Sunday, February 7, 2010

My Friend's Garden, by Meg, grade 4


I have a friend called Hannah. She lives in England. When I go to England in the summer, me and Hannah’s friends go camping in her garden. She has a huge, I mean really, really, really big garden and about 15 kids and their parents camp there. When I get to her garden it feels like my summer’s just begun.

The garden looks like a really big J or a wrong way round L shape and it is very green. There is a vegetable garden where they grow lots of things and we eat some of them when we are camping. At the top of the garden it looks never ending but if you walk down there it only takes about two minutes to get to the bottom.

There is a river at the end of the garden and a platform for fishing from. When you put your feet in the water it’s very cold and if you leave them there for a long time the fish come to nibble on your feet. If you reach down to the mud it feels squidgy but nice, really nice between your toes.

There is a shed near the top of the garden. We have “Shed’s Got Talent” there. It’s a talent show. The people who are camping sing, dance, act, tell jokes or make poems. If you win first place you can get five pounds and a t-shirt. Five pounds is about 1000 yen.

Back in the garden we play lots of games. When we play hide and seek, it takes about 30 minutes for one game. At night we play “Man Hunt”, which is like hide and seek but you use torches and you can run around. It’s more exciting than hide and seek and a bit scary because the garden is so black. There is also this home made swing there too! Someone pulls us back and forth and lets go and then we crash into the bush in front of the swing. There is a big trampoline too! Everyone loves jumping on it.

Even when we stay three days, I don`t want to leave that garden because I have so much fun.

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