Now, it´s dawn so I think Tom will wake up soon. Then, maybe he can tell more about Jason.″

#8
I am alone in a long long hallway. The half of me is the another side of the hallway. We all know that in 8 a.m., a boy named Alvin will come and get us and stood on us. I think he is the heaviest student in his 6 graders. It is very painful when he run or slides, which he always do. It is only 6 a.m., but I am looking forward to see my friends black-three striped slippers. Of course, I HATE Alvin. He hates me too because I am yellow, he thinks yellow is not for boys. Thats why he colored me black yesterday. The left part of me is in the other far side of the hallway because Alvin was just kicking, and throwing with us. 9 a.m.
Today, Alvin did not showed up. I checked the calendar but is was not Saturday and Sunday, the other students were all here. When Alvin friends were passing, I heard the word, ″Alvin″, car accident″, and ″hospital″. I thought that he was absent because he was in a car accident and because of a serious injury he is in the hospital.I did not miss him at all I was no longer in pain but I was lonely. I was in the corner of the hallway so it was hard to find or see me.
3 months later...
Alvin did not came back. Some say he transpered to another school and some say he died. There was no way to contact his family and the school kept it secret about Alvis absence. The real reason was that he died while the car crash happened. Only his mom was the survivor and she ask the school to forget the event. There was not more Alvin name in the list. I heard the news when teachers were passing by. Even though, I hated him so much, I will never want a person to die. Also, I have to be trapped in a cold hard corner of a hallway. I was alive but my mind were dead. I just wanted to sleep because I had nothing else to do. I wondered what the left slipper was doing. ´Would he be trashed? or ´Would someone had took him?´. ´If he is in the same situation like me, how would he feel? ´ I thought that the highest possiblity is to be trashed by a student. I was able to see some students and teachers but they were not able to see me. 2 weeks later...
I was sleelping and I was dreaming about Alvin being alive. He no longer looked grumpy or a naughty boy. He looked bright and delighted. I felt a warm thing holding me. I woke up and look up. It was a boy! He tooked to his home and I was so excited what would he do to me but he throw to his dark dark closet and shut the door. I found out that his name was Vivian. He was another friend of Alvin. He recognized me that I was Alvin´s slippers. The next day, he took me to the school and showed me to his friends. He and his friends recognized that black color that Alvin drew. They go to their teacher and ask where Alvin moved. She never answer that question. However, they ask their teacher so much that she finally said ″He is not here! He is dead!″ Now would stop ask that stupid question!″ They were all shocked. They never expected that but the thing was that Vivid tried to find out Alvin´s mom address. He finally got it. When he arrived, there was no one so he put the slippers in the mail box. I was felt sorry to Alvin for hating him. When his mom came home, she saw a yellow thing in her mail box. When she opened it, she did not knew what it was but when she was eating dinner, she realized that it was her son´s slipper.

#9
Bip... the TV is on. I see an advertisement I look cairfully. ″ It´s me!! Oh yeah I´m famous.. I´m a star! Everyone wants me! Ha haha″ I shout in joy The commercial ends with my owner smiling. Well , to introduce my self I´m little park the soccer shoes of Ji Sung Park (Big Park) He always treats me like his partner. Today is a big day their will be a match against Chelsea which is one of the biggest match of the year. For ones who don´t know about me and Big Park we play for Manchester United. Right now we are relaxing and getting ready for the match. All the other shoes looks at me with a sad face. One of the shoes says to me ″ You probably think you are special don´t you? We all use to think like that when we were being used. Just wait and see you will oneday sit down like us in this closet and do notting. You will be trashed! Put away like we are ....″ This dosn´t depress me, its just the reality of shoes. This just makes me think must work harder. I hear the sound of the door opening. Big Park takes me out and puts me inside a bag. The darkness make me sleepy. ZZZ~ I fall a sleep. When I wake up and I´m in the soccer field and the match is just about to start. The match starts with everyone shouting and the refree´s whistle. It´s been 20minutes and I haven´t done anything good for the team. Finally the ball comes to me I run away from the other shoes and go towards the goalkeeper. Suddenly a shoe comes in and steps on me″ahhhhh the it hurts″ I shout that this is cheathing but no one cares. The first half ends and the secound half starts. Right away I get the ball I hit the push the ball with my whole streangth but the ball goes far away from goal. As the match goes on the shoes same shoes who cheated keeps pushing me. I finally blow up ″you wanna fight? Bring it on!″ The shoes looks at me with an erigant smile and goes away. The ball runs towards my team mate. He passes it to me, I´m in front of the goalkeepe one on one I get ready to push the ball then bam the shoes from before hits me and Big Park. Both of us faint in pain. I wake up and I´m in a place I don´t now. The last thing I remember is Big Park me falling down and people taking us. I observed my surroundings to find out where I am. Then I hear two man talking.
″ How pour Ji Sung Park was takled by John Terry( A soccer player) and his leg totally broke... ″ ″I know doctors say he might not be able to play soccer in the future. How said″ I don´t say anything since I;m so shocked. My brain seems to not admit this fact. Not getting anymore time to think the one of the mans who talked picks me up and cuts me into many diffrent part. as this is happening I see other shoes that are distroyed and trashed in front of me. I feel no pain since the process finished so quickly. Finally after being cut into diffrent parts little park was trashed. This is how little park died and this is the sad reality of a soccer player´s shoes.