9 years and below
A day I felt really happy
On this day, I woke up early in the morning and got ready for school. My mother cooked milkrice and gifted me with my favourite chocolate. It was a happy moment. I went to school with my father wearing a new dress and carrying sweets. My teacher hugged me and blessed me. It was such a happy moment. My friends shook my hand and wished me I felt very happy.
I returned home and took a nap. I heard someone knock at the door. It was my best friends from Nigeria. Oh! I felt so overwhelmed! My father came in with a big box. My mother said come let us all go upstairs. There, the room was fully decorated with purple toys, gifts, ribbons and cake. I was thrilled as we had fun and games. Then we had our delicious supper, the most exciting was the ice-cream soon after.
It was such an amazing day! A day filled with love and surprises. It was July 27, 2019, my seventh birthday. It was indeed a day, I felt really happy.
Vanya Liyanage (7 years)
Hillwood College, Kandy
13 – 15 years
If there was no electricity, how my daily routine would be different
Well, the day without electricity would certainly start off badly and get steadily worse in my daily routine.
All my family members would spend a longer time than usual and so I will get late with my routine morning hot water shower, breakfast etc., because my mother would have to use the gas cooker to boil water and to cook. As such I would be late to leave home for school.
Due to loss of patience, I am sure that I will leave my Student Record Book and will have to go back for it. So I would have to race back to the school bus; sweating, disheveled and breathless. Being held-up due to the failure of the traffic light signals on the roads, I would have to dash off the school bus to be on time for the bell. I’m sure that I will have to wait for the class teacher’s permission to enter the classroom and confess to being a couple of minutes late; in order to avoid ‘lunch-time detention’ and a letter home to my parents, because I am a prefect.
We will be sweating with continuous perspiration due to the absence of electricity which affects the practical work of many subjects especially IT and Science.
As I mentioned earlier, the bad day without electricity, will get worse when I return home. My heart will sink and make me furious to have a nap without a fan. In the evening I will go mad trying to do my homework and I will just groan inwardly for not being able to watch my favourite episode of Kumi – the kidnapped innocent girl.
The bad day will get worse and worse when I have to creep through the mosquito met into my bed and sleep without a fan. I will jolt like a wagon without springs and surely act like a bundle of nerves until the evaporation of my sweat produces a natural cooling of my body.
Neyali Abeyratna (15 years)
De Mazenod College, Kandana
