This is the second part of the survey--my answers for myself and Pat's guesses.

( 20 Things About Me )

Pat and I are filling these out one of those "how well do you know your significant other" surveys for each other to see how accurate we are.

( My ideas about Patrick )

talking to barry mack the other day, the subject of only children came up. he was saying how unusual he finds one-child families. i said i didn't find it unusual at all, but couldn't name many people i know who are only children (not counting chinese people) off the top of my head. he said in ireland, basically you're only an only child if your ( Read more... )

Poll

does anyone else tear out and keep interesting magazine articles? i do. today i sorted through my stack, throwing away things i wasn't interested in anymore (probably three-fourths of what i had). there are a couple things i'm going to throw away but wanted to document first. one is from the magazine scholastic scope dec '93. it's a survey us "cool ( Read more... )

so i don't know if you remember me mentioning the size of shijiazhuang, where i lived last year. china_maya provided an interesting stat ( Read more... )

it seems to me that analogies are the hardest part of the verbal part of the GRE. complete the sentence is probably the easiest for me. but i have to admit, the kaplan study guide is really helpful. great strategies for narrowing down answers and lots of practice so i'll know what i'm in for. good stuff ( Read more... )

although i already knew about this, it still strikes me everytime one of my girls who's wearing a tank top raises her arm and reveals a never-shaved armpit. different ( Read more... )

this week in class, i'm using an activity from my new oral english games book. the game is called "guarantees." for this game, i divide the class in two. group one sells guarantees, group two buys them. here, this'll be easier if i quote directly from the book ( Read more... )

i'm at the second and more real stage of "wow. everyone's gone." finals are done, so students are mostly gone. nathaniel and bill are in america. mark and maybe david are in beijing. steve is out till wednesday, visiting students at home. dar is out just for the day, with teachers from other schools. the only other foreign teacher left is george, ( Read more... )