I first started capturing her storytelling using the video mode on our digital camera, around about April, but she soon refused to let me film her. So I tried writing her stories while she told them, using pen and paper. That lasted for only a few stories too, before she caught on. Since then, I've been recording her using a mini MP3 recorder, which is pretty unobtrusive, and transcribing the audio later. She then objected strongly to this as well... Nowadays I use a combo of MP3 and video to record her before transcribing. I only manage to record a fraction of the stories she tells. I always have a backlog of stories on the recorder that still need transcribing, as it's impossible for me to keep up with her. To help new readers, I've marked my favourite stories with a star (*), so at least you have somewhere to start if you don't know where to begin. Don't forget to check the older archives too - there are some gems in there as well!

Tuesday 11 December 2007

Larry is kidnapped by Aliens! 2007-12-10*

Well, I just had to transcribe this one right away, because she was really starting to freak out because she really wanted me to sit and listen to her tell this one besides recording it as well - I mean REALLY sit right beside her on the floor and pay full attention to her absolutely. She wouldn't start until I did that, and almost threw a tantrum because I was actually busy with something else...

I have been recording her, true to my word when I bought the new recorder, whenever she asks to be recorded only. So I have hours and hours of untranscribed recordings on the recorder, being too busy at the present time to do anything with the mounds of accumulating data... Her current storytelling is evolving again, and as intense as ever. She has introduced herself as a character in her stories, since a few days ago. One recent story started with its characters looking for God! Her use of language keeps progressing and I am very frequently surprised at her choice of phrasing or vocabulary, although it is hard to cite examples. I haven't had time to transcribe anything for a few weeks now, due to employment commitments, but will have to come back to do so as some of the stories are really really good!

Ok, so on to tonight's story. You can listen to her tell this story HERE.

Take note: there are two Corins in this story, the Good Corin and the Bad Corin.

Corin is going to talk about ...

(To me: whose name is this?
M: you know right?
B: Jesus
M: Mm-hm)

“Who’s Jesus?” he said, asking Larry to meet him at his birthday cake.

“Ummm... it’s this,” said Corin. “And that’s the one to stand for them God said,” and asked, “Where is Corin?” he said.

(Whispers) And germs said, “Couldn’t there be alien, catching them? Or could it be this coming and catching them? Could you there be CORIN???”

(To me: This is the BAD CORIN come, going to CATCH Larry.)

And Corin said, “Where are they? (Chuckles) Heh heh heh, that’s fun.” Corin asked could Larry come over his way. He comed with his document, but Corin asked “No, he couldn’t. Because he is my prisoner, and I don’t want him guessing. Clever, with all that worky stuff, all that rubbish.”

Corin blast off into the air, leaving Corin behind. Larry asked, “Who could eat all the old faschi(?),” to heself?... “Corin, go home!”

Corin ran home as fast as he could. He said, “Corin... no... Fatty! Larry locked up in a warm state, where aliens catched him there and put him in the fireblast!”

“Oh no!” said Fatty, “It’s almost time to.... Daisy to arrive, with Larry. Larry with Pip.”

“(Whispers) Yo! That was a ghost!”

Bets said, “Fatty, where is Larry? Didn’t you found him?

“Didn’t find him anywhere! He’s been captured by the three aliens.”

“Huh!!” said Pip, “That’s disgusting! We don’t want to be captured too! We might be locked in a tower and couldn’t... couldn’t save him.”

“Oh no! We don’t want that to happen!” said Bets in disgust. “No one would have to...(breaks into fake sobbing)”

The aliens comed in a trancelike state, near where they were talking. “Maybe they heard us,” whispered Larry. Larry put fire on them, and blast off by heself, ON THEIR spaceship. (Chuckling) He escaped, then he put fire on the aliens! Then he walked the ship BY heself.

(To me: Mommy!
M: I’m listening
B: He PUT FIRE ON THE ALIENS!!! And ran off and DRIVED THEIR spaceship BY HESELF!!!
M: Okay...)

“That’s a good blast!” Larry ran out in the garden path and into the garden lane. He didn’t found his sister. “What? Is Bets here?”

Bets said, “I’m here!” She was hiding behind (stifled chuckle) Larry then was now finding that it was now getting out of his BACK (small chuckle).

Larry stamped his feet.

“Hey, Corin is here to say hello, alright?” said Bets. “Hello,” she said, in a kind voice that Larry couldn’t catch up with him, with a voice in so low.

And Corin asked, “Could you come to tea with us later? In the sweet shop?”

“Ya,” said the man, “you can.”

Later on they had a beautiful sing along. (Whispering) Larry was down in the dumps. (Normal voice) Afternoon they had a very (whispers) nice tea shop, bye bye later.

“The song, the song... (suddenly sings at the top of her voice) I KNOW YOU yi yi! Going out of the garden path and in the garden lane..... (speaks) It’s back here, but they didn’t wrote it... it said, (sings loudly again) STUCE, LARRY AND CORIN, to Corin’s annoyance, to Larry.... (speaks) Don’t you sing the song?” said Corin. “It goes like this....(sings loudly) LARRY HAD A LITTLE... BUT LARRY,” Corin stopped.

“Do you want to have this singing, or... (sings loudly again) TISSATORE.....”

“(Speaks) Ummmmm... Tissistore,” said the other man... other boy standing near him. It was Larry.

(Me: what is Tissistore?
B: they don’t know, they didn’t found out yet. They just found a song,not a book.)

Larry asked Tistasong to come over. “He’s a human!” he said, “he’s a human. But his song is aggravating.”

“Do you think his song is aggravating me?” said Corin.

(To herself: 14, Hoong. (This is how she indicates her Section/Chapter headings nowadays)).

“Alright, let’s go home. I’m tired of this.”

They ran home as fast as they could. Quietly, Corin slipped his drawer and asked Larry to come with him, but Larry didn’t agree. “Goodness sake! Your dinner is coming soon.”

Saturday’s came, and his breakfast was laid on the table. Had breakfast and enjoyed a delicious meal. “(Sings loudly) AFTERNOON AND CORIN IS DOWN IN THE DUMPS NEAR LARRY! OUR SONG NOT YET AND THE SONG THAT LARRY LET...”

Everything was too much for Larry.

“He really have to stop the singing.... (As though thinking to himself) Singing means? .... about Corin’s asked for asteroid, crashing to the earth. About Corin’s dinosaur’s extinct. It was real, and couldn’t talk.” He forgot about Corin’s needs(?), to Larry’s annoyance.

Larry hit his foot in a basket toot, and ran off without his toot. His toot was in his pocket, and his other toot was in his pocket too, but some, the other toots wasn’t. They had fallen when he throwed things. They falled there when he throwed the thing in Corin’s terse(?). His parcel was this, extinct... Corin ranned away...

“Ffffff....I feel like it,” said Corin, “but I don’t feel like the song today. Don’t like the song today because it’s so boring to have a beautiful song going on my bedroom. You think it’s born to be in your bedroom too? I think it’s born to be in anyone’s bedroom...”

No one had a blanket for, apple instead, that woman. Corin asked could Larry have a bite of it, then the old pedlar woman said, “No, these are Russian apples, and I don’t want anyone to eat them. Only ME myself could eat them.”

“Alright,” said Larry, “I will fight you!” he put flash on them, on the old pedlar woman, and he started to fight with her. She ran on of the cliff and fell down of the cliff, and the whole boulder be struck, and she was dead. No more of her. The vultures circled and ate her all up.

Corin said “Welcome!” to Larry. Corin asked still could Larry come, and stussed(?) over Larry’s annoyance. “Look over there...” they sighed. “Anyone, could Corin and Larry have to be like that???”

“Couldn’t stay for too long, otherwise Corin would grow much bigger and would have to go over his way.”

His mummy called for him. “HEY! YOU’RE BREAKFAST IS HERE! IT’S COOLING DOWN ALREADY!”

He ran for his lunch, and was circled, and was now getting out of his hot coat. He was wearing for a little time away, when he ran to his holiday and found it was very very hot. Corin said, “WHAT’S THAT?????” But no answer. “WHAT’S THAT?????” he said and shouted. “WHAT’S THAT?????” he said, ““WHAT’S THAT?????”

But there was no answer when he shouted. He shouted much later when he finished his breakfast.

(To me: Mummy...
M: And then what happened?
B: He shout some more. It was at the edge, then he shouted and he had his breakfast later.
M: And then?
B: The end.
M: That’s the end?
B: Ya.)

2 comments:

Lorraine said...

As usual, some more fantastic phrases and vocab. I love "aggravating" and "It was too much for Larry" and "...in disgust" which I remember from an earlier story. But maybe my favorite was when the vultures ate the peddlar woman!!!

Moomykin said...

Wow! she sure is fantastic! Really enjoyed her story. Phew... I am breathless!