At school I sometimes do an exercise with the children where you recount a story or an experience in 20 words or phrases and then you have to reduce that from 20 to 10, and then finally whittle it down to only 5 words/phrases that sum up the story/experience. You have to be quick and go with the first words and not think too much about it. So Captain and I did one the last morning of our seven day drive around Japan. I’ll do his first and then mine 🙂
Captain:
20 – mountains, Totty, jungle, rain, mosquitoes, sea, awake, driving, road stations, steep roads, lay-by, fridge, tired, itchy, Brian, packing, flat laptop battery, excited, noises, sweat.
10 – mountains, Totty, jungle, rain, mosquitoes, sea, driving, road stations, flat laptop battery, sweat.
5 – mountains, Totty, mosquitoes, sea, sweat
Clare:
20 – mosquitoes, sunburn, red wine, windy roads, mountains, Hydrangeas, greenery, service stations, sore thighs, tea, heat, friendliness, border collies, sea, beach bums, eagles, risotto, nibbles, driving, petrol
10 – mosquitoes, sunburn, windy roads, mountains, greenery, service stations, friendliness, sea, eagles, nibbles
5 – mosquitoes, sunburn, mountains, greenery, sea
So there you go…you can take the teacher out of the classroom but can you stop her trying to teach?!