八歲的小貝拉喜歡寫故事,這是一本她正在努力寫的長篇小說,我選了一章節,翻成中文與大家分享。我盡所能原汁原味按照她的原文描述修改及翻譯,希望大家喜歡她的小說故事創作。我不得不說八歲能寫這樣,太強👍。
🥰這故事妳可於夜晚時,唸給孩子聽,我有附英文版。
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《小說故事創作 (Part1)by 八歲小貝拉》
1847年。
吃完晚飯,我繼續在餐桌寫著我的故事。
『已經很晚了。』媽媽提醒我。
我好討厭深夜,因為深夜裡有很多可怕的東西跑出來,例如:木乃伊,怪物,鬼魂,雪人…等。
我回到房間,看見姐姐艾瑪正在梳頭,她的頭髮是如此柔順美麗,不像我的頭髮又髒又亂,我坐下來想要改變自己的樣子,於是我看著鏡子一直說:『我很漂亮、我很美麗、我很漂亮、我很美麗…』這些話使我頭暈目眩。
隔日,星期天早晨,媽媽總是很忙,我在廚房興奮地跳來跳去,我想趕快見凱蒂,也想吃點餅乾,那種脆脆的餅乾。姐姐依然很漂亮,她穿著天藍色的洋裝上面綴著白色蝴蝶結在我面前飛舞。
『完了,凱蒂一定在等我!』我大喊。
媽媽立刻給我一塊麵包,她吩咐:『一路小心,妳必須在…』
『在十二點前回家,我知道了!』我離開了家,跑過樹林。
『衝啊!』我彷彿聽到了那些大樹不停地在我耳邊咆嘯,大聲且清晰。
今天天氣好冷,好像在最冷的冬日吃了49球冰淇淋一樣!
『嘿!』我向凱蒂揮手。
『你還好嗎?』凱蒂憂心問我:『我是說妳看起來好像吃了48球冰淇淋。』
『是49球冰淇淋。』我指正她。
凱蒂很困惑,用一種「我老是在不恰當的時候說了一句不該說的話」的那張臉看著我。
接著,我們走到了小溪邊。我們準備了兩個瓶子,要玩了一個名為“水花瓶子”的遊戲。我們在瓶子上打了個洞,把瓶子裝滿水,然後相互潑濺在對方的頭上,好似淋雨一般,也好像正在跟一位頑皮的男孩玩灑水遊戲!
『碰!』我和凱蒂忽然間聽見怪聲。我們嚇到,宛如兩個吃了100球冰淇淋的雪人,僵住了!
凱蒂原本是很勇敢的;但是現在看起來跟我一樣害怕。
『妳不是很勇敢嗎?為什麼妳現在看起來不像。』我壓低了聲音。
凱蒂看著我,嚴肅地說:『我們不應該在這時候開玩笑。』
凱蒂用腳尖輕輕走路,然後踏進溪流,水發出飛濺的聲音『啪噓、啪噓…』
『噓,妳正在把外星人嚇跑!』我小聲提醒凱蒂。
她點了點頭,用非常緩慢的速度前進,並專注凝視著那東西,然後一把握住它!
『噢,這是一隻可憐的小兔子。』凱蒂看著兔子,甚至…已經喜歡上牠。
『牠好像睡著了。』凱蒂像個嬰兒一樣,緊緊抱住兔子。凱蒂的擁抱有時不是一件好事,因為她總是顯得太興奮。
『我們可以來抓一些葉子使它變軟來餵牠。』我摸著兔子說。
『我們應該把牠交給黛拉。』凱蒂建議:『黛拉是一位非常優秀的動物護士,她只有九歲,但快十歲了。』
我們走著走著,終於到了黛拉的密室,那外頭有很多小動物正在等著她的幫助,所以她可能很忙。我們進了小屋棚,那是一間用樹葉和樹枝蓋成的小房子。我們東瞧西看,屋內有很多食物、藥品、水和其他東西。
黛拉正抱著一隻可愛嬌小的老鼠,名叫艾莉絲。
『這隻可憐的小兔子受傷了而且被遺棄,快救救她或他!』凱蒂抱著兔子快步走向黛拉,急促地請求幫助。
黛拉接過兔子仔細端詳說:『我會幫這隻兔子看看牠有什麼毛病,也會確認牠是她或他。』
凱蒂聽後,開心使盡地緊緊抱住黛拉。
『別開心太早!我們還不知道牠是否有什麼問題?』黛拉冷靜地說。
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(待續)
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《Story writing (Part 2) by Bella Chang, 8yrs old》
1847
I ate my dinner then did my work.
"It's going to be late. " Mom said.
I hate night, because there are many scary things coming out in the late night, like mummies, monsters, ghosts, snowmen...etc.
I went back to the room and saw my big sister Emma brushing her hair. Her hair is so soft and smooth, not like my hair is dirty and messy. I sit down and want to change my look. So I look at the mirror and keep saying: "I am beautiful, I am beautiful, I am beautiful, I am beautiful! " All that words made me dizzy.
The next Sunday morning, my mother is always busy. I hopped around happily in the kitchen. I want to meet Katie as soon as possible, and I want to eat some cookies, the crunchy cookies. My sister is still beautiful, she is swing her dress in front of me, it's like a sky blue color with a white bow.
"Katie must be waiting for me! "I yelled.
My mom gave me a piece of bread. She reminded me:" Stay safe and come back before…."
"I know before 12:00. "I left home and ran across the trees.
"RUSH!" I heard those big trees roaring in my ears, loud and clear.
The weather is so cold, feeling like eating 49 balls of ice cream on the coldest winter day!
"Hey! "I waved to Katie.
"Are you ok? "Katie asked me worried: "I mean you look like to have eaten 48 balls of ice cream."
"It's 49 balls of ice cream. "I corrected her.
Katie was confused and looked at me with a face that "with one of my not the right time to say that."
Later, we walked down to the creek. We had two bottles, and played a game called "Splashed bottle!". We made a hole in the bottle, filled the bottle with water, and then splashed water over our heads, like it's raining, and also like we were playing with a mean boy!
"Bump! " Suddenly, Katie and I heard strange noises.
We froze like two snowmen who ate 100 balls of ice cream.
Katie was brave, but now...
"I thought you were brave why don't I see it now" I said super duper cooper quietly.
She looked at me and scared so was I.
"We shouldn't be joking at this right moment. "Katie Said.
Katie tip toe then went across the creek. "Splash splash……"
"Shhh… you are making the alien go away! "
She nodded, moved forward slowly, stared at the thing, and then grasped it!
"Oh, it is a poor little bunny. " Katie looked at the rabbit, even... already loved it.
"The bunny went to sleep?" Katie hugged the bunny so tightly like a baby. Sometimes Katie's hug is not a good thing, because she always kinda too excited.
"Let's grab a hull bunch of leaves to make it soft and feed. "
"We should give it to Della." Katie suggested: "Della is nice nurse for animals. She is only 9 years old, but almost 10. 』
As we walked and walked, we finally arrived at Della's hideout. There were many small animals staying outside waiting for her help, so she might be very busy.
We went inside the the little hut, which like a small house made of leaves and sticks. We looked around, there were a lot of food, medicine, water and other things.
Della is holding a cute and petite mouse named Alice.
"This poor little bunny was hurt and unloved. You need to help him or her!" Katie walked quickly to Della and said very very fast.
Della looked at the bunny very close. "I will see what is wrong with the bunny and tell you it's a girl or boy. "
Katie hugged Della tight as she could.
"Don't be that happy, we still don’t know if it's OK? Della said.
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(To be continued....)
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另外,照片裡的小貝拉是在寫數學功課,不是在寫故事。她為了不被打擾,她都是躲在廁所寫故事的 😏。
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#VonVon我的小貝拉
#八歲小貝拉的小說創作
what did you have for dinner中文 在 柳俊江 Lauyeah Facebook 的最讚貼文
Stand up. Respect ✊
(Update: 中文繹版連結:https://www.facebook.com/329728177143445/posts/1800273350088913/)
“An open letter to Eric Kwok, and for everyone re homophobia, discrimination and bullying”
Dear Eric,
Imagine this. You are one of the contestants on a TV talent show. You are sitting in a room with other hopefuls and one of the judges walks into the room and demanded this: “Raise your hand if you are not homophobic.”
I’m very sure you will raise your hand.
You don’t have to answer me whether or not you really are homophobic. But stay with the feeling inside your mind. How do you feel?
Your feelings are most likely the same as the feelings of your contestants when you walked into a room and asked them to raise their hands to declare their sexual orientation publicly. Because in this day and age, homophobia is just as “controversial” as homosexuality, if not more.
The reason why I’m writing this open letter to you is because after reading your apology, I want to take the opportunity to address to you, and everyone out there, the need for proper etiquette regarding LGBT issues, and to address the forms of micro-aggression, bullying and discrimination the LGBT community faces everyday especially in the workplace.
I’m taking this incident seriously because from my personal experience, this is not just a one-time slip-up for you.
I remember long time ago I was so looking forward to meeting and working with you because you are, after all, Eric Kwok the great songwriter.
You were very friendly when we talked privately. Then I started to notice how once there were audiences, media or other people around and when the cameras were turned on, you would start making insinuating and demeaning gay jokes about me and in front of me. Jokes and comments even my closest friends wouldn’t dare to make in public.
At first, I didn’t really pay too much attention. I just brushed it off as juvenile and trivial. In fact, I had been so used to these jokes since growing up that I learned not to react much.
However, as time progressed and we worked on more occasions, the same thing would happen repeatedly. The teasing and the stereotypical gay jokes continued and you would make sure that the spotlight would fall on me afterwards. The jokes no longer felt light. They felt hostile, even vindictive.
In fact, it felt like bullying.
One of these incidents was well documented in tabloids back then and you can still look it up yourself on the internet.
I came to the realization that it was not just a one-time thing. I don’t know if it’s intentional or unintentional but it’s definitely a habit and a pattern.
So many questions would be in my mind every time after working with you. Why does Eric do that every time? Is he picking on me? Does he hate me? Is he homophobic? Does he think homosexuality is something funny? Does he do this to other people too? Did I do something that pissed him off? I remember I was nothing but courteous. So why do I deserve this?
I had no answers for all of these questions. All I knew was I became fearful of working with you, dreading what words would fall out of your mouth to put me in an awkwardly embarassing position. But still I tried to give you the benefit of the doubt. You’re from California you shouldn’t be homophobic. I even defended you in my head by telling myself to loosen up.
But it’s not just you. Throughout my years in the entertainment industry, I have encountered and endured so many chauvinistic “tough guys” who like to use homosexuality as a laughing stock or source of bad comedy which were all discriminating and demeaning, yet not funny.
It’s not only me. I’m sure many people of the LGBT community face this everyday in their workplace. People around them would claim their intentions were harmless but we all knew deep down that these “jokes” have the power to put people someone in an embarrassing, inferior and even threatening positions.
We kept quiet and tolerated. Sometimes we even felt obligated to laugh along just so we couldn’t afford to look “petty” or “stiff”, especially in front of people of higher authority and stature.
So Eric I want to ask you.
Why have you been so obsessed with my sexuality all these years?
Why are you so fascinated by other people’s sexuality?
Why is being gay such a huge issue to you even to this day that you had to make it the first thing you asked your contestants?
Why you also had to specifically make a post on social media about that fact you questioned people about their sexuality?
Why do you take so much pride publicly in your ability to guess who are the gay contestants even when they weren’t ready to share that information?
And most of all why do you find all this to be so funny?
To begin with one’s sexual orientation is a very personal thing which others have no right to intrude, even in the entertainment industry where you are supposed to be fine with “controversy”.
This is for you and everyone out there: using your power and authority to demand someone to declare his or her sexual orientation, especially in a work environment, is ancient, barbaric and unacceptable.
Kicking someone out of the closet is just pure evil.
The fact you did what you did, especially with your stature and on broadcast TV, is not only wrong, but also you are telling the Hong Kong audience that it’s alright to continue this form of intrusion and micro aggression that the LGBT community wants to see gone.
You’re leading a very poor example by giving Hong Kong audience the impression that being gay is still a taboo.
How are your contestants, who are boys of young age, going to offer new perspectives to the Hong Kong audience under your guidance if you perpetuate stereotyping and demonstrate to them that being gay is still an issue?
I feel sorry for any contestants who are in fact gay sitting in that room that day too. They must have been traumatized seeing the way you forced your inquisition. The impression you left them with is that the entertainment industry is still a very unfriendly place for gays. Is that what you want them to think?
But most of all, it’s the attitude, tone and manner with which you shared about this incident on social media, giving people the impression that any matter regarding sexual orientation is still something shameful and laughable, which is on top of list the thing that the LGBT community fights hard everyday to change.
When you said in your apology you “have great respect for gay people, especially their hard fight for equality” I became baffled as what you did, in the past to me or in that room to the boys, is the exact thing that makes the LGBT community’s ongoing fight for equality so difficult.
Putting people down, perpetuate stereotypes, heckling and ridiculing yet making it look OK is anything but liberal and respectful, or Californian. I don’t see any “entertainment values” that are of good taste if they are made up at the expense of other people’s struggle.
If this incident happened in America, where you grew up, you would’ve gotten yourself in such hot waters that you probably can’t get out of.
I just want you and everyone out there to know that it’s not okay. And it never was. Never will be.
Being “as liberal as it gets” is great. Having gay friends is great too. Having dinner with your gay friends is absolutely fabulous! Playing all these cards to avoid being labelled as “homophobic” is very convenient. But having class, empathy, kindness and authentic respect is a completely different territory. These don’t come automatically with backgrounds.
At this point you don’t owe me an apology. I just hope that after this incident you can really start working and living with the essences of a truly liberal and creative individual. Inspire changes and end stereotypes. Start new trends and break old patterns. Embrace and not segregate. Do the work.
I had been away from Hong Kong and the industry for a few years now. It breaks me heart that I have to write this sort of open letter when it’s already 2018. I want to make this industry a safer, nicer and more accepting place to work in when I return. I want members of the LGBT community in Hong Kong, who have been so supportive of me and my music, to also have safer and nicer working environment in their respective lives.
I don’t mind coming off as an over-reacting petty bitch with no sense of humour if my message finally comes through and everyone, including you, “gets it”. I rather have no sense of humour than a bad one.
To all the contestants of the show. If anyone ever asks you if you are gay and you are not ready to discuss, it’s OK to stand up for yourself and say this: “It’s a rude question to begin with. You have no right to get an answer from me to begin with. And it doesn’t matter. It SHOULDN’T matter. It’s 2018. I hope one day I can use my craft to inspire the world and to make this become a non-issue.”
But if you are ready to be open, you have my complete support and love.
Let’s hope that through acceptance, learning and effort, one day there will no longer be any “controversial questions”. Wouldn’t we like that Eric?
Yours truly,
Pong
#LGBT
#homophobia
#safeworkplace
#中文版稍後會有
Eric Kwok 郭偉亮
what did you have for dinner中文 在 人山人海 PMPS Music Facebook 的精選貼文
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
(Update: 中文繹版連結:https://www.facebook.com/329728177143445/posts/1800273350088913/)
“An open letter to Eric Kwok, and for everyone re homophobia, discrimination and bullying”
Dear Eric,
Imagine this. You are one of the contestants on a TV talent show. You are sitting in a room with other hopefuls and one of the judges walks into the room and demanded this: “Raise your hand if you are not homophobic.”
I’m very sure you will raise your hand.
You don’t have to answer me whether or not you really are homophobic. But stay with the feeling inside your mind. How do you feel?
Your feelings are most likely the same as the feelings of your contestants when you walked into a room and asked them to raise their hands to declare their sexual orientation publicly. Because in this day and age, homophobia is just as “controversial” as homosexuality, if not more.
The reason why I’m writing this open letter to you is because after reading your apology, I want to take the opportunity to address to you, and everyone out there, the need for proper etiquette regarding LGBT issues, and to address the forms of micro-aggression, bullying and discrimination the LGBT community faces everyday especially in the workplace.
I’m taking this incident seriously because from my personal experience, this is not just a one-time slip-up for you.
I remember long time ago I was so looking forward to meeting and working with you because you are, after all, Eric Kwok the great songwriter.
You were very friendly when we talked privately. Then I started to notice how once there were audiences, media or other people around and when the cameras were turned on, you would start making insinuating and demeaning gay jokes about me and in front of me. Jokes and comments even my closest friends wouldn’t dare to make in public.
At first, I didn’t really pay too much attention. I just brushed it off as juvenile and trivial. In fact, I had been so used to these jokes since growing up that I learned not to react much.
However, as time progressed and we worked on more occasions, the same thing would happen repeatedly. The teasing and the stereotypical gay jokes continued and you would make sure that the spotlight would fall on me afterwards. The jokes no longer felt light. They felt hostile, even vindictive.
In fact, it felt like bullying.
One of these incidents was well documented in tabloids back then and you can still look it up yourself on the internet.
I came to the realization that it was not just a one-time thing. I don’t know if it’s intentional or unintentional but it’s definitely a habit and a pattern.
So many questions would be in my mind every time after working with you. Why does Eric do that every time? Is he picking on me? Does he hate me? Is he homophobic? Does he think homosexuality is something funny? Does he do this to other people too? Did I do something that pissed him off? I remember I was nothing but courteous. So why do I deserve this?
I had no answers for all of these questions. All I knew was I became fearful of working with you, dreading what words would fall out of your mouth to put me in an awkwardly embarassing position. But still I tried to give you the benefit of the doubt. You’re from California you shouldn’t be homophobic. I even defended you in my head by telling myself to loosen up.
But it’s not just you. Throughout my years in the entertainment industry, I have encountered and endured so many chauvinistic “tough guys” who like to use homosexuality as a laughing stock or source of bad comedy which were all discriminating and demeaning, yet not funny.
It’s not only me. I’m sure many people of the LGBT community face this everyday in their workplace. People around them would claim their intentions were harmless but we all knew deep down that these “jokes” have the power to put people someone in an embarrassing, inferior and even threatening positions.
We kept quiet and tolerated. Sometimes we even felt obligated to laugh along just so we couldn’t afford to look “petty” or “stiff”, especially in front of people of higher authority and stature.
So Eric I want to ask you.
Why have you been so obsessed with my sexuality all these years?
Why are you so fascinated by other people’s sexuality?
Why is being gay such a huge issue to you even to this day that you had to make it the first thing you asked your contestants?
Why you also had to specifically make a post on social media about that fact you questioned people about their sexuality?
Why do you take so much pride publicly in your ability to guess who are the gay contestants even when they weren’t ready to share that information?
And most of all why do you find all this to be so funny?
To begin with one’s sexual orientation is a very personal thing which others have no right to intrude, even in the entertainment industry where you are supposed to be fine with “controversy”.
This is for you and everyone out there: using your power and authority to demand someone to declare his or her sexual orientation, especially in a work environment, is ancient, barbaric and unacceptable.
Kicking someone out of the closet is just pure evil.
The fact you did what you did, especially with your stature and on broadcast TV, is not only wrong, but also you are telling the Hong Kong audience that it’s alright to continue this form of intrusion and micro aggression that the LGBT community wants to see gone.
You’re leading a very poor example by giving Hong Kong audience the impression that being gay is still a taboo.
How are your contestants, who are boys of young age, going to offer new perspectives to the Hong Kong audience under your guidance if you perpetuate stereotyping and demonstrate to them that being gay is still an issue?
I feel sorry for any contestants who are in fact gay sitting in that room that day too. They must have been traumatized seeing the way you forced your inquisition. The impression you left them with is that the entertainment industry is still a very unfriendly place for gays. Is that what you want them to think?
But most of all, it’s the attitude, tone and manner with which you shared about this incident on social media, giving people the impression that any matter regarding sexual orientation is still something shameful and laughable, which is on top of list the thing that the LGBT community fights hard everyday to change.
When you said in your apology you “have great respect for gay people, especially their hard fight for equality” I became baffled as what you did, in the past to me or in that room to the boys, is the exact thing that makes the LGBT community’s ongoing fight for equality so difficult.
Putting people down, perpetuate stereotypes, heckling and ridiculing yet making it look OK is anything but liberal and respectful, or Californian. I don’t see any “entertainment values” that are of good taste if they are made up at the expense of other people’s struggle.
If this incident happened in America, where you grew up, you would’ve gotten yourself in such hot waters that you probably can’t get out of.
I just want you and everyone out there to know that it’s not okay. And it never was. Never will be.
Being “as liberal as it gets” is great. Having gay friends is great too. Having dinner with your gay friends is absolutely fabulous! Playing all these cards to avoid being labelled as “homophobic” is very convenient. But having class, empathy, kindness and authentic respect is a completely different territory. These don’t come automatically with backgrounds.
At this point you don’t owe me an apology. I just hope that after this incident you can really start working and living with the essences of a truly liberal and creative individual. Inspire changes and end stereotypes. Start new trends and break old patterns. Embrace and not segregate. Do the work.
I had been away from Hong Kong and the industry for a few years now. It breaks me heart that I have to write this sort of open letter when it’s already 2018. I want to make this industry a safer, nicer and more accepting place to work in when I return. I want members of the LGBT community in Hong Kong, who have been so supportive of me and my music, to also have safer and nicer working environment in their respective lives.
I don’t mind coming off as an over-reacting petty bitch with no sense of humour if my message finally comes through and everyone, including you, “gets it”. I rather have no sense of humour than a bad one.
To all the contestants of the show. If anyone ever asks you if you are gay and you are not ready to discuss, it’s OK to stand up for yourself and say this: “It’s a rude question to begin with. You have no right to get an answer from me to begin with. And it doesn’t matter. It SHOULDN’T matter. It’s 2018. I hope one day I can use my craft to inspire the world and to make this become a non-issue.”
But if you are ready to be open, you have my complete support and love.
Let’s hope that through acceptance, learning and effort, one day there will no longer be any “controversial questions”. Wouldn’t we like that Eric?
Yours truly,
Pong
#LGBT
#homophobia
#safeworkplace
#中文版稍後會有
Eric Kwok 郭偉亮