Blogging after 4 August!

Hi friends from the writing course

If I ever reach you in blogger mode, may I say how good it was to reconnect yesterday.  The course has been a tonic. 

We must try to stay in contact and to help each other.  I was so impressed by what everyone has been doing in the past three weeks.  Carol and Ellen's little children are an inspiration.  We need to chart their progress.  These children will not be found wanting in any PIRL's test in the future.  The powers that be should take note.  We need pilot schools and pilit groups within other ones. 

I marked something from a grade 10 student who wrote in her letter to a famous person, I presume to be a lover (!) that she has this eccentric teacher who has been on a writing course and who is making all her students write as part of her assignments!  She ends off by telling him that she wll let him know whether she will be chastised for using the expression - 'mother f...'  I was quite surprised, but not totally.  Anyway that is one reaction to my efforts at creative inspiration!

After yesterday I realized that I had to get to 'ba ba bling'.  That might send the sceptics over the edge... In turn I must urge y'all to try out the Pantoum.  It is such a satisfying exercise.  When in doubt, google it.  At the same time show them mandalas.  Such satisfying shapes.