21st Century Fairy Tale by Clea

Once upon a time there was a girl and she was a princess. She lived in a beautiful palace that was gold and white. Her room was all pink with a chandelier and a beautiful king sized bed. This girl’s name was Amelia and Amelia was 15 and loved to get dirty and play, and horse ride with one leg on each side (in the kingdom you had to ride side- saddled if you were a girl) and most of all she loved to play football. But when you are a princess you can’t do any of these things. All she was allowed to do was wear pretty dresses and curtsy to everyone she sees. Amelia had to act happy and joyful but for real she was a miserable little girl. One day her parents told her that she was to get married when she was sixteen and that they were to choose who she was going to marry. Amelia didn’t want to get married!! And especially to someone that she didn’t love!! And most of all she didn’t want to have a ball and wear a poufy dress. Her mother had told her that on her birthday she was to have a big ball and dance with 37 men!!! 37!!! Her birthday was in three days so her father quickly phoned up every princess at age 16 in the world and 37 eligible men and on top of it all of the royal people in Europe!! Three days went by so quickly and on the morning of her birth day she woke up and it was a beautiful day. All day she spent her time getting her hair done and make-up on and putting on her dress and pinning her dress up. It was all too girly and all she wanted to do was go and play foot ball. The ball started and she made her entrance. She got about 100 happy birthdays and she danced with all the men. At last she sat down and had some cake. Her parents said that she was to marry Prince Phillip. It turns out that she actually loved Prince Phillip so she was happy. 3 weeks later they got married and at the wedding she wore a beautiful dress and she play football in the dress!! She was so happy and so was everyone else!!
THE END!!!!

Funny Horse-riding Stories

Story #1: So when we are done setting up our horse we always bring it out of the stables and wait until everything is ready. Once my horse just walked away on to the arena! I should have taken more care.

Story# 2: I was riding the horse and I wanted to do a jump. The jump was small but
next to it there was a bigger jump. So I headed for the small one but my horse jumped the big one next to it and I wasn’t ready so I fell off! It was so scary! I should have steered better, now I know for next time!

Story# 3: We had just come back from a hack and we were still on our horses and my horse saw its food in its stable and walked right in with me on my back. I should have been in better control because I hit my head on the way in!

Story #4: We were on a hack and we started cantering, in front of me there was my sister and she was riding an ex- racehorse so he liked to go extra fast. Usually horses like follow what the horse in front of them is doing, so my horse went at the same speed as the ex-racehorse.... and that is fast! I wasn’t ready to go that fast and I nearly fell off! It was so scary!!