Unicorns are Real!

  DEAR TEACHERS Thank you for making this year so much brighter I am so fortunate that you are my teacher Think about you and so many adjectives come to mind Inspiring, caring, nurturing and oh so kind! I am grateful to you for all your guidance You explained everything with lots of patience You taught me with so much love All my mischiefs, you quickly forgave You helped me thrive at every step Your warmth took away all my stress Thank you for your affection and praise You led me through the year with your gentle ways You made the school so much fun everyday I will cherish our memories forever, let me tell you today Just one poem is not enough to convey all I want to say You have been a blessing to me in every kind of way! -        ANAYA SHETH

 If you don't already know this, Anaya's story got published in a book 'Bright Feathers in the Sky'. If you haven't read it yet, here it is... A WITCH WHO LOOKED LIKE A PRINCESS “What do witches eat in the sand?” asked Ruby to her classmates. She was telling a joke but no one was interested. She waited for a while and answered giggling “A SANDWICH!” No one laughed at her joke and walked passed her in the school corridor. Ruby loved telling jokes very much. But nobody liked her. Ruby was different from the other witches. She was polite and funny. Unlike others, she was not scary. She even looked different. You see, she didn’t like witch clothes. She loved wearing gowns and sparkly shoes. She hated black hats. She looked like a princess rather than a witch. At Witch School where she was studying, others teased her all the time. She didn’t have any friends. No one wanted to be friends with a witch who was like a princess. She came back from school looking gloomy. Her m...

  ‘Zzzz,Zzz,Zzz’.. I was sleeping soundly in my bed. Suddenly, I woke up with a sweat. I had the wackiest dream ever. This is how it went. One day my friends, Jiya and Krisha, came over to my house for a playdate. I said to my friends ‘This is getting boring. Let’s have an adventure of our own.’ I told Jiya and Krisha my plan to go to China by foot! It was such a crazy plan but we wanted to have an epic adventure. They immediately agreed. We left our house with a backpack full of the things that we would require on our journey. After walking for many days, we reached the India- China border. ‘How will we pass the border?’ I asked. Krisha had an idea. She was an exceptional makeup artist. We disguised ourselves as trees and crossed the border without any suspicion. We couldn’t believe it; we were now in China! We rested for a while under a shady tree. When we woke up, we say a creepy man staring at us. We decided it would be best if we started walking. Soon we reached a city named...