MY UP-TO-DATE VERSION OF A TRADITIONAL FARY TALE

The tale I have chosen for that activity is The Princess and the Pea by Hans Christan Andersen. 

The original that is posted in the website is:

Once upon a time there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess; but she would have to be a real princess. He travelled all over the world to find one, but nowhere could he get what he wanted. There were princesses enough, but it was difficult to find out whether they were real ones. There was always something about them that was not as it should be. So he came home again and was sad, for he would have liked very much to have a real princess.

     One evening a terrible storm came on; there was thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in torrents. Suddenly a knocking was heard at the city gate, and the old king went to open it.

     It was a princess standing out there in front of the gate. But, good gracious! what a sight the rain and the wind had made her look. The water ran down from her hair and clothes; it ran down into the toes of her shoes and out again at the heels. And yet she said that she was a real princess.

     Well, we'll soon find that out, thought the old queen. But she said nothing, went into the bed-room, took all the bedding off the bedstead, and laid a pea on the bottom; then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea, and then twenty eider-down beds on top of the mattresses.

     On this the princess had to lie all night. In the morning she was asked how she had slept.

     "Oh, very badly!" said she. "I have scarcely closed my eyes all night. Heaven only knows what was in the bed, but I was lying on something hard, so that I am black and blue all over my body. It's horrible!"

     Now they knew that she was a real princess because she had felt the pea right through the twenty mattresses and the twenty eider-down beds.

     Nobody but a real princess could be as sensitive as that.

     So the prince took her for his wife, for now he knew that he had a real princess; and the pea was put in the museum, where it may still be seen, if no one has stolen it.

   There, that is a true story.

And my up-to-date version is:

Once upon a time there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess; but she would have to be a real princess. He travelled all over the world to find one, but nowhere could he get what he wanted. There were princesses enough, but it was difficult to find out whether they were real ones. There was always something about them that was not as it should be. So he came home again and was sad, for he would have liked very much to have a real princess.

One rainy night, a princess knocked the prince house door. "You look very bad because of the weather", said the prince. "Oh, really, it's my usual look, I love it. I don't like to brush my hair or to wear that big dresses. I think that my look rocks, don't you?", answered the princess.

The prince was a little bit surprised. She wasn't as the others princess but he had to prove if she was a real princess. So he took all the bedding off the bedstead, and laid a pea on the bottom; then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea, and then twenty eider-down beds on top of the mattresses. The princess had to sleep there.

The next morning, he asked the princess how she had slept. And she answered that horrible becouse there was a pea under his bed. "oh, she was a real princess because she has notice the pea under all the mattresses, and only a real princess could be as sensitive as she is", prince thought. 

So he asked her to marry him. And princess answered: "No way! Is that how you treat your guests? You are all crazy. I do not need to get married."

And the princess go away and enjoyed her independence. And she lived happily and ate hamburguers because she didn't like patridges.