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These slides are for our free group class. They are multi-lingual–the flags are language buttons.

Tarzan, check your phone!

Tarzan, check your phone!

I don’t want to think about __.What are you doing to prepare for your future? Tarzan is in the jungle. He can’t check his phone.Tarzan only knows the jungle. He doesn’t have a phone.Where the buildings end and the jungle begins, I got a call from Tarzan.I’m going to find Tarzan and ask him that.

Not a problem

Not a problem

How far ahead are your plans?Do you want friends, money, or time? You don’t have to always know where you’re going.There’s time to stop for tea and think. I did that for a long time.Once I see where to go, I keep going. Maybe I stop for tea again.Make way for the person who doesn’t know where to go.

Cats in the temple

Cats in the temple

A buddhist temple is a good place to _.Do you climb walls? Taking photos of cats, having coffee and reading Walden, walking, walking, walking.I’m glad that I got to come back and spend more time here.I got to see more of the place and met some friendly tourists and locals.I’ve got cats in my temple too.

Sweet meeting

Sweet meeting

I ______ together with others. I’m so lucky that ______ . Some wild animal was eating my sweet potato.Where crowded stools and coffee drinkers face the passing traffic.Something else that was sweet in a crowded place where strangers meet.Surprised and delighted at where I find my feet.

Should be

Should be

I am good at ___ . I don’t care about ___ . I should be living alone on a mountain.I should be doing work, but I’m watching cartoons on youtube.The sun will give you wrinkles. You should put on a hat.I should be watching cartoons alone on a mountain.

I brow

I brow

It’s not too late to ________ .I really hope that _______. I shaved off my eyebrows and painted them higher up on my forehead.I don’t know. There were signs, but I didn’t see any reason to stop.I can see the skin of my brow. How odd that I never saw it before.No going back now. Now I look surprised all the time.

My likes

My likes

On my street I hear the sounds of __________. Home is where the ______ is. On my street I hear the sounds of the school grounds. This fan is blowing on my shirt, cooling my skin, keeping away the mosquitoes. This condensed milk gives my coffee the sweetness that I like, adding more to what I like. I don’t stray very far from home.  I’m staying close to my likes.

Drifting

Drifting

The 2 friends are drifting apart because _______. I talked about _____ with my friend. These boats are drifting down the river.I abandoned my plans, and now I’m drifting.Talking to my friends — coffee, tea, pens; that’s all I’m doing.I don’t know where I’m going.

Never stop, man

Never stop, man

I could ____ all day. Why do you care about learning English? you like rap? I could live a hundred years and not finish living. Every poem I finish, every time I look up from the page I see another poem. I want to be someone who knows what they’re here for. I want to do the best I can until I die.

Swimmer

Swimmer

Tell me about a stranger you remembered. Why did you remember them? What is the local noodle? Where is it found? The storm is deadly, but the swimmer is safe. Swimming like a pencil in the rain.  She got carried away, but now the sun is shining on her. Swimming like a bowl of noodles, better now than before, now better on her own. She is a swimmer.  She can ride the tide.