1. Story written by MAKSYM from POLAND (class 8a)
Students from France will illustrate this story
Once upon a time there was a magician. His name was John, it was John Steward. He was 26 years old. By education he was really nothing but what he could do best in life was acrobatics and magic tricks. John lost his mother when he was 7 years old. From that time, he lives with his dad in an old tenement house in London. John in a week goes on his route to amaze and enjoy with his magic tricks other people around the world. He is very joyful but also a bit sad because he will not see his father for three weeks. Its route will include cities such as Madrid, Paris, Moscow, Warsaw and Stockholm.
One week later…
John is already packed and will be leaving soon. Along with him, Alexander, Phil, Michael and Tom will also be on the private bus. They were about to leave but they heard John scream.
- Hey, gentlemen, wait. I still have to go for my cylinder, -John said.
- Ok. Just hurry up, - Michael told him.
John brought what he needed, and together they all went on tour ...
• The first stop was Paris. The boys felt great in this city and hoped that the audience during the performance would also feel so good. After the 4 hour performance the boys were very happy with themselves, especially John. He stated that it was his best performance in life.
• The second stop was Madrid. The climate that prevailed in the capital of Spain encouraged the boys to stay in this city for longer. Unfortunately, they did their job performing in front of thousands of people and the next ones were waiting for their performances in their countries.
• The third stop was Lisbon. Tickets for this show spread like hot cakes. The boys presented themselves splendidly evoking in the stands the joy and amazing emotions that can not be described in words. Unfortunately, this day was not 100% perfect for John, because at around 2pm he received a phone call from a hospital in London that his dad was in poor condition and was hospitalized. After what he heard, John decided to cancel the rest of the route and fly by plane to his dad to London as soon as possible ...
When he got there in the morning at 5:30 the doctors told him that his father died at 3:57. It turned out that John's father died of cancer. John was shocked when he heard this. He knew that now that he was no longer with him, he was alone. John decided that now everything he would do would be done for his deceased parents.
2. Story written by Ambre, Dorian, Elias and Teilo from France
Students from Poland will illustrate this story
It was year 2010 during the month of February in London.
The boss of a circus called Pablo worked with his colleague Adriana, who was an acrobat. Pablo needed a second acrobat but he couldn't find one. He asked Adriana to suggest to her cousin Janette to take on the role but Janette refused. The boss didn't want to continue his search so he decided to force Janette to accept the role. He stuck her.
During the show the public noticed she had a black eye. Somebody spoke to her and she went to the police station to file a complaint.
- Hello, I'm Janette. I was assaulted.
- OK, who assaulted you ?
- My boss.
- Where do you work ?
- In a circus.
- Why did he assault you ?
- Because I didn't want to take the role of acrobat. He obliged me to accept the role.
The boss was summoned to the courthouse and sent ot prison. Janette finally got her job.
3. Story by Lucas from France
Students from Lithuania will illustrate this story
His passion in life was sports cars and for nothing in the world he would have missed a Formula One race. His favourite team was Ferrari, he was a fan of them and that day there was a Formula One race not far from his home. Besides he had just had a promotion at work and to celebrate he decided to go see the race even if it cost 450 euros. He had earned enough money to go with his friend and his son.
Ten minutes after the race began, for fun he said "if Ferrari wins I'll play 100 euros at the lottery !".
At the beginning of the race, Vettel and his teammate Raikkkonen were third but the race went on and then Vettel suddenly overtook Hamilton and Roman and passed the finishing line first.
Later Frank came back and said to his friend "I played 100 euros and look ... I won 400 euros !"
His friend told him "play 400 euros !"
Frank took it seriously and bet 400 euros and came back with 1300 euros !
His friend said "you're so lucky ! Go on play again !"
Frank played once more and came back with 2500 euros !
He said he would go on playing but he came back with 1250 euros that time and then he went on losing again and again until he no longer had any money left.
A few months later there was another Formula One race but he only had 200 euros in his bank account and the price to go see the race was 570 euros.
The moral of this story is "enough is as good as a feast".
4. Story by Anaïs, Aurore and Selen from France
Students from Greece will illustrate this story
It was Saturday, May 4th in China. Boculus and all his company got ready for the show. The clown did his act with the dancers, Vitina and Lomana. The spectators lauged when suddenly they heard a noise and the circus tent collapsed.
A mysterious black cloud took Vitina and Lomana away. The two women disappeared and the spectators fled. Boculus was left alone looking at the torn circus tent.
All of a sudden a big diamond attracted his attention, he caught it in his hands. He teleported to a green place filled with sunny trees, it was like paradise. the clown walked and entered a sort of stone labyrinth.
The more he moved forward, the more he heard laughters from children. then a little girl appeared. She had black hair and was wearing a black dress.
- Excuse me, do you know where the exit is ? asked Boculus.
- You can't flee, you are locked. We're going to be good friends ! said the little girl laughing.
Boculus ran away, he fell and saw Vitina and Lomana tied to a chair. He cut the rope and all three ran away to escape the little girl.
After half an hour Boculus saw the exit, there was a blue stone, he took it and they all came out of the labyrinth.
They were in front of the circus tent that had not moved. The clown and the dancers jumped out of joy without thinking that in the other world the little girl also had a blue stone.
- Here I am my friends ! she said laughing.
5. Story written by Mantas Kondraševičius from Lithuania
Students from France will illustrate this story
Long time ago there was a magician called Franky the Monkey, he was a really nice guy until the evil magician Freezer came to his tent. He casted a spell on him. Spell made him real monkey, until then he was a regular man with a nickname Monkey.
Franky had three friends and they were also magicians. So Franky and his friends went on a journey to get his human body back. They followed evil magicians footprints and they realised that he was living in a mountain, but while they we're climbing two evil monsters attacked them. But for Frankies friends they we're nothing.
They finally climbed to the top, there was a cave so they went into the cave and they saw evil magician making a missile and everybody attacked immediatly him, but he had a shield and then he started fight back. After a harsh battle Frankies friends and him defeated the evil magician and Franky got his body back. But they didn't know what to do with a missile so they exsploded the cave and everything went normal like nothing happened.
| 6. Story from the Greek students Mark and Gregory Students from France will illustrate this story |
It was a normal day at the circus. At least we thought it was. While we were performing stunts, we realised that someone had cut the ropes. We fell down and a mysterious man approached us. He kidnapped us . Everyone was chasing him but noone managed to catch him . When he got away , he closed us in a van.
We were afraid and didn't know what would happen .He told us that he would kill us if our families didn't give him 10000euros.
We realised that we barely had any money. We told him that we didn't have any but he just lowered the amount to 100 euros.Then he left us there to talk to each other.
The only thing that was left to do wasto try to get away . My friend , Stacy cut the ropes that were tied around my arms with a pair of scissors that the strange man had forgotten there . Then we helped each other out and finally started running . The doors of the van were luckily not closed . We managed to escape . A week later we saw in the news that the strange man was caught. That was an experience that I will never forget .