Brown Mystery Box:

rhinoceros, pearls, a baby hand print, a cabriolet, a gold medal a pair of sunglasses with flowers on their spectacle arms

which can be their relationship?

could you imagine to whom they belong?

is their owner one or more?

how is / are their owner(s)?

if I had to write this story I would write something about Salvador Dali’s life!!!!..

this is what these objects remind me of.... :) (Assimina)

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Signs of a life …

Anna walked quickly towards the station. She carried a big suitcase and a handbag and had the tickets in her right hand. Suddenly she realized she had forgotten the brown box in the café.But she had no time to go back and fetch it. Those cherished souvenirs would be lost forever. Amy’s first drawing. Her dearest daughter, Amy. She remembered the light in her face when she gave mummy her first Christmas present: her hand print on a white postcard. Her husband, Harry, had thought she would like it. And she was blissfully happy. Magical moment. (by Isabel Cotillo from Mallorca)

And her mum’s amazing pearl necklace! She had

received them on her graduation day...She

had always had such a difficult

relationship with her mother, who was so

egocentric and narcissistic, a sort of actress always

trying to be in the limelight. Her mother had never really

appreciated her and showed it openly. In her opinion, Anna was

not gracious and clever enough, but that day things were different

and her mum was so proud of her, she had seen a shimmer of love in her glance

...

She looked at her watch and started to run. She was late and afraid of losing t the train. When she got on the train, the station master had just started blowing his whistle. The doors were closing but fortunately she made it. She got in a compartment and sat down. She was breathless and confused. She felt desperate: she started to think of her precious brown box. All her life most important moments were in that box. The memory of the little brown rhinoceros brought her back to.... (by Silvana Turcinovich Petercol, Croatia)

…her childhood. It was Christmas Eve, when her best friend in kindergarten gave her this little cute rhinoceros. Tommy chose this instead of a teddy bear because it had a unique gift. This rhinoceros could understand what a kid thought if he embraced it. It could guess if a kid was sad, annoyed, excited, happy, bored or tired. Then it could change color. Grey for sadness, red for excitement, yellow for annoyance, orange for joy, purple for boredom and brown for tiredness. Anna was really happy when Tommy gave his present to her and the rhinoceros became orange. It was so strange to see a rhinoceros change colours...Anna thought that she did not need anything else now. But for the future... she was dreaming of having a cabriolet.....

so as to travel all around the world. Anna needs a red and fast car like in the movies. Her deepest desire is to become F1 pilot. And maybe sometime she could win a gold medal. But this is not the goal or the purpose. Anna is a very kind girl that wants to provide people in need with medicine, food, education. So Anna wants the money and the gold medal to provide altruistic help volunteeringly. Anna believes that children that are born in less privileged families

should have the same rights to education, health, water, food. When Anna remembers her childhood was a happy kid with warm clothes, a lot of toys and maybe some useless accessories like a pair of sunglasses with flowers on their spectacle arms, and a family to protect her. (by Stella Pitarokili, Greece)

However, you have to notice that this couple banal spectacles was important for her: it was the glasses from him, her boyfriend, was the first gift of her great childhood love. As for those around her, yes, it is something common! But for her that was a subject of great importance...!

(by Mirela Tanc-Romania)

She had studied hard and succeeded in finishing the university. She was a doctor! Yes, now she was a doctor!!! Since she knew English very well, she had applied for a scholarship at the hospital: a research on cancer. The task was very difficult; there were different steps to pass: 1) a pre-selection test; 2) a report on recent discoveries in the biomedical field; 3) a personal project to treat scabies in developing countries. Anna had passed every step, one after the

other, and a dream began to take shape in her mind: she wanted to candidate for the Nobel and

create an Onlus to help children in Madagascar. It wasn’t easy, her task was a very demanding

one. But don’t ask me how, she obtained the “Golden Medal”. Another goal had been reached.

Now with the money received, she started to think to her Onlus and the children in

Madagascar... (by Enza Martorana, Sicily)

Elder Blue Writers:

Mirela Tanc (Romania)

Pitarokili Stella (Greece)

Provvidenza (Enza) Martorana (Italy)

Silvana Turcinovich Petercol (Croatia)

Isabel Cotillo (Spain)

A scenario based on a collaborative idea of mystery boxes on eTwinning’s Learning Event: Creative Writing in

Etwinning – a Hands on Experience, 15-23 December 2012