So, people. Does the word "superstition" carry a negative feeling? I was taking pictures of the students in my class and mentioned that I was a bit worried about doing so with the Haitian students because I know it is one of the countries where some individuals believe that a photograph will steal their identity/soul. Which was not something I ( Read more... )

I have started classes with my internship. Very different class sizes, with my T/Th class having about 15 students the first day and my M/W class having four. It may even out or change a bit ( Read more... )

My life is going to be a life again very shortly, albeit a much, much less interesting one since there are unlikely to be beavers or grandiose adventures into the great unknown. Nevertheless, I'm starting my internship portion of my grad school program in January and may be posting here if anything interesting happens during said internship. It ( Read more... )

There is an ad on the train i am riding for zero calorie,non-alcoholic beer stating that if you like beer, you will love this becuase it tastes hardly any different. i am tempted to find and buy some just to see how hard they may be lying.Because there is no way that is true.

With an equally victorious hat, no less

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An era that I still don't know if I was even any good at, but an era ( Read more... )

Well, today turned out rather uncomfortable in 5th period as I tried not to mess with kid's underwear...while messing with their underwear ( Read more... )

Atago decided to put pictures of me on the website. Me and squishies, and the vice-principal and I with squishies randomly placed on our head ((I'd taken the entire army to give away. Most of it went to the special ed class, which seems a reasonable place for an army of over-squishie puppets. The only ones left are the seal, the fox, Ralph and a ( Read more... )

The Marine base is doing fireworks for the 4th of July, as they have every
year I've been here.

Now I'm wondering, though: Do all the military bases around the world do the
same? Because it seems like it might be just a little smug if the military
bases in England do.

I went in to try to get a reference from Okada-sensei today (In Japanese ( Read more... )