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Winning Essays 2014 6th-9th Forms

2014 Winning essays

National 6-9th Grade

6th Form Group

Orjona Skenderaj from Feir

Topic: If you could be any animal for a day, what would you be and what would you do?

If I could be an animal for a day, I will choose to be a dolphin. I will choose this animal because dolphins are peaceful animals and because I like the sea. If I was a dolphin for one day, I will see all seas and I will visit all countries so I will swim all day long and I will see beautiful beaches of all the world. I will see animals in the sea, that I didn’t see before. I will see animals like: fishes, sea snakes, crabs, sea stars etc. I will see their life, what they feed on, their life style etc. I will help injured animals by swimming above them. I will discover treasures hidden in the sea. I will swim in the Bermuda triangle and I will understand the cause why all planes that fly in the Bermuda triangle and ships that swim there disappear. I will meet all dolphins and I will see how they communicate. I will prove to myself if mermaids exist so I will be sure if they really exist or is just a fairytale. Also, I will go in the zone, where there is dark and I will see animals that live there because in my science book, the author says that in the zone where it is dark, there lives animals that are very strange with big eyes. (I will.) If I was a dolphin I will collect all shells that I can find so I will make my own collection of shells. I will see how people treat animals and what problems animals face so I can understand why some animals face extinction, is this from nature or from humans? I will make some animal friends too. I will see pearls for my first time in my life and I will collect some of them to make a necklace for my sister. A fact that I saw in a film was the island of “Atlantis”. I will see if it exists, does this island really disappeared in the water, does it appear in 100 years in the surface so I will answer many questions in myself. I will discover islands that aren’t in maps too. But the best of all is that I will swim all day and nobody will say to me to get out of the water. I will travel all around the world I will see traditions of each country. I will face risks in the sea like fighting with a shark and I won’t use strength but my wisdom. If I have adventures like a dolphin this will be an experience that I will never forget and I will tell everyone about this adventure and all things I discovered. Also I will explain to the world that with their moves, they make animals extinct. I will join an organization to protect animals because they are our friends.

Maria Gjata from Vlore

Topic: If you could be any animal for a day, what would you be and what would you do?

If I could be an animal for a day, I would like to be an eagle because the eagle is a beautiful bird and I like it. The eagle can fly and is scary so nobody would disturb me. I would fly in the mountains and I would see a lot of plants and a lot of animals. I would fly free in the sky without any disturbance. I don’t know what I would eat. Maybe I would eat some other animals even that is a bit disgusting. I would eat to survive. I would see the forest from the sky and I think that it is an amazing adventure. I would like to be an eagle because I would like to fly by myself. And this is an adventure too. I would like that once in my life I would survive like the animals. I would survive by catching the food by myself. I would see food perfectly like the eagle does. It is a funny adventure to be an animal for one day. The eagle is strong and is a symbol of freedom. To live in a forest is a bit difficult for the people that’s why I want to be an eagle for one day because I can live in the mountains and in forests for one day and I would survive. I wouldn’t be scared from the animals that live in forests. This is amazing too. I would have my little “home” where I can eat the food that I catch. And at night I would be safe while I would be sleeping I would like that this adventure can be real for once in my life. This is why I want to be an eagle for one day in my whole life.

Holger Lilaj from Kucove

Topic: Imagine you were 15 meters tall.

Describe one day in your life.

If I can be 15 meters boy for one day I won’t save the cats from the trees or take a guinness record and be the tallest man in the world. I can help the people with their jobs and I can open a campaign for the saving and helping of the people like when they are in danger or when they can’t do jobs and we can. I can play football with my favorite football team and in the night I can grab a big light and I can shine it all over the sea for the boats so they can come in the ground with a safer way. This is my day like a 15 meter boy. This was my favorite day of my life. I don’t want this day to be finished.

7th Form Group

Anxhela Doko from Fier

Topic: Pretend that you have been shrunk down to the size of an ant for a day. What do you do and see?

OMG! OMG! OMG! Why the heck am I saying OMG?! Well this isn’t the real problem right now. The real problem is why is everything around me so huge? I know I’m 1m51cm but hey, I’m not THAT small. OMG! OMG! OMG! Why are my hands black and covered with some kind of fur and why does my bed, my room, everything look so weird? OMG! OMG! OMG! (Seriously, I should stop doing that. It’s getting boring.) Well, let’s return to the dramatic part: I am an ANT. So you’re thinking what’s the big deal? Well last night I was a human, a very popular girl in my school and now I was a stupid, disgusting ANT. “Hey, ants are not disgusting.” Oh well my conscience is speaking back at me. So what? I am crazy, big deal. “No, you’re not crazy.” Ok this is getting much weirder. “Hey shut up and listen to me, I am an ant too. Well I wasn’t born as an ant. I was a girl, a pretty one not as pretty as you, MUCH PRETTIER and that’s what brought me to this life. The life of an ant. I was disgusted by these little animals until the king of the ants inserted some kind of poison in my food and here I am trying to explain to you everything. The same thing happened to you Raina. You were so selfish and ruthless that you cared only about you.” So I am stuck like this? “No if you don’t’ get your butt up and start trying to get your life back.” Wait what did I do to deserve this? “Let me give you a clue: biology.” What? No I didn’t seriously mean it I didn’t mean to insult ants. “Well you did so…” It was a joke! “I didn’t get it, but pretty soon you will. You have 24 hours to prove that you’ve charged that you are no more the selfish Raina you were. You’ve got to go to the mountain of the pure soul. You’ve got to pass through the Wood of the Liars, the River of Richness and you’ll be there. Find Love and bring her back.” Ok so you’re not coming with me? “Nope you’ve got to do it on your own.” Ok I am the captain of the cheerleaders how hard can it be. Ok, ok Rain we’ve got to go for it. I mean you’ve got to go for it anyway, just go for it! So now I am alone and now I’ve got to go to the Wood of the Liars. It’s in the north. Let’s go… wow I didn’t know what great views the ants faced from down here these woods are great. I wonder how old they are? “I am 150 years and I am the Liar Wood. I will lie to every single question.” Ok so does everybody in my school love me? “Yes you are they idle.” Am I beautiful? “Yes, you are the only shining star in the sky.” Do I have a pure heart? “No.” Wait you’re supposed to lie so that means nobody really likes me but still if they are talking bad about me I am already way better than they so who cares? I still got a pure heart and with a pure heart I’ll go to the end of this mission. And another thing as long as I am beautiful from the inside I don’t care if I am not sleeping beauty. So bye you nice tree thanks or opening my eyes. Good luck in your life. So I’m already thinking a lot about what the tree said but I still can’t... hey wait. Ow, no my feet they’re wet. That means that I’m now at the River of Richness. “Hi there I can take you to one road only: choose the road of richness and that of the poor but happy people where you can find Love the wife of the king.” I am sorry but if I want to be rich I’ll earn it and now take me to the way of the mountain of the pure soul. “Let’s go.” Oh well all this traveling is making my eyes heavy. The sound of the running water is almost like the sound of the lullaby my mom sang to me every night. God I miss her. “Here you go to the mountain of the pure soul.” God bless you nice fish, good bye and may luck tell you the right way. “Nice words you’ve got there. Oh let me introduce myself I’m Love, the wife of the king.” “I’ll tell you more on our way back. Let’s go.” Oh ok wait birds eat ants. “Just the diabolic ones.” So why did I have to come over here and rescue you when you could have come home yourself? “Because I’m proof that will show whe kind of girl you are. You made the right choices that’s what brought you to me. You learned how to see the world in a different manner. A good many. So you made it, you cleared your thoughts and you let your heart speak where your mind was going to say something bratty. You made yourself a good person again. That was your true mission.” Really well that was… unexpected. Hey here we are. “You brought my wife back on time. Go home little girl. I hope you learned something. Not only that an ant lives a beautiful life but that everyone deep down is a good person, you just have to let your heart speak.” Thank you king. I’ll never forget you. You were a precious lesson for me. Now I must go home. I miss my mum and another last thing I’ll never insult any other insect again. They’re like humans, the only different thing is that they are with a much more pure soul than us. Good bye Love, good bye king, I shall never ever forget you or what you taught me.

Vasil Prendi from Kucove

Topic: Pretend that you have been shrunk down to the size of an ant for a day. What do you do and see?

When I will be a size of an any for a day, I’ll go to my friend’s house and I’ll frighten him. When he will be playing football, I’ll enter in his shoes and they will lose the match. Next I will go to a person who I hate and will throw a lot of salt onto his dinner.

 

Later I will enter on the airplane and go to Egypt to the pyramids and will see the people who sell mystic things. Next I’ll go to the shop who will sell cars and motorbike. I will entered on the cars and will go to Paris to see the Eiffel Tower. Next I’ll go to the shop who sell computers and I will take one of tem and will go to my house. I’ll enter in my TV because it doesn’t work and I will be in work him. In the middle of the night I’ll go to a pub and will drink there. Next I’ll go with my car in my house and I’ll turn into a man.

Megi Kushta from Librazhd

Topic: If you could invent a candy, what would it be? What ingredients would it have and what would it taste like?

If I would invent a new candy I would call it “High-tech candy”. It would taste like an ice cream and a chocolate at the same time. But at the end it would be a gum. It would have the colors of the rainbow. Every color would have a different taste. The red color would taste like a strawberry, the yellow color would taste like a lemon. The green color would taste like a kiwi. The pink color would taste like a peace. The purple color would taste like a grape. Everyone would like my new candy. It would have the hand’s shape and the nails of the hand would taste like a milk chocolate. The ring of the hand would be ice cream. The bracelet would be caramel. The hand would have a tattoo, which would taste like cake. The fingers would taste like cherry. It won’t be expensive, so everyone could buy it.

8th Form Group

Sara Pjetrushaj from Fier

Topic: If you could make a new animal, what would it be like?

Animals are living beings. Even humans are animals, evoluted but still animals. The thing is… all the animals have almost the same characteristics: they move, they eat… In my opinion, that’s just plain boring. We study animals all the time in biology class but I never heard of any animal living just by water and sun. If I’d have to create an animal all by my own, that’s definitely what I’d do. The animal I’d create would be big, kind of like a wolf, in height and weight. It’d have a bright kind of fur, that would shine in the sunlight. It’s eyes would be in a deep shade of purple that looks like it’s staring through your soul. This animal would have big ears and a round cute nose. The mouth would be big with huge teeth which won’t be sharp at all. This creature would be too cute to be dangerous! Then it’s body would be very furry but it’s paws would be very similar with daisies. They’d have no claws or nails to go with them. The tail would look like a small ball of frizzy hair. But the look won’t be the only thing different from the other animals. It’s lifestyle would be totally different. Like I said before, this animal would only live by water and sun. The sun doesn’t have to be the summer kind of sun, that burns, but just its light would do. Also, living just by water and sun would make all the ugly work go away. It’d be a very smart animal, which especially liked little children. That’s why most parents would take them as babysitters. Not only would they love to play hide and seek but they would also have a common sense and a harsh sense of responsibility. It’d be a kid’s best friend! Since it wouldn’t’ eat, the mouth would be used to “talk” with others of it’s kind. They’d communicate with their own language that’d be something between barking and actual speaking. This animal would reproduce by it’s paws, just like flowers. It’s daisy paws would be able to produce some pink seeds which would be planted in the ground. Then, 12 months later, new animals would be born. I think they’d be the cutest thing ever. They’d be extremely playful! This animal’s would be so smart, they used 751 of their brain. And, some of them, if they tried to learn very hard, they’d be able to fly. Not too long, of course, but enough to move very quickly around the garden or house. They’d also help with house chores and everything else. Also, sometimes, they’d like to sip strawberry juice instead of water just because they like it. It’s lifespan would be just like a human’s, so you’d never be sad about their death. It’d also like funk music since it’s very energetic. And last, but not least, the name. I could think about los of names for this animal but I guess I’d call it sunbow. I just think it would fit perfectly with the image in my mind. I’d never be bored with a sunbow and I’m sure no one else would. It’s just the perfect pet!

Iris Osmanaj from Bajram Curri

Topic: If you were elected president, what would you do on your first day in office?

If I were elected president in my country, I will do a lot of things in my office. For example: I will take a lot of money for me, for my family and cousins. I will go to Disney Land, because I love it. I will have the most wonderful office in the whole world, the most special office with rock and roll bands posters and electronic guitar. That’s what I like so… yeah. Right when people come to my office, I will like not to be scared because I will paint my office with a black color. Black is not a thing for people to be scared. Or yes it’s a little bit but I will do a lot of things for my country. I will be the most awesome president for my country and one thing; I don’t want people to judge me because of my rock style. It’s not a big thing my people. Me as president I wouldn’t do a lot of promises like others. I wouldn’t say: if you choose me to be president I’m gonna make you rich. I will build everyone a house or things like that because none of them keeps those promises. They choose me as president and I will make the rules. In every bar, café or restaurant people are going to listen to rock, heavy metal or punk music. They’re gonna listen to Bon Jovi, Metallica, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan etc. At weddings too, it’s gonna be the same thing. People in my country have to listen to that kind of music because it’s very helpful. I don’t want people to be surprised because of my rules because it’s not something who people don’t do. It’s just something that Albanians need.

Thanks a lot My Peoples

Just One Promise: We

Gonna Make Fun Together

Oriola Biba from Lezhe

Topic: If you could make a new animal, what would it be like?

The animal I would create would be purple, round and it would have 2 lovely eyes. I love to call my animal “Folushi”. It’s a cute and a lovely name that would fit it’s character. The “Folushi” is an animal that can speak, walk and can understand feelings too. It is special because it can also sing every single song in the whole word in the best way possible. It is an animal that gets created when a baby smiles for her first time and the only reason for that is because it is an animal that never gets sad and always brings the smile back to people in difficult and sad times. It is very positive. It can fly and it can appear whenever you call it. But they have a rule, everyone in the world, I mean every family in the whole world should have one at home so they can take good care of them and they can help each other. I would create those creatures because they can make the world happy and positive. Folushis exist only if everyone “hosts” them into their house and if everyone did, if they do not then they do not exist. That’s their rule because they will help them to be only positive and to avoid negative sides on them. They will need to eat only sweets because they are sweet and lovely pinkish creatures. Well their personality has only wonderful lovely things except when they die after 40 years. They are all in the same age and their birthdays will be in the same day which makes them die in the same days. But if the results shows that they changed the world, new Folushes will be created and they will live forever. If they don’t life will carry on like before Folushes were created. So the world would be positive forever too. I would love to create Folushies because they are lovely from the physical view also. So they are round, like a pillow, purple and if it’s for boys it will be dark purple and if it is for girls it will be bright purple. They will be 60 c tall and they will have pink eyes if it is bright purple and blue eyes if it is dark purple. They will have a small mouth and they can change their color how the owner wants. They do not have legs. They have 2 little ears and a short tail. They will be in cotton skin like teddy bears and they would be always smiling even while they are sleeping. They will help the world change and we need them, the world needs them.

9th Form Group

Elisa Pashku from Fier

Topic: You've been in a coma for 30 years. You wake up in the year 2044. Describe what the world is like.

Wow… is this real? Where is the Earth? I mean, the real Earth? … So many years have passed since I have ben awake. Ummm… let me explain and start this story from the bottom. I remember that in 2014 a massive war began. It was between the arth and Lu. Lu was a gigantic planet far, far away from us. It’s people wanted to invade and spread their power throughout the whole universe. They have conquered all of the Milky Way planets except the blue circle known as Earth.

 

At first, the Lus (the aliens who lived in the Lu) thought that “people” were weak and their planet would be quickly under their control. But they were so damn wrong. As soon as the people knew that the Earth was being threatened, they got ready. All the best warriors and soldiers were gathered in NASA and from there they were sent to Lu.

 

The war was so harsh. From both planets died a lot of creatures. (I used “creatures” because Lus couldn’t be called humans.) Unfortunately, even though people did their best, they couldn’t defeat the Lus. Humans had an excellent technology but Lus were better and more advanced.

 

So all in all, the Earth couldn’t manage to survive. They fought gracefully, bravely, but it wasn’t written for them to come with flying colours. In the heart of their alive relatives, all the 5 billion humans were remembered as international heroes.

 

I need to skip the part which I have to say that I don’t really like. Ummm… as you may assume… the Lus set their nasty food on the Earth. They destroyed everything. I was just a little girl at that time. My dad died out there and I couldn’t even cry on his buried body because it was lost in the galaxy. Lus came in my hometown too. I was really angry with them. Why did they have to come and destroy us? Did we do the same with their planet! No… so they had to get their “ass” out of Earth. I was thinking this and I got sooo frustrated. The general of the Lus was standing in front of me asking me about my planet. They did this with every single human left.

 

I raised on my bare legs, got my wooden chair where I was sitting and hit him on the head. I have heard from the TV that their nose was the exact part from where their power generated. This guy got mad and shot me with his gun.

 

Now I am standing in a bed. It is very comfortable. I look around me and find myself in a blue room. It is my favorite color wow. I get out of this cool bed and look at my body. I cannot find the old me. My legs are covered with fish scales in a crimson color. I touch my head and instead of my long, brown shining curls I feel only metal. I manage to walk to the mirror and get shocked at what I see there.

 

I am turned into a bloody Lu. Wait… I don’t look like any of those disgusting soldiers. I have to admit that I love what I am seeing there. I continue my move and go to the French window. I cannot believe my eyes. Earth is not Earth. I bring back in a blur all what I can remember of what had happened. So the Lus have destroyed the Earth and rebuilt it on their own style.

 

Everywhere I can see skyscrapers. Not like those man made ones. These are colorful and so bright and so magical. There are no cars, no buses, no trains. Strange creatures are using flying objects to go to one place to another. I could see no animals, no nightingales singing, no larks annoying my ears. They have all vanished into thin air. They have disappeared forever. I was going to miss every single thing of my old dear planet. And I am putting some blame on myself now. How could I not love my planet before?! How could I think that it was junk?! How could those who have already passed away not have appreciated it?

 

Oh my god. Now that I think of those who have died… How is it possible that I am still ALIVE?! Wasn’t I supposed to be DEAD?! So many questions which are waiting for me to find their answers. I think that I can take my time now and enjoy maybe…ummm…my second “LIFE”?!

Sabina Lloshi from Fier

Topic: You've been in a coma for 30 years. You wake up in the year 2044. Describe what the world is like.

I can barely move and my body hurts. I open my eyes but I don’t see anyone. Everything around me is white. Suddenly a strange creature enteres the room. I can’t see it really well since I’m on a rare thing I had never seen before, it must be some kind of bed. When the creature gets near me I can see him clearly. Wait, was that a metal body. I don’t know for how long I’ve been asleep or it’s my weird mind imagining this thing. Anyway the creature tells me that I could go and that I was fine. I went down the stairs and then out of the fornt door. I couldn’t believe what I was actuall seeing. Everywhere were these creatures that looked a lot like the one I had seen when I woke up. They were hanging out with real people and to them everything so so normal. I run through the streets when suddenly I saw my sister. She was alone. “God, finally someone is still normal” I thought. I called her but it seemed she couldn’t hear me. When I got near her she ran over to me and said that she was so happy that I had finally woken up. I asked her what was happening, why everyone seemed to be crazy. She whispered heavily and then started to tell me what had happened in these 30 years where I was sleeping in a strange bed.

 

Everything had started in the year 2020 when one day people had suddenly gotten crazy. It was said that everything started when people started drinking a new kind of unalcoholic drink. It came out so strangely but everyone liked it. After days passed people started to feel strange. They were all like hypnotized. These were only a few people that hadn’t proved the drink. So when everyone has hypnotized the robots, that was the name of the creatures I had seen, came down to our planet. Since people were unable to do anything they had managed the humans how they liked. But these robots didn’t work alone. They had a big academy that was ruled by aliens. So all the humans were needed for the experiment test the aliens were doing. Everything was turned into a disaster. But not everything was lost. As my sister told me earlier there were still 13 people that weren’t affected and still could think with their mind. They had been gathering information about the robots, the aliens and even their society. They knew where they were standing and in fact the unaffected people had been studying a plan to destroy the society.

 

The 13 humans who were the only ones who we could call humans had created new weapons. They used the material they had gathered from the robots to use for humanities good. I was totally shocked and had really no words. Was that a bad nightmare? Well no it was reality and I had to face it. I knew that we, the people who weren’t affected, were the only ones who could do something to save our world. And that’s why I didn’t feel guilty at all when I accepted my sister’s request to join them and their plan to rescue the world, our world.

 

Who knows what would have happened, maybe we could have died along the way or we could have turned into strange creatures. Well I didn’t care. I was sure of my choice whatever the final result was. I had woken up from only one day and all I had seen was terror. But these people have been living in this terror for more than 20 years. It was my time now to do something. All my life I had been that lazy person who stands in front of the computer all da and doesn’t care what happens around them. But not this time. This time I’m gonna show everyone, or those remaining, that I can also do something. Maybe in the end I won’t be able to save the world and I would turn into a strange creature but at least I would have tried. I always liked adventures. Well this was a strange adventure.

Frida Isufaj from Kucove

Topic: What do trees think about?

My goodness sake! What are you doing to me? I’m human too. My arms and legs are cut down. My leaves. Oh my green and adorable leaves don’t function anymore. My brain, oh where is my brain?! My friends have left now. I’m the one who is surviving. All my children are too little to grow up on their own. You, people of the world, you are destroying me and the Earth. What are you going to do without me, without these trees. We are your life, your body, your oxygen. Please protect us, protect your life. We need this soil, this water, these minerals to live, all these ingredients of life that you are polluting and not taking for guaranteed. I wish I could be one of the persons of this world and you a tree so everything would be in it’s own place. I would live longer and you would be dead. What do you think about this? What if you change roles. For this action is needed a magical hand which would fix everything. See these tears of mine? You feel something don’t you? Now you are crystal clear that you are the destroyers of this life and all these new lifes. Think for me and all these trees as you think of your own children. Don’t let them die, don’t let them go without a life.

TIRANA 6-9th Grade

6th Form Group

Amra Tagani

Topic: If you could be any animal for a day, what would you be and what would you do?

Hello, everybody! My name is Amra and I am going to tell my wonderful story in the animal’s world. Yesterday, in the morning I woke up very…different. I had some strange feelings. When I opened my eyes, I didn’t see my bedroom, but an amazing world. Around me there was the most beautiful view I’ve ever seen. I was near the blue sea, with wonderful birds next to me. The sun was shining up in the sky. The birds were friendly, they were coming closer to me. They were very big, as tall as I was. Everything I told to you happened in only a few seconds. I was afraid, where was I? The strange birds were so beautiful. They were blue and red with some little yellow parts. Behind me there was a jungle. A loud noise. The ground shook. The beautiful birds flew. Then, on the green trees, I saw that a gigantic tyrannosaurus rex. I ran into the forest. I saw a lake. I went closer and I drank some water. Then, I saw myself. I…I… was a dinosaur. I looked around me., I saw some amazing flowers with nice smells. I was in the middle of … Africa. But not in 2014, I was in the dinosaur space. I was freaked out but I knew that I would come back to myself. So, I found out what to do. I walked around and I saw a lot of miracles. Some huge lions with red bodies, some small giraffes, eating grass. I took something from all the beings I saw. From the huge lions, I took a bone of a dead one. From the little giraffes, I took one. And you know? She became my friend. She explained to me everything. The gigantic dinosaur wanted to eat me. The strange birds wanted to stay with me. When it started to get darker, I fell asleep with my new friend. In the next morning, I woke up, as normally. In my bedroom. I couldn’t understand what had happened but I wanted to know. Where was the bone or the giraffe? Oh… It was a dream. Oh, I was feeling very food. I thanked that everything was a dream. I was right. I felt well for being me again. But if it was real, it would be a great adventure.

Era Boka

Topic: Imagine you were 15 meters tall. Describe one day in your life.

The legend says that if you fall in the magic water, you get taller every day. I wasn’t looking where I was going so I accidentally fell in the water. I didn’t know the legend but when I got home I realized that I was five meters tall. I was surprised. I wasn’t sad, I really liked it. In fact, it was one of my dreams to be tall. I was seeing the birds that were flying. One of them talked to me. It said: “Got to the witch mountain and you can be 15 meters tall. I really liked the idea so I asked him to shoe me the way. When we arrived an alligator bit my foot but it didn’t hurt. 2 minutes later I heard a voice that said: “Follow my voice!” I got frightened and I didn’t know what to do. A strawberry got alive and recommended me to follow the voice so I became friends with the strawberry and it came with me after the voice. The voice repeated again and again. I followed it and I saw a dead reindeer and lots of blood. I ran away and saw the witch. We had a long talk and she finally accepted to make me 15 meters tall. “Asta la vara!” she said. In one minute I got taller and got knocked unconscious and fell to the ground which caused an earthquake. It was so big that caused the death to 200 people. Now the town near the mountain hates me and wants to kill me. Seeing the tree tops waving, birds flying, people talking, I yelled: “Life sucks!” I got angry and jumped from the highest cliff that I saw but wait… I see normal things now. Was it a dream? No, it wasn’t a dream. It was a nightmare. I like being a human and I’ll never have the dream to be tall again. Now my dream is to fly…

Jona Bako

Topic: If you could be any animal for a day, what would it be and what would you do?

If I was a dolphin for a day, I’d like to travel around the world, swimming with the other interesting creatures that live in the bottom of the sea. The beautiful world that is so amazing with its whales, sea stars, octopuses and other kind of fish make the ocean a place that even if you visit for a day you won’t forget. I’d like to be a dolphin because it’s the most beautiful creature with its shape of body, with its flippers, its soft skin, and of course because it’s so friendly with people. The dolphin is a free creature that swims in the sea, jumps with the waves and loves the nature that has been so nice and generous with him. The dolphin is so lovely. If I was a dolphin for a day I would play with my dolphin friends I would take care for my family and enjoy the view that appears wherever I go. The beautiful day with the wonderful fish that fly, dance with each other and show their goodness ends at the sunset when the sun fells and sleep and goes down the sea. Suddenly the stars appear in the sky and moon sings for them. What I was watching it a little star fell into the sea and slowly said:

 

“If I want to be again the creature of your dreams and have another day swimming and flying by the sea, just make your wish now that I’m gone and then you’ll have only fun.”

 

I closed my eyes and made my wish; I wished I was again in the deep of the sea, but not the next day, the next year. Since that day I hoped and waited that the shining star would make my wish come true. Even the time has passed and I am still waiting and remembering the most amazing day of my life. If someone else has my experience he would be as amused as I.

7th Form Group

Ted Kurtaliaj

Topic: If you could invent a candy, what would it be? What ingredients would it have and what would it taste like?

I have always wanted to invent a candy. I like food so that’s my dream. Now let’s pass to the candy. The candy color would be blue and the candy would be gummy. I don’t want the costumer’s teeth broken. I’d put on that candy the taste of the strawberry, the taste of love. Then I’d put there the taste of lemon, the taste of illness. I’d put there the taste of the apple, the happiness. Then the taste of blueberry, the sadness. Then I’d stop adding ingredients, I don’t know why. A big wind of memories comes and takes me to that part of the brain that controls the memories. That wind would take me to my sad days. Then I’d stop that wind and continue the candy’s mass. I’d add there one of my mother’s tears, the corner flavor. Then I’d stop again. The wind takes me again at my memories. But this time it’s my good memories. Then again I’d stop the wind and add passion fruit, the passion flower. Then I’d add “Vodka”. You would wonder why. Well I don’t know. Maybe because all the people like alcohol. The wind would try to grab my again but I’d stop it. I have finished. I would let it cool down and I would call it “The Life Candy”. It tastes terrible but this is the taste of life.

Alken Rrokaj

Topic: If you could invent a candy, what would it be? What ingredients would it have and what would it taste like?

It was a dark night. I was coming from my course. I was angry because I lost my fight. I bought a chocolate. Wow, I was surprised, when I saw a ticket in there. On it was written “Congratulations, you have won the right to produce your own candy.” In that moment I was like “I’m sexy and I know it.”

 

I entered the factory. There were candies everywhere. I met the boss. His name was Aqif. I worked with him, he showed me his secretes. I produced my first candy. I called it “Crush”. It was made of the best products in the market. But when I saw the people they were all fat so I made the hardest decision ever, I destroyed them and the formula. But Aqif wasn’t ok with me. He wanted to produce more and more so he could kill me or I him. So, I paid an assassin to kill him. The assassin killed Aqif, I destroyed the formula and we were safe.

 

Oh it was dangerous. Since then I would never put 1 kg of sugar in any pack of candy.

Elena Kolaveri

Topic: If you could invent a candy, what would it be? What ingredients would it have and what would it taste like?

What would my candy be and what would it taste like? Hmm, tough question but I surely know how to answer this. My candy would be a candy that stimulates your brain and makes you think clearer and more creatively. I would call it “Master Minds”, I don’t know why. I just like the sound of it. My candy would be really sweet but bitter too, like a bittersweet effect. When you eat it, firstly, it would taste like cherries and strawberries and blueberries, all these goodies at once. But after this there would be an aftertaste which includes the taste of lemon and mint. Bizarre taste, right? But the secret ingredient is the key that combines all of these tropical tastes at once. Its…drum roll, please…brain parts from dead human and sometimes animal bodies. Disgusting, right? Well, that’s the ingredient that makes you think clearer and more creatively. People think that that’s gross and that why it’s a secret ingredient because if I told the world you think my candy would be sold?

8th Form Group

Ana Bushi

Topic: If you could make a new animal, what would it be like?

Hello, I am Dr. Marcius D’Oveille, a secret scientist with a secret high technology laboratory in France. I’ve created and invented amazing things so far, but no one (and I repeat: NO ONE) knows about them. I prefer to keep my inventions safe and secret, until the human race will really need their help. But right now, I am working on something bigger…I am making a new animal, the most perfect creature of all times!!! Well, truly, I hope it will be like that. Come on, I’m taking you to my laboratory, in the underground. I am sorry, but first you have to close your eyes with these black glasses. I told you, I work in secret. As we are going there, let me tell you a little for my experiment. I’ve been working on it for years, while I have worked on other inventions. Now, I just need to put all the pieces together…(oh, watch out that old amateur!) You are the first that sees it, but later, the whole world will. Here we go, take these glasses off. WELCOME TO MY LABORATORY! What do you think of it? There it is, my creature, covered with a white blanket. I have made it based on many researches and I know you will be amazed! This new animal “fits” to all human beings. It has the vegetables and fruits, meat…but I guarantee this animal won’t eat any unhealthy foods and it can survive for days without water and food, just mix of fish and bird. The animal can change the color of the body, just like the chameleons (very useful, don’t you think?) and its eyes can see at about 2km far. It has a sensitive, cute nose, and depending on the food, its teeth get transformed. The legs are strong too, like a bear’s feet, but it also has two useful hands, which it can use. Oh, yes, its wings can get different sizes, it can hold approximately 200kg and the wings can get into his body in cases. This new animal is very clever, I’ve put some of dolphin, monkey, and Einstein’s brain cells to his head. It can sing beautifully and, oh, did I say that he is very good listener? It doesn’t hurt even a fly and its going be your best friend, for sure! Now I present you my greatest experiment, the new, perfect, and cutest animal in the world…THE ANIMAUXILLIUS ANTIWARIUS. Or you can simply call him: Fluffy.

Katia Hanxhari

Topic: If you could make a new animal, what would it be like?

If I could make an animal, it would be very different. Well, it would be like an angel I hope! I would have 4 ears, the form of the heart would be pink, the second blue, the third green and the fourth red. One ear is made to listen only to the owner of the animal and the other ear listens to nature: the rain, the wind, the sea etc. Then the two other ears would listen to the songs and the good people. The people who are kind, respectful, lovely and helpful. The love songs, the songs which are for the family, for the love of the family, the love that you give to the family and the love that the family gives you. The animal wouldn’t hear anything bad or kindless. It would hear only beautiful things, beautiful songs, beautiful rumors. The animal would have just one nose and even this is in the form of a heart. When the animal would breathe, the heart nose would open, like it was broken before breathing and now is a new heart. The nose not only would smell different smells but it would fell how the people around the animals are feeling. It would feel the love between two people, the kindness, etc. It would feel what is going to happen later, a beautiful thing, a bad thing, a special one. Well, the animal would have only one mouth, a red colored one and the most important thing, it would speak. It would speak like different things. He would say hi, good night, good night, good evening, bye, how are you. He would give you advice, would ask you how you are feeling in one moment, he would tell you to not be bored because the life goes on and nothing will stop you from following your dreams. He would let you learn to love people who love you, to admire them, to be kind with them, to be helpful with them and to be nice with them. It would teach you how to injure the ones who doesn’t love you and to not stop following your way, to keep walking on it even if the sky falls down. Take yourself where you like. It would teach you how to appreciate your family, your parents, because they watched you grow up and taught you how to live and be the first. Or even if you are not the first for the others, you are the first to yourself. Well, you see what this animal can teach you to do? A lot of things. And, mostly, the animal would have 4 arms to help you do anything but it would help you do kind things and it would help you to help other people. I don’t know, maybe people with special needs or just people who need help. People are friends or people so we must help each other in anyway. Even if the don’t always help us, we must do it and teach then that is the right thing to do. The animal would have one leg and with it he would jump, jump, jump and jump just to come to you because he loves you to infinity. With this jumping leg, the animal would even fly. It would fly to the sky, pick some paradise flowers and bring them for you, a sign of love. Maybe you will give the flowers to someone special, to someone who you love and loves you back. Right, this animal would be like a flower because he will be colorful, like the rainbow in the sky, without dark colors, without darkness in his spirit, just with light, love. You know what? I think now I have an animal like this but not in my hands, in my mind and I think just writing these things about him, I learned a lot. I might help others to learn what I did. Oh, sorry, I forgot, the animal has an infinity of hearts and that’s why he’s so kind. He has one heart for me, one for you, one for her, one for them, millions for so many different people, that we need this help, this love, this kindness, they need to understand the life, to understand how they live. They need to have this animal, maybe only in their imagination, cause it’s so helpful, I know they want this. The angle is in paradise, this animal is on Earth and the Earth should have some angels to make the Earth be a better place for all of us.

Anisa Sinaj

Topic: If you could make a new animal, what would it be like?

I’d love to make a new animal. Since I was a little kid I liked animals a lot. If I could make a new animal, I would like it to be big, beautiful and scary ant. I’d like it to be an ant that can speak so I can share my feelings with him. Also, this ant would fly so it could take me everywhere I want. This special ant would be my best friend. I’d like it to be an ant with white fur and red eyes. My ant would like to eat chocolates like I do and drink coca colas too. I wouldn’t like that my ant hurt people but when they disturb us my ant would do that. I would like to live with her in a lovely house in the middle of the forest when no one can disturb us. She also would protect me from the other dangerous animals. When hunters would come in the forest to catch my ant she would return herself into a stone so no one could identify it. She also would know how to swim so she can dive under the sea with me to see the wonderful creatures that live there. She would be a hacker of computers and she would help me with my homework. My ant would have special powers. She would be 15 years old. My ant would be an excellent volleyball player. I would do a lot of activities with her. Together we would climb in the trees to eat bananas and haribos (gummy bears). Oh, I forgot to tell you, the forest we would live would be a magic forest with coca cola waterfalls. The trees would be from cheese so we would eat all day. Together we would play video games by being inside of that game. I’ll tell you one last thing. Her name would be Emili.

9th Form Group

Henri Balla

Topic: What do trees think about?

I’ve always wanted to put myself in the shoes of a water drop, which is sucked by the roots of a tree. Unbiast, I’d check out the entire invisible consciousness of these peaceful creatures. Wow, now I’m in an oak tree. Poor guy, he lost all his friends. The logging companies took them away. Coward bastards using those horrible noisy spiky things! Gee, that’s sad! Look, they made a white cross on him. He’s safe! Oh, excuse me, I’ve evaporated. Haha, funny how I got out of those leaves so quickly. It happens all the time. Hmm, take a look at that one. A big, powerful silently observing pine. It’s very high. Brr kind of windy up here. This guy feels proud. I heard two chloroplast cells discussing about the winter they just got over. Good teamwork! But the oldest spokes were quiet. They kept observing. I visited one of them. Wow, what a view my friend, what a view! Take a look at those grapes down there at the field! If only I could go there, let me… Hey, what’s the matter? Why aren’t you letting me out? Is this how you keep green? From healthy, young, joyous cells to old, nasty spikes? Curse you, god damned dictators! It should be you, not the innocent oaks, cut and taken away! Ugh, I finally managed to get rid of them, thank you cohesion. We water drops know a couple of tricks too! Now the grapes! Yummy, so sweet in here. Hiccups. Oops, sorry! Look at all that fructose! The world definitely needs some sweetening after all, wouldn’t you say? Hiccups. I can’t believe these trees are not all over the place. Hey, why am I swaying? Why am I turning purple? Hiccups. What’s going on? Whose taking the grapes away? Why aren’t the grapes worried? Hiccups. Why are you excited? Is this what you grow up to become? How on earth did you sign up for this? Why? Hiccups. Are you bored of life or are your nuts? Total brainwash! Ohhh, sorry, just a nightmare. Apparently I passed out while I was drunk! Bad grapes. Oh the beach! It’s been quite a long time since I was here for the last time. Ok, those coconut trees seem excited. Let’s find out why. Oh, what are those two coconuts talking about? They’ve matured. Good for them. They look enthusiastic. Dear coconuts, are you now ready to set off? You need my help? Why? Let me get this straight: you need me to become heavier so that you can fall on te water and float to some distant island? But what’s the point? At first, I didn’t get it, but then I was deeply moved. They didn’t want to be a burden to their coconut mother tree. They wanted to travel the world, create a tree of their own and settle down. Wow, these are sensible fruits of a seaside tree. And think of all the idiots who believe these trees just hang there and sing Hawaiian songs!

 

Bye bye my dears!

 

Hey, what’s happening? Why is the wind lifting me away? Oh, I see this one tree, I don’t know what it is strangely… Oh, it sad. Why are you sad? The man who planted you died? Is this what you’re telling me? Well that’s sad to hear! What? You wanna tell me his story? Ok I guess! The tree told me about this guy who cutes trees. The guy used to work in a logging company that cuts oaks. He felt sad about it but he needed to feed his family. This oak, that had a white cross on it, had sent her the bad news through the international root network. The tree I was talking to was the last one he had planted. I was shocked! It was the oak tree I had visited.

 

So that’s why trees know all these stuff. They are static and so they gather all the information around them. However they’re not stuck! Oh no, no, no, no, no sir! They communicate, they swap water, nutrition and experience through the air and the roots. It’s amazing! So many, in so different types yet united.

 

This is my last recount. I’m about to be drunk by a kid. I’m inside a glass standing on a wooden table. All this time in my last moments I’ve heard these guys discuss about the beauty of the table. Meanwhile I keep wondering when they cut a tree, is it a table being born or just a tree that’s dying?

 

Wow, I’m not dead, I didn’t disappear! I’m still in this guy’s body, he’s just a little bit older. Tonight he’s got his first date. Here we are at the park. He’s scratching his name and her name on a tree!!! Stop, stop it! Oh nice! You’re down. How do you feel now. Aaatchoo. What, what happened? I’m out! Ok, here we go again!

Darjel Dullaj

Topic: What do trees think about?

Ah, life in the forest used to be really comfortable. I once was surrounded by all of my tree friends and we used to talk and have fun. Now most of them are gone, this place ain’t even a forest anymore, looks more like a field. And what is that bird doing sitting on my arm? Ah, these days I get annoyed so easily, it used to be fun but now not anymore. I love sunny days though, the sky is always blue and even though all these birds come and sit on my arms I feel happy. Those creatures with 4 limbs come here every day. I think they’re called humans. Some of them carry names in my branches and it hurts like hell but the pain usually goes away fast. Look at them come again. They have a chains and they’re about to use it on me. The pain is unbearable and soon I fall to the ground. They put me on top of a machine and they send me to a huge metallic house, I think it’s a factory. Once again I’m put through saws and I feel my limbs separate but it doesn’t hurt anymore. I’m moving again now to a wooden house. They put me in the middle of a room and put stuff on top of me. They call me a table. Life as a table is really comfortable I must admit. They don’t carve stuff on me anymore and I sure love having tea cups on top of me, they’re much better than birds that’s for sure. I even made new friends, a guy called chair and some girl called Sofa. I really like Sofa, she’s funny and really pretty. Sometimes I enjoy this lifestyle so much I forget I used to be a tree. I miss the sun though. Inside the house the sun rays barely come through the window. I feel like me and Sofa are getting closer everyday and I think I love her but whenever I have fun with her I feel Chair’s eyes on me. He probably doesn’t want me and Sofa together but I don’t care. I’ll just use my charms and make Sofa mine. Right now I’m glad I’m not in a forest anymore. Out there I’d probably get burnt from some drunk maniac or something but here I’m safe. I believe my life will only get better.

Edit Muzhaqi

Topic: You've been in a coma for 30 years. You wake up in the year 2044. Describe what the world is like.

Year: 2044 Date: March 1st

 

I open my eyes, agonizing pain is going through my body. A hospital room. I fail to recognize it. An annoying computerized voice echoes through my fears: “Patient # 666 is now out of comma.”

 

Comma? Was it so? For how long? Why? Suddenly my train of thought is stopped. A person, with only one eye, staring at me, announces: “Welcome to 2044, #666”

 

Date: April 3rd

 

The world isn’t anymore as I know it. Now the Earth, my Earth is filled with other creatures, they are recognized as mutants. Yet it fails to bother me. Nothing bothers me but myself. Those cityscapes I always held so dear, they evolved, even without me. I’m unimportant to this world. Why couldn’t I see such a clear truth before? I guess reality doesn’t impress the human brain without the horror of proof.

 

Date: December 1st

 

I am walking the cold streets. My best friend is not a robot. They aren’t perfect as I had hoped they’d be in the past but those voices make them more human, more comfortable to be with. As I am trying to build my life again, my nostalgia often hits with a fierce attack, the idea of not belonging, always present.

 

The atomic transportators which had replaced taxis, the automatic lights, the dome now blocking the city from the rain, the crime predicting robots stopping those whose minds had broken down out of all this mobility and had relied to madness, the parks which now were merely 3D projects, all were something I couldn’t get used to. They were perfect. I wasn’t. I didn’t belong.

 

Year: 2045

Date: January 1st

 

Upon this new year I found myself sitting at the edge of a 107 floor tall building’s terrace. A person I didn’t know had joined and while taping the air above him, he had zoomed the view of the stars. After some chit-chat, he said how much he would like to go live on another star but his parents didn’t let him. Back in my time, it was all a matter of impossibility. The problems were different now too. Thanks to artificial crops there are no more famine. After more thinking I look down and the image of the city is prettier than ever, laminated by lights and colors I hadn’t ever seen before. That boy talks to me again. Why are you here? Where did you go?

 

Patient #666 had already jumped. His life in this age with nobody and nothing hadn’t been more than an evanescence.

NATIONAL 10th-University

10th Form Group

Dea Frroku from Lezhe

Invent a new day of the year to celebrate. What would it be, when would t be, and how would people celebrate it?

One day as I sat watching the rain falling from the window, a thought came into my mind. What if there would be one day when the children would be grown up san the grown up people would be children? Oh what a great idea! Everyone would have the opportunity to see a little sparkle from both worlds. Two worlds, different but the same. But when? Let me see! It should be a special day. Probably the day after 31 January. I can only imagine children with their tiny, beautiful suits going to work or their facial expressions would brighten under the shining sun. I mean is there something more fun than that? For the first time there would be no signs of corruption, jealousy, no sign of a world full of war, full of people who only think for themselves. A child?! It looks pretty ridiculous and absolutely impossible. What can a child do Nothing, but they got something that no grown up has. IMAGINATION. I would call this day “Imagichildren’s Day.” All the grown ups would go to school, would come from from school and start doing their homeworks. They would deal with what we call “age problems”. They all think that being us is the easiest way of life that a creature can experience. No! It’s the hardest! Anyway let’s make it more funny. Can you imagine our parents watching cartoons and crying in front of the TV or they don’t want to watch the news but they want all day to watch Torn and Jerry? I can imagine them putting their fingers on their mouth and crying out loud until they would take some piece of cake. Watching a baby it’s cute but are our parents? That’s funny! Or when they would complain that they want something to buy cause they have been seeing it for months at the shop. “Oh mommy please I want it.” They would understand what being a child is. It’s “beautifully annoying”. We children would also understand the hard work our parents do and how they try to give us everything we want. It would be a perfect day to celebrate because this would be the day when a grown up would understand how difficult it is to be a child nowadays but especially what we have to go through about the fact of being a teenager. All the parks and playing parks would be full of grown ups acting like crazy children and all the boring offices would be full of children trying to solve something with their “logic”. It’s extraordinary and strange but to change the world for one day, nothing happens right? It’s a good way for our parents to go pack in the flashbacks of being a child. This would be a good day to celebrate even though I should wake up from my dreams. That’s never gonna happen.

Inda Piroli from Lezhe

Topic: Invent a new day of the year to celebrate. What would it be, when would t be, and how would people celebrate it?

I would like us to have a 30 February each 6 years. That day would be called the “Alien Day” and it would be the biggest celebration in all years long. In that day we would invite the whole world to go outside and wave their hands like wild people in oder to say “Hi!” to the aliens. All of us would be dressed weirdly, especially in an alien way. The day would be separated into different stages. First all the people of the world would go out and talk to the aliens by doing a special dance. Their dance would consist of an upside down legs moving and on a loud alphabetic singing. They all would sing a special hymn call R-I-A-S-U-L-A and by doing this they would tell the aliens how the Earth is made up and how it works. They would invite them to Earth with a huge poster that would be as large as Australia, Europe and ASIA together. The posters would be all in yellow and it would have some writings and messages about Aliens. After that, 100 rockets would be sent out in the space with special dishes for the aliens to eat and those dishes would last 1000 years without being ruined. 710 satellites would go out in the space to look for aliens and after every 6 years, on 30 February they would come back with messages from them.

 

Some really special airplanes called F-L-aaa-G would fly all above the Earth and draw all the flags of the whole states of the world. A competition would occur among the continents. Each 30 February, different continents would invent different fireworks able to travel years and years of light. The beauty of the competition would be that it would occur once in 36 years and that the winner would have been selected (after) 36 years after the competition. You would ask about the way this works out. Well, after 36 years the fireworks would return back from the universe and depending on their colors people of the Earth would understand how many planets each continent has discovered. The continent that would win would be paid 1,000,000$ by each “loser” continent for each of the 36 years until another winner would be selected. On this beautiful day all the students would have a day off but that wouldn’t mean that they could rest, “No!”, they would have to prepare a good speech about how they would be a good neighbor in this universe. All the speeches then would be translated into Aliens way of talking and they would have been thrown into space. Billions of letters and messages would fly in the Earth’s space and by the time they would spread into the universe all the other planets would start filling up with greed because of our greatness and wisdom. Most of them though would be very understandable and friendly toward our calls. That day would be the only day when the whole world tries with all her strength to communicate with the universe and another special thing about it would be that after 30 February, on March 1st nothing and no one should be speaking about that topic. The whole trash and celebration should be cleaned before midnight otherwise punishments would occur. It would have been AWESOME.

 

P.S. This might and will happen when I will be the complete and powerful “president” of the world.

Irida Shyti from Kavaje

Topic: Invent a new day of the year to celebrate. What would it be, when would t be, and how would people celebrate it?

Everyday is a beautiful day. We should enjoy every day and be happy with all life because being happy is the most important thing. Every day is a birthday or it can be a celebrated day in a different place in the world but I would like to invent a new day of the year to celebrate.

 

Here in Albania there is a day when everybody tells a lie. It’s called “Liar’s Day”. I would like to invent Truth Day. This day should be celebrated on 2 April one day next after Liar’s Day. In this day everybody should say the truth and to be honest with everyone. I would like that people take post cards and write down something that they really think about somebody or to write down an apology note for someone that they lied to before. I would like to do this with postcards not with email because postcards are in plan B because of technology. Writing a postcard is more special than an email I think. A postcard makes you more special or happy. Thinking that somebody went to a bookshop, chose a postcard and he wrote a truth or something we think for you is the best part. This day will make people happier I think and prevent fighting between people. It’s like being honest and talking without heart or with words. Honesty is something that is losing value every day. People lie, lie and lie without thinking that they will make you unhappy or sad. So if one day of telling the truth exists it will be easier for everybody. You don’t’ have to be ashamed that you are telling the truth because everybody is doing the same.

11th Form Group

Mars is a planet but do you believe that I was the first settler there. I’ll tell you what happened. I was making a trip with one flying carpet and I don’t know what happened but I was in one planet. I don’t know where I was because my birthday is in March. I decided his name. All around me were animals, the green earth, the purple grass, the yellow tree and all these animals come around me and all of them tell me “Welcome! Welcome! We were waiting for you, you are the princess of our planet and you deserve all of our attention. Please come beside us and close your eyes.” I did all that the animals told me. When I opened my eyes I was in a place like heaven with all the colors around, the coastal was amazing and I started my life like a princess, like a person who enjoys his life. Everything was like a dream, the dream of a young girl come true. On my first day I met all of the animals. I spoke about their life and I learned that the word “problem” does not exist. They were very happy in their life except one whose name was Xho and it was a bear, a big one and a beautiful bear but in your first look, it looked angry and scared you. When I asked him what’s your problem he said I am the biggest animal there and I don’t have any friends because all of them are scared of me and go away. When days passed I learned that he was the best animal ever, an animal with a big heart with a big desire and with much self esteem to walk in the future. I looked there that love share like a river in the place like this and this river was everywhere. The peace was an ocean and there were thousands of oceans, the best thing was everything in the earth was like a flower. The rain was like cola and the snow was chocolate. The sun was like a big sunflower and the shine was red like a big love for everyone. The politics didn’t exist , the bad words too, the life was very better and in every day happened something that will give you a good memory to keep. One thing that the day, the month ran fast and fast and I can’t catch them. When you walk in the street or in the side of river, lake, ocean, in the grass, the good things will enter on you and you feel like you’re in heaven. I know that in their minds I was the princess but in reality, I was their friend or a piece of them. You haven’t believed what happened in the evening when the night arrived. “Oh my good.” What I see, the stars started to sing and the moon started to bring melody and the sleep come like air and you relax in your good dream and when you looked a miracle around you feel amazing and the happiest person in the universe. So I passed all the day, a week, month and year and I’ll say with all my heart that it was the best experience and adventure ever in my life. I know that I was te first settler in Mars but I don’t feel the need of others because I was in the friendship of all animals and nature that was around me. From that day that planet called Mars and I am proud of myself. When I remember this story I feel happy, enthusiastic, lucky, but I feel a bit unlucky too because I lived that for only one year and I can’t try again.

Topic: You are one of the first settlers on Mars. You have lived there for one year. Write about your first year.

Kristiana Sokoli from Bajram Curri

Kristjana Rrapaj from Fier

Topic: You are one of the first settlers on Mars. You have lived there for one year. Write about your first year.

It was unbelievable, I had finally reached my destination. It was not a simple city, I was one of the first settlers on Mars. I admit, I felt like a superhero. What I first realized was that I was surrounded by a group of aliens. They were staring at me in a freaky way. I thought they would probably kill me but they started babbling. I didn’t know what to do or how to react. So, the first thing coming up to ym mind was dancing. I started singing and dancing like a weirdo and they fortunately understood I was human and weird, oh well. After checking me out they tried to find out my native language by using a strange equipment. At the end they were able to understand. After the making some agreements with them, I started observing the place. It was incredible. I found out some cute little hosues made of stones, surrounded by big trees. It was all surrounded by nature. I decided to live there for a few days. The first days I learned how to cook their specialties, how to put up a house like those ones. It was a little annoying so I decided to make their life more cheerful. I started making some daily activities such as: learning how to dance, how to do karate, how to make weird body positions for the pantomime game, etc.

 

It was not difficult as you may think. It was funny to see aliens dancing “I’m a single lady”, a song by Beyonce or make them do karate. Instead of “hitting” each other they started punching themselves. The best part was to make them do weird body positions. One of them, instead of doing that, started laughing and saying “banana”. I don’t know the reason why it was so funny. Maybe the way he said it. I passed there 4 months and I didn’t know if I should leave or not. They begged me to stay so I stayed there another 2 months. One day, while I was doing some shopping, I noticed a strange building and I didn’t resist looking at it. When I tried to open the door, it needed a password. I tried everything, dancing as a monkey, singing, I said all the words I knew in their language, for one minute I said “OMG, now I need a banana”… You’ll not believe it, the door after the word “banana”, opened. I entered there, when soon I realized there was a laboratory. There I found out that you can make trees talk only by giving them banana. Everything could have been made only by using a banana. I went next to a tree and talked to it. Oh my god, that thing was alive. It had beautiful eyes and such a cute smile. I don’t know, I felt I needed to stay there and take care of that tree which I named “Beautiful”. Each day, all day I had been taking care of it, talking to it and I don’t know, I was feeling really comfortable. One day, Beautiful was sick. I didn’t know what to do, I needed it. I spent a month taking care of it but there was no point in doing that as he started becoming worse. One night I told a cute fairytale and hugged it. When I fell asleep two tears came out on my cheeks. I loved that tree, it was my best friend…

 

When I woke up, the tree was not there anymore… I started crying, I couldn’t live there without my friend…For an instance, a cute boy of my age appeared in front of my eyes. His first words were “Do you remember me?” I was confused. He said “I am Beautiful” and I couldn’t believe it. The tree I loved so much was turned into a beautiful, sweet boy. It was fate. We were made for each other. Now we live here, on earth, loving and taking care of each other.

Kostandina Marku from Lezhe

Topic: You are one of the first settlers on Mars. You have lived there for one year. Write about your first year.

On Mars

 

It came to me like a bomb when I was watching TV and I heard that I won the lottery for the Mars trip. Can you believe it? How is it possible for me to win when the possibility of winning was 1 out of 7 billion? Can you imagine all the people around the world cheering for my name? You don’t believe it but it’s true. I was happy of becoming famous but the true happiness was not like all the humans think, but where I was already destined to go.

 

One week after, I made my bags ready, greeted with all of my relatives and went in the direction of the space station. I didn’t have to do anything, just push the start button. The only voice that I heard in these moments was a male voice saying “Three, two, one, ready!” And here it started… After the voice the only things I could see were colors. All of them. Colors that I never saw on Earth before. And all these colors formed a tube in which I was going through with an incredible fast speed. Then, I started to smell something like a perfume. It was a perfume that had included all Earth’s best perfumes. Interesting! I started thinking that these were signs that I was on Mars. After about one minute I fell asleep.

 

I woke up with my head hurting. What to see! Well, I was on Mars now. I think you understand that. You might think that there are rocks, deserts and no water but that’s just the human imagination. I was impressed with everything there. After wandering around for some seconds a fairy showed up. She had long blond hair, blue eyes, smooth white skin and a big dress made up from tree leaves. “Welcome” she said. “You are on Mars, if you didn’t know Mars is the place of no limit but only in positive things. With the belief that you appreciate that same things as us like nature, you were chosen to come here. Just ask for things and they will be ready for you. Enjoy your time in here, human!” And she disappeared by leaving thousands of butterflies after her.

 

In front of me were some little hills. Without knowing where I was going, I started walking and a fairy sent me to the beach. Nothing was the same as on Earth. When reading this, you should always think of the best things. The sand was made of diamonds. The sea was colorful and it had all the good tastes. The sky was bright during the day and not dark during the night but the same color of a nebula with different colors staying in suspension on the air. I haven’t required anything yet.

 

After exploring all of its beauties, I started thinking about staying there forever. I didn’t want to leave from that perfect world. I was happy, I felt no pain, I didn’t need to eat, drink or even breathe. I was feeling so good that for a moment I forgot everything of my past. This world was for rest, it didn’t require energy, but just enjoyment.

 

I couldn’t number days and nights but time was passing. I had to do something because I felt that there was something wrong in all of this. In that exact moment of thinking this, my whole life went in front of my eyes like a flash. I saw my past, my memories and I felt a big pain on my chest. I always had that pain but I started getting it in this world. I was missing someone who died many years ago, my grandfather.

 

As tears fell out of my eyes like a river, my pain was growing bigger. Then I thought of what the fairy said. I totally forgot that I could wish. The pain that was growing bigger was a signal. Then I said “I want to meet you grandpa. Please, come. I miss you. I really need you.” For a moment, nothing happened. I started walking and I started hating this world. I was very tired and suddenly I fell asleep. A voice woke me up.

 

“You know… I missed you too!”

 

I wasn’t sure what was going on. But when everything was clear, I understood. I shouted: “Grandpa! You’re here! Tell me! Tell me this is so real!”

 

“It is! It is my dear” he said “but not for too long. You were brought here for a mission. A mission that will save your world.”

 

“But grandpa, I don’t want to turn back!”

 

“Remember when you were young you told me that if you had the chance you would change the world. Here’s your chance now. Use it!”

 

“What’s my mission?”

 

“Well, when you go back on Earth, people will ask you about everything about your trip on Mars. There are a lot of people around the world who will listen to you. You will give messages. You will change and you will become important like grandpa and Mother Teresa because you will put peace and love on Earth. If this happens people will be happy like here. They will live in a perfect world where no fights, no cries, no murders will happen. Like this you will end poverty and racism. People will never suffer anymore. Plants and animals will be a part of the normal circle of life. Africa will never be known for deaths from lack of bread anymore and there will be plenty of water. But only when peace and love become a part of everyone’s lives, then the seed of absolutely happiness will be planted by the Italy spirits and everyone would like to be a part of your planet. Now I know that you will miss me but don’t cry my darling, there will be another time when we meet again. But be happy and get old first. Now there is no more time, I have to go. I love you, good luck!”

 

My mission had just started…

12th Form Group

Joerd Hysa from Librazhd

Topic: Write a letter to yourself to be read in 15 years.

3.3.2039

United Starts of Ethnic Albania

 

Dear Joerd,

 

You’re going to receive this letter by the 3rd of March, 15 years after the year of the Great War. I imagine that the contents of this letter will be shocking to you, as the Marshall of the USAA Strike Forces and to all Albanian people, but it is your duty to explain the truth and nothing but the truth. Reading this letter and being the only one knowing its existence puts great responsibility on your shoulders.

 

On April the 2nd, after Russian Armed Forces conquered Ukraine and the Black Sea, it was known that a time travel experience had happened. Operatives and officials of the KGB had worked in complete discretion to build an immense time traveling machine. Agents of SPECNA had travelled to the future to discover new weapons to be used against Ukraine and the NATO army on the Great War of 2014.

 

Such technologies are devastating and a serious threat to humanity as it is being used to place bombs not through places but to teletransport them through time. With Russia being in control of the planet, they have bombed and destroyed half of the continents, wiping them from the face of the Earth along with 2/3 of the human population and almost 90% of the vegetation, WE ARE IN DANGER OF EXTINCTION.

 

Things have gotten worse in the ending of the 3rd decade after living in peace after the Treaty of Krimess. The war is rising again and we are few in numbers against millions of tons of nuclear power.

 

The United States of Ethnic Albania are completely demolished by the allies. The army is in complete disability and all the research has been incinerated by bombs and fire power. Now we are hiding like rebels and we are being hunted like the most inferior race, after Russia declared the cult and the superiority of Russians being able to time travel.

 

Relying on the person I know most, I am suggesting that you, Marshall of USEA-SF, to create a task force of operatives for the purpose of stopping The Great War rise again. After the creation of the task force you will discover the coordinates of the time machine, hidden in the puzzle words of this letter.

 

I hope that YOU will be able to end this madness by time travelling back to April 1st, 2014 and attacking the Peninsula of Krimes, where the bomb transporting began. Following the instructions given will lead you to victory.

 

Joerd Hysa

Marshall of USEA-SF

Eleana Rraku from Saranda

Topic: Write a letter to yourself to be read in 15 years.

Dear Eleanna,

 

I hope, in the moment that you’re reading this, that you’re a grown, complete woman who has finally decided what she’s going to do with her life! And I also hope that you’ve made your dream of travelling the world come true.

 

Right now, I don’t have the slightest clue where I will or I want to be in 15 years, but I wish with all my heart that I will be somewhere I like. And dear self, so you know, I’d like to tell you tat where I’ll be depends partly on the response of the university, which I am waiting right now for and I am really anxious. I think you remember that. So, I hope that you’re in your own laboratory now, anywhere in the world, doing any possible research.

 

But enough with where you are. I’m more interested in what you’ve done with your life. I really hope that you’re no longest that indecisive and have finally learned how to make up your mind. This would make things much easier. To be honest, I’m more concerned about what mom and dad and Julie are doing right now that you’re reading this, rather than you, for reasons which you know, but I will explain briefly later. I want you to get up and give them a call. Talk to them and see how they’re doing. I hope mum has relaxed a bit and is no longer concerned about all the problems of the world.

 

The reason why I’m not that concerned about you is because I know that you can always find a way to make things happen. I hope this hasn’t changed during these years. I can say for sure that you’ve finished your studies and you’re looking forward to (or have) a successful career for the only thing which I’m worried is that you’ve not made your work the basic concern of your life. I would be really disappointed if you have. But I believe in you. I am sure that you’ve not made the wrong choices. That you’ve not forgotten your old friends, that you catch up with them every now and then. Remember? They used to be the sun of your world when you were a teenager. But of course you remember. You always do.

 

Finally, I’d like to say that I hope you haven’t kept your dreams hidden in your closet. I hope that you’ve learned to paly guitar, that you’re removed plastic bags from your life, you’ve adopted a pet and that you’ve been part of a move for legalizing gay marriage. And if not yet, there is always plenty of time. For now I gotta go because I don’t want to waste any more valuable paper.

 

Kisses, your young and full of dreams self

Denis Blloshmi from Librazhd

Topic: Write a letter to yourself to be read in 15 years.

Dear Denis,

 

Right now I imagine you sitting in the reading studio with a glass of wine and in front of you there is this letter of mine. You probably didn’t remember this letter at all and found it by chance while searching in your old stuff. With a smile on your face, you place the letter on the desk and think for a second. You imagine yourself 15 years ago and think for the time that has passed. I still live with my parents by the way, which is cool. I mean…free food, warm bed, no laundry, nothing to worry about.

 

I still haven’t decided what to do with my future and what do I want to become. I really hope that you made up your mind for good and now you have a nice job and a nice life. Do you remember the prom night? I am still waiting for it though… I really hope to get the best of it, with the best memories of my life. I hope that you found someone special in your life by now. I know she must be worth it and is able to change your mood anytime. We both have good taste in women, after all I am you and you are me. Take care of her. I know you will do your best and you won’t give up on her. I hope this letter brings some good memories. I really do! If not, I am sorry about that but you need to change that and think happy. Now I want you to finish that glass of wine because this letter is over and be well my friend.

 

Yours, Denis

University Year 2

Maria Laro from Gjirokaster

What will be the most important invention in the next century? How will it change the world?

Hmm, talking about inventions is an interesting topic, but thinking about creating a new one is… wow, it’s hard. It must be creative, unusually, something we haven’t ever seen before, something that will be useful for mankind. Well, I always loved the thought of space traveling and yes, the most important invention of the next century will be a space machine. It will be a machine that will travel for everyone who likes to explore our universe. This cool machine will have a round shape, like a bubble, no wings. There will exist many bubble industries in the future that will create dozens of these fantastic space travelers, like car industries. They will create many brands of the machine in any color and we will have the opportunity to choose the bubble of our taste. Bubble, bubble, bubble, I like the word so much. So, as I said before, the traveling machines will have no wings, a round shape and will have no fuel. I like them to be eco friendly. Their fuel will be the excitement and desire of the owner. In the inner body of the machine, there will be equipment, like a battery, that will measure the excitement and desire. If the owner is not too enthusiastic to explore the universe, than the measuring equipment will not fill up and the bubble will not turn on. If you wanna turn it on, you must be super crazy and have an adventurous soul. If you are this kind of person, you will have an amazingly explorative super cool trip in our universe. We all can have our bubbles in the garage, the only thing we have to do is buy them. I’m afraid they will cost a fortune but that’s the price we must pay for exploring the universe. And that’s the most important of all, once you buy your space bubble, you can travel to the other planets and galaxies wherever you want or whenever you have free time. Pfff, now a days people are so busy.

 

The creation of this massive machine will give us the huuuge opportunity to widen our horizon. It will give us the chance to learn more about what is outside out planet. By exploring the stars and galaxies and other dimensions we will be more open minded. Our mind will develop the capacity of our imagination. Our fantasy will go wild (I hope so) and we will be able to think more creatively and be more adventurous.

 

I want so bad for the space bubble to be created in the future, hopefully as long as I’m alive (ha ha ha). I want to see my baby live, not only in my imagination. Maybe someday I will, maybe not, maybe in another life, but at least in my fantasy I have traveled all the unknown and mysterious things in our big universe.

Kristina Nikaj from Shkoder

How did cavemen and women communicate with each other? What did they say? What were their concerns?

I cannot imagine how men and women communicated years ago. There were no telephones, no interest. I’m thinking of a couple from a century ago. I’m trying to picture the first moment they met each other.

 

It was a sunny morning when John and his brother packed for hunting in the dense jungle of Amazona. While they were walking through the jungle, they saw a beautiful girl with a snake on her neck. As soon as John saw her, he ran and killed the snake. He saved her life. Since that day, John and this girl called Mary, began to see each other.

 

You can say, how did they date each other when there were no telephones. When John wanted to see her, he called a buffalo. He wrote on its skin a notice. When the buffalo was running near to her, Mary saw the notice. She smiled and went to see John.

 

Years passed. They got married. Firstly it was hard to survive because they had to kill animals to feed. The most beautiful part was that they communicated to each other in a perfect way. They understood each other and there was nothing to separate them. One day John woke up early in the morning. He killed an animal and used its blood to write. He put her finger in it and wrote on their room wall: I love you Mary. He also used the animal skin to make a dress for his adorable wife.

 

I personally adore this way of living as a couple. Despite the difficulties, they understood each other and they were the most happy couple in the world.

Marsida Kaloshi from Shkoder

Topic: What will be the most important invention in the next century? How will it change the world?

“Meet Me” is going to be the name of the invention that all of us waited so much to have. It is going to be an object that will help us get in touch with the peope we love. When I say “get in touch” I mean it. We can tough the relatives that we couldn’t see in years. We can tough the person tat we always loved. We can tough persons that we never thought we could even see closely.

 

Want to see your sister, now married and has 3 little kids who won’t let her be online or Skype? Want touch your favorite actress (please don’t make Brad Pitt jealous in here.) Wanna have Channing Tatum all night just for you? Don’t think about dirty things, he can read you a book. I’ve heard that he can tell wonderful fairytales.

 

Well, al you’ve been waiting for is this invention. Everybody can use it. It ain’t difficult. All you have to do is pay 2# per hour and you can meet your sister/brother/nephew/favorite actress/crush/Justin Timberlake/Barack Obama/etc. If you want to you can also meet Justin Bieber. Please don’t use for violence. Or you can meet a person you just friended on Facebook.

 

The object can be taken anywhere there is internet and you will want to use it over and over again. All you have to do is have a picture telling all the physical appearances of someone, the object then will work.

 

You also have to tell their length. Another good thing about the project is that half of the money that people pay to use it will go for charity for the African children. Hopefully from this there is going to be equality in the world.

TIRANA 10th-University

10th Form Group

Onejda Ndreu

Invent a new day of the year to celebrate. What would it be, when would t be, and how would people celebrate it?

Special days, meaningful events and traditions are celebrated in one evening. Everybody enjoys them, each one of us long for their atmosphere and not only one of you forgets the memories they leave behind. And truly, why would you? Creating a wonderful, unforgettable memory out of each day is a challenge to each of us, it’s an occasion where we get to laugh on the table while eating dinner with our families, smile over the crazy things we do with our friends, cry if we are away from those we love and take and give presents filled with emotions and finally feel. Feel everything.

 

All these thoughts were piled up on my mind as I slowly crossed the thick, old bars of the orphanage’s door, the creaking sound filling my ears and the coldness of this place making chills go down my spine. I hear laughter, such sad laughs and I start to wonder… how can they laugh when they have nothing? This makes me stop on the doorway only to take a better look on their thin faces staring unconsciously I make a wish. A wish that we gave only one day on our lives to them, that for only 24 short hours we opened our heart and our mind to them.

 

The “Orphans Day”, doesn’t it sound beautiful? In my mind I have no doubt that they would love the sound of these words even though most of them wouldn’t even understand them. I can almost see it, feel it’s warm, I can imagine it, “that” day. It would be summer, maybe July or August, so everyone could enjoy the warmth and hotness of the sun. It would be nothing like the coldness they have experienced until now. The sky would be crystal clear and all these pale faces I am seeing now would take a beautiful chocolate color.

 

I can even smell it. All people gathering together in one place and bringing delicious food. Only their smell would fill their hungry stomachs. Candies, cookies, desserts, cakes, hot chocolate, fruit juice, everything a normal child loves and we would be there. Each and every one of us. Maybe feeding them or smiling kindly as they eat. This would be the most important part of the “Orphan’s Day”: we would all be there for them. Our love being poured in different shapes, forms and colors.

 

On the evening there would be fireworks and lights everywhere, even grown ups prefer these things. Songs would be sung and stories would be told until in the end they fell asleep in our arms. Here my imagination stops and I come back down to earth to the present. Here where these children in front of me don’t have the smiles I imagined on their faces and neither the warmth on their bodies but as cliché as it may sound… someday they will! Even though it will be only for one summer day at least for that one our only challenge will be to create a memory for them to remember. For now let “Orphan’s Day” remain a dream in a girl’s head but soon enough it will be the dreamed day each orphan will expect in enthusiasm once it is gone.

Yisi Musa

Topic: Invent a new day of the year to celebrate. What would it be, when would t be, and how would people celebrate it?

Tik-tok! Tik-tok! May I enter? You wanna know who I am? Let me introduce myself: I am 26th of June. You think I am a day or just an ordinary date? Splendid, you’re wrong! Probably, you’ve never heard of me, probably you’ve ignored me during your entire life. Don’t do it again! I am the most powerful day of the year. I have got not color, but I am multi-colorful. You cant touch me, but you can have me. I am everywhere! I appear every time if you call me, not only on the 26th of June. You wanna know my name?! Discover it! I’ll give you some clues.

 

Lets begin by a puzzle, splash your thoughts, smash your limits and figure it out! I am not the day, where the whole family comes together and celebrate, but I can make if happen. I am not the day where you get lots of presents, but I can make it happen. I am meant the day where you are obliged to clean the environment or when spontaneously the thought that animals are living beings come to your mind. I am more than that.

 

Millions of years ago I helped people invent the fire. I helped them to build their homes. I generated them to develop the place they used to live in. I helped people to invent machines, very helpful for the mankind, but not so much for the environment. I have helped many persons to escape from the jail. I was the main factor who helped Einstein to create the atomic bomb. I have helped Hitler to create his strategies. I have helped many kids get an award just because of me.

 

Probably you just don’t wanna know any further about what I do or you’ve discovered who I am. Are you interested in knowing how would people celebrate me?! They would all invent a balloon and fly all over the sky. They would visit every corner of the world, discover every thing beyond a flower, project a building or invent a machine. Everyone would think about something and if they have the right supplements, no problem. They should just try to travel with their mind or take a pen and paper. Just no sleep, please…only if you are dreaming.

 

My name is WillIm (Will of Imagination). I belong to 28th of June (that’s my birthday, not that there is any other reason), but as I said you can call me anytime. I am the root of the world and the ones who can perfectly own my components are the most advantaged human beings. You can do something good or bad with me. I am celebrated in 28th of June, I am still not official, that’s because I can be found everywhere. If you don’t want my death, get a shot and do the right move so people would really appreciate the great values of imagination.

Hygerta Qosja

Topic: Invent a new day of the year to celebrate. What would it be, when would t be, and how would people celebrate it?

People celebrate all the year. You see people celebrating new year, spring’s day, etc. but wouldn’t it be more awesome if people would have something else to celebrate too? Wouldn’t it be better if the world would celebrate something new, different from the other holidays? Well, yeah, that’s exactly what I mean. A new holiday to celebrate. And the world is going to call it: “The Mystery Day”. You see, it’s not like other holidays, it’s different. They Mystery Day, we’re going to call it like tat, because that day will be a day full of mysteries. Nowadays people still don’t know why they live, how the world has really created, how life came to Earth and a lot of other things. IN this day people re going to get out in the streets and with leaflets or pamphlets in their hands where they will write 1 or 2 or more questions that they want to know the answer to. Well they will not have the answers but still by doing that people will have more hope that one day they will find the answers they need. It will be celebrated with parties sure but with other things too. It will be a special day, with quizzes on the TV, big question marks will be sold, strange costumes showing the unknown and a lot of other things. The Mystery Day will be celebrated on September 1st. It will be chosen that day because it’s the first day of autumn, the first day of September. It’s not too cold or not too hot. It’s the perfect day for celebrating. For Mystery Day, people all over the world have to find information for other scientists, make competitions and if it’s possible donate money for creating some machines that will change the CO2 in Mars or other planet into O2. You see, if people have the chance to go and create life on other planets, that would be something amazing and it would be great knowing that the whole world is helping in creating something that seems unbelievable for human kind. It’s a holiday like every holiday we celebrate except that it’s going to be a big help for the world. There are theories that the world is going to be destroyed and we must do something for that. We can help our planet and also you never know what may happen so by donating some money you can have a hope, a chance to create another planet to live on. Yeah, that’s amazing. Let’s celebrate “The Mystery Day” guys. It will be fun.

11th Form Group

Aleksandra Selimej

Topic: You are one of the first settlers on Mars. You have lived there for one year. Write about your first year.

I am a victim. I was fooled. I have been deceived. This is my last pen so I might as well put it to good use. After 4 years of service in the arm, I was left with nothing, I became nothing. I stood pondering in bars for quite a while before I realized that me coming home safe was the universe’s way of letting me know that this was my second chance, the only one I would get. I was recruited by NASA due to being successful in their examinations. I had no relation to space what so ever. That left me wondering for a while but seeing as I was desperate and as long as I was considered a good soldier, I let it slide. One thing led to another and there I was, day 1, the start of a new era. Colonizing Mars would be human kind entering a new age. The first 100 days were vacations for me. Earth would send packages, we would receive. Life was good. There were 23 recruits when we arrived, all male, all between the ages of 20 – 25 and all ex soldiers. That left me wondering for a while, after all if you want to colonize you need all kinds of people to create a community. But what did I know about space anyway. After the 100th day, hell broke loose. It was real, it was there and it was full. Endless peaceful deserts started eating us up. I lost count of what I saw for a while. I remember pieces of me dying over and over. My dignity, my hope, my courage. I saw death embrace and kiss each and everyone around me with peculiar speed, like it was hungry for souls, like it wanted to absorb the one thing that kept us human, right in the center of our being. Every man I had respected and befriended lost the light in their eyes right in front of me. Mars had turned into our own personal corner of hell. Earth cut all communication with us on the 214th day. A year has passed and the fire of hope I had is fading away. I realized that I wasn’t sent here to live, they were curious whether I would survive. I remember Earth, I remember her silhouette drenched in golden moonlight and the mountains collapsed over fields and rivers. I remember the unmade bed on Sunday mornings when all we would do was slack during chores in our underwear. I remember the sun, the only sun, shining on my face and it’s warmth radiating behind my eyelids. I remember my little sister’s freckles on her nose and her eyes rolling when she was told to eat the soup. I remember the turtles in our garden and the laughs of people around me. I lived a lifetime of bliss and never realized it. I came here to die.

 

Subject 301 was found dead inside his sector of the base.

Cause of Death: Suicide

Time of Death: Unknown

Megi Hamza

Topic: You are one of the first settlers on Mars. You have lived there for one year. Write about your first year.

I feel two cold hands grasp me. I shrink at the unfamiliarity of the touch. I lift my eyes to meet another pair of them; dark human eyes looking at me with such intensity and worry that I start to worry myself. I signal my brain to give me flashback or memories, but nothing.

 

“Where am I?” – I hear myself speak.

 

“Special Agent Hamza, you’re safe, you’re home,” the man with dark eyes replies almost instantly. But it doesn’t feel like home.

 

I take a look around as they carry me out of the large spaceship I don’t remember being put in. Everything looks familiar, yet out of place. We have apparently landed in a big football field. My brain shrinks at the memories. Why does this place feel so distant? Flashbacks come and go like a cool breeze, yet still I can’t remember anything. They carry me to the nearest bench and offer me water. I reject it; or better yet, my body does. I throw it up as soon as I take a small sip.

 

“Get Agent Jones, now,” the dark eyed man speaks to his men and they do as he says.

 

“Where am I?” – I repeated, demanding answers.

 

“Special Agent Hamza, you are in Planet Earth.” – a spiky haired woman with an official marine suit replies. She must be Agent Jones.

 

“Where have I been all this time?” – my brain tickers and twists.

 

Agent Jones takes a deep breath and sits down next to me. “Planet Mars,” she whispers.

 

**FLASHBACK**

 

Apollo 201 is on a special “trip” to Mars to discover more about the new alien forms that have been appearing on the latter. I know that for a fact because I am on the crew; to be more exact, I am the crew. It is a one-man (or in my case, one-woman) mission, as it is extremely dangerous and life – threatening. I have devoted my life to this day, and it’s finally here. My memory doesn’t give me any details of the trip there, I don’t know why, but I find myself out of my spaceship and in the hot, heavy Mars air. Wait, what? I don’t need my oxygen casket? I can breathe perfectly fine, and that weirds me out. Now, I am expecting so two-headed, gross looking red aliens with their high-tech weapons to come and kill me; but to my surprise, out of my expectations, I hear laughter, I smell food. I see people. Yes, humans, just like me, with one perfect face and two arms and two legs and just a smile on their face as they salute me.

 

“Megi, we were expecting you.” – A tall guy says.

 

There are four other people with him.

 

“How do you know my name?”

 

“We have been expecting you. There are lots to tell.”

 

I follow them down a red rocked path for what seems like ten minutes. The most beautiful creative village covers my vision, we pass a huge cliff. The houses were built entirely of red stone (the only available material on Mars), there were parks and fountains and schools and courts. It was like a little red village out of a fairytale.

 

“How is all of this possible?” I ask.

 

“We figures out that the material these rocks are made of can support EVERY form of seed and grow it twice as fast as an organic field on Earth, it’s pretty much every farmer’s dream. And the rocks can take any form they are given and stick to one another miraculously. Which makes it a builders dream,” The tall guy replied.

 

My brain takes a minute all of this. “So why keep it a secret? Why hide it from the people back home?”

 

“Do you understand what would happen if people find out that Mars can be lived in? It would turn into a rampage, an ecological waste. The people who live here are only the astronauts and scientists who come to research. They find a better home here and better people.”

 

“Are you asking me to stay?”

 

**END OF FLASHBACK**

 

Agent Jones is looking at me with pleading eyes. “How long was I on Mars for?” – I ask.

 

“One full year and four days.” – she says.

 

And then I remember the whole thing. I did decide to stay. I created my family there, I worked as a teacher. Life was better in Mars, just like Steven (I remember the tall guy’s name; later he became my husband) told me. It was always warm and everyone was friendly. We ate healthy and protected the environment. That’s why I didn’t feel like home on Earth. My real home was now Mars. But why was I back?

 

“So, Agent Hamza, do you remember anything? What sort of species live there and how did you cope to co-live with them for a year?” Agent Jones asks.

 

“I don’t remember anything,” I proudly state.

 

I can’t forget about what Steven told me, how no one could find out. I saw Agent Jones wrinkle her nose and shrug in annoyance.

 

“You were so close, Agent Hamza.”

 

“What do you mean?” I ask, confused.

 

“You were never on Mars.” – she replied.

 

My heart breaks at every word she says. “What!?” I shockingly ask.

 

“You were inside a spaceship for one year, your brain attached to a computer device. All the people you saw, the things you experience, they weren’t real.”

 

“You’re lying.” I start to shake.

 

“It was all a test. You are not an Agent. This was your test to become one.” “I don’t understand.”

 

“You betrayed your country and your planet by not telling us what you saw. You became attached to the target. I’m sorry but you are out of the team.”

 

“But I got married, I had a job, I lived there.”

 

“It wasn’t real. None of it was.”

 

My brain shatters and my hear scatters. There is one more logical thing I want to do. “Put me into the machine again. I can’t live here anymore.”

 

Agent Jones shakes her heard. “You are too vulnerable,” she says. “I’ll ask”.

 

I don’t know what’s going to happen to me now, or even if I went to Mars or not, but the truth is, I was happy, really happy, and that’s the truth for me.

Alba Tahiri

Topic: You are one of the first settlers on Mars. You have lived there for one year. Write about your first year.

I remember the day we went to the space craft and the commander said that everything was settled for the first journey to Mars. I shivered. It had been my dream since I was a little child to go beyond this world, to see other dimensions. They wanted volunteers. It seemed like ti was a risky adventure, more like an experiment. It required strong survival skills and knowledge in astrophysics. I felt I would be one of those persons, I had imagined myself a thousand times living in a different planet. But it also required people that would be able to give up their homes and families. I knew it would be very painful but I had to choose my dream so I raised my hand and I took a two month training regarding additional knowledge. The day our space ship was going to take off, I had a strange feeling. I even remember vomiting once or twice. Everything was going as planned, the astronaut and the volunteers were very excited. I cannot describe the moment of taking off. It was thrilling, I was shaking and suddenly my ears went blank. It was beautiful though. I hadn’t experienced such a feeling even when I scored for the first time. We were 258 km distance from Mars and we were wandering the cosmos somehow lost. The universe was too big for us to handle. At night I always looked from my window and I was scared. I felt so small, a small insignificant part of this mega huge world. Until then, I had no idea that my phobia were big dimensions. Stars from the windows representing each a different world, were so many, an infinite many. The strange feeling didn’t vanish, on the contrary, the closer we were to Mars the more bad and insecure I felt.

 

After a month, we finally arrived. The first thing that caught my eye was it’s color. It was not quire red, it was more the color of dirt and dust. There were rocks and no sky at all. One thing for sure, I didn’t feel at home. What was I doing there? In that instant, I felt something hit my chest. I was choking. I looked back and I saw the 5 other volunteers dead. Then my mind collapsed. What was happening? Where was the astronaut?

 

Before I started feeling more hopeless, a strange being approached me and damn, I was scared. I couldn’t even more a muscle. The next moment I found myself on a big, blue, room similar to hospital rooms. An alien was standing at the corner, trembling. Or was it a hologram? I couldn’t see clearly nor move. My arms and legs were tired and a blue medicine was entering my veins through a syringe. So the days passed and I lost who I was. The only thing I knew was that an attempt for a better life. I was caught by alien intelligence. I hoped I could find the means to talk to them but for them I was like a gorilla, too primitive, too insignificant. The percent between our intelligences could be only 2 or 3 but that meant quite a lot. I had lost sense of time, sense of my age. I felt like my intelligence was no longer available so I started making additions, multiplication with numbers to keep my brain fresh. For a long time I stayed closed in the blue room surrounded by strange equipments. I was going crazy. Then, suddenly, one day or one night, I cannot tell, I heard a scream, a human scream. It woke me up, I felt alive somehow, there was still blood in my veins for god’s sake. I saw on the camera one of the astronauts, they were still alive. It gave me hope. After a while, I started manipulating the aliens. I removed the medicine and replaced it with the spit of my mouth. I was becoming more and more clear. I wanted so badly to get out of there, I felt so trapped. My family’s memory kept me alive, kept going.

 

Then one day, I found myself on a spaceship that was headed to Earth. I couldn’t understand anything. After a week I landed on my planet with a different look in my eyes, with new phobias and with an unbelievable story to tell.

 

Today, after a year, I still cannot figure out what exactly happened or why they realized me. How come I am still alive? But one thing is for sure, I am very grateful to them. My son is about to be born and I’m moving to California and my whole life is getting somehow normal. However, in my dreams, I still see those faces. I still sense their presence, I feel they are a part of me now.

 

Reported Jack Doolittle for the newspaper, “The Guardian”

12th Form Group

Rea Bakiasi

Topic: Write a letter to yourself to be read in 15 years.

Dear Rea,

 

How are you? What’s going on in your life? I’m really curious to learn about it. It’s strange, but my name is Rea too. Actually you don’t know me, I am seventeen years old and you are 32 years old. However, I have this feeling that deep down we are pretty much the same. Let me write you something about myself.

 

I was born in a small city in Albania, the type of city where everyone knows everyone even though I came to Tirane when I was only 4 years old, I still can remember the warm feeling and the cozy roads of my city. When I got back there after 10 years, I don’t know why but for the first time I felt home like I belonged to it.

 

So this is me at this moment, a girl who started everything fresh in a big city with big challenges. At first nothing was easy and in fact, it has been awful for my parents. They have given everything including their best years to create a safe future for me and my sister. Well, I’ve tried to do my best too. Each year I’ve gotten top marks, I’m also known as the one girl in the class who studies a lot but who doesn’t enjoy life.

 

This opinion hurts me not because it is said by my classmates during different school years but because I actually agree with it. When I look back in time, I don’t remember doing anything crazy or breaking rules or going to a party and just enjoying myself. The worst feeling ever is regretting your life. I hope you are living each second in your life Rea because as Sandra Bullock has written, “Life is not a book, it can be over in a second.” This year is my senior year and I’ve understood that I should. I should change myself, I should change my life.

 

It’s difficult for me to be so sincere with somebody I barely know because usually I don’t express my feelings to others. You may think I’m a terrible person but I have never told to the people I love the most that I actually love them. I keep everything to myself: the good and the hard feelings. I am afraid that one day this is going to break me apart. There are days when I just want to be on the top of a mountain and just scream. I hope it can make me forget, forgive, feel free… I just hope that since I am coming clean it’s time to mention that I have always had low self esteem. I have never felt proud or happy with my achievements. It’s a burning desire inside of me to do more, to try more because when I get to bed, in the end of the day I think “ you are not good enough”. It will come a day when I get rid of these obstacles inside of me and when that day comes, I will probably be the happiest person alive.

 

From everything I wrote you may think that I am just a teenager with lots of problems. My sister jokes about my life and she suggests I go to a psychologist. I’m not that bad, don’t be afraid! I think t hat everything I am experiencing is just part of the human nature, we all have to face the same doubts and have the same demons inside. It is just a matter of revealing or hiding them deep in the south.

 

I have a great sense of helping people, I am part of the social group of the school, we just visit old people, sick children and homeless families. We do this every time and every time my heart breaks a little. I meditate a lot, I get frustrated, revolted with the world we’re living in. It’s so unfair! My neighbor is a millionaire but when I get out, a homeless child is starving. That is why I have decided to study in biomedical sciences. In the field of research, I believe we can find out the cure for many illnesses and somehow have an impact in making out lives better. I believe we are all on Earth for a reason: to help one another. I’m quoting a phrase I read in a book: “Since I was young, I learned that life damages us, each of us. But we can be mended, we mend each other.”

 

All in all, this is me with all my qualities, fears, doubts and dreams. You are older than me, so I hope you have become an intelligent, beautiful, free spirited young lady. I wish you to find peace with your inner demons, most of all I hope you adore and appreciate yourself because believe it or not you have been through every single problem by yourself, there is nobody better or smarter than you are. I am learning now but remember: “seize the day, one day we’ll turn cold and die!”

 

Best Regards, Rea

Xhulia Mema

Topic: Write a letter to yourself to be read in 15 years.

Dear Julia (or dear self),

 

This is not the first time I talk to you so directly. In fact, I’m sure I’m unable to count the times I’ve had to scold you or direct you towards what I thought was the truth or the right thing to do or even praise you for your modest accomplishments. It doesn’t matter how many people we encounter in life, how many people we find around or when we learn how to be conscious of our environment, like family, how material things we hold on to later in life… essentially all we have is our own self. It may sound deterministic, pessimistic or selfish but if we could be just for one single moment, aware of the number of things we don’t own, we would be appalled. We would really understand how important it is to relate to the inner person whom we love inside us. I’m in the process of understanding it. All my life until now and all the years that will follow, I will be in search for understanding. Understanding yourself, I have learned how to discover you. After that I learned to know you, your feelings, desires, fears. I learned how to appreciate you for what you did right and understand your limits. Still, being unable to get to the bottom of you (not yet at least) all I wanted to say at this very moment in this critical period of my life which could decide what my entire future will be like. I wanted to remind you of certain things I’ve learned, which I never want you to forget, not in a hundred years!

 

First of all, never forget to be yourself and to love yourself. Don’t forget you were born to be unique and not copy the standards other people or an entire society have put on you or other individuals. Don’t forget you’ve got your standards. They may evolve, but at the core they make you who you are. By the time you read this letter you will have changed and changed, again and again, but at the core it’s still you. I’ve found out just now how important it is to have self confidence. It’s not about being arrogant, it is being objectively aware of the qualities you own. Even if the whole world seems to be crumbling, you should be able to stand up for yourself. Strength comes from within. More over don’t forget to keep looking forward.

 

I’ve gotten caught up many times in the net of past experiences, which have made me feel depressed, and have made me unable to achieve my personal goals. The moment I learned how to embrace my path, along with its failures, I began to look forward. I imagine you will be up for more complicated situations. However, this advice is always valid. Don’t think about the mistakes you did when you were me. Instead, learn from them, the way you will.

 

Also, it is important for you to remember YOU have to do your best. I know you will remember the precious time I’ve spent being lazy or inactive. I certainly was not doing my best at that time, and this is the reason why. You should always use your full potential. Sometimes, it won’t be enough. In fact, it might not be enough, many times. The importance of it is that, at the end of the day, you will look back and feel accomplished, nevertheless. You will think to yourself at least I tried and you will feel great peace within you.

 

Finally, never forget your hunger for knowledge, which is the most important aspect of your character, and it will guide you toward your purpose. Remember not to lose your curiosity about the world. The excitement, of finding out how it works and the feeling of accomplishment when learning more each single day. Don’t ever lose the spark which makes you human.

 

Don’t become a part of the illusion that tells you that all you must do is “be born”, “study for school”, “get a job”, “work and die”. You, or we, are more than that. Don’t forget to find the courage to never be a part of it. Don’t forget that the meaning of life for you, personally, is learning. You are ever learning, evolving. When we finally become one, a lot of time will have passed. Time, the world, can change you, sometimes at your expense. I hope this letter will help you to get up again, dream again, open up to the world more, until there is no more of you. A lot of people will be there for you. It is not either black or white. But remember to live even though others don’t want to see you that way.

 

Always, live.

 

Love your young developing self, Julia

Klaudia Bufazi

Topic: Write a letter to yourself to be read in 15 years.

Dear You Granny Girl,

 

How are you?! Hmm… it’s funny you know, talking to you after so long. I mean you’re an adult, you already have a family, your own family, that one that you dreamed so damn much about. I have so many questions for you, even most of them I know the answer, so the first thing I have always wanted to ask is “are you a completed woman?!”. I hope you are because it’s me. Oh, me. I’m not and do you know why?! I’m that empty glass that is waiting to be full but no lights in the horizon. Remember that girl, me now, who always wanted to be a successful woman, different on everything, looking happy but really deep inside she was so scared of being alone, or remember that girl looks like a boy because you looked in that way in everything you did, you had no dresses until 13, and your crazy speak/expressions. I should accept that you’d better be born a boy just to live in. Where are you now?! Are you already so different from that one or you just had the mask again, like a strong person. I’m sure of something, you’ll never change the way you smile, that stupid tears you always hated when you made that big laugh. Maybe you’re a big girl with other visions but let me tell you something; whatever you do, wherever you be, do not stop being proud of who you are, cause you have big mistakes on you, really big ones, but if they wouldn’t exist you’d never be where you are now. Kill everything that makes you sad in your mind, cry, scream, shout, fight but never… stop loving yourself and believe in everything you do, believe in yourself. There’s no limit you can’t achieve, I know that, I hope you do. Maybe I’m fake in this hell reality but I’m original about my feelings as you are now. Always remember where you came from, have a really nice company with your loved ones. Break a leg,

 

Sincerely yourself,

Xoxo

University Year 1-2

Enxhi Pica

If music had flavor, what would different types of music taste like?

I love music and guess what! I love eating too! The truth is that my mom is a music teacher, so “I’ve been raised with music.” There are a lot of reasons why people listen to music and a lot of other reasons why other people like some food in particular!

 

So, back to the topic…if music had a flavor, huh?! There are so many types of music that I can’t even remember but let me start with pop music. Pop music is beautiful (actually music is beautiful itself) so it would be tasty. Thinking of pop music, I got reminded of pop corn. Yeah! Pop music would taste like popcorn. Ever seen the moment when popcorn are cooked! When they “jump”? It’s like when people hear pop music, they try to stay calm but in the end they “jump” and must keep moving to not get burned. (Still relating this to popcorn.) If we talk about the rhythm, this is it, pop music is like popcorn; but according to lyrics that I am doubting. They are salty but even sweet pop corn, just like when we like the lyrics or just like when we don’t. It’s a matter of taste now! Considering the fact that some people like sweets than salty foods, it’s up to you if you want to compare pop music with sweet popcorn, with some strawberries or caramel or with salty popcorn!

 

What to say about blues! It’s so beautiful too! Blues would taste like ice cream ! You know… when you eat ice cream your tongue freezes just like when the blues leave you speechless. You can enjoy it ‘cause no matter the flavor of the ice cream, ice cream is sweet! Just like the way ice cream is cold/iced when you eat it and then melts inside your mouth; the same happens with blues, it comes slowly cold in the beginning, but if you really listen to that music, then it becomes like a part of you. You feel it and the feeling is awesome! Blues is soft and no matter what, how cold it might look, it is very sweet and melts with your soul.

 

Rock music! When I think rock music the only thing that comes to mind is HOT! I think rock music is like you’re eating a big red chili Mexican pepper! It burns… and it burns a lot! It’s that moment when you turn as red as Mexican peppers, burn like hell, that moment when you move and suffer at the same time laugh and cry as you like it a lot damn it!

 

Classic music is royal! Listening to Beethovan or Mozart, I don’t know it’s crazy soft and beautiful and… you know what? There are some songs that just lead you to fall asleep and there are some symphonies that terrifies you and while they open your eyes! So it’s difficult to choose the taste but I would say it tastes like red wine and leave all the feelings it gives you as the behavior you have when you’re drunk. Sorry classic music, but at least wine is classic too!

 

The best of music is that it makes you shake it all but rock and roll is the one that completes this mission perfectly! It is just like a shaked soda, when you open the can! It just gets out spreading everywhere, all the bubbles, the gas and everything. It’s like it is alive! So I would consider rock and roll as an energy drink Red Bull, we fly dancing rock and roll!

 

Then there are some “modern” styles! New music like for example electro music that I would compare with the taste of fried potatoes. People of a young age loves them both.

 

If ever you heard of “Tallava”! Then you’d understand why it would taste like pudding! Pudding is sweet and it moves fast when you touch it, just like the tallava is danced, shaking a lot when you hear it!

 

And the lovely, beautiful Albanian folk music would taste like baklava, a traditional sweet! It has a lot of sugar, a lot of butter, a lot of nuts… it has a lot of “eat it and you’ll get fat” things! It’s amazing, it’s just like you’ll never get tired or bored!

 

House music would taste like turkey! We eat it for Thanksgiving day… it’s always played out at every single party!

 

…I’m feeling hungry I swear! I was thinking of music as a kitchen right now and music types were all the things that chiefs (composers, song writers and all artists) had prepared and it’s amazing! I felt so rich! I wish I could had eaten all of the meals and everything that was there, tasty and yummy, all be myself, but I can’t. Just like music is spread, I have to share everything with everyone…and I like it! I am proud, it seems like music types taste much better than the real food!

 

………Back to reality. Music tastes good. But only to my ears! If music had a flavor and every different type of music had a special taste, by now I would have been the fattest girl in the world as I would never have stopped eating to enjoy and try every single taste!

Silvi Koçiu

If music had flavor, what would different types of music taste like?

Those who love and enjoy the sweet pleasure of wine tasting know or maybe are aware of the fact but haven’t yet realized that wine is feminine, there is no way wine cannot be a woman. You can associate a fine glass of red wine with the chewy eyes of Monica Belluci and bottles of wine with the long elegant legs of Charlize Theron. Music is no exception. Music is a woman too, just like the wine. She brings joy, yet she asks deep questions. If one ever turned into palpable material, it would be nothing else but dessert.

 

One thing about pop music is that it reminds me of cupcakes; playful and easy. You can have them anywhere; they don’t require a certain mood. However, a real foodie never falls for them. Someone who has developed a certain taste, somehow expects more. More sugar, less fantastic colors. A real foodie would always fall for jazz. Jazz is America’s greatest gift to the world; crème de la crème. Jazz is the dark chocolate. Not everyone can handle such a sinister flavor, but that’s what jazz is about; it is not made for everyone only a few can understand and enjoy its bittersweet venom and beauty in melancholia.

 

If we dare to take a ride in the time carousel and meet every face of the classical music, one would have to get used to the idea that classical music has no flavor. Franz Schubert has no flavor. Tchikowsky has no flavor. Why? Since when do the greatest musicians of all time, geniuses like Mozart, evoke no flavor at all? The answer is simple, they don’t have to. One is already fulfilled when he listens to Franz Lizt. You can feel his pain and his grief in every turn and imagine him mourning over his deformed piano hand. How can an artist of such mastery whose hand has evolved into a bizarre body part because of playing the piano so often need to evoke a flavor? Lizt’s nocturnes smell like the purple irises in the Van Gogh painting. I don’t dare say more. Lizt is Lizt. Chopin is Chopin; they have already indentified themselves. I would offend them if I associated any of their master pieces to anything less heavenly.

 

Comparing or failing to find a comparison for certain types of music would go on forever. I could say Justin Bieber’s music reminds me of maple syrup; I don’t like maple syrup but that would not be crucial to the main point. No matter what, it is boring and most of all painful to abandon the divine heights of this art. Music is an expedition towards the truth; it helps us learn more about the world, about the complex human nature. Music co exists in a parallel universe; stubbornly and proudly just like a woman. We could corrupt the course of its ship, but we need the eggs of its timeless truths.

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