"The frame is like life. Life too only provides certain opportunities.
Film is like a square of life, it has the same boundaries.
I think film is more honest, because it owns up to being a limited space.
Life pretends to provide more opportunities, that's why it's a bigger lie."
-Fassbinder
A young girl wore a permanent tear on her left cheek. She was not smiling. Her t-shirt had a picture of a skull and bones.
Danger! LAND MINES!
She said: Here I am. I communicate my reality to the world. Do you like my shirt? Can you read words or do you need a picture? How about a picture of a picture? I don’t know how to read so I like to look at pictures. Mycountry has 14.5 million people and maybe 6-10 million land mines.
Adults say there are 40,000 amputees in my country. Many more have died because we don’t have medical facilities. Mines are cheap. A mine costs $3.00 to put in the ground and $1,000.00 to take out of the ground.
I’m really good at numbers.
26,000 men, women and children are maimed or killed every year in the world by land mines leftover from ongoing or forgotten conflicts. Reports from the killing fields indicate there are 110 million land mines buried in 45 countries.
It will cost $33 billion to remove them and take 1,100 years. Governments spend $200-$300 million a year to detect and remove 10,000. Cambodia, Angola, Iraq, and Afghanistan are the most heavily mined countries in the world.
40 percent of Cambodian land is unused because of land mines. One in 236 Cambodians are amputees. A prosthetic limb costs $3,000.
Talk to me before you leave trails to explore the forest. It's beautiful and quiet. I know all the secret places. I showed my picture to a Cambodian man and he didn’t like it. They call this denial. He said it gave him nightmares. He’s seen too much horror and death in one life. So it goes. My village is my world. Where do you live?
Did you know that the world is made up of 98% helium and hydrogen?
The remaining atom particles are life and inside these atoms a very small part of that is intelligence.
The rest of the pyramid is garbage.
Existence precedes essence.
Z discovered questions were repeated.
1,001 questions ran around her Bursa restaurant looking for answers. Questions grew tired of repeating themselves. This is so fucking boring, said one question. We are abused. We are manipulated and rendered mute. Useless. Think of it as a test, said another question.
Patience is our great teacher. I’ll try, said another question. Yes, said a question, these non-listeners have a distinct tendency to say nothing and say it loud when they’re leaving, when their faces are turned away from eye contact potential real communication and growth.
Echoes drifted around silence and ignorance. I’ve seen that too, said a question, who, until this moment was silent. My theory is that it’s because of genocide, fear and ignorance. It’s also a delicate mixture of stupidity or indifference, said another question.
Why is the most dangerous question, said one.
tell me about my Lao motorcycle culture
125cc engines growling past orange monks
barefoot in their silence
give us the raw emotional direct experience
among a tribe of kids, their play is work.
they laughed and played all day long
poor ones collected cardboard and plastic bottle
along a dirt road.
kids with money went to school
students are engaged in self-study, pair work, and group work. They accept responsibility and develop teamwork and sharing skills. They draw. They listen to music.
some accept the reality they are responsible for their learning. some learn to take risks.
help students develop courage.
some try. some can’t, won’t, don’t.
classes are mixed abilities and ages. strong student teachers help the weak.
attendance is sporadic because of school, family responsibilities and motivation.
focus on speaking and writing. reading comprehension.
listening retention skills. get the MAIN POINT.
1. Smile, engage, and have fun.
See #1.
Imagination is more important than knowledge - Einstein.
Practice patience like water
Share Article