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Monday 31 st January 2011

You know, weird things happen every day. But you don’t really know it. My name is Anna and my twin brother’s name is Arnau. We are a Catalan family. My brother is a very weird person. Everyday he does something very... weird. Before yesterday my brother was making a noise. “What are you doing?” I asked like always. “A...... surprise....” he answered. So I waited playing along... until I went to sleep. Early yesterday morning, I had heard a strange noise. I was scared. So I got out of my bed. Then I saw that my brother was awake!
“Get up , Arnau ! There is a noise and I-” I screamed
“Ssshhhhh ! You will wake up mum,” Arnau whispered “and I know what the noise is ... It’s the sur-... Don’t !” He had just said “Don’t!” when I fell in the closet. So he dived in to the closet to catch up. We fell down a deep hole..... until we Rose up.


I looked around me,it was a very horrible place. Just then a girl ran up to us. She started speaking a strange Catalan language but then I started to understand her. The girl ran towards a half broken building and I followed her. By surprise Arnau followed her too.
We finally arrived at the building where we saw an old lady by the door. Luckily she spoke better Catalan than the earlier girl. Actually that girl was her granddaughter. The old lady leaded us inside the house .We sat down on a broken sofa and started to speak .They told us that their house had been bombed while they were away. So they found this abandoned house and stayed there. After a long conversation, another girl opened the door and burst into tears.
“Why are you crying?”I asked. “My.. best..best..bestest....friend........DIED!” she said.
“How can so much terrible things happen, like someone bombed your house?” I asked “It’s just like war!”
The three girls looked sadly and said “IT IS WAR!” “Like,DA ! Didn't’t you know that?”said Arnau. Actually had made a hole to go back in time and he new it leaded to the civil war of Spain. Then the three girls introduced themselves to me and my brother.The first girl which we met was called Rosa, and the girl which burst out crying was called Adriana.The Grandma told us that she liked to be called Grandma.
Later we heard someone knocking on the door. We opened the door and saw a beggar.
“May I have a little shelter, food and drink?”the beggar said weakly. “Sure” said Grandma giving some food and a drink to the beggar. She even turned the fire on. The beggar slowly got up with an evil
smile . “Come with me...”she said taking the cloak off “ADRIANA!!!!” She ran away with Adriana which was grabbed by her hand.
“Help!” she shouted.
“We are coming to save you!” Arnau and I said.
We ran and ran after that woman until she stopped on a unbroken house. She opened the door, went inside, and locked it.
“Oh ! No !” we cried “We are locked !”
Meanwhile inside, was Franco and its judges (which were forced to choose Franco). Adrianna was held by the “beggar” (called Clara).
“So who has come here....”said Franco.
“Let me go!”cried Adriana
“Her name is Adrianna sir, and I think-l let's use the pink prison to make her happier,” said Clara
“I don’t wan’t any prisoner happy !”shouted Franco “The other way round: unhappy. Though I like the pink prison idea !” Adrianna was carried away to prison.
We saw everything and ran to the broken house to ask for some help. We told Grandma and Rosa what had happened, and they came to help us.
We went back to the judgments building. We knocked on the door and a voice said "Come in!"
We went inside and Franco said “Well......, new visitors ......who are they ?
“Ha ! I’I've seen them before ! They are Adriana’s friends !” said Clara
“If you desire to free her from prison, you will have to do a very complicated job. And if you fail, you will be added to my collection of prisoners ! I like the sound of this idea !” added Franco wickedly
“So what is our job ?” Arnau asked.
“Your job is to.... clean all the bathrooms in this building. But some of them are locked so you will have to find the map to find the key to unlock the bathroom. Each time you enter a bathroom you draw a line so I will know if you did all of them. If you don’t do all the bathrooms YOU FAIL !” Franco responded We started our work. We had lots to do. We started looking for the map : it was very easy to find it! So we started looking for the key : it was very easy too ! Everything we did was easy. We started cleaning : it was easy too !
We ended cleaning 134 toilets. We nervously showed our answer. It was correct!
“THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE! May my SERVANT read the RESULT?” screamed Franco shocked
“ One hundred, thirty four Toilets sir!” responded the servant rapidly
“IMPOSSIBLE !!!!I hate losing prisoners, I hate, hate, hate that! At least my bathrooms are clean!”declared Franco stomping his foot against the ground. And Adrianna was freed.
“If I catch you speaking Catalan again, PRISON, I will keep my eyes on you young lady!” he said to Adrianna
We went to the broken house and put all our equipment in a suitcase and moved to France. We took the train and when we got off we fell into a hole......and rose up.
We were back at home on our beds. It was 8:00 in the morning and our mom came to our room.
“Where were you?”she asked
“In the civil war of Spain!” we answered

THE END