Tenth Grade 2015
First Place: Sima Hakobyan, Yerevan
You wake up to find a key under your pillow. What does it unlock?
My life is full of misteries and strange stories. When I was a little girl it scared me, but then when I grow up I understood that it is what makes our lives interesting. One day, I saw a dream, it was a stranger one, I nerver saw it before. I was in a big garden I was not alone, I saw many people around me. They was running; they was living but they didn’t saw me. I can describe their happy faces one buy one. I was along, their voices fratened me. Then, a little girl came and said me that the people was sick and only I can help them.
I woke up, the faces of people were around my eyes. Then, I found a key under my pillow, it was a very big key like in the fairytale it was shining. My sister, she was in my room at night, she told me that I spoke in my dream I said “Please, child tell me where is the key of the paradise I need to help the people.” I remembered my dream once again and I found that the key is in my hands and that I need to do is to unlock the closed door of paradise. I took the key and I started to run, I didn’t no where I am going but my heart told me to run. I was running about 10 minutes when I understood that I am in a big garden. It was like the paradise, many flowers, trees and vegetables were living there, like colorful butterflyes. I was very tired so I decided to sleep under the big tree. I felt asleep, when someone with her little hands was telling me to wake up. When I opened my eyes I saw the little girl, she helped me to find the door. It was a very big garden and the door was very small. I understood that without the help of this girl I couldn’t find it.
Many years passed, but I still remember this story. Was it the real key of paradise? Could I help the people? I ask me many questions and I want to know if I realized my aim. People just pass around and they don’t look around, they don’t want to see the people who need them. Is it really so difficult to help the people? We have money to do war but we don’t have money to help the others? We live once, and we need to find the key and to help the people. Because, life is a bumerang and when we do something helpful we became angels who will always be protected by God. I want to finish my story with this short quote invented by me: life is more than a word and the key is in your hands.
Second Place: Meri Martirosyan, Yerevan
You invent a new kind of medicine. What does it cure? What are the side effects?
Have you ever felt that like whatever you do is not enough. I guess in our lifes, we’ve all had the feeling, that we can do a little bit more of what we do.
In the age of five, my grandfather died because of cancer. I remember every single moment that I have passed with him. When he died, it was a big disaster for me. Although I was young and I didn’t understand much, I promised to myself that one day I will invent a new kind of medicine, that will cure any kind of cancer. To by the time, it became my biggest dream.
Growing up, I participated in many volunteering programs, that helped people with cancer. I was feeling like it was my duty to help them. I was following all the medical shows on channels, or whatever it was just because I wanted to hear one sentence “The medicament that cures the cancer is found.” But, unfortunately it never happened.
I was doing my best to achieve good results in science at school, although I didn’t even like science. My family always participated in charity programs, because we felt like it was our duty, our mission to help people with cancer.
I was and I am still following my dream to find that medicament.
Today, I am 15 years old, and that simple dream has now become a part of me, and no metter what I do, I feel like I can do more and I need to do more.
Nowadays, there is only one way to cure cancer, wich is the chemical therapy. But the side effects of chemical therapy are disastrous. I imagine, that one day, when I will find the way to cure cancer with no similar side effects, I will be really proud of myself, because that day my dream will become true and that gap in my soul sill be filled.
You wake up to find a key under your pillow. What does it unlock?
My life is full of misteries and strange stories. When I was a little girl it scared me, but then when I grow up I understood that it is what makes our lives interesting. One day, I saw a dream, it was a stranger one, I nerver saw it before. I was in a big garden I was not alone, I saw many people around me. They was running; they was living but they didn’t saw me. I can describe their happy faces one buy one. I was along, their voices fratened me. Then, a little girl came and said me that the people was sick and only I can help them.
I woke up, the faces of people were around my eyes. Then, I found a key under my pillow, it was a very big key like in the fairytale it was shining. My sister, she was in my room at night, she told me that I spoke in my dream I said “Please, child tell me where is the key of the paradise I need to help the people.” I remembered my dream once again and I found that the key is in my hands and that I need to do is to unlock the closed door of paradise. I took the key and I started to run, I didn’t no where I am going but my heart told me to run. I was running about 10 minutes when I understood that I am in a big garden. It was like the paradise, many flowers, trees and vegetables were living there, like colorful butterflyes. I was very tired so I decided to sleep under the big tree. I felt asleep, when someone with her little hands was telling me to wake up. When I opened my eyes I saw the little girl, she helped me to find the door. It was a very big garden and the door was very small. I understood that without the help of this girl I couldn’t find it.
Many years passed, but I still remember this story. Was it the real key of paradise? Could I help the people? I ask me many questions and I want to know if I realized my aim. People just pass around and they don’t look around, they don’t want to see the people who need them. Is it really so difficult to help the people? We have money to do war but we don’t have money to help the others? We live once, and we need to find the key and to help the people. Because, life is a bumerang and when we do something helpful we became angels who will always be protected by God. I want to finish my story with this short quote invented by me: life is more than a word and the key is in your hands.
Second Place: Meri Martirosyan, Yerevan
You invent a new kind of medicine. What does it cure? What are the side effects?
Have you ever felt that like whatever you do is not enough. I guess in our lifes, we’ve all had the feeling, that we can do a little bit more of what we do.
In the age of five, my grandfather died because of cancer. I remember every single moment that I have passed with him. When he died, it was a big disaster for me. Although I was young and I didn’t understand much, I promised to myself that one day I will invent a new kind of medicine, that will cure any kind of cancer. To by the time, it became my biggest dream.
Growing up, I participated in many volunteering programs, that helped people with cancer. I was feeling like it was my duty to help them. I was following all the medical shows on channels, or whatever it was just because I wanted to hear one sentence “The medicament that cures the cancer is found.” But, unfortunately it never happened.
I was doing my best to achieve good results in science at school, although I didn’t even like science. My family always participated in charity programs, because we felt like it was our duty, our mission to help people with cancer.
I was and I am still following my dream to find that medicament.
Today, I am 15 years old, and that simple dream has now become a part of me, and no metter what I do, I feel like I can do more and I need to do more.
Nowadays, there is only one way to cure cancer, wich is the chemical therapy. But the side effects of chemical therapy are disastrous. I imagine, that one day, when I will find the way to cure cancer with no similar side effects, I will be really proud of myself, because that day my dream will become true and that gap in my soul sill be filled.