Just sent off my final project for the semester to my professor, and got back confirmation that she received it. Woo-hoo, all done!!! This was a fun project: we had to submit a proposal for a textbook, along with a table of contents and a sample chapter. I opted for a content-based course package with the theme of American cultural art forms. Content-based instruction (or CBI, as my acronym-...
Today I am thankful for not falling on my head in dance class. I did fall on my ass, but only once. This was the sequel to the lifts and drops class I took last month. We reviewed the babydoll drop that we did before, adding a variation and a turn (you can see it with the turn in the video below at 3:32), and then got into new stuff. The first new thing was the A-frame lift, which starts in a ...
Two birds with one stone: today I am thankful for the brave men and women who serve and have served in our armed forces. Here's one of them, my grandfather, George J Welgus: I'm very thankful to have grown up with such a wonderful grandfather.
Mom has been visiting her cousins in California the last couple of weeks. While she was there, the younger of them, Debbie, passed away in the night. I haven't been sure how, of if, to post about it, because I wasn't really very close to Debbie. My mom was, though, and has given me permission to re-post this. Debbie was more than a cousin. She was one of my best girlfriends. Debbie spent ...
For those of you following the saga of the weird science bulletin board , I did get a reply to the email I sent to the school. I am working on my paper concerning differences between female and male brain. Below is my explanation of your question. The display is from a science class that explains how female brain and male brain work. Life science studies topics that deal with life. Brain...
Saturday afternoon we took Z up to Woodstock for their children's Halloween festival. We met our friends Leah and Allen, and their 5-month-old son Eli, for lunch, then wandered around a bit. It was drizzly and chilly, and Z was too little for just about everything there, but he had fun running around and charming everyone in his penguin costume. ... ...
The charter school up the street from us was having a "fall festival" today, and I decided to stroll up there with Z and check it out. Not only was it an excuse to put him in his Halloween costume, this is a school that specifically works with refugee and immigrant populations, so I thought perhaps I might look into volunteering there. I figured I'd also check out their extracurricular programs, ...
