Truly Amazing Childhood... in Emojis ✨

Creative writing assignment (Year 6-9): write your own story with a large collection of emoji pictures. Here is mine!

I used ☠️ my younger cousin's 👶 entire year's savings 💰to purchase a turtle 🐢. This was one 1️⃣ of my first successful 👍 live projects 📌. Then proceeded ⚙️ by the snail 🐌 community 🏘️ I built 🔨.

Next I cut out ✂️ a window 🪟 and a door 🚪from a used up ♻️ mini pack 📦 to accommodate my new friends, the ants 🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜... I learnt 💡about the trail they left when one 1️⃣ of them discovers food 🥘. I found one 1️⃣ of these invisible 🕶️ scented 👃 trails and then dropped 💧a grain of sugar 🧊, which I "breadcrumbed" 🍪 to the specially designed 🏗️ ant house 🐜🛖.

Soon afterwards my mother 👱 beat 🏏 the living day light 🌘 out of me 🤕when she found out a pigeon 🕊️ which lived in my bedroom 🛌. But I  went on 🚶another interesting adventure 🤠 to a lake ☱ 4️⃣ 5️⃣ -minute walk 👣 from the house 🏡 to catch 🪝 fish 🎣.

A red 🟥 kitten🐈 was the last 🪦 animal I kept in my room (okay 👌, apart from the 3️⃣ cute featherless birdies 🐣🐣🐣 that got me in trouble 💩 by screaming too loud 🔊 when my dad 👨 walked in, having learnt 💡the sound 🛎️ of my door 🚪means food 🥘).

I know as I began to grow up, my taste for petty creatures 👾💀🗿👻🦄 began to dim 🔅. My company began to change. I was saving to buy💲a fairly used ♻️ Sega Drive 🕹️. But my parents 🙅‍♀️🙅‍♂️ refused ⛔ to buy me any gaming consoles 🎮 because they felt they'd distract 😕 my education 🏫.

Finally, at the age of 15 I gave my turtle 🐢 out as valentines 💕 gift 🎁 to a girl 👧🏼 (a sylph 🧚 really) I absolutely loved 💘 (had a gigantic crush 💜). This became a landmark📍in my life as I began to make senseless  sacrifices (🌈, 📕, 💎,🍬,🍓,🌹,🍧, 📼,🎁,🍷 - you name it!) to her later on but the turtle 🐢 came back 🪃 to me after she became... my wife 💑❗

Ella, my wife!

Degradation

The days of chivalry and respect seem to be long gone these days. Over the past 15 years or so many people who live in Smolensk have become more rude and disrespectful. I believe there are many contributing factors that have led to this rudeness. Selfishness and greed for money have led to many other byproducts such as disrespect to people and the lack of accountability to anyone. Kids treat their parents and teachers with disrespect and also treat each other badly. 

I am a school teacher and have been for about 4 years now. For just the time I have taught at school I have seen a complete turnaround from when I came. The disrespect and attitude that some of people have is crazy.

We don’t question the conventional wisdom that childhood is in crisis; we want to say that poverty and terribly low moral standards that engulfed substantial majority of families and darkened their lives have become a new issue for the state system of education. It is not simply about raising the price of education; many more fundamental problems arise – schools know much more about the state of Russia Olympic Team than they do about the state of their children. It shows that there is a lot of hypocrisy and double standard practices within the national education system.

Even further, this seems to be the age of tolerance and acceptance because we are all forced to accept someone's wrong-doings. Society is in fear about being accountable and being able to tell someone else that they are doing something wrong. The Moscow Patriarchate headed by ecumenical patriarch Cyrill has allowed this to creep in the very fabric of Russian way of life, where we get the ‘feel good’ gospel and sin is overlooked and become accepted by every civilian institution.

There are many things to blame on this but it all comes back to selfishness. All good manners can be summed up in one sentence: Do unto others as you would have them to do unto you. In other words, treat others as you want to be treated.