Keira High Iquanids

Year 8i (code name Iquanids), an all boys English class at Keira High School, is reading Samuari Kids: White Crane with their teacher. Yesterday I was lucky enough to spend an hour with the boys talking about being an author, the Samurai kids series and books in general. There were lots of insightful questions,

Look at the beautiful flowers they gave me! Japanese theme complete with two large bamboo stems that I am going to keep and use when I do samurai dress-ups in some of my Stage 2 presentations.  I also received a big, beautiful card that they all wrote messages on. And Ciaran gave me some of his haiku.

This one is my favourite. It's called The Blizzard.

Freezing cold whiteness

Blowing fiercely and strongly

Showing no remorse.

No wonder I always come away from school visits inspired all anew.

About those ninjas

I've always been interested in ninjas. I have a collection of reference books and there are ninjas in two of the Samurai Kids series books - Owl Ninja has Japanese ninjas and Monkey Fist introduces ninjas from China.

So this made me smile.

I found it via a friend ,on the FaceBook Page of Life, Love and Hiccups.

And that's one of the reasons I like Facebook. It can make me smile.