Wednesday, October 1, 2008

The Funny Pages

Currently, I'm on vacation. Today is Foundation day for my school. It's the date when my school was founded and we get a free day because of it. Tomorrow, I've got another freebie because it's Constitution day. Yesterday, I had to work how ever. For my early morning Conversation Club, I made comics with them for the activity. For the first 20 minutes we talked about the comics I had printed off and how to write. I talked them about creating characters, giving them a voice, and making progress in a story; all in much simpler terminology of course. I had actually read about this a few years ago from someone who had done it with Japanese students. So in that same tradition, I present to you the comics that were completed. I consider most of them hilarious, not because of the grammatical mistakes, but because of the stories they tell using my cherished comics. For something like this, the ingredients require only the best comics and so I used the top shelf: Calvin and Hobbes and Penny Arcade.

So, I present to the master works of Wednesday's English Conversation Club. Click on the picture to read the text.
























Bonus Pizza Shot! The pizza here is to weird to eat. What do I mean by weird? Well, imagine eating sweet potatoes (Quayle style), corn, or mustard with no discernible marinara sauce. That is, unless you want to pay $30 for a Pizza Hut or Dominoes pizza (Which I will admit look like works of art here, every pizza is a multi-tiered canvas of tastes.) So, I bought my own crust mix and had my teachers translate the cooking instructions. Then I bought some spaghetti sauce, some horse glue, peppers, onions, garlic, and some dashes of basil and Italian seasoning. Then I cooked it in a frying pan. It was decent, except for the cheese. I think I'll let the dough rise a little longer next time and get a different brand of shredded cheese.

3 comments:

M said...

re: pizza

Check out pizza school (there's one near my place). their pepperoni pizza rocks and only costs $5 (for about a 10")

Brandonian said...

Do you know if it has all the nonsense of the others?

M said...

It's a straight-up regular pizza. They also have random strange versions, but the pepperoni is pretty basic.