Today's instalment features an example of my most advanced class's writing from last Saturday's lesson.

We played a Consequences kind of game, whereby each student writes a sentence of a story, then passes their paper one student to the right. Each student can only ever see the very last sentence, so some pretty funny stories were born.

I'm sad to say this one isn't the funniest (that would be the one where a mother reprimanded her son for doing badly on a test, only for him to respond by 'slashing' her with an axe), but I lost the rest of them. Doh!

So, without further ado...

'Once upon a time, a silly boy want to flew up the sky.
So he use the leaf wing, flew up. the sky.
Then an airplane bump into him.
He burnt and shouted.
Oh ---- No! Fire is everywhere.
It's big trouble.
I really worried about the problem
But I think this problem can be successful solved.
The End'

It's great to know my 'teaching' efforts are making such a difference.

... in the Dominican Republic ...

(sorry to copy, but it's such a good idea, couldn't resist.)

1 - to see up to eight or ten people in one car. These are ‘public cars’, the most popular form of transportation around here. Mainly I think because it only costs 7 pesos (about 20p).

2 - for men to have more than one woman on the go. In fact it’s expected. Yuerch.

3 - to find yourself dancing to/singing to/enjoying outdated tunes (and I’m talking sometimes 20 years outdated) that you would scoff at at home, just because you can underdstand the words and you know the tune.

4 - to hear a torrent of expletives coming from my shower at 6:45 in the morning, every morning. Try rolling out of a nice cosy, warm bed, turning off the fan that doesn’t really keep you cool anyway, padding barefoot down an open-air corridor (yes it’s warm) and taking a horrendous shower in ICE COLD water. Then try it when you are half asleep and then you will understand.