Ghost Story

Louise lifted the silver chamber stick to her lips, with the tiniest breath the candle went out. Smoke rising in a soft weaving plume. Behind her, a sudden white glow caught her attention. She turned to see a white lady, dressed in a waterfall of silk, with long white curls over pale skin.

“Will you come with me?” whispered the white lady, slowly extending a pale white hand out to her.

“To where?” Louise asked.

“To Dream’s End, and new beginnings.” she whispered back.

Louise shakily took her hand, and the white glow enveloped her. And all that she knew paled into insignificance.

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Happily it all happened on the night of Halloween. Well I was my birthday wasn't it? On the morning of my birthday my mum woke me up handing me my presents. When opening the last present I thought I had, she passed an envelope and placed I on the end of my bed. Nervously I opened it carefully, and found out to my surprise that they were backstage passes to the Rihanna concert I’d wanted to go to.

 “Do you like your present?”

“Of course I do I couldn't have wished for a better birthday, thanks mum I shouted”

“Well it’s not over yet, I've got one last thing to give you and I think you’re going to love it she said”

Mum put on her coat the quickest I've ever seen anyone, and skipped out the door. “Where are you going, I panicked?"

 “Come on get in the car I'm going to give you a birthday you will never forget!."

“You already have”.

We both got in the car and headed out to town; well that’s what I thought anyway. Mum didn't say one thing while we were in the car. As we were strolling down the street, she stopped at a small shop called “Unusual Pets”. I looked at her with a confused face. Cautiously I trailed behind. Until. She pointed at a baby lizard lying on a pile of dirt and leaves.

“You mean, this is mine?”

“Yes, happy birthday”

“Thank you so much, I couldn't have asked for anything more”

“Kate’s coming tonight so you can show her him, before you go trick or treating.”

“Yes of course”

 I ended up calling him Drazil, which is lizard backwards. Kate was getting dropped off at our house at around 5 o'clock,  so she could get ready and have her tea at our house. That time soon came around, and we were sitting at the table eating my mum’s home-made pasta, it was delicious.

 Kate her name is. My cousin, who gave me a large box of chocolates and £10. I quickly showed her Drazil and then, soon Kate was ready at the door in her bright pumpkin costume, waiting for me. I ten came down the stairs with my scary witch costume on. The first step we took out the door, all we heard was complete silence which was strange. We both looked at each other and I told Kate not to worry to carry on as normal. Cherry Lane we lived on, and as we came to the end of that lane there was a house that looked like a tall dark building that should be in a horror film, we did hesitate to knock on the door, but something told me not to. “Come on, let’s go, I demanded. As we turned on to the next lane we arrived at at small house that was lodged in 

between to giant houses.

I decided to knock three times and wait 2 minutes, a minute had pasted and suddenly an old frail woman opened the squeaky wooden door. “Hello she whispered in a timid voice”. Before I could even say a word Kate screamed

“Trick or Treat”

She screamed it that loud it gave the poor woman a fright. The woman’s hand was shaking that much that she could barely hold the bowl of sweets she had.

“Here you go girls, she said”

“Thanks, we whispered together”

After knocking on people’s houses on that lane, we decided to head home and watch a scary film with mum.

“Mum were home, I said”

She was sat on a chair as we showed her our collection of treats. Me an Kate ended up sharing all our sweets and giving some to mum.

The door went and I answered it, I was startled by Kate’s dad wearing the scream mask. Before she went I thanked her for my presents and making my birthday even better. When she had gone I watched another film with my mum on our own before going asleep.   

     

Mountaineering Story

British climbers killed by avalanche in French Alps

A British climber (Rodger Payne) who was looked up to, as former chief executive mountaineering of the council, was with other Britons which sadly died after an avalanche struck on the slopes on Mount Maudit.

Another British mountaineering climber said in an interview he would have done everything the same as Rodger, and no one could have predicted that was going to happen. At the end of the interview he says he’s shocked and saddened after hearing of his death. Rodger Payne was one of the most enthusiastic climbers in the UK, he had a track record of Alpine and Himalayas mountaineering, a lot of people respected him.

The other mountaineers that were killed were said to be from Germany, Spain and Switzerland. The other two British climbers had said to taken a different route and returned back to Chamonix, where they then told the police they were safe and to not look for them. When the avalanche apparently struck when they were 4,000 off the ground.

On the morning no one expected such a large avalanche and tragedy. But on the other hand they did know it is a steep face to climb, and avalanches can occur easily, so it was still a risk. Some people referred the mountain as being a “black spot”. The avalanche got described as being the most deadly one they have ever seen in the past years.

Mount Maudit is now known as the “cursed mountain”.         

£1.74

On a daily basis I would:

·       At night sleep in a shelter where they give you clean blankets and warmth.

·       Look around in supermarket skips that have thrown away unopened packets of food, that are going out of date but still edible that day.

·        Buy Asda's own 2 litre bottle of water for 17p

·       Buy shower jell for 50p which will last 1 week.

·       Buy Snack bag of fruit for 30p

·       Use public toilets

·      Buy a reduced sandwich which costs 50p

In total I have spent £1.47 and saved 27p it may not seem much but after I week I will have £1.89 as well as my £1.74. Also I am saving 50p by making the shower jell last so i will have 50p more than i would usually have at the end of the week.

Homelessness In The UK

Reports of 5,678 people sleep on the streets of London alone.

The most common reason for becoming homeless in the UK is because loss of accommodation provided by their friends or family.

There are a total of 84,900 households In England for homeless people, which may contain more than one person.

In 2009 more than a 100 children less than 16 were living in shop doorways and on street corners.

The big issue magazine was launched in 1991, and where first able to sell in London, They were designed by Gordon Roddick and John Bird. The aim of these magazines where to make people aware of how some people have to live with no money, nothing to eat or drink and nowhere to live.

There tends to be younger children becoming homeless than adults this may be because of:

·        Violence

·        Drugs

·        Abuse

·        Family Background

·        Heavy Drinking

·        Having no money to pay for housing

Tension Homework

The writer structures this extract and varies the tension by using different length sentences, such as “so!” and “pity”! Using these varied sentences creates a scene that makes you want to read more. In the opening paragraph it says “hope that this endless hanging would soon be over” the word endless is a bit exaggerated but it shows how the person if feeling which is really tired,  telling the reader how the person is feeling makes them more interested in finding out more about that character.

When the writer sets the atmosphere it says in text “the rope sawed through the cliff edge, dislodging chunks of crusty ice. I have used this as an example because it is one i can elaborate more on , such as the words he uses in the sentence, dislodging which means moved out of its position. Instead of just saying a piece of ice fell to the ground, he uses dislodges which sounds so much better. As well as using good adjectives he also includes alliteration Chunks of crusty ice.

He creates tension by asking rhetorical questions, using these makes the story very tense as they are not being answered. The writer himself uses very powerful verbs, like “I could feel the rope tremble again” and he uses adverbs like “I lolled on the rope” the two sentences I have just used have so much more expression than just “ I felt the rope move again” or “ I hung on to the rope”.

In the last paragraph it gives you the impression that he thinks he’s going to die anyway, because he says “what I had waited for finally pounced on me”. When he describes the stars going on and off, in my opinion it’s like in the story he’s showing that he’s tired of waiting for something to happen, so when the stars are supposed to be going on and off, I think it’s his eyes opening and closing. This extract ends in a way you don’t it to, but that’s the effect the writer is using so you will want to find out what really happens in the end.      

     

The VARK Questionnaire Results Your scores were: Visual: 2 Aural: 3 Read/Write: 7 Kinesthetic: 3