Howie and I's Monday night student is a 12 year old girl. She has been to the US and has very good English for her age. Her teacher chose her to participate in a city wide English speech competition this Sunday.
On Monday night, I proofread her speech and helped her with pronunciation and pacing. Howie helped her with hand motions and facial expressions (very important during speeches here). I'd say all this took about 40 minutes.
Wednesday night, her mother calls us to say that the English teacher thought the speech was too pessimistic (the title was "The Older I Grow, the Lonelier I Am" after all). Her mother asks Howie if we can write a new speech for her... And can we have it finished in 30 minutes! "Okay", Howie says, "No problem." We start writing.
I'm happy to say that we completed a 2 minute long speech in about 20 minutes entitled "The Older I Grow, the More Excited I Become". Our student's father showed up a little before we finished. He copied it to his flash drive and took it home for her.
She will come to our house again tonight (even though she has a fever and will be working on the speech all day today at home since her teacher excused her from school for this) and again on Saturday night.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Creeping Back
I randomly started thinking about posting again. I am horrible at doing this mostly because I would rather be playing video games or watching Netflix.
I logged on after more than a year today to find that so much has changed to the layout of Blogger. I really like that I can see how many people have viewed my posts and where the traffic is coming from. I was checking all that out when I noticed that my post about my hospital stay had received nearly 450 views. I thought, "What the heck is going on?" I looked to see where all these views were coming from. A vast majority of them were from an adult forum.
Some guy (who I was able to track down thanks to the Internet; he lives in MA), found my post about the surgery rather appealing. Therefore, he posted a link to my post on his forum thread on this adult website with a short explanation about my post. He also included about 10 other blogs.
I was a little surprised to find this information, but even more surprised that someone would find that post at all, ahem, appealing.
I logged on after more than a year today to find that so much has changed to the layout of Blogger. I really like that I can see how many people have viewed my posts and where the traffic is coming from. I was checking all that out when I noticed that my post about my hospital stay had received nearly 450 views. I thought, "What the heck is going on?" I looked to see where all these views were coming from. A vast majority of them were from an adult forum.
Some guy (who I was able to track down thanks to the Internet; he lives in MA), found my post about the surgery rather appealing. Therefore, he posted a link to my post on his forum thread on this adult website with a short explanation about my post. He also included about 10 other blogs.
I was a little surprised to find this information, but even more surprised that someone would find that post at all, ahem, appealing.
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