Magical Me
From a young age I was always referred to as
‘different’. I could do things no one else could, calculate large numbers in my
head, my parents joked around saying Haha little Matilda is at work here and
they would say use a calculator like a normal person. But this story is not
about me being called different or weird, this is the story of how I Orla Sarah
Murphy became a Nobel prize winner at the age of 13 for creating a cure to the
Corona virus last year.
It all started with the isolation which I found
very boring I had worked out almost every sum I could think of doing
multiplication, addition, subtraction, division, pie, and algebra. My parents
were saying why don’t you want to phone your friends or do something different
instead of stupid maths all the time. I tried to explain that maths was not
stupid, but they did not care.
After
4 months of this I decided that it if the doctors cannot make a cure I may as
well try. So, I got off to work singing to my self happy to have a project
again. I was trying to think would I have to fight the bacteria by itself in
order to kill it and shut it down, in
other words give it a taste of its own medicine. Then a problem arose, where
would I find bat DNA? Because you can’t just go into a shop and say can I have
‘400 ml of bat DNA please’ But then I remembered what Mom and Dad always say
‘Amazon sells it all’. So, I went straight on to the website and began my
search, around 29 minutes later it was found. It was meant to come on Friday
(today is Tuesday)
‘We didn’t order a package!’ I don’t care we did
not order a package you think I would remember If I ordered one or not!’ Oh yes
I ordered one on Tuesday I forgot about it (That was a lie I didn’t forget) ‘Oh
muttered my Mom as she walked off mumbling words to herself.
I ran down our small cluttered hallway like there
was no tomorrow, locked my door and tore open the package. It was all bubble
wrapped and under all the bubble wrap there was a small glass bottle of around
80 ml of bat DNA it had a warning, but I did not bother to read it. There was
my sleep gone now until my project was complete. Days and nights went by, but
it just felt like they were all just blurred together until finally a whole 2
weeks and three days later it was done and ready for testing. I did not know
who to test it on first so I thought I would just bring it into a hospital and
try show them it.
‘Get out and stop wasting our time!’ ‘Is this a
joke to you there are people really sick and you think its funny to come in
here and show us this!’ I felt like crying and giving up but then something
unexpected happened. ‘Oh, Chief I didn’t know you were coming today?! Yeah, I
was coming here and I didn’t know you were so nasty to a little girl, come on
and talk me through what you made’ I was speechless the Chief of Health wanted
to hear my idea and cure, I talked him through it and spoke about what I had to
put in to the medicine and he thought that it was an amazing idea getting the
bacteria to fight against itself. He told me to go on home and he will make
sure the medicine is ok and then try to start testing it on people!! I was
skipping home delighted with myself when I got home I went straight to bed and
fell asleep for what seemed like years.
Around a week later I noticed on the news that
news reporters were talking saying that a mysterious medicine was made and
dropped into the hospital and then the person left. ‘ Now live at St James
hospital we are speaking to the Chief of Health about this mysterious medicine
Over to you’ ‘ Hi and for what I have to say about this is that the medicine is
no mystery of who made it, A young girl came into me last week and told me all
about this medicine and how she thought to fight the virus against itself and
the young girls name is Orla Murphy.
I could feel the stares I was getting walking up
through the crowded hall, the palms of my hands sweating and I was going over
and over my speech I had prepared earlier on. I felt so nervous and scared but
this was the first time in my life I had ever felt proud to be me walking up to
get my Nobel Prize at the age of 13.
I am now 14 I could not be happier the Corona
Virus is gone because of my medicine and the world is safe and healthy once
again.
By Ella
Thompson
