Walk into the Beginning...

 Another writing exercise from my "Teaching English to Adolescents" course. For this one, we were asked to go outside and stroll around campus for 15 minutes. It was dark and cold, too! 

So, during this wandering around, we had to "collect" five items or images and commit them to memory. I cheated and created a memo on my phone! :)

Once, we came back to the classroom, we had to free write using all of the five items if possible. Below is what I came up with. Can you guess my five items?

It wasn’t something that I would normally notice, but something made me look up that day to notice the sign. It was diamond shaped, yellow with black lettering—like any other pedestrian crossing sign really. Except, this one was turned the wrong way, almost as if we were meant to walk down the road. As I stared at it, my mind flittered with thoughts of reasons for the sign being turned: maybe they had changed the direction of the road; is it possible to simply move a road in any way, but then why not change the sign too? May-be some idiot kid moved the sign, I finally thought dismissing the stupid sign. 

Just as I turned away to continue on my way to class, I heard a loud, piercing shriek. ‘What the hell?’ I thought as I whipped my head around to look up at the large skeletal tree behind me. As my eyes followed up the paths of its leaf-less branches, I saw it perched at the very top. “A crow,” I breathed softly. “Or a raven. A bad omen”. I looked up again at the turned sign. I shuddered once and shook my head. "I should probably lay off the Edgar Allen Poe for a while,” I chuckled and finally went on my way to class.

Could you figure out my five items? No...well, they were:

• A dark path I couldn't see the end of.
• Glaring car headlights
• rows of bright street lamps
• skeleton like trees
• pedestrian sign turned wrong way
• scary ass black bird

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Laters,
Tuma