The sweet tooth



Барышева Лиза. 5 класс. The sweet tooth. HIGH.

Before I took part in the Expedition through the Arctic, I had lived by a schedule. In the Arctic you lose sense of time. Having 24 hours of sunlight we could start our hiking at what we thought was 3 PM but it was actually 3 AM.
Our entire being was focused on one thing: survival.
That day or night (I can’t say for sure) I was on polar bear watch while the others were sleeping.
I didn’t have to fall asleep so I looked outside for some fresh air and came face to face with a ...

bear.
I lost my tongue and my heart stopped beating.
All my knowledge about bears came to my mind.
I was the youngest member of the expedition, but I learnt enough about polar bears in the Arctic.
In addition I had heard a lot of stories about bears when I was in the children camp in Siberia several years ago.
I remembered what to do when you meet, for example, a brown bear in the forest.
One person said that you could take off a coat and hold it up, imitating a big animal.
Others were sure that all you needed was to stay without moving and wait when the bear would first leave the place where you met. But people with different opinions had the same advice: don’t turn your back to the bear and don’t run! That’s why I threw decidedly my bag away, looked bravely at the bear’s eyes and…
start running as fast as I could.

‘What I am doing?!’ I thought, ‘bears are fast, strong and cunning. They can swim, climb on the trees and run 60 kilometers per hour! It will catch me anyway.’ I was afraid of looking back and just ran using all my affords . I didn’t know where I was and what to do after.
When I was completely tired, I fell on the ground. Several minutes later I carefully raised my head. The bear wasn’t there…
No need to explain how difficult was my way back.
I thought over again and again what could rescue me.
Only several hours later I understood why the bear had disappeared and what helped me to remain alive.

It was a packet of biscuits, a small present from my friends from the expedition! I took some biscuits from my provision and they were in the bag that I left near the bear. How lucky I was! The white bear turned out to be a sweet tooth! We had something in common…

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