酷我-北美枫

[nephi]

A Chinese boy, who recently arrived in Toronto, had attended his all-English kindergarten for three months without uttering any word. His kindergarten teacher had tried hard to engage him in reading picture books, playing with other kids, singing songs in English, and playing with coloured building blocks. But he remained disengaged, sitting alone in the corner of the classroom, keeping silent all the time. Sometimes he would suddenly walk out of the class, crying for Ma. His distant, reticent attitude concerned his teacher, and she didn't know how to deal with his adaptation problem.

One day, the class took a field trip to the Toronto Zoo. In the section named the Kids' Zoo, the boy immediately spotted on a colourful python wrapped several times around a truck of a tree inside a big glassed-in display case. He pointed at the python and turned his head to his teacher, joyfully yelling, "Me know this! Teacher!" Everyone else turned to him, opening their mouths without uttering any word.
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For you, forerunner
Outstripping darkness
Your mind sharp as sunlight
Piercing our shadows.

[[nephi]]

A Chinese boy, who recently arrived in Toronto, had attended his all-English kindergarten for three months without uttering any word. His kindergarten teacher had tried hard to engage him in reading picture books, playing with other kids, singing songs in English, and playing with coloured building blocks. But he remained disengaged, sitting alone in the corner of the classroom, keeping silent all the time. Sometimes he would suddenly walk out of the class, crying for Ma. His distant, reticent attitude concerned his teacher, and she didn't know how to deal with his adaptation problem.

One day, the class took a field trip to the Toronto Zoo. In the section named the Kids' Zoo, the boy immediately spotted on a colourful python wrapped several times around a truck of a tree inside a big glassed-in display case. He pointed at the python and turned his head to his teacher, joyfully yelling, "Me know this! Teacher!" Everyone else turned to him, opening their mouths without uttering any word.
_________________
For you, forerunner
Outstripping darkness
Your mind sharp as sunlight
Piercing our shadows.

[redshoe]

Me Know This! Teacher! is a heartfelt story about a linguistic border-crossing journey of a Chinese boy who is a new English learner.

As an English learner, I Know this, too.
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I am a butterfly drunk with life.

[[redshoe]]

Me Know This! Teacher! is a heartfelt story about a linguistic border-crossing journey of a Chinese boy who is a new English learner.

As an English learner, I Know this, too.
_________________
I am a butterfly drunk with life.

[ericcoliu]

[[ericcoliu]]

[星子]

Good to share.

When you forget the language itself yet have the urge to say, then it is easy to say.
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[[ANNA]]

Good to share.

When you forget the language itself yet have the urge to say, then it is easy to say.
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[christine]

The story begins with silence and concludes with silence. In between these two types of silence, there is a process of transformation that takes place among characters.

[[christine]]

The story begins with silence and concludes with silence. In between these two types of silence, there is a process of transformation that takes place among characters.

[dundas]

[[dundas]]

[nephi]

Thank all of you for reading and commenting my story.

[[nephi]]

Thank all of you for reading and commenting my story.

[nephi]

I've revised my piece.

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language.

-- Emile Cioran
_________________
For you, forerunner
Outstripping darkness
Your mind sharp as sunlight
Piercing our shadows.

[[nephi]]

I've revised my piece.

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language.

-- Emile Cioran
_________________
For you, forerunner
Outstripping darkness
Your mind sharp as sunlight
Piercing our shadows.