i love smith jared!
here is the proof that my friend pierre is the third funniest human on the planet. i haven't talked to him in over a year. he's a tfa pal. so i emailed him to ask if he could come and speak at my learning team meeting so that my first years' can hear a new set of ideas and a new perspective. this is his response.
" DANA,
I love you and am so sorry that I have not been so great of a friend. I would be honored to do this for you, free of charge even. We will reconnect and start again. I need you in my life.
Pierre "
i guess you have to know pierre and his flamboyant self a bit to hear his tone of voice. this is the same guy that once told me his students were heathenoid animals from hell. he also chose to read aloud from a Zane book - a passage about sex toys - as well as use missy eliott lyrics (with the sound of a whirring dildo in the background) during a presentation in our grad class. our prof was a baptist minister's wife... "pierre, i'm going to have to stop you. this is just trash."
i'm so happy to get to see him again. i'm sure he's got some funny stories to tell.
tonight, i went to this training on how to utilize this cool new documentary in my classroom. it's called "african american lives" and it airs on pbs tomorrow. it's really going to be cool - it uses science and other things to trace the heritage of several prominent black americans. the best part of the training was when this one other teacher in the crowd started in about how she sent in her sons dna to be traced. (they can use dna to tell which african country/region you likely came from)
she says "first we tried to send it to national geographic. but i didn't like those results. they told me i wasn't from africa. and i know that's not true. so i sent it to another place."
i guess since 25% of north european caucasians can trace roots back to africa, she figured she had better be from the continent. the whole auditorium chuckled with... no, at her.
i have to confess that i am mad at delta airlines, and i feel less sympathy nwo for their recent bankrupcy problems. they are refusing to let me get two free flights with my miles, meaning i have to buy one ticket on my own. and i jsut don't wan't to.
i just realized how uterly stupid and boring that detail is. i'm going to stop typing now.
" DANA,
I love you and am so sorry that I have not been so great of a friend. I would be honored to do this for you, free of charge even. We will reconnect and start again. I need you in my life.
Pierre "
i guess you have to know pierre and his flamboyant self a bit to hear his tone of voice. this is the same guy that once told me his students were heathenoid animals from hell. he also chose to read aloud from a Zane book - a passage about sex toys - as well as use missy eliott lyrics (with the sound of a whirring dildo in the background) during a presentation in our grad class. our prof was a baptist minister's wife... "pierre, i'm going to have to stop you. this is just trash."
i'm so happy to get to see him again. i'm sure he's got some funny stories to tell.
tonight, i went to this training on how to utilize this cool new documentary in my classroom. it's called "african american lives" and it airs on pbs tomorrow. it's really going to be cool - it uses science and other things to trace the heritage of several prominent black americans. the best part of the training was when this one other teacher in the crowd started in about how she sent in her sons dna to be traced. (they can use dna to tell which african country/region you likely came from)
she says "first we tried to send it to national geographic. but i didn't like those results. they told me i wasn't from africa. and i know that's not true. so i sent it to another place."
i guess since 25% of north european caucasians can trace roots back to africa, she figured she had better be from the continent. the whole auditorium chuckled with... no, at her.
i have to confess that i am mad at delta airlines, and i feel less sympathy nwo for their recent bankrupcy problems. they are refusing to let me get two free flights with my miles, meaning i have to buy one ticket on my own. and i jsut don't wan't to.
i just realized how uterly stupid and boring that detail is. i'm going to stop typing now.