Mother can’t stand children being idle. What does she make her children do?

d . English and karate

Mother cannot allow
idle children,
hers or anyone else’s.
After one week
on the ship
Brother Quang begins
English lessons.
I wish he would
keep it to:
How are you?
This is a pen.
But when an adult is not there
he says,
We must consider the shame
of abandoning our own country
and begging toward the unknown
where we will all begin again
at the lowest level
on the social scale.
It’s better in the afternoons
with Brother V ,
who just wants us
to do front kicks
and back kicks,
at times adding
one-two punches.