2009 Naplan speech

One day, Stan was walking home from School. He can't wait to tell his parents about what he has learned from school today. It was about an ancient city that had the secret of understanding animal language but had disappeared from the face of the Earth. He thought to himself, "What a strange place! Does it actually exist?" As he got home, he was mysteriously greeted by a sad face from Dad and Mom and their piece of sad news: Both were sacked.

"But how could this have happened?" Stan stammered. He had no idea how they would get sacked since they did not do anything wrong in their work.

"We had no idea too but they said how to actually get our job back though" His father said

"We have to discover the ancient city of animals and take a picture to show the animal language does exist." Stan's mother continued.

"WHAT!?!?!? But I was learning that from School!" Stan face went completely blank...

At night time, Stan was up on his bed listening to the crickets singing a harmony in unison with a melody from the birds. At that moment, something changed inside him...something snapped.

"Meet me at my house ASAP ok? Don't ask why now, I tell you when everyone gets here!" Stan slammed down the phone and stared to wait for his friends to come. Two minutes later, Daniel came over panting and then glancing at Charcoal, Stan's dog and yelped. "Be quiet my parents are still sleeping." Stan said

"You know I get scared when dogs just look in the eye don't you?" Daniel retorted. Four minutes later, Cindy and Flora were next to come, Cindy was wide awake since she has some sleeping disorder but Flora was still droopy.

"Sorry guys I had to call you at night." Stan said and his cheeks started turning red
"Hmph you never say that to me since I'm not a girl" Daniel puffed
Seven minutes later, Daniel's last friend Luke came along
"Mum gave me a long lecture about being safe so sorry I am late." Luke said
"No worries so don't think about it" Stan said

Stan described about his parents losing their job and to find the city to get the animal language. Apparently Stan knows where it is, his conclusion: The dog hotel where Stan puts Charcoal in whenever Charcoal gets naughty.
"Why a dog hotel!?!?!?" Everyone replied shocked, even Charcoal barked.
"The dog hotel is a cover up, now lets go before we get grounded!" Stan said.
As everyone packed their supplies and went on the journey to the dog hotel,
apparently the found the entrance in the Dog Hotel basement in a trapdoor hatch. They found the city, took pictures and rescued Stan's parents job. However, since they left at midnight, they were grounded for a month.