I love Shakira...I'm watching her video on repeat at school. It's my guilty pleasure like eating fried eggs off of asphalt. The tar is better than pepper and the broken glass has less sodium. Anyway....Stocks...I am way up because of Apple right now, but the constant hardware problems are getting me down. I'm hoping they will keep their upward trend until 2006, but they need to get their QA up. Jobs has a job to do. Google is back up to 311.00. I'm a little bitter that I sold. I should have bought again at 280, but I thought it was going to drop to 250. It would have only saved me a little money. I want to buy stock in Shakira's derriere. RUTH is still hovering around 18 and ADBE is not moving at all. My bluechips are basically staying the same. I should buy petro stocks, but I feel bad doing it - I shouldn't capitalize on other's misery. I am looking at Nintendo, but I said that I'm not going to buy any new tech stocks for a while. Sony is dropping li...

An Hikari is a Japanese style bathrobe, that they wear all the time...kinda like loungewear. Today my project is to develope new lesson plans for my classes. These are some hints from another teacher...Andrea... Teaching Young Learners 1. Activities - Listen and do - Mime - Raise your hand/ clap to practice a) comparative b) Likes and dislikes c) general knowledge Simon says - for classroom language/instructions: (i.e. getting book and pen ready, get them to be quiet etc) - for general instructions/imperatives - to revise body vocabulary - to revise prepositions - to revise action verbs 2. Word games - hangman or hang the teacher (categories: food, famous people, cities, clothing, animals) - pictionary - chain stories- oral or written - first and last alphabet chains - back to the board - 2 teams - tongue twisters - drama/ soap operas (bring props so they can role plan and make their own drama/ soap...

keep my students interested. I have four levels to teach, so what works at one grade often fails at another. I feel like I'm just guinea pigging it right now. Davesesl had some fun ideas under general discussion. I'm hoping that I'll motivate myself enough to do some actual lesson planning this vacation break. Happy Chusok. Dan

It's Friday before Chusak and all through the school, little rugrats are screaming thinking of all that special food. Eggplant and bean sprouts, dried fish and tofu, pumpkin and mushrooms, dried squid and some brown stuff and green stuff and other stuff I've never seen before. There are rice cakes with red bean or rice cakes with sweet seeds or rice cakes filled with an even more obscure goo. There are apples swelled like Anna Nicole's...eyes and grapes like punched bruises and a plethora of tempura that is left for feasting ancestors. When the meal is ready, Their ancestors leave their hovels in Soul and come to indulge in the indulgences offered. Being dead these great grandfathers and grandmothers smirk garlic and hot peppers. Kim Chi is left out of the Chusak supper! Everything is served in brass dishes with care and each passed on gets special chopsticks so they don't have to share. Incense are burned and a spoon stuck in the rice. Then, in hanboks, the father ...

If iRiver made a good offer, I think Apple would concede. If not, iRiver could at least make the player compatible with audible.com. If they did that, I would buy one. I'm going to go ahead and buy an iPod nano from America and ship it over. They still haven't set a release date for the nano. They say on the website that it will be shipped in the middle of September. The Apple Store says at the end of this month or next month. If I wanted to, I could possible order a bunch of them and sell them at a much higher price on the black market - which Korea has many of, but I'm just a simple teacher that likes iPods. Thanks for reading the blog, Dan --- Will will.mon@gmail.com > wrote: --------------------------------- iRiver will never be iTunes compatible because Apple will not let it happen. BTW, interesting commentary about the Korean market. -- Posted by Will to Philosophy of Go! at 9/14/2005 06:52:15 PM __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Ed...

5th grade and 4th grade classes. 5th grade first...I am teaching about rooms. This is a bedroom. I am going to draw a picture of a big house and ask them what furniture belongs in each room. Then I will ask them about houses in the past. Actually, lets try that. Old style house, new style house, and future house. The problem I am frequently having is that all the computers just don't work. I could spend my entire time planning something only to find out that the lessons won't work because the computers are unreliable. It's a bit frustrating. I could bring in my computer to every class and plug it in, but I don't know how safe that is. Not that anyone wants an Apple computer. The Alphabet game doesn't work in a big group. There are too many students and they can't hear each other. I need to think of other games. The Dice of Fortune game works well because they work together and because there is the element of chance. The Witch's Brew Story worked ...

I am going to keep a daily journal of what is happening at my school because I want to figure out the most effective way to teach students in Korea. I will do my best to keep you informed of stuff that is going on. My first class today was wonderful. They were attentive and nice. They listened to the lesson well and they participated with answers. Overall, the class had a very positive attitude towards learning and teachers in general. This is a complete contrast to my 2nd class, which was disruptive and utterly chaotic. I could place the blame on myself, but I think it goes much deeper than that. The teacher maintains order in the class with a bell that he must ring insistently - like the students were dogs. I simply couldn't get the class to settle down until a student told me to ring the bell. After I rang the bell they listened for a second and then I they started up again. My third 6th grade class was much better. The teacher stayed in the classroom, so there was more ...