February 2011
1 post
Man Shot for Eating Popcorn Too Loudly During... →
Interesting.
January 2011
1 post
Dave Barry’s 2010 Year in Review →
November 2010
1 post
October 2010
2 posts
“I name call Benson. I am inside Pi class middle of a student.”
– Excerpt from the introduction to a 6 paragraph story by one of my Taiwanese third graders. The school requires that all students in 3-5 grade complete a speech, memorize it and present it in front of the entire student body. The teachers are responsible for making sure the speeches are charming and...
September 2010
4 posts
I miss my family.
While I continue in Neverland, life goes on at home. This usually isn’t a problem, since my parents keep me in the loop with frequent Skype conversations. The hard part is when events occur that my Dad’s endless stream of emails can’t make up for. Like, the birth of my niece’s first baby girl. And, when family members aren’t doing well and I can’t be there to...
South Africa on flickr →
August 2010
8 posts
In six hours I’ll be on a flight to Johannesburg. South Africa has always been very high on my “OMG I want to go there!” list, so I’ve been looking forward to this trip for a pretty long time.
But, since this trip is also about Meeting the Parents, the pre-trip emotional freakouts are even more intense than usual. If Andrew were slightly less patient, he would leave me...
July 2010
8 posts
Artists See an Increase in U.S.-Cuba Cultural... →
The Daily Show Examines the Troubling Lack of... →
June 2010
8 posts
I quit chicken today.
I began reading Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals a couple of weeks ago. He repeatedly hits you in the gut with grotesque images of the forty-two day life span of a chicken in a factory farm - from genetic mutations that render them weak from the start, a living space the size of this page, broken bones, terror and paralyzed but conscious slaughtering…he goes on. Yet, I still wasn’t convinced....
Taiwan children find it difficult to communicate... →
This article doesn’t surprise me. I recently reported a case to my director of a wonderful six year-old boy that had recently stopped smiling all together, was unresponsive and would often react with excessive anger. I’m not sure what I expected to hear but the response I received was a half-smile and “Thanks for letting me know. I’ll tell the next teacher so he’ll...
1 tag
I've had a nightmare every night this week.
I’m really tired. I can’t remember most of it in the morning, but I wake up very upset and I know that every night is different.
May 2010
3 posts
“Hi Sarah:
Sorry, I sleep late, so I will be late 30 minutes today.
Would...”
– A student’s email, 10 minutes into our class time. Nothing makes me more angry than a student oversleeping into my time and then having the nerve to request that I extend his class or fit him in somewhere else. I explain it on the first day of every class, you’re paying for this hour and...
“Dancing in the backyard
Kool-aid mustache and butterfly wings
Hearing Andrea...”
– - “A Way Back to Then” from [Title of Show]
(via laurahunter)
I wish I’d had the opportunity to see this show while I was living in NY. Unfortunately, Broadway was like a pool to me…you have it, you don’t use it.
April 2010
11 posts
The New Decornographers: Bloggers With Perfect,... →
I fell down this rabbit hole myself recently and it sucks. I will never be that person that can place flowers in a perfectly chaotic arrangement. I’m coming to terms with this fact.
Beach Lodge Manager: Tanzania →
I think I would love this job.
Miami Marine Stadium Gets $3M To Begin Restoration... →
Google is not working in my apartment. I can’t access mail, reader and worst of all I had to use Yahoo to find out if Google is down everywhere.
Why is this happening? Did Google shut down China and lump Taiwan in with them?
April Fools 2010! The Best Pranks Of The Year →
Ben and Jerry’s - I love you. I wish I could have experienced YouTube in text.
April Fool’s is one of my favorite day’s of the year. Obviously, I tried to prank my students with surprise tests and excessive homework, but since they are Taiwanese and are in a classroom till 9 o’clock Monday to Friday and cram schools on Saturday morning, they were totally unfazed....
March 2010
9 posts
