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So now she has a new idea. She wants us to go up to Ballyshane in the middle of the night and scare the people. She wants to buy crow-bangers or fireworks or light a fire. First of all, I say, how are we going to sneak out of this house? My dad is a light sleeper. Even when I go to the toilet he knows. Secondly, what’s the point? Thirdly, no way am I lighting any fires like she can do her pyromania stuff on her own. Same difference for thieving. And she can forget about the fireworks and bangers, I have too much respect for my life. She says I’m just a pussy and we have a good laugh about that. It’s the first good laugh we’ve had since we got back together and it feels nice. Like Serena is not the worst. Idk. And she says, Your dad is out of it, he’s on painkillers and antibiotics and shit, he won’t wake! Then we started looking at old photos in my desk drawer, like actual printed photos, and Serena found my First Year copybook and we had a good laugh about the kind of homework we got which we thought was way too much. Back in the day. Like if it took half an hour it was unfair. Now we devote our life to homework. It’s like the thing we did in Religion about the season for all things and this is the Fucking Season For Homework. Jesus fuck my life.
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Story for English. My Exciting Discovery
Suzy Regan First Year
My name is Doctor Johansen and I am a professor. I found an exciting discovery forty years ago. It was the skeleton of a little girl. It was three point two million years old! That is a record for the oldest child ever discovered.
I was working on a archaological dig in Afar, Africa and that day wasn’t going too well. It was very hot and I was real thirsty and we weren’t finding things. We looked everywhere but there was nothing. So I was thinking of giving up and just writing something when I thought ‘Why not go over the place again.’
It was then I decided that the dried up river might be a good place. Even though guys already done it. I went down there and had a walk and took a good look around. To my surprise there was a bit of a skeleton sticking out of the mud. It was a elbow.
Then I started digging and I found a bit of her skull and other stuff. I was really excited. I called all my friends and we got her out. We were really happy because we knew she was three point two million years old. How we knew that was we knew that was how old the mud was.