The Short Story Competition

We have no recieved some short stories from the school in Policka. Thank You! You have done a great job!

If anyone else wants to join the competition have a look at the instruction from the archive in february.


The Cave

Today I am travelling to a small village near Tanum. The village is famous for the painting in the caves. The paintings probably come from prehistoric ages.
When I am coming to the cave with a group of visitors I can see eight paintings in the cave and historic atmosphere is all around me.
When I see the first of the drawing, I feel strange, I feel like I am transporting to old times. Suddenly, I am really there. I am somewhere in a primeval forest. There are twenty people hunting a mammoth. Luckily, they do not see me, I do not look like them. They wear fur clothes and I have a T-shirt and jeans which really do not look like prehistoric clothes.
I turn round and there are other people dancing around a fire. They worship some gods.
Then I see some footprints. They ed somewhere near the river and there are a big ship. Suddenly, I feel bad. I feel dizzy and after a few seconds I am standing back in the cave.
The tour guide shouts at me: “Come on, you are late”
Was it only a dream or reality?

//Barbora Klimešová Gy, Policka

Once

On a prehistoric day children played with a ball. They had a lot of fun, but the chief of the group said:“You can’t played here, because you are making a lot of noise. Men must go hunting and they need silence to concentrate.
Then the men went hunting. Their weapons were spears and bows. They went very silently and they saw a big flock of animals. They threw their spears and shot arrows. Two antelopes were killed and one antelope was hurt. A man called Oleg had a good idea. He told his idea to his friend: “I’ll help this antelope and I’ll tame it. If it is tamed it will help me with some work.“
Oleg’s friend agreed and helped Oleg with taming the antelope. They were successful and it was how people started to keep animals.

//David Janousek, Gy, Policka

PETER’S STORY

Peter is a young boy. Last month he was twelve. He gets up in the morning and goes to school by the school bus. When he arrives back home, he does his homework. Then he sits to the computer and plays games the whole afternoon.

One day he tried a new game. It was about the age when people lived in caves to these days. Peter was at the beginning the game. He “played” the primeval ages.

But suddenly he turned round in a circle and there was darkness everywhere around him. Then he appeared on a meadow close to a forest. Peter did not know where he was. He saw some people on the other side. He went to them, but he saw they had dark brown skin and had almost no close on. They were very dirty. Then he realized he was in his computer game. In the primeval ages!

Then the people noticed him. They ran to the strange person in jeans and a sweatshirt. They touched him but were afraid of him. They had never seen anything like that. Peter talked to them in English and was very surprised when they understood him.

He went with other children and played some strange games. But one of the games was very similar to contemporary volleyball. They had to look after some geese while they were playing. Then they went to a village where Peter‘s new friends lived. While they were going there they saw a man ploughing a field and some men hunting stags for the dinner. People from the village welcomed Peter very friendly. He tasted their food.

In the night Peter could not sleep. He got up and made a fire. Suddenly he heard a noise coming from the forest. Peter went to those sounds. They were very mysterious. He came in front of the forest, but he did not want to go in. finally, as he was very curious, he entered. He saw a lot of footprints made by at least two hundred people.

He followed the footprints and after a short time he saw about two hundred people. They were inhabitants of a near village. The problem was that they were enemies and wanted to attack Peter’s village. He observed what they were doing. The enemies were getting ready for the attack. Peter returned to his village and saw that the whole village was sleeping. In that moment he knew there was no chance. His village will be destroyed and everyone will die. While Peter was thinking what to do, it started to dawn. Suddenly Peter got an idea. He ran back to the crowd in the forest and shouted: “Stop! Don’t attack! Stop!” The people saw him and stared. They thought he was a God. He was so different and the sun was coming from behind Peter. Peter said: “Don’t do it. You can‘t destroy the village. Or it will end badly for you.” The enemies were confused. Then they turned and went home.

Then Peter saw the darkness around him again and suddenly he sat in his chair in front of his computer. He has never seen his friends from primeval age again but he knew had saved their village and their lives. They never forgot about him and told stories about him for hundreds of years later.

// Karolina Voparilova, Gy, Policka

Giant Valibul

Once upon a time on an island, where very huge giants lived, a baby giant called Valibul was born. He was a very nice baby and his parents loved him very much. That is why he had a happy childhood. He played with other small giants. Once they were doctors and another time dustmen. He was a normal giant child.
When Valibul was a teenager, he decided he would be a vegetarian. But there was a very big problem, because other giants ate only meat. You must knot that. Can you imagine that if the giant is vegetarian he must eat trees and nothing else, because other plants are small for him? But the real problem was that in few days he ate all the trees in their garden. His parents told him he could come back home only if he would start eating meat. So he had to leave his home. For about one week he was sleeping in a forest not far from his home, but he knew it was not good for his health. That is why he decided leave home island and move to a neighbouring one.
On the sekond island it was very similar story. In a short period of time he ate every tree he saw. He was moving very frequently. When he ate the last tree on the last island, he did not have any food to eat. There was only one way to survive. He had to eat meat again, so he started hunting animals.
Now he could come back home. His parents were very happy about him and he was very happy he was again with the family.

//Magda Radimerska, 6.P, Gy Policka


Elks on a Trip

One day some elks were feeding on grass but suddenly they saw a ball flying and a man followed this ball. The elks looked very surprised because they did not know people.
A few minutes later two brave elks decided to follow the strange man. When they came to the sea shore they saw a ship and they decided to jump to it. The stranger was one of the Vikings, who sailed to other countries. The Vikings thought: 'The meat of elks is delicious,' and they kept the elks on the board of the ship.
The Vikings discovered Greenland and then they sailed further to the west. They had enough food so they did not to kill the elks and that was why the elks travelled with the Vikings further to the west.
One day the ship reached the coast of America. The Vikings set up a colony called Newfoundland there. The elks decided to stay in new country as well. The elk population grew. That is how the elks got to America and have lived there since. If you travel to some national parks in both the Yukon and the Northwest Territories, you will see the elks there.

//Pavlina Pamankov, Gy, Policka

Easter in Sweden

Hi!

We celebrate easter becouse of Christanity, but we also light fires and the children dress up as witches. They are walking around the neighbourhood knocking at doors, and hopefully get some candy.
They often have red cheeks, freckles a dress, pinny and a scarf aroud the head. And sometimes they give away drawings.

We light the fire to frighten the witches from "blåkulla" away.
Photo: www.inga.blogg.se

/ Alicia

Showbizz

Hello!

Me and Ida looked at the repetition for Showbizz, It's another profile at school. You choose that if you like to be at stage, dance, sing or just want to "fix" with the light and the sound.
they are going to do a lot of medleys for exemple, Madonna, Motown and some scetchers.
they are really good!:D

Alicia & Ida

Waffles

On March 25, it is waffleday in Sweden, where most eat waffles. To the waffles you can have cream, ice cream, and lots of different fruits. You can have a little what you want on waffles, but most have been cream and jam. It tastes not so much, it's most accessories that give the taste. Waffles is soft with a crispy surface, it is best to eat them hot, you get very full up on the waffles. Therefore, one should enjoy when you eat them!

The first flower

This is the first flower this year that we have seen. It is a good sign for the spring. The spring comes slow but it's worth it. This flower is called "Blåsippa" in Swedish, it's a beautiful flower but we can't pick it up because it isn't many "Blåsippor" left.

Have a great day!

// Martine and Le Ly

Sunny in Tanum

Today's the weather really sunny, you feel glad when you walk outside. The spring has arrived in Tanum. It's a bit cold and windy, but it doesn't matter. The pupils are sitting outside when they don't have lessons. They haven't done that in the whole winter. So we can say, the winter is gone!! // Annie and Anna Clara

Halloween

In Sweden we celebrate Halloween on the 31th of October and we usually dress ourself in scary costumes and walk around in the neighbourhood and do Trick or Treat. In Sweden were not taking Halloween too serious but it's still something we take a part in and come together and celebrate. Halloween came from Ireland in the beginning but is shaped to what it is today by Americans mostly.
I think you have Halloween in most countries too but I am not sure if it is something you celebrate much or if it is something you just have.

/ Callie

Waiting for Spring

When I look outside the window I see small mountains and trees. It is snowy, and so slippery outside. I get this feeling... are we never going to have spring this year? Today it is the fifth march, and we here in Sweden are hoping for some spring signs. I have heard some birds singing, and that's something I really missed.




Don't get my wrong now, I like winter. But not for to long. I like all the seasons, I like that they are so different to each other. Here in Sweden we can go and take a swim at the summer, we can go and pick “kantareller” (a sort of mushroom, at English called Chantarelles) at autumn, we can often throw snowballs at winter and we can pick beautiful spring flowers at spring.




I guess that some day, very near now, we can wake up and really feel that today we can go out and pick some flowers, finally! But until then we don't have much of a choose to “Gilla läget.” In English that mean that there is nothing you can do about it, you just have to like it the way it is.

/Rebecca

Job training

Soon will all the 8th graders in our school go job practising. Everyone have to find a place, it can be really hard, many companies and firms say no. We will go job practising for a week.

Everyone have to write a statement about the place of work. The 7th graders don't go job practise and the 9th graders did it before Christmas. We do this because we should know a little bit of what we want to do after school.

Do you go job practising? //Anna Clara