Adventures of the Pink Hippo

So, here's a little comical relief to all of you out there that want to get a little insight into my daily life of grading English papers. This paper was a creative writing assignment by one of my 8th graders. It's called "Pink Hippo":

Lived was one pink hippo. He lived in Africa in Uganda. On the world lived only 2 pink hippo. The second lived in Australia. Hippo had one friend. Green elephant was his best friend. One day Hippo say "That we go to Australia. I want have small hippopotamus with my wife!" Green elephant say "It's great idea! Come on!" They went 3 months, tooks ship and ran to Australia. He has gone to Australia for 2 months. They were very happy and they went to small city :) Huka an Lamana. There lived his wife. When they were in Huka an Lamana, pink hippo saw his "baby" and say "Oh my god! It's the best pink hippo on the world!" He went to her and "Hi babe, do you want gone to dinner?" After romantic diner they went to small house... After 5 minutes hippo went to casino and he played ruleta. After 9 months hippo had 289 small hippo children. He tooks your complete family to Uganda. Green elephant went with his. In Uganda they have national park and in this place they lived in peace and ease. Green elephant took yellow girafe for wife and they had small yellow-green girafe with green trunk :) Old pink hippo one day went hunt. Green elephant heard !shot! he ran and ran and saw pink hippo blooding!! He took phone and call 911. After 5 minutes went ambulance and pink hippo went to hospital. He die in hospital after 4 days. Green elephant say: It was hero!!, who keep your race on the world!!" The end