Week 9: Feeling under the weather

By Lucy Tirahan

Our creative class has now started up again and it's great to see some new faces as well as people from previous classes. As always I like to take topics which are relevant to the students and so the theme for week 9 was 'Feeling Under the Weather'. With the recent event of Storm Doris I thought it would be interesting for the class to write diary entries from the perspective of a storm. We looked at different perspectives in depth during week 2, so I thought it would be interesting to see how they could implement this knowledge into this particular task. I hope you enjoy reading them and look forward to the rest of the pieces coming in 2017. 

Dear Diary,

I was scouting the area, trying to find prey and divulge them into nothingness… The naïve children were flaunting around foolishly- unaware of their devastating fate. I didn’t let on about the fact I was about to up rise but I attempted to trick them into thinking they were safe; for now at least… Of course I was agitated of waiting but I knew it was intelligent of me to not make my move yet; it was in my best interest for them to die with nothing but a thought of “What even happened?” The children started to leave which was perfect because I was now at the brink of depression and now I was going to finally make my move…

There was a strike of wind to get them ready- I needed to test their strength to see how powerful the shock should be, usually I would just go full out and penetrate them with all my power and all that would be left is a speck of dirt, however today I was feeling generous.

Rishan


Dear Diary,
 
I was feeling very mad because I was very sick yesterday and all my friends went to the wind park without me and I got so angry I decided to create a storm for the people living on the earth. I decided to fly down to people and I span and blew them away I had very mixed emotions at this point because I was feeling agitated but devastated at the same time. I decided to blow harder and the wind rose really high. It grew higher and higher and it blew so fast.
I was still feeling under the weather so I decided to carry the storm on for the rest of the day. The little humans were blown away in the cold and they were freezing and could barely walk. I saw their hair flying all over the place.
Bye Diary, Arwa

Arwa

Dear diary, 

At this point I’m thinking what the point, I know what you’re thinking just a bad day, well no it’s the worst day in the history of my hurricane days. Today I gave as much wind as a hundred windmills could give practically pushing the tiny humans off their feet. This made me feel better for a few seconds but never really warmed me up inside it almost made me feel worse than I already was. Over time I got more and angrier and I didn’t want to be angry nor be happy.
I looked down and saw the little humans happy all gathered around with their friends but I was up here all alone unhappy blowing wind at them to ruin their fun as I didn’t have any. My heart felt like a huge hole had been dug inside and my soul had turned dark cold stone dark, I wondered why I was feeling this way, I wanted a hug hole to come and suck me up, I hated my life up in the sky it was sometimes so brilliant and sometimes it could be terrible.

Samira

Dear diary,
                   I wasn’t feeling very well the other day, there was simply too much evaporation, I couldn’t control it and I became a storm. I wanted to say “hi” to the birds and trees in California like usual. But they were all afraid, I wondered why and moved away. The echo of breaking news in America said that my name was “Doris”, I tell you they weren’t even close! My name is Ticute because when I was born I was the tiniest little cloud and my mum thought I was the cutest of them all. Upset I ran to England, to the docking bay of Blackpool. They called me “Doris” and said my winds were fierce and strong. So I strolled across England, in a sombre manner. I don’t know why they are complaining when it’s my feelings they’re hurting. I will talk to you again dearest diary, when I am a cloud again.
Love,
            Ticute 
Harsimran

Dear Diary,
                         Today I realised that I could make everyone’s life- hell. With my strong windy fatalities, I could hit them with my robust blows that will destroy them. I wanted to destroy the world, people felt scares and intimidated of me- my life couldn’t get any better! I chose today to be the day; as, today is my birthday!  My name is Doris, every day I feel that people aren’t scared of me, not even one bit. My friends (the windy family) have come to see me as well as my parents and my brother. The windy family like the idea of having a life without humans, just us in one place. We plan to destroy every living thing on the planet.

Sanjana

Dear diary,

I feel so agitated right now to an extent where I feel like ripping the living soul out of any object or being around me. Those heartless pea sized humans and their gadgetry worthless thingamabobs! Those things cause so MUCH gases and heat and I just can’t endure it, I have to form, I just can’t stop forming no matter how hard I try…
No, don’t get me wrong I’m not favouring humans, I try and make sure they suffer the most to get a piece of their own medicine. Though I solely worry about the allies of the weather clan, dear friends of nature, the plants. Unfortunately, they also have to go through so much purely because of the gadgetry chaos those humans have ruthlessly arisen, they have to experience hardship. How long is thing going to stretch on for?
Anyway, I’m going to show them whose boss, even though those humans think so much of themselves…catch you after I’ve created destruction!
The wind…

Ayesha

Dear Diary,
It feels so good. People always say I’m horrible and they curse the day I was born, and they may think I don’t care but I do. Storms are living breathing things we breathe in hot air, blow out cold air and travel the world. I used to feel sorry for the people who were terrorised by me, but they insult me so now I destroy everything they worked on, everything they love and I DON’T CARE. Now I only feel power and you will forever feel pain and suffering.

Manav

Dear Diary,

This week has been the best for me by far! But, it hasn’t all been great. Sun tried to get on the scene quite a lot too when really, I wanted Rain to show up. Rain said she was too busy battling with Snow over who gets to take over Hayes when she was oblivious to the fact that I needed her help. Without Rain, I haven’t achieved a lot-I only managed to knock down a few trees but only killed one lady from Wolverhampton! My parents, Tornado and Hurricane, have really not been proud of me lately and they said I was underachievingL.  I wish Rain was here; my life would be so much easier.
Anyway, I have to go; my next stop is Hounslow and it is quite far away from where I live. Wish me luck!
-Doris

Riya