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Its so sad that Bellydancing is not as popular in India like its elsewhere.I create many lovely outfits and feel like dancing in them.Hopefully someday!


Kajal
www.modemystique.com

Its so sad that Bellydancing is not as popular in India like its elsewhere.I create many lovely outfits and feel like dancing in them.Hopefully someday!


Kajal
www.modemystique.com

I realize at some point I'm gonna have to write my damned dance bio (or two, one breif and one more indepthy/resume-ish for those who care) ...and get it translated.

I'm looking over Bhuz and much of the advice is very contradictory. I'w looking at dancer pages and taking it all in.

Wanna make sure I check yours out? Comment with your url please.

The stitch doll in the background looks like a molestation victim, attempting to hide his face in shame...

I really wish that antiduckface.com was funny, even as funny as I am (not saying much) because there are some epic awesome pics on there like this beaut above. Whoever wrote for cattygoths.com, please go take over.

kthnxbye

I'm getting the batches of lessons ready for the third trimester of classes.

Mostly we'll be doing what we did last year:
1st learns a little about animals. 2nd grade plays with colors. 3rd grade runs around messureing things and guessing how many coins are in various bagies (numbers). I've updated those and written the Japanese flow sheets for homeroom teachers that go with them. Those have all been checked for errors and clarity.

Now I am tackling 4th, 5th, and 6th. I'm thinking about creating two lessons per grade for those occasions just to mix things up.

I've updated my beloved 5th grade Egypt lesson (watch Tito with Tatib, What do you know about Egypt? learn greetings in Arabic, review the ABC's via heiroglyphics, write your name in hiragana, romanji, and then heiroglyphs) and I do have an existing follow-up lesson to that about languages of the word/lowercase letters/designing your own alphabet.

The 4th grade lesosn I have is simple (rooms in a house, coloring things in, designing your own dream house) and the 6th grade is flags and flag symbols of the world (colors, countries, meanings of symbols) and deisgning your own flag.

Now I'm starting to kick around a times of day schedule lesson plan. I think this could be for eitehr 4th or 6th depending on complexity.

Random ideas:
start with the usual "what time to you wake up/go to sleep" on weekdays and then weekends.

What does Kathryn do on her weekends? Kids get a worksheet of a schedule and ask "what to you do at 6?" and so on. I explain and (act out) in English and students write, in Japanese, what they think this means. When the schedule if full we ask them what I do at , say, 7pm. Students raise their hands, give their answers and we tell them yes, no, or clarify....can be done in groups with each group guessing what it means and answering on a little white board and holding it up...

Who am I? Quiz Kathryn, homeroom teachers, support staf, and some other teachers (principal) before class.  Present (and act out) what a myster teacher does after school/ on a given day and give the students three options for each: (A. Kathryn, B. Homeroom teacher C. Principal). Groups pick, answers revealed, points given, schedule repeated with additional comments and questions. CAN BE DONE with famous characters (Jack Sparrow, Doraemon, dracula) and so on...would need help on Japanese charcter schedules.

Students design a schedule for a dream day off and illsutrate with pictures. Students who want to present their schedule can do so with the help of me making gestures and students guessing what is being done...

Four 4th graders i'd be more likely to use cartoon characters, for 6th graders it'd be adult humiliation FTW.

thinking on page...thinking...

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There's a CSI community, did you know?


First off, I'd like to apologize for this announcement coming later than expected. But I'm finally here, ready to announce who won the first weekly contest, which was to ask a question you'd like to have answered by the CSI writing team!

Also, I'd like to mention that you guys made it SO HARD to pick just one as the winner! You all had awesome questions!

The winner of the first weekly contest is...

[info]replyhazy!!!!

Their question was: "Comparing what I read in the news about our local crime scene lab techs with what's shown on CSI, it seems like there is one area that's nowhere near reality on your show: workload. Have you ever thought about adding large backlogs and turnaround times to your plots in order to reflect how overworked many real life CSIs are?"

Congratulations, [info]replyhazy!!

You will be contacted via private message on LJ with further instructions as to how to claim your prize!

Thank you everyone for participating in the first weekly contest and I hope you continue to enter into the future weekly contests!

Well, uh, that's great, except, uh..

The prize is a video game for a platform I don't own. oops! :-D

Well, it would make a good present for somebody, I'm sure. I was just really intrigued by the idea of what one question I would ask the CSI writers.

Of course I don't remember the whole thing but I remember two parts which may or may not be from the same dream.

First part seems less . . . important, more like an afterthought really. Nearly forgot about this part. Anyway, there was someone I was sleeping with. Totally casual thing, I know that's where my head was at and that I didn't want more. Anyway, I found out they were also sleeping with someone else and it kind of bummed me out. I think they told me, I may have suspected and/or asked. I think that I did have the thought of "Why the hell is this bumming me out" but that is really all I remember of that part.

On to the main thing: I was in a class and I think the building was rather similar to my old high school. But not. You know how dreams can be. There was a Lit class I was in. Didn't recognize the teacher at all but I knew he was one of my favorite teachers of all time. There was a quiz going on for Catcher in the Rye which I hadn't read since high school. I was late, I had no idea how to answer the first question and was panicking that I hadn't re-read the book and was going to do horribly on the quiz. The second question, I knew and I was totally excited about it. The teacher is giving us time to write each answer (it was an essay quiz) and during this time he decided to wander a bit. And by wander I mean drag himself along some scaffolding by his hands. Feet were dangling a little off the floor. The scaffolding was outside which was weird since he got on it in the classroom I think. Again, wacky dream stuff. So he moves away some and there are some boys outside. They mean no harm, just goofing off but they grab him by the legs and kind of twist and swing hm around. He's screaming but they think it's a game. He loses his grip and falls to the ground. It kills him. There is a huge pool of blood. Reminded me of the guy who was shot in the alley a year and a half ago or so. We all went running, I know I saw him fall. The guys who caused it I know felt horrible, they really were just goofing off. Us students were traumatized. We had all really loved him. I remember thinking, there's another one. Every year or so, another one. And this was the first one I had actually seen die. I was one of the first to run over when he started screaming.

I don't really remember waking up feeling all unsettled or anything, I think it took me a minute to realize it wasn't real. However, posting this now, I am noticing just how fucked up this was. And I'm crying for the dead teacher from my dream.