Via my dear friend Eric at The Oyster’s Garter:
Who would win in a fight, Capt. Picard or Darth Vader?
I showed my 8th graders the tree octopus page today, by way of teaching website evaluation in a way that didn’t make them start snoring and drooling on their computers. “Why would anyone make a page [...]
Conversation between two of my 7th graders today:
S: I just finished a great book! The Incredible Adventure of…something or other. (I didn’t quite catch the name.)
A: Is it about mice?
S: No, it’s about a rabbit. Why’d you say that?
A: Because those adventure books always have rodents.
The kid’s not wrong!
(Image courtesy of I [...]
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It’s September 11. I saw a headline on the front page of a newspaper this morning remarking on “Six Years Later.” And I realized: that means my 7th graders were 6 years old. Their awareness of the world around them has existed only in a post-9/11 world. They will remember 9/11 [...]
I had my first temp-agency interview today, for the earning of summer ca$h. Apparently I type 87 wpm with no mistakes while typing a boring sample corporate manifesto, which is kind of fun to know, as I had never taken a typing test before. Apparently this is also OMG the best score evar, [...]
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It only takes $5.60 and one week to get an envelope full of letters from students in a Boston suburb to students in a rural Ghanaian village.
The global infrastructure is an incredible thing.
Finally, finally, I have my Ghana pictures (or a good representative sample thereof) up on Flickr. Here’s my photoset. Enjoy!
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So as of Tuesday night, I am home at last! There will be pictures and more stories at some point soon, but in the meantime it is just unbelievably good to be here, in this place that I love more than anywhere I’ve ever been. Waking up with my boy after a night [...]
So now that the project is done, I’m being a tourist for my last week. I only have 15 minutes left at this internet cafe, so I will tell you quickly that this morning I got up at 5 a.m. to do a dawn walk through Kakum National Park, featuring the only canopy walk [...]
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I unexpectedly have another shot at internet access today! And probably will again on Tuesday! So I want to write more, while I’m thinking it. Perhaps a run-down of how the basics of life work here would be interesting:
Bathing: Fill a bucket from the house water barrel. Use a smaller pail [...]
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Last Sunday I made French toast for the guys, with one of the bottles of maple syrup I brought. They liked it, though they mostly thought the syrup was too sweet. (They tried to put way too much on - sauces here are really more like soups that you plunk a big ball [...]
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