Monday, October 26, 2015

Mariia Gonchariuk
EN 1100
Prof.  Young

"I asked how many white kids she had taught in the Sounth Bronx in her career. "I've been at this school for eighteen years," she said. "This is the first white student I have ever taught." "

"In one makeshift elementary school housed Ina former skating rink next to a funeral establishment in yet another nearly all black and Hispanic section of the Bronx, clas size rose to thirty four and more; four kindergarten classes and sixth grade class were packed into a single room that had no windows. "

"There are expensive children and there are cheap children..."

Sunday, October 18, 2015


Since my writing Muse did not come when the Haiku festival was going on but came when I was at my kitchen I wrote my Haiku on the fridge. And of course it would be on my favorite Ukrainian dish which was unfortunately no where near the fridge itself.