9 years and below
My favourite food and a food I hate
My favourite food is waffles. It is very tasty. My mother makes waffles for me every evening. My sister also says that they are very delicious. All my family members also like to eat waffles.
There are lots of squares in the waffles. I put Nutella into those squares and eat. Sometimes I put jam and sauce into those squares. There are two types of waffles. They are savoury waffles and sweet waffles.
A food I hate is burgers because it is junk food. My family members don’t like to eat burgers. My sister also says it’s a bad food for children. Mother and father don’t bring burgers for us. Some children think that burgers are tasty and healthy but that is wrong. Burgers are unhealthy. In shops they add a lot of artificial flavours to burgers. Not only burgers; noodles, pizza, buns, pastries and potato chips are also junk food. So we must try and eat only healthy food.
Nethupama Wijerathne (Grade 3)
Holy Cross College, Gampaha
10 – 12 years
My favourite song and the type of music I like to listen to
Songs are a kind of magical thing that makes our minds relax. In that way, I also like to listen to South Indian music or songs in my leisure time. My favourite song is ‘Verithanam’. It is a fantabulous latest song that was released this year for the Thai Pongal festival. It is sung by Thalapathy Vijay in the movie ‘Bigil’.
I like to listen to melody music and to the hit music songs released newly every year. I always listen to melody music in my leisure time. It makes me relax from stress. I love music very much!
Nisma Mawfar (11 years)
Fathima B. M. V., Puttalam
13 – 15 years
Write about when you had to stand in a long queue
The public health officials had visited our school a few years ago. They checked our eyes and recommended me to have my eyes checked by the top government eye clinic nearby.
My appointment was at half-past six and there I was, going to the hospital early in the morning. And wasn’t I annoyed when I had to join a rapidly growing queue!
I stood there for about an hour, but it seemed like a lot more. Around me were children of all ages and sizes, some wearing spectacles and some not. There were some crying, some sleeping, some whining and some longing to roam around, bored to death. Their parents stood next to them, either talking to their children or other parents or boring themselves too.
We still stood. There was not much to see except for other people waiting like me. We waited and waited and waited… for someone to come collect our books and allow us to sit inside, for someone to call our names and meet the doctor who was to check our eyes. However, for a long time, nobody came. We just stood there waiting and for once, time stood still as it had never done before.
My legs were beginning to ache and I was sweating. I moved about a little. Then slowly, white figures came quietly and opened the windows… and all the parents rushed forward and handed in their books.
Ifadha Deen (13 years)
Leeds Int. School, Galle
