Post by Sophia Hallington H7 on Oct 19, 2006 17:55:50 GMT
It was a typical Saturday afternoon for Sophia. She had spent her morning doing nothing much-going to breakfast at 9, doing homework from about 11, having read for a while, had lunch at about 1, and now it was approaching 2pm, and the sun was shining, so she took the advantage to go outside, and for a change she made her way to the courtyard, armed with her bag, bits of homework she hadn't yet done, despite 2 hours or so working on it. Luckily there wasn't much left for her to do-just making notes on page 132 of her Herbology textbook, and doing some calculations for Arithmancy. She was a firm believer in saving the best till last, so she was pretty pleasd that they were left for this pleasent afternoon.
She could have done them that morning, she realised, but she still found it hard to concentrate on a Saturday morning, as before she came to Hogwarts, and in the summer holidays, that was when she had her dancing lessons, so she couldn't help but miss her 2 good friends there, whom she had known near enough all her life. Twins, they were-a girl and a boy, and they had been in her class at Primary school. They were the only true friends she had-she still recieved letters from them once every 2 weeks or so, and she returned them, but it was hardly the same as seeing them in person. Luckily all the hustle and bustle of Hogwarts life was enough to take her mind off things normally, and she had made a few good friends in her time there.
Sophia sat down on one of the free benches in the courtyard, and couldn't help being slightly bothered by the easy bits of homework she had to do, even if they were in her favourite subjects. She finished them both within less than half an hour, and wondered what she could do next...she didn't want to go back inside on a day like this, she didn't have her book with her, and there was nobody around that she knew. But she did have a quill and some parchment, so she decided to write. The first thing that came to her mind was a song...one that she particularly liked...which was odd, seeing as it was about a journey into Space going wrong...Space Oddity, by David Bowie, was an amazing song, she felt, so she had to write it down.
It wasn’t until she had gotten down to one of her favourite lines Planet Earth Is Blue, and there’s nothing I can do, that she realised there was more to it than she originally thought. What if she translated it into French, just for the sake of it? Well, she was fluent, after all-she had spent a lot of her time in the holidays in France when she was at Primary, and still went there at Easter and Christmas now. She had refused to go there in the summer holidays, as she did not want at all to completely give up her dancing. But that was life, so she set to work on her task. Right…Planet Earth is blue…um…la planete de terre est bleue…what about the rest? Um… “and there’s nothing” is et il y rien. “I can do”, as with that is…je ne peux faire…
La Planete de terre est bleue, et il y a rien je ne peux faire…well, it goes…kind of…she thought, and wrote it down next to the English lyrics on her page of parchment. She had to decorate this page sometime…frame it, perhaps. Yeah, frame it, to go on her wall…except she’d have to copy it up neatly…but that wouldn’t be too hard. She then continued to write the rest of the English lyrics she hadn’t got up to yet, and went on with the French. Ground Control à Major Tom, Ground Control à Major Tom… (Ground Control to Major Tom…)…
((Sorry it took a while to post...and excuse the random French...I just felt like including it in the post...
))
She could have done them that morning, she realised, but she still found it hard to concentrate on a Saturday morning, as before she came to Hogwarts, and in the summer holidays, that was when she had her dancing lessons, so she couldn't help but miss her 2 good friends there, whom she had known near enough all her life. Twins, they were-a girl and a boy, and they had been in her class at Primary school. They were the only true friends she had-she still recieved letters from them once every 2 weeks or so, and she returned them, but it was hardly the same as seeing them in person. Luckily all the hustle and bustle of Hogwarts life was enough to take her mind off things normally, and she had made a few good friends in her time there.
Sophia sat down on one of the free benches in the courtyard, and couldn't help being slightly bothered by the easy bits of homework she had to do, even if they were in her favourite subjects. She finished them both within less than half an hour, and wondered what she could do next...she didn't want to go back inside on a day like this, she didn't have her book with her, and there was nobody around that she knew. But she did have a quill and some parchment, so she decided to write. The first thing that came to her mind was a song...one that she particularly liked...which was odd, seeing as it was about a journey into Space going wrong...Space Oddity, by David Bowie, was an amazing song, she felt, so she had to write it down.
It wasn’t until she had gotten down to one of her favourite lines Planet Earth Is Blue, and there’s nothing I can do, that she realised there was more to it than she originally thought. What if she translated it into French, just for the sake of it? Well, she was fluent, after all-she had spent a lot of her time in the holidays in France when she was at Primary, and still went there at Easter and Christmas now. She had refused to go there in the summer holidays, as she did not want at all to completely give up her dancing. But that was life, so she set to work on her task. Right…Planet Earth is blue…um…la planete de terre est bleue…what about the rest? Um… “and there’s nothing” is et il y rien. “I can do”, as with that is…je ne peux faire…
La Planete de terre est bleue, et il y a rien je ne peux faire…well, it goes…kind of…she thought, and wrote it down next to the English lyrics on her page of parchment. She had to decorate this page sometime…frame it, perhaps. Yeah, frame it, to go on her wall…except she’d have to copy it up neatly…but that wouldn’t be too hard. She then continued to write the rest of the English lyrics she hadn’t got up to yet, and went on with the French. Ground Control à Major Tom, Ground Control à Major Tom… (Ground Control to Major Tom…)…
((Sorry it took a while to post...and excuse the random French...I just felt like including it in the post...
))
