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The Magical Sunshine
May liked to sit by the window and bathe in the sunshine. Drawing pictures was her most favourite thing. The fairy that she drew wore a skirt made of colourful sunshine. A bridge she made was a rainbow built by shifting sunlight. The most interesting thing about May is that all her homework assignments, done with coloured pencils, looked like pictures too! Can you imagine it? How could a teacher correct a composition that was full of all kinds of colours? She was often scolded by these teachers but May could not amend it. If she used a dull black or blue pen, she could not write a complete sentence!
Fortunately, her new teacher, Miss White, was different from the other teachers. She never scolded May for using colourful pencils. Miss White said, "You can use any pen so long as you can write a good essay. If you can't write a good essay even though you print it, it's still bad." After Miss White read two compositions, she commented that May's writing, "was full of sunlight--- warm and vivid." She said that, just like May's pictures, they shared her endless imagination with everyone who read them. When May heard this, she smiled and her grin seemed like sunshine hopping up and down!
There were many kinds of colour pencils in May's pencil case. When she was in a cheerful frame of mind, she used bright colours to do her homework and write in her diary. When she was sad and blue, she couldn't help but using darker shades. May was a very strange girl. She preferred to use different colours to express her moods and since Miss White came, her notes were worlds filled with colour.
One afternoon the whole sky was filled with black clouds and the classroom became very dark. The classmates couldn't see the words on the blackboard clearly. Miss White tried to turn on the lights but something was wrong with the electrical system. Miss White threw down the chalk and said, "Let's start a story meeting." All of the class broke into happy applause! Then Miss White told a story about the sun and raindrops.
While May was listening to the teacher, suddenly she got an idea. She raised her hand and said, "Miss White, may I draw the pictures for your story on the blackboard?" Miss White laughed, "That's a great idea. Come on, my girl! I will continue my story and you can draw it while you listen." May walked to the front of the blackboard and sketched a group of raindrop spirits and then a bright red sun. When she finished the last stroke, the miracle had begun.
The whole classroom was bathed in the sunshine. It seemed that the sun had just risen up from the horizon and was illuminating the fields.... "The sun is rising!", the classmates cheered from beside the windows. Yet the outside was still dark and the same black clouds rolled across the sky. Everyone turned to each other in puzzlement. Only the classroom was full of the sunshine. May was as surprised as everyone. Where did the sunshine come from? "Only our classroom is bright. It must be from the sun that May drew...", people whispered. "It's impossible", May shook her head. "It must be from Miss White's story."
Suddenly, there was a loud crack of thunder outside. Then it was raining. Everyone sat down quietly inside the class and enjoyed the magical sunshine. After a while, the rain stopped and the black clouds blew away. Sunlight broke through the crevices between the clouds and slowly returned to the classroom. After school, May was collecting her books when her friends Grass and Lily came over. "Would you like to go with us?", Lily whispered. "All right", May replied and thought they must have something special to tell her.
The rain had left the schoolyard with many puddles and the leaves glistening on the trees. Walking out of the school, May asked, "What's the matter?" Grass replied with a smile, "Take it easy. First we go to the store to buy some crayons." Then they went into a stationery shop. May felt very confused. Why were they suddenly buying crayons? What was wrong? Grass and Lily said nothing but smiled mysteriously.
Carrying the crayons, they all moved on and finally stopped on a long lane. Grass said, "Here it is!" May looked around; there was an ruined wall and battered house opposite to it. "You want me to draw here?", she puzzled. "What do you want me to draw?" Grass pointed up, "Look at the road lamp." May looked up and noticed the bulb was missing. She asked, "You want me to climb up and fix the bulb? I can't climb up there!"
"The bulb is always broken here. We want you to draw a sun just like that one in the classroom.", Lily explained. "What? You think I made that magic sunshine?", May's eyes widened. She calmed herself and drew so carefully that passersby stopped to watch them. She concentrated on thinking about the classroom and Miss White's story and remembered the same red sun of spring from the story. Her heart was full of a mysterious and exciting feeling.
Finally the new sun was finished. May closed her eyes and prayed silently in her heart that this sun would shine too. "Wow! It's shining!", Lily shouted. May opened her eyes slowly and smiled in wonder at the shadows all around her. "Amazing! It is a miracle!", the watching people cheered.
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