LEX

which culture do i chose?

so here i sit.
it's 1:32 pm.
5th period on tuesday.
that's means i have no students for another 28 minutes.
and how do i chose to spend that time?
have i chosen to grade the papers turned in to me last week? have i chosen to continue planning my lesson on St. Patrick (if you have ideas, sendd 'em my way)?
no, i have not.
i have chosen to sit here sucking on a leftover valentine sucker and blogging.
but i'm not being completely useless. i've been contemplating my options for how to spend the next year of my life, both of which (assuming either one is a true possibility) are huge cultural experiences.

option #1: stay where i am. that means continuing to teach ESL to junior high and high school students and writing to 7th graders. that also means continuing to deal with the Turkish administration at this wacky school. thus far this experiences has been excruciating and not so bad, all at the same time. the excruciating part has been resolved, and now i've moved on to dealing with what will forever remain the cultural differences God has created in this beautiful world. so thought it's not easy (what is?), it's not too bad.

option #2: go teach in India for a year - an opportunity a friend of mine told me about a few weeks ago to teach at the Asian Christian Academy of India. great opportunity to learn about another culture while living in it, and at the same time still getting teaching experience. it's only a year committment, so if i freak while i'm there, i'll be back to my own ways soon enough.

there are many pros and cons for both of these option. making that list isn't the hard part. the hard part is knowing which column God would put everything in...and then knowing which column should carry more weight.
either way i'm going to be dealing with cultural issues for the rest of my career. it comes with the ESL territory. the question is, which culture do i chose?

posted by Alexia & Jeffrey @ 1:37 PM 0 Comments

wisdom teeth

don't really make me feel so wise. in fact, though I did plan on having lots of time to catch up on some reading, i think i've done more sleeping today than i've ever done in one single day my whole life. i can stay awake just long enough to eat, take care of personal hygeine, and do a little bit of blogging. i even try to start the second zoro movie TWICE and couldn't stay awake. and you know if antonio banderas can't keep me awake then those meds must be pretty dad gum powerful ;-)

on that note, i think i'm going to retun from my upright position to one which better aids in the sleep process.

goodnight...again...

posted by Alexia & Jeffrey @ 7:15 PM 0 Comments

Happy Groundhog Day!

It's Groundhog Day!

Official word says that Punxsutawney Phil DID see his shadow this morning, meaning 6 more weeks of winter. However, the forcasted high today for my part of the world is 80 degrees and sunny. I think Phil is having some trouble. I seriously don't see 6 more weeks of winter coming our way - at least not here in central Texas.

But whatever, it's no serious matter for me. The fact still remains that it is February 2nd. And because of that I am showing the movie Groundhog Day, starring Bill Murray, to my students. This is a tradition of mine which I really enjoy. It makes for a fun couple of days and a good lesson about American culture, as well as the concept of deja vu. And as repetitive as the movie is, and the fact that I've watched it every February 2nd for who knows how many years, it still never gets old.

posted by Alexia & Jeffrey @ 8:09 AM 0 Comments