<div class="fr-view"><p><strong>The following piece was awarded Third Prize in the OU Students Association Welcome Week Writing Competition for Welcome Week 2024 (28 Sept – 6 Oct). The author is Cynthia, who is located in <span data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">Son en Breugel, the Netherlands</span> and is studying <span data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">English Literature and Creative Writing.</span></strong></p>
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<p>I’m excellent at starting things; I’m practically a pro.<br />I’m an in-the-pocket, always rocked it, master of nouveau.<br />I’m a connoisseur, entrepreneur, and now I’m learning French, monsieur.<br />And German, Klingon, Portuguese, and how to make the perfect cheese.</p>
<p>I’m working on a book or two, considering to start a zoo.<br />Enrolled at university, and drying my own potpourri.<br />I’m painting, dancing, building boats; I’m writing symphonies and code.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m into nature and write blogs about the mating call of frogs.<br />I bake π and I calculate, split atoms on my coffee break.<br />Enough today, it’s getting late, just let me quickly recreate…</p>
<p>The hanging gardens of Babylon, and while I’m at it, I’ll write a song.<br />I tried to be a one-man band, did not work out as I had planned.<br />I ended up an orchestra, played music from baroque to ska.<br />I taught myself how to plié and joined the National Ballet.</p>
<p>I want to be a poet. No! A rocket scientist. There is nary an endeavor that I’m able to resist.<br />But it’s too much and I’m juggling. I’m weighed down and I’m struggling.<br />I don’t know how to fix this mess. I need a time machine, unless…</p>
<p>I start again tomorrow. I will climb the Kilimanjaro.<br />And ignore what I learned yesterday. I’m sure I’ll find a better way.<br />New pens, new shoes, new attitude, forget the tasks that I accrued.</p>
<p>‘Cause I’m excellent at starting things; I’m practically a pro.<br />I’m an in-the-pocket, always rocked it, master of nouveau.<br />I’m a connoisseur, entrepreneur, but you have to comprehend.<br />That I’m excellent at starting things but can’t get to</p>
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