From: Gordon.Benedict@f49.n134.z1.fidonet.org (Gordon Benedict)
Newsgroups: k12.chat.teacher
Subject: Project:  "Global Peek at Poetic MBM School"
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 18:32:02 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:134/49 - The Student Exchang, Calgary Alta

     Hi Yona,

 YW> Ecrivez en francais ou en anglais.         Write in French or English.
 YW> Dites-nous votre nom, nationalite          Tell us 
 YW> your your name, nationality
 YW> et de quelle ville connectez-vous.         and where 
 YW> are you calling from.
 YW>                            Merci!          Thanks!
 YW> Yona Webb (French Teacher, Mary B. Martin School, Cleveland, Ohio, USA)
 YW> Internet:  ak005@cleveland.freenet.edu

 YW>              WISHES      by Fatimah Akbar (age 9)
 YW>  
 YW>    The wishes that I dream of
 YW>    Don't always come true.
 YW>    I hope they will,
 YW>    But that probably happens to you.
 YW>  
 YW>    If they don't now --
 YW>    They will come true someday.
 YW>    When I think of wishes,
 YW>    I don't think of yesterday.

     Hi Fatima,

     It's fun to wish, isn't it?  I think it's a good thing not all of
     our wishes come true.  If they did, we would be able to get whatever
     we wanted, whenever we wanted.  I think we would get rather tired
     of that very quickly.  There is an old Chinese curse that says,
     "May all of your wishes come true."  Sometimes we wish things that
     we would regret later.  I'm glad not EVERTHING comes true.


 YW>              IMAGINATION      by Jason Butcher (age 10)
 YW>  
 YW>    Imagination is really great,
 YW>    Imagination determines your fate.
 YW>    Imagination is really fun,
 YW>    With imagination you'll never be done.
 YW>    Imagination is everywhere from Thailand to Chad.
 YW>    Without imagination we'd probably go mad.

      Hi Jason,

      Boy, oh boy!  I don't have much of an imagination.  I wish I
      had more.  If it really determines our fate, and I'm sure it
      does play a big part, then I'm doomed.  :-(

      I admire people like Banting and Best, the discoverers of insulin,
      Henry Ford with his first car engine that popped and banged on
      the kitchen table, and the Wright brothers with their flimsy
      aircraft.  Without their imagination and, maybe even  more important,
      their belief that what they had imagined was important, we might
      not have insulin today, or cars, or even airplanes.

 YW>             LOVE       by James Cole (age 11)
 YW>  
 YW>    Love is something you need not fear,
 YW>    It shall be cherished when I am near.
 YW>    I have no words to show how I feel
 YW>    For our love together seems so unreal.
 YW>  
 YW>    The love that I feel is deep inside my heart,
 YW>    I knew it would be  YOU  from the very start.
 YW>    My heart burns for you as if it were on fire
 YW>    Because you're the one whom I admire.
 YW>  
 YW>    For your beauty, your intelligence and your eyes,
 YW>    For  YOU  I'd fly to the highest skies!
 YW>    I love you with all my heart
 YW>    And I wish that we would never ever part.
 YW>  
 YW>    If you love me as I love you,
 YW>    If you stay with me and be true,
 YW>    If you love me for who I am and not for my outside
 YW>    Then I know that our love will abide.

        Hi James,

       Wow!  This is pretty heavy stuff for an 11 year old.  I think
       you might have a long career ahead writing poems for Valentine's
       Day cards.

       Have you ever been in love?  I can't imagine coming up
       with these lines if you never have.  (Are you blushing yet?)

       I'm impressed by the quality of these poems.  Your effort has
       obviously paid off.

       Oh right!  I'm supposed to mention my nationality and where I'm
       calling from.  I'm writing from Calgary, Alberta, Canada and,
       having been born here, I am a Canadian.  Ducking my head, I'll
       also let you know that I'm a teacher.

       Je me demande si vous etes dans une ecole bilingue?  Pourquoi
       est-ce que la demande pour une reponse etait ecrite en francais
       aussi qu'en angalis?

       A bientot!  J'espere que tout ira tres bien au spectacle.

       Gord


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