Tuesday, 29 April 2014

Dream Land


Mehuli Mukherjee

Class-8 Section-B




That night after reading few pages of my book I kept it beside my pillow, laying quietly in the dark and lonely room I asked myself whether fairies really exists. If yes, why doesn’t it take me to the fairyland away from the concrete jungle and keep me there forever. I had been asking myself the same question from past few years. Puzzled and confused with these questions I closed my eyes and entered into a tunnel of darkness. As the morning cock crowed, I opened my eyes and saw that, everything was very different. The sky had beautiful birds flying, the trees were full of sweets, and beside me a stream of hot chocolate was flowing. I was overjoyed at seeing all these. Soon a beautiful maiden came up to me and introduced herself as the queen of this amazing land. This land was named Fairytopia and all the beautiful fairies lived here. My eyes were filled with tears of joy as my years old dream had finally come true.  After a while, a flying horse came up to us and as soon we sat on it, it started to fly. The horse flew over grassland and candy trees; it went high above the ice cream Mountains and the chocolate houses.  It took us to far off places and each and every fairy was busy doing some or the other thing.  Finally all three of us entered the royal palace. In the centre of the palace a throne made of gold and diamonds was placed.  This was for the queen to sit.  Next to it, there were a few more chairs for the ministers. The interior walls of the castle were beautifully decorated with gold, diamond, rubies and gems.  The entire palace was neat and tidy.  Next, I was taken to the royal dining table. The table was filled with delicious foods. There were breads and pizzas, ice-cream and milk.  There was juice and candies also.  I ate to my heart’s content.  After that we went for a short walk. The fairy queen and I came upon many choco pie trees and ice-cream mountains.  The candy house greeted our eyes as we crossed them all. At last we reached a lonely place, where there was situated a beautiful chocolate stream.  While walking across the stream I suddenly fell down in the boiling hot chocolate and a terrible pain in my hand compelled me to open my eyes.   As I opened my eyes I realized that, actually I fell from my bed and was badly hurt.

Later, that morning, I found a red box kept below my pillow.  On opening the box, I found a small piece of paper, written on it “See you soon in Fairytopia”.



SPBDS Young Authors' Workshop 2014

SPBDS Young Authors' Workshop was held for the first time in St. Paul's Boarding & Day School, for the students of classes 5-10, 12 & Ex-students. This workshop was held by our very own ex-student, Aryani Banerjee who is a Journalist & the author of the book Little Longer Than Forever. MJ/RJ Arvind of 94.3 Radio One was equally involved with the workshop. Each group was given a topic. Classes 5-8: Fiction Short Story, Classes  9, 10 & 12: Mysterious Disappearance of MH370. Ex-Students were given the full freedom to select a topic of their choice. The response from the students was really appreciable. On the last day we had about 41 articles from the participants. Sadly, few articles were disqualified due to incomplete information, late submission etc. The prize distribution ceremony was held on 23rd April in the Assembly hall. Winners were awarded by Aryani Banerjee.


As promised to the students, their articles will be published on the following blogs:

1) thoughtsconnect by RJ/MJ Arvind, Radio One http://www.thoughtsconnect.com/
2) @n Inked He@rt by Aryani Banerjee aryanibnrj.blogspot.in
3) Beyond Words spbds.blogspot.in

Only the winners' articles will be published on the first two blogs and the participants on the other. Hope you enjoy reading the writings of the little authors. Feel free to compliment the little ones.

Jaismita Alexander, Coordinator.

Monday, 28 April 2014

The First Post...

Hi everyone,

This is the official blog of St. Paul's Boarding & Day School. 


                                         The link or URL of the blog is spbds.blogspot.in


We are just done with the 1st chapter of the SPBDS Young Authors' Workshop that we have commenced from April 2014. The stories and articles of the participants would be published here, with due credit given to the little writers. 


But anytime, anywhere, at any point of time, whoever or wherever you are, if you are any ex student or current student of the school, or any teacher, you can write on this blog. It would be wonderful. 

This is the first blog of our school! 
Wishing all of you a happy blogging ahead! 

~ Aryani Banerjee
Ex student (ISC 2006) 
and author of the book Little Longer Than Forever