Here's something I came across this morning that adds a happier significance to 1994, the year that my sister Missy died. I'm retiring 20 years after getting a full-time job. I'm also retiring 20 years after moving from non-credit to credit. This beginning class was in non-credit, and just in case you can't read it, I'm using short sentences in the present and in the past, and I'm referring to the song "Do You Speak English?" by Uwe Kind. (I just looked up this book and see that it has a completely different cover from the one I knew and loved and promises "SingLing and LingoRap." Huh? I never before knew that the author had escaped from East Germany in 1960 and taught German with new words to old melodies before he did this with English. But let me not get sidetracked. (Actually life is all deviation from intention.)
I've quoted the students, who wanted to write verse after singing it. So I've written up the words that someone named Eduard wrote:
I have right me wall.
She speak language all.
I look Tina (prize)
Teacher very nice.
Someone named Yau Tai Lai wrote, "Appreciate you be a giveing me a lot of very English."
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