Ok, this won't be long as Amy will be here fairly soon and then we have to head down to our language lesson. Still going well and my hiragana reading is getting better and better. Friday I recreated the entire hiragana graph from memory. Not bad, aye? Who says beer kills brain cells?

Anyway, I assigned haiku to a few of my classes and got some of them back. Thought I'd share some of the better (or more entertaining) poems with you. Tomorrow I head to Sundai junior high and will be assigning the haiku project there, so all of these come from Yamanashi Gakuen (Friday junior high). I will not write the names of the students because both I wish to protect them from any embarrassment, but moreso because they wrote their names in Kanji and I have no clue who wrote what. I also will leave them exactly as they are, full of wrong words, mispellings and grammer flaws (see how well I have taught them). Oh, and for any of you who don't know.....Haiku is a traditional Japanese form of poetry that consists of three lines that are supposed to have (traditionally) syllables of 5-7-5 each. These days, though, many writers vary the syllable count, as you'll see.

Fresh coolness in the air--
how smooth my fountain pen goes
on this letter paper!

Not bad, aye?

I will be a weather man
I like weather
Because it's very interesting

Ok, I can live with that.

Sky is so blue like sea
And cloud is so white like sheep
Sheep swims in the sea!

I didn't know they did.

It is fine today
So I am very sleepy now
I can not study hard.
(but I like English.)

I know how you feel.

I don't like to study
Cuz I'm a basketball player.
I thinks basketball is important than study

Obviously.

I found a gold.
I have lived in luxury.
Ha ha ha ha ha!

This one cracked me up when I read it.

Nick was eaten by Aki
Aki was eaten by Soung Gi
Soung Gi was eaten by Carlos

Interesting. Carlos must be quite full.

Marcus is very cool.
Marcus's eye is like the sea.
Hmmm. Haiku is diffcult.

Great start, so-so finish.

This is a picture of my watch.
It buy in Hawaii.
My father buy it me.
So, I've used it for a year.
It's a very
I like it very much.

A free form haiku, I guess.

Now is a special contest
It is a pity to lose this chance
It was a living hell

What contest? And if you think haiku was a living hell, wait till I assign the novel.

I am not a student
because lost homework.
This homework.

Just damn funny.

I like Mr. Marcus.
Because, he looks very very cool!
I glad he came here.

Thanks, bud. Glad to be here. And nice to see someone likes the beard. By the way, this kid drew a picutre of me and next to it wrote, "Do you like it? Your majesty." AH ha ha!

She eating now
She eat and eat
She will fat future

Now that's comedy!

So there you are. And that was just a sample from one class. I'll write more of them as I get more. Right now, I've got to go.