To relieve my boredom with marking 160 English papers this week I have to post this...
The first year class were asked to look at some kids books without words and write a short story based on the pictures. The book in question chosen by the student shows a boy at the beach with his family picking up crabs in a rock pool and building sandcastles - all very innocent and nothing untoward about it.
Here is what the kid wrote:
This family is the mafia. Today this family come to the sea that they looking for arms to use rivalry. One's eldest finds a bomb such as a crab. She say "oh it's great! I will use this" The gang is standing back of her and he chuckle. This time the boy find the arms. Boy said "look this is a net" and another found the blunt instrument. Father said I want to (followed by some Japanese which translates as escape forever).
This is great and made me chuckle. I don't know what this kid is taking, but I want some of what he is on!
Story 2 - about a kid that goes to the library to return an overdue book. He reads a book in the kids corner before leaving with several books only to be told that the limit is 3 and he will have to put most of them back. This story is pretty inane, but there! The first year class were asked to look at some kids books without words and write a short story based on the pictures. The book in question chosen by the student shows a boy at the beach with his family picking up crabs in a rock pool and building sandcastles - all very innocent and nothing untoward about it.
Here is what the kid wrote:
This family is the mafia. Today this family come to the sea that they looking for arms to use rivalry. One's eldest finds a bomb such as a crab. She say "oh it's great! I will use this" The gang is standing back of her and he chuckle. This time the boy find the arms. Boy said "look this is a net" and another found the blunt instrument. Father said I want to (followed by some Japanese which translates as escape forever).
This is great and made me chuckle. I don't know what this kid is taking, but I want some of what he is on!
The student turns this into:
Please give me the drug. NO! NO! You are lacking for money. Ohh! Really? Hey, my dad!! Let's go there. What's your problem Bob? Oh!! I remember the drug which is caught in the book because I hid the drug in the other book.
Is this kid a Yakuza child?!!
I wish all my students had such a wonderful imagination.
