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Diving for Pearls

You take a deep breath, letting the air fill every crevice of your lungs. Holding your breath now you dive. Your body cuts through the water like a warm knife through butter. Deeper you dive. Your eyes wide open you see everything around you in shimmering blue green…

Describe what you see, feel, taste and hear as you journey down into the depths of the South Sea waters to reach the prized pearls. What does the shell of the oyster feel like? What colour are the pearls? What creatures do you see around you? What does the plant life look like?

Finally, write about how your body feels as you surface.

Country Drive

On a country drive one afternoon, you come across a little antique store tucked away in a quiet cove. You find a beautiful Victorian era brooch, and immediately feel you have seen it somewhere before. You decide to buy the brooch, despite the steep price tag.

Turning the jewellery over in your hand you see faint initials engraved. What happens next?

School Bully

You are an unusually mild-mannered individual who finds it difficult dealing with confrontation. Your 7 year old daughter comes home from school in tears. She is being bullied. Through the tears you manage to find out that she has been slapped and her hair pulled. You immediately call the class teacher (who is also the Head Teacher) to see if she knows anything about the incident. Whilst you are speaking to her, your daughter tells you that the bully isn’t another child but the very class teacher to whom you are speaking. How do you feel? How do you deal with the situation?

Balloon Ride

You have decided to try to overcome your fear of heights by taking a balloon ride over the South Downs. It is a beautiful, clear, calm day but your stomach is in knots. Describe your ride. What do you see? What do you hear? What do you smell? How do you feel?

Train Journey

You are alone on a train traveling to New York City. It’s close to midnight. You are approached by a woman who seems friendly enough. She asks to join you as she is traveling alone. During the course of your conversation you find out that ’she’ is really a ‘he’. Your companion tells you about his childhood in Brooklyn, where he lived with his alcoholic mother in a brothel. How do you react? What do you feel? What do you do?