Dream Desert
Kowloon Junior School, Mudita Jain, Fiction: Group 2
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here once lived a cowgirl named Jessie. “Yeeha!” said Jessie as she entered the Gobi Desert
with her buddy Woody. “What a dry place?” questioned Jessie a few paces later. “Yes,”
replied Woody. “Let me tell you the geography of this place because years ago, when I was
a kid Grandad told me interesting facts about this place when we explored here!”
Gobi Desert is a desert in North China, South Mongolia. It is 3,000 feet above the sea level.”
Woody continued, “It is made up of 5 eco-systems.” As they went on, Jessie asked “How big is this
place? PUFFFFF!”
“This desert covers an area about 1,280,000 squares. It is the largest desert in Asia, but 5th
largest in the world.” It was getting dark, so they headed home.
The next day, early morning, when they stepped again in the desert Jessie said,
“Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr! It’s cold!” “Yup it sure is,” replied Woody. “Day time is hot! It’s hard for people to
find shade. Wind tosses around grains of sand. At night it gets very cool.” Jessie inquired, “Does
the desert get cold at night because the sun has gone down?” “That’s just one part of it. The desert
gets so cold at night because there are no clouds in the desert sky. Clouds keep warm air to the
ground. Without clouds the warm air rises and it gets chilly!” Woody continued.
“Does the weather stay same all year round?” asked Jessie. “Not at all. The temperature goes
up to 25C in summer and drops down to -30C in winter time. Although, there is not much snow,”
exclaimed Woody. The maximum wind speed is 85 miles per hour. Hear this Jessie ………. It has
some hills and greyish brownish soil. The Gobi is a good place to farm solar energy,” told Woody.
“HMMMMMM. What will we find if we dig for treasure?” wondered Jessie. Woody said joyfully,
“Copper and gold!”
“Woody, how do plants and animals survive with so scarce water?” gasped Jessie. Cough.
“Jessie, you will be amazed to know, even people LIVE here! There are 600 species of plants living
here e.g. the cactus. It adapts by stretching its roots to dig for water.” DIMUENDO VOICE “I am so
sad there are only 300 2 humped camels left here.”
“Don’t you think we should plant more plants?” suggested Woody. “Luckily I have some seeds
from gardening!” cheered Jessie.
Jessie: LICK AROUND THE LIPS. “I want to eat a dessert!”
Woody: “You can’t possibly eat a desert!”
Jessie: “I mean the sweet dessert, haha!”
