S H O RT S TO R I E S F R O M T H E G LO B A L C LA S S R O O M |
2014
T H E G R E AT E S C A P E
ETHAN BAKER, YEAR 6
L A C Ô T E I N T E R NAT I O NA L S C H O O L
Julian sat up with a start, breathing heavily. ‘Fred! Fred, are you there?’
Suddenly a tall boy with chocolate-coloured hair stumbled out of the bushes. ‘What do you want?‘ he growled.
Julian sighed with relief. Then he remembered: the boat and the iceberg. Julian pictured the scene as if he was
still there.
‘Well,’ demanded Fred, ‘Let’s go and look around‘.
Julian had expected he would say that as he was extremely fastidious! But Julian couldn’t stop thinking about
that boat.
Finally, after hours of searching, Julian found the remains of a den and both of them went off to find moss and dead
leaves to make it comfortable.
‘I wonder what happened to everyone else on the boat?‘ whispered Julian.
‘Well, they obviously aren’t on this desolate island,’ bellowed Fred.
In less than a minute they were snoring peacefully.
‘Wake up!‘ bellowed Fred. Julian leapt up curiously, expecting something amazing, but was discombobulated to see
Fred squatting up in a tree.
‘What exactly are you doing up there?’ asked Julian.
‘Well, I can see a colossal boat out in the sea!’ answered Fred.
Julian started climbing up the tree but accidentally grabbed a loose branch and plummeted back down to the
ground.
Fred dar