Last year I wrote about one class where the song was titled: "We Don't Take Our Shoes Off In the House".I was a bit irritated by this lesson, because really people in the West do take their shoes off in the house. And this was just so wrong. And another example of stereotyping of foreigners in the text book. And yadda f'n yadda yadda ( Read more... )

Continuing with the bullying posts...
( Part 1 can be read hereI'll posit that there are two types of bullies, whether or not they are exclusive entities from each other or simply two aspects of one behavior I'm not too worried about at the moment. For want of better terms I'll call one the Predatory Bully and the other the Herd Bully ( Read more... )

This is going to be an at least three part series of posts on bullying as witnessed over the last year that I'll relate to bullies in the workplace and their contribution to overall workplace toxicity levels. That'll be the Ukulele Story ( Read more... )

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I wish I could find the song that accompanied this lesson. It was something to behold. Here are the lyrics:

Don't take off your shoes. Don't take off your shoes ( Read more... )

Here’s the final post (at least it’s the last one I’ve written) about teaching abroad. Here’s one, two, and a bit more of two.


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I had my summer camp students make this today. It was a lot of fun, and when they saw the illusion they went pretty wild. Here's the link in case you want to download your own.

The balloon animals however did not go quite so well.

Last week's ear worm:

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This week's ear worm:

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I then had to explain the meaning of the word "yucky". The little green guy is Zeeto. I told one of my 5th grade classes that we used to be friends but then he tried to kill me.

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