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My birthday Surprise 全文紹介

"My Birthday Surprise" was created especially for

Taro Kusunoki
with love from
Uncle Tak
December 13, 200８

Taro Kusnoki was so excited ! His "big" day had finally arrived! He had reminded everyone in Aomori about his birthday on December 13, for a long time. Taro had not wanted a single person to forget this special day. Today he was 7.

For months now, Taro had been dreaming day and night about his party. He had asked his friends again and again, "Do you suppose my birthday will ever get here?" There wrere many names on his invitation list. Taro hoped Taizoh, Hanako and Mikan could come. He was really looking forward to a great time!

It seemed to Taro that his dreams always started out the way. He would be sitting in the middle of an enormous room all dressed up for his party. Beside him was a key ring with 10 magic keys, each a different color.Around him would be doors, and Taro knew that the keys were there to open those matching, colored doors.

In each dream, Taro would find many happy, wonderful surprises behind the locked doors... except for one. There were 11 doors, but onry 10 keys. Taro wondered how he would get into last room. There wasn't even a knob on the door. Every time he would start to search for the missing key, he wouid wake up. Oh well! Maybe Taizoh, Hanako and Mikan couｌd help him.

In his dreams, Taro liked to start with the biue key that unlocked the blue door. The blue room looked as if head a billion bouncing balloons of different shapes, colors and sizes, and Taro had fun walking through them. There was one balloon that had to be the biggest, bluest balloon he had ever seen. This was so much fun, Taro raced on to the next door!

The second door opened up to a white room with lots of birithday cakes. There were tiny cakes and gigantic cakes and cakes just big enough for Taro to eat all by himself. Some cakes were huge, but there was one snowy white cake behind the white door that had 7 huge layers. It was a cake for Taro. He wanted to show all these beautiful cakes to Taizoh, Hanako and Mikan.

When Taro opened the cherry red door, he almost fell backward! What a fun dream! In front of him was a monstrous mountain of melting ice cream. There were cherries, nut, whipped cream and syrup running down the side. Taro thought it would be so hun to slide down this kind of mountain. What a delightful, time he wouid have!

Taro giggled when he opened the orange door to the clown room. Inside he found forty funny clowns, most of them with bright orange hair. There were fat clowns and thin clowns, short clowns and tall clowns,happy clowns and sad clowns. Some clowns did tricks while other silly clowns just clowned sround. In this orange room. Taro laughed until he could laugh no more.

The green room had so many presents that Taro had trouble opening the door. He wondered if any of the gifts were from Taizoh, Hanako and Mikan. He was hoping that one of those boxes would have something very nice he couid play with on his birthday. Maybe it was the gigantic green gift box! Shouid he open it? No, he must hurry to the next door.

Taro jumped up and down when he opened the glittering goid door and found a golden room full of rides for his birthday party. In the middle of the room was a beautiful gold merry-go-round. Surrounding it, Taro couid see the ponies with their golden, a train ride and even a small ferris wheel!

A pink door opened up into a candy room. Taro was amazed at all the candy. He found suckeres, gumdrops, lollipops, peppermint sticks, hard candies and all kinds of chocolate candies. There was also the biggest, bubbliest bunch of pink bubble gum that he had ever seen. Taro knew that he would have to share this candy with Taizoh, Hnako and Mikan or he would have a big tummyache.

Behind the brown door were many., many huggable animals. Taro wanted to hold and squeeze the soft, cuddly brown teddy bears, as well as the cats, dogs, monkeys and dinosaurs. Some of the of the other animals, like the giraffe, were taller then Taro. Others were so small they would fit in his hand. If he put all these animals in his room., he might not be able to find his bed. Wow, that would be neat!

When Taro opened the yellow door, he found a yellow room filled with games fit for a king. Taro saw pin the tail on the donkey, a fishing pond, balloons for water fights, jacks, musical chairs, drop the clothespin in the bottle, bobbing for yellow apples, hopscotch and ring toss. Taro know exactly which games he would play first in the yellow room.

Using the shiny key, Taro opened the silver door and saw colorful streamers decoraiting every inch of the tenth room. He also found everything else he needed for his birthday party. Here were the plates, cups, napkins, forks and spoons. For his guests, there were stacks and stacks of silver whistles, silver bells, hoems, blowers, birthday hats and other party favors. He knew that he was ready for his birthday party when he saw the squirt guns!

Taro found himself in front of the last door that had no key. He leanced against the door to peek through the kyehole and, as he did, the door silently openced. He looked inside. The rainbow-colored room was ready for a birthday party with something from each of the other ten rooms, but Taro was puzzled. Something was missing! How could a birthday party be fun if you were all alone? He became very sad.

Suddenly many voices sang out "Surprise!" and "Happy Birthday!" at the same time. Taro Kusunoki blinked his eyes and immediately stopped daydreaming. He turned around and saw Taizoh, and Hanako and Mikan. This was his best birthday surprise of all! Now he know that having and family and friends was much more important than all the presents and decorations or even the cake.Oh, it was fun to be 7 and have a birthday celebration!