Last week I was teaching and I told my students I would not be at class Thursday and Friday November 24 and 25 because I was 'celebrating Thanksgiving.' One of my students said, "Oh, you're going to the states!" And I answered, "NO, but I really want to!!!" A little voice inside my head said, "why don't you ( Read more... )

SOX WIN! SOX WIN! SOX WIN!!!!!!!!

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!

How great does it feel to have another Chicago championship!!!!

Now to get those Cubbies to win!

I'm realizing that I really love teaching Proficiency, because the range of material you can use in the classroom is so wide. We've already read a Gabriel Garcia Marquez short story, which the students LOVED. For our listening practice, we're listening to the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of 'The 39 Steps,' which is also quite cool. I was able to revise ( Read more... )

It started out small. I'd look for a song on Limewire, then if I couldn't find it, I'd go to the iTunes music store and, after some deliberation, purchase a song. Back in the dialup days, it took so long to get a tune downloaded, I'd spend most of the time worrying about the 79p.. and was it worth it if it still took over a half hour for a song ( Read more... )

Oooh... sooo.. hungover..

But Duckie ROCKS!!

Sorry to all of you guys who have been devotedly waiting for every missive from Madame Cherry, I have been too obsessed with Katrina coverage to write anything ( Read more... )

"I mean, women's social rights are not critical to the evolution of democracy. We hope they're there. I think they will be there. But I think we need to put this into perspective."

-REUEL MARC GERECHT, speaking about the new Iraq constitution on NBC's "Meet the Press" this past Sunday. (scroll down ( Read more... )

I remember being a kid at my catholic school, and on the anniversary of Roe V. Wade allowing abortion rights to women in America, the principal always flew the flag at half-mast for all the 'babies killed since then.' I used to always be struck by the fact that as long as I'd been alive, abortion had been legal in America ( Read more... )

So I hear livejournal is interactive. Is it? If I build a livejournal, will people come? >>Yawn<< Ti- red this evening!! Such an exciting weekend. Romantic essex and southend pier friday and saturday. I know everybody says it's depressing out there - 'the seaside town that they forgot to shut down' - but as I'm not from this country, it didn't ( Read more... )