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  • April in Moscow by Stephen Radley

  • April Fox is a dancer she works with a British dance company in leeds

  • Her boss. There is Maria Grant

  • one Monday morning April arrives early she sees Maria at the coffee Machine I've

  • Got some good news says Maria. There is an envelope in her hand

  • Really? What is it april asks Maria smile wait and see she says at

  • 10 o'clock the dancers are finishing their first class suddenly

  • Maria Walks into the room can I have a word with you all please she says

  • What's this about asked April Friends, Laura?

  • I don't know april answers the music stops. I have a letter here from Moscow Says Maria

  • Ticker Russians want us to dance there next month

  • Six weeks later April is at Heathrow airport in London

  • You're going to have a very good time says her father of course she is George says Mrs.. Fox now april

  • Have you got everything ticket passport?

  • money

  • April smile, yes, mam. She says goodbye to her parents

  • Then she sees Laura and Maria come on says Laura. It's time to go

  • On the plane April and Laura talk about Moscow. They are both very happy

  • I want to see everything as Laura the Kremlin Red Square the Bolshoi

  • Me tooth of April, and I want to meet lots of people don't forget

  • We're going there to work says Maria with a smile in

  • Moscow a bus takes the dancers to their hotel

  • April and Laura's hotel room is on the second floor

  • Laura walks in and puts her bags down great. There's a TV. She says and turns it on a

  • Man is reading the news

  • She pushes another button now. There's a pop video. Look april. She says Russian rock and roll

  • But april is not listening. She is looking out of the window

  • Moscow she thinks I'm in Moscow

  • Next day the Dancers work very hard

  • Their dance for the festival green oceans is new and very difficult they start at 8 o'clock and finish at 6

  • Then after dinner they go to the Bolshoi theater. This is beautiful for April

  • Laura sits down next to her it really is she says

  • Then they watch the Russian dancers

  • They are all true strong and very very good

  • the day after

  • April and Laura finish at 3 o'clock

  • They go to a cafe and drink russian teeth

  • Then Laura looks at a map of moscow why do you want to go the pushkin museums near here she said

  • Ok let's go there live April

  • Then she looks at the people in the cafe. I want to talk to them she thinks but how I can't speak Russian in

  • A street near the museum there is a small market oh Laura looks with April

  • She can see some red and yellow boxes on a table. That is a pretty

  • There music boxes. There's a young man with glasses

  • You speak English for vehicle before smiles?

  • I'm studying it at University my friend Nikolai, and I only work here at weekends

  • April and Laura talked to the boys for a long time Sasha the one with glasses speaks English very well

  • Nikolai only speaks a little

  • After 20 minutes Sasha has an idea listen. He said we're going to the country tomorrow for a week's holiday

  • Some friends are going with us. Do you want to come for the day? It's not very far

  • Next morning, Sasha and Nikolai arrive at the girls hotel in the Father's car

  • There are three other people wisdom Lara Eagle and Sonya

  • They all drive to a lake near Moscow

  • Everyone is laughing and talking at the lake they have lunch after

  • that nikolaj plays his guitar and sings russian songs

  • April listens to him

  • There is a boat beside the lake late in the afternoon

  • April and Nikolaj go out in it Nikolaj looks at April and smiles

  • April smiles - it's very beautiful here and she says

  • Nikolaj looks into her eyes

  • Yes, it is beautiful, and you are beautiful

  • Too I think like April Laura shouts. Come on. It's time to go

  • Back in Moscow there is a lot to do all the dancers work very hard and have no free time

  • They promised tired sad - she wants to see nikolai again the towel. She thinks square when

  • He's in the country and I'm here in Moscow

  • Then the British Dance Company's big night arrives could luck everyone says Maria

  • the evening goes very fast

  • April only thinks about one thing green oceans

  • But then two hours later the music stops she stands under a white light

  • Laura and all the other dancers of the fighter

  • Everyone in the theater is throwing flowers. I think they like us

  • Says Laura, there's a sad smile on April's face. Yes, she does. I think they do

  • 24 hours later all the British Dancers are at Moscow Airport

  • Now I'm never going to see Nikolay again things april, and I can't write to him. I don't know his 'red

  • Then someone says her name she turns

  • It's Nikolai

  • the Planes leaving Says Maria Grant

  • April looks at Nikolai. He gives her a parcel and walks away on

  • the plane

  • April sits next to Laura her eyes await. She opened the parcel or look for Laura

  • It's one of those music boxes the ones in the market, and there's a letter - what does it say

  • But april is too happy to speak

  • She looked at the letter

  • Can I come and see you in England only Kalai? Yes? She thinks yes, you can

April in Moscow by Stephen Radley

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