Musings of an English Teacher

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Sat, 04 Aug 2012 21:05:38 -0400

olympics: Olympic officials and the media admire a large set of...

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 17:25:28 -0400

Olympic officials and the media admire a large set of Olympic Rings, created with at least 20,000 flowers and plants in Kew Gardens

I love #6! So cute! blogilates: TRAIN LIKE A BEAST LOOK LIKE A...

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:27:45 -0400

I love #6! So cute!

blogilates:

TRAIN LIKE A BEAST LOOK LIKE A BEAUTY TUMBLR GIVEAWAY!!!

Reblog this post and tell me which color # you like the best. I will pick a lucky ducky winner on Tues July 24th. If you want a better look at the colors, click here.

Work hard guys! Love u so much.

<3 Cassey

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Wed, 11 Jul 2012 00:24:15 -0400

penciled lines: Bike rides

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 16:30:10 -0400

penciled lines: Bike rides:

Talk about inspiring! Read the entire thing!

I am so proud to know this lovely lady!

emmyagsmith:

It’s hard to believe today is only my second day here in Pursat, Cambodia. For the second morning in a row, I rode my bike through the narrow one way streets in the village to get to palm leaf and bamboo stands selling everything from gasoline stored in old fanta bottles to rice and vegetables….

I want to be here!

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 01:13:06 -0400

I want to be here!

I want to teach at this high school. world-shaker: Nerdiest....

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:59:42 -0400

I want to teach at this high school.

world-shaker:

Nerdiest. High School. EVER.

This might just be my school experience very soon. Haha!

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 23:21:36 -0400

This might just be my school experience very soon. Haha!

Mentor Teacher on a Rampage?

Wed, 02 May 2012 00:49:00 -0400

What do you do if your mentor teacher is “out to get you”? My mentor teacher distinctly does not like me (and hasn’t since the moment she met me), and to finish the semester off, she has been sending in negative recommendations. What do I do?

Such a great challenge! Leaves your legs burning and shaky, but...

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:00:16 -0400

Such a great challenge! Leaves your legs burning and shaky, but it feels amazing!

blogilates:

I dare you to finish the CALL ME MAYBE MIGHTY SQUAT CHALLENGE.

Toned thighs, perky butt, slim legs here we come. Bust out those booty shorts.

DO IT, PIN IT, REBLOG.

Love this! Such a spectacular view on the world

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:25:52 -0400

Love this! Such a spectacular view on the world

Valentine's Day?

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:22:16 -0500

After trying to teach through the “love” that was in the air, today, I am a firm believer that Valentine’s Day should be banned from school. It is such a distraction for the kids… and can end up being pretty darn creepy! Students giving me love poems and asking me (in all seriousness) to be their valentine… it’s just downright awkward!

Is there any good reasoning to allow students to celebrate Valentine’s Day at school?

At the end of each school day, I am absolutely exhausted and all I want to do is crash on the couch...

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:56:00 -0500

At the end of each school day, I am absolutely exhausted and all I want to do is crash on the couch and zone out.

Sooooo….

As a teacher, how do you manage to stay in shape?

Hardest part of my morning…

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:43:01 -0500

Hardest part of my morning…

"Why should I give you my respect to you? Because you’re a teacher? I don’t know you. How..."

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 18:00:09 -0400

“Why should I give you my respect to you? Because you’re a teacher? I don’t know you. How do I know you’re not a liar standing up there. How do I know you’re not a bad person standing up there? I’m not just gonna give you my respect because you’re called a teacher.”

- Freedom Writers

Ignorance among our teachers?

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:15:00 -0400

I took a summer class on World Literature through a community college to help finish my degree. While I thought this would be a wonderful course, seeing as I love world literature, I was greatly mistaken. For an assignment, we were required to come up with a character that lived in Vietnam in 1965 and develop that character over a period of time. The character was to be used as a way to gain insight on Vietnamese culture. When I attempted to make my character an outsider gaining insight on a foreign culture, my professor informed me that it is impossible to gain insight on a culture if you are a foreigner. You can only accurately observe a culture if you are a native of that culture.

Now tell me, if this is a professor, what does that say about those who are instructing the future teachers of this nation? What kind of education is the country actually providing when they support notions like this?

Dance!

Sat, 23 Jul 2011 13:07:17 -0400

Dance!:

Learn a cool dance (or two or three) for National Dance Day (July 30th)!