PADDINGTON/Piero Visits Tasmania

• Piero Carlos, Grade 5
• Short Story
• 2015

Introduction:
Bienvenido mi amigos.
(Welcome my friends)
My name is Piero and I am 10 years old.
This is about my adventure from Peru (South America) to Australia (Tasmania).
Like Paddington, I was born in Peru.
Paddington took a long way to England but not me.
I came all the way around the world to Australia
Peru:
In Peru, I was getting ready to come to Australia. On one hand, I was feeling sad because I wasn’t going to see my friends ever again. I was freaking out as well because Australia was a new place that I hadn’t seen before.
Flight:
Remember how I said I was freaking out, well that happened. I was in the aeroplane for 48 hours and wanted to get out but it was impossible. I just wanted to vomit in the bathroom, but instead I just sat in the seat and watched movies in Spanish all over again because that was the only thing I could do. My legs had already gone asleep. The food was perfect and that a great thing about the trip.
Tasmania (Australia)
When I arrived, the first thing I knew was that they talked in English so I was so scared. My mum and I lived for a while in my stepfather’s workplace “Wrest Point” which I kind of liked because It had Wi-Fi for my tablet.
Tasmania was nice and I knew I was going to have a good life here. Anyway, they have this sport called “Cricket” and I like it and I ‘am practising a lot. Let’s talk about the house, it’s nice and you can see the river from there, I think I will live there my whole life!
School
In Waimea Heights, we have very good teachers, like Mrs Pratap. She is my favourite teacher as she teaches us in a lot better way than the Peruvian teachers. In school, I play handball at recess and lunch because it’s my favourite game, you know. When I started I was scared to talk to people because I was super nervous so I was spending my time in the classroom just reading books but then I realised I had to go outside. Soon I went outside and saw some kids playing handball so I played too.
And that’s how my school started on the first day.
My most embarrassing English messed-up
Remember, how I was talking about my first day at school. Well, I didn’t know a lot of English earlier and I heard a guy saying “Show-off” It sounded pretty cool so I started saying “Show off” to everybody because I didn’t know what that meant and when I realised my mistake after looking for its meaning, I felt pretty lame and embarrassed.
This is the end but I’ve got a little message to finish off:
Things haven’t been easy for everybody in Australia but we are happy, and I think Paddington would find himself in more trouble than I have.