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Yasmin the Cockroach
A Story from the Salgueiro Pre-School
Yesterday there was sun, but now it is raining.
That's why the ground was wet and it was cold.
There was a stain over the whole sun.
September 15, 2009, in the morning
the weather was cloudy,
and it just kept raining.
When Kevyn came to pre-school,
He found a cockroach!
And they became friends.
I got to school and I picked the cockroach right up.
'cause someone might have stepped on her.
After that, she hung out with only me.
Before then, I was afraid of roaches. I ran from them.
I ran and ran an ran so the beasts couldn't catch me.
The cockroach was named Yazmin.
The cockroach became her friend, too!
How did that happen?
They were nice to each other.
All of Kevyn's friends played with Yazmin
and got to know her.
The cockroach walked and walked, and then got a sack and put sand in it.
Because she is a cockroach,
How many legs does she have?
One, two, three, six, eight, nine, ten...
Fourteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three...
Twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-six,
Seven, eight, twenty...
Twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-seven!
She also has two antennae.
And lives in a dark place.
So I took the roach and took her home.
Her house is all full of balas (pun: bala means candy and bullets)
Full of candy?
Bullets from a gun.
Yazmin liked to play with Kevyn.
She grabbed his finger,
and Kevyn was frightened.
I was afraid because I had a cut on my hand.
Everyone played and sang.
But Yazmin got homesick.
She said good-bye to everyone.
And after that, where did I go?
I took her home and left her when she was asleep in her bed.