1. Story written by BENIAMIN from POLAND (class 8a)
Students from Lithuania will illustrate this story
What is paradise? People from the other continents think that it is a place of exceptional happiness and delight. It is typically seen as a massive lush enclosed garden. Although in our culture, it is seen a little different,
My name is Urriu. It means „star” in my language. I got the name from my dad because I have a beautiful face, with fair skin, that reflects the light really well. People say that they can see themselves in it. A paradise is a place where all of our kites go. It is a place, where you have the ability to bend the time. There is never too little of it. The kites represent people from our tribe. We paint them in the colors of our personality. My kite was painted yellow and red. Yellow means stars, hope, happiness, but also danger. Whereas red is the color of passion and love.
It was the 5th of March. It was the most important day of my life, because when the sun rose, everybody in our tribe that were 20 years old, would release their kites. There were 8 people that would do that: Tusju, Nefa, Noerhea, Amalhy, Kaariel, Ustu, Teake and me.
Finally, the moment has come. I have never been so excited. Everyone's kites were so beautiful. However the wind was quite strong and when I was about to release my kite, I got a little bit worried if everything goes well. Unfortunately, I was right to feel worried. Nefas kite ended up in the ocean. I immediately looked at her, and I saw her lying on the ground. I ran towards her, but she was already dead. I was shocked. It was the moment, when I realized, that kites, aren't just representing us. They are a part of us.
That's why our tribe will last forever, and even if anyone will end our lives, there will always be a part of us in paradise.
2. Story written by Rosanna and Kim from Germany (8e)
Students from France will illustrate this story
Tim and the kite
Tim has a great dream from an adventure he experiences with his new autumn kites.
In the evening, Tim blinked proudly from his bed over to the kite he bad built with his friend. „ Tomorrow he’s going to be happy. At least 100 m and more you will go to heaven, okay?“ The kite jerked a bit. It looked like he was nodding. Tim laughed. There he felt as if the colorful kite “Zackenschwanz” touched his face. Funny.
But he had little time to wonder. Already the wind blew trough
the window and grabbed the kite. Tim quickly grabbed
the kite string, and- one, two, three- Time and the
kite headed heavenward. Higher and higher, they flew through
the air. What an adventure!. Soon Tim could hardly recognize
the houses and streets. He looked up at the kite.
He laughed at him and began to dance in the sky. Tim laughed back and made a few careful dance moves.
It worked well and Tim became more and more courageous. Soon
he danced as gracefully in the sky as the kite. „ Yeahhh“, Tim said „ I can fly“. „Thats good! “. So they both danced across the night sky and laughed together. As the kite returned and put Tim on the floor and Tim said: „ We hope to experience such adventures more often“, the kite nodded „ Good Night“, Tim said and went into the house.
3.Story written by Mathis from France
Students from Germany will illustrate this story
Once upon a time there was a little town whose name was "Fairytown" and where everybody enjoyed celebrating Christmas. It was an enchanting world where all the stars in the sky represented the spirit of Christmas.
Christmas was a very important day for all the fairies and also for Angel, Bell and Flake three sisters because it symbolized peace, love anf joy...
But to the north of this world lived Jan Grinchy, the elf. He lived alone and he hated Christmas time, he hated the stars, the lights.. and that year he had decided to spoil the spirit of Christmas.
- What can I find to stop Christmas ? asked Grinchy.
Quickly he found an idea..."The Northern lights". "Yes, the Northern lights will destroy all the stars in the sky and it will be dark forever."
Meanwhile in Fairytown everybody was busy decorating the Christmas tree on the main square, everybody was singing. Suddenly there were clouds, the sky became darker and darker and the stars went out. The fairies realized that something was happening and that Christmas would be spoilt.
Bell, Flake and Angel immediately understood that Grinchy the elf was responsible for that, he who didn't like Christmas. It was necessary to find a solution to save Christmas.
- Fill the sky with rain of stars thanks to the love in the children's hearts.
All is well that ends well !
4.
Story written by Vaiva Steponavičiūtė from Lithuania
Students from Poland will illustrate this story
Once upon a time in the deep dark sea, a mythical creature was swimming around quietly.
The mythical creature had fins a tail and beautiful, long, blond hair.
It's a mermaid, some people think that mermaids are dangerous but in this story it's the opposite.
The mermaids name was Aurora, she was kind, strong, happy and very friendly.
Aurora wished she could see the whole world, but she was as scared of what the people might think of her.
And one day while Aurora was wandering around with her mermaid friends Blossom and Carmel, they saw something very colorful up above.
The mermaids started swimming closer and closer and then they realised that the colorful objects are above the water. All of them decided to go above the water and see what these mysterious objects are. One by one they poked their heads out of the water seeing that the colorful objects are beautiful kites. They didn't know what to do so they took a firm grip of the ropes that were attached to the kites. Suddenly the kites started flying in one direction taking them somewhere where they haven't been before.
With these magical kites they traveled around the world seeing beautiful sights, mountains and had a lot of new adventures coming their way.
The end