Talent Pool Writing: First Lesson

On the Friday a few weeks ago, some students of grades four and five were chosen to have the Talent Pool lessons.  I am one of them.  We had to go to the hall at the last hours before the school day ended.

When we arrived at the hall, we were asked to play "call out your number” and “make a guess”.  For "call out your number”, we formed into four columns and had to call out our number one by one.  However, all fifty-six of us mumbled slowly rather than  calling out our number.  It took us five minutes to finish.  Luckily, all of us got focused at last and managed to finish it in less than a minute.

Then it was "make a guess”.  Miss Wong used a projector to show us an enlarged image of a thing in a Japanese restaurant.  As I was wondering if it ought to be some chopsticks on a plate, a kid shot her arm up,“A sandal rack?”  In the end, Miss Wong pressed a button and a picture of an old Japanese lock appeared.  Oohs and ahhs filled the hall at once.

At last, the grade five students grouped into groups with the students from grade four.  Miss Wong invited all the groups to observe any creative and interesting new things in their daily lives.  However, I don’t have any clever ideas yet.  I hope lots of ideas will spring to my mind later so that I can have a wonderful presentation with my group.  Before dismissing the class, Miss Wong announced that we would pick a president, two vice-presidents and other officers in the future soon.  Also, the Talent Pool will visit the Museum of Coastal Defence.  It was a rather great beginning of the Talent Pool.

Swimming

This swimming gala, I won a gold medal of both back stroke and relay race.  I was just gonna to grab the freestyle bronze medal when I slowed 0.01 second!  My brother also got a gold, silver and bronze.  In the early morning, my family and I went to the indoor swimming pool in Kowloon Park.  My mum’s best friend, Sally had attended to watch my brother and my races too.  Mine were 50m freestyle, 50m back stroke and my brother were 100m freestyle and 50m back stroke.  beside, we had a 4 x 50 relay race with our two classmates.  After the swimming gala of more that seventy races, the YCPS students were rather happy.  But more happy, my family and I had a buffet lunch in Marco Polo Hotel with Sally.  Sally likes dessert, Dad likes bread, Mum likes seafood and my brother and I like every food.  However, I’m found of Japanese food and noodles especially. 

Tuesday was another day for my brother and I to swim.  My classmate, Timmy’s Mum appreciate that if we could go to Timmy’s outdoor swimming class.  That was because his coach was better than the YMCA’s.  The coach helped me to swim the butterfly two second faster and corrected my freestyle posture.   After class, my brother and I played water judo.  I spent two ‘aqua’ days.

12th September, 07 ；Wednesday (sunny)

It was the date of my first day to write my Timmy’s Tibits.  Until now, I had written for five years!  There were about 1400 people who had watched my blog.  Thank you all for giving the comments.

Shatin Regency Hyatt Hotel

My family and I had a break after two schooldays of P5 at Shatin Regency Hyatt Hotel with my cousins’ family.  the new Regency Hotel is near the University.  When we just arrived, we strammed straight to the tea buffet hungrily.  In the middle of the tea, my cousins and I pretended that we were goofy sheep.  We munched some grassy seaweed and sipped glasses of goat-milk-like chocolate milkshake.  It tasted quite good.  When we were almost full, my cousin found a big black ant.  We tried to feed him with sesame.  However, it struggled weakly instead of eating.  At last, the ant died when we played antball.

We also did some sports like swimming and cycling.  My bike broke down twice unfortunately.  Luckily, a kind staff carried another bike a long way for me.  So, I can still cycle enjoyably.  At night, we Long Wah Restaurant nearby.  I blew many colourful balloons after dinner.  I also watched a dozen of Cartoon Network Cartoons.  I had a pleasant weekend.      

Back to YCPS Is Cool

Today was the very first day of class E in grade five.  Although my brother and our old friends weren’t in class 5E, I didn’t care a lot.  That was because we can pay more attention in the lessons.  At the assembly, I heard some good news.  Headmistress Ho said, “Good morning! Had you students noticed there were air-cons in the covered playground!?  There were also some plastic  curtains and blue soft lining.  The most exciting was the library had transformed into a ‘space station'!  The canteen had ‘Greened’ too which is still renovating now.  Have your first school day great!’’  My class teacher was Miss Wong.  She was a student of YCPS then and, an instructor of an indoor camping which I had joined when grade one!  Miss Wong always calls some students in a funny way like Little Car and King of Leaving the Seat.  At recesses, my brother and I played a game which we had to walk on the tracks and lines of the basketball and football court.  We called it the BFTL.  It was so exhausting that I sweat all over my body like I had just swum.  I had a really great day which Headmistress Ho said exactly. Certainly, I had happy moments too the days after.

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

Background of the Story Plot
Event 1: Five main characters are having a conversation.  The time traveller told them about his time machine.
Event 2: The time traveller travelled into futurity where he saw the human beings in future and explored the place.
Event 3: He came across the Morlocks and had a fight with them.
Event 4: He travelled further into the futurity and saw the end of the world.

Characters
Hero: The time traveller
Heroine: Weena
Villian: The Morlocks

Other Characters: His four friends

Setting
When: I think maybe the story took place some 100 years ago.  Also, the place which the time travelled to was 800 thousand years into future.
Where: It happened in one of the European countries because of the ways the characters dressed and appeared in the illustrations. 

Theme
The story’s theme is time travelling and the future of the earth.