Word: revata
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hill. We were escorted up the hill by a group of uniformed school kids entranced by Tom's sunglasses (every little kid we met on the trip, in the smallest, remotest villages, yelled "Rambo!" when he caught a look at Tom's shades). They introduced us to U Revata, their English teacher at the East Gondalon monastery on Sagaing Hill...
...Revata invited us back to the monastery, a peaceful brick structure where we ended up spending the night. The children gathered at his feet in front of the blackboard, where were written the words "DUTY TASK PERFORM" and several other related concepts. During the lesson, U Revata would read a phrase like, "The dog bit the man's toes" and then the children would chant it back in unison between 25 and 50 times: "Dogbit-man'stoesdogbitman'stoes...
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