My Lucky Day

Further Info

This story was made at the Theatre Orchard “Storyshed” workshop with young people from Priory Community School, Weston-super-Mare, and adults from Somerset Racial Equality Council’s Friendship group with funding from www.media-box.co.uk

The workshop was led by Liz Milner, Clodagh Miskelly and Paddy Uglow (CreativeMedia.org.uk), and was supported by Watershed.

A parallel Design/Technology project at Priory School to make ‘story gadgets’ for the Storyshed installation was led by Tarim from the Pervasive Media Studio – www.pmstudio.co.uk/collaborator/tarim

For further information on the Storyshed project please see www.theatreorchard.org.uk/

Transcript

I was five years old when I went on holiday to Cornwall for 2 weeks with my parents and brother.
I Visited my friend Rain near Cornwall docks in Falmouth. My parents bought a boat and we went cruising, 2 hours later we approached a deserted beach, I spotted something very large and black on the beach we then travelled to the beach and the closer we got the bigger our suspicion grew. Dad then shouted “Land Ahoy” very loudly which we  did not expect in our ear, suddenly we felt this very hard rumble as we hit the land.
Rain jumped off the boat and ran to where the large black and white object was, Rain stopped as still as she could like she was petrified of the object. I said “It’s a Orca” Rain was stood Terrified as she had never seen something so big and helpless.
After we found the helpless orca we ran back to the boat to get my parents for help. We started calling “Help a orcas stranded” then we ran back to the orca. As we waited for my parents and brother to come and help I walked gently and silently to the orca and eventually close enough to touch him. Rain stayed and stared at the helpless orca and as I went closer Rain got more nervous. She said “be careful it might eat you” I replied “I don’t think it will I think it knows” My parents and brother looked shocked, after a few moments of the orca shock we all  came around the orca and started to push as hard as we could, but after 10 minutes of pushing the orca he realised he could help by gripping his fluke into the sand and pulling himself backwards. Finally we helped him into the sea with one last push, then we went back to the boat before we hit a thunder storm.
One week later Rain and I sat on the docks quietly talking, suddenly the giant orca jumped out of the water behind me, Rain screamed as I fell backwards and knocked myself out from hitting the hard wood. Rain stared at the water afraid to go any further, but as she got braver she shouted “Help Help” but no-one came, I was underwater unable to breathe or even see, While I was underwater I could feel the orcas nose pushing me upwards against my body as it lifted me out of the water, as I got closer to the surface I could hear Rain shouting. When she saw me she grabbed me and pulled me and of the water. I felt Dozy and sick, It also took me a few moments to come around and to realise what had happened, I heard  my mother and she picked me up and laid me in the back of my car and took me to hospital.

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