Toward the Future/From the Past

1. My play is mostly very easy to show, because it has not much action in it. Most time it is only a dialogue between the characters. They are sitting in a room or in a cafe or in school. I think that is not very hard to show on stage. The only scene that could be difficult is in front of Sophies house, when they are arrived with the car. I like about plays, that you don't have to describe the background action so much, so the director has freedom in creativity. Most things are shown through the dialogue or small action. I liked writing a play, because it is hard to write a dialog in short stories, but if you only write a dialogue, than you can imagine what the characters would say and just write it down.

2. In my personal essay I would like to write about my experience of this year. My life changed so much here and I have so many good and less good experience of these first 4 Months in Edina. This is for sure a passage in my life that is very important for me and will leave an impact on myself. I nearly had all kind experience in this past months. I had very good times and surprising experience, but also bad times, when I regretted my decision to go here. But I also have a lot of experience from my life in Germany and my vacations with my family all around Europe, that I could write about. I have been in Italy, Denmark, Paris, Austria, Czech republic and a lot of places in Germany.

3. I would give advice to a 10 years old kid based on my experience. I have gone through many different and difficult things in life. I had good times and bad times. But I would give the most important advices that I learned in the last years: Be yourself!! Maybe not everybody will like you or be friend with you, but you are more happy this way, because your friends are your real friends who like you and not what you pretend to be.

The theme

1. I think every piece of writing needs a theme, because a piece without a theme is only putting together words and not writing. The Theme is very important for the reading, because not everybody likes the same theme. So the theme helps the people to find the book they like.
My favorite book is Harry Potter by J.K.Rowling. You have a clear theme. It is a fantasy book and it is about the life of Harry Potter. So you know what you get when you read it. So if you like realistic novels or love stories you should probably not read the book and you know it because you can see that it is a fantasy story.

2. A book that lasts for ever is always a good piece of writing. If the storie of a book is still related to the present and people are still intreseted in the theme of the piece of writing than will last for ever. The stories that are about daily things which are in every life and every centurie present will last throught the centuries. For example loce stories, because people will hopefully always love and see their own lifes in storiesw like Romeo & Juliet.

3. If I could leave a big impact on the world I would like to help the world peace. And I think a good piece of writing can cause this. A good piece of writing could make the people think about their issues and why there is no peace in the world. A good book could be a mirrow for their own lifes and so they could see the problems. Because the hardest thing in solvinmg problmes is to see that there is one. Everybody thinks peace is important but nobody takes it for their buissness to solve the problems. So a bookj that could show the world what theu could do for peace could maybe leave anm impact for centuries.

Thinking

1. Somtinhg in the world that concerns me is how unfair everything is. The rich peple are getting more rich and the poor people are getting more poor. When you see all these rich people in their big huoses with a big garden and a lot of personal and then you see a family of 5 or more people in an house as big as the living room of the big house.

2. My friend in Germany is a very dynamic person. She always has to do something. She can never sit still for a minute. She soes a lot of thingts with her friends and a lot of sport. She is always in good mood and can cheer you up, when you had a bad day.

3. Nearly every kind of music inspires me. I can always find a part in a lyric, which I can compare to my life. The music inspires me to write, too. I wrote some poems about songs. They also inspire me, because I want to be singer and I love singing.

Happiness

1. Happiness is something that makes you smile. Happiness is different things to different people. It is a feeling in you that nobody can really discribe, when you are happy.

2. Happiness for me are many things. My family and my music make me always happy. Happiness is to be with people you love and who love you. My music is great source of happiness for me. It can always cheer me up when I am down.

3. My parents have the greatest influence on my happiness. They can always make me happy. My parents in Germany have always been there for me and they will always be ther and that makes me happy, because they can make me happy. But my hostfamily cam make me happy, too. I am very happy in their family und I hope that makes them happy, too.

4. I think we can have an impact on everybody in our life with things we do or say or when we are just there when they need use. But I think I have a great impact on my family in Germany and myt family here, with everything I do or say. I can make them happy or dissapoint them.

First Quater Reflection

1. I enjoyed writing poems very much. After i got used to it after a few poems, I really liked it. I think I enyojed it so much , because you can be very creative with it and don't yhave to go after grammatic rules so much. And you can write about nearly everything in nyour life.

2. I think my strongest peace of writing is my poem "Thank You". I wrote this poem to my friend in germany. And I really enjoyed wriiting it, because She had done so much for me and I felt good in saying Thank You for all this. It's my strongest piece of writing, because it was my last poem and I got used to the language after all. This was the first time I wrote poetry in english and I really enyojed it.

3. I noticed that I always need an inspiration to write something. It is very hard for me just to imagine something. So need a lot of structure and direction in my writting.

4. I would like to writte some nonfiction stories, because they are based on something, so you don't have to imagine too much.

Assignment # 5

1. Lauric high School is like every High School. There are always problems beside the normal school life. Most of the problems are because of the different groups of students, like the inteloigent guys , the sports guys and the outstanding guys.
2. Andrea just started her school year on Lauric High School. She was the principal on a school on nthe other side of a country, but she was replaced after 12 pupils were shoot last year in April.
3."Do you know what it is like to see people die? Of course you konw you are a police officer. So I just wanted to prvent another massacre." Adrea says.
4. Last year Andrea saw 12 poeple die and she knows that she will never let this happen again. So she tryz to make everything different at her new High School.

Assignment #4

Task 1: I am sorry but I was not in class the day we read these Shortstory, so I have no idea what the story was about and can not answer the questions.

Task 2: A great short story should have:

- a good first sentence, so that you really want to read the story
- not to many characters, everybody should be important
- the story should have an impact on the reader
- a character you can identify with
- a happy end
- a surprising end
- lenght should be not to long but also not to short
- teen stories
- true stories like a diary or something

Assignment #3

Why

There was a war
From home so far
Soldiers fighting for a land
walking barfoot through the sand

In this war people died
Why could we be so blind
Fighting against another land
Fighting on foreign sand

But we never will stop fighting
And all poeple are frighting
Why will this never end
To fight on foreign sand

Assingment #3

Thank you


Do you even know
What you do for me
When you're just there
everytime I need you

Yoiu told me sometimes
I can call you everytime
And I did so many times
And you' ve been there all the times

You gave me new hope
For a new start
You gave me new goal
To aim for here

You were there when I needed You
The most in my life
Amd I know you will be there
everytime I need you in life

So all I wanted to say
With this few lines
Is thank you
For being in my life

Rain

Every now and then
Tears fall down
Tears from heaven
When heave crys

Source of life on earth
Life for flowers and trees
No life without it
on earth or sea

It will wash away all the
Sadness and dirt of life
And all the people's lies
Till everything gets pure

Moving

An empty flat
So white and bright
so wretch'd and sad
noone by my side

Moving van at our door
Furnitures, a bigger bed
Carried to the second floor
Upstairs to an empty flat

Leaving all my friends behind
We were sad and afraid
In a new future blind
No way back, it's too late

But start again
All will be fine
Dark had been
And sun will shine

That's me!

Hi, my name is Carolin and I am an exchange student from Germany. I took creative writting to improve my english. I'm very excited in reading books and writing poems in my freetime. I am intrest in writing about the natur and the love. In want to write some short stories, poems or other stories over the next four months.

My favorite authors are Cecelia Ahern, John Grisham and J.K. Rowling. But my favorite book "Pope Joan" was written by another author called Donna Woolfolk Cross. I really enjoyed reading this book twice because the storie is so intresting and the author made a good job in creating pressure.