The Mysterious Place

    In a piece of island, there’s a jungle. The island is on the sea and people rarely know it. There is an old witch who lives thousand years on the island. She knows how to use black magic and do the curses. She grows a lot of trees, plants and animals that now extinct in the world. Most of the plants can use for cure. They are grotesque in shape and smell disgusting. There’re some rectangular flowers and trees and triangle shape of grass. Moreover, there’re several kinds of animals. Some of the animals looked weird and ridiculous. For example, there’re unicorns, panda ants, mermaids in the jungle. Additionally, the blood of unicorn is precious, it can use for cure cancer. Many years ago, some intruders found the jungle. They wanted to catch the unicorns and cut the trees. They are greedy and barbarian businessmen who wanted to sell the unicorns in good price. They killed a lot of unicorns in the jungle during mid-night. The old witch saw the corpse of unicorns and she was angry. She killed the men the night after and made a curse to them. The curse is the next generation of those men can never have children. Those businessmen disappeared from the world, and no one knows where they were.

             From that day, the witch made a curse to protect the jungle. There’re clouds on the sky of the jungle that have protection. The old witch never came out from the jungle. She lives with the animals and studies the black magic in the jungle in her whole life.

Personal symbolic

   Friends play an important role in my life. Especially some close friend, they’re my strength. They help me when I meet troubles. We play, smile and cry together. We grow up and look after each other. I love them so much. One thing that has special symbolic meaning for me is a letter my best friend gave me. She name is Rosa. As Rosa knew that I’ll go to study in Canada, she wrote a letter to me. I have known her for 5 years and we have been in a same class for 4 years. I used to go to school with she, it’s so hard to go to school on my own. She gave me the letter before the flight. We hugged and cried in the airport. We don’t want to leave each other. The letter is meaningful because it included her love and our friendship. Because of the busy of school and time different, we can’t always talk on phone and share our life. However, I feel so warm when I read the letter again and look at photos of us. When I miss her and meet troubles, I will read the letter. It gives my power and faith to believe that I can do better. She is always my encouragement.

   I promise her to get into a good university in Canada, go back to Hong Kong and find her. When I get married, I will invite her to my wedding and be my maid of honour. Although it’s only a letter, it’s much more expensive that any jewelry or rings to me. It symbolic our friendship and you can’t buy it with money. We grew up together and went through a lot of troubles. It’s part of my precious memory and I will always keep it in heart. 

The Ultimate All-Purpose Excuse

Good morning, Ms Ngan, I’m so sorry! I’m late because I got something to do this morning. My mother was sent to the hospital last night because she got a high fever. It happened accidentally and I’m shocked. My mother is always health and seldom gets sick. Last night, she came to my bedroom suddenly and told me that she’s so sick and needed to go to hospital. She was weak and tired. She was unconscious and kept overthrowing during the whole night. She couldn’t eat or get the water on her own easily, so I stayed with her in the hospital until the morning. I tried to comfort her, took care of her to make her feel better. She couldn’t fall in sleep at night so I told her some stories.  

   I helped her to get the water and take the food. I’m so worry about her and I couldn’t leave her alone in the hospital. I love my mother so much and it is my responsibility to take care her. My dear Ms Ngan, please forgive me to come late this morning. I promise that I will do the homework and hand in it on time from now. I will never be late to school again. Please!!