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Transcript of Spying on the Principal
My memoir is dedicated to my whole, my mom for encouraging me, my dad for giving
me confidence, my older brother Justin, for fixing the tiny mistakes, and my little brother for
being there.
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Nicolas Houlahan
Every Friday Mr. Leakman has a party at his house. The parties were always loud and -
joyful. After a couple of weeks of it my curiosity got the best of me.
The school bells rang the end of school. Everybody was talking about what they were
going to do on the weekend. My friend was going to the movies to see Batman.
“I’m going to see the new batman, I’m so excited!!!” Leo said.
A couple of students were even singing Friday by Rebecca Black while Ms. Moss put it
on full sound upstairs. I wanted to tell my friends so bad what I was going to do but I resisted the
temptation because if I told them they would start a rumor and I couldn’t risk getting in trouble.
On the bus home I kept relaying through my head what I was going to do. First I would
prepare myself, get my camera to zoom in then get the walkie talkie and glue the button so it
was always transmitting. My brothers and I decided they would place the walkie talkie under the
fence so I didn’t need to worry about that. The bus was slowing down passing Mr. Leakman’s
house then arriving at mine. I was filled with excitement and fear. I couldn’t think straight.
“Justin, Thomas, you guys get the walkie talkies while i get the camera,” I commanded
as we got off the bus and in our house. “Got it,” they answered simultaneously.
I grabbed my camera while my brothers glued the walkie talkie then brought it outside
and slipped it under the fence separating Mr. Leakman’s house from mine. After everything was
set in place we went to the balcony of my room for the best view. The only thing we could do
now was wait and hope nothing bad would happen.
At last we saw the first car, it was Ms Moss. After that came a flow of cars. When
everybody had arrived Mr. Leakman set up a bonfire in his backyard and passed out wine and
food. After the meal and snacks the stories started.
They started telling stories about kids doing annoying things like talking while when the
teachers were speaking but then they also told stories about students who they found funny.
One of the teachers dared Ms. Moss to sing her national anthem which was O’Canada. We
laughed so much One of the stories was so funny that we accidently pressed a button which
made our laughter transmit to the other walkie talkie.
The teachers disrupted by our loud laughter looked up to see us three zooming in on
them with cameras. We were frantic. We quickly packed our stuff and pretended we were
asleep (the only thing we could think of). After a couple of minutes we heard a knock at the
door. What sounded like Mr.Yuen spoke to my parents to ask if we spied on them but my
parents said we were asleep.
“I’m sorry to interrupt you at such a late hour, but I was wondering if your children are
spying on us?” Mr. Luen asked.
“How could they be spying on you, their sound asleep!” My mom whispered, outraged as
she was kicking Mr. Luen out the door (thanks mom) and closing the door with a bang!!
We all dreaded going back to school after the weekend. They probably figured that we
were awake and laughing.
Since that day every Friday when Mr. Leakman has a party, I shut the blinds, put my
headphones on and listen to music.
Spying on the principal
This exciting and thrilling story is about an eleven
year old boy whose curiosity was stolen by the
many loud and energetic parties that took place
every Fridays at the Principal’s house.
About the Author
Nicolas Houlahan
Is the author of a wide variety of books
including KiKi the Weirdo, Manny is on a trip, and
Justin is crazy. He now believes the readers of his
books have been led to great lives.
He now resides in Warsaw, Poland and he
still wishes he was in his home country Canada