söndag 23 september 2007

Home sweet home

There is something special with the place where you are born. There are some kind of invisible ties that binds you to the place (or country) where you are born.

I have never lived abroad for any longer period of time, I have only been abroad on shorter vacations. I love going at there broad, to see and experiencenew things, but there is something special with the homecoming, something that is even better then going abroad. I could emagine to live in another country for a couple years while studing or working, but at the end I still would still want to move back home.

It is hard to explain what it is that ties me to my homecountry, what it is that is so special about Sweden. It is not just one thing, it is a lot of diffrent things and emotions that will always make me feel at home in my corner of the world. For an example, one thing that makes this country special is the diffrent seasons of the year, the way that the seasons influence the apperance of the nature. In the summer when the trees in the forest is standing tall swaing in the wind, and all you can her is the silence and the wind, and maybe a bird somewhere high up in a tree. Or the fields that during the summer is coverd with flowers, where you earley in the morning can see a deer or a moose eating it's breakfeast. In the winter when a thick quilt is covering the ground, everything is quiet and the sun shines on the snow that sparkles like diamonds. Or when the wind has whirl around the snow so that it looks like the ground is coverd with whipped cream. When the sun is setting and it looks like the sky is burning. When I think of these things I feel safe and calm.

These are just a couple of things that I would not chang for anything. When I look at all these things that are so special to me, I ask myself why whould I want to give this up when it's all that makes me happy, that makes me feel safe, that makes me feel like I belong somewhere.

I have to agree with Dorethy from The Wizzerd of Oz, "There is no place like home".

1 kommentar:

Writing Assignments sa...

The structure is clear and logical. You begin with some general comments about the importance of "home" and then move on to discuss your own feelings and experiences. At the end, you link your concluding thoughts to your opening thoughts in a way that ties your piece together very clearly and neatly. Your main problem structure-wise is cosmetic, and something that can easily be mended: you need proper paragraph divisions. If indentation is hard to manage in this blog format, try leaving a blank line instead.

Language-wise, I have a few pointers for you:
-You need to look a bit at subject-verb agreement: ("fields...is", "ties that binds you", The trees in the forest is standing tall").
-Avoid comma splices (=satsradning).
-Spelling! ("then" versus "than", "it's" versus "its" etc).
-Don't overuse the definite article ("The appearance of the nature"). Basically, the definite article tends to be left out when you are talking about something in the generic sense, as with "nature" here: You're talking about nature in general, so "the nature" is wrong. Use the definite article only to indicate specificity.

/Teacher