Karl's (Grade VIII) Essay

This story is about me when I broke my shin bone. I was playing with my friends. I was walking back to the seeker's place when I tripped on my own foot and broke my shin bone. It was a stinging pain. All my friends came out running to help me. They took me back into the building but I couldn't go into the lift so I had to walk up four floors.

I was taken to the hospital by my mother. When we reached the hospital, they rushed me into the X-ray room even before seeing the doctor. When we finished with the X-ray, the doctor saw us immediately. He said that I had broken my shin bone. My mother and the doctor decided that I should put my foot in a fibre glass cast.

The next day, I had broken through the bottom of the cast. The doctor said, “I told you, you can go out and walk but I didn't expect you to got out and play football.” I replied, “I didn't, I was only the referee.”