I didn't write the rules. Why should I follow them? - W. Eugene Smith, photo essayist.
Lens: Visual journalism.
A Nepalese man breaks rocks in Bandipur.
Music is the fuel at a Tibetan resettlement village outside Pokhara, Nepal.
Don't you just love the name of a school in Cambodia?
It sings on a clean white sign propped against a brick wall along an endless red rutted swampy road.
Down the road from a pagoda wat where friends and relatives create a cremation. He was 70.
He survived the genocide. That says something.
The rainy season brings endless pleasure minus pain to natives and aliens.
Milling around is an art form here.
TRUST and SMILE.
Practice with friends and strangers.
My name is Brick Boy. I live, work and die in the Kathmandu valley. The valley contains hundreds of brick factories. Millions of people like me work here. It's our fate.
A woman I never met carries them at a construction site in Bhaktapur. Exciting.
Labor.
The factories are owned by rich people. We plant, harvest, cull, clean, stack, carry, haul and sell bricks. Bricks are an essential way of life. They get formed, stacked, sorted, assembled, counted, controlled, and used. Like me and the others.
We are a tool of production.
I've got a mind to give up living and go shopping instead.
My future is safe and brilliant.
Good afternoon students. My name is Mr. On. It rhymes with song, gong, long gone.
It is 17:10 p.m. If it was 18:01 p.m. I would say good evening, however it is still afternoon. It is late in life. Class will meet twice a week for two hours. Show up on time, do your assignments and be prepared. Nothing more, nothing less.
We are gathered here today in the glorious Chinese Communist Party People's Appliance Factory #8 to begin our basic simple English lessons. Your supervisor informs me that you are here both by choice and chance. You have the choice. This is your chance. Am I clear? Do you understand me? Choice and chance.
Now. I know. Most of you have been working since early morning in the factory. It is the end of another long mind numbing grueling tedious day on the killing floor. English has brought us together. You face unique and amazing challenges to acquire a foreign language. To use said target language with meaning. To hopefully become fluent. It will require your undivided attention, focus and electrical energy.
You will practice speaking, reading, listening and writing. These are the four basic skills. Writing and speaking are active. Reading and listening are passive in your learning process.
Learning occurs in the context of task-based activities. In other words you learn by doing. You do and you understand, as we say, said, did, done.
We will cover, in exhaustive detail, four important appliances and their English A/C D/C lets see connections. They are: washing machines, air conditioners, vacuum cleaners and microwave ovens.
These machines are now essential in everyone’s life. You know this because it is your job to put them together. It’s like English, putting words together makes a simple sentence. Some have meaning and some are gibberish. Many words are useless idiomatic semantic syntax which is not the same as personal income tax.
Open your head, heart and mouth. Eat English.
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