In a word, no.  I didn't check when the last time I actually posted to LJ was, but i know it has been quite awhile.  I've been quite the busy fellow the last few weeks.  I had a week that I was in Italy, where they have the internet, just not where I was.  Shortly thereafter, Monica, a fellow German major from Lawrence and now assistant teacher ( Read more... )

I just remembered that I didn't tell you that I am in fact going to Italy with that 10th grade class.  I mentioned that a few weeks ago and it worked out.  We leave tomorrow evening and will be in Tuscany for about a week.  I guess I will see Florence, Pisa, the Mediterranian Sea and other fun things. 

So a lot has happened in the last couple of weeks since I last posted.  I have been pretty busy at school and trying to get myself all set up here.  There were also two weeks of special activities at school.  The first week was the school week, where students did projects relating to the main theme.  The Theme was Wizardry and Magic in School.  By ( Read more... )

Yesterday was an odd day, I have to admit.  Things were good, but also kind of annoying.  The teacher that I work with most was just in one of her moods.  I guess she gets them more and more now.  She's nice enough much of the time.  But she's at the very end of her time teaching, and it's getting more and more obvious.  Not that she's lazy about ( Read more... )

Everything is going well. I found out last week that the Tai Chi group at my school does the same Tai Chi routine that I learned through PBS quite a few years ago, so that's exciting that I'll get to practice that a little bit more.  Although the teacher does it a little bit oddly, so I'm gonna have to keep an eye out that I dont mess it up ( Read more... )

 I have to share with you part of the mind map from the chalkboard this morning.  The 8th grade had to come up with facts about the US and this is some of what they came up with:

America
People: 300 Million, GW Bush, Hispanics, Asian Americans, stars, Natives, African Americans
Sights: Statue of Liberty, skyscrapers, the Old State House (Boston), ( Read more... )

Hello all.
First the question: Anyone have a favorite photo album website that they would recommend to me? I do want to post some pictures of this very nice city, and I made some very beautiful ones last weekend, although I nearly harmed camera doing so.  I dont have internet, but I can put pictures on my Wechseldatenträger (memory stick) and then ( Read more... )

Ok, these people are really loony.  They mostly don't have actual recordings of the Local Forecast from 1995 or anything (which would be sad enough).  They have it EMULATED on their computers.  There's a commercially available emulator of the Local Forecast, and some others just create it with Macromedia or something.  Who DOES that with their time ( Read more... )

So last week I heard about this "documentary" called "Loose Change" which is a conspiracy theorist's history of the September 11th attacks.  First of all, I decided that I would like to be a Conspiracy Theorist when I grow up, because you can claim anything you want and anyone that disagrees with you is either lying or has been lied to.  Anyway, I ( Read more... )

My application for year 2 in Germany has been accepted!!  I will be sent off to the northeastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.  I'm looking forward to it and hoping for less craziness than I had at the beginning of this year!  But hopefully I get a nice school with nice students and nice colleagues.  Surely I can't get everything, right?

Anyway ( Read more... )