Mystery of the Gobi Desert
Victoria Shanghai Academy, Leanne Nguyen, Fiction: Group 1
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nce upon a time, there was a girl called Bayarmay. She lived in a big colourful ger in the
Gobi Desert with her father and mother.
Bayarmay liked to play outside when it was a bit cool, but when it was boiling hot or
too cold, she preferred to play indoors.
They were really happy until..., one fine day, a strange thing happened. When Bayarmay was
playing outside, she saw a big fierce and scary black shadow behind a sand dune.
Bayarmay was so scared that she quickly ran back home and said to her parents “I just saw a
HUGE shadow of a DINOSAUR!”
Her parents ran outside but they could not see any dinosaur. Instead, they saw a big one foot
sized dinosaur egg close to the ger. It was spotty, cracked and grey.
Bayarmay’s parents were terrified so they decided to move their ger, goats and camels as far
away from the egg as they could before it got dark.
That night, Bayarmay tried to sleep but she was too frightened. When she finally fell asleep,
she had nightmares about dinosaurs eating her so she woke up many times. Her parents kept
going to have a look at her because she kept screaming.
The next day, Bayarmay went outside to play. After a few minutes, she saw a big dinosaur
walking with a baby dinosaur next to it. They both had longish necks and round brown bodies.
Bayarmay screamed again. Her parents came out of the ger and saw the dinosaurs too. They
did not know what to do. Next, they thought it was best to go back inside the ger and lock the
door so that’s what they did. They then heard a really loud roar from outside. The poor family
shook with fear.
Bayarmay’s Dad decided to throw some food outside for the dinosaurs because he hoped that
the dinosaurs would eat it and go away.
Even though the dinosaurs saw the food, they didn’t like its smell so they ran away. They
thought the goat meat was too smelly.
The family went outside and picked up the food they had thrown away. They smelled it and
decided to put the food outside the ger so that the dinosaurs will never come back.
Bayarmay said “Ac…actually, dinosaurs aren’t as bad as that smelly food! Ha ha ha ha!!!”
But actually it was a group of their camels that ran away because Bayarmay and her parents
were a bit short sighted.
So then the whole family decided to see an eye doctor and found out that they were all
short sighted.
The family was so thankful to the eye doctor because he was the only eye doctor in the Gobi
Desert. The eye doctor was happy too and gave them their glasses. They guessed that the one foot
egg was a few rocks stuck together.
They all lived happily ever after with their glasses on!
