Caught in an exciting and tiring whirlwind
I feel slightly upset for not writing as often, because I do find it so relaxing. There has been several adventures lately and my body is rebelling against all the changes and moves. I guess I should begin with rediscovering my roots and will later reveal the absurd. After I enrolled in the Speak Italian course and looked at a few apartments in the area, I finally settled on the first place I looked at. It is a five minuite walk from the subway and fifteen walk from Corso Italia. Adrian and I will be living together and the ironic part is our street name matches where we first met.
Adrian and I met on an aboriginal reserve called Neskantaga, but the locals still called it by it's English name - Lansdowne House. I was a school teacher and he was a Store Manager. We quickly became friends and spent much time in each other's house. It was not until I quit my job as a teacher that I moved everything into his apartment and we lived briefly together in Lansdowne. Now our apartment is near the Lansdowne station, which only seems fitting. I have been looking at furniture places to see how we could furnish the place. I originally wanted an Italian theme so that when I enter my apartment, I could escape to the vitality and spirit of the Tuscan hills or Sicilian villages.
I may have to settle with Ikea and used furniture until I can think of such things, lol. Although it has been exhausting commuting back and forth to the apartment to do brief transactions, I am still excited. I just wish it wouldn't take me three hours to do 10-15 minuites of business.
I also finished reading a few novels. The first one was Bernard Cornwell's The Last Kingdom. Although I squirmed through some parts of the novel where the graphic descriptions of beheadings and slaughters seemed quite real, I became attached to the characters and revelled in reading about the historical beginnings of saints and origins of the places I visited on my trip. Next I read Nino Ricci's "Lives of the Saints" for my Grade Ten English Academic class and it immediately transported me back to Italy and Sicily.
This is when I decided I wanted to do an entire Italian unit with my students, but I am still working on the details. I always think it is best to do the most difficult things first followed by the easy, because you loose them just before midterm. This would mean we would do Romeo and Juliet and Ricci's novel first and both are set in Italy. Can you imagine me pausing in the middle of my lecture and saying, "Ba bene?" and the whole class in unison saying "ba bene!"? lol. Ba bene means okay? you understand?... i understand or okay...my Italian prof use to do that all the time.
After I made some questions for that novel, I moved onto my Grade Ten essentials class. I read Anne Schraff's "Don't blame the children." It is an interesting suspense novel for young teens who struggle with reading. I made some questions for that too.
I've also attended part of a classroom management seminar, but I became quite dizzy and could not stay for the whole thing. I felt bad, because I missed the first day because I didn't know it was the 22nd. I still watch Wonder Woman, because the show is so silly for modern audiences, but quite insightful on social views of the late seventies.
I also went to the CNE with Krista and Adrienne. We strolled through the grounds and were on tv briefly when I asked an army officer a few questions about how my potential students could enroll in their program. We also explored the different kiosks and wandered through the different gaming areas. I bought my father's Christmas gift and something for Frank.
I've also had the chance to go out with Ellen and Mike for Sushi . well i should go now.
Adrian and I met on an aboriginal reserve called Neskantaga, but the locals still called it by it's English name - Lansdowne House. I was a school teacher and he was a Store Manager. We quickly became friends and spent much time in each other's house. It was not until I quit my job as a teacher that I moved everything into his apartment and we lived briefly together in Lansdowne. Now our apartment is near the Lansdowne station, which only seems fitting. I have been looking at furniture places to see how we could furnish the place. I originally wanted an Italian theme so that when I enter my apartment, I could escape to the vitality and spirit of the Tuscan hills or Sicilian villages.
I may have to settle with Ikea and used furniture until I can think of such things, lol. Although it has been exhausting commuting back and forth to the apartment to do brief transactions, I am still excited. I just wish it wouldn't take me three hours to do 10-15 minuites of business.
I also finished reading a few novels. The first one was Bernard Cornwell's The Last Kingdom. Although I squirmed through some parts of the novel where the graphic descriptions of beheadings and slaughters seemed quite real, I became attached to the characters and revelled in reading about the historical beginnings of saints and origins of the places I visited on my trip. Next I read Nino Ricci's "Lives of the Saints" for my Grade Ten English Academic class and it immediately transported me back to Italy and Sicily.
This is when I decided I wanted to do an entire Italian unit with my students, but I am still working on the details. I always think it is best to do the most difficult things first followed by the easy, because you loose them just before midterm. This would mean we would do Romeo and Juliet and Ricci's novel first and both are set in Italy. Can you imagine me pausing in the middle of my lecture and saying, "Ba bene?" and the whole class in unison saying "ba bene!"? lol. Ba bene means okay? you understand?... i understand or okay...my Italian prof use to do that all the time.
After I made some questions for that novel, I moved onto my Grade Ten essentials class. I read Anne Schraff's "Don't blame the children." It is an interesting suspense novel for young teens who struggle with reading. I made some questions for that too.
I've also attended part of a classroom management seminar, but I became quite dizzy and could not stay for the whole thing. I felt bad, because I missed the first day because I didn't know it was the 22nd. I still watch Wonder Woman, because the show is so silly for modern audiences, but quite insightful on social views of the late seventies.
I also went to the CNE with Krista and Adrienne. We strolled through the grounds and were on tv briefly when I asked an army officer a few questions about how my potential students could enroll in their program. We also explored the different kiosks and wandered through the different gaming areas. I bought my father's Christmas gift and something for Frank.
I've also had the chance to go out with Ellen and Mike for Sushi . well i should go now.
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