During the last school year, 2013-2014,students of the first grade participated in a short story competition. They wrote very interesting stories and their fellow students  voted for the best. The two winning stories were written by Apostolidis Aris (A1) and  Tsinaslanidis Paris (A3). Both stories are well-written and very interesting, humorous and with suspense. We hope that this year more students will participate.

You may all read and enjoy the winning stories below.

The English Teacher, Martha Grigoriadou.
 

Frightening Holidays by Aris Apostolidis

It was a hot day in June. My brother and I had finished our school activities. So, my family and I decided to go on holiday in Nikiti. In this place is our cottage.

While we were heading for Nikiti, the weather was becoming bad. So, we decided to stay at home. The time went by until we slept. During the night, I woke up for a little water. While I made my way to bed, I heard a strange noise. Then, I went to see what happened . The closer I approached, the louder I heard this noise. I was very frightened. Suddenly, a ghost appeared. The truth is that I noticed only the face. In the end I realized that my family played a joke on me. My brother was disguised  as a ghost. My dad and mum made the noise.

Then, I felt stupid because I had felt victim to my family. It was a very frightening experience.
 

Perfect holidays by Paris Tsinaslanidis.

It was a beautiful sunny day .We were in our cottage when my dad said to my mum that he had airline tickets for Hawaii. My brother and I were listening carefully to understand what they were talking about. When we heard about holidays in Hawaii, we started singing and dancing because we were excited. Two days later my mum told us to pack some clothes. And we were so happy because we thought that our holidays for Hawaii had just started. We quickly packed some clothes and we went into the car. My mum drove us to her parents?. When we realized what happened we were really upset and angry because my mum said to my dad to go on holidays with a friendly couple without us. We were going to stay in our village with our grandparents for a week.

On the first day we were so sad and we didn?t want to do anything- we just stayed in our room. Three days later our grandparents decided to go altogether to the closest beach to make us happy. When we arrived at the beach, we saw many kids playing on the sand under the sun. We quickly ran and joined them after introducing ourselves. When the sun went down our grandma called us to go back home. We packed our things and returned back home. When our grandparents slept we wore our swimming suits and decided to go back to the beach. When we opened the door the dog started barking and our grandparents got up. We quickly went back to our beds and pretended that we were sleeping. The next day we went out with our friends riding our bikes. However, we weren?t so lucky. For our bad luck, a thief stole our bikes. We quickly ran home and we told that to our grandparents. They said to us ?Don?t worry, your bikes are old, we are going to buy two new bikes for you?. On the same day we went to a bike store and we bought the most expensive bikes in this store.

Two days later our parents came to take us to our cottage. My mum asked us how our week was, and we said ?that was the perfect holiday?