CEW: Week 2. Module 1 & 2. Journal Writing 1 & 2.

TASK:
Journal writing. Module 1 & 2 Writing Activity

In your journal, write down a list of at least five to ten nouns and five to ten adjectives as you observe a scene at home, work, or in your community. Writing 2: add verbs and adverbs. Add a couple of sentences using all four.

DONE:
Looking out of my study room window:

Nouns	Adjectives	Verbs	Adverbs
rain	wet, cold	drizzling, pouring	steadily, unusually
garden	old, wild, green	grow, flourish	rapidly, extraordinary
trees	flowering, beautiful	hang, cover	extensively, well, very
chicken: Frosya + Marusya	funny, white, traditional	search, forage, look	anxiously, curiously, eagerly, patiently
rooster: Vassily	active, brave, loud	fight, protect, call	bravely, fiercefully, steadily, rapidly
cherry	wild, sweet, pink, gorgeous	blossom, stretch, move, smell	utmost, very
tulips	red, purple, amazing	emerge, last, remain, grow	quickly
magpie	curious, smart, black-and-white	fly, tease, feed, inspect, escape	carefully, rapidly, usually, often
car	blue, wet	beep, drive	slowly
clouds	thick, low	hang, move	never

Here I am, sitting in front of the window, and looking out to get inspired for the first writing assignment. 

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The window glass is wet: it's steadily drizzling since early morning, making it another unusually cold and wet day. Said to be the coldest ever spring in the Netherlands. However, our old and rather wild garden grew green rapidly and all the fruit trees are flowering extraordinary well: pink cherries stretch their gorgeously decorated twigs – I forced them to grow in different directions with a complicated system of ropes and fixing rings... Old apple trees, also in extraordinary rich blossom, hang over another corner of the garden. Tulips – this year only in red and purple, to our surprise as we planted many more, – emerged last week rapidly and altogether, but got old quickly, and already lost their last petals in the today's rain. Vassily, Frosya and Marusya, our recently acquired trio of traditional Groningen bantam chicken – nicely colored in white with black stripes and spots, – are slowly walking under the trees. They are steadily searching for food, looking under the leaves for whatever surprisingly tasty, curiously inspecting all the corners, – obviously preferring to remain under the cover of the trees rather than in the rain-proof chicken coop. Is it so boring there in the coop? Vassily, the rooster, fiercefully protects the two hens. It's not only that he calls loudly every half an hour or so, but he bravely attacks and fights whatever or whoever approaches him and his chicken. I love to observe him fighting the Magpie. This black-and-white smart bird, one of the smartest among all Corvids, flies here often – to inspect chicken feeder, and definitely also just to tease Vassily, the rooster. And she always manages to escape just seconds before Vassily really attacks! Brave rooster indeed! He fights not only cats and wild birds, but myself and my husband as well – quite larger, twice turkey-size, competitors for attention of his ladies. Yes, a car moves slowly in: my hubby is home, back from birdwatching. Leave it now then to the gray hanging clouds, and the lyrically singing blackbird in one of the trees – for the family. It's cozy whatever the weather is.

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Week 2 final writing assignment still to be read & done.

Assignment for week 2 also done and submitted for peer review.

Looking forward to get the results!