"To be is to do." -Socrates

"To do is to be."- Sartre

"Do be do be do."- Sinatra

I always said I would never be that idealistic student teacher that's always smiling and giving bullshit lines like "great job!" or an over-enthusiastic "wow, that's awesome!". But these kids make me so happy. When the Asberger syndrome kid makes so much progress in an hour because we've learned together how to stay focused on a task, I get excited ( Read more... )

They made me necklaces and bracelets and then they asked me to write down my mom and dad and brothers' names so they could create a SIMS version of me. All because I'm switching to another class next week and they're going to "miss me".

I'm happy. :)

 These third and fourth graders (one of which came up to me and asked if it was true we poured  sort of "sugar sauce" all over our pancakes in America) are so eager to get to know us students ( Read more... )

On every 4th of October Sweden celebrates Cinnamon Bun day. So eat a whole bunch, in honor of this Swedish tradition. I've already had three. MMMMM.

Some days I feel like this "be myself" project is going well. But other days, like today, the current is speeding in the opposite direction and I'm too tired to remember why I even started trying to be my own person.

grrr

"I heard somebody say, 'Where's (Nelson) Mandela?' Well, Mandela's dead. Because Saddam killed all the Mandelas." --George W. Bush, on the former South African president, who is still very much alive, Washington, D.C., Sept. 20, 2007

...but it' simply because there isn't always very much to boast about.

on an island in the middle of a big lake. I hung out with a good friend of the family and her uncle who showed us a group of Lithuanien women singing and dancing. Then we visited her aunt who gave me so many cookes and so much coffee I thought I would explode.

And on the ferry ride home I passed old men fishing in boats, and saw cranes perched on ( Read more... )

 Looks like the newspaper in Örebro (where I live) has ruined sweden's neutral reputation. A cartooonist for out paper (Nerikes Allehanda) drew a picture that insulted Örebros Muslim population. A protest broke out immediately after the publication asking for an apology but none was given.

Now al-Qaida will pay $100,000 to whoever kills the artist ( Read more... )

It's been almost a year since I learned to play the ukulele and I still don't have one. And I still really really want one. And I'm still a little bitter that my brother got one... he has like five other guitars to play with.

Where can I buy my ukulele. I mean, a cheap one that does the job?