I wonder if my teachers will decide that it isn’t such a good idea to ask an aspiring author to write a short piece of “freeform text” about a given subject, in this case, a restaurant. This time, I wasn’t time limited in class, but able to write as a piece of homework. It did mean that I could look up vocabulary that I didn’t know, and look up some more interesting verb tenses for a story set in the past. I hope that I’ve got all my grammar correct. And it’s rather longer than my previous short story.
I’ve even given it a title: “Het Beste Visrestaurant van Scheveningen”.
I’ll find what my teachers actually think about it tomorrow or Thursday. One thing I really did enjoy: one teacher had said that we should never use the word “vies” to describe food in a restaurant; so I’ve done exactly that, and I think that it’s appropriate in context. Breaking the rules FTW..
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