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Be a Winning Short Story Writer
supervisor of this event.
We asked them what this
event is about, why this is
an important event in our
school and what they
learned after this event.

By Eros Lin and Shannon Li
The Fobisia English Writing
Competition, is an event held
by the schools who are in the
Fobissea League and we interviewed a school teacher and
two students from last year
and this year for their opinion
and how they think about this.
Our school gives students an opportunity to become a short story
writer every year, which just happened few weeks ago during Languages Festival Week. It is called
the Fobisia English Writing Competition. We got an opportunity to
interview two students and Mrs.
Drag, an English teacher and the

According to Mrs. Drag,
the Fobissea English Writing Competition only
happens in South East
Asia or South Asia. She
also said, “The secondary
school here at TES is only
allowed to send one entry from the
entire school.” Each year, there is a
host school that gives out a theme
that students should write about.
This year’s topic is Taking Risks.
This is not a mandatory academic
event; however, “because it says
creative writing and imaginative
writing competition, it actually is
academic,” said Mrs. Drag.
Throughout this event, the students
would have to use language appropriately and they should be creative
and do the best they can.
Also we interviewed a Year 8 student to tell us about this writing
competition. She said she wasn’t
enthusiastic at first; however, since

Simon Schwartz
By Titouan Catrice
Simon Schwartz ist ein
deutscher Autor und Illustrator,
der zur Zeit der Berliner Mauer
in Ostdeutschland geboren
wurde.
Herr Schwartz ist während der
Woche der Muttersprachen und

des Buchfests zu unserer Schule
gekommen und hat sich mit den
Schülern der Deutschen Sektion
sowie den deutschlernenden
Schülern der Britischen Sektion
getroffen. Er hat uns sein erstes
Buch „drüben!“ vorgestellt und
auch Auszüge daraus vorgelesen.

this is compulsory work, she “will
still do the best she could, and
hopefully win the prize”. She also
said that she will be writing a detective story related to taking
risks. Some may think that it is a
good thing to try something you
don’t do often.
H3 student, Jade, says the reason
why she joined the writing competition last year is because she has
“always been enchanted by the
beauty of creative writing”. She also
wanted to challenge herself and see
if she could write a completed
piece of work. “Short stories are
not easier to write than novels
because they require you to have a
full story with characters, settings,
plot all developed,” said Jade. However, she still encourages students
to join the competition.
The aim of this article is to encourage students to attend this event.
We hope that students who joined
this competition could learn something from it and also create a good
memory, experience and record for
their life.

“Short stories
are not easier to
write than
novels because
they require
you to have a
full story with
characters,
settings, plot all
developed.”

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