Creative Writing My Family
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“Andy, come up,” my teacher invited. Our projects were to be presented today. My project was about my family. So I stood up and inserted my USB drive into the computer. I double clicked on the PowerPoint presentation. “My family,” I narrated as the title came up onto the screen “By Andy Roberts. There was some muttering in the audience. “How imaginative” and “very original” were some of the sarcastic remarks. “This is my dad, also known as Fatherus domesticus,” I said as a picture of my father appeared on the screen. “He is the leader of our clan. He loves historia and is known as the ‘Mathemagician’ by his tribe for his profound adoration of the number. In his youth he was known to be a servant of the rock Metallica. He loves watching the footballus on weekends. Although domesticated, he spends weekdays at the ‘officius’, his second habitat.” When a picture of my mother came on to the screen, I announced, “Meet Mothera domesticana bookwurma or my mum. Although very cheerful, she is enslaved by two dark beings: the Museumus and the Kitchenus. She spends many hours attempting to complete the jobs set by her two masters. The Museumus is especially demanding by making her write papers that require hours on the computerus and regular visits to its lair. In the deep dark cave of the Kitchenus mum pops popcornus and bakes an odd assortment of muffinni. In her spare time she loves to read scrolls and she stores a large collection.” Then my older brother popped up. “This is my brother, or Brotherus pesticus magnificus. He is known for his aggravating behaviour, so there is an ongoing battle between him, my sister and I. His arsenal of pranks includes using the dark arts of persuasion, hogging the computerus and repetitive chanting of our names to plague us with noise. Pesticus magnificus loves different scripts and is currently using the internetus and scrolls from Mothera’s collection to learn Persianus and Arabicus.” A picture of my sister slid onto the screen. “Finally this is Sistera magnifica bookwurmus. My sister. She has her own colony of beings living in her cupboard known as Softii toyii. Don’t try to converse with them as they only talk to her. She is known to love Garfieldus and Snoopius comica and regularly cuts them out of the newspapyrus. In her down time she can be seen with her nose in a scroll from Motheras’ librarius. She has some unusual collections such as small stickera found on fruitus from the marketplace.” I said. “My family is known as Subspecies Robertus. Although we are native to Australius, we can also be seen in Singapura and we have even been spotted as far north as Hollandia. That concludes my presentation,” I ended. There was some light applause, but less than I expected. Then my teacher said “That was a very good presentation Andy but this was supposed to be a biology project.” “That’s what I did!” I replied. Alex Williams, Y9.6, Grand Prize Winner of the Scholastic Writers’ Award 2010
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