Online Class Notes (Jesse)

Writing exercise

Chapter 1. First day of training

I am Heliconia and this is stork island, full of Vikings and dragons. Everybody here says, dragons hunt us so we kill them, and this how the world is. I donā€™t trust them at all, even though theyā€™re scary and fierce they are, I still believe everyone has a good side.

This is a great morning, but in the village all of us are sharpening their weapons, watching the sky, practicing fighting, and building tools to kill dragons. I was slowly eating breakfast as my dad was telling me about his story of a shipwreck which was caused by a Stormbreaker (a dragon), with him making the actions and the roars (that was very unlike dragons, plus it was definitely fake).

I rolled my eyes and interrupted my dad, who was making a face that he thought was very dragon like. I said ā€˜ā€™I need to go know, donā€™t want to late for my first day of training ( I keep my dragon loving habit a secret, I just want to get away from his boring story).

I quickly picked up my ax and zoomed out from the house, before my father can say any thing. I am 0 percent want to kill a dragon, but I donā€™t know how to convince them, they will never ever in the world will believe me.

These days are even harder than the old days, since weā€™re going to other places to kill more dragons but both to get resources from them to, so thatā€™s why there are more dragon attacks than before. Thatā€™s why our chief wanted us to be trained very early, I slowed down and started to eat an apple that I kept for a snack.

I must say, I do want to learn more things about dragons, not just how to kill them. My dad says the most important thing is you know how to defend yourself from dragons, but itā€™s better that you know how to kill them.

When I got there I found out our teacher was Gibbor, he always talk about stories of him fighting bravely against different dragons like my dads stories, it was unlikely real. Like he rode a Hammer head yak as he killed a fire roar (a dragon).

I found out something that was more terrible, Arin is here. Arin is a girl who doesnā€™t like me at all, in fact she sort of hate me. Well thereā€™s no way to change her point of view to me, but the good stuff is that the others doesnā€™t hate me but doesnā€™t like me either. The others are Nuffer and Tuffer they are brothers, they always argue endlessly about who is older but when itā€™s on jokes and pranks, they will be the best pair ever. Jark is a crazy guy who does not listen to any one, and he is very crazy. Fruking is a smart guy, the only thing is that he talks about dragon all the time, and he is soooooo scared of dragons to.

I donā€™t know which is worse, Arin is here or I need to hurt a dragon. Gibbor shouted out our names as we raised our hand, I suspect he just want to make sure we havenā€™t been eaten by dragons. I rolled my eyes and made a silent prayer to Thor that I donā€™t need to kill any dragons or even worse!!

Well I was quite lucky and my prayer to Thor mustā€™ve worked, cause today we only learned about their weaknesses. It was afternoon when we ended our class, when got home I found

out that my dad already went to hunt dragons. How did I know? My dad left me a piece of paper that has all the things I need to do when he is out, and he will come back after midnight. I sighed, the list includes cleaning the floor, sharpening weapons, washing our clothes ( there are only 4 tops and 4 pants ) and much more. I grumbled ā€œ I hate doing choresā€™ , but I still picked up the broom that is very rough and spiky and started sweeping the floor.

It was agonizingly to wait for my dad to come back, so I decided to sneak out to play and come back before midnight.


Chapter 1. First day of training

This is Stork island, full of vikings and dragons and I am Heliconia. Everybody here says dragons hunt us, so it is for our survival thatĀ we killĀ every last one ofĀ them, and this is how the worldĀ is. IĀ donā€™tĀ trust them at all,Ā andĀ evenĀ though they are scary and fierce, I believe everyone has a good side.

This is a great morning, but in the village all of us are sharpening our weapons, watching the sky, practicing fighting, and building tools to kill dragons. I was slowly eating breakfast as my dad was telling me about his story of a shipwreck which was caused by a Stormbreaker (a dragon), with him doing the actions and the roars (that was very unlike dragons, plus it was obviously fake).

I rolled my eyes and interrupted my dad, who was making a face that he thought was very dragon like. I said ā€˜ā€™I need to go now, donā€™t want to be late for my first day of training ( I keep my dragon loving habit a secret, I just want to get away from his boring story).

I quickly picked up my ax and zoomed out from the house, before my father could say any thing. I zero percent want to kill a dragon, but I donā€™t know how to convince them, they will never ever in the world believe me.

These days are even harder than the old days, since weā€™re going to other places to both kill more dragons and to get resources from them, so thatā€™s why there are more dragon attacks than before. Thatā€™s why our chief wanted us to be trained very early. I slowed down and started to eat an apple that I kept for a snack.

I must say, I do want to learn more things about dragons, not just how to kill them. My dad says the most important thing is you know how to defend yourself from dragons, but itā€™s better that you know how to kill them as well.

When I got there I found out our teacher was Gibbor, he always talks about stories of him fighting bravely against different dragons like my dads stories, none of which were unlikely to be true. Like when he rode a Hammer head yak as he killed a fire roar (a dragon).

I found out something that was even more terrible, Arin is here. Arin is a girl who doesnā€™t like me at all, in fact she sort of hates me. Well thereā€™s no way to change her point of view of me, but the good stuff is that the others don’t hate me but don’t like me either. The others are Nuffer and Tuffer they are brothers, they always argue endlessly about who is older but when itā€™s on jokes and pranks, they will be the best pair ever. Jark is a crazy guy who does not listen to anyone, and he is very crazy. Frunking is a smart guy, the only thing is that he talks about dragons all the time, and he is soooooo scared of dragons too.

I donā€™t know which is worse, Arin is here or I need to hurt a dragon. Gibbor shouted out our names as we raised our hands, I suspect he just wanted to make sure we hadn’t been eaten by dragons. I rolled my eyes and made a silent prayer to Thor that I donā€™t need to kill any dragons or even worse!!

Well I was quite lucky and my prayer to Thor mustā€™ve worked, cause today we only learned about their weaknesses. It was afternoon when we ended our class, when I got home I found

out that my dad already went to hunt dragons. How did I know? My dad left me a piece of paper that had all the things I needed to do when he was out, and he will come back after midnight. I sighed, the list includes cleaning the floor, sharpening weapons, washing our clothes ( there are only 4 tops and 4 pants ) and much more. I grumbled ā€œ I hate doing choresā€™ , but I still picked up the broom that was very rough and spiky and started sweeping the floor.

It was agonizing to wait for my dad to come back, so I decided to sneak out to play and come back before midnight.

Pronunciation

syringe – “sir rinjjj”

siren – “sai ren”

Vocabulary

concoction – a strange mix of things
eg. Selene’s tea syringe is a crazy concoction of teas, water and magic

ambidextrous – someone who can use both left and right feet really well / left and right hands