THE OPOSITE SIDE

Yesterday I sat with grandpa Roy in the balcony and ate rise, he put down his fork and started eating with his hands, “grandpa Roy, you are eating with your hands!” I told him “right,” he said while getting more rise from the bowl, that’s when I remembered when my mom told me that eating with your hands is disrespectful. “Alex” uncle Roy said “there are places where you eat food with your hands and there are places where you eat food with sticks. But did you know that parents in the Oppositelle kingdom tell their kids “don’t eat with your feet!” “why would they say don’t eat with your feet instead of don’t eat with your hands?” I asked “because in the Oppositelle kingdom they hold their forks and spoons with their feet. “where is that kingdom?” I asked “Oppositelle kingdom is placed not far away from Egypt. I have been there once” said grandpa Roy while his mouth was filled in with rise.

When grandpa Roy finished is bowel, he continued telling the story: “once when I went on a trip in Ancient Egypt, I got to a gate of a town that was surrounded by a really high fence with a couple of turrets, but one thing was different the gatekeeper was standing on his hands. “Hello” I told him, “who are you? what are you?” the gatekeeper yelled while looking at me in a suspicious way. “I am grandpa Roy and I am a human.” Why are you standing on your feet?” “I asked, but he had no answer he was thinking, “I have to take you to the castle of our queen, her name is Oppositia, she has to see you” the gatekeeper opened the gate and told me to go follow him.

 I was shocked from what I saw, all of the woman, man and children were walking on their hands, everyone were-upside down. I went through the streets, everyone stopped what they were doing and stared at me. I heard them whisper: “who is this? What is this? why is he walking like that?” everything was so strange in the Oppositelle kingdom: the windows in the houses were close to the floor so the heads of the people can look through, when someone smiled it looked like he was sad.

 I kept walking after the gatekeeper and felt like an alien from a different planet. “your majesty queen Oppositia, look who came to visit”. When the queen Oppositia saw me, she yelled and screamed: “oh no! this is a monster one second and I am going to faint!” the maid quickly gave her a cup of cold water with ice inside. “who are you what’s your name and how did you get here?” the queen’s daughter asked. “I am grandfather Roy and I went on a trip in Ancient Egypt, I got lost and got here” I said quietly. “Your majesty my queen but this weird creature is very dangers” the first counselor said. “if I could add, the future says that everyone would want to walk on their feet instead of walking on their hands because of this creature” the second counselor added, everyone nodded. “I am sorry queen Oppositia but in the place I came from people walk on their feet!”. “ew!” the queen yelled. “It’s just disgusting, it is so weird!”. The room was quite for a second but then she continued, “walking on your feet? It’s worst the eating with your hands!” I noticed that the prince was the only one that stayed quite the whole time, but then the king Oppositio lifted is wand and said: “we have to solve the problem today before it becomes a disaster!” “I am the queen Oppositia the second, and we will put this weird monster into stoning” I started sweating, they were going to through stones and rocks at me! Before I could understand what was happening two body guards took me to a jail sail. I sat down on the tall but short bed and tried to think of a way to escape, I didn’t have a plan to get out of this.

The next morning the same two body guards took me to the middle of town where everyone waited. The strong woman and man had giant rocks, the elders and the little children had medium size rocks and the toddlers had tiny rocks, everyone pointed their rocks at me. I knew the end was close. The king was sitting on a gold chair beside him was the queen Oppositia. The king put his foot up and all of the people stopped talking, Oppositio looked at me and asked: “soon we will start the stoning ceremony. Do you have something to say before we start?” he asked. I didn’t know what to say so an idea came to my mind. “Yes. I have one thing I want to do” “what is it?” asked the king “to dance”. “do dance? What’s dance?” the king asked. The people in the kingdom whispered: “do dance? What is dance, we have never heard of it before in Oppositelle!” “if you would let me go, I would show you” I said, but the first counselor wasn’t happy about that idea “if we will let him go it would be a disaster” “well then” the king said “if so, lets start our stoning ceremony!” but the prince was curious and wanted to know what’s dancing “no, wait! I want to know exactly what is dancing” due to the prince’s request the two body guards let me go.

I stepped forward and started dancing. I danced to the right and to the left, I jumped to the sides, I did chaine turns, I danced hip hop, jazz, ballet, tango, samba-I have danced like I have never danced before!

I finished dancing and stood there trying to catch my breath everyone cheered me on, they laughed and clapped their feet and I started dancing again right away. The prince put his leg up and I stopped dancing. “dad I have never seen such thing, this man will give a lot of positivity to this kingdom” no one talked or even dared whisper. “This show was amazing and from now on this man will present his dancing everyday”, the king said proudly.”

And that’s how I became a star”, said grandpa Roy. This story was really funny I thought to myself. “Everything you told in the story really happened?” I asked grandpa Roy. “of course.” he said and winked.