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Tag: poetry

  • Trip to Weimar – Phoebe Ellis, March 2015

    Gestern habe ich Weimar zu besuchen beschlossen.

    Weimar ist nur zwanzig Minutes weg mit dem Zug von Jena und es ist eine kleine Stadt berühmt für die beliebteste Dichtern Goethe und Schiller. Beide Goethe und Schiller haben, während ihrer Lebens, in Weimar gewohnt. Also habe ich die Stadt besucht, um mehr über die Geschichte zu lernen. Es war sehr kulturell und auch ein sehr schönes Tag. Ich bin auch in dem Park spazieren und genoß ein Schokoladeneis!

    Weimar Town Hall

    ENGLISH TRANSLATION:

    Yesterday I decided to visit Weimar.

    Weimar is only 20 minutes away by train from Jena and is a small town well-known for the popular poets Goethe and Schiller. During their lives, both Goethe and Schiller lived, at some point, in Weimar. Therefore I visited the town in order to learn a little more about the history. It was a very cultural day, and also beautiful weather! I also went for a walk in the park and enjoyed a chocolate ice-cream!

  • Queries…!

    I get asked all sorts of bizarre questions whilst I am here in Pakistan. For example ‘What kind of face cream do you use?’, ‘Is London near the UK?’ and ‘Where you ever any good at cricket?’ I always try and answer these questions to the best of my knowledge (it’s Nivea, just in case you were wondering) but besides simply providing a ‘stock response’ I am always grateful for the opportunity it presents to engage in a deeper conversation, as it exposes me to the different ways in which people use language. On that subject I wrote a poem today (in Urdu) for somebody’s birthday card. It seemed to go down well, in spite of my rejection of several grammatical rules that I am very familiar with. What is art without a bit of creative rebellion?!