Here is the link to my SAT presentation.

The Short Short

“I can’t believe we are late!” said Erica.

“We wouldn’t be, if you had set the alarm clock like you were supposed to do.” exclaimed Paul sarcastically.

“Oh and whose fault was that? You told me you didn’t need an alarm clock anyways!” shrieked Erica.

“Why did you listen to me when I was tired out of my mind? You know that I don’t think before talking when I’m tired.” Paul explained in a loud voice.

“So now trusting you is my fault as well?” huffed Erica angrily, “So next time you say that you have to do something more important than spending time with me I will assume you are just laying on the couch and watching a stupid football game.”

“Oh don’t even go there! You know that I have a busy schedule for work. By the way do I say anything to you while you watch those stupid reality shows?!” Paul shouted.

“Of course you do! You complain for a good half an hour! How do you not realise that!?” Erica said with anger.

“Like you don’t complain at all!?” Paul yelled.

“Guys, stop. When is this flight of yours?” asked the taxi driver impatiently.

“10.30!” Erica and Paul both answered simultaneously.

“Uhmm, it’s 9.30 right now…” the taxi driver said cautiously.

“What!? Did you forget to change the clocks again!?” yelled Erica, and they got in a fight again and fought for the rest of the ride.

-by bluecookies and ekaraoguz

In the four months that I have been in school I have accomplished a lot of things. I wrote my own poems, recited one, wrote my own story and I did lots of different things. If I said that I had a wonderful four months and I didn’t have any problems, I would be lying.

In the summer I decided to come to this school as a boarding student. It was a tough decision to make but I don’t regret my decision. Of course it was hard at the beginning of the school year, being away from my family and having no friends and stuff like that. But eventually I made friends at the dorm. They were boarding students like me, away from their families. That was something we had in common and that brought us closer. I had difficulties being away from my family. I missed them everyday and I wished that my mom would come and say goodnight to me every night like she used to the when I was at home. Every time I struggled using the washing machine I wished my mum could help me wash my clothes. I had never washed my clothes in the washing machine all by myself. When I am ironing my clothes and my shoulders start to ache, I wonder how my mom did all the family’s ironing. Now I can do all those things all by myself.

Now it’s confession time. Some nights I cried because I missed my family but those night were really few. Because (thank you dad!) we went to a sailing camp for four years in a row and there we would stay for two weeks away from my mother and father.

When I arrived at the dorm, the older students told us that the other students would exclude us from their groups just because we are dorm students. I’ll admit that I was scared. In elementary school and middle school I was never a part of a group. I never had an actual best friend and I was also a little bullied. So you can guess that I was afraid. To my surprise I was actually welcomed in the class, even though I was the only dorm student and luckily I wasn’t excluded. That was a huge relief for me. I realized that this school was a new start and it meant that I had new responsibilities.

I am happy that I came here and I never thought I would accomplish things like the ones I wrote about. I thought it would be hard but now that I have done the things that I was scared of I don’t think it will be a problem anymore.

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Our school organized a field trip to Kemeraltı. While we were walking around we took quite a few pictures. So we decided to write a phrase poem with the photos we took. Start the video to see it.

Click the link to view the analysis of ‘The Fog’ and ‘Fire and Ice’.Fire and Ice, The Fog