from far away a story by Robert Munch
and salston asgar or by Rebecca Greene
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dear reading buddy my name is sauson I
am seven years old and I am in grade two
now I came from far away
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the place we used to live was very nice
but then a war started there's no food
my father said we are getting shot at my
mother said bombs made holes in the wall
one day a really big boom made our roof
fall in we have to leave my father and
mother said
my father left first and was gone for a
long time then a letter came with plane
tickets to a new country I didn't like
the plane it made me sick nobody wanted
to sit near me
in the new country my father took me to
school and left me there he said be good
and listen to your teacher I listened to
my teacher only I didn't know what she
was saying because she did not talk
right
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other kids tried to talk to me but I was
not able to answer I didn't speak
English
I had a buddy who showed me the school
and played with me at recess but she
didn't understand when I tried to teach
her a rock game I knew from back home
at first I didn't know how to say I want
to go to the washroom so I crawled out
the door when the teacher wasn't looking
when I came back I waited outside the
door until someone opened it then I
crawled back to my desk
once I crawled to the washroom and saw a
paper skeleton in the hallway only I did
not know what it was I thought the
skeleton was evil I thought that people
were going to start shooting each other
here I screamed a very good scream
everybody came running they thought
someone was being killed in the bathroom
my teacher tried to tell me that the
skeleton wasn't real it was made of
paper and was going to be used in the
school play I didn't understand she
jumped up and down and danced around to
explain that the play was just for fun
but I thought the skeleton made her
crazy and I screamed louder
my teacher hugged me just like my mother
would I didn't know how to say I'm so
scared but the big tear that went out of
my eye said it for me
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I decided that the whole school was
crazy and I did not want to stay there
but my father said I had to he said that
people here are not going to start
shooting each other
I had bad dreams about skeletons for a
long time after that but finally I began
to talk little by little I learned
enough English to make friends and
school started to be fun
now I am in grade two and I'm the best
reader and speller in the class I read
and write a lot of Stories the teacher
is now complaining that I'm never quiet
so far my favorite part of grade 2 is
the trip our class took to the zoo we
got to see the pandas and monkeys and
eat pizza and nobody shot at us the
whole time
I decided that my new country is a nice
place I changed my name from southon to
Susan but my mother told me to change it
back my teacher moved from our school I
saw her in the mall once and ran to her
and hugged her she was my first teacher
in this country and she helped me a lot
where are you from Reading buddy
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