Saturday, March 3, 2007

Family Story Part #2

In Kindergarten my brother's class was starting a project on responsibility. In class his teacher explained that they would be taking care of unborn chicken eggs until they hatched. She also told the class that part of the responsibility would be checking to see if the incubator was at the right temperature, watching over the chicks when the hatch, and feeding them through out the day. The whole class agreed with her as they walked up to the front to get their eggs. As my brother walked up to the front as the last person in line he noticed that there were no eggs left, and his teacher soon noticed this too. After realizing her mistake of not getting enough eggs, she dashed out of the classroom to find another one. After going from classroom to classroom she still couldn't find an extra egg, when she noticed an egg sitting in the bio lab. Without thinking of the consequences she took it and returned to the classroom thinking that the egg just wouldn't hatch.
After weeks of waiting the eggs started hatching one by one and each student had a baby chick to take care of, except for my brother who had the egg from the lab. After days of waiting my brother lost faith of his egg hatching and wanted his own chick to take care of. When he was about to give up and started to unplug the incubator, he heard a small pecking noise that was coming from the inside of his egg. Everyone gathered around in excitement waiting for the small egg to hatch. Slowly the egg cracked spreading from the top of the egg to the bottom. The now separated part of the egg rose revealing a mysterious creature. Unlike any of the other chicks it had scales from head to toe like the tiles of a bathroom floor and had talons like a hawk. The class was shocked as they watched the creature emerge from the empty shell and so was their teacher. Horrified by the creature that sat before her she started worrying about what to do with this monster of science. As she thought of a way to get rid of it all of the students started to pack up and leave with their chicks including my brother. Unable to say anything she allowed my brother to take the creature home to show my parents. When he arrived home my parents had the same surprised look as his teacher and told my brother that he could not keep it as a pet. The next day the creature was returned to the high school as a pet for the bio lab to show their success.

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