It was an ordinary Sunday for Frida. The night before that, her mother told her goodnight stories and waited by her side until she fell asleep. Everything was how it should have been. But in the morning when she woke up, she felt like something was happening. Just like Kafka once wrote about Gregor Samsa, Frida woke up different that day. She has not changed into a bug or something but rather than herself, nothing was how it used to be. She went into the kitchen to find her mother but she couldn’t. Then she checked the garden and the tv room. She started to get worried but thought that her mother has probably gone for shopping while Frida was sleeping. She decided to turn on the tv. At first she thought that her mother left the tv on an English channel and started to zapping but each channel was in English and she was not understanding anything of what the people were talking about. Even the cartoons were in English. But she has not started to learn English yet! She would start to go to the language school next year. As she couldn’t understand anything, she turned off the tv but she was getting worried about where her mother was. She took her shoes and stepped by the neighbour’s door. The neighbour who was living in the next door was a close friend of her mother and her daughter was Frida’s playmate. She knocked the door and their neighbour Alexa opened it. She actually  said “Hello Frida, is everything okay?” but Frida did not understand what she was talking about. She knew something was wrong as even the neighbour was not talking their language. What happened? she thought. Did someone took me to another country on my sleep? Why was everyone only talking in English? How she would be able to find her mother and communicate other people? Even though she has not read any Kafka in her life, she somehow knew she was in such a situation that Kafka would write about.

Her mother was teaching her the letters for her to be able to learn to read easier when she starts to the primary school and she was pretty good at it. After she took apart from the neighbour’s house, she started to walk along the street with a hope of finding her mother. She was sure that everything would be like it was if she could find her. She was getting more worried because there were lots of people in their street who she has never seen in her life. She was quite sure that those people were not from her country. And the weather was extra ordinarily hot. It was too hard even to breathe. She turned right from the first street she saw with the hope of going back to the normal world. With a smile on her face, Frida finally found her mother. She instantly thought that she was in a dream and was finally back. Something was wrong with her mother, even she was speaking English. Somehow she succeeded to communicate with Frida and informed her that nobody was understanding what was happening. Frida turned her left and saw her favorite bookstore. She then looked from the window of the store, but none of the books were in their language. It was as if the world was changing. Frida and her mother went back to their home and once they arrived, they have turned the tv on and opened the news channel. As her mother was able to understand English, she could undertand what the man in the news was talking about. Frida realized the fear in her mother’s eyes. She picked up the remote controller and tried to put the subtitles on. It was weird because there wasn’t any language in the subtitle part. She was guessing what was happening to the world. The world was losing the languages and the cultures under its system. Unfortunately, those were not the only  things that were changing.

Because of the circumstances, Frida has started to learn English with her mother, she had to if she wanted to live in this world. At first, they were not understanding each other but her mother was trying to teach her English with gestures. It was difficult but hopefully Frida was a fast learner. The more she understood English, the more she was able to understand what was happening around. One day, she turned the tv at the time of the news. The same man who was always giving only bad news these days was giving another one. He was saying that after the languages and cultures, now the nationalities were disappearing! To whomever the reporter asked about heir nationality, everyone was giving the same answer: AMERICAN! Was America taking possesion of the whole world? But Frida loved her country and loved being a French girl. What would happen now? Where was the world going? What would these people do from now on? Woudn’t the world be so boring with only one culture, one language and one nationality? She needed to do something about this. She remembered that she had a book which was about the countries, their languages and cultures. She entered her room and found the book among the others. Once she found the book, she took a paper and a pen and sat down. She started to take notes about each country and decided to go to the downtown. She was talking about each country to the other people whether they were the ctizens of that country or not. Did a country even exist? It was not a right thing to say so. The people who were listening what she was telling with her bad English was getting more and more. The more countries she has told, the more people were realizing their own nationalities. For sure, talking about all 208 countries of the world was quite difficult. It took almost two years for her to teach about all of them but during this two years she realized that people started to form groups according to the countries. It was like the time when the world and the languages were being formed. Frida was feeling as if she was the creator of a new world.  People were creating the languages from the start. The people who have started to talk the same language was teaching the others.

She stopped for a minute and remembered how her friends at school were making fun of her just because she could not speak English yet. But look what she is doing now! She was the one who saved the future of these kids. If Frida did not try to do anything and only waited like the others, all the languages, nationalities and cultures would die. So would all the people. The world would be destroyed. But a boy from her class stepped out and started to yell at Frida during one of the language lessons she was giving. He yelled saying: “YOU ARE THE ONE WHO IS DESTROYING OUR WORLD! YOU ARE RUINING THE ORDER OF THE WORLD! LET IT BE ON IT’S WAY!” Frida took a breathe and pretended as if she didn’t care at all. She would not be defeated against whom would try their best to prevent her from saving the world. Her mother was always teaching her how important it is to protect our country, language and culture and to learn about the other people’s language and cultures. Now, Frida was kind of an expert about all the cultures of the world. Thanks to this experience, she understood how the languages united the people. For everyone, it seemed ike the end of the world was coming soon because the death of the languages meant the slow death of the world itself. And this little girl who was not even able to talk English was talking so many languages. Besides this, she was the heroine of all langauges now and the world was grateful to her.