Category: 30 to 31 challenge
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To the women I love
To the women I love To the women, who inspire me To the women encouraging other women To the women raising daughters and sons To the mothers, granddaughters, sisters, cousins, nieces out there To the strong women To the weak women (you are strong too) To the men supporting women…
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Scared of tomorrow
And then last Saturday, things went belly up. I managed to buy some flour in the morning but shortly after I got home, I started hearing explosions and the air was thick with the smell of powder and the lingering scent of tear gas. We thought, it is raining, they…
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Letters to Santa by Solveig Werner | Advent 2018 Day 2 – 1st Sunday of Advent
Letters to Santa by Solveig Werner The postal elve frowned. Something like this had never happened to him since he started his long career many years ago. He called his colleague without taking his eyes of the two neatly written letters on his desk, “Cristel, come and look at this!”…
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The perfect gift
I always feel that it super tough to come up with the perfect gift, especially if the person, who I want to spoil already has everything and doesn’t want anything in particular or even worse, buys everything they want right away.
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Josh and Aaron
“Dear Aaron, I remember when I first brought you home. You were the new kid in town, and so mega sexy. All girls must have had a crush on you!” Again the room was laughing and Sally saw many people nodding. “You moved differently than all the other boys, you…
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The art of avoiding
Today, I have a strange day. The kids aren’t with me, S. is working and as it is a Monday I have almost no lessons to teach. This means it is the perfect day to do things that I should do. Such as cleaning the bathroom (something I really do…
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Being Eco-Friendly
We didn’t sow tomatoes, our seeds were made from plastic, paper, iron, aluminium. And guess what? None of the things we planted started growing. In hindsight, I am happy that nothing grew, imagine your plastic bottle starting to grow into a plastic bottle tree in a landfill…
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The longest Summer
It’s October and the weather has turned cold. About two weeks ago, I was still walking around in summer dresses and my beloved Birkenstocks. I don’t complain, this year I had a summer that lasted 6 months! In mid-April, the temperatures started to rise, it wasn’t spring weather it was that…
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When things become clearer
Since late August, I have a new student. And with this new student came a revelation. Things are getting clearer. Why did I want to become a journalist? WhWhy was I drawn to my parent’s friends, teachers, professors, older kids? Why am I so emotional? Why do I have a…
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Wings
She had been blessed with natural beauty. He studied her sun-kissed face. There was not even the slightest hint of makeup. Yet, he felt that she was more beautiful than any girl that had ever been this close to him. “Hatchi” she sneezed. “Sorry”, she muttered while trying to regain…
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Vocalizing
Vocalizing On Monday, my son started what is called “halte garderie”, which is a place where kids can go for up to 4 half days between the age of 15 months (or when they know how to walk well) and when they start Ecole Maternelle (which is like nursery school/kindergarten, but…
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Biology Class
“Today, we are going to dissect mice.” Miss Grand announced to the class. A murmur of horror and excitement erupted in the classroom. In the back row, three hands shot up. “Yes?” “Miss” all three started their questions at the same time. “One at a time!” “Miss,” Linda asked, “do we have…
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A Fresh Start
So, I turned 30 on Monday (20th of August). I have come to the end of a very important decade of my life. 4 out of my 5 years of higher education happened during this time, I have been together with S. for almost 9 years, I started to work,…
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