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Educated foreign kids

Filed in The Day Events, March 19, 2009, 9:07 am , , ,

My mom recently told me a story about my little cousin in Taiwan that surprised me.
My uncle recently visited Taiwan, something he does maybe once every two years. He gave my little cousin, Karen (that’s the English name she decided upon in school), 200 U.S. dollars as a gift (red envelope kind of thing. Asian [...]

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WoW is everywhere

Filed in All in a Day's Work, Gaming, The Day Events, December 11, 2008, 3:12 pm , , , , ,

Today I wore my BlizzCon08 shirt to work today, over a long sleeved shirt. I got through the first class without incident, and I went up to the teacher and he said
Mr. S: By the way, Mrs. M (the other teacher I work under), her husband plays that game. He gets together with friends and [...]

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Mad about math

Filed in All in a Day's Work, The Day Events, December 3, 2008, 7:28 pm , , ,

So I’m walking around in one of my classrooms, and this girl is doing binomials.
(x^2 – 2x – 15)
Okay, so we know the answer is (x+3) (x-5), but this girl had the signs mixed up for many of her answers, and she was rewriting them on her homework. Plus for minus, and minus for plus. [...]

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And then?

Filed in All in a Day's Work, The Day Events, , 6:45 pm , , ,

So I was walking around tutoring again, and I pass by this kid I’ve known since last year, who likes to talk to me sometimes, or hail me down for a question that he might not actually need the answer to.
Kid: Want to hear a joke?
Me: Sure!
Kid: (to Kid 2 across the table) Hey I’m [...]

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Spotty and update

Filed in The Day Events, November 25, 2008, 10:28 am , , , ,

I’ve been really spotty lately. Last week I was really sick so I didn’t get to go to a lot of the schools I work at. I think I had the flu, and I think the flu is going around. Have to be careful…But if I’ve had the flu already that means I’m good for [...]

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Whelps

Filed in All in a Day's Work, Gaming, The Day Events, World of Warcraft, September 29, 2008, 10:02 am , , ,

You know how people say “well….” and then people say “wellps….” Well, I just realized how much “wellps” sounds like “whelps” and instantly thought of Onyxia. If there’s a place where you fear whelps the most, or being punted into the whelp room, it’s Onyxia. Though it was pretty frightening doing UBRS the first few [...]