"S.W." 6

"You're told to write a composition in order to make your mark a bit less shameful. However, a group of Russian scientists found that if you don't, the world is going to implode. You know they are serious because they're Russian. The future is in your hands!"

Somebody once asked me "hey, how are you feeling?"

That question, with all its simplicity and the fairest of intentions, submerged my consciousness into a state of confusion and reflection, in which the word "feel" constantly gained and lost an enormous quantity of obscure meanings, where everything I could think of about my current state flowed inside my head like a raging current in the middle of the ocean willing to merge with the air and reach the wind above.

Words came and went from my thought like nervous rabbits exploring an infinity of new holes to stay in, always coming back in the form of a possible response, without success. I didn't want to say anything too shallow, but I didn't want to refer to Descartes' concept of divinity either.

So I looked at them, opened my mouth, and, with a big smile, I said:

"I am the Queen of the Universe. The waves part, they engulf me and the water is warm."

I think I might have scared them a bit.

S.W. 5

"You suspect a friend of yours suffers from nomophobia but doesn't want to accept it. Write a conversation with him/her in which you explain why you think so and suggest possible measures to help him/her overcome this addiction."

ME. Hello!

THAT PERSON. Hi!

ME. I don't want to sound nosy, but, are you okay? You look anxious.

THAT PERSON. It's nothing, don't worry. I left my cell at home, and it concerns me. I might be missing something important!

ME. Oh, are you waiting for an important call? What is it?

THAT PERSON. I don't know yet! I have to check!

ME. Wow, you're trembling! Is everything fine?

THAT PERSON. Maybe Stacy has sent me a message!

ME. Stacy? But you hate Stacy! Even the stray cat next street hates Stacy!

THAT PERSON. Who cares about Stacy? It's rude not to respond!

ME. Whoever it is who texts you, I'm sure they can understand you might not be able to answer for a moment!

THAT PERSON. But everyone is going to hate me!

ME. No, they won't! And if they do, then they can't have been very good friends either way!

THAT PERSON. But I don't want to be alone!

ME. You won't be, I'm here. Come with me, we'll have ice cream and discuss about the role of means of production within socialism, it's going to be fine!

THAT PERSON. O... Okay.

S.W. 4

"Write a letter to an imaginary pen pal from a very different country. Tell him/her about the most common pets in the country where you live and the problems and advantages of them. Ask him/her about similar questions in his/her own place. Express opinions, suggest ideas..."

Hi! It's me, H!

I'm sorry I couldn't write to you lately, we had some problems here, our cat Iris was sick and we were very worried about her!

Speaking about cats, we have four more now! Tigreta got children, we named them Petitó, Tarat, Loki and Yuichi! I named Yuichi after you because he's always so nice and loving, and he somehow likes to listen to the crazy things I say, so I looked at him and said, "oh, my God! It's Yuichi!"

I'd say, though, that the most common pets around here are dogs. We don't really like them in my family, we rather find them to be stinky and annoying, and we wouldn't be happy about waking up with the floor full of dog poop!

I was wondering, are cats popular there in Japan? I once saw in a video that there are cafes with cats so they accompany the clients during their stay! I found it to be an amazing idea, Catalonia should embrace cat cafes!

So, do you have any pets? I'd love to read from you, it's been long!

Meow,

H

S.W. 3

"Learning English my way"

Once upon a time, there was a young girl willing to learn a foreign language from scratch. She wasn't very motivated, and she thought of herself as lacking of the resources the task before her eyes required.

Consequently, she proposed to herself gaining a motivation source as her first goal. So she imaginated her ideal man, with all his greatnesses, but with one downfall: the only language he could ever speak or understand was that which she was to learn.

Once she was motivated for her objective, or maybe just aroused by her creation, she was suddenly enlightened by her possibilities. As the feeling of helplessness that had overwhelmed her at the beginning nimbly dashed towards the distance, she became able to identify one crucial tool for her mission: the Internet.

Hence, with the help of an app called Duolingo, she gained the force and inspiration to finally proceed on her purpose.

And that is the story of how I started learning Italian, because I don't remember how I did it with English.

S.W. 2

"Write about the influence of psychologists in our society. Are they well considered? Could they be the answer to our psychological necessities?"

My brother is studying psychology. It's been his passion for most of his life, but the truth is that he's had to work really hard to get as far as he is and he's still far from being done, even if he's just two months away from getting his degree.

Our mother loves to help others. She's a caring person who enjoys listening to others and, according to herself, she's got a supernatural talent: she can read others' past, present and future in cards, so others come to her as a listener and foreteller.

However, though I do not intend to diminish my mother's labour on putting others on ease, I do see a problem in it having a higher social acceptance and credibility than my brother's, which is sustained by centuries of research, review and correction. Psychology, like democracy, is one of those things which only become useful if the society they're in is mature enough.

S.W. 1

"Divorce rates are increasing in Europe. Does this mean that marriage is in crisis? are you in favour or against marriage? Write a letter to the editor of the local newspaper explaining your opinion."

Flagellum Kinetoplast

The Daily Freakout

25 Triana Park

Heathergrad, Furry Federation

Dear editor or editors of The Daily Freakout;

I'm sending this letter as an avid letter of your newspaper with the intention of discussing or at least giving my view on the topic adressed last Wednesday by the writer and columnist Amoeba Hypotenuse in its paper edition. In the article she wrote, she described the decline of marriage and the increasing recurrence of divorces in Europe as "a major crisis that can only be compared to the Holocaust."

Without passing judgement on whether or not Mrs. Hypotenuse belongs in a psychiatric hospital, and with all my education towards her readers and followers, I must clarify that a much wider view on the human causes and consequences of an event should be required before comparing it to mass genocide. If I'm to say, our society is evolving into a much more diverse state in which people are pursuing and following their own aspirations beyond the perishing imposition of anti-human religious values, often getting to personal and individual –and therefore heterogeneous– view on what kind of relationship is wanted, sometimes defying the traditional concept of romantic monogamous love.

This societal transition is, at the same time, leading to a change of view towards traditional concepts like marriage or the permanence of romantic relationship, which are being questioned and no longer taken as an absolute truth.

However, that is just my personal opinion. I think those changes are something we, as people living in different spots of the enormous diversity of our species, who want freedom to be achieved, should be celebrating.

Thank you so much for your time and attention.

Sincerely yours,

H Y

Leader of the Flying Oranges Union.