WRiting Contest #3 - Story Script
Junior Category Winning SUbmissions
Swim Suit Catastrophie
By Roris Wang
First Place, Junior Category
There was once a boy named Roris <ahem> I mean Boris. He was a good boy, very handsome and very intelligent. Boris was awesome! However, he often forgets his swim suit.
The first time he forgot his swim suit, he went up to the coach and said “Sorry!! Forgot my swim suit!’’
“That’s OKAY…” groaned the coach “This is just the first time you forgot. It could happen to anyone. Get a swim suit from the lost and found!”
Roris/Boris found a swimming suit just his size. He still felt uncomfortable in the lost and found suit and so he swam sooooooooooooo slowly! A sloth could have beaten him - he was that slow!
The second time he forgot his swim suit he went up to the coach and said “Sorry!! Forgot my swim suit!’’
“That’s less OKAY…” groaned the coach “This is the second time you forgot. It shouldn’t happen twice. Just get a swim suit from the lost and found!”
But Roris/Boris said, “There are no swim suits in the lost and found.”
And the coach said, “Well, I guess you will just have to swim in your undies!”
Surprisingly, Roris/Boris swam incredibly fast like he was an actual cheetah in water! Actually he was just so embarrassed that he did not want anyone to see him in his undies, so he swam as fast as he could.
The third time he forgot his swim suit, he went up to the coach and said “Sorry!! Forgot my swim suit!’’
“OKAY. But do you think I will accept your apology for the third time?”asked the coach.
“NO” Boris replied Warily"because it’s like I am not sorry. I keep doing the same bad thing.”
“You are right Boris, the best apology is changed behavior, and you have not changed. Just go get a swim suit from the lost and found.”
But Roris/Boris said, “There are no swim suits in the lost and found.”
And the coach said, “Well, I guess you will just have to swim in your undies!”
But Rois/Boris said, “Err, I lost my undies and I’m not wearing any….”
And the coach said, “Well, I guess you will just swim in lost and found undies!”
So, Boris walked to the lost and found and treated himself to a pair of extra-extra-small pink and purple paw patrol undies.
He never forgot his swim suit again.
Making Friends at SJS (It’s tricky)
By Edward Gootman
Second Place, Junior Category
After school, I went home, walking on my own. When I got home, Mom said, “You have great news”
“What?” I guessed some things that could probably have happened. And it turns out, it was GREAT news.
“You were accepted at St. John's School!” I was excited and felt a wave of positive emotions come over me. I told my teacher, friends, and everyone that I was moving to a new school!
“Which school are you going to?” my friend asked.
“I,” I said proudly, “am going to SJS”.
So after summer break, I went on my school’s orientation tour. They took us to our homeroom, and the discovery lab (for coding and designing stuff)
“Do you have Vex IQ coding?” I asked.
“No we don’t. We only have Vex Go and Vex 123.” they said.
“Maybe my coding skills are better than anyone in SJS,” I thought. Then we went to the junior gym, where there was the gym teacher who loved my Adidas shoes. He said “ Could I borrow your shoes for a sec? I NEED to take a picture.” At THAT point, I was SUPER shy. He also said that the junior gym is for basketball practice and stuff. Something like that. There are also junior assemblies there. So we went to the ACTUAL gym in the senior school and it was huge – like, it could take up the whole entire school! Geez, who would build a gym like that? Also, the gym was way cleaner than the junior gym. It also had a changing room and near the change room, there was a washroom. And it had everything! The big gym is also for whole school assemblies.
We went to our library where they had any book you could name, then to the rooftop, where they had a few things to play with. Then, they gave us chocolate and presents as we left. After the tour, I couldn't wait to go to SJS!
So I waited until school was here. I went to the school excitedly. I saw the staircase and went up the third floor and I went to the homeroom that I’m in. We had practiced that on the tour. Up the staircase and into the room. I double checked if there WAS a sign that said 4B, and there WAS a sign that said 4B. “Good” I thought.
When I walked through the door, there were a bunch of boys. There were also a variety of girls, as expected. But there weren’t a lot of them. In my old school, there were 44 of them in total. So there were half of the number of students that I had in my old school, and believe it or not, in the other classrooms, there were even less. So that TOTALLY BLEW MY MIND OFF. I observed that the kids are ABSOLUTELY CRAZY. Like Ms. Dillistone CANNOT get their attention AT ALL.
“ THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE AN IB WORLD SCHOOL, AND WHY ARE THEY DOING PARKOUR ON THE WASHROOM DOOR?” I thought to myself.
And whenever there is good news or bad news, the boys will be super loud. They will always be saying swear words and 67 ALL the time. Especially when the PE coach says “the score is six seven.” So that DRIVES ME CRAY- CRAY.
They also make you say swear words using tricks like “Say “Puck”.” “Puck.” “Now do it like this.” And then I said the F word because I fell into the trick. So that TOTALLY DROVE ME CRAZYYYYYYYYY. The other kids said “O” and pointed fingers at me and called the teacher because I said the F word. But it was their fault and they were setting up the trap. So yeah. No fair.
I talked to my mom about how SJS was SUPER ANNOYING and hard to make friends and stuff. She said to make friends with kids from 4A and they will talk to THEIR friends about me.
One time I started playing grounders with a girl. We were playing until I heard “Could I join?” We allowed him and I figured he was Mason L(4A). So we played until we had to go back inside.
I asked him if he could be my friend. And he said “yes”. I was super happy and again. I was excited and felt a wave of positive emotions come over me.
So now I know how to make friends and I made a checklist
Making Friends
- Play with friends
- Ask them “do you want to be my friend?”
- “Yes” they’ll say
Make friends with Lucas
Make friends with Andrew
Make friends with Sebby
So that is my checklist and I hope It’ll work. So now I skipped lucas and I’m trying to be friends with Andrew (4B). “PAY” I thought “PAY”. So first step: Play. I met Andrew and said “ Put your hands together.” And he did so. So now I took sweetgrass and Andrew yanked his hand out. “Ok. You could do it.” He said. So I tied the sweet grass so it looks like he’s in prison. And he broke it as expected. So we played and played. Time to do the A: Ask. So I asked him and he said “ Nah bro” so now I’m sad. Here’s my checklist.
Making Friends
- Play with friends
- Ask them “do you want to be my friend?”
- “Yes” they’ll say
Make friends with Andrew
Make friends with Sebby
Mission: failed.
I talked to mom about how I failed and stuff. I talked about relay races (Andrew likes to make people race with him, but it’s IMPOSSIBLE TO BEAT HIM.) the handcuffs, and when he regretted to be my friend, etc. And this is what she said “ you don’t have to say “ do you want to be my friend?” like, if you play, you’re friends. If you chat, you are friends. Whenever you’re doing something fun with a buddy, you’re friends.”
Here’s my new checklist
Making Friends
- Play with friends
Make friends with Andrew
Make friends with Sebby
Mission: accomplished
Now the final challenge, Sebby(4A). Sebby has MILLIONS of friends. If you compare Sebby and me, I am completely gonna get crushed. Like:
/ \ Sebby highest
# of friends / \ |
/ \ |
/ \ Me lowest
So anyways, Sebby has a lot of friends, and maybe if I become friends with him, I can get more friends. “OK, here goes”. “H—hi, S—S—Sebby,” I said.
“Hi Eddie”. He replied. “Umm… why are you throwing your food away?” “Oh, it’s because I’m not hungry anymore.”
“Ohhh. ‘kay.”
Sebby and I are starting to be more chatty. Like we always make up stories and tell them. Ok so here’s my new checklist:
Making Friends
- Play with friends
Make friends with Andrew
Make friends with Sebby
Mission: accomplished.
I realized that I became more popular. Even when I skateboarded, they are like “Eddie? You skateboard?”. I realized that one tiny step could make a huge difference.
I never knew I had so many friends.
The Wolf and the Shepherd
By Jasper Wang
Third Place, Junior Category
There once was a farm full of chickens, (sound of chickens) and cows, (sound of cows) and most importantly sheep. (sound of sheep)
One big sunny afternoon there was a wolf who stumbled across the farm, belly empty.
“Wouldn’t it be nice if I had one of these fat, juicy sheep for dinner tonight?”
He managed to find a wooly coat laying under a tree, abandoned by a shepherd.
(Wolf puts on wooly coat) The wolf wore it to trick the shepherd.
As he blended in, the other sheep didn’t notice.
(Sound of two sheep, and the wolf trying to imitate sheep)
“Perfect. Now the shepherd will close us into the barn, I can just wait till midnight, and then eat them all!”
(Evil wolf laugh)
As planned, the shepherd led all of the sheep into the barn, including the disguised wolf. (Sound of two sheep, and the wolf trying to imitate sheep) As the night approached, the wolf fell asleep. The shepherd was hungry.
“Cooked mutton for dinner tonight. Time to kill me some sheep.”
So he went to the barn, took out his knife and started choosing.
“This one’s too thin. And this one looks like something is wrong with his neck. But this one’s perfect”.
He stabbed the wolf that was disguised as a sheep.
(Sound of rubber knife once, then twice, then three times.)
He realized that it was actually his son’s rubber toy knife. This startled the wolf so much that it ran away and never came back again.
“Oh my dear wolf, looks like your disguise might have worked a bit too well.”
Things are not always what they seem
and
Don’t oversleep.
Kevin and the Shoes
By Aidan Karim Ali
Honourable Mention, Junior Category
When Kevin opened up his new shoes on Christmas morning he had no idea that they would start rapping and become the worst problem in his life.
He first noticed in school when the teacher was giving an important lesson the shoes began to rap and disrupted the class.
I’m a shoe that’s what I do
I got soles down to my toes
I got heels and I’ll make you feel
Laced up and out of control.
The beats and rhymes were so good the whole class started dancing. The teacher got angry and yelled, “Sit down and Kevin stop rapping!” Kevin reached down and grabbed the tongues of the shoes and they stopped. The problem was he couldn’t hang onto the tongues all day because he couldn’t walk like that. Later he was in the library reading a graphic novel when the shoes began to rap again. Everyone started to laugh and the Librarian shouted, “Be quiet or get out!!!” Kevin ran out, red in the face and grabbed the tongues again. He silenced the shoes but not for long. After school Kevin was in the middle of his piano recital. He was playing, “Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 20 in D Minor.” The shoes, inspired by the music, began to bust out a sick beat with unbelievable rhymes.
It’s a Mozart rap so everybody clap
With Kevin up on the keys.
He’s playing piano, so you got to handle
This classical duet please!
Kevin, inspired by the rapping shoes changed up the Concerto to match the rapping. What came out was a rapping, piano duet the world had never heard before.
Someone posted the rapping duo on youtube and the very next day Jay Z called. Kevin, the shoes and Jay Z created a number one rap song that made millions and made Kevin and the shoes very famous.