Interesting things I have learned lately

As humans are lifelong learners,

(see how I used pedagogical jargon there? There are educators who speak like this all the time... they are the ones who end up getting to charge $1000 for one day's consultancy/Professional Development to tell staff what they already know, in a way they haven't heard before... I'm not bitter: I'm practicing for becoming one.)

I have been thinking of some of the things I have learned lately.

1. How to play the notes of the C and D scales on the recorder.

2. Lizards like to eat snails. This is a picture of Louis the Lizard (blue-tongued) wearing a fetching snail shell hat.



3. The funniest, most childish game ever:
Locate someone far away.
Close one eye.
Make a pincer with your fingers so that the tips of your fingers look like they are holding their head.
Close fingers and say "squish" quietly.

haha!
























See? Ha!




4. Being a bit childish at home helps keep you young on the inside, and sane at work.

Posting, lest I rust...

My car is rusty. The hatch will fall off any day now, I'm sure of it. It also wants a new muffler, again, and two things called CV boots . And yet, instead of making the money, I am on holidays spending it.

I toyed with the idea of getting a second job today. Didn't last long. Besides, that's what American teachers have to do. They also have to teach outrageous class sizes, and if the Wire is accurate, have drug dealing thirteen year olds swearing at them and throwing chairs at them. Plus, they have security guards open the doors and the students go through metal detectors.

I've got it pretty good, akshully.