burmese-isms

below is a selection of commonly used english phrases of amusement i've been privy to:

• must to go now, please

• from this, we can get the good smell

• i thought i would be die
  

• she is ever making the jokes

• they will make the drunken fool

• i worry you

priceless.

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books

"to acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life"

- one of my favorite students

i'll be going to find him some books today.

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five things

assignment: tell me five things you would do if the world were to end in two days. the sky's the limit, and it can be anything at all that you want.

*pause to explain to one student that i am not serious and the world is not in fact ending*

there's a student in my class who is a former buddhist nun. this was her response:

1. i want to fly without wind and without pain.

2. i'll be kill u than shwe for freedom of all human in burma and to influence the right judicial system.

3. i'll allow all people in the wold to do as they like. if they make the bad, they'll be reach to the hell. if they make the good things, they'll be reach to the heaven happily. so, they get a choice for conclusion of life.

4. i want to destroy the hate between all human.

5. i pass the conclusion of my life with my friends and family by praying my buddha believefully to meet in the next life. i believe buddha speak that if i do the good, i must feel the good result.

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happiness realized

happiness

happiness sometimes has a blue color but not always,
it sounds noisy like dancing at a party,
it tastes sweeter than everything,
it smells good like a flower,
it feels smooth soft and comfortable.
actually happiness is a dream.

-- written by my class of burmese migrants living in thailand and studying to rebuild their country --

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