See Like You Never Saw!

Our individual personalities and memories shape the way we perceive the world. For this session our facilitator read and discussed a diverse selection of poems that explore the Point of View element in creative writing by encouraging us to develop new personae through cues and exercises, and record those memories and feelings that are closest to us.

My day at the sweet shop

I wandered of into the sweet shop

And there, right on the top

Was the yummiest sweet I saw-

They looked like bears

Yellow, green, red and blue

On big shelves set up by the sweet shop crew!

Right next to me

Was something that would last me a century!

A long big red rope

With colourful dots on it

Avoiding people’s feet- Oh what a task!

I got ready

For my long journey

To reach to the colourful bears

An hour or two later

I was standing right there!

I dived into the jar

Oh now please don’t disturb me,

I’m trying to have a feast!

  ~ By Ira

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Rolling stones have a silver lining - Slice that Proverb!

For one of our sessions we had to bring our parents along to participate and see how we learn and grow as writers. For this session our facilitator divided us into teams with each others parents and each team received a set of proverbs. We were asked to cut and past words/phrases from these proverbs and come up with our very own set of Proverbs. 

Read on to see what we cam up with. Can you guess the original Proverbs?

Team1:

The proof of the pudding is a joy forever.
The child is the king.
It's the early bird that wait for no man.
Mighty oaks from little acorns catches the worm.
A friend indeed saves time.

Team 2:

A friend in need is a joy forever.
Just before the dawn its the early bird that catches the worm.
A thing of beauty is the one eyed man.
The proof of the pudding always falls buttered side down.
In the kingdom of the blind blood is thicker than water.

Team 3:

Make hay just before the dawn.
The darkest hour is for no man.
It's the early bird that is a friend indeed.
A friend in need catches the worm.
A thing of beauty is in the eating.

Team 4:

No Man is the father oh the child.
Time and tide is a friend indeed.
The bread always falls while the sun shines.
The proof of the pudding is thicker than water.
Time and tide wait while the sun shines.

Team 5:

A thing of beauty is just before the dawn.
The child is a joy forever.
It's the early bird that wait for no man.
In the kingdom on the might oaks little acorns grow.
No man catches the worm in the darkest hour.

Word Story Challenge

Here is our first challenge for all our readers.

You have a word out of which you have to form as many words as possible. The words should be at least 3 letters long. Once you have your words, incorporate them into a story. Your story should not exceed 60 words. The challenge is open until Midnight (GMT+5) 1st November 2012.

Word:  Hippopotamus

Good Luck and have fun!

Before Birth, After Life

Myths are stories that are created by a culture to explain how or why things came to be the way they are today. They tell of a time when the world was only partially developed, and things that we know today were only coming into being then. During this session, we were introduced to Origin Myths from a number of different cultures. After reading various stories and becoming familiar with

the themes and patterns of Myths our facilitator gave us special cues with which we composed our own origin myths.

Our facilitator read to us many Fables to familiarize us with the elements of Fables and the devices used to write them- the use of animals to signify human traits, the ‘lesson’ these stories try to teach us. We then thought of issues that are important to us, and created “contemporary fables” of our own around those issues.

Story -1

Lion, Hyena, leopard

     Lion, Hyena and Leopard were best friends. Nobody dared to ask them to be their best friend too.

     Once Hyena went on a holiday with her family. She sent a post card saying- “I am getting thoroughly bored without you two.” On the rest of the post card was drawn a huge sad face.

      The other two had a difficult time without Hyena but some how managed. They went for movies and played loads of games.

      A few days later Lion and Leopard received a post card saying-“ I have found a new best friend! Hooray!”

Moral: Do not have a Hyena as a best friend because you know he or she will betray you.

~ By Ira

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Story -2

The Hippo and its behavior

     Hippo – one of the laziest animal in the river. Once upon a time Hippo used to be the king of the river. He used to order his meals as if he was sitting at a restaurant. ‘A tuna sandwich’ or ‘A sea weed pepper sandwich used to be his favorite.

     Once he arranged a meeting and called all the animals for it. They decided to have I over lunch the next day. “I need you all to be there on time. Anyone who is late shall be punished.” The following day everyone came on time. The hippo was so lazy that he himself forgot about it.

     So from that day, the Hippo came across to be the laziest animal in the river and fish the friskiest.

~ By Ira

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The Lizard’s Tail

It is said that earlier lizards did not have a tail. There is a story behind how the lizard got its tail and why it does not die when you cut off its tail.

Once there was a lizard who had laid two eggs. One of these was eaten up by a vulture. The lizard guarded the remaining lone egg very closely.

One day, an eagle swooped down to eat the other egg. But the lizard was on her guard and managed to keep the eagle away from its egg. However, in this process, some feathers of the eagle fell near the egg.

The next day, a tiny lizard came out of the egg. Some feathers of the eagle that were lying around, got stuck to the baby lizard. Thus, the lizard’s tail was formed.

This is why it is said that even if you cut off the tail of the lizard, it will not die. Why? Because it will find another feather to stick on and make its tail.

~By Varenya

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The Koala Bear, The Sloth Bear and The Polar Bear

Once upon a time, there were three amazing friends named Koli who was a koala bear, Peanut who was a polar bear and Sifu who was a sloth bear. Everyday they played and laughed, even had meals together… until one fine day Sifu and Peanut realized that Koli had this really nasty habit of smoking! It got worse and worse by the day. It became so bad that even in Bearloo School Koli could not help himself from smoking! Sifu and Peanut kept the secret to themselves for over two whole months and finally decided to write a letter to Mrs. Bear. The letter said-

Dear Mrs. Bear,

Your son Koli has been Smoking very often. Kindly don’t shout at him. We, as his friends just

wanted you to know.

Signed :Sifu and Peanut.

Mrs. Bear spoke to Koli, took him to the counselor to check his health. Koli realized that it was his best friends who had betrayed him and did not talk to them for several weeks. At the end of those weeks, Koli realized the good that his friends did for him. He thanked them profusely and to celebrate he took them for a vacation to BEAR FUN HOTEL! He then said ‘Telling  my   parents was the best thing you could have ever done for me!’

Moral: Good friends would do the right thing.

~ By Kripa

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