Son: Next year, after this holiday – what’s the place called that we’re going to?
Mum: Gran Canaria.
Son: Yes, after Gran Canaria, can we go back to Crete?
Mum: We’ll see. I’d like to visit different countries. We could go to Egypt and you might be able to swim well enough to come snorkelling and see all the pretty fish under the water.
Son: But what about the sharks?
Mum: You don’t need to worry about sharks.
Son: I just imagined something! I imagined that we were in the sea and a shark was chasing us and we ran out of the sea onto the beach and the shark followed us – he stood on his flippers and walked onto the beach and then started singing “Gangnam Style” with a microphone!
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Me: Did you have your Harvest Festival Assembly today?
D: Yes – in the hall. All the food was put out on the tables in the hall. I could see my pot of fruit, but I couldn’t see my tin.
Me: Ah – did they put all the food together on the table?
D: Yes.
Me: And where’s the food going?
D: To those countries that don’t have any food. Which countries are they?
Me: Some parts of Africa, some parts of India…
D: Some parts of China?
Me: Possibly.
D: Some parts of Crete?
Me: I don’t think they’ll be going to Crete, I think Crete has enough food – it had food when we went there, didn’t it?
D: But there might be another part of Crete that doesn’t have food.
Me: True.
D: Where else? …Manchester?
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Holiday in Crete, August 2012
D: That’s you – in red – and that’s me – in yellow. That’s another person, and that’s another person with a really small head, and that’s another person [all top right]. That’s a person who’s pretending to be strong [middle-ish with triangles for arms]. That’s the sea at the bottom, with a BIG wave. That’s some yellow sand, and that’s some black sand – but I didn’t have a black, so I had to do it in brown.
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D: I wish I could live in this country [Crete].
Me: Why’s that?
D: You get to hear the crickets; go to Star Beach every day; see if the cleaners have been; go to the mini market; have ice creams every day – even Scooby Doo ones…
Me: I wish we could stay too, but we can’t.
D: Why?
Me: I’ve run out of money.
D: Oh man! It’s not fair!
Me: You need money to stay here and I’ve run out. Have you got any?
D: Maybe they’ll let us stay here forever for free!
Me: that’s not the way it works.
D: …I’ve got the rest of my ice cream money?
Me: That’s not enough.
D: Well have you got some for half?
Me: Nope – I’ve got enough for tomorrow and the next day and that’s all.
D: It’s OK, because if we haven’t got the right money they’ll give us change!
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D: Crete bingo’s different to Barnyard Bingo – the person with the register reads the numbers on it and they say whatever number they want to. They get to do it ALL the time, and all we had to do was sit there, just looking at the numbers before I ran out of time and had to scribble them out! It was boring. Does it sound exciting?
Me: Not the way you put it! Did you get many numbers to scribble out?
D: No, I only got 5.
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D: There’s the sand, in yellow, with a red ‘X marks the spot’; and that’s the land, in red, and that’s some fishes there, that I sort of – went over with blue.
Kid’s Club, Hotel Anastasia, Crete
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Me: If you don’t hurry up, I’ll have to go to Crete without you!
D: No!
Me: Yes, that’s a good idea; it would be much easier for me – not as many bags to carry.
D: No! If you go without me, I’ll tell a policeman and then I’ll get on an aeroplane with the policeman and we’ll come to Crete and look all around and find you. And then the policeman will lock you up in jail!
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D: I wish I could go to the Moon and explore.
Me: Maybe one day, but in a few weeks’ time we can go to Crete to explore – and that’s a different part of the Earth. AND we’ll be near a beach!
D: Yes, and we can take our fishing net and catch some fish! But we MUST be careful because, if our net gets heavy or breaks, it means we’ve accidentally caught a shark or a crocodile.
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Son: Next year, after this holiday – what’s the place called that we’re going to?
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