Poetry

Well, here they are, in all their glory. I tried to reproduce only the ones that caught some kind of poetic splendor, and isolate them from all the clutter (math, random notes, etc.)

The imagery in this one is pretty powerful. Note the emphasis on Theator, which is also misspelled.

"Yam
Play
Theator

Sprout"

This one ends powerfully.

"Flu
Virus
Free: Phone
Cable- 50$/m
Elec
Water
Trash


POG"

"fall
equinox

Where the *?# are we?

Culturally
Deprived
Spin-off"

Sometimes the things my parents try to explain to English learners is just plain absurd. I mean, come on, culturally deprived spin-off? thats hard to explain to someone fluent in English!

"gorgeous
ranch

lunch

rv
recreation
vehicle

Theme park"


"grid rocked
corner pub
oooed
ahhhed"

Sometimes the words are so different it is mind-boggling to think of how the conversation even progressed so randomly, and the poems are a true testament to the wandering nature of human conversation.

"limb
batch

McDonalds
Solvang
Subjunctive

Abreviated

arrested
handcuffs"

"Persimmon
starve
con artist
criminal"

"Lincorn
Lincoln

beet

brussle sprout"

"itch
itchy

scratchy

booby trap
Amma
Ammachi"

"Anchovy
sleeping bag
back pack

hang out

succinct

talame (crossed out)
tamale


Rite-Aid"

"Leek

cram
clam
>intensive"

interesting alliteration:

"Knick-Knack
Knife
Knight
Know
Knee

-Quinoa-
Keen-wa"

"Sardine
Wood or Metal
Shop

theory"

"FRUIT

_VEGETABLE
_ALERGIC

Would you like
to go to a
movie theater?

WAKATTA= understand
Takkyu - Ping Pong"

Some are very simple, but are strikingly beautiful in this simplicity.

"Freud
Dragon Ball"

"stab
stabbed"

"sticky


nap

sunburn"

"Forwarded
Forwarded"

"Color
Colour

Michiko"

This one may be my favorite:

"procrastinator
light rain
cancer
script!
hiragana
katakana"

I also like this one:

"rent control
incident
forage
parasite"

And the new ones, pretty good so far.

"Cheese

Jet Lag
plum
cereal
toast"

"Parade

Fog

Plum"

"fire man

Omelet

Camping

tofu
factory"

I think I should publish this.

New student

Well a new home stay student has arrived for the Fall semester, Ji Zhe, from China. We got a Chinese student this time so I can practice my Chinese. He's pretty nice and friendly, he's always wanting to help with dinner and the dishes and stuff. He even tried to help me work on tiling the bathroom. I think this is because we decided to lower the price to the amount they usually pay with a shared room even though he is not sharing it, because the main point of having him is so I can practice, not so we can make money. So he's pretty grateful, probably. He's different from the Japanese students in a lot of ways. One thing thats really funny is that we had to get a new notepad for writing down words that come up in conversation that he doesn't know the meaning of. We did this with the previous home stay students who didn't know English well and it makes hilariously random "poetry" because the words are written out of context and by themselves. For example, the latest gem we made was:

"PLUM,
PARADE,
Lecithin,
Flax
seed"

See what I mean? its genius. You could never make this stuff up. So I'm going to post some of the better ones from our previous home stay students and the latest from Ji Zhe in the next post.