Hi my name is Alice. I am 11 years old and I live in a boring old house that
is nearly the same age as my great granddad, and you have to admit he is
really old! I live here with my not cool mum that is always busy and does
not listen to anything I say. But she does plan cool holidays for us when
she is not working. For example next week we are going to South America
to visit my Aunt and Uncle.
So I rushed upstairs and stated packing my suitcases. I know it's a bit
early, but I want to get everything I need and make sure I don't forget
anything. After I finished packing half of my suitcases I took out my IPod
touch and started listening to some really cool tunes. I got my IPod touch
for Christmas 2 years ago off of my uncle Barry. My uncle Barry always
gets me amazing stuff for my Christmas and my birthday, things that are
really expensive and I still have them all and still play with them all! Then
it was time for me to go to bed.
Three days later I packed the rest of my suitcases. Then when all my
suitcases were packed I put on some songs and while I was listening to
cooler than me by Mike Ponser, I heard my mum shout me. I sprinted down
stairs as quickly as I can because my mum always has something good to
tell me, like if we were going to the Irn-Bru carnival. But when I got down
stairs there was a tall guy standing in my living room. I tried to ask my
mum politely who it was, but as I said she doesn't listen to anything I say.
So I looked at the guy wondering who he might be and he looked back at
me, but somehow he knew who I was. Then while I was staring at him my
mum said "Alice this is your uncle Jack".
I stared at him even more and he stared back at me although with a smile.
Then he said "Hello" I jumped back in a fright and said to myself "it talks,
so I better talk back”. So I did. I said to him "hello”. I asked my mum what
he was doing here and she said "your uncle Jack is coming on holiday with
us tomorrow”. I opened my mouth as wide as it could and then I let my
arms drop down, turned round and walked upstairs.
My uncle Jack ran up after me and tried to make me feel better. But
anything he did didn't work. Then I was getting annoyed at what he was
doing to try and make me feel better, so I laughed at what he did and
pretended that I felt much better, but I really didn’t. So then he left me
alone to go to bed because it was getting quite late and I was getting a bit
tired too, so I went to bed as well.
8o'clock the next morning my mum woke me up. I got out of bed straight
away because I was so excited to go South America. We left at exactly
8:15am and we arrived at the airport at 8:45am.Then we got on the plain
and it took us about 8 hours to get to South America. It was so long I
actually fell asleep.
Finally when I got there my mum woke me up, but didn't say anything just
tapped me and walked off the plane with the luggage! When I got off the
plain I saw my Auntie and Uncle right outside the airport. I ran to them
and gave them both a hug. They took us all to their house in their crystal
blue car.
On the way to my Auntie and Uncles house I passed a beautiful tropical
forest and I asked my Auntie if I could play in it. She said "yes but once
you've unpacked your stuff”. I said "okay”. As soon as I got to my Auntie
and Uncle's house I unpacked all my stuff as quickly as I could and then
rushed outside to the tropical forest.
All I could see was a whole load of trees swaying side to side. Then I saw
something hanging up-side-down on one of the trees. I looked closely at it
to see what it was. It just stayed still for most of the time. As I was staring
at the weird thing, it kind of looked like an armadillo or an Anteater. But
turns out it was a baby sloth. It smiled at me and I jumped back in fright
because of it's conical teeth that look like triangles from cross section.
The baby sloth came over to me and we started playing together. So the
first thing we did was we played at me being an eagle and trying to eat
the sloth and the baby sloth used it's camouflaging skills to avoid being
eaten. Then we had a walk round the forest together.
Then finally night came and the baby sloth found it's tree and then went
to sleep up-side-down on it. Then I heard my uncle Jack shout me. But at
first I pretended I didn't hear him and ignored him. So my uncle Jack came
into the forest looking for me and I quickly said to the sloth "goodnight"
and then made a run for it.
When I got home my mum asked me where Uncle Jack was and I said I
don't know. Then there was a loud knock on the door. It was my uncle
Jack. He came in crying. I hid. My mum asked why he was crying and he
said "I couldn’t find Alice anywhere”. Then I jumped out behind him and
said "BOO"! He got such a fright, but was so happy to see me and he gave
me a cuddle. I pushed him off me and said "YUCKK"! Then my Auntie
shouted "dinner everyone".
So everyone sat down at the table in the dining room and I told them all
about Tammy the sloth and what we did together. Yes that's what I called
him. Tammy! My mum was happy that I found a new friend to play with
and then I said "mum since we are going home in 3 days, can we take
Tammy with us because we will miss each other”. My mum said she'll see.
When I finished my dinner I went to bed early because I was tired.
The next morning when I woke up I got ready and ran to the forest to see
Tammy. He was right where I left him. He came over to me and hugged me
again. I told him that he might be able to come home with me. Tammy
was so excited. Then my mum shouted me. I went over to her although I
took Tammy with me. My mum screamed when she saw Tammy. I said to
her that this was Tammy the sloth, but as usual she did not listen to me
she just shouted at me telling me to get the animal away from her. I took
Tammy back to the forest although Tammy did not look at all happy, he
looked rather sad. I was sad too. I was sad because my mum never listens
to anything I say.
When we got back to the forest me and Tammy sat on a chopped tree
which was really not comfortable. We both sat down at the same time
and I sighed. Tammy did not make a sound. He just sat down with a sad
look on his face.
I stayed out-side with Tammy all day and all night. I even went to sleep
out-side. I chose to sleep on the chopped tree, and when I woke up the
next morning by back was killing me. It was only 5:24am when I woke up.
Tammy was still sleeping. I went home to my mum just for a minute. I
went home to sleep in my own bed just for half an hour, because I cannot
stand lying on that tree that makes my back ache.
At 5:54am I went back to the sloth. But when I got back, the sloth wasn't
there. I looked all over the forest for it, and while I was looking through
the prickly bushes, my head bumped right into a branch and made a mark,
and I didn't find Tammy. So I went back to where I was sleeping on the
tree and I sat down sadly. Then I heard a sound. I looked back at where
the Tammy was sleeping and he was there. Turns out Tammy was there
all the time, he was just hiding because he heard me come back into the
bushes and thought I was an eagle.
Tammy looked at me pointing to my head. I felt my head and pulled my
hand down. I looked at my hand and there was blood on it. I was going to
run home to tell my Auntie, when my mum came out. She apologized to
me for not listening most of the time, and she promised that from now on
she would. I gave her a hug and she took me home to wash my fore-head.
While she was washing my fore-head I told her that the animal she
screamed at was Tammy the sloth. She said sorry again and said that I
could take Tammy home tomorrow. When she said I could take the sloth
home she looked at me in a revolting way.
When I was cleaned up, I decided not to go back to the forest for the rest
of the day. So me and Tammy went into my bedroom and played in there.
But Tammy's a sloth so he can't do much. So we both just sat on my bed at
the window sill and played a game to see what we can find. Then I started
packing and I let Tammy take a few things. All Tammy took was a whole
load of water in water bottles and a whole load of food in tins.
I laughed at it and then said "you don't need all this stuff, we will have all
this at my house”. Tammy put it’s head down sadly and then unpacked all
the stuff that he put in. When we were finished packing I took all my stuff
down to my mum and she put them in the living room with the rest of the
stuff.
Then me and Tammy ran into the kitchen where my Uncle Jack was
cooking dinner. We took a biscuit and Uncle Jack asked if we were going to
ask for it. I said "of course" and me and Tammy went into the living room
and asked my Auntie for it. She said "yes of course but don't eat too much
before your dinner”. I said "okay" and went back into the kitchen with
Tammy and took another one. My uncle Jack was just standing there
looking at me letting the toast burn. He asked me why I didn't ask him for
the biscuit and I said "nosey nosey" and tapped my nose.
Then my uncle turned round and blamed me for the burning of the toast. I
just said "yeah right" and then he said "fine but this is your bit of toast”.
So I just said back "fine I don't care I’m not eating it"! So me and Tammy
walked out of the kitchen and went back up to my room. As soon as I
walked in my bedroom door my uncle Jack shouted "dinner everyone”. I
think he did it just to annoy me! But it didn't work because I was going
down anyway to get my iPod touch that my mum had in her bag because
she was listening to my songs. Her favorite singer is SHAKIRA!!!!!!! And
her favorite song is Waka Waka by SHAKIRA!!!!!!!!!
Anyway I took my iPod off her and we all sat down at the table. My
uncle Jack brought out the dinner. He made his special lasagna with toast.
As he was giving the dinner out I pretended to feel sick. I ran to the toilet
and while I was in the toilet my uncle Jack decided not to give me the
burnt bit of toast, encase it made me sick even more. I came out the toilet
with a smirk on my face and said I felt much better.
My uncle Jack gave me a weird look as if he knew what I was up to. But he
didn't say anything. I got back to eating my dinner. When I was finished I
looked at Tammy. He didn't eat any of his dinner. He didn't eat any
because he didn't know what it was. So I said to him that it was lasagna,
but he still didn't eat it. So we left the lasagna and headed up-stairs to
bed. Tammy went back to the forest to go to sleep.
The next morning I woke up with a scream. My mum, Uncle Jack, My
auntie and my other uncle came rushing in. My auntie asked me if I was
alright and I said "yes", I just had a nightmare."Well it is only 4:00 just
now" my auntie said as she tucked me in and gave me a kiss. She told me
to get back to sleep but I couldn't stop thinking about Tammy. Actually
Tammy was the main character in my night mare. It was about I woke up
really early in the morning, and I went to check on Tammy. But when I got
to the forest I saw Tammy lying on the ground with a big hole in his
stomach, and blood poured all over the ground around him!!!!!And that
was when I woke up. But thank god it was only a dream. I'm actually
getting sleepy right now. So I went back to sleep.
7:00 the next day was when I woke up. I got ready quickly and went to the
forest to get Tammy. I found Tammy near a bush deep in the forest. He
seemed to be upset. I asked him what was wrong as if I was talking to a
dog. And I felt stupid because real animals don't talk. But I could tell it
was because it he went with me then he would miss his mum and dad. So I
sat down beside him for a while and turns out he still came with me.
We hurried back to my auntie's house as quick as we could because our
plain left in 50 minutes. So we got our entire luggage in the car and my
auntie drove us to the airport. We rushed onto our plain and luckily we
didn't miss it. Tammy had to get put in a kennel with food and water.
What a shame for Tammy because it was only dog food they had, because
it is usually dogs that come on the plain. But Tammy didn't mind. He
actually liked it! When the plane took off we waved goodbye to my auntie
and uncle, except for Tammy who first of all he
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couldn't see them and second he
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didn’t know how to wave goodbye because he is an animal!
So after we waved goodbye the next thing you know we where up in the
sky.8 hours we had to wait again and 8 hours later we arrived. I got
Tammy out of the cage and my mum got a taxi to get us to our house. I got
the keys off my mum and ran to the door. I opened the door and ran
upstairs to my bedroom with Tammy on my shoulders.
When we got to my bedroom I slammed open the door with excitement
and ran in. I was too busy looking at Tammy that I didn't notice all my
stuff was in boxes, until I walked backwards and went to sit on my bed,
but it wasn't there and I fell on my bum and it really hurt! I asked my mum
where everything was and she told me something that I’ve always wanted
to hear. WE ARE MOVING!!!!!I've always wanted to move. I've always
been complaining about how small this house is and how it only has one
bathroom. I know there are only two of us though, but it would be nice to
have a bathroom to your-self! I mean you’re on private bathroom. I would
die to have one to myself. And now I can!
We are moving on Thursday and it is only Saturday so that gives us
enough time to pack and everything. I am so excited. Actually I am going
to start packing right now. So I took Tammy upstairs with me and we
started packing-(again). I only packed some of my stuff. I decided to give
the stuff that I didn't want or need any more to one of the hospitals that
live round the corner from me. Yes that's right, I am so generous and
thoughtful aren't I."Well now I am all packed and I am exhausted". So me
and Tammy went to bed straight away.
The next morning I woke up with a yawn. I tried to open my eyes to
discover that everything in the whole house was gone. Even my bed! I
woke up properly and found my-self lying on a smell old mattress! I
jumped up off the mattress quickly before I started to smell and I ran
down stairs to get my mum. She was in the kitchen smoking on a fag. I ran
over to her and clung on tight. She pushed me off telling me to take a
shower. But before I took a shower I asked her where everything was. She
told me it was all away to our new house except from some of the stuff
that we decided to give away to some of the poor people in South Africa!
"Oh well that's ok. But where am I going to sleep" I said."You can sleep on
that mattress that is still left in your bedroom. I know it stinks but we can
wash it and make it smell all nice and fresh" she said! I like the new mum
she's much better than the old one!
So I went in to take a shower and then went outside to get Tammy, who
was lying on one of the big trees in my back garden. I woke him up and I
was going to take him in my bedroom to play, but everything was gone. So
instead we just played in the back garden. It wasn't much fun either. So
we went round the block on my bike .Me at the front and Tammy hanging
onto me at the back. He looked so cute and funny with his helmet on.
After a while we got bored of that as well, so that left us with nothing to
do just sit on a stink old mattress."I know" I shouted but didn't mean
to."Let’s go ask my mum if we can wash the mattress now and while we're
at it we can give you a bath Tammy".
So we went and asked my mum while leading muddy footprints through
the back door as we entered. She said "yes and while you give the
mattress a quick scrub down I will mop the floors-(again)".Me and Tammy
looked behind us and realized what a mess we made. I tried to blame it all
on Tammy, but some footprints were the same size as my feet.
So I apologized to my mum then turned round and apologized to Tammy
for trying to blame it all on him. He forgave me and my mum helped me
get the mattress downstairs and into the bath. And as I said me and
Tammy washed the mattress while my mum mopped the floors .It was
great fun. Me and Tammy got soaked because we kept on making big
splashes when we dipped the sponges in the water to get all the dirt off
them. But it was ok for Tammy because he was going in for a bath
anyway.
Then when we were finished washing the mattress my mum was finished
mopping the floors by that time, and I helped her hang the mattress
outside to dry. It was almost dry when I heard something batter off the
window. I looked out and saw that it was raining. I tried shouting my
mum, but she was upstairs and couldn't hear me. So me and Tammy ran
outside trying to get the mattress inside. But something happened to
Tammy!
He fell on the mud and as he was walking he was falling to the side and
shaking. I got the mattress down quickly and ran outside leaving Tammy
lying on the filthy mud. I finally got the mattress in then ran back outside
to get Tammy. He couldn't move. He was struggling and finding it
difficult, so I carried him in. I was going to put him on the couch, but it
wasn't there. So I lay him on the floor next to me and shouted my mum.
My mum heard that time because she was already half way downstairs.
My mum asked what happened and I told her. I asked her if we could take
Tammy to the hospital as soon as the rain went off. She said yes and took
him straight away. When we got to the hospital the nurse said that he
would have a look at Tammy and he took Tammy away on a gurney. I
blew Tammy a kiss and hoped he'd be alright. Then me and my mum sat
down in the waiting room. Then 5 minutes later the nurse told me and my
mum to come into the room. He had some news about Tammy.
He said that there was nothing wrong with Tammy, it was just is time to
go."Is he going to be alright" I asked."No" the nurse replied. I felt like
crying but I was trying to hold it in. I took a long look at Tammy then bent
over and kissed him .I said goodbye to him and just as I said it, I noticed his
eyes shutting slowly. He was dead! I loved him so much and I always will,
with all my heart.