2nd Writing Contest (JUNE)

[Andrea]

I love languages too, I wanna learn French, Romanian, German and maybe Greek. Wow, I'm like on the other side of the world, it's really late here.

[Andrea]

@Chris I know the name for those in spanish, umm hojas de parra? how do you say that in english?

[Chris]

oh grape leaves!!! The hot or cold ones?

[Andrea]

hot, I tasted them a long time ago but they were good. Is carne tartara (sorry, again in spanish) also Lebanese?

[Rea]

I'd like to learn Romanian too, at least some basic Romanian, but apparently it's quite difficult because of the different sounds they use!

For me, it's German, Spanish, Italian as most important. I've wanted to learn Hungarian since I was 5, so add that to the list! Ancient Greek just for kicks. Then less important but still interesting, Norwegian and Romanian. I like the sound of Russian too, but the idea of learning cyrillic is a bit daunting.

I've only ever eaten Lebanese food once... it was little balls that were apparently made from cow brains! It was surprisingly good.

[Chris]

YUmmmmmm!!! I love the hot grape leaves!!! Delicious! And I think carne tartara is Lebanese cause you find it in every lebanese restaurant.

[Chris]

@ Rea. I have never tasted cow brains and never will. There is also a lebanese dish that my sister likes but I hate: small intestines with meat balls in it!!

[Andrea]

I haven't had Lebanese food in like forever. Do you guys like Mexican food cause i love it! And no, burritos are not Mexican, never had a burrito in my life! okok gotta go to bed, night! Well, morning to you guys.

[Chris]

Good night Andrea!!! BTW I love tacos and fajitas

[Rea]

I didn't know what it was until after I'd eaten it! I don't think I'd ever eat it again.

I like what we consider to be Mexican food! :p Like chili con carne, which probably isn't Mexican at all! But it's still yum.

G'night! hehe.

[Andrea]

Yeah Rea, chili isn't mexican either. Mexican food is tacos al pastor, enchiladas, chilaquiles, enfrijoladas, cochinita pibil and we put many kind of salsas in that food like chipotle, jalapeño, habanero, etc.

[Chris]

I love mexican slsas!!! :D Is fajita mexican?

[Andrea]

ummm...kind of but not really. It's not one of the common mexican food.

[Chris]

Oh! Really!! Anyway I like mexican food :D

[Andrea]

lmao and I like Lebanese fod.

[Chris]

haha!!! LOL

[Andrea]

:p

[Rea]

We eat lots of enchiladas. There's a Mexican restaurant in Geneva. Whenever we go to Geneva we eat there, it's so yum!

[Chris]

You live next to Geneva!! When I travel I always spend at least a day in Geneva. I have a house nearby: in "Divonne" if you know it!

[Rea]

Divonne-les-bains? I see the sign every time we drive to Lausanne. We live in Annecy, which you probably know as well.

[Andrea]

Never been to Europe :(

[Rea]

Don't worry, I've never been to the Americas either! Well, I have, but it was only a layover in LA and they kept us in the airport by sticking armed guards on all potential exits from our lounge!

My dad was just in Mexico. I don't know which city he was in, but he said it was bad. Complete control had been taken by one of the drug cartels and they'd station "watchers" around the town to make sure no one from other cartels tried to come onto their turf!

[Chris]

Rea wrote: "Divonne-les-bains? I see the sign every time we drive to Lausanne. We live in Annecy, which you probably know as well."

Yes in Divonne les bains!!!hehe lol!!! You live in Annecey I went there once it is magnificent!!! WAWWWW!!! With the sea...!!! Hehe!!

[Rea]

Yes, I love Annecy. It's such a pretty town! :) It's a lake :p But it's a very nice lake, I agree. With the very pretty La Tournette watching over it.

[Chris]

Yup!!! Really WOW!!! I loved that town but too bad I just went once!

[Andrea]

Rea wrote: "Don't worry, I've never been to the Americas either! Well, I have, but it was only a layover in LA and they kept us in the airport by sticking armed guards on all potential exits from our lounge!

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Yeah drug dealing is kind of a real problem right now but it depends on the city you're in, where I live it's not that bad.

[Chris]

I am going to post the results here:
Here are the results from the lowest to the winner:


4th Place:(view spoiler)[ Gauri with 13/20: I loved the idea but it wasn't really set for this assignment. The assignment was hard. But careful with the sentence construction errors and the mix of tenses. Will be better next time ;) (hide spoiler)]


3rd place: (view spoiler)[ Jenny with 15/20. It was super to read and very nice but careful with the mixture of tenses and the punctuation!!! But I thought some paragraphs were too short and could have needed development. (hide spoiler)]

AND NOW... 1st Place: (view spoiler)[ Andrea with 18/20 just be careful with the grammar and mixture of tenses, Rea spotted them too so she could help you, I'm not as good as she is ;). But I loved the plot, the idea of letters and the undetermined ending!! SUPER! YOU WON Congrats. (hide spoiler)]

And for the second place we know it now it's: (view spoiler)[ Rea with 16/20 I loved your story and wanted more and more but I would have loved more flashbacks about the past. What I mean I would have loved you to add passages set in a past time to the time of you story! Next time. Anyway you gave a chance to someone else to win, now write and claim your throne back :P... (hide spoiler)]


Bravo everyone!!! I enjoyed every entry to the last word!!