The entire science department, okay, almost the entire science department of High School I Was Placed At went out for drinks and Indian food. Delicious ( Read more... )

1. I made butter chicken today for the first time in, like, ages. Delicious. :D

2. It's good to get in touch with my friends at the Seramyu Antics forum again, and thinking up wacky crazy captions for random pictures. However, I must admit I'm a bit disturbed by one person who insists on putting a toilet joke in every caption ( Read more... )

...Depends on what the meaning of "hooray" is. Maybe it will only be considered mediocre that I got a 75/100 on the first assignment I did, which means 45% out of my total course work for that class.
I know there are some really serious high achievers on my friends list, so a grade of 75% would be considered not-that-awesome to them. Then again, ( Read more... )

1. I taught my first class! The kids FLEW through the activity I designed for them and seemed to LOVE it, and were generally very respectful to me. Although I made several bad mistakes - for instance, I didn't talk loud enough, stood in front of the board, and severely underestimated the time it took to get a kid from each of 6 groups to come up ( Read more... )

I have a Year 10 (fourteen years old) class on metals tomorrow, and will have to teach definitions like "ductility", "lustre" and "conductivity ( Read more... )

Because I procrastinate so darned much ( Read more... )

I LOVE the time I'm spending in high school as a student teacher. However, I absolutely HATE that I have so much darned wuuuuuurkHmmm, maybe that's how some of the kids feel too. :D ( Read more... )

To paraphrase Maxwell Smart, I'm dealing with students who make fun of me, four assignments, NINE interviews, about a hundred papers to read, and about ten science teachers...AND LOVING IT!

Details to come after the break. :D

I have been assigned to a high school in a rather poor area in South Auckland, not too far from home. Hmm, not too different from the high school I worked at last year ( Read more... )

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Yes, I know it's from the heavily biased Fox News. This doesn't mean the point isn't a good one.

Also, I know I've been talking far too much about politics. Again. I'll try to cut down. :)