New and Different Voices

Amelia, Inspired by Walt Whitman

2005-07-13T12:52:00.000-04:00

When I Heard the Learn'd English Teachers

When I learnt grammar, reading, writing, and speaking;
When the rules, the verbs, were taught by the teachers;
When I saw the vocabulary and the structure, to remember, read and love them;
When I, my brows wrinkling, looked at my teachers, who were always happy to give tests and quizzes,
Afterwards, I was confused and crazy;
Still dreaming and hoping they would be nice,
In the noisy class, and day by day,
I wanted to run and fly, disappear from this earth.

When I Saw Him Walking Away

When I saw him walking away;
When his breath, his voice, were flying on the sky;
When I learnt from the birds and spirits, to see, hear, and touch them;
When I, dreaming, saw him, who filled my empty face;
Then, I knew he was a fake;
Still dreaming and laughing, I hoped by myself,
In the freezing night, and full of snow,
Waiting for his smile in the dark sky.

AMELIA AGUSTINUS 600B

Butterfly

2005-07-13T09:57:00.000-04:00

I am a butterfly. It took me a long time to be a beautiful butterfly. Now I have gotten free. I can fly whenever I want and I can go wherever I want. Even though I am a weak thing, I am happy. I love floating in the air and like to suck sweet water from flowers.

Ryan K. Level 300

Both

2005-07-13T09:49:00.000-04:00

Is it play? Or is it real?
I don't know
Who knows?
Nobody knows
Does she know?
I don't know
Does he know?
I don't know

It is play but it is real
Don't you know?
It was real in the action,
In the mind, in the night, in the skin,
White skin, black skin.

They were looking
Each other for many hours.
Finally, in the morning
With the sunshine in their
Backs.

She said, "Are we playing?"
He said, I don't know."
Is it play? Or
Is it real?
They don't know.
"Let's play," she said
"OK," he said.

Yeimi, Level 300

Over Again

2005-06-30T09:35:00.000-04:00

She has been leaving
Her dreams. She has
Been flooding them.
Her memory plays
Tricks on her.
Her heart is losing
Sleep over it.

Over again, over again
Lack of kisses
Lack of hugs

Overflowing with
Tears in her gloomy
Room, she gets his
Bed wet with them.

The telephone rings
She says hello
He say goodbye
She smiles again
After all she's free
From love.
He says to her
Forgive me please
My love, don't leave
Me alone.
She says to him
This is the end.

by Yeimi, 300 Level

Human Brotherhood

2005-06-28T13:56:00.000-04:00

Brotherhood? yes, human beings are brothers.
Brothers, human beings belong to the same humanity.
Human, all have the same rights.
Human and brothers, all are mother Nature's sons.

by Bruno Valentin, 400 Level

Best Video Award

2005-06-26T14:51:00.000-04:00

Language Institute Instructor, Roger Drury, has begun a Video Dictionary project with his 600 Level Oral Skills class. The Spring II winning video,"On the Double", which was student- written and produced, is linked below. Students participating were:Abdiel A.,Umid I.,and Ana Maria R.

Link to Best Video

You Asked Me

2005-06-21T13:08:00.000-04:00

You asked me what I saw today, and I said,
“I saw a morbid man lying on the bed,
I saw a seventy years old elderly contemplating his life,
I saw an old patient saying with his despairing,
And I saw an exhausted human waiting for his death."

You asked me where I have been. I replied,
“I have been in the heaven where everybody wants to go since I saw a bewildering world,
I have been on the beautiful sky talking with God,
And I have been an angel for few hours."

And then you asked, “What do you hope for?”
I told you that I hoped for many things:
For going through this tough of life,
For standing up without lying on the bed,
And most of all,
For living more than thousands of years.

By Amelia A. Level 600

You Asked

2005-06-04T17:13:00.000-04:00

You asked me what I saw today,
and I said,
"I saw a flower sleeping in the garden,
I saw a girl swearing allegiance,
I saw a boy stealing the flower,
and I saw a flower dying for the love."

You asked me where I have been.
I replied,
"I have been in the white clouds, in the soft clouds, since the dark.
I have felt the wind in my face and
the freedom in my heart for one day."

And then you asked, "What do you hope for?"
I told you that I hoped for many things:
for the impossible love that everyone has,
for the invisible kiss that you never give,
and most of all,
for the dream about you that I hope it will be true.

by Yeimi 300 Level

Beginning

2005-05-21T16:03:00.000-04:00

Students,
If you are interested in contributing to our new student publication, please talk to us and let us know. Barbara's office is in room 109 . The submissions must be completely your original work. At this time, we are just developing the project, so suggestions are welcome. You can send comments here or leave a message at school. Original digital photos with your work are possible as long as the photo is your original. We don't want to use anything from the web--only things directly from you! Let us hear your ideas.
Link to Express It Here for more details.

Need Ideas? Here are a few...

2005-05-18T18:52:00.000-04:00

The pictures and questions below show you what kinds of things you could write about. Feel free to choose your own idea and put the words together in ways that are interesting and fun for you.

Imagine that you are this butterfly or something else in nature
and describe what you feel, can do, look like.
Begin with "I am a..."

Where are you in life?
Where do you feel you are going?
What have you been searching for?
Can the stairwell in this picture be
a symbol for these questions? What other images
could you use?

What feelings do the hands in this picture express?
What does this picture symbolize?
Describe the hands of someone doing something.
What do their hands tell you?