June 2010
“Wow!” I said. The school chose five students whose marks were high on the exams and one teacher to travel to France and Turkey, and I am one of them! The students that are going are Ahlam, Rima, Ali, Yaman and I. Mr. Ahmad was going with us.
Now I am packing my clothes in a bag. Pajamas, to two pairs of jeans, a purple shirt, a pink shirt, six other shirts, black pants, seven pairs of socks, a hat, a tooth brush and toothpaste, my camera, my mp5, a notebook, running shoes, my Roots watch, a book to read, lots of paper, gum…
Knock, knock! “Here they come mom!” I said. I opened the door and saw them in front of the door. I said goodbye to everyone at home, and I went. A driver drove us to the airport and when we were there, we went down. We waited a lot. But then, we went into the plane.
First, we put seat belts on. After a little, a plane host gave us food. We ate it all. Next, she gave us coloring books and some colors. We colored and colored.
“Here we are in France!” Yaman said. We went down from the plane happily. We got our bags and waited for Miss Najah. She was going to take us form the airport in her car. There she came! We sat in her car and we were going to a restaurant.
“We are in the restaurant now,” Miss Najah said. We went down from the car and went inside. We all ordered Cordon Bleu with French Fries. And when we were done, Mr. Ahmad paid and we went to the car.
“Where are we going now?” Rima said.
Mr. Ahmad answered, “To the hotel.”
“Wow! Is it Hogy Hotel?” Ali asked
“No it is S& H Hotel,” I said.
Suddenly, our car bumped with another. “Everyone is fine?” Mr. Ahmad asked.
We all were fine except Miss Najah. But the car was alright. Miss Najah went to the doctor. Her hand was broken. She came to the car but didn’t drive this time. Mr. Ahmad drove.
“The hotel is beautiful!” Ahlam says.
“Yes, it is.” Rima agrees. We went to the hotel, and met a man. Miss Najah talked to him in French. He gave us a suite in the hotel: 4 bedrooms, a small living room, a small kitchen and 2 bathrooms. The suite was number 209. It is so nice. Mr. Ahmad has his own room and Miss Najah has her own also. Ahlam, Rima and I share a room and Yaman and Ali share another.
At 6:00 in the evening. We watched Zack and Cody. Then we watched Sponge Bob Square Pants until 7:30. Ahlam, Rima and I did a dancing party in our bedroom. At 8:52 we went to sleep because the next day we were going to the Central Park.
We did not want to sleep, and we weren’t tired at all. We played under the blanket. The light was on. Suddenly, Miss Najah opened the door and told us, “You have to sleep now. It’s 10:30,” and she turned the lights off. We slept fast.
In the morning, Miss Najah woke us up and Mr. Ahmad woke Yaman and Ali. We changed our clothes. We also wore hats and running shoes, and we took water bottles with us. We sat in the car and put our seat belts on.
Mr. Ahamd sat in the car and put his seat belt. We waited for Miss Najah a lot. Finally, she came down had something in her left hand she was eating. She sat and put her seatbelt on.
Mr. Ahmad put the car on, but it had no gas. He went to the nearest gas station. While we waited in the car. We saw Mr. Ahmad coming toward us. He was holding the gas in his left hand and a small bag in his right hand. He took out an ice cream from the bag for each one of us and then put the gas in the gas tank.
We left for Central Park. “Isn’t it so big?” Yaman said.
I replied, “Yes, it is. Wow!”
“That’s right!” Ahlam said. We went down from the car, and we went into the Park.
Ahlam, Rima and I went into a simple game. Then we went to buy chips. “Where is Rima?” I yelled out.
“We lost her”, Ahlam cried. We looked all around but couldn’t see her. Then we saw Rima crying in one of the scary games. When the game stopped, she came down and said while still crying, “What is this game? Never, I’m not gonna go in it again!” We all laughed and laughed.
We went in lots of rides. It was a lot of fun. We went into the Ferris wheel, and it went so, so, so crazy! When it was time to leave Mr. Ahmad and Miss Najah looked for us. They found Yaman and Ali, but stayed looking for us. They looked and finally found us in the train. When we were done, they called us and then we went to the street. We saw a double decker hop-on hop-off bus. We hopped on it and went to the second floor. We saw the malls of Paris and cafes. We didn’t stay long because we were too tired then we went to our hotel.
In the hotel, we ordered spaghetti and salad. They were delicious! When we were done, we went to the garden of the hotel and played with Ahlam’s Frisbee. We played a lot. It was 4:30. We went back to our room and we all sat on the couches and read stories or magazines.
Mr. Ahmad had planned that we go bowling that evening, “Get ready, we are going bowling!”
“Wow!” we all yelled, and jumped from our seats, threw our books on the couches and went to get ready.
We are ready! We all said. We went into the car, put our seat belts on and went to the bowling arena. I can’t believe this. I didn’t play this game from a long time!” Ali said. We went down from the car excited, but we saw a sign on the door that said CLOSED. We were so sad.
We heard on to the car radio: Real Madrid vs. Barcelona are playing now in Paris. Mr. Ahmad took us to watch the game. Ahlam and I are with Real Madrid and Rima, Yaman, Ali , Mr. Ahmad and Miss Najah are with Barcelona.
We watched the game. “Goal!” I yelled. Miss Najah bought us the popcorn. Real Madrid won 1 – 0. Congratulations! Ahlam and I were so, so happy. We went back home and it was 9:00. We had to sleep because there was the big day tomorrow.
We went to our rooms, changed our clothes and slept. I dreamt of my parents.
Disneyland was the real surprise of our trip to Paris! It was huge. Disney characters, games, restaurants, fun. It was a dream. We had tickets to Disneyland from the school. It was the best place on earth. We saw lots of Disney characters. I bought a mug for my mom and one for my dad. I bought a key chain for each one in my family and a Nemo toy for my little brother. It was the best!
We came home very tired. We slept early because we were going to Turkey in the morning. We woke up at 5:30 in the morning. We packed our things and went to the airport. Miss Najah said bye. Rima said to her, “I wish you could come with us.”
Miss Najah replied, “I wish so too. But I can’t leave my kids alone in Paris.” We all said good bye to her.
On the plane, we put our seatbelts on and we slept because we were still so tired from the day at Disney. When we woke it was time to eat. We ate and read.
“This plane is wonderful!” I said. Now we are in Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul. We went down from the plane, got our bags and took the bus to the hotel. They gave us also a suite. We had 4 bedrooms, a small kitchen, a bathroom and a guest room.
We saw all the rooms. One room for Ahlam, one for Rima and me, one for Ali and Yaman, one for Mr. Ahmad and one room was for no one. The rooms were nice and slept in our new beds.
Today is Monday morning. We are going shopping. Mr. Ahmad rented a car from the hotel. We sat in the car and put our seat belts.
We went to a big mall. “There are lots of nice things here!” Yaman said. I bought a small doll and some books and a pencil case and a case for my mp5. We went to another store. I bought a bracelet while Rima bought a cup and two dolls, Ahlam bought a box of toys and some hair ties.
Now we are in the last store. I bought a ball and Rima bought a ball and a notebook and Ahlam bought sunglasses. We are done. We went in the car and wanted to pray Asr in the Blue Mosque. It was fascinating. I took some pictures in my camera.
We jumped in the car and Mr. Ahmad drove. Suddenly, the police stopped us because we didn’t have our seatbelts on. But how did we forget? After a while, everything was okay and we put them on.
Here we are at the hotel. We went to our rooms and we checked our new things. We opened Yaman and Ali’s door. They were taking silly pictures. We went back to our room and played with our new dolls.
We went to the hotel restaurant at 8:30. We had chicken, broccoli and potatoes. We drank juice also and went back to our rooms. We played with our mp5s a little and slept.
Today is a sunny and clear day. We are going to lots of places. Everyone got ready to have a long day. We jumped in the car and put our seat belts on. First, we went to a park and played. We had lots of fun. Then we went to the Camlica Mountain. The view is beautiful there. We went to a café and had some ice cream and Mr. Ahmad worked on his laptop. We left Mr. Ahmad at his table and went outside to play hide-and-seek. I found Ahlam, Ali and Yaman, but I didn’t find Rima! “We always lose her”, Ahlam said. We all looked for her a lot but didn’t find her.
We told Mr. Ahmad, so he looked for her with us. “We’re not going to find her,” Yaman said. We walked far, but we still didn’t find her. We were so tired, so we sat a bit on the green grass. When we had some rest, we went to look for Rima again.
We went farther and farther. We saw Rima running and crying. There was a big black dog running after her. “Rima, come here!” I yelled to her. She came toward us, and we ran quickly to the car. And the dog lost Rima. We sat in the car and put our seatbelts on.
“Where do you want to go now?” teacher Ahmad asked.
“Any place except the mountain!” Rima said.
“We’re not going to the mountain,” Yaman said.
“Ok now, where are we going?” asked Ali.
“Look outside and tell me where you want to go,” said Mr. Ahmad.
“To the cinema!” I cried out.
“Yes, yes, we want to go there!” Ali said.
“Ok,” said Mr. Ahmad, and we went to the cinema.
We watched Nemo! 1- 2- 3 start! Rima was scared when Nemo lost his father, “What will happen now?”
“This is just a cartoon. You are a chicken,” said Ali.
“OK, can you please be quiet and let us watch? Ok?” We watched, then Ahlam fell asleep. When the movie was over, we woke Ahlam up. Then she asked, “Was the movie nice?”
“So sad!” said Rima.
“No it’s not scary! No it’s not scary at all!”
We went to the car. “What is it? 3: 30?” Ali said. Then we went shopping. In the mall, we bought lots of things.
We went to the hotel. “Oh, I wanna sleep, sleep now. I am so tired!” Ali said. We went to our rooms. We changed our clothes, and I played my favorite game “Road Rash” on the mp5. Then we fell asleep.
In the morning, we saw an announcement in the hotel lobby about a roller-blading contest. It is tomorrow morning at 9:30 a.m. the first prized is a Toshiba laptop.
We can participate in it. But who would we choose to participate? “Not me!” said Rima, “Who knows how to roller blade?”
“I play well,” I said. Mr. Ahmad said, “Ok, then Leen will be in the contest.”
We went and put our things away in the bags because we were going tomorrow back to Lebanon. When we were done I took Rima’s roller blades and I practiced a little before the contest. We slept early that night.
At 7: 30 in the morning, we went to the contest area and I went beside the players, while Rima, Ahlam, Ali, Yaman and Mr. Ahmad were encouraging me. I won in five rounds and I lost in one. I played so well. And when it was time to announce the winners. Everyone got ready. “Leen El Khateeb, First prize!” Everyone clapped and I went up to the stage and received my medal and laptop.
When we had to leave Turkey, we went to give the car back to the hotel. They told us that we could take the car to the airport and they would send with someone to pick it up at the airport to take it there. On the plane, we slept. We woke up because of noise. The lights went off and it seemed that there was a problem in the plane. Then the captain announced that we were going down in Cyprus airport. We were so scared. We went down in Cyprus and they took us to a hotel. We stayed there 10 hours. We started talking about what we did in France and Turkey.
Here we are now in Beirut Airport. We went down from the plane and we got our bags and to Lebanon welcomed us. A school bus took us to our houses. We all said to each other, “Have a nice summer!’.
When Ahlam went down to her house, she found that she had a new baby brother. Yaman found that his parents bought for him a new dresser in his room. Ali found lots of gifts for him, and Rima’s family made a surprise party for her. But when I went down to my house, I didn’t find anyone!
I waited for my parents outside on the swing. I waited and waited, till my parents came in the new car toward me. I hugged and kissed everyone. When mom opened the door, I didn’t know what happened. It was a party. There were many banners: Happy Birthday Leen, Welcome Home. Okay, okay! It is my birthday. I am 10 years and my family made a party for me!
We had cake and sweets. Everyone asked me about the trip and I told them everything.
Really, it was a nice trip!
But it was nicer to be at home!
“Wow!” I said. The school chose five students whose marks were high on the exams and one teacher to travel to France and Turkey, and I am one of them! The students that are going are Ahlam, Rima, Ali, Yaman and I. Mr. Ahmad was going with us.
Now I am packing my clothes in a bag. Pajamas, to two pairs of jeans, a purple shirt, a pink shirt, six other shirts, black pants, seven pairs of socks, a hat, a tooth brush and toothpaste, my camera, my mp5, a notebook, running shoes, my Roots watch, a book to read, lots of paper, gum…
Knock, knock! “Here they come mom!” I said. I opened the door and saw them in front of the door. I said goodbye to everyone at home, and I went. A driver drove us to the airport and when we were there, we went down. We waited a lot. But then, we went into the plane.
First, we put seat belts on. After a little, a plane host gave us food. We ate it all. Next, she gave us coloring books and some colors. We colored and colored.
“Here we are in France!” Yaman said. We went down from the plane happily. We got our bags and waited for Miss Najah. She was going to take us form the airport in her car. There she came! We sat in her car and we were going to a restaurant.
“We are in the restaurant now,” Miss Najah said. We went down from the car and went inside. We all ordered Cordon Bleu with French Fries. And when we were done, Mr. Ahmad paid and we went to the car.
“Where are we going now?” Rima said.
Mr. Ahmad answered, “To the hotel.”
“Wow! Is it Hogy Hotel?” Ali asked
“No it is S& H Hotel,” I said.
Suddenly, our car bumped with another. “Everyone is fine?” Mr. Ahmad asked.
We all were fine except Miss Najah. But the car was alright. Miss Najah went to the doctor. Her hand was broken. She came to the car but didn’t drive this time. Mr. Ahmad drove.
“The hotel is beautiful!” Ahlam says.
“Yes, it is.” Rima agrees. We went to the hotel, and met a man. Miss Najah talked to him in French. He gave us a suite in the hotel: 4 bedrooms, a small living room, a small kitchen and 2 bathrooms. The suite was number 209. It is so nice. Mr. Ahmad has his own room and Miss Najah has her own also. Ahlam, Rima and I share a room and Yaman and Ali share another.
At 6:00 in the evening. We watched Zack and Cody. Then we watched Sponge Bob Square Pants until 7:30. Ahlam, Rima and I did a dancing party in our bedroom. At 8:52 we went to sleep because the next day we were going to the Central Park.
We did not want to sleep, and we weren’t tired at all. We played under the blanket. The light was on. Suddenly, Miss Najah opened the door and told us, “You have to sleep now. It’s 10:30,” and she turned the lights off. We slept fast.
In the morning, Miss Najah woke us up and Mr. Ahmad woke Yaman and Ali. We changed our clothes. We also wore hats and running shoes, and we took water bottles with us. We sat in the car and put our seat belts on.
Mr. Ahamd sat in the car and put his seat belt. We waited for Miss Najah a lot. Finally, she came down had something in her left hand she was eating. She sat and put her seatbelt on.
Mr. Ahmad put the car on, but it had no gas. He went to the nearest gas station. While we waited in the car. We saw Mr. Ahmad coming toward us. He was holding the gas in his left hand and a small bag in his right hand. He took out an ice cream from the bag for each one of us and then put the gas in the gas tank.
We left for Central Park. “Isn’t it so big?” Yaman said.
I replied, “Yes, it is. Wow!”
“That’s right!” Ahlam said. We went down from the car, and we went into the Park.
Ahlam, Rima and I went into a simple game. Then we went to buy chips. “Where is Rima?” I yelled out.
“We lost her”, Ahlam cried. We looked all around but couldn’t see her. Then we saw Rima crying in one of the scary games. When the game stopped, she came down and said while still crying, “What is this game? Never, I’m not gonna go in it again!” We all laughed and laughed.
We went in lots of rides. It was a lot of fun. We went into the Ferris wheel, and it went so, so, so crazy! When it was time to leave Mr. Ahmad and Miss Najah looked for us. They found Yaman and Ali, but stayed looking for us. They looked and finally found us in the train. When we were done, they called us and then we went to the street. We saw a double decker hop-on hop-off bus. We hopped on it and went to the second floor. We saw the malls of Paris and cafes. We didn’t stay long because we were too tired then we went to our hotel.
In the hotel, we ordered spaghetti and salad. They were delicious! When we were done, we went to the garden of the hotel and played with Ahlam’s Frisbee. We played a lot. It was 4:30. We went back to our room and we all sat on the couches and read stories or magazines.
Mr. Ahmad had planned that we go bowling that evening, “Get ready, we are going bowling!”
“Wow!” we all yelled, and jumped from our seats, threw our books on the couches and went to get ready.
We are ready! We all said. We went into the car, put our seat belts on and went to the bowling arena. I can’t believe this. I didn’t play this game from a long time!” Ali said. We went down from the car excited, but we saw a sign on the door that said CLOSED. We were so sad.
We heard on to the car radio: Real Madrid vs. Barcelona are playing now in Paris. Mr. Ahmad took us to watch the game. Ahlam and I are with Real Madrid and Rima, Yaman, Ali , Mr. Ahmad and Miss Najah are with Barcelona.
We watched the game. “Goal!” I yelled. Miss Najah bought us the popcorn. Real Madrid won 1 – 0. Congratulations! Ahlam and I were so, so happy. We went back home and it was 9:00. We had to sleep because there was the big day tomorrow.
We went to our rooms, changed our clothes and slept. I dreamt of my parents.
Disneyland was the real surprise of our trip to Paris! It was huge. Disney characters, games, restaurants, fun. It was a dream. We had tickets to Disneyland from the school. It was the best place on earth. We saw lots of Disney characters. I bought a mug for my mom and one for my dad. I bought a key chain for each one in my family and a Nemo toy for my little brother. It was the best!
We came home very tired. We slept early because we were going to Turkey in the morning. We woke up at 5:30 in the morning. We packed our things and went to the airport. Miss Najah said bye. Rima said to her, “I wish you could come with us.”
Miss Najah replied, “I wish so too. But I can’t leave my kids alone in Paris.” We all said good bye to her.
On the plane, we put our seatbelts on and we slept because we were still so tired from the day at Disney. When we woke it was time to eat. We ate and read.
“This plane is wonderful!” I said. Now we are in Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul. We went down from the plane, got our bags and took the bus to the hotel. They gave us also a suite. We had 4 bedrooms, a small kitchen, a bathroom and a guest room.
We saw all the rooms. One room for Ahlam, one for Rima and me, one for Ali and Yaman, one for Mr. Ahmad and one room was for no one. The rooms were nice and slept in our new beds.
Today is Monday morning. We are going shopping. Mr. Ahmad rented a car from the hotel. We sat in the car and put our seat belts.
We went to a big mall. “There are lots of nice things here!” Yaman said. I bought a small doll and some books and a pencil case and a case for my mp5. We went to another store. I bought a bracelet while Rima bought a cup and two dolls, Ahlam bought a box of toys and some hair ties.
Now we are in the last store. I bought a ball and Rima bought a ball and a notebook and Ahlam bought sunglasses. We are done. We went in the car and wanted to pray Asr in the Blue Mosque. It was fascinating. I took some pictures in my camera.
We jumped in the car and Mr. Ahmad drove. Suddenly, the police stopped us because we didn’t have our seatbelts on. But how did we forget? After a while, everything was okay and we put them on.
Here we are at the hotel. We went to our rooms and we checked our new things. We opened Yaman and Ali’s door. They were taking silly pictures. We went back to our room and played with our new dolls.
We went to the hotel restaurant at 8:30. We had chicken, broccoli and potatoes. We drank juice also and went back to our rooms. We played with our mp5s a little and slept.
Today is a sunny and clear day. We are going to lots of places. Everyone got ready to have a long day. We jumped in the car and put our seat belts on. First, we went to a park and played. We had lots of fun. Then we went to the Camlica Mountain. The view is beautiful there. We went to a café and had some ice cream and Mr. Ahmad worked on his laptop. We left Mr. Ahmad at his table and went outside to play hide-and-seek. I found Ahlam, Ali and Yaman, but I didn’t find Rima! “We always lose her”, Ahlam said. We all looked for her a lot but didn’t find her.
We told Mr. Ahmad, so he looked for her with us. “We’re not going to find her,” Yaman said. We walked far, but we still didn’t find her. We were so tired, so we sat a bit on the green grass. When we had some rest, we went to look for Rima again.
We went farther and farther. We saw Rima running and crying. There was a big black dog running after her. “Rima, come here!” I yelled to her. She came toward us, and we ran quickly to the car. And the dog lost Rima. We sat in the car and put our seatbelts on.
“Where do you want to go now?” teacher Ahmad asked.
“Any place except the mountain!” Rima said.
“We’re not going to the mountain,” Yaman said.
“Ok now, where are we going?” asked Ali.
“Look outside and tell me where you want to go,” said Mr. Ahmad.
“To the cinema!” I cried out.
“Yes, yes, we want to go there!” Ali said.
“Ok,” said Mr. Ahmad, and we went to the cinema.
We watched Nemo! 1- 2- 3 start! Rima was scared when Nemo lost his father, “What will happen now?”
“This is just a cartoon. You are a chicken,” said Ali.
“OK, can you please be quiet and let us watch? Ok?” We watched, then Ahlam fell asleep. When the movie was over, we woke Ahlam up. Then she asked, “Was the movie nice?”
“So sad!” said Rima.
“No it’s not scary! No it’s not scary at all!”
We went to the car. “What is it? 3: 30?” Ali said. Then we went shopping. In the mall, we bought lots of things.
We went to the hotel. “Oh, I wanna sleep, sleep now. I am so tired!” Ali said. We went to our rooms. We changed our clothes, and I played my favorite game “Road Rash” on the mp5. Then we fell asleep.
In the morning, we saw an announcement in the hotel lobby about a roller-blading contest. It is tomorrow morning at 9:30 a.m. the first prized is a Toshiba laptop.
We can participate in it. But who would we choose to participate? “Not me!” said Rima, “Who knows how to roller blade?”
“I play well,” I said. Mr. Ahmad said, “Ok, then Leen will be in the contest.”
We went and put our things away in the bags because we were going tomorrow back to Lebanon. When we were done I took Rima’s roller blades and I practiced a little before the contest. We slept early that night.
At 7: 30 in the morning, we went to the contest area and I went beside the players, while Rima, Ahlam, Ali, Yaman and Mr. Ahmad were encouraging me. I won in five rounds and I lost in one. I played so well. And when it was time to announce the winners. Everyone got ready. “Leen El Khateeb, First prize!” Everyone clapped and I went up to the stage and received my medal and laptop.
When we had to leave Turkey, we went to give the car back to the hotel. They told us that we could take the car to the airport and they would send with someone to pick it up at the airport to take it there. On the plane, we slept. We woke up because of noise. The lights went off and it seemed that there was a problem in the plane. Then the captain announced that we were going down in Cyprus airport. We were so scared. We went down in Cyprus and they took us to a hotel. We stayed there 10 hours. We started talking about what we did in France and Turkey.
Here we are now in Beirut Airport. We went down from the plane and we got our bags and to Lebanon welcomed us. A school bus took us to our houses. We all said to each other, “Have a nice summer!’.
When Ahlam went down to her house, she found that she had a new baby brother. Yaman found that his parents bought for him a new dresser in his room. Ali found lots of gifts for him, and Rima’s family made a surprise party for her. But when I went down to my house, I didn’t find anyone!
I waited for my parents outside on the swing. I waited and waited, till my parents came in the new car toward me. I hugged and kissed everyone. When mom opened the door, I didn’t know what happened. It was a party. There were many banners: Happy Birthday Leen, Welcome Home. Okay, okay! It is my birthday. I am 10 years and my family made a party for me!
We had cake and sweets. Everyone asked me about the trip and I told them everything.
Really, it was a nice trip!
But it was nicer to be at home!
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