Mbwa wangu

Mbwa huyu ni wangu. Yeye anaitwa Charlie. Charlie ni mbwa wa aina ya ‘English Springer Spaniel.’ Yeye anakaa katika mji wa Waukesha pia. Charlie hafanyi kazi. Yeye ni mvivu. Yeye anapenda kula, kulala, na kucheza kwa mpira.

(Don't speak Swahili? It says: This dog is mine. He is called Charlie. Charlie is a dog of the type English Springer Spaniel. He lives in the city of Waukesha also. He does not work. He is lazy. He likes to eat, sleep, and play with a ball.)

Yes my friends, this is what it is like to write papers in grad school these days. It is like jumping in the way-back machine to Whittier Elementary school, home of Wildcat Pride, and Mrs. Lynch's second grade lessons. The crazy thing is that it takes just as much work to do a second grade-level writing assignment as it does to write about the various doctrinal disagreements of the partristic era.

Thank goodness it is reading week.