Ballyclare High
December 12 2017
If I said it was a rollercoaster, it would be an understatement. Go to Disneyland and times it by three hundred – that’s what I got on average. Spinning and spinning, it felt like three hours, but it was only three minutes!
Whenever we landed and I finally felt brave enough to open my eyes, a bright pink planet came into view. I thought I must be dreaming. The last thing that I remembered was my Mum calling me to come back. As soon as I exited the shuttle, it was freezing cold and I was chased by these ‘things’! We landed on the water and two things that looked like aliens chased after me until a blue-skinned creature pushed them out of the way and told them to go back to where they came from.
The blue creature was trying to communicate with me, it sounded like ‘wubble’ – but I was startled and didn’t know what to say. I heard noises coming from the rocket and it was a translation – the rocket was translating!
“Hello, what is your name?”
“I’m Jennifer, who are you?”
“Glorb. How are you? Are you hurt?”
“I’m good, I guess.” (I was feeling very dizzy and the creature was scaring me).
“What kind of creature are you?” Glorb asked.
“I’ve just run away from earth and my parents are not really nice to me. They are getting a divorce so I ran away. I saw a space shuttle taking off so I just got on it and now I’m here. I’m bored here.”
“I’ve been here for a thousand years with nothing to do!”
“At least I’ve got Marley with me.”
“I don’t like dogs.”
“Don’t listen to him Marley! …
I feel like I know you from somewhere.”
