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Searching on the Internet and Evaluating What You Find
This blog post is designed for the Westside Warriors in Ms. Ferguson’s AVID classes. The internet is supposed to give you access to everything, right? The world’s greatest information resource is at your fingertips and anything you could ever want … Continue reading
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Collaboration: The strength of biodiversity comes to the world of ideas
More often than not, we tend to surround ourselves with people who think like we do. It’s almost an innate human predisposition. Unless we consciously try to avoid doing it, people gravitate towards ideas that support our own. We subconsciously … Continue reading
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Expecting Too Much
… The problem, I have come to realize, it that we expect too much. By this, I do not mean that our expectations are too high. When expectations are held, they should be held to a high standard. We should definitely strive for and expect excellence. What I mean is that we expect too often; we hold expectations of too many things and in too many situations, and of virtually everyone we encounter. We are causing ourselves a great deal of disappointment and frustration in the process… Continue reading
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Time is like Gasoline
I set up my mail client so that, when I open it, it shows my blog in the message window. My hope was that seeing it on a regular basis would encourage me to make time to write blogginess more … Continue reading
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An American Movie in China
I went to see Hancock today with 小季 and his fiancé. I was actually kind of surprised to see it advertised outside the theatre because it just came out in the US, too. It was simultaneously released in both countries, … Continue reading
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很久没见！
Literally, the title means “long time, no see.” Ironically, this is a phrase that we adapted to our language from theirs and, somewhere along the way, lost track of where it came from. What’s even more ironic is this: Almost … Continue reading
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Happy Birthday, USA!
So, in my first week with the kids I’m doing lessons on time and date. We start with things like the days of the week, how to say the date, how to say the time, talking about tomorrow and yesterday … Continue reading
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Job Change
So I had an interesting conversation with my principal the other day. He asked me in an email when I was coming back in a way that gave me the impression that he wanted to discuss something with me. When … Continue reading
The Joy of Stairs
The Changzhou Apartment Originally uploaded by mattlavery I live on the fifth floor. In Chinese, 我住在五层的公寓. In china, though, the ground floor is not numbered. You don’t take stairs to get to the second floor, like you do in the … Continue reading
Cabbies
In an effort to reduce the onslaught of huge-ish posts, I may as well periodically toss out my little observations and call it good. This does sort of save me from writing for an hour when I don’t have an … Continue reading
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