CREATIVE PENS
A magazine containing some of Mirleft Access students' creative writings. A magazine containing some of Mirleft Access students' creative writings.
Mirleft Access Center CREATI E Lycée qualifiant Youssef ben Tachfine 2014– 2015 1
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Mirleft<br />
Access Center<br />
CREATI E<br />
Lycée qualifiant Youssef ben Tachfine<br />
2014– 2015<br />
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The Story of my Name<br />
"My name is Karima. It's also one of the positive adjectives to<br />
describe people’s personality. Karima is an Arabic name which<br />
means « generous ». It's a lovely name. I like it very much. It<br />
was my grandmother who gave me that name because she loved<br />
it. My mom also loved my name because it was not popular<br />
in the town where I was born. There are many famous people<br />
who have the same name as I am.. Karima Skali is one of them.<br />
She is a great Moroccan singer. That is the story behind my<br />
name."<br />
Karima Ngou<br />
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Mom<br />
Souk : Oh, my God ! I’m so tired and exhausted ! I’ve been cleaning all the day..<br />
all the week… all the month… all the year !! I’ve been cleaning nonstop all my<br />
life !!!What a life ! I’mjust fed up with cleaning ( She throws the broom) Well, I<br />
need to have some rest !! ( switches TV on and starts watching) yes yes yes …<br />
my favorite show. I totally forgot about it !<br />
( talking to her daughter) hey, you ! What are you doing there standing like<br />
that?<br />
Fatima : ( texting someone on her phone) I’m just looking through the window<br />
!<br />
Souk : OK, OK go on go on ( watching TV) Hey you come on ! No No No it’s …<br />
pass the ball !<br />
Fatima : Mom, there’s a man out there !<br />
Souk : ( watching TV) So what ? Is that a problem ?<br />
Fatima : No, but he’s trying to open your car !<br />
Souk : What ? go go<br />
Fatima : he’s opening the door of your car !<br />
Souk : What are you saying ? yes go go you stupid !<br />
Fatima : He’s taking the CD player of your car !!<br />
Soukaina : No, no ! you stupid<br />
Fatima : He’s putting in it in his bag !<br />
Souk : What are you talking about ? Don’t you see I’m watching football !<br />
Fatima : Well, I’m just telling you about your car.<br />
Soukaina : It’s OK . You are getting worried about nothing<br />
Fatima : ( Screamin) Mom !<br />
Souka : What ?<br />
Fatima : He’s starting your car !<br />
Souka : Who is ?<br />
Fatima : Him !<br />
Souk : Who ?<br />
Fatima : He’s driving away your car !<br />
Soukaina : ( moves towards Fatima) Why didn’t you tell me , you stupid<br />
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Fatima : I told you , I was telling you and I’m telling you now, but you weren’t<br />
listening !<br />
Souk : Get out of my face, you stupid girl ! ( throws a shoe at Fatima but she<br />
breaks TV)<br />
Fatima : Oh, my God ! you broke the TV ! He’s gonna kill you !<br />
Souk : Oh ! it’s gonna be the last day in my life ! He’s gonna kill me ! ( addressing<br />
the audience) Good bye !<br />
Fatima : He’s coming ! Get ready !!!<br />
Kenza enters on stage<br />
Kenza : Hi sweetheart ! Is there anything to eat ? I’m so hungry ! I’m starving !<br />
Soukaina : Oh yeah, I’ve cooked a delicious TV.. ah I mean a delicious tagine<br />
for you.<br />
Kenza : Oh great ! Now let me relax a bit and watch the news on TV.<br />
Fatima / Soukaina: No, no..<br />
Fatima : Let’s go too the dinning room. The TV is ready… I mean the football is<br />
ready.. no I mean the fish tagine is ready !<br />
Kenza : Hey what’s wrong with both you ? Are you OK ? ( She pushes both of<br />
them and saw the broken TV) Oh, my God ! Oh, my TV ! Oh, my boken TV !<br />
( addressing both of them) Who broke my TV ? Tell me !<br />
Soukaina/Fatima : ( Terrified) Not me ! Not me !<br />
Kenza : What does that mean ? Not me not me !!!!! Who broke my TV ? Tell<br />
me ! You don’t want to tell me. It’s OK. ( calming down and smiling) Actually,<br />
this is not a big deal. I was thinking of buying a new smart FULL HD TV.<br />
Fatima : Oh, really ? I’m gonna play a lot of games on the new TV. Thanks<br />
mom.<br />
Kenza : What do you mean « thanks mom » ?<br />
Soukaina : Well, darling. It was me who broke the Tgaine.. I mean the TV.<br />
Kenza : Oh really ! that’s perfect ! ( becoming mad again) I’m gonna KILL You,<br />
you stupid woman !<br />
Fatima : Ohn please dad ! Stop it ! She broke the TV because she ….<br />
( Soukaina interrupts Fatima)<br />
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Soukaina : I broke the Tagine .. I mean I boke the TV because … It was just an<br />
accident.. in fact, I’m pregnant !<br />
Kenza : What ? pregnant ?<br />
Soukaina: Not really!<br />
Kenza: What do you mean?<br />
Soukaina : Well, I just want to make you laugh a little.<br />
Kenza : Make me laugh ! Well, but me too I’m gonna make you cry a lot !<br />
Come here you stupid woman !!!<br />
Fatima : You need to explain to him.<br />
Soukaina : Ok ; I’ll explain . You know I was just watching my favorite team<br />
playing against Barca.<br />
Fatima : and they lost ! Messi scored two goals !<br />
Soukaina : Who told you ?<br />
Fatima : My boyfriend texted me.<br />
Soukaina/ Kenza : What !<br />
Fatima : I mean my best girlfriend.<br />
Kenza : I’m gonna kill both of you !<br />
Soukaina : I broke the TV because someone stole my car and I was so angry. !<br />
Kenza : Do YOU have a car ?<br />
Fatima : She means our family car.<br />
Kenza : What does that mean ?<br />
Soukaina : I mean your car, darling.<br />
Kenza : What ? My TV is broken and my car is stolen !!! I’m gonna kill both of<br />
you !( beating his wife)<br />
Fatima : ( calling 911) Please, is this 911 ? We have a fight here. Where ? at<br />
Zalagh hotel. Please come quickly. What ? with which hand he is beating her ?<br />
Is that a question ? stop it! He’s beating her with the right hand.. noo with the<br />
left hand. With both hands Now, he’s kicking her ! Come quick ! He’s gonna kill<br />
my mom !<br />
End.<br />
Fatima Elgouid,<br />
Kenza Elkodesi<br />
Soukaina Elouzzani<br />
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A Sad Memory<br />
There are lots of important and memorable events in my life. But the drowning<br />
of my cousin was the most important and painful event I will never<br />
forget. I still remember the time when that tragedy occurred. It was in the<br />
summer of 2011 and I was 11 years old then. It was a hot and sunny day,<br />
so my brother, cousins and I decided to go to the beach. We picked up our<br />
stuff and went to the beach. On our way to the beach, we were playing music,<br />
dancing and teasing each other. When we got there, we played lots of<br />
games like football, Frisbee and volleyball. We had lot of fun. After lunch we<br />
all went swimming except my cousin Brahim. He decided to go surfing, instead.<br />
But he wasn’t good at swimming. That’s why my brother refused to<br />
give him his surfing board. So, he asked me for mine. He knew that I<br />
wouldn’t say no! He took my surfing board and went straight to the waves.<br />
After a while we heard some screaming and saw people running. From<br />
afar I could see a young boy lying down but I couldn't see his face. There<br />
was a crowd of people standing and looking at the boy lying on the sand. I<br />
asked a girl who that boy was and what was happening. She said "They<br />
found him drowning!" At that moment, l thought about Brahim and ran toward<br />
my brother and cousins to ask about him. But no one knew where he<br />
was .My brother call home to ask about him but the answer was «he is not<br />
here». I was afraid to tell him that he had gone swimming and given him<br />
my surfing board. But at the same time I was worried about him; so I told<br />
my brother what happened and what I did . When he heard that he ran to<br />
the ambulance and asked the doctor about the drowning boy. Fortunately, it<br />
wasn't Brahim. I was relieved and so happy. Yet, I felt sad and worried. After<br />
a while i saw Brahim walking toward us. Actually, he met a girl. Instead<br />
of going surfing he was walking hand in hand with that girl along the<br />
beach! I always think to myself: that girlfriend saved my cousin from<br />
drowning!<br />
Fatima Lagouid<br />
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The Magic Potion<br />
One day, I was with my friend who used to love making potions. There was a<br />
corner in her room where she made all her experiments. She had a desk,<br />
some tubes, bottles and many chemical substances on it. She used to call<br />
that corner her laboratory ! she created a potion that she named the<br />
shrinking potion. I did not actually believe that it would work. So I took it with<br />
me home and I drank it. I felt just fine . After a few minutes, I began to<br />
shrink ! I did not believe what was happening to me. I was screaming and<br />
shouting for help. But, no one could hear me. After a while ; I heard a big<br />
noise. That was my mom’s steps. I just could believe i t was a dinosaur, but it<br />
was her. She almost smashed me with her huge shoes ; But I saved myself<br />
climbing up her leg. But it was really hard. As soon as I got closer to her ear,<br />
I shouted as loudly as I could calling her name. And because she couldn’t<br />
hear me I started pulling her hair as had as I could. But my foot slipped and<br />
I got inside her ear. I knew I was going to get lost in that hair Amazon jungle<br />
It was so hairy and looked like a jungle ! It was so filthy and gross ! I knew<br />
I was going to get lost there. So I decided to look for an exit. I didn’t want to<br />
spend the rest of my life in that horrible jungle. While trying to find an exit, I<br />
met a gigantic bug. Its legs were four or five times my length. I was scared<br />
to death. It started to move towards me ! It didn’t seem to have any eyes. All<br />
I could remember seeing was a huge mouth with hundreds of sharp teeth. I<br />
was screaming harder and harder as it was getting closer to me. I had no<br />
doubt it was going to crush me with his teeth ! I kept screaming with all my<br />
might but no one could hear me ! I thought that was it. I was going to die ! I<br />
screamed again so hard and loudly that I woke up to find myself lying on<br />
bed sweating all over ! It was just a horrible dream !<br />
Soumia Boussaa<br />
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Some Boys<br />
Hate girls<br />
Love soccer<br />
Sleep late<br />
Also never arrive on time<br />
Love watching action movies<br />
Always<br />
Go swimming,<br />
Surfing<br />
Flirting with girls on the beach<br />
They often wear<br />
disgusting perfumes<br />
They’re so lazy<br />
They cheat in exams<br />
They chat with girls all night long<br />
They’re very messy<br />
Love boring colors<br />
Never cook a meal,<br />
But, they enjoy being bossy<br />
Giving orders to their sisters…<br />
Anyway… they’re boys after all !<br />
Fatima Bahmou<br />
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YOU<br />
You are my life<br />
You are my light<br />
You are the moon in the darkest night<br />
In everything black you are the white<br />
When I lose my way, you are the door,<br />
You are the gate<br />
In the middle of noise, you are the quiet<br />
You give me anything I want<br />
You are the one who I trust<br />
I’m always wrong, you’re always right<br />
You asked me why and you shout!<br />
When I do make a mistake or when I fight<br />
You taught me how to forget and how to forget<br />
How I look at the future<br />
And forget the past<br />
When I hurry up, you tell me to wait<br />
To fix my shirt, shoes or skirt<br />
You’re the one who knows my habit<br />
You’re the one who calls me “my rabbit”<br />
I love you mom and I know you love me too.<br />
Soukaina ElOUAzzani<br />
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HUNGER<br />
Alone, alone<br />
In the dark alone<br />
Everytime, I wish I could fly<br />
High above the sky<br />
Highe with the satrs<br />
Streets are my home<br />
Thoough I’m only ten years.. Ten years<br />
Violent is all my life<br />
Hunger has become a friend<br />
All the time I’m dreaming<br />
But my dreams have never come true<br />
All the time I pray to have a new life<br />
Oh my God, give another chance to live!<br />
Siham Doumani<br />
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Beauty<br />
Every girl keeps trying her best to look like her favorite model who has<br />
the perfect skin , the perfect eyes, the perfect nose, the perfect smile..<br />
and the perfect body. But I don’t think beauty is all about that. Every girl,<br />
to my mind, should believe in herself, have more confidence in herself<br />
and more importantly accept who she is. Because noone is ugly. Girls<br />
may put on all sorts of make-up and look nice. But, beauty is not simply<br />
about superficial looks ! Beautiful people are not necessarily good, but<br />
good people are certainly beautiful. In my opinion, the real beauty comes<br />
from the heart. The real beauty is expressed through our sincere actions<br />
when we help people who are in need, listen to and feel their pains and<br />
troubles and make them happy. Genuine beauty may be just a smile from<br />
the haert that makes people forget for a while some of their suffereings<br />
and think there are still other people who care about them.<br />
I know there are times when we harm people. Sometimes we mean it,<br />
some others, we cause harm by accident. But, one thing I’m sure about<br />
is that in every black heart there’s a white side and vice versa. So, all we<br />
need to do is look for the goodness inside our hearts and the hearts of<br />
people around us. That’s the way to make people glow with happiness.<br />
Because that glow comes from inside and is true. We should never try to<br />
look like others. Lrt’s be ourselves and do good as much as we can and<br />
that is the true meaning of beauty.<br />
Soumia Boussa<br />
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My Hero<br />
In this article I will be talking about a teenager girl like me, but not quite like me ! .. She is a girl so<br />
special, so strong, so unique that many consider a hero and a model to follow .<br />
Of course, everyone of us must have a hero. And our heros could be women, men or children who lived<br />
in the past or are still living with us in the present. They could also be real as well as characters from<br />
stories we read or movies we watched.<br />
Me, too.. I have a hero and my hero is neither Superman nor Superwoman, neither a man nor a woman..<br />
neither from a fiction book nor from a Hollywood movie… My hero is a teenager girl who has become a<br />
worldwide celebrity because of her strong activism.. she has become famous all over the world because<br />
she has been constantly fighting for women’ s rights and particularly girls’ rights to education.<br />
Malala is my hero and I have no doubt she is a hero for a lot of girls around the world.<br />
Let me start by a short biography of my hero. Malala Youssafzai was born on July 12th, 1997 in Swat<br />
Valley, Pakistan. Malala was raised in a home that strongly values education. Actually, her father is a<br />
poet ,a teacher and an education activist who used to run a number of schools in Swat valley. But the<br />
Talibans, a group of extremists, were not happy about girls going to schools ! So they decided to ban<br />
girls education in Swat valley! In fact, they destroyed many all-girl schools! Malala was, of course, not<br />
happy with what the Talibans did ! Because Malala was an ambitious student and for her education was<br />
EVERYTHING.. So she decided to do something . In 2009, she started a blog where she wrote about life<br />
under the Taliban rule. She described the fear and the terror she was experiencing while attending<br />
school. In that blog which she wrote for the BBC, she was expressing her opinions about girls’ right to<br />
education. Thanks to her blog, the world began to know about the difficult situation of school girls in<br />
Swat valley. She was a brave girl and continued to fight for girls right to education with a lot of determination<br />
and commitment. She gave interviews on TV, on the radio and newpapers talking about girls right<br />
to education and women’s rights, in general.<br />
But Malala’s voice was very disturbing for the Talibans. On 9 October 2012, Malala Yousafzai was shot in<br />
the head and neck by aTaliban gunman while returning home on a school bus ! They wanted to silence<br />
her ! But, they failed ! Her voice was much stronger and louder than their bullets ! Malala didn’t die ! You<br />
know why ? Because she has a strong will and determination. Because she is a brave and daring girl.<br />
And probably, because she has a strong skull, too ;-)<br />
Today, Malala Yousafzai is still fighting for girls’ rights to education in spite of the threats of Taliban. Her<br />
love for education is much stronger than any fear and that’s why I admire and consider her my hero.<br />
And because of that and other qualities she was awarded the National Youth Peace Prize in 2011 and in<br />
2014 the Nobel Prize for Peace.<br />
Thank you Malala for being an inspiring and brave fighter for the girls’rights to eduaction.<br />
Hafida Elhariti<br />
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Access<br />
Access is the best thing that happened in my life<br />
Access is the key that opened new doors in my life<br />
Access is a school where every Sunday I learn new information<br />
Access is also fun and a lot of action<br />
Access is my home<br />
Access is my friends<br />
Access is a relation that never ends<br />
Access is an amazing experience<br />
Access gave me more confidence<br />
Access is a precious gift<br />
English is also a precious gift<br />
English is more than a language. It is light<br />
And our future with English will be bright<br />
Yassine Abehri<br />
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To you my best friends<br />
Everyone thinks that being best friends<br />
Means having fun and playing games<br />
What they don’t know is<br />
Friendship is a mix of laughter and fights,<br />
Smiles and too much love<br />
My friends are true friends<br />
Not just passers- by<br />
They’re always on the standby<br />
When you’re low, they make you feel high<br />
I can’t think of more perfect friends<br />
To share with my dreams and plans<br />
My joys and my fears<br />
I don’t know if they can tell<br />
Just how much they mean to me<br />
And how proud they’ve always made me<br />
We have stood the test of time<br />
And with them I hope to stay till the end of time.<br />
Latifa Elmazzagui<br />
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Hunger<br />
I’m so hungry I didn’t eat all the day<br />
Not a morsel of bread, not a drop of water<br />
My mind is so dry<br />
Everyday my friends die<br />
I wanna live like a bird<br />
And fly above the sky<br />
Eat whatever I want<br />
And as much as I can<br />
I don’t wanna die<br />
Where in this world is mercy?<br />
Cruelty is all I can see!<br />
Humans I also see<br />
But, no humanity!<br />
I’m a victim of hunger and poverty<br />
Why doesn’t anyone care about me?<br />
Why doesn’t anyone help me?<br />
Can you answer me?”<br />
Soukaina & Soumaia<br />
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Writing for Everyone<br />
I closed my eyes<br />
Wanted to sleep<br />
Without forgetting<br />
Our memories<br />
And the sky was blue<br />
It’s been raining<br />
And there's nothing to do<br />
I shall never watch my face<br />
With my desires an ddreams<br />
I have no hope, no tears<br />
A bitter sweet memory<br />
With that promise and hope<br />
In your eyes<br />
All I see is water<br />
No more laughter<br />
No more singing<br />
Make them better than before<br />
Words I cannot say<br />
Silenced my voice<br />
Give me a chance<br />
It’s time to wake up<br />
Under a new sun<br />
And after this day<br />
Nothing will be the same<br />
I want just to write<br />
In my booknote<br />
To express the pain I feel<br />
But I haven’t found the pen!<br />
HAFIDA EL HARITI<br />
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My Family<br />
You are the gate to success<br />
You are the pen that draws smiles on our faces<br />
You are the wind that blows the blues away<br />
Friends and family that’s what we were, that’s what we are<br />
And that’s what we shall forever and ever be<br />
Love is what we share<br />
When life gets dark<br />
And family brings back its colors, moments I can’t forget<br />
Friends I can’t let go of<br />
It’s hard to let go<br />
But I’ll never let go<br />
I love you all<br />
With you I learned the meaning of life<br />
I love you all<br />
Naima MRABIT<br />
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