Revisiting Lessons

I wrote once before about how I am now having the opportunity to repeat some lessons (they are better the second time around), most of what I am doing this year is new, although certainly at times based on things I have done at home, variations. I have been doing my introduction to Canada lessons over again recently and found myself in a position where I had to write another poem, this time it was suggested that I write an ‘I’m a Canadian’ poem. I guess I have written often enough that it is now expected that I too write when they are writing, as a student said ‘that’s how it works.” Here is my poem.

I’m a Canadian

Justin Bieber and Celine Dion,

that girl on “How I Met Your Mother”

when you talk about Canadians

I wish you thought of others

I’ve never built an igloo

though Whitehorse got pretty cold

I think I say ‘about’ pretty normal,

but that’s not what I’m told

I had a pet bear named Barney

I’ve put a saddle on a moose

A beaver dammed the crick again

I’ll have to shoot it loose

I hear that I am friendly,

I might be too polite

are these really qualities

that describe what I am like?

When I think about what’s Canadian

It’s really hard to know

But what I can tell you is this:

Denmark could fit into Canada 231.7 times