It is hot! Oops, it is a winter’s story, isn’t it? So, it is cold!
Christmas is getting close and I have decided to visit my mother and all my family in Bohemia. It takes ten hours to arrive there by train and this awful weather doesn’t help, but suddenly, some thing “heats me” a little.
- Good morning Miss …?
- Margaret Smith and I am not Miss.
- Oh… is so cold here isn’t it?
- Maybe be hotter if you keep on flirting with me. And unexpectedly…a man shows up…her fat, ugly husband (I supposed)!
- Are you fine, dear?, he said, looking furiously at me.
- Don’t worry my dear brother. This gentleman will not bother you anymore. - Ah-ha! So, he is your brother, eh? If so, I dare you to a sword duel!, said I with the security of a young boy of eighteen who doesn’t have the notion of danger at all.
- A duel? Do you know who I am? - No, why? Should I know?
- Of course! I’m the well-known Smith, Peter Smith! - Well-known? I’ve never heard of you before…Why are you famous? Is it because your ugliness?! And that’s when the duel starts…and now I already know why that ugly man is known. This so-called man was a tough adversary… Tougher than I thought, indeed…But that could also have a good side…the lady’s worrying. I don’t know how or why…I just know that today, me and Margaret are together in Bohemia, near my mum’s house. Me incapable of walking and she taking care of me (but Margaret is not too happy about it). Perhaps this beautiful “woman of the train” who is here with me feels guilty for her brother’s actions…poor her…but good for me!...
Written by:
Joana Silva (http://www.thelastbutnottheleast.blogspot.com/) Raquel Alecrim (http://www.ripatasirana.blogspot.com/) |
Joint writing! A very good idea. Have you tried starting a piece of writing each and then swopping to continue the pieces of work, as we did in class?
BTW, Bohemia is wonderful!
Allyson