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It is amazing to me that the hurricanes happening on the coast can cause repercussions this far inland. This afternoon and tonight I’ve felt like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, Auntie Em, Auntie Em, as the chairs outside slide around in the wind, my car shakes as I drive it, and every major tree in the neighborhood has been pulverized. The power is ( Read more... )

I am not going to talk about school that is too depressing, so I'd rather talk about Halloween. I finally found a site with costumes that remotely resemble what Jane Eyre would wear. I was surprised to find that there wasn't more of a selection of literary costumes online. Of course I could always go as the crazy woman in the attic and dress up in ( Read more... )

So I went with Cheng to go see Barack Obama and Joe Biden speak at Dublin Coffman High School, in Columbus, only the second visit they made after accepting the democratic nomination at the national convention. It was all kept very hush hush, and I only knew about the visit a day before because Cheng told me. Yet about 19,000 people somehow heard ( Read more... )

So I looked on my roster of ESL students and their respective languages, and one student's foreign language is listed as British English. I talked with the other ESL teachers, one of whom is from New Zealand, and we all agreed that it must be a joke, or that the student grew up in some place like Jamaica and perhaps spoke another language as well ( Read more... )

Well school has started before it has even started, and I am tired and sick--literally with sore throat and headache after little sleep which was probably compounded by stress. After a week of new teacher orientation, convocation, building meetings, ESL meetings,teacher work days and parent-student walk throughs I am throughly tired out and looking ( Read more... )

It is sad how excited I am for the new Twilight book to come out. I finally broke down and bought Twilight from Borders--a hardback copy of course. And I felt so embarrassed about buying it--it being a young adult novel and all, that I had to offset the purchase by buying a serious intellectual novel--100 yrs of solitude so I wasn't absolutely ( Read more... )

I am finally done with my last class at OSU, and now I just have to wait for them to post the grade so I can apply for the endorsement from Ohio Dept. of Education through OSU. Even though there should be no problem (seeing as how I am sure I didn't fail the class) I am still kind of nervous that the endorsement is not going to work out and I will ( Read more... )

So Despite only taking one class the first half of the summer (my last class finally!) I've been crazy busy. First there is numerous dog and child sitting jobs, and then the cramming in of every child development ESL book that looks remotely helpful. I even stooped to checking out some ESL textbooks from the library to read for "fun" since I feel ( Read more... )

So one more thing about Argentina...my mom bought these trendy boots down there that look like something out of urban outfitters and are far too young for her. She said she was going to tango in them or something like that. Parents are weird ( Read more... )