The Snake that Interrupted School, by Spencer

The village kids shot a snake with a slingshot in the head. It was green like a lime.  I ran fast to the house to get a ruler and a machete. We chopped it's head off.  We did this because it could still bite us up to an hour after it's death.
To measure it, we made it into a long line and used a ruler. He was 155cm long! Almost as tall as my mom! It was a Green Mamba. They are very dangerous, enough to kill you.
After we measured and looked at it, we tossed it into the pit. Later on the dogs eat him.

Firsts by Tate

When I came back from Canada, the first thing I saw was the dead, brown grass.  The first friends we saw were Wayne and Joyce. They drove to the airport in our car to pick us up.

Last night we went to the pastor's house to eat dinner. We eat beans, rice and meat and something else and juice.  The juice smelled funny and the meat smelled tasty.  Mum said the something else was lentils, I don't remember what it smelled like but it looked like it was fish scales.

The Weather by Spencer

When I first got here it was cloudy/sunny. It was steaming hot! It got hotter and hotter and hotter and hotter until it rained and then the roof dripped on me.

(As Spencer was writing this, the roof started leaking over his desk. He had to wipe the water off his book to keep going.)