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Winning Essays 2014 6th-9th Forms
TIRANA
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.