a calf. Its name was Nelly. Aunty Rue gave me a notebook and said that my homework was to
practice what I learned.
23rd May 5005
Today I went to collect fruits for myself and Aunty Rue in return for her lovely lunch yesterday.
I also took a video of a native woman singing a song. I practiced the song and I memorized it to
show aunty Rue. I wrote the words for my homework. I did lots of things today. I even got a free
ride on a camel!
24th May 5005
I had my second native language class today. Aunty Rue said that she would like to meet my
parents and when I told her that I did not have any because I lost them in a sandstorm, she said
that I must stay with her. Aunty Rue lives in a round tent called a Ger. Today I sang the song I
learnt to aunty Rue. She said I was amazing! I made a friend called Via. Her name is similar to
mine. She is also nine years old and she looks like me. She is super nice. We played all afternoon.
We raced down the sand and then we raced up. Via is fast like me and we tied all our races. Via
and I are like twins. I am beginning to think that Via is my long lost twin. My Mum once told me
that I had a twin but she was lost in the Gobi desert.
25th May 5005
When I woke up, I forgot where I was for a second and then I remembered that I was at aunty
Rue’s house. For breakfast, I had camel milk and berries. I like camel milk a lot. After breakfast,
I went out and found Via. I asked her if she got lost in the Gobi desert long time ago and she said
yes! Then I asked her what her last name was and she said Spur. Then I told her that she was my
twin. Via said that last night she wrote in her diary that she and I might be twins because we
both look alike and we both are good at the same things. Via told me that she lives with a lady
called aunty Lirue. We played tag and then went to aunty Lirue’s house for lunch. We had goat
cheese and millet bread! Then Via and I did sketches of each other. We are both brilliant at art.
We then went to aunty Rue’s Ger, got my camera and took pictures of the sand dunes and nomads.
We asked aunty Rue if she knew aunty Lirue and she said that that aunty Lirue was her twin!
We asked her if Via and I could live together. She said that she and aunty Lirue were planning to
move in together. They are moving tomorrow! They only have small and light things, so it is easy
to move. For dinner, I had grilled vegetables and tomato soup. I haven’t had such a good dinner for
ages. Now I am going to sleep so I need to put away my diary. Good night people! Sleep tight!
26th May 5005
Today we moved in together. I am so happy. I finally found Via. Even though I did not write
before, I was always looking for Via. Now we are two happy twin sisters living happily ever after
like in a fairytale when it goes….and they lived happily ever after…That’s the end of chapter 10.
Like in the game ‘Apple on the Stick’ when it goes and that’s the end of chapter ten. It really is
THE END.
