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Learned some new things in class last night.

Got account on delishous, or however you spell it, which of course could be a problem but google has a spell checker. I think this site might useful for some students to do Internet research. But i suspect that most students will be too busy with the basics to compound the confusion. I had intended to teach dropping web location pointers to a desktop folder to make the easily transportable on a flashdrive but perhaps i should use delecous instead... if they can spell it. Doesnt this thing have a spell checker?

Bob and i have cooresponded some about the project. He found a site on Somali poetry. When i first looked at i only zeroed in on some mediocre poetry, but Bob pointed out the informative description on the recent history and currency of Somali poetry that will be a good starting point for the Somali students.

It became clear last night that i should consider breaking the project up into two major stages: Doing research on what is known and available about the poetry and poets of the language on the Internet and then looking closely at a particular poem in the first language and what can and cannot be communicated about it. These have two very different objectives. The former being the language's place in the gigantic domain of 'world literature' and the later a direct experience of the complexity of looking at literature from other cultures and the deceptiveness of literature in 'translation'.