First week over

MA in Creative Writing began yesterday at Fritzonian Institute. There are twenty students: 14 cats, three dogs, one guinea pig and two humans. Lecturers are also people but head of department is cat. Most of professors are cats which is why Institute has international reputation.

Spent first day playing games to get to know each other, for example, asking questions to student next to us, then introducing them to everyone. Paired up with guinea pig called Henry. Hard to tell class about him because already he thought he had chosen wrong Masters and would prefer to study advanced cooking. He didn't know why he was offered place on course as selections of writing he sent in with application were copied from favourite books.

Henry wants me to teach him how to make borscht soup and stroganoff correct way.

On second day had class discussion on T.S. Eliot and role of tradition in poetry. Henry asleep by second power point slide. Been up all night surfing internet for eighteenth century recipes from rural Finland.





Henry - before he fell asleep








Lecturers keep telling us how hard we must work. On second day studied group of crazy French people called 'Association pour écrire sans consonnes' (APES). These mad people believe best writing doesn't use consonants. Already been given assignment: write Japanese haiku without consonants. This is first draft:


eio uai aouu
uoaa eei ueoa iai
oao eua ueioa














Purrs

Bakhtin