Ha, this time the winner was a good one. If these guys make it to Serbia, I'm buying tight red pants to support them. Although, they remind me of last year's winning group and they did not do well at Eurovision. But still, go Rongedal!

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Ahh, February. The month where it all starts. The infamous Eurovision Song Contest is not until May but every country's finals are now underway. Sweden started Saturday and, true to the nature of the contest, the most embarrassing entry won. Hopefully this is not what we send to Serbia in May...
note: Christer Sjögren is well-known in Sweden. I didn ( Read more... )

I have to take a class called Introduction to English Pronunciation. It's challenging for most people and the teacher is excellent (although she unfortunately smells strongly of wet dog) but I'm going out of my mind. And even though General American is accepted as a correct answer, to read the phonetically transcribed texts I have to imitate a ( Read more... )

I'm moving back to Maine in May. I'm transferring to Farmington and I'm going to be an ESL teacher. Mrs. Martin (former ESL teacher at EL, currently adult ed ESL teacher) wants me to help her out in her classroom immediately after I get home... So I have a mentor already. i finally feel like things are coming together. I'm also going to get a ( Read more... )

I had forgotten how dark it gets here. It was dark during the whole class I had this morning and the sun set again at 3.30. But I did manage to catch a bus home while it was still light out. There's hardly any snow here but the little dusting there is on the plowed corn fields of black dirt made the whole way home look like an oreo milkshake from ( Read more... )

christmas vacation, boots, shopping, anna, strawberry, alicia, casey,  [HOME] freeport, portland, boston, airplanes, earplugs, cvs, messe de minuit, laughing, starbucks, kisses, my house, egg nog, the muppet christmas carol, hugs [TOMORROW], pumpkin pie, presents, giving presents, food, candy, coco mademoiselle, sweaters, cloves, talking, catching ( Read more... )

Today during after-school playtime the boys played dress up and challenged each other to a walk off. Whoever could walk around the room and not fall down wearing dress-up heels won ( Read more... )

A week and a half left of student teaching, one more class and it's Christmas vacation for me!

These kids are amazing and I'm a kick-ass teacher. I love being an English teacher! It turns out I'm a stickler for correct pronunciation.

Mozart's Requiem went well yesterday.

Now all I have to do is avoid fines, read, and clean my appartment before Casey gets here on Friday.

oh geez

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