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The stones can TALK!

4A Chan Cheuk Shing, Henry
(After sunset)
Charles: Ah! What a good sleep I have! Where's the toilet?
What the...! What has happened to me? Why have I become a huge rock? Help! Help! Somebody!
Edmund: You're so noisy. Don't disturb me!
Charles: Something horrible has just happened! We have all turned into rocks!
Edmund: Fine, it is not a problem….WAIT WHAT? You mean we are no longer human and we have become
rocks?
Charles: Yes…..
Edmund: No!!!!!!
Vincent: What is going on? Why have I become a rock? I remember that I was looking at the stars in the sky,
and I fell asleep.
Edmund: Me too!
Henry: Calm down! Just calm down! It looks like something strange has happened. Let's tell the others who
we were before we turned into stones. It may give us some hints on how and why we were turned.
Charles: I'm Charles, Charles Darwin. In 1877, I traveled to Stonehenge to conduct a research on a subject that
had long fascinated me: earthworms. During my visit, I put objects in the soil over time, observed how
a fallen stone at the ancient monument had sunk deeper into the ground as a result of the activities
of the lowly creatures, who continually churn through the soil. And as the experiment was too long, I
stayed there overnight and then I returned.
Edmund: My name is Edmund Antrobus. I was the owner of the land on which Stonehenge is situated. In the
early 1900s, my son put up a fence around the prehistoric monument and visitors were charged an
admission fee. At that time, we were a rich family.
Vincent: Well, I am…. I am… I forgot my name. I don't know who I am. What's my name?
Charles? Edmund? Vincent?
Vincent: This site is familiar. Oh, I helped build it, the Stonehenge! I was pushing a rock onto the mountain
when a thunderbolt came down.
Henry: Looks like you guys are from Medieval times. There may be others who turned into rocks as well.
British Cultural Immersion Programme
(An UFO comes down when they are searching for others)
36 Alien A: Look! These stones are moving!

Alien B: They are talking too!
Alien C: Oh! Looks like our spell has worked on them. Mission completed, over!
(The UFO left)

Charles: Did you hear that? I heard someone speaking.
Edmund and Henry: There are no more stones like us. By the way, who are you? (Looking at Vincent)
Henry: I am a student from Hong Kong. I visited the Stonehenge during my British Immersion Programme,
I was taking photos of Stonehenge with my iPhone 7 and it got foggy. The mist blocked my view, I
couldn't see my friends and teachers. I tried to text them but there wasn't any Internet connection …
Charles: What do you mean? What's an i… iPhone?
Edmund: How do you text others? Is “text” a piece of work?
Vincent: And what's Internet? Is it a new kind of net?
Henry: Nevermind. (murmuring to himself) There's no
technology in Medieval times. There's no Internet,
no iPhone or Android … Where's my iPhone 7?

Stonehenge