William Stafford interview: (Reporter )"When did you decide to become a poet?" He responded that the question was put wrongly:"Everyone is born a poet-a person discovering the way words sound and work, caring and delighting in words. I just kept doing what everyone started out doing. The real question is why did other people stop?" You Gotta Keep Dancin' by Tim Hansel
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Massage versus Message
So I am grading some last papers for my year 4 students. THere final is Wednesday and Friday we have a party. I will be teaching year 1 until the day before I leave then I'll hand it off to another teacher. As you can see it is a busy time of year. Well, my students were writing suggestions for me. They had to write out a question from a phrase on a worksheet and answer it. Well, one of them was "Do you know where I can get a massage?" I got lots of "Sure you can get it from Lao Telecom/Tigo?" and "Sure, you can get it from the post office. " It took me awhile before I realized that massage=message in their minds. Oh sweet students I'll miss them and how much they have helped me to anticipate future cultural problems that never entered my mind.
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