Week 11 Storytelling: Alice's New School

“Good morning students! Welcome to your first day of classes! I hope you enjoy your semester. Now, get to your first period class so you aren’t late.”

Alice was in the locker room still. She hadn’t worked up the courage to go out to the field where she was supposed to be playing monkey lacrosse. She wasn’t too sure what that entailed, and it being her first day at a new school she had no one to ask.

Locker Room
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Finally, a teacher came in and saw her. She was reprimanded for being tardy, and ushered out to the field where she saw all the other girls in her class standing in front of her teacher. Her teacher. That was the worst part. It was just Alice’s luck that this class happened to be taught by the principal of the school, Mrs. Heart, so everyone had to be on their best behavior.

Lacrosse Field
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As Alice looked around she noticed that no one had any gear yet. That was peculiar, since the Mrs. Heart was explaining the rules. Alice was too busy daydreaming about why it was called monkey lacrosse to hear any of the rules. She must have missed something important because all of a sudden everyone was walking toward what looked like cages. Alice followed, trying to peer around her classmates to see what was in the cages. Soon they were right in front of them, and she could see that there were actual monkeys in these cages!

Each girl picked her monkey one by one until it was Alice’s turn. She got to the front and saw that there were only a few to choose from, and all looked exceedingly difficult to deal with. She chose one at random, and followed everyone back to the field where Mrs. Heart held something in her hand. Everyone scattered around the field into what Alice presumed were positions…

 Maybe she should have paid more attention to the rules, she thought.

A whistle blew, and Mrs. Heart threw what was in her hand into the air! It was green, but too far away to make out what it was. Everyone scrambled around the field to get to the ball. Someone called out “Hey Blondie!”, and before Alice realized what was happening there was a frog coming straight towards her. She couldn’t get her monkey to stop pulling her hair, and had to dodge the frog before it hit her. Her team didn’t look too happy that she had let this one slide passed her.

All Alice could think was that this was definitely going to be an interesting semester at an odd new school. 

Author’s Note: I chose to make my own story from the croquet scene from Alice in Wonderland. I liked that they used animals, and wanted to change that up a bit, so I decided to pick a new sport. I also wanted to change the setting a bit because otherwise I thought it was be too similar to the original story. I chose a school because that seemed like one of the most plausible places for someone to be playing a sport like lacrosse.

Bibliography: The Queen’s Croquet Ground from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865).