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Name: Kam
Country: United States
State: New York
Birthday: 2/3/1985
Gender: Female
Interests: Drawing, doing calligraphy, being with all of my great friends
Expertise: Eating..Sleeping.. hm can't think of anything else for now.
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Member Since:
8/13/2002
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| Every day before I go to sleep, I say to myself, I can't wait until tomorrow comes. Nighttime is when I feel I have the most energy to think thoughts through. Yet, I have to lay my head on the pillow and wait until the next day to finish my thoughts, or the next day, or the day after that. Every day, I have at least ten new goals I want to achieve. Of the ten, accomplishing one would be a lot. But I would never rush myself. Taking my time would always allow me to look forward to continue pursuing more and varying goals. My mind feels under-utilized this year. Or maybe this year is just off to a slow start. Or maybe things will get more challenging when I am at my next job and next education path. Whichever the case, I do feel this is one of my more complacent years, when I am just thankful at all the smallest things. My heart awaits the warmer weather, whereby I can walk each step a little slower yet.
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| Woot! I can't believe I'm back, back to nyc and back on xanga, lol.
What's been happening??
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| Kam will be gone next Monday morning, whoohoo!
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| I had an excellent day today.
I got to my physics final exam 5 minutes late today, but finished the exam in 45 minutes. I am hoping to get around a 90 for it.
It was only 12:30pm, I had another 6 hours before I needed to go teach my English class, but time did fly by. I was in the computer lab for about an hour and chatted with my sweetie. I also entered the grades of my students' post tests and sent out the results.
Then to treat myself for lunch, I had my favorite whopper jr. meal at BK in ct. I walked over to Chatham Sq. library and spent less than 3 minutes there, picking up my two reserved books - Joy Luck Club and When Nietsche Wept. Out of randomness, I picked up a third book - Language Visible. So excited at all the books, I didn't realize my bag zipper was open, leaving my wallet to be in a completely vulnerable position.
I went on the nypl library catalog and put in Joy Luck Club, just in case their dvd or vhs was available. To my joy, the vhs was available at the Epiphany library, so I made my way back to the library by my school. I picked up the vhs and another book, a Chinese fantasy book this time.
I headed back to my school's computer lab. I spent an hour looking up vocabulary words in the online English-Chinese dictionary to make a handout for today's class/game. I spent the next hour reading When Nietsche Wept. Before I knew it, it was nearly 6pm so I headed to work.
I went to Taipan first, used the gift card my mom gave me and picked up 2 bubble milkteas and 2 packages of walnut cookies. Today was going to be my last English class with my partner. I knew the students brought food, but I wanted to bring my share, just in case there was too little food. But as usual, the party had more than enough food. Before the party, we played a good hour of bingo using food as the main topic of vocabulary. It was good that everybody got involved even though there was no prize for winning. It was for practicing vocabulary really, even though we hadn't taught most of those vocabularies.
After an hour of game and other administrative things, the students gave us Christmas cards and a gift card each. Then we had only 45 minutes left to eat for the party. There were two trays of Chinese pasta, lots of meat varieties, pears, the cookies I brought in, and soda. It was the most efficient party I had ever seen - the students brought all the food in on time, their own garbage bag, and fifteen minutes before the end of class - they were all in it to together and did the fastest cleanup session. Most of the food was eaten or taken home, along with all the utensils. Almost nothing was left to waste. Feeling appreciated for your work is always a nice feeling. It was a fine evening indeed.
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| Today was an awesome day...as are most days.
In physics class, we reviewed some material for this Wednesday's test. I'm glad I finally get some of the concepts today, even though it is quite a last minute and peripheral sort of understanding. In communications class, we listened to presentations done by our classmates, so that was more of some passive learning. I almost didn't have time for lunch today, because I had to go to the computer lab to make up some worksheets for my ESL class. But it is such great fun to create lessons and activity sheets. Hmmm, another possible career idea there...
So some time after my last class, my sweetie came and pick me up from school. I sat and chatted with him as he got a pretty quick haircut done. Then we had some food at a ct bakery and chatted about this and that. 6:30p came, and I was just a slight bit nervous to teach alone today. That plus I don't think I've ever taught 2 hours long by myself before. The class started with about 15 people and I thought, well maybe this is it. But before I knew it, the class filled up to nearly 30 people as usual. I wonder how well I taught today. I taught close to if not over 30 vocabularies, but many of which are supposed to be for review. Plus, the sentence structures were all very short and basic to follow. As long as they substituted the suited word into the sentence structures, the assignments should've been easy to follow. I had a lot of fun teaching, but I have a feeling it was still a bit too much for some of the students to handle.
By the end of class at 8:30p, I rejoined with my sweetie, and we had dinner with a bunch of friends. It was an exhilarating meal for me, for as you can imagine, the topic was on none other but on language itself. The defining of words and the exploration of slang terms and just the discussion of language itself stimulated me very much. The feeling of ecstasy has yet to leave me.
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