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Hi, I’m Aadya Sharma, and this is the story of what happened when me and my friends went… [Four girls]
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DOWN UNDER! [Australia map or World map with Australia clearly visible]
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We wanted to take a vacation somewhere far far away, so we flew to Australia.
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The plane soared across the ocean, all day and all night.
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Until eventually we arrived!
We could see deserts, big red mountains and lots of kangaroos.
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We stayed with a really nice family. They had a big garden, a pool and even a trampoline!
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All day we bounced up and down just like kangaroos. It was so much fun.
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I wanted to bounce even higher, so I asked Amaya, Arandhana and Swamy to all jump as much as they could.
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Suddenly, I was as high as the clouds. But when I looked out, I saw something in the distance…
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It was a volcano! And it looked like it was going to erupt!
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But that wasn’t all…
I could see a family of kangaroos, playing in the grass.
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They hadn’t seen the volcano in time.
Lava was starting to flow right towards them.
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I saw the mummy kangaroo scoop up the little joeys into her pouch, and then bounce off as fast as she could.
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But in the rush, she had left one of her joeys behind!
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“We have to do something!” I called out to my friends.
With a huge BOUNCE, we all jumped over the fence.
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We ran and ran, and every second the lava was getting closer.
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Even though the joey was jumping as fast as he could, he still wasn’t fast enough.
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The lava was right behind him!
It was so hot it burnt the tip of his tail.
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Just in the nick of time, he jumped up onto a rock.
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But it was just too hot for us to get near him.
There had to be something we could do!
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We tried to reach him with a stick, but we couldn’t find one that was long enough.
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We tried to build a path of stepping stones, but the lava was just too hot!
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I thought and I thought…
And then I had an amazing idea!
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“We have to get him to bounce!” I told my friends.
“We’ve been bouncing all day, so let’s show him how!”
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So we all stood in a row, bent our knees and BOUNCED as high as we could.
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The joey looked at us with a smile.
“You can do it!” we called out.
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Then he bent his legs and with a GIGANTIC BOUNCE, he jumped up into the air…
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And landed right into my arms.
Holding onto him tight, we ran back to the house.
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“There you are,” I said, giving him back to his kangaroo mummy.
“You be careful from now on.”
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And all of us went back to doing what we do best…
BOUNCING!
