Astra & Astro

Prim & Sureen, G6

“Beep beep beep” The alarm rang. It was 6:00 am and time for Astra to wake up.

“Yawn! Ah, what beautiful sunshine,” claimed Astra while viewing the morning sky out of her bedroom window.

Astra has awoken from her exactly 10 hour long beauty sleep from 8pm to 6am. She wakes up way before her twin brother, Astro, as usual. It was time for her to get ready for the day, as she believes, “Early to bed and early to rise makes a girl healthy, wealthy, and pretty.”

Her routine starts by taking supplements, and a sip of vitamin water. From there on, she pets and plays with her cat, Lucy for a while until it is time for her to take a shower, brush her teeth, and do some morning skincare. Following, she picks out a fashionable outfit, does her 5 step natural look makeup, and heads downstairs carrying Lucy in her arms on an elevator to go eat the most healthy breakfast ever, salad.

Three hours after Astra woke up, a pair of eyes opened in the other bedroom. It was a bedroom with blue led lights, car models, sports equipment, a video game station with an Oculus and PS5, and just a bunch of other cool high tech gear. You guessed it, it’s Astro’s room.

“Yawn! Saturday morning and the FIRST day of VACATION! Today’s the day I’m getting that level 50 gear.” Astro leaped out of bed.

With his Samoyed, Loki, Astro went straight to the bathroom to brush his teeth. Unlike Astra, his morning skin care routine involves water and a towel. After he brushes his teeth, he goes straight to the mansion’s gym to get a morning workout. He runs on the treadmill, lifts some weights, does some pushups, situps, squats, pull-ups, and practices soccer and basketball shots. After soccer practice in their field, Astro plays some dog games with Loki.

After all that training, he goes to wash all the sweat off by taking a nice cold shower and an ice bath. Then, he goes ahead and puts on his clothes, which is just a sports shirt and shorts. After that, he goes downstairs with Loki following closely behind and joins his sister for breakfast. Unlike her, his breakfast is waffles and maple syrup with a side bowl of Fruit Loops.

Today was the first day of summer vacation. Astra and Astro were planning on having a normal holiday, at their beautiful mansion of a home, watching movies all day in their movie theater, with bowls of popcorn on their laps. Until…

“KIDS! FAMILY MEETING!” Dad yells from the 2nd floor lounge.

“Ugh! Not again! Dad knows I hate family meetings, especially those about business deals,” complained Astra. She hates meetings so much that if there is a day without it, it’s music to her ears.

“Eh. I don’t care. If going to those meetings means I can keep my Meta Quest, then I’m going.” Astro said.

“I don’t think mom and dad are going to allow that today, they sound pretty serious. Anyways, let’s go.”

They head to the 2nd floor lounge to see Mom and Dad with their serious faces on.

“So kids, we’ve decided that you two have been having TOO MUCH screen time.” Mom claimed.

“So, we’ve decided to go on a ROAD TRIP with NO ELECTRONICS.” Dad added.

Those words casted looks of despair on the two. Astro’s pranky smirk disappeared from his face. Astra’s professional social media star smile vanished.

“WHAT? You gotta be joking. That’s absolutely IMPOSSIBLE! I can’t live without my phone, how about taking pictures or instagram?” Astra exclaimed.

“Does my Meta Quest 2 count?” Astro asked.

“Yes, it does. And Astra, you’ll live,” Mom said.

“You think? No,” at this point, Astra was fuming.

“How long without my Meta Quest?” Astro asked.

“3 weeks,” Dad replied.

“That’s a nice one, Dad,” Astro laughed.

“Not joking,” Mom confirmed.

“WHAT?!” the two’s faces defined sorrow.

“It’ll just be 3 weeks on a specially ordered camper RV with no electronics. The only screen you’ll see in the next 3 weeks is the screen on the microwave.” Mom announced.

“How about the TV? Come on, theres gotta be a TV,” Astro hopefully added.

“We asked the engineers to remove all connection from it, and completely shut it down,” confirmed Dad.

“Ugh, you really got my hopes up!”

After a few more minutes of complaining, the twins finally accepted their fate.

“I guess I’ll go and do my last Tik Tok and Instagram Reel…” Astra sighed.

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“I’ll play one game and then I’ll get packin,” Astro said.

Both Astra and Astro were miserable. They never ever lived without their devices. They weren’t living in old age, of course! Devastated, they packed their bags and got in the RV.

“UGHHH, I hate this! What will I say to the Astries?!” Astra complained, “*sigh*, It’s going to be okay, Lucy,”

“What are Astries supposed to be?” wondered Astro

“My fandom, of course! They won’t be able to live without me… so I better prepare a speech to bring them back alive when I come back to my iPhone 30!” Astra planned.

“Hiya, my lovely astries, sorry I was not active for the past few days. My unthoughtful parents did the UNTHINKABLE! My devices were banned… so I was not able to post anything, or do anything interesting.”

“Astro, was that good enough? Is that too dry?”

While Astra was planning a speech to her followers, Astro was busy kicking his ball around the RV living room and breaking furniture.

“Dad, can we stop at the park?” Astro asked. “Sure, son. Astra, join him. Be outdoors, have some fun,” Dad said.

“Ugh, fine. Can’t say I would enjoy it, though,” Astra mumbled.

Out in the park, Astro was playing fetch with Loki, while Astra was writing her speech.

“Woah, I didn’t know this park has a basketball court!” Astro grabbed his basketball and called his friends, Zayn, Langdon and Asher to play 2v2.

Mom and Dad smiled at them from the RV. They were proud that the kids were surviving this far without their precious devices.

After a while all the chaos turned to calm. Astra decided to make a new painting in the art room. Art was something that helped her calm down a lot, and not worry about her absence on Instagram and other social media. Astro was still playing basketball with his friends. They both realized that devices weren’t their life. Astro had his sports, and Astra had art, something they both loved. It was time to let go of social media and games for a few weeks.

“I really did not think they were gonna change from those complaints,” stated Mom.

“Maybe we should make another road trip like this,” suggested Dad.

“NOOO!” Astro and Astra shouted.

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Kru Lek

แม้ว่าเราต้องปล่อยมือออกจากกัน ทุกความทรงจำาไม่เห็นต้องปล่อยทิ้งไป ช่วงเวลาที่ผ่านมาได้ผูกพัน ขอให้ความรู้สึกนั้น ไม่ผ่านไปไหน

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Grade 11 English Language and literature students explore the effects of social institutions on children through an examination of William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience and the 2015 film version of The Little Prince. To synthesize understanding of this ambitious unit, students engaged in poetic homage to Blake’s speakers as they transition from naivete to seeing the world as it is, while borrowing inspiration from The Little Prince.