tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52402435704937609042024-03-13T13:49:07.159-07:00Arwen in GasaArwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16107082076138033309noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240243570493760904.post-4532457447381579292014-12-10T21:26:00.004-08:002014-12-10T21:26:53.941-08:00I finally get to post this!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB">Because the internet hates me, I am even
later posting this than I thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Fingers crossed that I actually get internet today!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(I didn’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is now the sixth of December and while I did get internet the
computer at the café rejected my usb so it’s going to be even longer before
this gets posted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh how sorry I feel
for you! And now it's the 11th and I'm using the internet in a government office, with their permission, because all the cafes are closed. Sigh) </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I have just over a month left and so I am
freaking out slightly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The exams start a
week today and I worried that some of my students still haven’t noticed that
the summer break is over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some children
are displaying their mastery of manipulation and are guilt-tripping me every
time they get.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I expect to be an utter
mess on the 18<sup>th</sup> of December which will be my final day of school.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">But since I haven’t written a blog in ages,
I shall stop thinking about my last month-and-a-bit and instead talk about
other things have been going on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First
of all, my parents visited!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were
here for just under 2 weeks and we managed to get to 6 Dzongkhags during that
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t make dad give a lesson
this time but I did make both of them mark books given that their English
grammar is much better than mine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
arrived on the last Sunday in September and I told them that I couldn’t meet
them as I had school the next day and they had to stay in Thimphu till Tuesday
to get travel permits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While it was true
that I had school and they had to stay, I lied when I said that I couldn’t meet
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had my camera all ready to take
pictures of their surprised faces but when they appeared I decided that hugs
were much more important so I don’t have any photos of their arrival.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">When they finally arrived at school (a day
late because Monday was a public holiday in Thimphu so they couldn’t get any
permits until Tuesday) they were greeted by students who sometimes
enthusiastically answered my parents’ questions and sometimes just looked shyly
around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mom took about ten million photographs,
almost all of which I forgot to copy but I did get some.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">In the afternoon, because it was club day,
I got the kids to put on a mini variety show for my parents and they were very
sad that they had just missed the house cultural competition and were sadly
about a month early for the actual variety show. Each house performed a
Zhungdra (very tradional and older style of dance), a Buedra (slightly more
modern but still quite traditional) or a Rigser (very modern danced to pop
music).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I apologise if I have misspelled
any of those dances.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They also got to
see possibly the first performance of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dashing
White Sergeant </i>ever performed into Bhutan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Some of the steps were slightly improvised and I had to call them out
but the kids looked so happy doing the dance that I defy any Scottish Country
Dancer to disapprove of their effort.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The other item was my choir who performed <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lily Marlene </i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">We Are the
Champions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>They didn’t quite get
Marlene Dietrich’s accent or strut like Freddie but they still did a beautiful
job.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dad, however, thought I was cruel
because I wrote a little introductory speech for each song and had a couple of
students read them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lily </i>speech had lines like ‘This song
was translated from the original German into a language with fewer articles’
and ‘It is appropriate to sing this song as this year it is a hundred years
since the start of WWI and seventy-five years since the start of WWII so it is
a good year for war buffs.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t
think there’s anything cruel about those statements!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">On the Friday after Mom and Dad arrived, it
was Dassain so we got a holiday we spent going on a picnic with some of my
students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They treated us to a lovely
day which included more Scottish Country Dancing but in a forest this time,
renditions of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Yellow Submarine </i>and
Frisbees getting turned into fashion accessories. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I expect to see this on Milan catwalks tomorrow</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixIWNI_vX1doMbLI3w7FxHVZvuDvViMZtKy7QC4CpyoBNX8MU0SqMTU3sOHCt_6gbneN4vzP232tQbW-MMTq56ckkIDBlkNj2kDh1LHVEij43LI5jbwnmTaSki8K3YTxjMfKo6k3-PGHv_/s1600/namgat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixIWNI_vX1doMbLI3w7FxHVZvuDvViMZtKy7QC4CpyoBNX8MU0SqMTU3sOHCt_6gbneN4vzP232tQbW-MMTq56ckkIDBlkNj2kDh1LHVEij43LI5jbwnmTaSki8K3YTxjMfKo6k3-PGHv_/s1600/namgat.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bold, daring designs by Namgay!</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgel6jLRE-s7oBsO3gIhVGNrGVCDd4_2A2UOTTOAoweBNRHxZQp63OLrX1px9y9PZ5oHJEi3bwS84JdJOnm-00eWEAQevOgv7c8VZdUjzsuNBU7BfeC0nPuIKcPLTU0UG6HtkKHZFIx-vyx/s1600/daddyet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgel6jLRE-s7oBsO3gIhVGNrGVCDd4_2A2UOTTOAoweBNRHxZQp63OLrX1px9y9PZ5oHJEi3bwS84JdJOnm-00eWEAQevOgv7c8VZdUjzsuNBU7BfeC0nPuIKcPLTU0UG6HtkKHZFIx-vyx/s1600/daddyet.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dad with his adoring fans</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDo0YSCOd08zql08de4hrRTT3ilC3VomtPn8oKfmeAyop3uHkfWsIlEgugtw5-yhzo_6DpLGd7gCVV42JF1irUyTRaUByf9gRDCDKyWATrmTJgo7Y05PlYBLgV36F8f2Y5hLH8GVMxomii/s1600/picnic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDo0YSCOd08zql08de4hrRTT3ilC3VomtPn8oKfmeAyop3uHkfWsIlEgugtw5-yhzo_6DpLGd7gCVV42JF1irUyTRaUByf9gRDCDKyWATrmTJgo7Y05PlYBLgV36F8f2Y5hLH8GVMxomii/s1600/picnic.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me with guilt-trippers. I have to give them points for making me feel as miserable as possible about leaving!</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Very quickly, I have to tell you about a
terrifying experience that I had ages ago and forgot to blog about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Often kids come and ask for help with their
homework or studies or something.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
is normally code for ‘Can you help me with one math or English program and then
can I look at your photos or watch a cartoon.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Well, one day kids actually came to study while I was watching a David
Attenborough documentary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just paused
it and helped the kids with past participles or whatever it was they wanted
help with and then one of them asked if they could watch the documentary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was thrilled to show it to them especially
since it had a diplodocus and archaeopteryx in it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hopefully you’ve seen <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alive </i>which is the documentary where various creatures come alive
in the Natural History Museum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you
haven’t, I feel very sorry for you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
can’t quite remember where I was up to, possibly the smilodon part, but after a
little while one of the kids asked if I had any <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Barbie </i>cartoons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Barbie </i>cartoons?! I had never been so
insulted in my life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here was a
documentary which had a giant pre-historic serpent and they wanted to watch a
bottle-blond, anorexic freak talk about make-up or whatever she’s interested
in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love my students very much and
this is a totally unfair comparison but I did feel like it was a pearls before
swine (which I would like to point out are super intelligent) moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did show them a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My Little Pony </i>episode instead and if you think that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My Little Pony:FiM</i> is anything like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Barbie </i>then you are a seriously
unenlightened individual and I feel sorry for you. </span></div>
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Arwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16107082076138033309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240243570493760904.post-65861066267683244942014-09-13T21:19:00.001-07:002014-09-13T21:19:46.328-07:00Divvies, I don't know if you read my blogs but DON"T read this one!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB">David, no reading!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not until next year, anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The reason that David, who is my older
brother, is not allowed to read this is partly because I’m an idiot who
seriously underestimates things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve
recently taught myself, and been taught by youtube, how to crochet and thought
it would be fun to try and make everyone in my family something for christmas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, the rest of my family may have to wait
because making a little blankety thing out of tiny crocheted squares takes way
longer than I thought. (To be fair, some time that I could have spent
crocheting I may have spent playing computer games.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks a lot <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Majora’s Mask</i>!)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I have a dream that the blanket piece will
one day be a huge quilt with Pit, Link, Samus, Mario and lots of chocobos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you don’t know who or what any of those
are, I really do feel for you but you may be able to guess the medium from
this:</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's the cutest black blob in the world!</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Yep, months of toil have produced that and
I personally think it looks adorable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of
course, I always think that the Black Mage from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Final Fantasy </i>looks adorable but I just wish the piece was
bigger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hopefully by the next Canberra
winter, it will be big enough to keep Divvies at bit warmer. (Any Northern
Hemisphere readers should remember that winter starts in June there and occasionally
lasts for ten years)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Alexander (other brother, but not as in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Coraline</i>) will have to wait a bit longer
for his crochet project which is unfortunate as he actually sent me a crochet
book a few months ago but he will get a major project too!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I even know what it is but it’s way more
complicated than David’s so maybe ten years to finish that one.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The other major project at the moment is
teaching my year 6s Scottish Country Dancing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A project made slightly more difficult by the fact that many still get
right and left confused.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They like the
slip step and most have setting down, but the skipping step still looks, well,
if I say that some of my students look like young horses trying to run but
haven’t figured out yet that they have to control all their limbs, will you understand that I say
it with great affection for my students?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The most important thing is that they do seem to be having a lot of fun
and the fact that they are dancing like they’ve had four whiskeys in quick
succession just makes it more authentic.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The dance that mom and I chose is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Dashing White Sergeant </i>which, as I’m
sure you all know, is a reel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve
started to teach the reel part which involves three dancers moving along a
figure 8 and NOT constantly bumping into one another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They all have the figure 8 part down, mostly
because I drew giant 8s in chalk on the floor of the hall with helpful arrows
and numbers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> How anyone could fail to understand that is beyond me! (I would like to point out that this is the version I drew for the three kids who came over to learn it before I tried to teach the whole class. The whole class version was slightly simpler. </td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This naturally led to the
students looking at their feet the whole time and running into one another but
I have faith they’ll get it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even though
they’re meant to perform it for my parents on the 1<sup>st</sup> of October and
I haven’t yet tried to teach them the backwards skipping step.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it’ll be fine, right? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Right?! </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Hugs to all, especially Sarah who is currently looking after T'eo! Hugs! </span></span></div>
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Arwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16107082076138033309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240243570493760904.post-9685897197143361142014-08-23T03:29:00.001-07:002014-08-23T03:29:38.073-07:00One more award!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB">I forgot an award!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dreadfully sorry and I hope you can forgive
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To give some background details
about this final award, for the year 6 exam, I gave them the poem <i>Oliphaunt </i>which has lines such ‘grey as a mouse, big as a
house, nose like a snake’ and ‘flapping, big ears.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>I asked the
students to tell me what name we give this animal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t get any Calvinist (as in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Calvin and Hobbes, </i>not the religious
guy) responses like ‘Frank’ but I did get a simply amazing one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So the Gerald Durrell Award for Animal Recognition
goes to the Year 6 student who told me that the animal with flapping big ears
was a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">shark</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well done and remind me to get you a child’s
encyclopaedia of animals for your birthday.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">No award for this one but I would now like
to post a speech that another of my class 6s wrote.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every morning we have a Dzongkha speaker and
an English speaker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since most kids just
copy their speeches from wherever, I worked hard with my classes so they would
write their own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This one was just so
sweet that I feel I have to post it and I feel I should point out that I had no idea about the topic until I saw the first draft.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fortunately,
I was ill the day it was delivered or I would have been quite embarrassed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have left the grammar and spelling exactly
as the student had it in her first draft.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU">Early
to bad and early early to rise makes man healthy and wise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Repected principal, Bice principal toD
teacher and my brothers and sisters<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Today I am </span></i><span lang="EN-AU">(No, I’m not leaving her name in,
but I like the implication that she changes who she is day to day) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">from class VIB we like speak on the Topic
favourite teacher here I begin.</i></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU">We all
the students have our own favourite teacher.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So I as a student also have my own favourite teacher.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My favourite teacher is miss Arwen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is from Australia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>she has white complaction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She likes to sailing when she was in
Australia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>her ship name is Jarmes
crack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She have snake and Little Dragon
as her pet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Little Dragon she called
as Teo's and snake as Eve </span></i><span lang="EN-AU">(I made sure Padraig was
included in her second draft and even wrote his name out phonetically.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poor Padraig wouldn’t want to be forgotten!)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
is Live in samdinkha near the archery ground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>she loves to reed Books and listening song, and she love animals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>she gave us candy and small sticker as a gift
when we hold Top mark in class text.</i>(Yes, I’ve resorted to bribery)</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU">Solastly
I would like to say I Love my miss Arwen as well as other teacher too.</span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">Awwwww!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’m just so proud that all my lessons on grammar and spelling seem to
have, well, not done anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But at
least they know about sailing and reptiles! (And no ‘little swot’ comments, please!)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">Another wonderful thing that happened was
that I finally achieved one of the greatest teacher clichés!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I often get given things by my students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve been given sag (spinach), chillies,
passionfruit, guavas and pomegranates but earlier this week…</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo_p6I8rRR876NV24WPAweIjQ6H8siaW6fxXpY0hwX2tKBXfNGUNLv18uyf9iwX-ejnJwYPp_kGuRmOMegZY9HScPIdw75eRo1pTmKF3Kup1zcbfj94kEH3cJKY6jzaDmgQXWxb3HmX2NW/s1600/DSC02297.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo_p6I8rRR876NV24WPAweIjQ6H8siaW6fxXpY0hwX2tKBXfNGUNLv18uyf9iwX-ejnJwYPp_kGuRmOMegZY9HScPIdw75eRo1pTmKF3Kup1zcbfj94kEH3cJKY6jzaDmgQXWxb3HmX2NW/s1600/DSC02297.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It didn't even have any worms in it!</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-AU">… someone gave me an apple for teacher!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll reassure mom by saying that I washed and
peeled it before eating.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">I shall begin this next anecdote by saying
that all is well and my feet are completely dry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last Wednesday, I was making some
well-deserved popcorn when my doorbell rang.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I assumed it would be students either asking for homework help or
selling cheese.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was students but they
weren’t selling anything or asking me to do their homework for them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead they both started talking extremely
fast and incoherently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I asked them to
slow down (they were both year 5 students so I don’t teach either) and managed
to hear, ‘Flag coming from Lunana. Gautem Sir already gone.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guessed that some holy artefact was being
brought to Samdinkha and one of the teachers, Gautem Sir, had gone to meet
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t see what that had to do
with me and wanted to return to my popcorn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I wondered if all the teachers were meant to meet the visiting
lama.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The students seemed concerned that
I wasn’t reacting to what they had said so they started off talking quickly at
the same time and kept saying that a flag was coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told them to slow down and asked one of
them to clearly say what was coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Again one of them said ‘flag’ but added ‘big river.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ah, a flood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Well, at least I finally understood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I then spent about 2 minutes running round and shoving important things
into my backpack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These included my
passport, Jerry, meds and Druklet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just
the bare essentials.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I put on my boots,
grabbed a bottle of water and headed out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">The river was an amazing colour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Imagine <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Charlie
and the Chocolate Factory </i>but sadly, I doubt it would have tasted very nice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hurried up the hill and stood with some of
my students and their families watching the river and wondering what would
happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How high was the river expected
to rise?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would we all head to the school
and have a slumber party in the hall?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
was about then that I realised that I had forgotten my toothbrush.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a little while, people started to
return to Samdinkha and I decided that I’d risk it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is an alarm that is meant to go off if
we’re really in danger and it hadn’t sounded so I thought I’d go back and pack
my bag properly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I made a pact with my
neighbours that they’d tell me if they were heading out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m pretty sure I could have squeezed into
their car if it were an emergency.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">Fortunately, the popcorn was fine so I
enjoyed it while packing properly and letting my health buddy know that there
was a potential situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wasn’t
panicking or even terribly worried but I have to admit, I slept in clothes that
I wouldn’t mind climbing a hill in and didn’t sleep with my earplugs in.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">In the morning, the river was back to its
normal monsoon-grey and I found out that there had been a landslide which
caused a little dam to form which eventually burst, raising the river and
turning it Lindt 99% cocoa-brown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
think some students were disappointed as they were hoping to get out of
school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was ever-so-slightly
relieved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do find it interesting,
however, that if the apocalypse comes, it won’t be announced by horsemen but
instead by two girls jabbering incoherently.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">Hugs hugs!</span></div>
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Arwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16107082076138033309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240243570493760904.post-24501474334242418962014-08-10T01:02:00.000-07:002014-08-10T01:02:24.122-07:00And now the PJACEA Awards!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB">Good Morning, Afternoon, Evening or
whatever time it is when you are reading this!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We have begun the second semester and all exams have finally been marked
(almost a month ago but I’ve been a bit lazy about blog writing).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The students performed quite well, indeed
some of them too well which meant there were not so many contestants for the </span></div>
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<b>Penultimate Jibjokha Amusing and Confusing Exam Answer Awards!</b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">This means I get to feel pride that some of
my students seem to have learned something from my classes and yet still have a
sore head from banging my head on my desk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>However, I did not suffer as many injuries as last year.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The first award to be given this year is
Wol’s Award for Truly Creative Spelling.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">This is a category in which many students
excel as many believe that spelling rules and even phonetics are to be
completely ignored.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">First, the runner ups.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Well done to the year 6 student who told me
about their ‘prantch.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And well done to
any of you who worked out that they meant ‘parents.’</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Good try to the year 7 student who wrote to
their ‘Rectaepted’ principal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Slightly
easier to work out that they meant ‘Respected.’</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">A round of applause to the year 6 student
who told me about ‘Soseastudy.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
were not referring to a branch of marine biology, instead, as you will hear
when you say it out loud, they meant ‘Social Studies.’</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">But the winner of Wol’s Award has to go to
another year 6 student for making ‘knowledge’ look and sound like a Tolkien
villain by spelling the word as ‘norglath.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(Help us, Aragorn!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Save us from the evil Norglath!)</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We now move on to another favourite award
of the judge, Inigo Montoya’s I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means
Award.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">There were three brave contestants for this
award.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first being a year 8 student
who I hope is not as violent as their entry makes them sound. (For those of you
who do not live in Bhutan, ‘Pema’ is a person’s name): </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">‘I shall mow the Pema.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(You do
and you clean it up yourself!)</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The second was also a year 8 student who
also managed a grammatically correct sentence (which was really all the exam
question required) that still manage to draw a wonderful mental scene for the
reader:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">‘I shall be forgiving my pen.’ <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(You are a very bad pen for writing all
those naughty words but I shall forgive you if you promise not to do it again!)</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">But the mental image made by winner’s
sentence was just too good to not give them the award:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">‘Tamas Edson was the invader of the
lightbulb.’ <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(We can’t let it keep all that tungsten
filament to itself! Company, attack!)</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">It is now time for a new award.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I call it the Um, Wait, What? Award for
Excellence in Confusing the Judge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
were so many contestants for this award that I could fill about 3 blogs with
their entries but seriously, your brains would explode from confusion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was only thanks to my truly heroic intake
of Nutella while marking that I am still with you today.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">First, the runner ups (or is that runners
up?)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">For the terrifying mental image and
confusing statement of: </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">‘Smoke can body make like butter’ the year
8 student gets an honourable mention.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Another honourable mention to the year 7
student who wrote the utterly confusing statement:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">‘There will be wang from the lam.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really don’t know what that means and
perhaps that’s for the best.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The final honourable mention goes to a year
8 student who told me: </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">‘It is not good for fighting and kick the
bucket is not good.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To be fair, I think
she got confused by an idiom lesson I gave about a month before the exam.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">But the winner seems to have been going for
a very profound philosophical statement which my inferior brain just could not
comprehend: </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">‘In my mind I will energy the energy will
finest.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did anyone else get a flashback
to the ‘I can kill you with my brain’ line from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Firefly</i>?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Should I be
frightened?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another new award is the Susan B Anthony You
Go Girl Award which this year goes to a year 7 student who wrote a whole paragraph
on how the moral of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Metroid </i>(I gave
the synopsis of the Nintendo game as a passage in the exam) was how girls can
do things better than boys and girls are stronger and smarter because they save
the Solar System. (I wrote on her exam that perhaps ‘just as good’ was perhaps,
maybe, more appropriate than ‘better.’ Was I wrong to do that?)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">It is now time for the Roger of the Raj You’ve Got Their Position Slightly Wrong Award.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">For the poetry section, I gave the year 7s
the poem <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Mewlips </i>by Tolkien.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a perfectly lovely poem about a race of
human-eating, gold-hoarding demon-like creatures which live in swamps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You know, fun for the whole family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before going on with the award I would like
to say that my father first recited the poem to me when we were at a muddy pond
in the Margalla Hills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perfect timing as
always, dad!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Honourable mentions go to the student who
said the poem made them feel ‘happy’ and ‘interested to see the beautiful
places’ and ‘interested to meet the Mewlips with their gold.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, who am I to judge if they want to go
and meet these creatures who like to keep bones in a sack. (I would also like
to point out that I told the students that the poem was not true and they should
not get scared of the creatures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes
I lie to keep the students from not being able to sleep.)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">But there can only be one winner and that
honour goes to the student who told me that ‘the Mewlips are friendly because
they feed people.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She thought it was
very funny when I told her that ‘You go to find the Mewlips, and the Mewlips
feed’ meant something slightly different.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We now come to the Ravenous Bug-Blatter
Beast of Trall’s Award for Logic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
award was won by two year 6 students for their answers to the question ‘Why
would you not think the Oliphaunt was true?’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The year 6s also got a Tolkien poem but theirs was the slightly less
scary <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Oliphaunt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">One student told me:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">‘I not think that the Oliphaunt is true you
wont think I’m true.’ </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">And the other:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">‘I think that the Oliphaunt is true because
Oliphaunts won’t think I am true.’</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Sadly, I’ve tried the old ‘I won’t believe
in you so you won’t believe in me’ trick on irritating humans and it works
about as well as ‘if I can’t see you, you can’t see me.’</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The last proper award is Sigmund’s Freudian
Slip Award.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This student made a
statement which I think is accidentally true of so many students around the
world today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, well done to them
for realising they were using an adverb.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They wrote:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">‘I studying very hardly.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Well, you and half the kids attending
school today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, to be fair, at least
a lot of my students have to walk an awfully long way to school <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and </i>do farm work when they get
home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s a much better excuse for
hardly studying than ‘I had to beat my high score in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bejewelled</i>!’</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Other funny statements I got that I just
can’t think of categories for include:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">‘My favourite book is all Dzongkha story
book and all english story book.’</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Perhaps the ‘Slight Exaggeration’ category?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">‘[The emus] live in left side of Australian
coat of arm’</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I didn’t actually ask the student what she
though a ‘coat of arm’ was though I might have got an interesting answer if I
had.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also couldn’t remember which side
the emu stood on and so just guessed.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">And finally:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">‘Our farmers are depend on agriculture.’</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">Can I give that a ‘Pointing Out the
Bleeding Obvious’ Award?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I shall end the Award Ceremony with two
more amusing statements I saw during the holidays which prove that you do not
need to be a student to get a mention for unintentionally funny
statements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first, well, company
name more than statement that made me smile was the ‘Ocean Views’ tour
company.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’ve either got amazing eyes
or amazingly lost.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The second was a decal on the windshield of
a taxi which told me to ‘Prise the Lord.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Off what?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">So just remember, don’t study and do your
best to misunderstand and misremember everything and you too could get an award
for</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">* <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">All grammar and spelling errors in award winning sentences or phrases
were copied from the students’ answers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Please don’t ask me to correct them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>All grammar and spelling errors in the bits that I wrote you can only
point out if you’re my dad because there’s no way I can stop him from doing so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hugs!</i> </span></div>
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Arwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16107082076138033309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240243570493760904.post-91122121214995164842014-07-12T21:12:00.000-07:002014-07-12T21:12:43.847-07:00I am a terrible person.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I have a year seven student who has family in Thimphu which means he has seen a lot of foreign, as in American, movies. He will often come and tell me about movies that he's seen such as <i>Toy Story </i>and numerous superhero movies.<br />
Now, I am not the most knowledgeable person when it comes to superheroes but I can normally fake my way through conversations. You know, I'll chat about how Steve Banner flew his invisible plane from Krypton because his parents were shot and that's how he became Wolverine. Flawless. I do have my own superhero, though. Her name is Drake and she has dragon powers which she got when a dragon saved her life after she had been thrown into a volcano in Iceland. I then decided how it was totally unfair that male superheroes often have titles like 'Captain' or 'Professor' and female superheroes don't really so I thought that Drake should get a title. So I changed her to Captain... Drake. Hmmm. Can I do that? Those of you who have studied English history will know about the Tudor era privateer who, I believe, was the first Englishman to sail around the world. Can I use his name for a half human/half dragon superhero?<br />
I seem to have become sidetracked. Sorry. Anyway, my student, who had recently seen <i>Iron Man 3</i>, asked me how Tony Stark's suit was able to put itself on him. I tried to explain CGI which I brilliantly described as 'kind of cartoons made with computers' but he stopped me and asked how Tony Stark did it. While I was thinking how to answer this he asked me if I had ever met Iron Man. I was slightly thrown by this question. Looking back, I could have said something like, 'No, but I had tea with the Hulk last week.' but I didn't. I really had no idea what to say. I said that I had not met him and, I am so sorry for this, I said that he is a comic book character. I did NOT say that he wasn't real but I felt really, really bad. I would like to say that the student is thirteen or fourteen and was one of the students who previously asked me if <i>My Little Pony:</i> <i>Friendship is Magic </i>was real. What would you have done? Am I the worst person in the world? Aargh!<br />
Hugs to All!</div>
Arwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16107082076138033309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240243570493760904.post-63533901121315238462014-07-12T08:27:00.003-07:002014-07-15T03:54:22.802-07:00MOM, STOP READING WHEN WARNED TO, SERIOUSLY!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It's my last day in Thimphu and I'm already suffering from internet withdrawals! How will I survive without<i> xkcd, Jesus and Mo </i>and adorable cat pictures? I could just immerse myself in work, I guess.<br />
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Since I've been super lazy with blog so some of these things happened a while ago but hopefully I'll remember enough or be able to make something up.<br />
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A few weekends ago I did something which most people find strange, but I find those people strange so meh. I went looking for serpents. (Spoilers to keep mommy happy: I didn't find any and, if I had, I would never have touched them) I took my walking stick and headed out to a pretty, foresty area by the river and had absolutely no luck finding any reptiles at all. Fortunately, it was still a fairly nice day and I didn't really expect to find any when I set out. After a couple hours of meandering, I saw movement out of the corner of my eye and thought that a bunch of cats had come down to the river. But they were totally squee, chirpy little otters! Little Skipper and Tag and Tarka! I wasn't quick enough to get a picture of them on shore but managed to grab some of them swimming.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See those blobs? Those are adorably cute otters! Promise!</td></tr>
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Another animal I saw recently, but have no photo of, sorry, was a bird that was enjoying mocking some students and me. Sadly, the season's just finished, but in spring there are these really nice berries which grow on bushes on the way to school. Imagine orangey-yellow raspberries and that's what the berries look like. Sadly, the bushes have a really mean habit of growing on the edge of steep slope which means humans can only reach about a third of the berries safely. Birds, on the other hand, can get pretty all the berries and one afternoon, some students and I were desperately trying to get as many berries as we could and were looking longingly and the fat, juicy ones out of reach when a bird landed on the far side of the bush and happily gobbled up most of the fruit and I swear it was laughing at us poor, flightless creatures. I looked it up the next day and think it is called a Himalayan tree pie. A Himalayan tree <i>pie! </i>I can just hear Homer's 'mmmm.' <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oooh, tree pie! (courtesy of google image search) </td></tr>
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Since it's the exams obviously the exams are all over and I am hoping to do another awards blog but haven't quite finished marking yet and there are some year sixes who I have high hopes for when it comes to winning awards. On the whole I feel like I may have taught my year 7s and 8s too well as there were far fewer amusing answers than last year. How terribly irritating that my students are learning and improving their English! They could have warned me that they were doing that! However, due to not quite knowing determiners and possessive pronouns as well as they should, about 90% of my year 7s will be getting the 'Ich Bin Ein Berliner' award for their answer to the question 'I have a hat. It is ____ hat.' and they put 'mine.' Now I just need to teach them German spelling. Just to show off for a moment though, I did have a student who made <b>no</b> mistakes in the grammar section. And that was totally all me. Her studying tonnes every night had nothing to do with it.<br />
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MOM IS NOT TO READ PAST THIS POINT. SERIOUSLY MOM, STOP READING RIGHT NOW!<br />
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Has she stopped?<br />
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Ok. As some of you may have noticed, I'm very fond of reptiles. This means I have kids bringing me geckos and skinks which they find around school. My message of 'Don't touch wild animals' hasn't really sunk in with lizards but fortunately it has with serpents. But I certainly never said 'Don't take photos of wild animals' so one of the teachers when he heard his neighbour had a cobra behind his house grabbed his iphone and ran to grab photos for me.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Isn't it cute! I really hope my mom can't see this!</td></tr>
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ISI! ISI! (The cobra is the mascot of the International School of Islamabad. Way cooler than Karachi's knight and Murree's water buffalo). You will be happy to know that nobody, including the cobra, was hurt.<br />
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Lots of hugs to all and I miss T'eo.<br />
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<i>edited by Divvies to correct comic title typo caused by internet deficiency.</i></div>
Arwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16107082076138033309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240243570493760904.post-12062250239068263992014-06-21T23:08:00.002-07:002014-06-21T23:08:58.301-07:00Well, I promised you photos and these were the only ones I remembered to bring with me.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This one is from teachers' day. The one in the front spends far too little time singing and dancing.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I would love to see this photo with a Superman costume photoshopped in.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This one too.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love how in volleyball photos it looks like players are using a hover spell on the ball.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Screw volleyball, it's interpretive dance time!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I never knew how graceful and dignified volleyball was. (Disclaimer: this student loved this photo)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Or that doing 'I'm a little teapot' was integral to the game.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They found another use for the ribbons!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I don't know what they're laughing at but I like that they look happy in a photo. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I just like this photo.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some of my students from last year! I went to their school on the pretense of watching a football game but just wanted to catch up with them.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I have no clue what I was trying to take with this picture but I love the disembodied leg attacking someone.</td></tr>
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So as you can see, I desperately need my mommy to come and teach me how to take successful photos. Not really writing anything today as I'm in the middle of marking and have about 10000 to go. I will just say that one of my students did 20 marks better than he did last year! Of course, I'm taking all the credit. Now back to marking!<br />
Hugs to All and I miss T'eo.</div>
Arwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16107082076138033309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240243570493760904.post-62270213385399212952014-06-07T01:53:00.002-07:002014-06-08T01:47:06.372-07:00I guess it's been a while<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Greetings! Now I have the huge problem of trying to fit everything that has happened in the last 6 weeks into one blog. Fortunately for you I won't really try to. I did start a post just over a month ago and have been adding bits to it every so often but I forgot to save it onto a usb so it's stuck on my laptop at home. I'll do my best to just remember the interesting bits.<br />
A very belated and happy Saint Porkin's Day to you all! Normal people call it Star Wars Day and even normal-er people call it May the fourth. (If you can't work out why that's Star Wars Day I'm not going to tell you.) I celebrated the day by watching one of the most dreaded movies in the world, <i>The Star Wars Holiday Special</i>. I wasn't brave enough to watch the original version but instead watched the Rifftrack of it. It did make the day special because, to quote the Rifftrax boys, it's not everyday you get to see the stupidest thing you've ever seen.<br />
Other fun things include the boys' and girls' house volleyball competition where the Ravens came fourth and second respectively. Sadly, I forgot my camera for the girls' games but managed to get a few shots of the boys' games. Which I've just found out you won't be seeing today as I seem to have deleted off my usb when I copied them to another teacher's computer. Whoops. Well here's one from the football match.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oh no, a football! Hold me! Only if you hold me!</td></tr>
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I realise that what they're doing is probably a well-used strategy but it still looks funny. I could also have shown you photos from the match between the Jibjokha and Tashidenkha teachers, no I didn't actually play, but you'll have to wait for those too. (I have just sent a message to the teacher asking him to not delete any of the photos until I can copy them back so you can relax. I'm sure you were very worried) Sadly, we lost the match 2-1 but it was still fun as I got to go to Tashidenkha and see a bunch of my students from last year who were worried that I had forgotten them. As if I could ever forget students who wrote such funny answers in their exams! I did get chastised by one of the teachers because while I was catching up with my old students, I missed him kicking Jibjokha's only goal. How dare I talk to students! I was so ashamed of myself.<br />
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We also had the very first spelling bee ever at Jibjokha. And it is purely coincidental that I organised it and my house won. (It really was. I was nervous about giving the Ravens too much help so I helped all the houses). Words like 'thylacine' and 'rehabilitation' were spelled beautifully. Sadly, words like 'feast' and 'friend' proved too difficult for some contestants but on the whole I was very proud of my spellers.<br />
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My choir also had their very first performance! It was National Forestry Day last Monday (June 2nd) and since it's also the anniversary of the 4th King's coronation all schools had a celebration and planted trees. I wasn't told about this until the last minute so we didn't have much time to rehearse but the kids really wanted to perform. So we did 'Yellow Submarine.' They looked lovely, all dressed in yellow and all the girl's had yellow ribbons in their hair which I managed to find in Thimphu. (The ribbons, not their hair) I offered ribbons to the boys as well but they declined. They performed with enormous smiles and great enthusiasm. The only thing which could have made it better would have been if they had actually got one of the notes right but everyone seemed to enjoy themselves so I don't think it matters and I managed to keep a straight face. I was trying to think of other songs with 'Yellow' in the title so we could use the ribbons again but the only two I could think of were 'Isty-Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini' which always gives me flashbacks to what so easily could have been an international incident back in Pakistan (not me, a girl called Karen Binger should have worn more on stage in an Islamic country) and 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree' which wouldn't be terribly appropriate either. Any other suggestions, please let me know.<br />
Wish my kids luck as exams start on the 20th! Some of them will have to answer questions on the stories of Nintendo games so hopefully they'll have some fun. Not too many exams ask questions on space pirates and aliens.<br />
Hugs to all and I miss T'eo! </div>
Arwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16107082076138033309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240243570493760904.post-1560299111753849802014-04-20T01:59:00.001-07:002014-04-20T02:02:26.756-07:00Football and Kookaburras<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Happy T’eo’s birthday for yesterday!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I celebrated the day by doing a listening
activity with my year 7s on a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My Little
Pony </i>episode which had Spike as the main character which they thoroughly
enjoyed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or, at least, almost thoroughly
because they still had to answer questions on it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My year 6s sang <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Happy Birthday </i>as loudly as they could to try and make sure that he
heard them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m sure the classes around
us greatly appreciated that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since I had
to cancel my p.e. lesson with them on Friday, I taught them two games which
were both called ‘cat and mouse’ but I re-named to be ‘dragon and pony’ and
‘dragontrap’ making it very clear that the dragons were doing the trapping, not
being trapped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first game was the one
where most of the kids hold hands in a circle and let the mouse or pony through
but try and stop the cat or dragon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>T’eo
should be pleased to hear that the dragon got the pony every time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other was another tag game which the kids
didn’t quite understand or play properly but they still had fun running round
and making up rules as they went along.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Perhaps I could start a Calvinball tournament.</div>
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I couldn’t quite manage a cake so instead I had a
woolworth’s Christmas pudding given to me by Mark LaPrarie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It wasn’t exactly Delia Smith but wasn’t too
bad and I didn’t even burn myself getting it out of the container after
boiling it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I refrained from lighting it
with methylated spirits though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope Bill
doesn’t mind (See <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Big Six</i>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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One of my students even gave me a gift which I’m sorry to say,
I couldn’t quite keep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of my year 8s
came and told me, ‘There’s one like a kookaburra in the class!’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I assumed a bird had flown into the classroom
and was probably surrounded by shrieking students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, this was not the case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of my students had caught a bird the day
before and thought I might like it as a pet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I would like to take this opportunity to say that the bird in question
was not injured in any way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a
very beautiful bird, which really didn't look like a kookaburra, and I thanked my student very much but explained that wild
animals would be unhappy as pets and it would be nicer to let the little guy
go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fortunately, he seemed to understand
and did not appear unhappy or insulted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I carried the little guy back to Samdinkha in its improvised carry case
(a cardboard Druk lager box) so I could let it go near where it was found.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not sure was species it is but it stuck
out a very long tongue and kept pecking at the box so my wild guess is some
sort of relative of the woodpecker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
now I’m calling it a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">geleytenzini </i>in
honour of its finder.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Awwwww! I would like to stress that I washed my hands very carefully after the little one flew away.</td></tr>
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The final thing I have to report is that the boys' football
is over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sadly, Raven House lost the
crown (which is a bit of a pun if you know about the Bhutanese kings) and came
fourth but still played very well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Cypress House was victorious and I continued my tradition of taking
photos of people’s backs and ones that would be fine if they just weren’t so
blurry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps Pete and Dick could give
me lessons (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Big Six </i>once again).</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Help, the nasty football's attacking us! Hold me!" "Only if you hold me!"</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'm not sure what game is going on in the foreground but they seem to be having fun.</td></tr>
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Hugs to All and curses to the wind gods for not being nicer
to the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">James Craig </i>on the recent
Newcastle trip!</div>
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Arwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16107082076138033309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240243570493760904.post-73492116527539138682014-04-12T22:37:00.001-07:002014-04-12T22:37:33.001-07:00Sticky Geckos <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Ravens won their first game!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I shouted really helpful things like ‘Go Phub
Dem!’ and ‘No, get the ball to go the other way!’ which I’m sure helped get
them to a nil-all draw and then 4-0 win on the penalty shoot outs (I hope I’m
using correct football, as in soccer, terms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I don’t think any off side rules came into play but then I wouldn’t have
noticed if they had).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sadly, they lost
their second game which was 1-0 to Takin House and, even more sadly, I wasn’t
there to see it as I got a wonderful strain of the flu which kept me at home
for a few days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m sure they would have
won if I had been there to shout more really helpful things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did manage to get a few pictures of the
first match and a couple of them were hardly blurry at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I need mom to come and teach me how to
properly use a camera.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Ravens are naturally in white and the Blue Poppies in red because that's logical. I'm not sure which team the dog was playing for.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Ravens during half time.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Raven poised to attack. To be fair, this was probably taken when the ball rolled down the hill and had to be rescused which happen about every 2 and a half minutes.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Damcho did not push Sangay out of the way. It just really looks like she did.</td></tr>
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Along with trying to act like I knew something about
football and being irritatingly ill, I had a stressful adventure after my
desire to have a moth-free pantry went slightly wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I brought with me some moth and silverfish
traps which are a little cardboard tent-y thing with really sticky stuff on the
inside (Apologies to any insect lovers out there but they drive me nuts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are silverfish insects?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve never counted their legs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, apologies to any arthropod lovers
anyways).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Until last week I had totally
forgotten that I had them but set one as soon as I remembered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I got home from school and checked to see if
the trap had been successful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And while
it had been successful in catching something it was about as far from something
I wanted caught as possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A juvenile
gecko was stuck fast to the pad and was obviously displeased with the state of
affairs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It had already dropped its tail
which was also stuck fast but that hadn’t really helped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I tried to unstick it with a spoon but the
poor thing really was stuck fast and I was terrified of hurting it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I did the only thing I could think
of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I called my mommy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She first suggested sprinkling flour (which I
didn’t have but for reasons I can’t remember I did have icing sugar) on the
sticky stuff which did help in stopping my hand getting stuck but had limited
success on the gecko.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I managed to get
its front half off the stuff but could not get its back half off and it was
understandably not cooperative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By now I
was utterly in tears because I had a very distressed gecko and I really didn’t
know if it was going to be ok.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Fortunately, my incredibly tolerant and patient mother asked the
all-knowing Oracle of Google what the best course of action would be and it
immediately answered ‘Olive Oil.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
was generously poured over numerous things in the kitchen including the moth
trap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m happy to say that it worked
almost instantaneously.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had to give
the little guy a quick bath before setting it free.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It did need a bit of persuasion to get off my
hand but eventually ran off to a hopefully less sticky destination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope it accepted my apology which I gave
numerous times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I love my mommy very
much and I hope the gecko does too.</div>
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We also had our school rimdro last Friday which did not
include any fire dancers unlike last time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Though they are fun to watch I was quite happy that nobody was there to
throw a handful of kerosene soaked bark powder on me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, since I wore my kira many students
insisted on having a photo with me but it is Bhutanese custom to not smile in
photos which, since I did smile, led to some interesting photos.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ecstatic</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I swear they asked for the photo!</td></tr>
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And since you are meant to wear a badge, I came prepared
this year and wore this on my tego (blouse). I didn't really try to explain it.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's now a secret to everyone.</td></tr>
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And finally, last year I saw some young monks gaming in an internet cafe but was unable to give you a photo because the only one I took was a bit blurry. Yesterday a couple of slightly older monks came into the same cafe and were happy to pose.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ah, meditation</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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Hugs to all and have a strawberry on the 19th for T'eo's Birthday! That really should be an International Holiday. T'eo!<br />
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Arwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16107082076138033309noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240243570493760904.post-51662447378736129972014-03-22T02:33:00.001-07:002014-03-22T02:33:25.423-07:00An accidental engagement at a football game<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Well the tshechu's over and I guess it will be a little while before I get the comforts of Season's pizza and the Zone's burgers. But I did manage to download the video of the Doctor Who cast and crew doing '500 Miles' by the Proclaimers so that should keep me happy.<br />
Pi Day activities went well with my class sixes. Frisbee games were the focus of the lesson. Sadly, the students won't actually learn about pi until class 8 but I still tried to explain it very quickly and was wearing my pi shirt so they would at least know what the symbol looked like. Frisbees flew everywhere including occasionally, where the students wanted them to go. The final activity was a competition to see who could throw the frisbee and have it land closest to a target. Despite me explaining it three times and demonstrating twice (I even got pretty close which I wasn't expecting) a few students still thought it was a 'Who can throw the frisbee furthest' competition and so didn't do so well but first and second place got within a metre which I thought was pretty good. They were rewarded with a chupa chup as it was the only round prize I had. I've been asked if I can bring the frisbees back and so would be grateful for any Frisbee game suggestions. I know ultimate frisbee exists but have no idea what the rules are. I know I could look it up the next time I have net access but I may be busy looking at pictures of T’eo and other quadripedic and nullpedic Seccombes (I’ve been promised that there will be new photos by this weekend and there’d better be!).<br />
At the moment in Samdinkha, and possibly Jibjokha, we are having slight electricity problems. It started on Wednesday when one of my lights flickered and then started to smoke. I thought I had solved the problem by turning the light off and assumed that I had done something to cause the burning. You know, I might have looked at the light the wrong way or forgotten to top up the gatorade in front of my amber statue of Tesla and angered the electricity gods. The electricity vaguely thought about staying for a while but then decided it was too much bother. We had actually had a power surge in the building and I got off easy but my neighbour now owns a completely fried laptop charger. I think his laptop’s ok though. Naturally, the electricians were able to fix everyone’s power except mine but it was back on when I got back home from school yesterday but now, for whatever reason, all the lights are off but the power points are fine. Why is that? None of my neighbours, including people in other buildings have lights but our rice cookers and water boilers are all working. Can someone please explain that to me? Keeping in mind that I really don’t remember any of the electricity stuff I studied in physics. Thank you!<br />
And today marked the start of what I think will be a long and celebrated career for me as a football, as in soccer, coach. The house competition starts next week and it was clear that the girls expected me to do something even though I thought the best thing I could do was stay far away. I realised when I got there that I might not have quite entered in to the spirit of things when my first thought was, ‘Bugger, I’ve left my book in the staffroom.’ I was then asked by some of the girls where they were meant to stand and what the positions were. I think I deserve points by not answering the first question with ‘On the field.’ Fortunately another house master was able to sort them out and I stood on the side lines and yelled things like, ‘Excellent kick, Dawa! Oh, it’s gone out. Never mind, it was a great try!’ And I sometimes got in trouble from the alternates for my house who were standing next to me when I yelled ‘well done!’ and so forth for members of the other team who made a good save or something. The Ravens scored the only goal of the practice match so at least I didn’t get in trouble for cheering for a goal against us.<br />
The alternates, rather than paying attention to the game, decided to talk to me and ask lots of questions. They were also fascinated by my white hands and at one stage three of them were poking my hands in way that suggested that they expected some weird chemical reaction would take place. Sadly, many girls here feel that dark skin is unattractive and there are tonnes of ads for skin-lightening creams everywhere. I try to explain that thousands of dollars are spent on tanning booths and fake tans in Australia but I’m not sure they believe me. Fortunately, they find it very funny how I sometimes go red in the sun and I point out how lucky they are that they don’t have that problem.<br />
They also asked why I’m not married, to which I gave the answer I always give here which is that I haven’t found a guy who likes both snakes and sailing, and then they asked me who I’d like to marry. Not really knowing what answer they wanted and obviously not thinking things through, I said ‘Tom Hiddleston.’ This was a big mistake because now they are convinced that I know Tom Hiddleston and we are engaged. I tried to explain that he is an actor and I’ve never met him but just like guys who act like velociraptors but that didn’t really work. So if Tom Hiddleston would like to come to Jibjokha to help explain the situation, I would be quite grateful. And then we can have a <i>Jurassic Park</i> movie night.<br />
Oh and I almost forgot! About a week ago, an MP came to Samdinkha and I was invited with three seconds notice to a dinner with him and a bunch of other people. I don’t think anyone minded that I was wearing trackies and a sweater. Or if they did, they didn’t say so. At the dinner was also the 2010 winner Bhutanese Idol (I don’t think it’s called that but you get the idea) and the 2011 runner-up. During dinner, which was outside around a bonfire, they were asked to sing for us. Unfortunately, the sound system wouldn’t accept their usb and I was asked if I had a laptop plug into the speakers so they could play the backing track. I got Jerry they seemed happy enough but they must have clicked the wrong button because through the speakers for all of Samdinkha to hear came, “Mr Dixon had been up the fell before breakfast and brought down the news that the ice on the tarn was bearing properly at last.”<br />
I think it was GNH that guided the hand of whomever clicked on that as nothing could give more happiness than Arthur Ransome. Except perhaps T’eo. I sat and enjoyed the book, expecting it to stop any second but it went on for so long that I actually went to help them even though I knew that no singing competition winner could be better. The singers did sing very beautifully but I still wish that <i>Winter Holiday</i> could have gone on longer. I also got to take part in some Bhutanese dances which are conducted in a circle. This is useful for me as it means I can watch the feet of the person opposite me and do my best to copy.<br />
Wish my Raven girls good luck on Monday for their first match and Happy Birthday to Camille on the 31st! I may be able to get to the internet again before then but just in case I’ll say it now!<br />
Hugs to All!</div>
Arwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16107082076138033309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240243570493760904.post-84041906428375634192014-03-11T05:41:00.000-07:002014-03-11T05:43:13.060-07:00I really love frequent internet access!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Well, I’m still in Thimphu and have spent most of my time
downloading resources for my students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They really should be grateful as I’ve hardly looked at cheezburger at
all!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mostly, my downloads have been
youtube videos on Australian animals and things for choir like a piano program
and a metronome but I’m hoping to squeeze in a bit of cheezburger time before
leaving.</div>
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I’ve also finished the Simpsons math book and have
discovered that I need to re-watch many <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Simpsons
</i>episodes to see if I can catch the mathematical references and jokes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is purely for my mathematical education,
of course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m now back on Bill Bryson’s
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Short History of Nearly Everything </i>and
was mortified to learn that Richard Owen, the guy who came up with the term
‘dinosaur’ which, though scientifically inaccurate, is still cool, was a total,
total git.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He stole research and claimed
it as his own, as a student he stopped others from studying if he thought they
were going to be too much competition, utterly ruined another scientist’s life
and was horrible to his own family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
last thing Owen tried to do was stop a statue of Darwin from being erected in
the Natural History Museum because they had a falling out many years before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not a very nice person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only nice thing he seems to have done was
insist that the Natural History Museum was open to everyone, not just
scientists but still an absolute git.</div>
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On a happier note, there a fairly impressive thing happened
at school the other week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t
include it in the last blog because I worried about making the entry too long
for my dear readers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyway, a week ago
last Saturday we had no classes because some teachers were presenting what they
learned at workshops over the break.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Fortunately, this means all my doubts about how to assess students here
in science are over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> That really kept me up at night. </span>I am hoping I can
help with the scouts though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I learned
last year that they really don’t know how to tie any knots and they are also
meant to learn some songs which I’m happy to help with as long as there is NO <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kum Bai Ya </i>or however you spell it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There weren’t any classes but the students
still had to do social work like gardening and picking up rubbish but most had
left by the time the meeting was over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This meant that the teacher in charge of scouts had to lower the flag
rather than one of the scouts doing it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She had not done this for some time and got a bit tangled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sailors and people experienced with flags may
be able to guess what happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
managed to get the halyard off the top of the flag but was having a bit of
trouble unhooking it from the bottom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
thought about grabbing the halyard but wasn’t quick enough and up the mast it
went.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or flagpole, I guess.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wondered if there was some sort of long
hook we could use but there isn’t a lot of overhauling course bunts (ask a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">James</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Craig </i>crew member) so such a thing wasn’t available.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fortunately, the flagpole could be unstepped
fairly easily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only issue was that
there weren’t enough of us to lift it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Luckily, there were still some class 7 and 8 students hanging around so
we called them over to help lift it but the first one to arrive had other
thoughts of how to solve the problem and just swarmed up the mast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The teacher next to me immediately began to
freak out and panic about the student's safety but I behaved much more sensibly and reached in my bag for Johnny, my
ipod.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sadly by the time I had found him
and got him onto the camera setting, the little Gibber had grabbed the halyard
and was back on the ground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He probably
would have gone up again if I asked him but he was clearly puffed and I could
just see him climbing up again just for a photo and then falling and breaking
27 bones so I’ll just be better prepared next time the halyard goes up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did tell him that he should join as a
topmen on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Craig </i>which seemed to
please him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So if someone could please
inform Morrin that if Kinley Dorji ever comes to the ship he is to be given
climbing training as quickly as possible. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">I shall leave you with a photo of my first big crochet project which is a blanket and hat for the soon-to-arrive baby of fellow BCF-ers, Matt and Lucy. I was too late to give it to the mom, who has already left for Australia but just handed them over to the dad.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcETv0Jq00nFK1cWdPI_YO-uVbRwdnrK6Ph8HLKGwwBTFwGuME0tTQN_k-0SJO33Z_hP89Dw8PfTbSQJT1QNuJpIlQ1doo1kbxQMzsi4-8L8bekyWVb8bkB9ZRLAqOuyTZzD-muBlLm5dq/s1600/DSC00535.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcETv0Jq00nFK1cWdPI_YO-uVbRwdnrK6Ph8HLKGwwBTFwGuME0tTQN_k-0SJO33Z_hP89Dw8PfTbSQJT1QNuJpIlQ1doo1kbxQMzsi4-8L8bekyWVb8bkB9ZRLAqOuyTZzD-muBlLm5dq/s1600/DSC00535.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I made them both Bhutanese colours to confuse the baby about his or her nationality.</td></tr>
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And Happy Pi Day for Friday! I've planned some frisbee competitions for my class sixes and so must buy some sort of circular prizes. Hugs to All!</span></div>
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Arwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16107082076138033309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240243570493760904.post-2004847848194474802014-03-08T22:32:00.001-08:002014-03-08T22:32:22.893-08:00How come the entire country celebrates Sarah's birthday and not mine?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Happy Sarah’s (fellow BCF-er) and King’s Birthday!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because of them we now get three days off to
recuperate after the first few days of school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>To be fair, my first few days of teaching have actually been quite
enjoyable but I’m still quite happy for a rest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If you’re interested about what I’ll be teaching this year, and let’s
face it, who wouldn’t be, I’ve got the same grades and subject as last year, 6,
7 and 8 English.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Happily that means very
few names to learn in comparison with last year as I already know the years 7
and 8 kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So only 27 names instead of
last year’s 96.</div>
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I am happy to report that I already have an unintentionally
funny answer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a poem the word ‘hue’
came up and, after learning the definition, the students had to write a
sentence using the word to show understanding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Unfortunately, one student didn’t pay much attention to the spelling of
the word and so told me that their<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> favourite</span> hun was green.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I personally don’t have a<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">
favourite hun as I only know one but if I had a favourite it is very likely that
they would pretty green now too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or at
least bits of them would be.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">My current
year 7s are happily very eager to learn more of what I taught them last year,
at least in the field of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My Little
Pony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Perhaps the international
brony community could extend a friendly hoof to my year 7s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It could be a fun pen-pal project.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The other
news is that I have been made a house master.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Yes, a role which often includes helping students with sporting events
has been filled by me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I suppose I
should probably look up the rules to football and volleyball.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All I know about them right now is the first
you lift your shirt over your head when you score and there is an offside rule
which women aren’t meant to understand and the second the aim of the game is to
have your forearms turn as red as possible, or at least, that’s what happened
to me in P.E. class.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fortunately there
are also literary competitions, half in English, half in Dzongkha, and a
Dzongkha teacher has been appointed to help me with the Dzongkha and the
cultural dance competitions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The most
exciting thing for me about being a house master is that my house is Raven
House.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My first thought was about how
many literature-inspired cheers we can come up with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
are the obvious like ‘Takin shall win Nevermore!’ but I wondered if we could
think of something involving Odin and his ravens, Huginn and Muninn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only other literary ravens I could think
of were the raven who flew from the ark and never returned and Ravenclaw house
from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Harry Potter.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am hesitant to use the latter as I decided
many years ago that I would be a proud Hufflepuff (yes I would and will explain
why if you are confused) so it seems wrong to use Ravenclaw references in
cheers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is, of course, another problem
that nobody would understand the cheers but I often find that nobody knows what
I’m talking about so it might not matter.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the last bit of news is that I have
started my choir.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>About 14 students
signed up for my singing club and we had our first session on Wednesday (the 19<sup>th</sup>
of February if I’m not able to post this for a while).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first thing I did was make sure that
shoulders stayed down while breathing and was pleased to see how receptive they
were to breathing and voice exercises.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
think the favourites were the sirens and being snakes (they went ‘ss, ss, ss’
for a diaphragm exercise).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We then
learned <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Yellow Submarine </i>as I felt a
repetitive, small range song with a trippy cartoon to accompany it was an easy
thing to start with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m hoping I won’t
have drop-outs as kids are allowed to swap clubs for the first week or so but
I’ll have to wait and see.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did have a
few extras as most clubs started with a discussion about what they wanted to do
and after that the kids were given free time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Some of my singers got nervous when it was obvious that they had an
audience outside so I made the audience either come and join in or go and find
something else to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can completely
empathise with not wanting an audience too early in the singing process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also learned that apparently I was the only
teacher who planned an activity for the first club session, so go me!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m afraid my club will be more of a
dictatorship than the other clubs seem to be but I have told students that they
may suggest songs but I also said that I couldn’t promise that we would be able
to use them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many of the kids like
Justin Bieber and no.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just no. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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It is now a couple weeks later and I’m back in Thimphu as
Punakha is having its tshechu (religious festival) so we get six days off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m celebrating by sitting in Ambient and
eating French fries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And just a few<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"> kilometres</span> out of Samdinkha
we saw a deer!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not entirely sure which
species but it was a deer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Funnily
enough, it wasn’t as thrilled to see us as we were to see it and so did not
pose for cameras which were hurriedly being dug out of bags.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t really blame it especially since the
caretaker’s van is in worse shape than usual and so makes more strange noises
and produces a lot of smoke.</div>
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After a few weeks of classes, I have come to the conclusion
that my students think that I don’t have enough work to do and so they have
helpfully forgotten EVERYTHING I taught them last year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or they’ve decided that word types are unfair
and fascist and every word can be a noun, verb, adjective or whatever else it
wants. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘He clarity the speak’ is much
more equal!</div>
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I shall leave you with the most delightfully assonating
phrase which I made up while getting youtube clips of the new group animals and
that is ‘Puggle Hugs!’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Puggle Hugs to
all, especially T’eo and Padraig!</div>
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Arwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16107082076138033309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240243570493760904.post-31985600370988909102014-02-15T21:36:00.000-08:002014-02-15T21:36:31.626-08:00And here we go again<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-AU">The Missing of T'eo has commenced for
another year! I'm currently at Changi
with about 1 hour to go before we're off again to the land of Dragons. T'eo has once again been left in the capable
hands of mom and dad who shall continue to spoil him rotten and worship him as
the centre of the universe which he assures me he is. Camille, the youngest Seccombe, kindly did not seem to like the idea of me leaving.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No! I've spent far too much time training this new slave to let her go!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Well, fine. If she's going then I'm going too. My other slaves will have to come along as well, of course. But not the ungentlemanly grey thing.</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-AU">I have to admit that I felt quite David
Tennant-ish before leaving (that's a Doctor Who reference, not Harry Potter or
Hamlet) but that's probably due to the constant access to hot showers, boursin
and, of course, T'eo, Padraig, Kipling and Camille. And I guess I liked seeing some people in
Australia too.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">Sadly my desire to bring 10000 books for
each child along with some sturdier frisbees meant that I got to pay for excess
baggage (cue 'In the end I had to leave her behind' quote) so hopefully the
students will appreciate them.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">And speaking of books, I'm currently reading
'The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets' which is great fun if slightly
confusing at times. I've just read about
Fermat's Last Theorem' which involves a proof to a mathematical question. Apparently Fermat worked out their was no
possible solution but just wrote down that he had proof but didn't write down
what the proof was. My first thought was
that once I become the Doctor's companion and after seeing the Big Bang, the
first life on Earth and dinosaurs, it might be nice to go and see Fermat and
ask him to right it down. What I had
forgotten was that in the very first Matt Smith episode he mentions that he has
it. Well, I didn't really forget that he
said that, I just wouldn't have understood what he was on about at the time. And I think this just proves that I would make a perfect companion for the Doctor. (It may be worth pointing out that in about
1995 somebody did work out the proof but it's probably not the same since he
used modern technology to work it out and Fermat lived in the 18<sup>th</sup>
century or something.) </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">I've also found out that there are vampire
numbers. <i>Vampire </i>numbers! They are numbers where you use the digits of
the number to recreate the number like 136 948 which is 146 x 938. The two new number are apparently called
'fangs' hence the vampirism. This now
means that I'm going to have to become a mathematician just so I come up with
Zombie Numbers. No idea what they might
be but I'm going find them!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">And I am now back in the Ambient! But the internet doesn't like me right now so
it may be a while before I can properly post this. The Druk Air flight was fairly uneventful though
I did have a whole row to myself until Calcutta which was nice. Also got to see Kanchenjunga which the pilot
helpfully pointed out and warned people
not to point at goats when climbing it (See <i>Swallowdale.</i>).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">Fortunately fellow BCF-er, Sharon, was on
the same flight so I didn't have to return all by myself but she's decided to
spend some time in Paro before coming to Thimphu. Two other returners, Jon and Sarah should
arrive tomorrow and I have a strange feeling we may be visiting Seasons, the
pizza place with truly amazing hot chocolate, more than once before
departing. (Update – we managed to get
there twice with hot chocolate drunk both times.)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">Some advice for those of you who would like
to stay at the Ambient from Sunday night to Monday: Get the key to the back
door! The Ambient is closed on Mondays
which means if you are staying there it might be difficult to get out of the
hotel. I did ask the night before if I'd be able to get out and was told that
it would be fine. That meant that rather
than the main door getting unlocked at a normal breakfast hour, it got unlocked
at 10:30. Fortunately, I had a super
healthy breakfast of a chocolate bar and finally was released to find morning
tea. Unfortunately, another problem was that many places are
closed on Mondays. I finally found an
open tea shop and have never felt so resented for existing and wanting to be a
paying customer. My current plan is to
have a shingle made with 'The Condemned Man' painted on it to hang over the tea
shop's door (see <i>Cold Comfort Farm</i>).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">It is now the 16th of February and I suppose I'd better post this thing before it gets too much longer but will try and post relatively soon. Given that it's Sarah's birthday this Friday we get some time off, or is it because it's the fifth king's, I should be able to get some more internet access in the not-too-distant future. So I shall end by saying Hugs to All and Happy Birthday to Padraig for tomorrow!</span></div>
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Arwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16107082076138033309noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240243570493760904.post-22862305104961204402013-12-20T10:05:00.001-08:002013-12-20T10:06:45.874-08:00T'EO! TWO DAYS TILL T'EO!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Those of you that have met me know that
my organisational skills are in some need of development. You also
know that while I like my living quarters to be tidy, my desire to
just play just one more level or, as it was the other day, finish
<i>Anansi Boys</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> to make sure that
the ending hadn't changed since the last time I read it. If there
happened to be a procrastination olympics, I'm sure I could
successful represent my country but of course, they'd never get
around to organising it and I'd probably forget to fill out the
application form.</span></div>
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Fortunately, the
day before I left Punakha to come to Thimphu was a holiday as it was
the national day. This meant all the packing and tidying and setting
free of the strange life forms which were taking over the fridge
could finally take place without any excuses like that I was tired
after school or had marking to do. I did actually do some work
before that day but I seem to work better under pressure with only
occasional tantrums, yelling at various inanimate objects and
contemplations about just burning everything. I still had to get up
at 5 the next morning to finish the last couple tasks which stupidly
included defrosting the fridge. Hopefully the huge puddle of water
will have evaporated by the time I get back. I'm also hopeful that
my storage of things keeps them safe from any creatures which Eve
finds cuddly and delicious. I haven't seen that many but I've seen
enough that I'm contemplating bringing some of Eve and Padraig's old
clothes to drape around.</div>
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On the 18<sup>th</sup>
the students finally found out their marks and sadly some year 6's
and 7's will be having another go at that grade before moving up but
all 8<sup>th</sup> graders passed which means they all must move to a
different school. I wouldn't have minded failing a few of them just
so I could teach them again and fortunately they understood what I
meant when I said that to them. My greatest success of the day was
that I was able to eat all the ema datsi on my plate at the farewell
lunch and <i>even took seconds! </i>
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I'm currently in
Thimphu and have finally finished packing and about to set my alarm
for 4:15am in the morning (I loves my daddy) as my plane leaves for
Singapore at 7:20 and it takes about an hour to get to the airport.
Some of you may wonder why I don't stay in Paro tonight and the
answer is that the farewell BCF dinner is tonight. I thought waking
up early was an ok price to pay to have one last dinner with some
fellow BCFers who I may not see again.</div>
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The other thing I
should probably mention is that we all had tea with their majesties
and it was happily much more relaxed than I was expecting. 5 year
old Xavier adorably stole the show and informed them that they must
visit Australia and when they do he would pay for their tickets. I
also had the most difficult walk of my life because since we had to
dress formally in kiras and ghos if possible it was obvious that my
boots would not be appropriate. I had brought a pair of formal shoes
but they aren't really suitable for the uneven, rocky streets of
Thimphu. I managed to catch a taxi to the meeting place but couldn't
find one to bring me back to my hotel so I walked not a great
distance but great enough in these:</div>
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My feet hurt.</div>
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And now I shall
have to depart or I shall miss the aforementioned dinner. It has
been an unforgettable year and let's just hope I can learn from my
mistakes next year.</div>
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Lots of hugs to all
and I WILL SEE T'EO THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW!!!!!!!
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Arwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16107082076138033309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240243570493760904.post-79101312235532836932013-12-07T22:05:00.002-08:002013-12-07T22:05:52.284-08:00It's the SpSAJACEA Awards!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I have finished marking the exams! 168 English exams, all done! One thing I noticed was there weren't quite
so many amusing answers this time which I'm going to claim is because they're improving
in English. Fortunately, however, there
were enough to have<br />
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<span lang="EN-AU"><span style="text-align: left;"><b> The Second possibly Semi-Annual Jibjokha Amusing and Confusing Exam Answer Awards!</b></span></span></div>
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Hello and Welcome. We have reached the end of the school year but certainly not the end of amusing and confusing answers.<b style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-AU"> </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">For the first award, we have another Wol's
Award for creative spelling. There was
only one student who really met the requirements for this award with their
effort of 'aulecuehole.' This students
did not believe that the traditional spelling of 'alcohol' was intimidating
enough when warning others of its dangers so created a much more forbidding
word. Congratulations and may your
creativity know no limits!<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">Next we have Ash's Award for
Grooviness. This goes to a student who
was writing about a Diwali celebration they had attended and apparently how to
deal with any Candarian<b> </b>demons which may happen to show up. Though the
judges are not entirely sure what was meant by 'We play some boomstick' but it certainly
deserves an award from Ash.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">Now comes the Adorable Effort Award. This award is given for those answers which
didn't quite seem to answer the question but good on you for having a go. <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">Third place goes to a slightly confusing
answer to the question 'Describe Betsy's Mother.' (Not technically a question but never mind)
The Award winning answer was simply 'Knuckles.'
So well done to third place. Not sure what you meant, but well done.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">For Second place I must first mention the
poem that the question was from. It was
about a ghost who goes into a deaf woman's house one night and has fun breaking
things and making a mess while the lady sleeps on. The student was asked to give a description
of the ghost's personality but unfortunately got confused by the line 'What a
pickle the poor wife sees' because the answer given was the very sweet 'The
ghost was kindhearted because he made the wife pickle.' (In the student's defence, such figures of
speech can be tricky)<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">But First place goes to the effort for the
question which asked students to change the sentence 'Dorji was eating an
apple' to begin with 'An apple...'
Instead of playing around with active and passive voice the student
technically did what was asked and gave the answer 'An apple was eating
Dorji.' <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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So well done for all the Adorable Efforts.</div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">It is now time for Bruce's Philosophy
Award. This is an award given to those
students that wrote a sentence so deep that it really made the judge think
about life. And need a drink.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">The runner up was a sentence which made the
judge's question their sense of self in this digital age. ' I am number and number.' This sentence is clearly delving into the
concept of humanity being stripped away and leaving people and mere lines of code
as lives become more and more reliant on the internet. Clearly.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">But the winner wrote a sentence which made
the judges think about if we do not give sustenance and help to others, can we
truly be happy? The metaphorical 'If we
are no lunch are we happy?' discusses
the need for humans to be social animals and not only rely on others but have
others rely on us. Then the judges
needed another drink.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">So congratulations to the budding
philosophers.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">Now we have the 'You May Have the Position
Slightly Wrong' Award. This award goes
to students who may have made a mistake but they might have actually meant
that.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">The runner up is the possible misquoting of
a famous saying which many people say and far fewer believe. In fact, many may prefer the students statement
which was 'Money can buy happiness' but it does not quite fit with GNH.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">The winner however, went with something
which we probably all have wanted to say or write at one time or another but
have lacked the courage to do so. In the
letter section of the exam 'Without due respect' was written as the opening
line. The judges were unsure if these
two efforts were intentional or not, hence adding 'may' to the award title.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">Time for Granny Weatherwax's Award for
Witchcraft. A first time award which has
two students winning in a tie. The
judges were again unsure if the students meant exactly what they wrote but
awarded them all the same for the efforts of 'This will be in the seance of our
school' and 'That is your future seance.'
Interestingly enough, the two students were in different classes and
writing on completely different topics.
Still, Granny Weatherwax was impressed and would like headology brought
to the curriculum next year.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">An Honorary Award of If I Read That One More
Time I'll Scream goes to roughly 70 percent of class 7. The award goes to all the students who told
me about their favourite 'flim' to watch and, in another question, encouraged
me not to 'loose' time. So I shall try
and find some flims to watch and make sure that I keep time nice and tight.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">And finally we come to Miss Malaprop's I
Don't Think That's What You Meant Award.
Many students tried for this award, including the student who told me
all about their 'beast' friend and another who said that their friend was very
'energy' with them after a fight (didn't mention what type of energy but
probably sound if it was about a fight).<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">The third place, however, goes to a student
who encouraged their brother to go to 'clogged.' Possibly a slight Freudian slip here as in
college, your brain often does feel quite clogged.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">The second place goes to a student who, at
first glance, seemed to be encouraging us to associated with friendly and good
examples of Canada's national animal.
'If you have good beavers you will be good.' was the silver sentence
which has encouraged me to include 'behaviour' into a spelling list next year.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">But the gold goes to a sentence which the
judges hope is a malaprop but nobody could think of what the student actually
meant. Perhaps you can solve the puzzle
of 'If we don't have knowledge then we
cannot take our proper urine specially in the town areas.' <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">And with that we end our Awards ceremony and
say congratulations to all our winners.
Remember, with the right amount of not reading the question proper mixed
with a dash of confusion, you too could be the proud winner of an award for an
unintentionally humorous exam answer!<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">(I will just add that a startling number of
students managed to get references to 'beautiful snakes' and 'cute lizards'
into their essays. At least they
listened to some things I said!)<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">And I shall be leaving for Australia in 13
days! T'eo!<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">Hugs to All and see at least the Australians
soon!<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">p.s. References were made to 'Winnie the Pooh,' 'Evil Dead/Army of Darkness,' 'Monty Python' and 'Equal Rights' by Terry Pratchett if you were curious.</span></div>
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Arwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16107082076138033309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240243570493760904.post-12384769801717733462013-11-10T22:14:00.001-08:002013-11-10T22:14:14.503-08:00Frisbees and Evolution <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Since I'm sure you're all on tenterhooks, I'll tell you that Dawson's screen is still broken but I can plug him into either the projector or just any old monitor and still use him. So my continuous assessment marks have been saved! Plus all the really important stuff like <i>My Little Pony </i>and <i>Left 4 Dead.</i><br />
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<span lang="EN-AU">One week tomorrow the lucky kids will start
their exams and in one month and eleven days I'll be flying out of Paro which the kids might also see as lucky. Sadly, T'eo won't be able to meet me at the
airport but Mom and Dad will be there so I guess they'll have to do.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">Yesterday, (or the 9/11/13 in case I don't
post this today) we had our school picnic down by the Pochu river. Due to a slight misunderstanding, I arrived
two hours earlier than any other teacher because I didn't realise that the
principal was only talking to the students when he said to arrive at the picnic
site at 8 o'clock. But that was ok
because I had brought a couple of frisbees, my ipod and its portable player so
to the music of Queen and They Might Be Giants amongst others (<i>Teo Torriatte </i>and <i>Love of My Life </i>were the most popular), I taught the
kids how to play catch with frisbees. Sadly,
by the end of the day both frisbees had suffered compound fractures and I had
to reassure some students who looked like they had broken a Faberge egg that it was alright and nothing from a 2 dollar shop
ever lasted as long as they did.</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNBddE0nkviy4k5BkmwZa-q2WJ_uhyO2neWkWcxSlTJNaUgZD5fbc9vyh9GW1NTReHTagOId52UkQVvS9DcojA1No2ao2zmxd_dRZsU21S0JHKOgKRrIu17wdI3OP-llfknyIuv-DCuC26/s1600/Tigersponiespicnic+087.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNBddE0nkviy4k5BkmwZa-q2WJ_uhyO2neWkWcxSlTJNaUgZD5fbc9vyh9GW1NTReHTagOId52UkQVvS9DcojA1No2ao2zmxd_dRZsU21S0JHKOgKRrIu17wdI3OP-llfknyIuv-DCuC26/s320/Tigersponiespicnic+087.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I think <i>Bohemian Rhapsody </i>was playing when I took this one. The frisbees are a bit hard to see but the are the blue things.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Technically there
weren't meant to be any lessons yesterday but some of my students were puzzled
by some “philosophical” questions which apparently had no answer and asked for
my help.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Unfortunately for any philosophers
who demand an absence of solid facts, both questions did have answers.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The first was the good old chicken and egg
question so the kids go a very quick lesson on evolution and how egg-laying
reptiles eventually became chickens.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">I
couldn't give such a good answer for the second one which was about which were
first, men or women.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Well, the exact
words were 'males' and 'females' so I'm not sure if the question was
specifically about humans or if it included the entire animal kingdom.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">I don't know enough about evolution to know
when life got complex enough to have the different sexes so instead I went with
an answer that the boys didn't like very much but the girls did.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">I told them that there were girls first
because everyone started out as a girl.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">I didn't say that boys were therefore broken girls but there was a very
brief lesson on chromosomes. Colin probably would have given a much better explanation but they were stuck with me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">We also had a visit from one of T'eo's subjects. A very excited class 4 student brought over the little reptile and I had to be quite firm with the other students to keep them from petting it.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAKKrr_VH4v_VP1V8oknEwHOF0DRORp8JuHFU-KbpGXd0qv38E7S7-NWUrAJcSatyt_C9BYmCfyyqmDsUvx0CJcF4ceVvtzlA2_8U3mRPvfC7FYLJ2bR13ym91GBTTegvlllbr9LTgytr-/s1600/Tigersponiespicnic+124.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAKKrr_VH4v_VP1V8oknEwHOF0DRORp8JuHFU-KbpGXd0qv38E7S7-NWUrAJcSatyt_C9BYmCfyyqmDsUvx0CJcF4ceVvtzlA2_8U3mRPvfC7FYLJ2bR13ym91GBTTegvlllbr9LTgytr-/s320/Tigersponiespicnic+124.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As you can see, the little dragon was just thrilled to join the picnic.<br /></td></tr>
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I was very glad that the students' fear of tiny lizards was disappearing but the lizard's fear of the students was probably quite strong and I didn't want it justified. This meant that nobody was allowed to pet the little guy but I did let the boy who found it have it on his shoulder.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That really tiny grey streak on his shoulder is actually a dragon.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The afternoon turned into one long photo session after one group of kids asked if they could have their picture with me and then other kids came and some kids wanted a picture of just me and them and so on.</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheVcyn3yvlC6mohvr1us2VUDZx4LwY95mOj1BfECKaA0RTshTRt8Wxm7sEtCPSy4h7-3KplN81YqOel9jyIzCk2r5YrIByVzimCnRWnYg2LYDPIMXsJCn9xFvAG6BoEEZ5pn-Wx6VjreWZ/s1600/Tigersponiespicnic+164.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheVcyn3yvlC6mohvr1us2VUDZx4LwY95mOj1BfECKaA0RTshTRt8Wxm7sEtCPSy4h7-3KplN81YqOel9jyIzCk2r5YrIByVzimCnRWnYg2LYDPIMXsJCn9xFvAG6BoEEZ5pn-Wx6VjreWZ/s320/Tigersponiespicnic+164.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I think some were taking the occasion slightly more seriously than others. I must try harder to spread the insanity to all next year.</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY9WW88SW1Yk82aEHjzL8oaz_bQOWvhqxLbwzH14SEFpzhEj5dfVoexbzsQ7gv1XHdXskJtu_1RwI1o6-x7h4eq4WEuh1o8y75HxHRfRvpnYmU69mkgn0LLhJFZpdjXYOuv7QDgzXPAmzY/s1600/Tigersponiespicnic+147.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY9WW88SW1Yk82aEHjzL8oaz_bQOWvhqxLbwzH14SEFpzhEj5dfVoexbzsQ7gv1XHdXskJtu_1RwI1o6-x7h4eq4WEuh1o8y75HxHRfRvpnYmU69mkgn0LLhJFZpdjXYOuv7QDgzXPAmzY/s320/Tigersponiespicnic+147.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And here's one where some chose to display their gang affiliation.</td></tr>
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I'm hoping my colleagues who are not returning were ok at their picnics. I would have been a weepy mess if I weren't coming back next year!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">I leave you with a photo that I should have put with my previous blog post but forgot to.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's Adam helping Dad focus the picture!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hugs to All and wish my students luck for their exams. I'm afraid some of them may need it!</span></div>
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Arwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16107082076138033309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240243570493760904.post-12543172728767431402013-10-26T03:24:00.001-07:002013-10-26T03:24:43.114-07:00Dawson! Come Back Dawson!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Greetings all! As some of you may have realised, Dawson, my faithful laptop is unwell. I've come to Bajo to try and get him some first aid treatment but, probably since it's a holiday, all shops which advertise computer repairs are shut. I've been told that they may open later but I'm getting increasingly nervous. It won't matter too much since I can stay here another night but it will be another night of Dawson with what looks like horrific black goo behind his screen!<br />
Anyway, I'll stop writing about Dawson's horrible disfigurement and move on to what has happened since I last blogged all those months ago.<br />
Most importantly, my daddy visited! And he got to see my school's variety show! Twice! To be fair, there were some different acts on the second night. For example, on the first night my sixth graders sang 'Bound for South Australia' and on the second night my eighth graders sang 'Wild Mountain Thyme.' And what some lacked in knowledge of the tune they made up for in enthusiasm!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And here are some of my class 8 students doing something more traditionally Bhutanese than Australian or Scottish folk songs.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And this was the Candle Dance done by year 8 girls. You'd swear at least one knew she was having her photo taken.</td></tr>
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After Samdinkha/Jibjokha it was off to Phobjikha! (I've never looked it up or asked anyone, but I'm guessing 'kha' means village or something) All my photos are on Dawson so I'll annoy you with them later. We did go on some nice walks where we heard a cow, or possibly bull, which I'm sure was part tyrannosaur. It wasn't the best sound to hear when walking in the forest. Even after we actually saw the beast, I was still sure it would happily eat a lawyer sitting on the toilet (if you don't recognise that one, I feel very sorry for you).<br />
Sadly we were too early for the cranes which visit the area every winter but some of us are going to try to go to the crane festival in November but since we didn't book ten years in advance, we will be staying in a farm house if it isn't already booked. Who needs indoor plumbing anyway?<br />
And since it is tourist law, after Phobjikha came Paro and Tiger's Nest. And since I had successfully made it on foot, we decided to go on horseback this time. I can remember dad's horse's name but mine was Tinka, who I dubbed Tinka the Flatulent. He was a slightly badly behaved little horse and at one point seemed to want to push dad and his horse off the mountain but was fortunately unsuccessful and did manage to get me as close as horses are allowed to go. Again, my photos of this are on Dawson but I'm sure you'll be thrilled to see them when they are recovered.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">But I got this from Dad's facebook page</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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Then dad had to cruelly leave me but he did leave me with poptarts (supplied by Alexander. I love Alexander! Almost as much as poptarts!) and Mozart Kugeln which I trying to save for exam marking time. I still looked too hard when daddy left thought (see <i>Swallows and Amazons</i>).<br />
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At school we are catching the odeargodtheexamsarealmosthere fever which is not entirely fun but we've almost finished all the work and can start on the revision soon. And I did have fun with my year sixes yesterday when they had to design their own pony. I've been sort of bribing them/using <i>My Little Pony:Friendship is Magic </i>as a listening exercise which they all love and decided that the herd had to increase by 22. Well, 23 if you count Dragonfire, the pegasus pony with a fire-like mane and tail which I created to show them an example. There were a few Dragonfire copies but I also got 'Rocky,' a zebra-like pony with a blue mane and a nose ring, 'Thunder Heart' whose cutie mark is a heart split in two by lightning and 'Stallion Thunder' who is an impressive green pony who is apparently best friends with Rainbow Dash (this part may be dull for those of you who do not appreciate <i>MLP</i>). To help the kids with thinking of names, I wrote a whole bunch of words on the board which the kids could mix and match to make a name like 'Silver Rose' as one student did or 'Shining Diamond' or something. Sadly, I realised that some words could be combined to make what sounded like a perfectly suitable name for a person who enjoys making a living dancing in decreasing amounts of clothing. Fortunately, I don't think the kids thought that.<br />
I'm also anticipating somewhat amusing answers in the upcoming exams. I recently read an essay where the student was talking about staying healthy and avoiding diseases like tv. Was it an mistake or social commentary?<br />
Anyway, that's probably long enough for now so I will end by saying that I shall be departing for Australia in under two months (I leave Paro on the 21st of December) and leaving Australia at the end of January to come back for another year (if the ministry okays my contract renewal)!<br />
Hugs and I still miss T'eo. And Camille who I haven't actually met but is my parents' new rescued cat! </div>
Arwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16107082076138033309noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240243570493760904.post-47075990522964017342013-09-21T22:29:00.001-07:002013-09-21T22:29:32.212-07:00Oh yeah, blogs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Since you've probably forgotten who I
am I feel that I had better introduce myself again (though did I
introduce myself before? I can't remember). Hi! I'm Arwen and I
love reptiles and sailing. That's probably how most other people
would describe me, though the word 'insane' might be thrown in as
well.</div>
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So I suppose if you're reading this, it
means I'm somewhere with internet which probably means Thimphu,
Kuruthang or Bajo (I'm actually in Thimphu). I'm writing this in Jibjokha which for all its
positive points has no internet. Sometimes I lie awake at night
worrying if the cats are getting enough cheezburgers.</div>
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Admittedly I have been on the internet
since my last post all those months ago but most of my time I
foolishly spent either on facebook or downloading pictures of
swagmen, heather or square-rigged ships from the 1900s. I shall
explain why later.</div>
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Things are going fairly well here at
Jibjokha and I apologise to my family and everyone else who got
dragged into my 'aaahh, I'm freaking out, am I really ok to teach,
aahhh, panic, panic' nervous breakdown. I personally think I was
just suffering pizza withdrawal after the holidays. Colin, Jonathan
and Lee were very good nutritionists during the break and made sure I
got all the pizza I could eat. I did not follow Chung Lu's (Sorry if
I spelt that wrong, Lee) nutrition advice which included 'eat your
own food bowl.' Yes, he's a dog. And perfectly lovely when he's not
chewing on everything.</div>
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I also inflicted one of my brothers on
Bhutan and some of the students still ask when he's coming back.
Sadly he ran away to Singapore to get an education. Honestly! We
did climb up to Tiger's Nest and I actually made it! Ok, I rested
about a hundred times on the way but we still made it with plenty of
time to spare before they closed for lunch. Alexander also did very
well with the Bhutanese food but he couldn't finish the cup of souja
(butter tea) that I made him try. I can't really blame him though as
souja is probably the saltiest thing I've ever had and I once ate a
big, heaping bowl of salt. (I'm going to be mean and not explain that
reference)
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I did have an interesting experience
when I unintentionally made the students burst out laughing. I
didn't realise at first but then it was a little hard to miss. I was
wearing something which I had not previously worn to school and the
students found this very amusing. What was I wearing that caused so
much hilarity? A pair of sandals. And it wasn't actually the shoes
which they found funny. It was these.</div>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aaaaahhh! She has
two ghosts attached to her ankles! Help!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">And I
guess I should explain the swagmen/heather/square-rigger pictures.
Well, I finally plucked up the courage and started to take my ukulele
to class. I had been happily playing for the small groups of
students who visited me at home but I hadn't actually lugged it up
the hill yet. My sixth graders are learning </span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">South
Australia,</span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
my seventh graders are currently struggling with </span></span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Waltzing
Matilda </span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">and
my eighth graders are doing very well with </span></span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Go,
Lassie, Go. </span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">All
three songs had to have a vocab lesson attached as words such as
'walloping,' 'coolibah' or 'lassie' are currently used in Bhutan.
I'm hoping that all three classes will be able to perform their songs
at the upcoming variety show but since most members of the audience
do not speak English I thought it might be nice if during the songs,
images of what the kids are singing about get projected onto a
backdrop. It would be cute if I could have the year sevens act out
the tale of the suicidal tramp but it only occurred to me to do this
recently and there's not really time to find a jumbuck outfit and do
all the necessary rehearsing. Ah well, next year. </span></span>
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<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">We
now have one week to go and Dad arrives in 5 days. Huzzah!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Happy
Bilbo's Birthday to all and many hugs!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">And
I still miss T'eo</span></span></div>
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Arwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16107082076138033309noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240243570493760904.post-77306608913813657772013-07-06T22:55:00.001-07:002013-07-06T22:55:47.426-07:00Whitegood problems<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Did I tell you that I bought a fridge?
In Gasa fridges are pretty unnecessary but in Samdinkha it is a tiny
bit warmer. I never knew that vegetables could melt. Some sag
(mustard greens or pretty much spinach) turned into a terrifying
green puddle that looked like some sort of evil creature from a
science fiction story that was going to eat my face or infect my
brain. Or both. Also the insects, mostly ants, are really
determined. So determined that they made it into my zip-lock bags, I
still haven't figured out how, and enjoyed some foods like cheese and
bread. Now, the cheese is easily washed but the bread, which is
really difficult to get, was riddled with the little buggers. I know
that I could have just eaten some extra protein but I just wasn't
that hungry. Instead, I asked some of my fellow Punakha BCF-ers
where they got their little bar fridges and went off to a store in
Bajo (about an hour and a half away but there is a really good pizza
restaurant and internet) in search of a really small fridge that
would cost about 7000 Nu or 140 dollars. Now, I knew that I probably
wouldn't get a fridge that day because my fellow Punakha BCF-er said
she got the last one but they were willing to order.
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After getting slightly lost because,
after all, I'm still me, I found the store where they very kindly
said they would order me the little fridge and it would apparently
take one week. I'm not totally stupid so I assumed it would take at
least two. When that passed I decided to check that they hadn't
forgotten about me. They promised that they hadn't and it would be
in on Monday. Obviously I gave them another couple weeks and lost a
lot more food.
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I have to admit that I was kinda
getting annoyed (my mom may complain that my use of 'kinda' is a bit
of an understatement and she had to put up with my ranting) and
though I knew that I probably shouldn't be surprised at the slightly
optimistic time-estimation being wrong, I decided to head to Kuru
(much closer) and just buy the smallest, cheapest fridge I could
find. I had also been told that the place had free delivery and as a
cheapskate that's always nice. I went and found a fridge that was
not quite as small but good enough. I asked the sales guy about free
delivery, which having seen a truck with the store's logo and 'free
delivery' I was pretty positive about, but he told me that the driver
was on holiday for two months. That's fair enough. If there's no
licensed driver then they can't really deliver and he kindly told me
that there was another store which could do free delivery. I thought
that was very 'Miracle on 34<sup>th</sup> Street' of him (the Natalie
Wood version not that crappy remake) so I went basically next door
where the fridges were more expensive and they too could not deliver,
for free or cost. I think this might have been when mom got a call
and I ranted again. Don't you just love mommies? Fortunately, there
was another way. See the first guy also said that I could find a
taxi driver with a big enough cab to take the fridge. So back to
that guy I went after finding a taxi driver who was happy to drive me
and my fridge home. Now, the first guy knew where I lived and I had
made it clear that I wanted the fridge on that day. When I turned up
with the taxi driver he suddenly told me that he didn't actually have
the fridge and would have to order it from Bajo but it should be in
on Monday and no, I couldn't have the display fridge. I think he
could see that I was not happy so he told me what I really needed.
He took me to the little store next door which sold drinks and snacks
and had a little fridge. He told me that it was exactly what I
wanted and is what I should buy. He then followed that by telling me
that nobody made that fridge any more and there was nowhere I could
buy it.</div>
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I would like to say that I did not use
any profanity, unkind or impolite language. I did just say thank you
and good-bye in a slightly less warm and fuzzy way than normal. I
went back to the second store, walked in and asked them if they had
the fridge for the price they quoted me that I could put into the
very patient taxi driver's car. Success!!!</div>
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I now enjoy cold water, non-insecty
food and no more green puddles of slime. I'm still waiting for a
call from the guy from Bajo. I will let you know if he ever calls.
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Arwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16107082076138033309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240243570493760904.post-37672337188604807742013-07-02T18:46:00.000-07:002013-07-02T18:46:49.853-07:00It's time for the FpAJACEA Awards!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The First possibly Annual
Jibjokha Amusing and Confusing Exam Answer Awards</div>
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Good Evening, or whatever
time of day it happens to be when you are reading this, and welcome
to the FpAJACEAAs. This year we have seen many sterling performances
in the field of strange and/or funny exam answers. All participants
should feel very proud of their efforts but, sadly, there can only be
one winner.
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The first award is Wol's
Award for Great Creativity in Spelling (See <i>Winnie the Pooh, </i><span style="font-style: normal;">the
chapter which features Eeyore's birthday)</span>.</div>
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The bronze goes to the
spelling 'Asulita.' Can you work out the intended word? That's
right, it's 'Australia.' A great effort but points were deducted for
only using letters which were really included in the word and for
making a plausible looking word.</div>
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The silver goes to 'Pthoh.'
This word is slightly easier to work out, being 'Pythons' but it was
an amazing effort given that the exam paper had the word written
correctly 27 times. Well done!</div>
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But the gold can only go to
'Hosticifctal.' This truly heroic spelling of 'Hospital' just laughs
in the face of phonics. Congratulations!</div>
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The next Award is the Inigo
Montoya Award for I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means.
There were many contestants for this confusing, malaproping award but
here are the top three:</div>
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The bronze goes to a
confusing culinary effort or perhaps a sentence where the author
wished to threaten his stationary by saying 'The notebook is mince.'</div>
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The silver goes to the
slightly disturbing 'I will build bleading house.' This creepy
sentence suggests that the author enjoyed <i>Amityville Horror </i><span style="font-style: normal;">just
a bit too much but I really have no idea what they really meant.</span></div>
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But the
gold goes to the double malaproping of 'Prime minister is one of any
goat.' and 'Our Bhutan is like a goat.' Well Done to this possible
political commentary! (I think the author may have meant 'gold')</div>
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Now we
come to the Shouldn't That Be a Word? Award. This is a special award
only given occasionally to the truly accidentally creative. While
trying to write the words 'prime minister' the author gave us the
word 'primister.' Shouldn't all male PMs get called that?</div>
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Another
special award is the I'm Too Tired to Think of a Name for This Award
Award which goes to a student who not only invented a sport but what
to wear while you play it. 'Becket boll coat' I'm guessing is the
coat you wear while playing a game where the goal is to irritate the
English King so much that he has you killed. I realise that Beckett
was incorrectly spelt but I can think of no other logical
explanation. (Apologies to Mark and Tim who probably tried a few
times to get me to play a game with an orange ball which you bounce.
What was that called again?)</div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">The
final award is the Wait, What? Seriously? Award. This award is given
to the sentences, or things that kind of look like sentences, which
made the judge assume she had misread but when she re-read it she saw
that no, it really did say that.</span></div>
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The
bronze goes to the verbing of a noun effort of 'I am turtle your
work.' I really don't know what the author thought turtle meant and
I don't think they did either. (I should say that I thought turtles
lived in Bhutan but apparently they don't so I shouldn't have
included it in a question. Oops. However the question did tell them
that it was a noun and I adjusted marks equitably)</div>
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The
silver goes to amazing effort that makes you wonder what the author
thinks her mother might do in the future. In a letter to her mother
the author wrote 'I love you so far.'</div>
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For the
gold the judge went for a sentence which may be a profound
philosophical statement, but she really doubts it. Can you work out
what 'The Belle was longer the Belle is dead when the Belle is'
means? I couldn't either.</div>
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Well
done to all the winners and just remember, if you really neglect your
studies you too could walk away with a completely non-existent award
and the knowledge that you probably made your English teacher bang
her head on her desk repeatedly. See you next year! (possibly)
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Arwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16107082076138033309noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240243570493760904.post-81013406604868764772013-05-25T05:21:00.000-07:002013-05-25T05:21:24.800-07:004 in one day! You should feel blessed! Also there is a dragon in this post<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A dragon! A dragon on school grounds!
This morning (the 20<sup>th</sup> of May) there was a large group of
students gathered around something in the assembly area and I was
told by some very excited students that there was a lizard. Of
course, I rushed down as quickly as possible and it was a little
aegamid! Its body was about the length of my middle finger (I
realise that's not very helpful for those of you who have not met me,
sorry) and its tail was longer again. Its complete length was about
the same as Dawson's (who is a sony vaio notebook). Obviously the
little dragon was much littler than T'eo but behaved slightly
similarly. I was able to catch him or her who seemed quite happy to
sit on my hand while the students and some teachers admired it but I
wouldn't let them pet the little one as I didn't think that would be
appreciated. The T'eo-like behaviour was when the dragon decided
that it had had enough of sitting on my hand and decided that my
shirt looked like a much nicer place to be. It jumped on my shirt
and ran up on to my shoulder much to the delight of the students.
Fortunately, I was able to pick him or her up again and let it go in
the foresty bit on the edge of the school though it was very tempting
to bring it home so it could catch the crickets who enjoy chirping as
loudly as they can right when I'm trying to sleep. I swear that
they're louder than any of the crickets which I gave to T'eo.</div>
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Hopefully I'll be able to post a
picture of it at some stage as a teacher had their phone handy. I
really should start taking my camera with me everywhere. But just in
case, it was greyish-white with black marks and a longer, thinner
face than T'eo's. It didn't have a nice, puffy beard but it did open
its mouth once and I'm sure that it would have puffed if it could.
On the back of its neck was the beginning of a crest. I think it
wasn't really sure if it wanted a crest or not so it's just trying a
small one to start and might grow a bigger one if it thinks the
little one looks good.</div>
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So it was a pretty good start to the
week. The weekend was fairly successful too. The nicest thing being
that I was finally able to get a full gas tank. Even better, I got
the gas situation fixed without a carpenter, electrician, glazier or
painter having to be called round (See Flanders and Swann). And one
of my students brought me some mushrooms from her village and
insisted on cooking them for me. They were delicious, even though I
didn't have any chillies which she found odd, but I felt bad as she
had to go home before the food had finished cooking. I did make her
take a bunch of cookies as I felt guilty that she didn't get to eat
her own cooking. Some others came round too and asked if I had any
cartoons. I don't think <i>South Park</i><span style="font-style: normal;">
or </span><i>Futurama </i><span style="font-style: normal;">would be
very appropriate so I offered them </span><i>My Little Pony:
Friendship is Magic </i><span style="font-style: normal;">or </span><i>Adventure
Time. MLP </i><span style="font-style: normal;">was chosen and we
managed to watch the first two episodes. I'm going to continue the
David Attenborough education but sadly I didn't bring that many with
me and I think </span><i>MLP </i><span style="font-style: normal;">fits
in very well with the Gross National Happiness. I'm not too sure if
</span><i>Adventure Time </i><span style="font-style: normal;">always
does though it should mostly. Helping people, studying science and
things overcoming differences are all good things but I don't think
sword-fighting is encouraged. Or at least, not until you've tried
lots of less violent things first. </span>
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The only slightly annoying thing about
the weekend was that for the first time in a little while I was able
to sleep in past 6:15 and I was really looking forward to that.
Unfortunately, my upstairs neighbour I suspect does weaving. At
first I thought that there was construction work going on as the
noise which woke me at about 6 sounded a lot like hammering. I've
heard it before but mostly in the afternoons and evenings. What I
now suspect it is, is weaving on a backstrap loom. I saw a lady do
it in Thimphu and the loom is about 45 degrees off vertical and there
was some sort of wooden thing which was used to compress the already
woven threads. I'm not positive that it was weaving which woke me up
but it was slightly irritating whatever it was. I did managed to get
back to sleep but kept being woken up so at about 8 I decided that
trying to sleep was too much work. I'm thinking ear-plugs might come
in handy next Saturday night.
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Just a quick update on Saturday the
25<sup>th</sup> of May. Today was a holiday (normally we have school
till about noon on Saturdays) and I was really looking forward to a sleep in and
even found my earplugs so the loom wouldn't irritate but the earplugs
are no match for my doorbell. It has quite a piercing tone
especially at 6:20 am on a day off! One of my choir member thought
she had left something, which she hadn't, last night and thought that
6:20 am in the morning (hello daddy!) would be the best time to come
and look for it. When we couldn't find it she asked if I would play
one song on my 'guitar.' She had brought me a handful of green beans
so I played one verse of something, I really can't remember what, and
then politely hinted that maybe she had better things to do which,
fortunately, she did. I couldn't really get irritated with her
because I think the idea of someone sleeping in on a day off was as
weird to her as getting up early on a day off is to me! Argh! If
someone could please send instructions on how to safely disconnect a
doorbell I would be very much obliged!</div>
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Hugs hugs and congratulations to all
who have managed to get through all my recent entries!</div>
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Well, this morning started off
wonderfully (no sarcasm. It's so hard to tell tone of voice when
things are written!) because I got to sleep in till 6:15 and about
two minutes into the walk to school the students who walk with me
noticed the caretaker driving up and waved him down so we could get a
lift. I was also glad that the students didn't have to carry my bag
and umbrella up the hill. They absolutely insist on helping me carry
my stuff which makes me feel very guilty. Some days I don't carry
anything up the hill! I should say that the walk to school isn't
too long but I do get a bit hot so it's nice to have a day off from
it.
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The walk to school is the main reason
why I've stopped wearing my kiras to work. They were fine in the
cold north and I was even still wearing my thermals in Bjishong, but
here the heavy rectangle of material plus the two piece blouse is hot
and not practical when walking up a sometimes very muddy hill. So
it's been trousers and shirts. I've been too afraid to wear my pi
and dinosaur t-shirts because, though they are both very educational,
I worry that they might be too casual. Though if I return next year,
nothing will stop me wearing my pi shirt on March 14<sup>th</sup>.</div>
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Another thing that has happened is that
my house has become the David Attenborough Theatre. Some girls asked
if I had any movies, except they said 'pictures' which lead to a
slight misunderstanding though they still seemed to enjoy the photos,
and I just didn't think showing them <i>Jurassic Park</i><span style="font-style: normal;">,
</span><i>The Big Lebowski </i><span style="font-style: normal;">or </span><i>My
Favourite Wife </i><span style="font-style: normal;">would be
appropriate so I found some of my David Attenboroughs. </span><i>Life
in Cold Blood </i><span style="font-style: normal;">was a big hit,
especially the parts with snakes and crocodilians and now we've moved
on to </span><i>The Blue Planet </i><span style="font-style: normal;">where
I spend most of the time trying to explain the differences between
sharks and dolphins, whales and fish and snakes and eels but the
children are certainly impressed with the images. </span>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">I've
also started a very small choir by accident. The kids who tend to
visit each night are fascinated with my ukulele, which the either
call a guitar or a 'laylay,' and so I've been playing them </span><i>Yellow
Submarine </i><span style="font-style: normal;">and various Scottish
folk songs. They also take turns strumming it and singing Bhutanese
songs. The strumming doesn't always match what they're singing but
what they more than make up for that in enthusiasm. </span><i>Yellow
Submarine </i><span style="font-style: normal;">is the current
favourite and they are getting much better. The first few times they
each had their own speed, tune and occasionally lyrics but the choir
is almost together now. A couple of the girls even brought notebooks
last night (it is currently the 18</span><sup><span style="font-style: normal;">th</span></sup><span style="font-style: normal;">
of May) so they could write down the lyrics. I'm hoping they'll be
able to perform relatively soon. Little brothers tend to come along
as well but instead of singing, they dance which a few nights ago led
to the cutest scene of the girls desperately trying to sing along,
the little brothers were dancing like extras from a Wiggles concert
while I was playing the occasional correct chord on my uke. I think
</span><i>Will You Go, Lassie, Go </i><span style="font-style: normal;">was
the easiest as, though the girls kept getting ahead of the tune, it
was easier for them to slow down than to try and catch up. Sadly,
since I was playing the whole time, I couldn't get pictures but I'll
figure something out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Now
for some incredible important information for Tom Dudgeon, Port and
Starboard, the Death and Glories and Dick (I'm sure Dorothea would be
interested too but not quite as much. Oh, and see </span><i>Coot
Club </i><span style="font-style: normal;">if you are unlucky enough
not to know who these people are). I saw a white-bellied heron! I
was on my way to Kuru from Samdinkha and it was flying very
gracefully above us. The driver, who couldn't help noticing it after
I involuntarily pointed and went 'Oh!' very loudly tried to tell me
that it was a black-necked crane which would be a lovely thing to see
but very strange as they don't come to Samdinkha. It also didn't
have a black neck but he rightly knew the bird as something special
to see. They are unfortunately an endangered species and you often
see billboards asking you to help save them. Sadly for me, I didn't
have my camera but I'll try to next time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">The
other bird seen recently was at Andrea's place at Tashidenkha which
looked like a baby of its species so I wasn't too hurt when it
wouldn't tell me an Interesting Anecdote full of long words like
'Encyclopaedia' and 'Rhododendron' and it wouldn't spell 'Tuesday'
either. It may not have learned how to not spell it right yet. It
was, of course, a little wol (now see </span><i>Winnie the Pooh</i><span style="font-style: normal;">,
the original books, if you are confused. If you aren't it might be
nice to read them again anyway.) Sarah Shmidt noticed him or her in
the morning being berated by some bul-buls but it just sat, a bit
more like Old Brown (</span><i>Squirrel Nutkin </i><span style="font-style: normal;">this
time) than Wol. It did react when we walked down the stairs but it
didn't fly off and, even more surprisingly, it was still there when
we got back. We were a bit afraid that it might be ill or something
but the next morning its perch was empty so it was probably just
afraid of flying during the day (I would make a </span><i>Swallowdale
</i><span style="font-style: normal;">reference now but I don't want
to confuse you with mentioning too many books in one blog entry).</span></div>
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I'm still wondering
when I'll be able to post all of these. Perhaps if I treat myself to
a night in Bajo which has not only wi-fi but a pizza restaurant too!</div>
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Hugs to all and I
miss T'eo. Hope he's not getting too grumpy in the cold weather.
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Arwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16107082076138033309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5240243570493760904.post-46183475720512447612013-05-25T05:06:00.000-07:002013-05-25T05:07:13.267-07:00This will hopefully explain the lateness<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It's goodbye to <i>Pigeon Post </i><span style="font-style: normal;">and
hello to </span><i>Wind in the Willows. </i><span style="font-style: normal;">
Sadly I'll be leaving Gasa with its over-abundance of teachers and
I'll be south to Punakha to a school which could use a few more. The
school is in Jibjokha (people who make Flying Jibjokha jokes will
probably get hit) which is about 14 kilometres from Punakha dzong.
My new place is in an absolute bustling metropolis compared with
Bjishong with about half a dozen shops, which apparently all sell the
same things but it's still nice to have a choice of where to go, and
I can see buildings from my window which have nothing to do with the
school! It's </span><i>Wind in the Willows </i><span style="font-style: normal;">because
the Phochu river flows almost right outside my door. It flows a
little bit fast to mess about in a boat on but it's still very
pretty. I could also say it's </span><i>Coot Club </i><span style="font-style: normal;">as
the white-bellied heron which is sadly endangered lives in the area.
Nobody shall be mooring in the wrong place or collecting eggs as long
as I'm there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Since
all my things are still up in Gasa and it's Friday today (the 26</span><sup><span style="font-style: normal;">th</span></sup><span style="font-style: normal;">
of April in case I can't post for a while) I may not be able to start
on Monday but hopefully I'll find a vehicle that can break the sound
barrier. I'll also have to make sure the teachers look after Argus
as I doubt he'd like the move. And the students too, of course.
There won't be any takin about but because it gets much hotter here
there are many more reptiles. T'eo is not to get jealous! I will
try and get photos so he can see his new subjects. I promise I'll be
very careful if I take photos of friends of Eve and Padraig. Mom
won't see them unless she wants to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Time
has passed and it's now the 6</span><sup><span style="font-style: normal;">th</span></sup><span style="font-style: normal;">
of May. I'm having difficulty posting because of the lack of
internet. I'm sure I'll figure something out. Would saving my
entries on a usb and then posting it to Australia for my parents to
post be too extreme? Possibly. I've started at Jibjokha, which is a
beautiful little school just up the hill from where I live
(Samdinkha). Because it's so soon before the holidays the principal
and teachers have decided not to change the timetable until next
semester and I'll co-teach with the current teachers until then.
Lucky for me, the students are about where years 7 and 8 at Bjishong
are so I don't drastically need to change my plans. </span>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">No
dogs have adopted me but my neighbours have an adorable cat who
behaved just as a cat should. You know, demanding food and assuming
everything is theirs. I asked what his name was but, just like the
cat in </span><i>Coraline,</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> he
doesn't seem to need one. He seems to have accepted me as one of his
slaves which is nice. The other day I treated myself to some chips
and decided to enjoy them on the bench outside my place. The second
I opened the bag he was at my side probably wondering why it was
taking me so long to feed him some. He didn't quite get half but I'm
afraid he did get a fair few. I'm not sure if I can cope with him
not having a name though. At the moment I'm just calling him 'Jili'
as that's Dzongkha for 'Cat.' It doesn't seem to quite work though.</span></div>
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My house is coming
together quite nicely. It has almost no furniture but I have finally
got curtains for my bedroom. I promise to have some for the guest
room by the time Dad comes to visit. And I have a resident gecko!
He or she is a darling little thing and comes out most nights.
Really I have no idea if it's the same one I keep seeing or if there
are a few but I've just seen one at a time.
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I'm loving the
school as well, though I still miss my old students. My first day
was the 2<sup>nd</sup> of May which was Teachers' Day and I can
heartily recommend starting at a new school on that day. There were
no classes and it was a day for students to spoil their teachers.
First we got treated to a talent show with lots of singing and
dancing from many students. It was very impressive and when one
student sang I thought he was miming until he stumbled over the
words. The students had also decorated the hall with posters which
had quotes about how lovely teachers are. My favourite one was one
that with less than perfect spelling where the writer had run out of
room. It read</div>
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LONG LIVE OUR TEACH</div>
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AR</div>
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I chose to read it
as the piratical statement, 'Long live our teach! Arrrrr!' Though
that may not be what the writer intended.</div>
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After the talent
show, year 7 treated the teachers to morning tea but I suspect they
were also trying to fatten us up given the number of biscuits they
insisted we eat. We were also given lunch but, despite my best
efforts, I just couldn't finish it due to my wimpiness when it comes
to chillies. Possibly the most impressive thing about the day was
that it was fully organised by the students themselves without any
help from teachers. Take note Australian students!</div>
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I promised to tell you about the Rimdro
and so here I go. Firstly, a Rimdro is an annual Buddhist ceremony
to purify a building or place. It's meant to drive out evil spirits
so everyone will be happy and healthy for the year. I've been able
to see two, the National Park centre's on the 6<sup>th</sup> of April
and, of course, the school's.</div>
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I didn't really know what to expect at
the park's one. I was just told that there would be lunch and then a
ceremony. Sadly, I had a coughing attack due to a spicy bit of beef
but fortunately, it was a fairly small one and I've learned to always
carry a bottle of water with me in case of such an incident. I can't
remember if I mentioned the terrible coughing attack at the King's
Birthday and there was nothing to drink. For the last few staff
dinners I have managed to eat everything, even the ema datsi, so I
feel quite proud of myself!</div>
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After lunch was the ceremony. As a
non-Buddhist, I didn't feel comfortable prostrating in front of the
alter but I still gave a donation. The monks were there with their
impressive drums and horns which look vaguely similar to alpine horns
but are made of brass. Or it looked like brass, anyway. There were
also two masked monks with burning torches. They had some powdery
stuff which they threw through the flame which caused a puff of fire.
They did this into people's faces and, I'm sorry to say, when they
did it close to me, I got scared and hid behind a tall man next to
me. I didn't particularly want to get set on fire. All this was to
scare away the nasty demons and I suppose there must be something
nasty demon-y about me as I felt quite scared. Maybe if I were a
good person I wouldn't have been so nervous.</div>
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The following Wednesday and Thursday,
it was the school's turn. Classes were cancelled on Wednesday
afternoon to prepare and I'm sorry to say only some students took
their preparation duties seriously and other stood around and
chatted. I think that proved that they are perfectly normal
students.</div>
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At around 5 in the evening, we welcomed
the lama and the other monks who came armed with their horns and
drums. The same trumpeting and drumming took place and it really
sounded as if the wolf from 'Peter and the Wolf' had moved to Bhutan
and added a slight Buddhist influence to his theme. The fire dancers
were there again and one must have thought that I needed purifying as
he threw a big handful of powder at me. Unfortunately, the powder,
which I have since discovered is rhododendron bark, did not go
through the flame so I got a face full of powdered bark. Since I
wasn't expecting it, it got in my eyes, nose, mouth, all through my
hair and clothes and even in my open handbag. It did not taste nice.
And I still have remnants of it in my bag.</div>
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Later on, I discovered that they would
be purifying, not only the classrooms and dormitories but the staff
quarters as well. I hoped as a non-Buddhist that my quarters
wouldn't have to be purified, but no. The bad thing was that, since
I had been given no warning, my place was not exactly perfectly tidy.
I had books that I had been marking all over my desk and piled
around it, plus some laundry lying about. They should have warned
me! My place would have been perfect then. But the lama and monks
came in, waved some fire around and threw some rocks around. Now
that they've done this, I'll be really annoyed if I get sick this
year! Before I would have just been mildly irritated.</div>
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The next day there were no classes at
all, just the continuation of the ceremony, including a fun bit where
we got to throw rice around. I was very glad to be at the very back
of the hall so not much landed on me. I was also told to prostrate
myself before the lama 6 times. I wish that someone had told me that
women put their rachus (scarves) around their necks when they do this
because I just left mine over my shoulder and so it fell off every
time I bowed down. If I had just been able to see a woman do it
before me that would have been ok but there were only men around when
they told me to bow. Ah well.</div>
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The next day everyone was exhausted but
not all classes were on because of the clean up. Even on Saturday,
people still looked like they needed a nap. I was very happy not to
have to cook on Saturday night as I got to go to a house-warming
where I got to try ara again. It certainly has a unique taste though
I'd never had it with scrambled eggs mixed in before. I'm
embarrassed to say that I couldn't quite finish the eze (spicy,
salsa-type salad) as it was just a tiny bit too hot. Lee (fellow
BCF-er) would probably have complained that it was too bland.</div>
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We also watched a football game,
Norwich vs Arsenal, and I decided to go for Norwich just because it's
pretty there. They lost but I did teach the others the correct way
to pronounce it so it was still a win!
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I've also found out that the park
manager studied at Oxford, which is a small town in England which
makes very good marmalade and apparently has some sort of school in
it, so Dad will have to have a boat race with him. Dad, of course,
went to the wonderfully brilliant and world renowned university of
Cambridge.
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