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Michaela Groninger: I from Max and I will be a junior this coming fall. I enjoy many sports along with movies and just hanging out with friends. One of my favorite things to do is make people laugh. I am shy though in new situations but with a little time I usually become comfortable and can make people laugh easily.

As you can tell from my story The Poem and the poem The Phone Call I like to write funny interesting pieces that reflect a little bit of my humor. I also like to write more serious pieces like “Afraid” and “Soul mate”. I also love surprise endings. They are one of my favorite things to add to a piece.

I liked coming to gov school because it helped me explore more writing options then the usual stories they make you write in school and stuff. I got the idea for the story One Moment, Many Lives here at gov school. I am glad I came and think I will continue writing stories with many of the techniques I learned this last six weeks.

Codi Ann Moberg: I will be a senior in the fall at Washburn High school. But that’s boring stuff. My favorite color is pink and I love chocolate milk.

I haven’t done much creative writing in the past so, the pieces I’ve submitted to Hiatus, are sort of random things. I don’t really have a set style of writing. It’s fun to experiment with different styles and mix and match as well. Creative writing is very interesting. It’s great to really explore your own style of writing and be exposed to others.

Just so ya’ll know Governor’s School is a blast. It was an awesome way to spend a summer.

Shreyan Sen: Hey everyone. I was born in Calcutta, India, on July 26, 1992. I moved to the US when I was two, and I have moved a few times, from Fargo to Cleveland, Ohio, to Grand Forks, back to Fargo. I’ll actually be moving to North Carolina in a few weeks. Right now I am at the last week of ND Gov. School. I’m sad to be leaving, but I suppose it will be nice to get back to my normal schedule (which will mainly consist of cramming for the SAT’s I’m taking next year). So it might not be so normal. Anyways, the worst part will be going back home with these great inside jokes, and dropping hugely funny comments that no one will get. They’ll be like “what?” and just sort of stare… a dilemma I guess we’ll all face. As for my writing style, I guess I like to write action and adventure, but I also like to include deeper, hidden meanings to things. My friends say I’m slightly political…(laugh, it’s another inside joke). My pieces, well, all I can say about them is that the story is supposed to be a long story, so I killed it trying to make it smaller. But I like the poetry. Its not really masterful, but I tried to express some of the things I was thinking about. For example, NDSU has a beautiful campus, and I was thinking about how beautiful nature is and how destructive we can be when I was writing the Great Oak Tree.

James Uhlich: I live on a dairy farm, south of Drake, ND. Yeah, yeah, I can already hear the laughter. I'm 16 years old, and going to be a junior in the fall. I play football and basketball, and participate in Drama, speech, and our academic team. I haven't really don't put many of the things I write down on paper, but I have spent a lot of time coming up with different story and poem ideas... I mean seriously, what else do you have to do during those 10 hour tractor sessions. Feel free to resume laughter. But in all honesty, that is where some of my best ideas have hit me... I actually carry a pencil out to the field with me nowadays so I can scribble down "the perfect line" on the side of the tractor when it hits me. Okay, you can stop laughing now...

I am a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to poetry, even though they are much less than perfect, more often than not. It's been hard for me to try to punch out more than one poem in the time I've been here, mainly because I always want to wait for the perfect line. I, unfortunately, do have a set writing style - I like my poetry to be of a more serious nature, usually dealing with the topic of love or loneliness. It was different for me to try to change my style while being here, to try new things. This obviously affected the flow of my writing. I had never written anything even remotely political, so "Americana", a poem out the urbanization and conformity of larger cities vs. small towns, was a real stretch. I never wrote a poem dealing with death either, henceforth the reason why "Today's the Day" didn't flow very well either. I do like my poem "So Simple", because I had more than enough time to write it... it was actually something I had been working on before arriving at Governor's School. Surrealism was REALLY hard for me... it has no form, no end-rhyme scheme (my favorite)... it's total non-sense. This really contradicts my usual writing style, which is why I was amazed when I was nominated for the Surrealist award.

My whole name is only four letters long but I have never met any non-Chinese people that could pronounce my name right. It is pronounce {Kur: Shiu}, the shiu sound is rather windy, not harsh or pointy.

I’m here at Governor's School for mathematics, so why I signed up for creative writing is way beyond my imagination. I could not write to save my own life. I’m still struggling with my literacy since, well, I’m illiterate. But I guess I learned a lot from this class, the teacher encouraged me to write weirdly, and think outside of the box, so I could freely express just how much of a weirdo I am without fearing of retaliation by the tomatoes thrown by the mob. But I still can’t quite think outside of the box yet, I don’t know where the lid is.

Tianhua (Tim) Zhou: I am now 15. I live in Fargo and go to school at Fargo North, and next year will be my junior year. I picked math as the branch of governor’s school that I wanted to participate in. My writing isn’t so great, but that’s because I’m not so creative except when it comes to doing not so smart things, however I enjoy reading a lot and that’s the reason why I am in creative writing. I really have had a lot of fun here in governor’s school. I have had fun meeting people that otherwise I might never have had a chance to meet. The only thing that I don’t like about governor’s school is the overload of math homework that I have had to do because it really doesn’t take away from sleep.

Kayla Zook: I live in Mandan , ND . I love to write poems and most of what I write is about my life. I came to Governor’s School to learn as much as I can about math and so far I think they have covered it. I have covered a large amount in the following topics in math: Topology, Game Theory, Number Theory, Cryptosystems, Linear Algebra, Geometric Series, Modulus, Calculus, Trigonometry, Computer Science, and Finance. So as you can see I’ve learned my fair share if not more. My poems that I wrote for creative writing are just a bit of my style. Some are really not how I usually write but they were fun to create. Well, hope you enjoy them.

Dustin Ryan Zubik:. I really enjoy Surealist poems. I like how they are so random. You can put anything you like into it. I was born on October 6, 1990, which would make me fifteen. I will be a sophomore at Watford City High School. I am in the mathematics department here at Governor's School. I love science and math. I also like to bike, run, read, write, tend me' houseplants, and..............tea. I like tea. I run cross-country in the fall, hockey in the winter, track in spring, and if I'm not doing something, basbeball during summer. I am also in the drama department. That's all for now.