Entries this day: AM_Breakfast Ode_to_Francois This_big_entry_needs_Francois_ransom_pics grrr_bombings hot_tub_craziness irish_night

AM Breakfast

7:30am CEST Thursday 07 July 2005

Tonight, according to the blue cards on the table, we will get an hour and got to a new timezone.

Kin is so cute; she loves the little sausages!!

11am CEST Thursday 07 July 2005

Just finished classes. My shy girls class and I have reached a better situation. I told them to talk and I picked out a grammar point.. Thanks to Katt for that suggestion! It's weird that I haven't tried before cause that is my favorite way to teach 1 on 1 lessons.

1:50pm CEST Thursday 07 July 2005

I'm on the back of the boat; I dragged myself out of bed for classes, slept, went back to bed, and now am upstairs to get some food. Some girls are saying "bye" to Francois, even though he is a stuffed rabbit. I do want him to be famous, though.

Ode to Francois

Ode to Francois:

My dearest adorable rabbit
I fearest starting a habit
I love everything about you,
and I cannot live without you.

Your eyes so cute
and mouth so mute
Ears flopped at either side
You are my joy and my pride

May the fates not scorn me
and my mates all support thee
with great speed home swiftly
not too late for a spot of tea
as we gaze over the sea
or graze in Topaz Dining.

I won't again let thee
out of my direct sight, see
by giving you to Shunji
I lost my dear buddy

With tears in my eyes
I finish the lines
and hope you'll come back to me.
May it be no surprise
I'll massage the spines
of your captors when they release thee.

This big entry needs Francois ransom pics

12:10am CDT Monday 08 August 2005

New timezone tonight!

Today we had Language Olympics and Peace Fair. I made three sock puppets and sold one for $2. No one else made any sock puppets; I guess a bit more promotion could have changed that, but I certainly enjoyed just having quiet time to myself.

During my quiet time, Shunji the 11 or 12 year old climbed on me while I was sock puppet making. He has taken to repeatedly asking/yelling/screaming "what are you doing?" and then laughing hysterically as he says "I don't know."

I gave him Francois some days ago, expecting him to come back with Francois soon thereafter. But, being 11 or 12 gives one a delightfully responsibility free lifestyle. Today on the GET Board on GET Street there was a ransom note for Francois.

On most computers in GET Street the desktop had been changed to show Francois captive.

And a text document showed the captors demands.

After the Language Olympics and Peace Fair, I wrote an Ode To Francois and put a copy in the book as requested by 5:56pm on my way to the GET Meeting room. At 6:01 only Adi (Adriana) had arrived and then Dave came by and was like, "the GET Meeting is on the top deck today," which basically meant there was not much of a meeting besides, "great job on Language Olympics and Peace Fair!!"

To the top deck and into the hot tub with some other GET Teachers plus Joel the CCC and (my ex) Hitomi and her roommate Mika plus Kuni (who has made 2 outfits for Francois) I merged and Kris asked me if I had written the poem as requested.

I blew it off like, "Ehh; it will be alright," to make her think I hadn't, to see if this would trick a Francois captor into *not* checking for the note so I could determine who did it.

I chilled in the hot tub for about an hour until it was only me, Audrey and Joel the CCC being quite silly in conversation. We finally headed out and to dinner, though Audrey was a bit late due to being left to carry down a lot of the stuff from the LO and PF. She asked me to take some stuff down (which I did), but I didn't know she had been left with so much more that it would keep her from dinner; I would have helped more.. Anyway she was jokingly like "you guys left everything and I had to clean it all up, including your computer, Joel," and Joel was like, "but that doesn't mean you should be late for dinner; my goodness."

Auds was in quite a frisky mood and tried to start a food fight by throwing pieces of roll at Katt and an entire roll at Dave, but the eruption of food madness never happened, though Katt did fire back, trying to get bits of roll down Audrey's shirt. Conversation turned to where we had or had not had sex (which reminds me I want to download the 100 and 500 question purity tests) and even the wait staff all but joined the fun.

Later that night I changed the desktop background on the computers to a copy of my Ode to Francois.

Katt says:

Katt sold Kiwi stuff. She is cool.

grrr bombings

8:30pm CEST Thursday 07 July 2005

Just found out about the bombings in London. That is a fucked up situation. I trust in the higher good of the world and that all my peeps are okay. If anyone died, I congratulate them on graduating from their lives this time around.

Man, bombings suck donkey dicks.

hot tub craziness

3:15pm CEST Thursday 07 July 2005

Today was the day I jumped into the freezing pool and back out as quickly as possible the first time, but then stayed longer as I was inspired the next time. More is written about it here, in my mass email from July 9th.

irish night

11:30pm CEST Thursday 07 July 2005

I'm wearing my flannel jammie jams for Irish night cause they are tartan. Everyone can tell they are my PJs but it is all good.

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Man, Irish music ain't real music. It needs a beat. It needs to move my hair so I don't have to.