Archive for September, 2008
Friday, September 26th, 2008
I’mma Ride A Hump
While I still have plenty of other things to fill ya’ll in on, I’ll have to get around to it, when I have the time to write and load and stuff…
Nevertheless, please be forewarned that I will be out of contact during the first week of October (this coming week) due to National Week aka [...]
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Looking For A Friend… at Karaoke!
REWIND: Teacher’s Day fell on the 2nd week of school. To celebrate, the Dean decided to show appreciation to all teachers with a night of karaoke! Sounds like a good gesture so far right?! Right. HOWEVER! The Dean made it mandatory and thought it would be a great bonding experience for each foreign teacher to [...]
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
A Cook’ed Up Dream
Word travels fast. I received news today from nephew, that one of our former teachers, Mr. Cook (taught Health Class in junior high school) reached his dream of 33 years just a few days ago…… via reaching the top of The Appalachian trail. Back in my youngun’ days, I recall Mr. Cook being a tad [...]
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
My First Pee
Yup, today it happened. I don’t quite know how or why and I don’t think I’ll ever know. But in the middle of class today, one of my favorite (and cutest) kids waved her hand and tapped her feet/running-while-sitting down style and said, “Ms. Mimi!!! I need to go to the bathroom!” Of course, her [...]
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Sunday, September 21st, 2008
Before and After-School Boot Camp
Every morning, the students are lined up on the track for morning flag pledge and excercises. Here’s some shots of them from my office window:
And then after-school, the officials run drills with the boys and girls… I guess to practice for school functions and stuff. umm shrug. Think ROTC…
. . don’t burn the day. .
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Sunday, September 21st, 2008
A Lesson on Private Parts
I’m sure this caught many of ya’lls attention! Sooooo this is what I taught last week in Science class… and remember, I teach FIRST graders!
Mmm Hmm, those are “peek-a-boo flaps,” above.
. . don’t burn the day. .
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Sunday, September 21st, 2008
It’s Been A Long Time…
I know, I know… I’ve been slacking majorly on the blog tip, but I’ve been SOOOOOOOO BUSY and not to mention, egggggg-zausted with the teaching thing. I’ve got quite a bit to backtrack and catch ya’ll up on and I’ll certainly try my best to bring ya’ll up to speed! Here are some quick notes:
Teaching [...]
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Remembering 7: From Shanghai to New York
Despite the fact that I’m physically not in the city of Nueva York this year, and I will be “celebrating” Mid-Autumn Festival aka Moon Festival with a dinner, courtesy of the school, on coincidently, “a day that we (New Yorkers, Americans, Human Beings) can never forget”…. my thoughts and sympathies are to those who lost [...]
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Sunday, September 7th, 2008
Meet My Munchkins
Unfortunately, I forgot my camera on the very first day of school and missed out on a pretty cool opening ceremony conducted on the track/field where all students in both regular and international divisions of the school lined in formation for the Monday morning flag ceremony, held weekly. (Though, this was the grand version where [...]
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Saturday, September 6th, 2008
Another Farewell
One of the greatest upsides of the life abroad experience is the opportunity to meet globally like-minded folks and sharing “what brought you here”-tales. But to be honest, with the great expat community here in Shanghai, it has proven to be quite challenging to find expats with substance. (But then again, I guess you can [...]
