As I mentioned before, I am buying books for the high school school library. We are talking to ESL students from beginners to perfectly bilingual and I want to focus on intermediate level. I have ordered around 40 books so far  but none with vampires. When i ask students what would they like to find in ESL books, I get VAMPIRES! Gee, I cannot stand ( Read more... )

Yep, Stress had hit home, I start working Tuesday. The fact stress has just shown up is by itself great, it is usually much earlier than that, maybe it's the acupuncture, who knows ( Read more... )

... I tend to see tens of possibilities why a person would do something trivial or big. I am not judgmental because I can't be in the shoes of the person who did it and that statement is not just to look good, I will often refuse to talk with people who just want to talk down about someone else. Who are we to decide the other one is such and such? ( Read more... )

Got my results ( Read more... )

-My sons, desperate to be so broke, woke-up early and both found a job within two hours ( Read more... )

In your corner of the world, are people getting less and less tolerant?

I have a baby-boomer theory on that but too hungry for now, Ciao!

Because my suburban city is going through a major change of "color" and I hear here and there stuff I don't like from people I wouldn't expect such stupidities, I've decided to talk about Canadian Black History, which of course is closely related to African-American. I'm pretty excited about it, I don't know much, but there is a unit in the ( Read more... )

First of all, Rammstein is the worst band  I know in terms of lyric content, so no offense to anyone who knows how gross they can be because they understand German. They are the total opposite of what I like in day-to-day life.

Two days after the show, I'm still slowly going down to earth. The show by itself was way too short but the rest was ( Read more... )

In English you say the apple never falls far from the tree but I prefer my French version a friend invented: There are no canaries in a crow nest just because my lil family looks way more like a bunch of crows with two of them who wish they could fly but don't even have feathers yet ( Read more... )

I don't remember ever showing the faces of my sons, so here we are:


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